As every decent person does I am sorry for what happened to Katherine Tarbox. However, this does not releve her of any of the personal responsability as a moral human being to stop what has/is happening to Katie Jones.
If she has any sence of morality she personally will stop this and make amends.
I think I've told this story before but it's a good one so I'll tell it again.
While in high school I worked at a small sub shop that was just big enough to have one arcade game. It sat right across from our main counter and so during our down time and after work we would often play them. This being during the 80's these were oldschool scroller type games that you can play on a phone now a days but at the time they were teh bomb.
One day one of us figured out that if they kicked the panal where the coins went it they would get a credit! This was then made into a science by using a stool to hit the exact "sweet spot" on the machine to rack up tons of credits. Mind you this was done mostly during after hours so the game still would make some money during the daytime but the effects of such a treatment was none the less noticable. When the owners of the games would come back and see the machine we would always attribute the damage to "some damn kids!" (Truthful in a sence.)
Having crossed the line such that we no longer respected these machines we got more ambitious and would open up the cabinets after hours when beating them to get credits wasn't working. We still beat them up of course just to make sure that our story would not seem out of place.
Finally one day we got a gawd awful game. I don't remember what it was but we all decided that we hated it. We knew better than to try and display too much intrest in it to our bosses as they would then tell us that we should be working yada yada and also knew that it was not going to be due to cycle out for a while so unless something "happened" to it we were going to be stuck with it. (A machine had previously burnt on it's own accord before and it had been promptly replaced with a diffrent one so...)
Various methods of disableing the machine was discussed. I, being the geek of the bunch, was consulted and after some debate I said that it had to look natural or we would be picked as the prime suspects. Now after reading the many storys involving soda related mishaps I am duefully impressed at some of the recovery storys. However most of these storys involve quick actions with drying and cleaning. We had no such intentions.
Fully 3 large fountain Cokes were poured into the top of the cabinet before it finally sputtered and died. The fact that it took 3 was impressive no matter how you slice it. After number 2 I was actually, I was doing the pouring mind you, getting nervous that it would blow up on me before it just died. But finally after number 3 it clicked a few times and then would not come back on.
Even with it's seemingly "natural" death it took some fast talking to explain how the Coke did get into the case seeing as how it had mostly sloped top. Once again those "damn kids" with their sodas were to blame.
I went to Green Hills Software page 1st. Just to see who this is.
And I'm a little upset. Is OSN actually letting these guys astoturf on/.? Why would this get even a 2nd look by anyone? I might see the somethingawful forums laughing at this but to have a posting here?
This whole thing smells bad. Maybe it's a slow news day but there are better anti-linux rants than what is coming from that lame ass website. Nothing to see here, move along.
I guess it all depends on how Green you want to be. If you want to argue "pure Green" then nothing in the world that we can forsee right now will be that pure.
Solar power? Need wide spaces of land that will undoubtably be fenced off. Unless your going to restrict them just to the deserts not very viable.
Nuclear power? Mines to find the power itself and then you have to store the waste. Not "pure Green" by a mile.
Wind power? Again, large patches of land are needed and while they don't really require fenceing like solar, they might be anyway. And won't someone please think of the birds!
And finally Dam power. While I'll grant fully that they will totaly wipe out the ecosystem that they flood they do somewhat balance that out by creating a new one. Lakes sport all sorts of life and are pretty nice to boot.
In the USA where the receiver pays in many cases for SMS and there open e-mail to SMS gateways still exist, Sprint are having to block up to 3 million messages a day, up from 6 million in a peak month in 2003. -- Source: Mike Grenville (www.openwave.com)
Paper title: Market structure in mobile telecoms: qualified indirect access and the receiver pays principle -- Source: Chris Doyle, Jennifer C. Smith (London Business School, Sussex Place, London / Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK)
I could even cite refrences to people in this thread that have a service where it is the receiver who pays but I think I've made my point.
I'm glad that your service is more intelligent than this assbackwards Receiver Pay's model but your missing the whole point of my post. If they are useing a Reciver Pay's model they need to allow some sort of intelligent options for receiver. (Or impliment what you have.)
Also, I'm really glad you enjoy your SMS but you should tone the fanboy down just a notch. You come across almost as phone co shill.
