I agree about the importance of privacy regardless of where you register on the something-to-hide-o-meter, and I agree that Google really dropped the ball on Buzz's privacy settings, but at the same time you really need to question the wisdom of using a "private Gmail account" for anything other than Gmail. Google's been ladling the social sauce on to all of their services over the past couple of years, so it's not like that person didn't have the opportunity to see this coming.
You can bash VZW's CDMA network all you want, but as long as they keep giving me 4 bars of EVDO goodness out here in the desert in rural southwestern New Mexico, they'll get nothing but love from me:)
Amen. I bought the Storm. What a complete piece of shit. Sluggish OS (in a touch screen OS, absolutely intolerable), graphical glitches abound... it just sucks.
Agreed... I bought the original Storm when it was released last year, It was my first BlackBerry device, and after struggling with the Storm for a few days, I ran away screaming back to my dumbphone. The Storm hardware and software were definitely not ready for prime time.
I recently decided to give BlackBerry another day in court and am currently using a Curve 8330... I like it quite a lot and am considering the Storm 2 as my next upgrade, but I'll definitely do some hands-on testing before I actually purchase it.
Good thing the extended cut-off date was approved.
Bullshit - the original cut-off date was advertised for years. Anyone who's affected by the transition and *still* isn't ready for it should probably be watching less TV.
You can't opt back out of the beta once you opt in, so caveat emptor. I learned this the hard way after I found out that the Silverlight player doesn't seem to utilize the full-screen video overlay when playing over s-video from my laptop.
Meh. Surf through a proxy that renders the page internally to get the location of text boxes, then strips the markup and flows ascii text approximately into said boxes using tabs as needed (or sans tabs, even).
Meh. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but in the current century, people use their internet service for a variety of things that cannot be adequately represented as ASCII text.
Wireless Internet on cell phones is completely useless right now. Sure, it would be a great convience to use the full Internet on your phone, but there is a huge problem here: phone companies are quick and eager to start these new services, but most customers are still on those dumb "1 cent per kb" deals! They are upgrading the technology, but not the business model.
Re:Vim is painful.
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I am a vim zealot. I'll put that right out there. I am extremely fast at coding in vim. That said, I also want some of the more advanced features that exist in modern IDEs.
You might like PIDA - it gives you a real, honest-to-gosh vim wrapped in fancy IDE features.
Actually, Plone does a pretty good job of document indexing/management, particularly when you plug in TextIndexNG3. Add Enfold Desktop on top of that, and you've got desktop and MS Office integration easy enough for any office drone to use.
Wow - they changed something at eMusic and you really have to dig around to find the booster pack purchase option... it's currently at the bottom of this page.
As for the tip on using boosters to supplement the monthly subscription, I read it in a post @ the eMusic message boards... can't find the original post though.
"I'm on the 30 songs per month for $10. Which sounds good at 33c each. However, I like to buy albums, which is extremely awkward as you have to carefully spread them across months and keep track of what you have got so far."
You can mitigate the pain-in-the-assiness of this somewhat by buying a "booster pack", which gets you extra downloads. A pack is good for a year from the date of purchase. I generally get one 50-song booster and use it over the course of the year to catch the "overflow" when buying a complete album would put me over the # of downloads on my monthly plan.
Thank you, Google, for creating a "Google Desktop" menu category in the root of my Gnome menu. It is *so* much easier to find applications organized by name, as opposed to being organized by the general function (eg, "Games", "Graphics", etc)
Imagine 20 floating houses weighing in at around 20 ton each(or more) gently getting momentum from the wind and current and then crashing into another house.
You responded selectively, ignoring how he uses
download. Let's focus on the essence:
just to try out an artist.
There ya go. There is no current try-before-you-buy except Top40
rotations on pop stations, and they play only singles from a fixed
rotation. DJs are a thing of the past, so how does one get exposed to
new material?
I do it via eMusic
- for a reasonable price, I get n
downloads per month, plus free stuff every day. All of it in MP3 format
with no DRM. And there's no shortage of indie music freely available on
the web - Salon's Audiofile
is good for a daily fix, and Insound
and Pitchfork
have huge amounts of stuff up for grabs. Just the tip of the
iceberg.
