I think.mobi may actually be the first "useful" domain I've heard so far. If you're on your cell phone and want to be sure that the web site you want to access will be tailored to your needs with a mobile browser, just ensure it is a.mobi domain. I suppose it's just as easy to add "mobile." to the beginning of your site for a mobile compatible page, but this BORDERS on useful.
All the other ones (.biz?.jobs?) are so specific, useless, and already have way too large a base in the.com world that they'll never catch on or be anything other than a useless novelty.
It's widely published that they're phasing out the suite completely. Why continue to develop a project that you're planning on completely abandoning? i don't see MS running out to add features to Windows 2000.
now everybody kindly hop on the torrent so i can have this done by the time i leave work in six hours. =)
I don't use torrents much, but... can somoene explain to me why I'm getting 6-15K/s download on this? That's PAINFULLY slow, yet I'm uploading at twice that...
Love to do my part to help bandwidth, but I feel like I'm kinda getting screwed here. Any torrent experts wanna let me know what could be goin wrong?
I'm sorry, I must be totally out of the loop here in Europe..
but when you register to vote you actually have to say where your vote will go?
or am I reading this wrong?
You don't HAVE to, but you CAN. And you're not saying where your vote is going (IE a person registered as a Republican is under no obligation to vote as a Replublican), it's just stating which party you're "affiliated" with.
Thus the polls are skewed because their assumptions are totally wrong. Given that it's a dead heat in most polls right now, Kerry should come out ahead.
You may be right, you may be wrong. One thing people tend to overlook is that we DO NOT have a national election in America, we have 50 state elections on the same day. Most polls are national polls, which as last year shows us, mean pretty much nothing. Just because you have a majority in the national poll doesn't mean squat - I'm much more interested in polls done in "swing states."
I'm not trying to start an argument about the stupidity of the electoral college or anything like that here, just pointing out the fact that if you're listening to a "national poll," you're not really getting any kind of useful information.
Whenever my phone in on a Cingular network, I have to dial the area code of people I am trying to reach who are in the same area code as me. If you try to just dial the number without the area code, Cingular says it cant connect.
I am utterly amazed that in Los Angeles county this is not commonplace. I live in Massachusetts, and always have to dial an area code, even if I'm calling next door, or the other line in my own house (same area code, obv). Have had to do so for like, 8 years or something. So, this most likely is not a passing inconvenience or bug, but instead something you're going to have to get used to. Phone numbers are 10 digits long, not seven anymore.
I'm GLAD that those features aren't available in the US. I don't need the added worry that they guy in the car next to me is reading slashdot, or trying to keep up with the lyrics on some karaoke song!
The point is, that guy next to you CAN do all those things (read : laptop?), BUT that guy won't take responsibility for his.... LACK of responsibility, he'll blame the manufacturer of the device that's "distracting" him. There ARE applications where these toys would be fun and SAFE to have, but in the States we have to worry about liability for EVERYTHING, and it's restricting more and more markets.
Can someone please make a car with a stereo that has an audio input?
I've had a bunch of aftermarket head units that have auxilary audio inputs. I'd actually be really surprised if you spent over 200 bucks on a head unit and DIDN'T have an aux input or even two. Usually the wires are in the BACK, so you'd have to run them to a jack out front for the use you're looking for, but real estate on the front of the unit is pretty tight, so it's probably going to be your only option for a while.
I mean importing beer to the Soccer World Cup which is taking place in a country that makes the best beer seems pretty stupid and insulting... I mean Soccer and good beer go hand in hand! Shame on the Fifa!
Agreed. I especially hate when ANY beer company "sponsers" a sporting event and you can subsequently not purchase any OTHER type of beer. Especially at a soccer game in Germany, you should have your choice of whatever beer you like, whether it be the beer-flavored water of St Louis or not.
It doesn't say much for Bud that they have to be the only beer in the stadium to sell well, does it?
As an inhabitant of a country that makes great beers, I have to say I find this highly appaling.
You might wonder why I even care - after all, that beer is not exported to Europe and we can still drink our own (beerlike) beer. There's just one problem - the Football WC (you call it soccer...)
Stupid FIFA has a contract with an American beer producer. Guess which. That means we can only buy American beer in the stadion.
So many things wrong with this (typically) ignorant post. 1) Budweiser sucks. Lots of Americans know it just as well as you Europeans. That doesn't mean all American beer sucks. Sam Adams makes some great beers, and there are literally hundreds of other small brewers around that do not make the watered-down piss of Anheiser-Busch.