After reading this thread I see a lot of people saying how annoying SMS spam is beacuse you get charged for them even if you don't want them. To everyone that has such a service I have to say are you out of your mind?
A service, setup such that as long as your cell phone is on and has service, that can bill you at will seems like the biggest wet dream a phone company could have since they forced leased phones! What incentive at all would they have not to sell the lists of their subscribers to anyone and everyone who wanted them?
I'm sorry, SMS may be neat but when I first got the sales pitch about including it in my service I laughed right in that poor salespersons face. I said if they ever come up with a way that I can deny any SMS message based on who the sender is then I might consider it but until then thanks but no thanks. (She then made a valent pitch about the unlimited service but I think she even knew that it was allready a lost cause.)
Vote with your dollars people. Don't use SMS at all until they make it more intelligent. If I can see who is messaging me I can choose to be charged or not. And if someone fools me and I accept one that I really didn't want, well thems the breaks but it was still my option.
None of the green energy sources can provide the reliable energy that modern society demands.
Hydroelectric power aka dam power.
And while these typically need speical circumstances to be viable, they are one of the ways that you can have green reliable power.
But like most people here I agree that nuclear is the way to go in the long run. The Japanese have that neat little one that's about the size of a large bus if I remember correctly. Perfect for small towns.
I was given a stack of Wired mags from a friend who had them at his office, and they were actually pretty recent. He actually keeps his waiting room material up to date but I digress.
After not having read Wired in some time, other than a few online articals, I was pretty dissapointed at it's paper version. (Not that I really find it's online version that much better.) It's at least 50% ads and they are the hip trendy kind too that seem to feel much more important than the content of the magazine itself.
And if you do happen to find your way to an artical amist the ads they rarely have anything to do with IT. And while I appricate things outside the IT world if I'm going to buy an IT mag I kind of expect it to have some IT articals in it.
Wired seems overly pleased with itself and if others seem to appricate it I suppose that's fine. However if they are kidding themselves that they are still an IT mag I have some news for them...
While I lament you spell-check woes I you missed the best part of this troll's post.
No, then we'd have government run by professional bureaucrats who are all appointed, and completely unanswerable to the voters.
I'm not sure how this would work. If you continue to always have every office filled by someone who had never been there before, IE always voteing the incumbents out, then how would you end up with a "government run by professional bureaucrats?"
There is another reply to your orignal post that goes along these same lines as if voteing against incumbents will leave our goverment in chaos. And while I will acknowladge that to a point it is not a great idea to fill up our "leadership", my there is a laugh unto itself, positions with a bunch of noobs the bottom line that I think your driveing at is that you don't reward incompetence and/or not acknowledge accountability.
It takes a blind man, or a brainwashed one by the media who sadly are very skilled at that trade right now, to see that the system is broken. I have to fight the urge every day to become like you, someone who writes letters only to see them dismissed because I'm just some pleeb. Somehow if I don't become too much a part of the system I can hate it more efficently. But the sad truth is that unless I try and do something nothing will change at all and that will not work either. Ok, I've ranted enough and now I need a drink.
I want to say to Jimmy James that I'm rather mad at the "vaporware" that is not being installed on my box.
My Funky Boss is not happy about it either because when I tried to listen to my new CD on my computer at work it hosed it up.
I had to Pass the Mic to my admin who told me I needed to read/. more often so I would know these things.
But I did have some Gratitude for other artists who take a stand with their recording companys unlike the BBoys are doing now apparently.
Their website told me to Lighten Up but I still don't think they are being honest with me.
Other CD's are Finger Licking Good because the are real but I guess they forgot that when they made this one.
So Whatcha Want is a real CD and not this one.
The Biz vs the Nudge was a grudge match between DRM and Fair Use, we are still waiting to see who will win.
Time For Livin is right now, if you are real about your music BBoys stand up to your label and speak some truth.
Something's Got to Give and it will; SCO will fall and MS will have to find a new shill.
The Blue Nun does not even like the DRM on her box.
Stand Together beacuse if we refuse these DRM crippled systems they will stop selling them.
POW in your mouth for messing with us.
The Maestro told me that I could disable this DRM by holding down a shift key but he was sent away for being a "terrorist".
Groove Holmes also was suspect but he is told them he's voteing for Bush this year so they let him go.
Live at PJ's was recorded and distributed via Kazaa, increaseing record sales, but the RIAA still sued them.