If there's something from a major label that I want, I either
buy it or copy it from an actual, real-world friend who bought it,
which IMO is fair use.
The reason (at least for me) for getting MP3s 'illegally' is because I have such a varying taste of music and munch through it so quickly, it's not economically viable for me to buy the amount of albums I actually download just to try out an artist.
So, you want more than you can afford. Welcome to life, kiddo.
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I agree about the importance of privacy regardless of where you register on the something-to-hide-o-meter, and I agree that Google really dropped the ball on Buzz's privacy settings, but at the same time you really need to question the wisdom of using a "private Gmail account" for anything other than Gmail. Google's been ladling the social sauce on to all of their services over the past couple of years, so it's not like that person didn't have the opportunity to see this coming.
You can bash VZW's CDMA network all you want, but as long as they keep giving me 4 bars of EVDO goodness out here in the desert in rural southwestern New Mexico, they'll get nothing but love from me :)
Agreed... I bought the original Storm when it was released last year, It was my first BlackBerry device, and after struggling with the Storm for a few days, I ran away screaming back to my dumbphone. The Storm hardware and software were definitely not ready for prime time.
I recently decided to give BlackBerry another day in court and am currently using a Curve 8330... I like it quite a lot and am considering the Storm 2 as my next upgrade, but I'll definitely do some hands-on testing before I actually purchase it.
Bullshit - the original cut-off date was advertised for years. Anyone who's affected by the transition and *still* isn't ready for it should probably be watching less TV.
You can't opt back out of the beta once you opt in, so caveat emptor. I learned this the hard way after I found out that the Silverlight player doesn't seem to utilize the full-screen video overlay when playing over s-video from my laptop.
to get us... duh.
Meh. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but in the current century, people use their internet service for a variety of things that cannot be adequately represented as ASCII text.
That's not entirely true, as evidenced by Verizon's awesome "$0.49/MB past your allowance" plan. <sarcasm>Wow, thanks Verizon!!</sarcasm>
Ohrea lly?
From the makers of the new improved "Humorously coincidental mis-spelling" game!
Nasty Tolkienses! TRICKSY!!!!!!
You might like PIDA - it gives you a real, honest-to-gosh vim wrapped in fancy IDE features.
You mean, other than the obtusely-titled "What is Plone?" section on the home page?
I think you should get your Braille reader checked out.
Or Kevin Bacon, who appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, show #4299.
I WIN AGAIN!!!!
Actually, Plone does a pretty good job of document indexing/management, particularly when you plug in TextIndexNG3. Add Enfold Desktop on top of that, and you've got desktop and MS Office integration easy enough for any office drone to use.
Wow - they changed something at eMusic and you really have to dig around to find the booster pack purchase option... it's currently at the bottom of this page.
As for the tip on using boosters to supplement the monthly subscription, I read it in a post @ the eMusic message boards... can't find the original post though.
You can mitigate the pain-in-the-assiness of this somewhat by buying a "booster pack", which gets you extra downloads. A pack is good for a year from the date of purchase. I generally get one 50-song booster and use it over the course of the year to catch the "overflow" when buying a complete album would put me over the # of downloads on my monthly plan.
Thank you, Google, for creating a "Google Desktop" menu category in the root of my Gnome menu. It is *so* much easier to find applications organized by name, as opposed to being organized by the general function (eg, "Games", "Graphics", etc)
sudo apt-get remove google-desktop-linux
No need to use your imagination
I do it via eMusic - for a reasonable price, I get n downloads per month, plus free stuff every day. All of it in MP3 format with no DRM. And there's no shortage of indie music freely available on the web - Salon's Audiofile is good for a daily fix, and Insound and Pitchfork have huge amounts of stuff up for grabs. Just the tip of the iceberg.
If there's something from a major label that I want, I either buy it or copy it from an actual, real-world friend who bought it, which IMO is fair use.
So, you want more than you can afford. Welcome to life, kiddo.
erm.. ok, you're right. I was stuck on the issue of the copyrighted logo. :/
yes - necessary to handle scenarios exactly like the one in TFA, without the need for all of the ideological back-and-forth.
unless the user in question wants to use "Firefox(TM)" ;)