Ha ha. Anyway, again, the point stands: Is PayPal supposed allow you to pay, or is it supposed to be your "pal"? I guess they couldn't decide, so they named it both.
Either only send money to people you know (personally or professionally), or use only reputable vendors (Amazon, Sears, whatever).
If you send a check to someone, and they don't send you what you expected, do you expect your bank to handhold you through the process of getting fair value back?
This seems to say that e-gold was shut down by the authorities (the ones that make it illegal to keep secrets from them, but also illegal to publicize their secrets), and all they're doing now is trying to get people's money back in some way or another.
Sidenote:
Beginning January 2006, eBay has restricted buyers and sellers from using many online payment systems and encouraged them to use Paypal,... owned by eBay.... eBay cited e-gold's policy of non-reversible transactions as a detriment to the buyer experience.[26]
Non-reversible is good. Are payment processors supposed to be modes of payment, or net-nannies? If anything, non-reversible would mean fewer problems as people won't buy from anything other than reputable stores.
But, strangely, ever so strangely, regardless of the huge amount of horizontal space 17inchers have, they add a numpad, but then delete the menu key.
That's that key to the left of the Ctrl key on most (desktop) keyboards with a picture of a menu on it and a mouse arrow. Yeah, it was added by Microsoft with their PC 95 specifications, but it's all kinds of handy.
For people who know how to type, and prefer to keep their hands on the keyboard, it brings up what would otherwise be the "right-click menu". It works in Nautilus, Thunderbird, gedit, gnome-terminal, many/most Windows programs, etc.
Anyway, different people have different ways of working. But there's no excuse to not have it on a 17 inch laptop.
I'm looking at you, DellStudio 17, but there are others with the same disease.
This. What, do manufacturers think that the only think people are doing on their computers is watching movies? That too at exactly 16:9? No other ratios?
If they wanted to make screens wider, go right ahead. Going from 1280x800 to 1366x768? What's the point of losing 32 vertical lines? And 1280x800 is 16:10, which is a fine ratio.
Whether misguided or prescient, the site is classic Worldwide Web, classic Geocities: no ads, no sidebars, no fancy layouts, different background color for each page, cheesy pictures, even the screenshots of FoxPro contribute to the 80s/90s style mood. Of course, we were all about those kinds of personal ~ pages in the day.
Here's one definite gem:
In 1997 we saw an ad for a "programmer with 3 years of ASP experience." ASP was only out for one year!
Longtime Slashdot readers know and either love or hate user "Tablizer" .
He has a website detailing his objections to object-oriented programming, while arguing for "table-oriented programming". It has been a fruitful source of flamewars over the years.
So, is this a vindication for Tablizer? Tablizer, what say you?
How many packages does EPEL have? I was unable to get a number.
Debian seems to have between 20 and 30k.
Many EPEL/Rpmforge packages I've found need to use have been low quality: E.g,. by installing collectd, a server monitoring package, I also had to install X plus a desktop environment (nutty on a server).
Yes, I do. The 3 errors were just to conform to the Slashdot rule that if you're correcting someone else's grammar, you have to make a few mistakes yourself:
This. Those who are against this are opposing the trademark as pushback against big companies claiming parts of the public space all for their private selves.
Want to buy Apps? A certain company wants you to think only of them.
It's not called Google Market (was it called that before?). Anyway, it's Android Market now. Even if it were Google Market, I think that would be OK, as long as they understood that they weren't getting rights to the word "Market".
That's why there can be both MS Office and Corel Office.
Regarding "Oil Company": right. Oil Company is the analogue of App Store. A company; what kind of company? Oil company. A store; what kind of store? An app store, not a stationery store or a candle store.
To Apple's way of thinking, no oil company could call themselves a company after the first black-turtlenecked one did. It would be:
Standard Oil Company American Oil Corp. Anglo-Iranian Oil Group Arabian Oil Herd Venezuelan Oil Posse
Or maybe: American Greasy Stuff Company Anglo-Iranian Black Slippery Goo Company Arabian Ebony-Colored Fuel Company Venezuelan ? Company
I'll agree with you on the Android Market and Amazon App Store points.