I Mark the Bus with instructions on how to defeat the DRM on the new BBoys album so all my homies can see it.
Professor Booty is working on a way to defeat people who "steal" all that music by singing on their own but I hear it's not going very well.
In 3's, #1 damn this album has a lot of tracks, #2 I though I could respect the BBoys but I'm not so sure now, #3 if you have read all this your more wacked than Mike D.
I had to bend over for Namaste so he could install the DRM in my...
While I didn't RTFA in true/. style I have got to guess that the RIAA valued each one of these CD's at full markup price rather than what they actually cost to make.
So in addition to the fact that they get to clean out their warehouses to make room for new crap they are distorting the economics by valueing each of these CDs higher than what anyone would have paid for them.
In reality these things would have sat around until it became cheaper to sell them off for next to nothing. Instead they are getting full value, granted for a lost court case, for something that never had that much value to begin with. They win again...
There is no market demand for this "feature." None of your customers want you to make expensive modifications to your products that make backing up and restoring even harder. And there is no moment when your customers will be less forgiving than the moment that they are recovering from catastrophic technology failures.
They know this and they don't care. They are going to, once again, leverage their monopoly to try and change the market.
And sadly, even if their customers are so unforgiving it is a long strech to see joe-sixpack and sally-homemaker deciding to break with everything they know and install Linux or makeing a whole new investment in a Mac.
At the end of the day they will grumble and bitch but swallow that bitter pill and reinstall Windows and deal. MS knows this and so does its partners.
I have been using Yahoo! mail for a while now and it's been fairly OK.
Them removeing the free POP service was kinda annoying but whatever. You get what you pay for.
However, thanks to their latest move and now the/. effect trying to use Yahoo! mail today is just horrable! I made the mistake today of making an online order and putting my Yahoo! mail addy in the form and upon trying to go there have been getting nothing but network errors from Opera. (As a side note, the main interface looks like ass in Opera right now, which is not cool.)
Being able to set your bookmark with a user-agent string for those few pages that require them.
I know that when I have to deal with BellSouth.com I have to fool the webpage into thinking I'm running IE when I'm really running Opera. It's really the only page that I have to use it with since most of the other pages I visit work just fine with the standard user-agent string.
Still, it would be nice to be able to set it in my bookmark such that I don't have to manually switch it back when I'm done with that page. I like to report what I'm using so that webmasters get an accurate idea of what is out there. And thus hopefully move away from the idea that as long as it works with IE they are ok.
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There really is very little reason for printed publications these days other than those people who still don't use the Internet regularly, and I suspect the ratios will eventually put many of the print -only publication out of business unless they adapt to the Internet.
There are a few things print can do that, while can still be replicated on the inet, they can do just as well.
That being opinion storys or in depth research where there is no real "scoop" to be had. The depth and research of the story is what counts not the speed at which it can be delivered.
Other than that I think that you are right on most points. Print, as far as a news format goes, is going to have a very hard time as time goes on and wireless access is nearly everywhere.
I can see something like in Japan where printed news totally dies because who wants to carry around some paper that stains your hands with yesterdays news when you can just turn on your PDA/laptop and get the latest.
You know you can get titanium cases for most pdas. There goes the break it arguement.
You make it sound as if putting it in a case makes it impossable to break. And thus my argument for having the things getting broke is totally invalid.
I personally have seen PDAs that have been inadvertantly crushed or someone simply took it out of the case to use it more easily.
Your statment was one line and then totally dismissed my point. Even if you did not intend to troll, you sure did bud.
Yeah, those titanium cases really help when something heavy crushes down on the screen. Puh-lease.
I personally never have broken any of my PDAs due to them being rugged enough or put into nice leather cases when I'm going out but if you think that they can't/don't break your a fool. (More likely just a troll.)
I've owned a few PDAs now for some time and have come to see a few things about them. Many of these same points have been made here allready but I'd like to chip in my 2cents about the list of things that I feel are most important.
1. Cost -- I simply can not justify dropping much more than $150 for a device that can be so easily be broken/lost/stolden that does not strap onto my body. (The reason I say strapped on is watches. And even then I'm pretty frugal with that.) When you get past $150 to around $500 your talking about something that may do a lot of neat things but that just makes it all the more ripe of a target for theft. And anywhere past $500 you might just be better off getting a low-cost/referbed laptop that will do way more anyway.