2) Don't get all high and mighty - Budweiser sells pretty damned well in Europe, despite the fact that you guys "know how to make beer." So obviously there's quite a few people who would prefer to drink piss in Europe, as well as in the US. I wish I had some time to google the best-selling beers in Europe, because I know crap like Budweiser is most likely top ten.
You know, you're supposed to claim all online purchases on your tax returns anyway. Also, I'd hardly call the 7% sales tax a penalty. It puts alot of money into the state. You don't want your state ending up like California; billions in debt.
IIRC, California has one of the larger sales taxes in the country (7 to 8 percent, determined by county, I believe). It hasn't helped their debt. It's money management that is the problem. THere is no reason for a state or any type of government to need that amount of money, unless they are spending that money on unecessary items and services. California is definitely guilty of that.
It simply kills the whole purpose of the web ! It's like the typical MS security apporach to the IE activeX scripting problem : "disable everything"
Well, I mean.... *sigh* Yes, it is stupid. But honestly, it's the only way to do it. I mean, sure, you can click the link and just hope that it's ok. You can still verify the URL before submitting any information to avoid the scams mentioned in teh article. BUT if it's a spammer, chances are by clicking a URL you're letting them know that you click URLs in your mail, or at the very least that it's an active email account, and bam, your spam income just tripled.
Jeez... is that's your view on safety, i bet you never come out of the house. Come to think of it , when was the last time you had a breath ?
Fuck yourself. The Internet is NOT the real world, despite the fact that I'm sure it's 99% of your world. Precautions I and most people take in the digital realm do not reflect attitudes towards the outside world. And I don't think taking 4 more seconds to hit "Ctl-C / Ctl-V" is tantamount to frigging breathing. And actually, I breathe pretty well, as I camp and hike nearly every weekend and enjoy the fresh mountain air. You know, like, OUTSIDE.
Honestly, it's pretty simple. Just never click on any link in any email. If it's from a company you deal with, type in the URL you know and love to find the information. The only one of the emails in that entire "quiz" I would have trusted was the one without any links, that simply said "go to ebay.com, click on your account." Anything else could be fake.
At the very least, copy and paste the URL rather than click it, and study it for 3 seconds before going to the site to make sure it looks like the site you think you're going to.
You had to bring the Clinton sex scandal into it, didn't you? You know, if someone asks me in a public forum if I had my dick sucked, the answer is always "no". I don't care who you are.
Yo, captain Fly-off-the-handle, chill out bud. First of all, the Clinton sex scandal was brought up to show that both parties are capable and perfectly willing to lie cheat and steal to get what they want, it's not a trait limited to Republicans, which is what the parent was saying. Although I'm sure you can regurgitate a little more of Michael Moore's thoughts on the matter, like your family feud nonsense, and try to tell me Republicans are worse, the fact is, politicians are corrupt, and have been throughout the history of politics.
As for your buddy Bill Clinton, the guy was and is a scumbag liar. And no, not for getting head. (Well, he is a scumbag for that 'cuz he cheated on his wife at the time, but as you said, that's his family's business, not mine). He's a scumbag for getting head while conducting business related to the security of our country, which is his responsibility. He's a scumbag for LYING UNDER OATH, I don't care if they asked him if it was true that he had a three-inch DICK, you don't LIE UNDER OATH TO A FEDERAL COURT. If you don't hold it against him, good for you, but it's still illegal. It's still the WRONG thing to do, no matter how much you're in love with Mr. Clinton. He's still the only president in the history of the United States to be impeached. And questioning how well a sitting president can do his job with his dick in an interns mouth hardly qualifies as an abuse of power. I think everything a President does that affects his ability to govern this country effectively should be checked and checked again, be it Clinton or W or whoever.
And I certainly hope you don't teach or raise children, because I'd hate to see what you tell them is right or wrong.
The features that are "luring customers away from Nokia" are the reasons I stick with Nokia. I never liked clamshell phones, more because no one seems to do it quite right than any other reason. AND I hate the idea of a camera phone. On so many levels.
I've had three Nokias, a Motorola, and a Samsung in my cell phone career, and the Nokias have all been the best. Well, except for the first one, but that was at the birth of cell phone popularity, so I don't really pin it on Nokia. It was the best at the time:)
Not to be one of those "quick to criticize", BUT maybe you should seek professional (mental) help rather than popping pills every night fro years of your life.
I don't doubt that you have a real illness, but it seems that it's more psychological than anything, yet your only cure is to pump chemicals into yourself. It's tough to feel bad for you when this is the only kind of help you've tried to get.