But I want to disagree about if Amazon called it aTunes. While I'm not suggesting they do so, I kind of bristle at the reality distortion field that not only has convinced itself that it owns a letter of the alphabet ("i") that has a history dating from Egyptian hieroglyphics, but also believes that it owns the general concept of "letter + generic noun". ("e-mail"?)
Although i$DEVICE users are supposed to have the attitude of "I just want to use it, not tinker with it", doesn't anyone find it patronizing that Apple assumes its users are so dumb as rocks as to not recognize that, Yes Virginia, -there are other phones besides the iPhone, and so consequently -there must be app[lications] for those phones, and -there must be app[lication] stores for those phones?
Or are Apple users so solipsistic that they can't even begin to conceive of a phone that doesn't wear a black turtleneck?
I have no knowledge about this, but I'd guess they'd be broadcasting in the clear over the Mediterranean, and then once over restricted (NFZ) areas, switch to encrypted.
Military aircraft have to provide basic information about their position over unencrypted, unclassified UHF and VHF radio networks; otherwise, theyâ(TM)d risk slamming into civilian jets in mid-air. That allows savvy listeners like Huub to use radio frequency scanners, amplifiers, and antennas to capture the communications.
I was going to say this, but you already have, so I'll just expand on it.
XBMC is great for organizing media. It has some neat features: -looks really nice, suitable for a living/theater room, not geeky -movies, pictures, sound -IMDB integration -scripts (do anything) -contributed lists of Internet TV stations -support for IR remote controls and universal remotes -remote playback (playing computer being separate from the storage computer)
Not sure if you know what GW-BASIC is, and you're just joking, but, back in the day, GW-BASIC was the version of Basic you had if you bought an IBM PC compatible computer with MS-DOS.
It later morphed to QBasic/QuickBASIC and then VisualBasic.
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Ha ha. Anyway, again, the point stands: Is PayPal supposed allow you to pay, or is it supposed to be your "pal"? I guess they couldn't decide, so they named it both.
Either only send money to people you know (personally or professionally), or use only reputable vendors (Amazon, Sears, whatever).
If you send a check to someone, and they don't send you what you expected, do you expect your bank to handhold you through the process of getting fair value back?
This seems to say that e-gold was shut down by the authorities (the ones that make it illegal to keep secrets from them, but also illegal to publicize their secrets), and all they're doing now is trying to get people's money back in some way or another.
Sidenote:
Non-reversible is good. Are payment processors supposed to be modes of payment, or net-nannies? If anything, non-reversible would mean fewer problems as people won't buy from anything other than reputable stores.
Well, 17 in laptops do have dedicated numpads.
But, strangely, ever so strangely, regardless of the huge amount of horizontal space 17inchers have, they add a numpad, but then delete the menu key.
That's that key to the left of the Ctrl key on most (desktop) keyboards with a picture of a menu on it and a mouse arrow. Yeah, it was added by Microsoft with their PC 95 specifications, but it's all kinds of handy.
For people who know how to type, and prefer to keep their hands on the keyboard, it brings up what would otherwise be the "right-click menu". It works in Nautilus, Thunderbird, gedit, gnome-terminal, many/most Windows programs, etc.
Anyway, different people have different ways of working. But there's no excuse to not have it on a 17 inch laptop.
I'm looking at you, Dell Studio 17, but there are others with the same disease.
This. What, do manufacturers think that the only think people are doing on their computers is watching movies? That too at exactly 16:9? No other ratios?
If they wanted to make screens wider, go right ahead. Going from 1280x800 to 1366x768? What's the point of losing 32 vertical lines? And 1280x800 is 16:10, which is a fine ratio.
Whether misguided or prescient, the site is classic Worldwide Web, classic Geocities: no ads, no sidebars, no fancy layouts, different background color for each page, cheesy pictures, even the screenshots of FoxPro contribute to the 80s/90s style mood. Of course, we were all about those kinds of personal ~ pages in the day.
Here's one definite gem:
>Unless your startup isn't paying its employees, but that's kind of illegal.
Well, payment in equity (stock). In that case, free is better.
Longtime Slashdot readers know and either love or hate user "Tablizer" .
He has a website detailing his objections to object-oriented programming, while arguing for "table-oriented programming". It has been a fruitful source of flamewars over the years.