2. Useability -- Do I really need to be able to watch movies on a PDA? I suppose it would be neat but to do so I'd have to drop a ton of cash for one that has the CPU/Memory and then we get back to that cost/theft issue. I've found that some of the best things that I do with my palm on a regular basis are the simplest things. Being able to have notes, a few pictures, read books/webpages, and play a few simple games. Anything else that gets too complicated means that I either have to a) work with some sort of annoying handwriting recognition system or b) break out my keyboard. (Not always a bad thing but kind of defeats the purpose of having it in your "palm".)
3. Screen size -- Here comes the argument against cellphone PDAs. I simply don't want some tiny ass screen! Having the palm just big enough so it fits in my hand with as much screen as you can fit on to that is just about right. Anything less means less overall useability and since they have to intigrate a cell phone into it your talking higher cost.
I was wondering the same thing myself. I personally ran a cacheing NS on my gateway for over a year when I had RR and nary a peep from them about it. (If anything I always figured they would be more upset about the NAT than the NS but who knows.)
I even at one point allowed a trusted server that I admined to use my DNS because the DNS that it was supposto use was being a bit flakey.
So, I'm guessing here that they did scan him or he was a known "abuser" (And keep in mind they guy could be a saint for all I know, just saying what they might of thought.) and had it out to mess with him. I personally tried to stay far away from their support and or anything else that might draw attention to the fact that I was not just some clueless luser.
Yet Tanenbaum vehemently insists that Torvalds wrote Linux from scratch, which means from a blank computer screen to most people. No books, no resources, no notes -- certainly not a line of source code to borrow from, or to be tempted to borrow from.
By Brown's reasoning Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz didn't really invent calculus since they were using matmatical tools that were around since the dawn of man.
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As every decent person does I am sorry for what happened to Katherine Tarbox. However, this does not releve her of any of the personal responsability as a moral human being to stop what has/is happening to Katie Jones.
If she has any sence of morality she personally will stop this and make amends.
I think I've told this story before but it's a good one so I'll tell it again.
While in high school I worked at a small sub shop that was just big enough to have one arcade game. It sat right across from our main counter and so during our down time and after work we would often play them. This being during the 80's these were oldschool scroller type games that you can play on a phone now a days but at the time they were teh bomb.
One day one of us figured out that if they kicked the panal where the coins went it they would get a credit! This was then made into a science by using a stool to hit the exact "sweet spot" on the machine to rack up tons of credits. Mind you this was done mostly during after hours so the game still would make some money during the daytime but the effects of such a treatment was none the less noticable. When the owners of the games would come back and see the machine we would always attribute the damage to "some damn kids!" (Truthful in a sence.)
Having crossed the line such that we no longer respected these machines we got more ambitious and would open up the cabinets after hours when beating them to get credits wasn't working. We still beat them up of course just to make sure that our story would not seem out of place.
Finally one day we got a gawd awful game. I don't remember what it was but we all decided that we hated it. We knew better than to try and display too much intrest in it to our bosses as they would then tell us that we should be working yada yada and also knew that it was not going to be due to cycle out for a while so unless something "happened" to it we were going to be stuck with it. (A machine had previously burnt on it's own accord before and it had been promptly replaced with a diffrent one so...)
Various methods of disableing the machine was discussed. I, being the geek of the bunch, was consulted and after some debate I said that it had to look natural or we would be picked as the prime suspects. Now after reading the many storys involving soda related mishaps I am duefully impressed at some of the recovery storys. However most of these storys involve quick actions with drying and cleaning. We had no such intentions.
Fully 3 large fountain Cokes were poured into the top of the cabinet before it finally sputtered and died. The fact that it took 3 was impressive no matter how you slice it. After number 2 I was actually, I was doing the pouring mind you, getting nervous that it would blow up on me before it just died. But finally after number 3 it clicked a few times and then would not come back on.
Even with it's seemingly "natural" death it took some fast talking to explain how the Coke did get into the case seeing as how it had mostly sloped top. Once again those "damn kids" with their sodas were to blame.
I went to Green Hills Software page 1st. Just to see who this is.
/.? Why would this get even a 2nd look by anyone? I might see the somethingawful forums laughing at this but to have a posting here?