I just moved into a new apartment (about a week and a half ago), and my phone, with Cingular service, isn't much more functional than a paperweight now.
Maybe it's just your phone. I have yet to find anyone on the planet SATISFIED with their cell phone service (certainly not on slashdot, aka bitch-about-everything-dot). I have Cingular GSM and I love it. Boston Metro area, I can't remember the last time I was somewhere where I didn't get service with my Nokia 6800, and I travel around the region a lot. Now, granted, coverage varies by region, so if you're in southern California I have no idea what kind of service you'd be getting, but don't generalize about the company because you're havin ga bad experience in one apartment building with one phone.
There is a fair bit of arrogance renaming someone else's measurements without using them yourself. What are you going to do next rename Bordeaux into Bordo so you can get your heads around other French concepts?
Yes, it's all about arrogance. It has nothing to do with natural evolution of a language. Those wacky spaniards call the meter a "metro"! They completely CHANGED a letter! What arrogant bastards!!
American English is NOT the same exact language as British English. Languages evolve differently depending on where they're used and who is using them. Someone from Guatemala speaks a whole different Spanish than someone from Madrid. Complete with random "arrogant" spelling changes.
I came into the field when I got tired of digging ditches and sweating my balls off for a living at $10/hr shortly after high school.
I know plenty of people who sweat their balls off pouring concrete or laying pipe, but they got into a union and make more than I do as a salaried computer engineer. Sometimes MUCH more than I do. just cuz you don't know how to look for the right job doesn't mean that all labor jobs are for shit. There's plenty of money to be made. If you don't like computers, or like to be outside, or in shape, or whatever reason, it doesn't mean I have to feel bad for you because of your "tough working conditions."
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I think .mobi may actually be the first "useful" domain I've heard so far. If you're on your cell phone and want to be sure that the web site you want to access will be tailored to your needs with a mobile browser, just ensure it is a .mobi domain. I suppose it's just as easy to add "mobile." to the beginning of your site for a mobile compatible page, but this BORDERS on useful.
.jobs?) are so specific, useless, and already have way too large a base in the .com world that they'll never catch on or be anything other than a useless novelty.
All the other ones (.biz?
Or 600,000 per day.....
Hey, Captain semantics.
SO, what the parent said was more accurate than what you said, yes?
It's widely published that they're phasing out the suite completely. Why continue to develop a project that you're planning on completely abandoning? i don't see MS running out to add features to Windows 2000.
now everybody kindly hop on the torrent so i can have this done by the time i leave work in six hours. =)
I don't use torrents much, but... can somoene explain to me why I'm getting 6-15K/s download on this? That's PAINFULLY slow, yet I'm uploading at twice that...
Love to do my part to help bandwidth, but I feel like I'm kinda getting screwed here. Any torrent experts wanna let me know what could be goin wrong?
I'm sorry, I must be totally out of the loop here in Europe..
but when you register to vote you actually have to say where your vote will go?
or am I reading this wrong?
You don't HAVE to, but you CAN. And you're not saying where your vote is going (IE a person registered as a Republican is under no obligation to vote as a Replublican), it's just stating which party you're "affiliated" with.
It's totally optional.
Thus the polls are skewed because their assumptions are totally wrong. Given that it's a dead heat in most polls right now, Kerry should come out ahead.
You may be right, you may be wrong. One thing people tend to overlook is that we DO NOT have a national election in America, we have 50 state elections on the same day. Most polls are national polls, which as last year shows us, mean pretty much nothing. Just because you have a majority in the national poll doesn't mean squat - I'm much more interested in polls done in "swing states."
I'm not trying to start an argument about the stupidity of the electoral college or anything like that here, just pointing out the fact that if you're listening to a "national poll," you're not really getting any kind of useful information.
Whenever my phone in on a Cingular network, I have to dial the area code of people I am trying to reach who are in the same area code as me. If you try to just dial the number without the area code, Cingular says it cant connect.
I am utterly amazed that in Los Angeles county this is not commonplace. I live in Massachusetts, and always have to dial an area code, even if I'm calling next door, or the other line in my own house (same area code, obv). Have had to do so for like, 8 years or something. So, this most likely is not a passing inconvenience or bug, but instead something you're going to have to get used to. Phone numbers are 10 digits long, not seven anymore.
I'm GLAD that those features aren't available in the US. I don't need the added worry that they guy in the car next to me is reading slashdot, or trying to keep up with the lyrics on some karaoke song!
