How is my aversion to advertisements illogical? It seems to be more of personal preference.
And of course $9.95 is too much - the print edition costs much less, and they actually have to physically deliver the paper to your doorstep. Why should I be penalized for saving them materials and labor?
If the Post offered me $9.95/month for an ad-free online subscription (and possibly costing more), I would be content. If the post offered me the same price or less (should be less) for the electronic edition, I would be content.
"I would likely be willing to pay for the electronic edition if it were ad-free."
And the last sentence of my letter - "Please inform me of any current or future plans you have to offer an ad-free subscription to the "Washington Post Electronic Edition"."
I run Windows on my main desktop, and know how to do it well. I don't spend time daily administering my machine. I simply set it up correctly the first time. After installing Windows and all of my apps, I go through the list of processes that start on boot and only keep what I need. This is a basic strategy that administrators of *all* OSes (even "secure" ones) should use.
Combine this with being a smart user, and your system will be plenty secure. I don't even run anti-virus software. Never have. Never had a virus either.
All questions are such that we (well, at least me) are unlikely to be able to coherently answer them without further research into the benefits of each one of these causes.
From the EFF link: (Prize money comes from a special donation provided by an individual EFF supporter, earmarked specifically for this project. Prize money does NOT come from EFF membership dues, corporate or foundation grants, or other general EFF funds.)
One might think if you were so hot and bothered by this, you'd have clicked on the link to find out more.
Silicon valley garage? I know the image of a tech company starting in a Silicon Valley garage may be somewhat romantic, but didn't Google start in a Stanford lab?
Alienware sucks. Their "Aurora ALX" has a base price of $4,819.00, comes with NVidia 6800GT video cards (as opposed to 7800GTX 512MB), only 1GB of RAM (2GB max), no DVD burner, no keyboard, mouse, or monitor, and it doesn't ship until December 26. How the hell do they justify that price?
Thank you, thank you very much for that. Why is everyone so "OK" with the idea of getting things for "free" through being shown ads? I find it to be remarkably offensive.
WiMax Like Card? What is a "Like Card"? Once we have answered this question then we can apply the other adjective to this term and figure out what a "WiMax Like Card" is.
OH oh oh . . . you meant WiMax-Like Card . . . seriously, some proof-reading/English lessons?
There was actually a new review on Anandtech this morning about Solaris 10 with the Sun dual core Fire V40z. A few hours later, it was taken down. I have the RSS sitting in Thunderbird as evidence. Anyone else notice this?
VOIP quality is rather good, at least when talking to another VOIP user. Well, my only experience has been with Skype-to-Skype, but it still sounds quite good, almost like the person is right next to you.
I am impressed by the products you offer on your website, but I find the website a bit lacking in info. I am up all night . . . and if I can just get a few questions answered I'd probably order up one of those servers tonight. I sent an email to sales@hostingator.com so I figured I'd put a note here to try to "speed up" a reply from that address.
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How is my aversion to advertisements illogical? It seems to be more of personal preference.
And of course $9.95 is too much - the print edition costs much less, and they actually have to physically deliver the paper to your doorstep. Why should I be penalized for saving them materials and labor?
If the Post offered me $9.95/month for an ad-free online subscription (and possibly costing more), I would be content. If the post offered me the same price or less (should be less) for the electronic edition, I would be content.
"I would likely be willing to pay for the electronic edition if it were ad-free."
And the last sentence of my letter - "Please inform me of any current or future plans you have to offer an ad-free subscription to the "Washington Post Electronic Edition"."
Subscription implies paying for it.
RTFA, man.
I feel like an idiot. Good point.
Not that this really solves the problem at its core, though, but it is a nice workaround.
I run Windows on my main desktop, and know how to do it well. I don't spend time daily administering my machine. I simply set it up correctly the first time. After installing Windows and all of my apps, I go through the list of processes that start on boot and only keep what I need. This is a basic strategy that administrators of *all* OSes (even "secure" ones) should use.
Combine this with being a smart user, and your system will be plenty secure. I don't even run anti-virus software. Never have. Never had a virus either.
...and I wrote a letter about it. No response yet.
Give me a break. If you say something like that, it simply shows that you don't know how to administer Windows very well.
Time to sell my google stock and register a domain name.
All questions are such that we (well, at least me) are unlikely to be able to coherently answer them without further research into the benefits of each one of these causes.
From the EFF link: (Prize money comes from a special donation provided by an individual EFF supporter, earmarked specifically for this project. Prize money does NOT come from EFF membership dues, corporate or foundation grants, or other general EFF funds.)
One might think if you were so hot and bothered by this, you'd have clicked on the link to find out more.
Silicon valley garage? I know the image of a tech company starting in a Silicon Valley garage may be somewhat romantic, but didn't Google start in a Stanford lab?
No, I will have to disagree. I don't think time is saving Linux desktop tips. Anyone care to discuss?
Alienware sucks. Their "Aurora ALX" has a base price of $4,819.00, comes with NVidia 6800GT video cards (as opposed to 7800GTX 512MB), only 1GB of RAM (2GB max), no DVD burner, no keyboard, mouse, or monitor, and it doesn't ship until December 26. How the hell do they justify that price?
Thank you, thank you very much for that. Why is everyone so "OK" with the idea of getting things for "free" through being shown ads? I find it to be remarkably offensive.
WiMax Like Card? What is a "Like Card"? Once we have answered this question then we can apply the other adjective to this term and figure out what a "WiMax Like Card" is.
OH oh oh . . . you meant WiMax-Like Card . . . seriously, some proof-reading/English lessons?
FTFA - Food and Trees for Africa?
Bad thing number one: Requires a reboot
wtf does blogging, photos, and being a yuppie iPod-listening-to person have to do with each other?
The main selling point will be that I can access their computer from home via ssh and x session,
Remote Desktop works quite well.
I am glad I am not the only one . . .
There was actually a new review on Anandtech this morning about Solaris 10 with the Sun dual core Fire V40z. A few hours later, it was taken down. I have the RSS sitting in Thunderbird as evidence. Anyone else notice this?
How about the "newspaper" filter?
VOIP quality is rather good, at least when talking to another VOIP user. Well, my only experience has been with Skype-to-Skype, but it still sounds quite good, almost like the person is right next to you.
Hello Mr. Balls -
I am impressed by the products you offer on your website, but I find the website a bit lacking in info. I am up all night . . . and if I can just get a few questions answered I'd probably order up one of those servers tonight. I sent an email to sales@hostingator.com so I figured I'd put a note here to try to "speed up" a reply from that address.
Thanks.
stu@fourmajor.com
That guy is horrible at multitasking. No alt-tab? Hell, no hot keys at all? This observation is based on watching episode 1.
Oh yeah, this is really Slashdot worthy . . .