And I'm a little upset. Is OSN actually letting these guys astoturf on
This whole thing smells bad. Maybe it's a slow news day but there are better anti-linux rants than what is coming from that lame ass website. Nothing to see here, move along.
I understand that people who they might not have never seen anything like this before would understand would be ok.
That was not the tone that the OP was written in.
I guess it all depends on how Green you want to be. If you want to argue "pure Green" then nothing in the world that we can forsee right now will be that pure.
Solar power? Need wide spaces of land that will undoubtably be fenced off. Unless your going to restrict them just to the deserts not very viable.
Nuclear power? Mines to find the power itself and then you have to store the waste. Not "pure Green" by a mile.
Wind power? Again, large patches of land are needed and while they don't really require fenceing like solar, they might be anyway. And won't someone please think of the birds!
And finally Dam power. While I'll grant fully that they will totaly wipe out the ecosystem that they flood they do somewhat balance that out by creating a new one. Lakes sport all sorts of life and are pretty nice to boot.
In the USA where the receiver pays in many cases for SMS and there open e-mail to SMS gateways still exist, Sprint are having to block up to 3 million messages a day, up from 6 million in a peak month in 2003. -- Source: Mike Grenville (www.openwave.com)
Paper title: Market structure in mobile telecoms: qualified indirect access and the receiver pays principle -- Source: Chris Doyle, Jennifer C. Smith (London Business School, Sussex Place, London / Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK)
I could even cite refrences to people in this thread that have a service where it is the receiver who pays but I think I've made my point.
I'm glad that your service is more intelligent than this assbackwards Receiver Pay's model but your missing the whole point of my post. If they are useing a Reciver Pay's model they need to allow some sort of intelligent options for receiver. (Or impliment what you have.)
Also, I'm really glad you enjoy your SMS but you should tone the fanboy down just a notch. You come across almost as phone co shill.
After reading this thread I see a lot of people saying how annoying SMS spam is beacuse you get charged for them even if you don't want them. To everyone that has such a service I have to say are you out of your mind?
A service, setup such that as long as your cell phone is on and has service, that can bill you at will seems like the biggest wet dream a phone company could have since they forced leased phones! What incentive at all would they have not to sell the lists of their subscribers to anyone and everyone who wanted them?
I'm sorry, SMS may be neat but when I first got the sales pitch about including it in my service I laughed right in that poor salespersons face. I said if they ever come up with a way that I can deny any SMS message based on who the sender is then I might consider it but until then thanks but no thanks. (She then made a valent pitch about the unlimited service but I think she even knew that it was allready a lost cause.)
Vote with your dollars people. Don't use SMS at all until they make it more intelligent. If I can see who is messaging me I can choose to be charged or not. And if someone fools me and I accept one that I really didn't want, well thems the breaks but it was still my option.
None of the green energy sources can provide the reliable energy that modern society demands.
Hydroelectric power aka dam power.
And while these typically need speical circumstances to be viable, they are one of the ways that you can have green reliable power.
But like most people here I agree that nuclear is the way to go in the long run. The Japanese have that neat little one that's about the size of a large bus if I remember correctly. Perfect for small towns.
If you had RTFA you would have seen that it was entitled "Show me the Money".
Overrated, maybe. Offtopic, ehhhh. But whatever...
Show me the monkey! Show me the monkey!
As I recall, they're already recycling SSNs.
And this is nothing new really. I can remember one of my economics profs telling me this back in collage which was ~10 years ago now.
In addition to this the American population growth is pretty low. And if we keep nukeing the middle class I can forsee it getting even lower.
I was given a stack of Wired mags from a friend who had them at his office, and they were actually pretty recent. He actually keeps his waiting room material up to date but I digress.
After not having read Wired in some time, other than a few online articals, I was pretty dissapointed at it's paper version. (Not that I really find it's online version that much better.) It's at least 50% ads and they are the hip trendy kind too that seem to feel much more important than the content of the magazine itself.
And if you do happen to find your way to an artical amist the ads they rarely have anything to do with IT. And while I appricate things outside the IT world if I'm going to buy an IT mag I kind of expect it to have some IT articals in it.
Wired seems overly pleased with itself and if others seem to appricate it I suppose that's fine. However if they are kidding themselves that they are still an IT mag I have some news for them...