The point is, that guy next to you CAN do all those things (read : laptop?), BUT that guy won't take responsibility for his.... LACK of responsibility, he'll blame the manufacturer of the device that's "distracting" him. There ARE applications where these toys would be fun and SAFE to have, but in the States we have to worry about liability for EVERYTHING, and it's restricting more and more markets.
Can someone please make a car with a stereo that has an audio input?
I've had a bunch of aftermarket head units that have auxilary audio inputs. I'd actually be really surprised if you spent over 200 bucks on a head unit and DIDN'T have an aux input or even two. Usually the wires are in the BACK, so you'd have to run them to a jack out front for the use you're looking for, but real estate on the front of the unit is pretty tight, so it's probably going to be your only option for a while.
Stadion is German for Stadium.
Ah. Whoops.
I mean importing beer to the Soccer World Cup which is taking place in a country that makes the best beer seems pretty stupid and insulting... I mean Soccer and good beer go hand in hand! Shame on the Fifa!
Agreed. I especially hate when ANY beer company "sponsers" a sporting event and you can subsequently not purchase any OTHER type of beer. Especially at a soccer game in Germany, you should have your choice of whatever beer you like, whether it be the beer-flavored water of St Louis or not.
It doesn't say much for Bud that they have to be the only beer in the stadium to sell well, does it?
As an inhabitant of a country that makes great beers, I have to say I find this highly appaling.
You might wonder why I even care - after all, that beer is not exported to Europe and we can still drink our own (beerlike) beer. There's just one problem - the Football WC (you call it soccer...)
Stupid FIFA has a contract with an American beer producer. Guess which. That means we can only buy American beer in the stadion.
So many things wrong with this (typically) ignorant post.
1) Budweiser sucks. Lots of Americans know it just as well as you Europeans. That doesn't mean all American beer sucks. Sam Adams makes some great beers, and there are literally hundreds of other small brewers around that do not make the watered-down piss of Anheiser-Busch.
2) Don't get all high and mighty - Budweiser sells pretty damned well in Europe, despite the fact that you guys "know how to make beer." So obviously there's quite a few people who would prefer to drink piss in Europe, as well as in the US. I wish I had some time to google the best-selling beers in Europe, because I know crap like Budweiser is most likely top ten.
3) What's a stadion?
Notice how both guys in the pictures have false teeth?
Does someone need a lesson in hyperlinking?
You know, you're supposed to claim all online purchases on your tax returns anyway. Also, I'd hardly call the 7% sales tax a penalty. It puts alot of money into the state. You don't want your state ending up like California; billions in debt.
IIRC, California has one of the larger sales taxes in the country (7 to 8 percent, determined by county, I believe). It hasn't helped their debt. It's money management that is the problem. THere is no reason for a state or any type of government to need that amount of money, unless they are spending that money on unecessary items and services. California is definitely guilty of that.
Chances are that we'll solve this whole dillema by reducing her server to a smoldering pile of rubble anyways....
Although it's holding up well so far...
Remind anyone of that scene in the movie 'Wild Wild West' where they extract the last thing the dead guy saw?
Wasn't that that Will Smith movie? People saw that? I have no faith in humanity anymore.
It simply kills the whole purpose of the web ! It's like the typical MS security apporach to the IE activeX scripting problem : "disable everything"
Well, I mean.... *sigh* Yes, it is stupid. But honestly, it's the only way to do it. I mean, sure, you can click the link and just hope that it's ok. You can still verify the URL before submitting any information to avoid the scams mentioned in teh article. BUT if it's a spammer, chances are by clicking a URL you're letting them know that you click URLs in your mail, or at the very least that it's an active email account, and bam, your spam income just tripled.
Jeez... is that's your view on safety, i bet you never come out of the house. Come to think of it , when was the last time you had a breath ?
Fuck yourself. The Internet is NOT the real world, despite the fact that I'm sure it's 99% of your world. Precautions I and most people take in the digital realm do not reflect attitudes towards the outside world. And I don't think taking 4 more seconds to hit "Ctl-C / Ctl-V" is tantamount to frigging breathing. And actually, I breathe pretty well, as I camp and hike nearly every weekend and enjoy the fresh mountain air. You know, like, OUTSIDE.
Honestly, it's pretty simple. Just never click on any link in any email. If it's from a company you deal with, type in the URL you know and love to find the information. The only one of the emails in that entire "quiz" I would have trusted was the one without any links, that simply said "go to ebay.com, click on your account." Anything else could be fake.