So, is this a vindication for Tablizer? Tablizer, what say you?
How many packages does EPEL have? I was unable to get a number.
Debian seems to have between 20 and 30k.
Many EPEL/Rpmforge packages I've found need to use have been low quality: E.g,. by installing collectd, a server monitoring package, I also had to install X plus a desktop environment (nutty on a server).
Argh! Next we'll be facing a shortage of Slashdot UIDs...
Yes, I do. The 3 errors were just to conform to the Slashdot rule that if you're correcting someone else's grammar, you have to make a few mistakes yourself:
1. jinks / jinx
2. grammer / grammar
3. gauranteed / guaranteed
There's a jinks or something that everytime someone corrects someone's grammer on Slashdot, there's gauranteed to be some errors in the correction.
Is there a MAX(uid) counter publically available?
Under DNSSEC, how do you verify the . root server (or other top-level servers: com, org, uk, us)?
Wait, what happens if when you go to mozilla.com to download an update, the cert for mozilla.com itself has been compromised?
Wait, but if there's no one to pay or ask permission from, that also means there's no one with standing to sue for copyright infringement, right?
Hence, you could make an online copy without any consequences.
The problem is finding those orphan books.
This. Those who are against this are opposing the trademark as pushback against big companies claiming parts of the public space all for their private selves.
Want to buy Apps? A certain company wants you to think only of them.
It's not called Google Market (was it called that before?). Anyway, it's Android Market now. Even if it were Google Market, I think that would be OK, as long as they understood that they weren't getting rights to the word "Market".
That's why there can be both MS Office and Corel Office.
Regarding "Oil Company": right. Oil Company is the analogue of App Store. A company; what kind of company? Oil company. A store; what kind of store? An app store, not a stationery store or a candle store.
To Apple's way of thinking, no oil company could call themselves a company after the first black-turtlenecked one did. It would be:
Standard Oil Company
American Oil Corp.
Anglo-Iranian Oil Group
Arabian Oil Herd
Venezuelan Oil Posse
Or maybe:
American Greasy Stuff Company
Anglo-Iranian Black Slippery Goo Company
Arabian Ebony-Colored Fuel Company
Venezuelan ? Company
I'll agree with you on the Android Market and Amazon App Store points.
But I want to disagree about if Amazon called it aTunes. While I'm not suggesting they do so, I kind of bristle at the reality distortion field that not only has convinced itself that it owns a letter of the alphabet ("i") that has a history dating from Egyptian hieroglyphics, but also believes that it owns the general concept of "letter + generic noun". ("e-mail"?)
Although i$DEVICE users are supposed to have the attitude of "I just want to use it, not tinker with it", doesn't anyone find it patronizing that Apple assumes its users are so dumb as rocks as to not recognize that, Yes Virginia,
-there are other phones besides the iPhone, and so consequently
-there must be app[lications] for those phones, and
-there must be app[lication] stores for those phones?
Or are Apple users so solipsistic that they can't even begin to conceive of a phone that doesn't wear a black turtleneck?
What happened there?
I know that the Wildlife people ended up with WWF, and Wrestling became WWE, but was Wildlife there first?
I have no knowledge about this, but I'd guess they'd be broadcasting in the clear over the Mediterranean, and then once over restricted (NFZ) areas, switch to encrypted.
OK, that's interesting. XBMC looks a lot nicer than MythTV, so that's good to hear.
Is there a list of Linux/V4L compatible cards?
I was going to say this, but you already have, so I'll just expand on it.
XBMC is great for organizing media. It has some neat features:
-looks really nice, suitable for a living/theater room, not geeky
-movies, pictures, sound
-IMDB integration
-scripts (do anything)
-contributed lists of Internet TV stations
-support for IR remote controls and universal remotes
-remote playback (playing computer being separate from the storage computer)
http://xbmc.org/
One thing it's not really designed for is to record TV. For that, use MythTV.
Not sure if you know what GW-BASIC is, and you're just joking, but, back in the day, GW-BASIC was the version of Basic you had if you bought an IBM PC compatible computer with MS-DOS.
It later morphed to QBasic/QuickBASIC and then VisualBasic.