While I lament you spell-check woes I you missed the best part of this troll's post.
No, then we'd have government run by professional bureaucrats who are all appointed, and completely unanswerable to the voters.
I'm not sure how this would work. If you continue to always have every office filled by someone who had never been there before, IE always voteing the incumbents out, then how would you end up with a "government run by professional bureaucrats?"
There is another reply to your orignal post that goes along these same lines as if voteing against incumbents will leave our goverment in chaos. And while I will acknowladge that to a point it is not a great idea to fill up our "leadership", my there is a laugh unto itself, positions with a bunch of noobs the bottom line that I think your driveing at is that you don't reward incompetence and/or not acknowledge accountability.
It takes a blind man, or a brainwashed one by the media who sadly are very skilled at that trade right now, to see that the system is broken. I have to fight the urge every day to become like you, someone who writes letters only to see them dismissed because I'm just some pleeb. Somehow if I don't become too much a part of the system I can hate it more efficently. But the sad truth is that unless I try and do something nothing will change at all and that will not work either. Ok, I've ranted enough and now I need a drink.
I want to say to Jimmy James that I'm rather mad at the "vaporware" that is not being installed on my box.
/. more often so I would know these things.
My Funky Boss is not happy about it either because when I tried to listen to my new CD on my computer at work it hosed it up.
I had to Pass the Mic to my admin who told me I needed to read
But I did have some Gratitude for other artists who take a stand with their recording companys unlike the BBoys are doing now apparently.
Their website told me to Lighten Up but I still don't think they are being honest with me.
Other CD's are Finger Licking Good because the are real but I guess they forgot that when they made this one.
So Whatcha Want is a real CD and not this one.
The Biz vs the Nudge was a grudge match between DRM and Fair Use, we are still waiting to see who will win.
Time For Livin is right now, if you are real about your music BBoys stand up to your label and speak some truth.
Something's Got to Give and it will; SCO will fall and MS will have to find a new shill.
The Blue Nun does not even like the DRM on her box.
Stand Together beacuse if we refuse these DRM crippled systems they will stop selling them.
POW in your mouth for messing with us.
The Maestro told me that I could disable this DRM by holding down a shift key but he was sent away for being a "terrorist".
Groove Holmes also was suspect but he is told them he's voteing for Bush this year so they let him go.
Live at PJ's was recorded and distributed via Kazaa, increaseing record sales, but the RIAA still sued them.
I Mark the Bus with instructions on how to defeat the DRM on the new BBoys album so all my homies can see it.
Professor Booty is working on a way to defeat people who "steal" all that music by singing on their own but I hear it's not going very well.
In 3's, #1 damn this album has a lot of tracks, #2 I though I could respect the BBoys but I'm not so sure now, #3 if you have read all this your more wacked than Mike D.
I had to bend over for Namaste so he could install the DRM in my...
While I didn't RTFA in true /. style I have got to guess that the RIAA valued each one of these CD's at full markup price rather than what they actually cost to make.
So in addition to the fact that they get to clean out their warehouses to make room for new crap they are distorting the economics by valueing each of these CDs higher than what anyone would have paid for them.
In reality these things would have sat around until it became cheaper to sell them off for next to nothing. Instead they are getting full value, granted for a lost court case, for something that never had that much value to begin with. They win again...
There is no market demand for this "feature." None of your customers want you to make expensive modifications to your products that make backing up and restoring even harder. And there is no moment when your customers will be less forgiving than the moment that they are recovering from catastrophic technology failures.
They know this and they don't care. They are going to, once again, leverage their monopoly to try and change the market.
And sadly, even if their customers are so unforgiving it is a long strech to see joe-sixpack and sally-homemaker deciding to break with everything they know and install Linux or makeing a whole new investment in a Mac.
At the end of the day they will grumble and bitch but swallow that bitter pill and reinstall Windows and deal. MS knows this and so does its partners.
I have been using Yahoo! mail for a while now and it's been fairly OK.
/. effect trying to use Yahoo! mail today is just horrable! I made the mistake today of making an online order and putting my Yahoo! mail addy in the form and upon trying to go there have been getting nothing but network errors from Opera. (As a side note, the main interface looks like ass in Opera right now, which is not cool.)
/.! Heh.
Them removeing the free POP service was kinda annoying but whatever. You get what you pay for.