At the very least, copy and paste the URL rather than click it, and study it for 3 seconds before going to the site to make sure it looks like the site you think you're going to.
You had to bring the Clinton sex scandal into it, didn't you? You know, if someone asks me in a public forum if I had my dick sucked, the answer is always "no". I don't care who you are.
Yo, captain Fly-off-the-handle, chill out bud. First of all, the Clinton sex scandal was brought up to show that both parties are capable and perfectly willing to lie cheat and steal to get what they want, it's not a trait limited to Republicans, which is what the parent was saying. Although I'm sure you can regurgitate a little more of Michael Moore's thoughts on the matter, like your family feud nonsense, and try to tell me Republicans are worse, the fact is, politicians are corrupt, and have been throughout the history of politics.
As for your buddy Bill Clinton, the guy was and is a scumbag liar. And no, not for getting head. (Well, he is a scumbag for that 'cuz he cheated on his wife at the time, but as you said, that's his family's business, not mine). He's a scumbag for getting head while conducting business related to the security of our country, which is his responsibility. He's a scumbag for LYING UNDER OATH, I don't care if they asked him if it was true that he had a three-inch DICK, you don't LIE UNDER OATH TO A FEDERAL COURT. If you don't hold it against him, good for you, but it's still illegal. It's still the WRONG thing to do, no matter how much you're in love with Mr. Clinton. He's still the only president in the history of the United States to be impeached. And questioning how well a sitting president can do his job with his dick in an interns mouth hardly qualifies as an abuse of power. I think everything a President does that affects his ability to govern this country effectively should be checked and checked again, be it Clinton or W or whoever.
And I certainly hope you don't teach or raise children, because I'd hate to see what you tell them is right or wrong.
The only ones I can think of are Republicans, and we all know they never do anything illegal like that...
I know, Democrats never do anything wrong.
Those two links suck, but you get the idea. Politics is all a bunch of corrupt lawbreaking, no matter WHAT side you're on.
The features that are "luring customers away from Nokia" are the reasons I stick with Nokia. I never liked clamshell phones, more because no one seems to do it quite right than any other reason. AND I hate the idea of a camera phone. On so many levels.
:)
I've had three Nokias, a Motorola, and a Samsung in my cell phone career, and the Nokias have all been the best. Well, except for the first one, but that was at the birth of cell phone popularity, so I don't really pin it on Nokia. It was the best at the time
Not to be one of those "quick to criticize", BUT maybe you should seek professional (mental) help rather than popping pills every night fro years of your life.
I don't doubt that you have a real illness, but it seems that it's more psychological than anything, yet your only cure is to pump chemicals into yourself. It's tough to feel bad for you when this is the only kind of help you've tried to get.
When did Jeopardy get rid of the 5 show max?
Was it recently?
According to one of the articles, it was last fall.
I just moved into a new apartment (about a week and a half ago), and my phone, with Cingular service, isn't much more functional than a paperweight now.
Maybe it's just your phone. I have yet to find anyone on the planet SATISFIED with their cell phone service (certainly not on slashdot, aka bitch-about-everything-dot). I have Cingular GSM and I love it. Boston Metro area, I can't remember the last time I was somewhere where I didn't get service with my Nokia 6800, and I travel around the region a lot. Now, granted, coverage varies by region, so if you're in southern California I have no idea what kind of service you'd be getting, but don't generalize about the company because you're havin ga bad experience in one apartment building with one phone.
There is a fair bit of arrogance renaming someone else's measurements without using them yourself. What are you going to do next rename Bordeaux into Bordo so you can get your heads around other French concepts?
Yes, it's all about arrogance. It has nothing to do with natural evolution of a language. Those wacky spaniards call the meter a "metro"! They completely CHANGED a letter! What arrogant bastards!!
American English is NOT the same exact language as British English. Languages evolve differently depending on where they're used and who is using them. Someone from Guatemala speaks a whole different Spanish than someone from Madrid. Complete with random "arrogant" spelling changes.
Wrap your head around that.
I came into the field when I got tired of digging ditches and sweating my balls off for a living at $10/hr shortly after high school.
I know plenty of people who sweat their balls off pouring concrete or laying pipe, but they got into a union and make more than I do as a salaried computer engineer. Sometimes MUCH more than I do. just cuz you don't know how to look for the right job doesn't mean that all labor jobs are for shit. There's plenty of money to be made. If you don't like computers, or like to be outside, or in shape, or whatever reason, it doesn't mean I have to feel bad for you because of your "tough working conditions."