However, thanks to their latest move and now the
Thanks again
Being able to set your bookmark with a user-agent string for those few pages that require them.
I know that when I have to deal with BellSouth.com I have to fool the webpage into thinking I'm running IE when I'm really running Opera. It's really the only page that I have to use it with since most of the other pages I visit work just fine with the standard user-agent string.
Still, it would be nice to be able to set it in my bookmark such that I don't have to manually switch it back when I'm done with that page. I like to report what I'm using so that webmasters get an accurate idea of what is out there. And thus hopefully move away from the idea that as long as it works with IE they are ok.
There really is very little reason for printed publications these days other than those people who still don't use the Internet regularly, and I suspect the ratios will eventually put many of the print -only publication out of business unless they adapt to the Internet.
There are a few things print can do that, while can still be replicated on the inet, they can do just as well.
That being opinion storys or in depth research where there is no real "scoop" to be had. The depth and research of the story is what counts not the speed at which it can be delivered.
Other than that I think that you are right on most points. Print, as far as a news format goes, is going to have a very hard time as time goes on and wireless access is nearly everywhere.
I can see something like in Japan where printed news totally dies because who wants to carry around some paper that stains your hands with yesterdays news when you can just turn on your PDA/laptop and get the latest.
You know you can get titanium cases for most pdas. There goes the break it arguement.
You make it sound as if putting it in a case makes it impossable to break. And thus my argument for having the things getting broke is totally invalid.
I personally have seen PDAs that have been inadvertantly crushed or someone simply took it out of the case to use it more easily.
Your statment was one line and then totally dismissed my point. Even if you did not intend to troll, you sure did bud.
Yeah, those titanium cases really help when something heavy crushes down on the screen. Puh-lease.
I personally never have broken any of my PDAs due to them being rugged enough or put into nice leather cases when I'm going out but if you think that they can't/don't break your a fool. (More likely just a troll.)
I've owned a few PDAs now for some time and have come to see a few things about them. Many of these same points have been made here allready but I'd like to chip in my 2cents about the list of things that I feel are most important.
1. Cost -- I simply can not justify dropping much more than $150 for a device that can be so easily be broken/lost/stolden that does not strap onto my body. (The reason I say strapped on is watches. And even then I'm pretty frugal with that.) When you get past $150 to around $500 your talking about something that may do a lot of neat things but that just makes it all the more ripe of a target for theft. And anywhere past $500 you might just be better off getting a low-cost/referbed laptop that will do way more anyway.
2. Useability -- Do I really need to be able to watch movies on a PDA? I suppose it would be neat but to do so I'd have to drop a ton of cash for one that has the CPU/Memory and then we get back to that cost/theft issue. I've found that some of the best things that I do with my palm on a regular basis are the simplest things. Being able to have notes, a few pictures, read books/webpages, and play a few simple games. Anything else that gets too complicated means that I either have to a) work with some sort of annoying handwriting recognition system or b) break out my keyboard. (Not always a bad thing but kind of defeats the purpose of having it in your "palm".)
3. Screen size -- Here comes the argument against cellphone PDAs. I simply don't want some tiny ass screen! Having the palm just big enough so it fits in my hand with as much screen as you can fit on to that is just about right. Anything less means less overall useability and since they have to intigrate a cell phone into it your talking higher cost.
I was wondering the same thing myself. I personally ran a cacheing NS on my gateway for over a year when I had RR and nary a peep from them about it. (If anything I always figured they would be more upset about the NAT than the NS but who knows.)
I even at one point allowed a trusted server that I admined to use my DNS because the DNS that it was supposto use was being a bit flakey.
So, I'm guessing here that they did scan him or he was a known "abuser" (And keep in mind they guy could be a saint for all I know, just saying what they might of thought.) and had it out to mess with him. I personally tried to stay far away from their support and or anything else that might draw attention to the fact that I was not just some clueless luser.
I totally agree. However, they didn't have a case to begin with so...
Yet Tanenbaum vehemently insists that Torvalds wrote Linux from scratch, which means from a blank computer screen to most people. No books, no resources, no notes -- certainly not a line of source code to borrow from, or to be tempted to borrow from.
By Brown's reasoning Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz didn't really invent calculus since they were using matmatical tools that were around since the dawn of man.