From another perspective, MySpace and Facebook have messaging features which are simply email in a different form (posting to the web site). I am still at a loss to understand why posting a message on a web site (with the exception of group communication) is more beneficial than sending an email.
Because it's cool, or something like that. What's really cool is that you get to splinter your communication into email, SMS, MySpace, Facebook, Pownce, etc when you could do the same thing with just plain old email. See how much better it is to check for messages in 5 places instead of one? But, as a college professor, you should understand this - all of those web learning software packages have their own reinvention of email - one per class, in fact.
I have to go - I have to go to the store later and I have to finish making a new wheel - it's way better than the one on my car and I'll look really cool using it.
Or maybe they were pissed that the talented Americans want more money than the talented people from countries where they're used to having less money. So, they hired the same number they would have, but they just paid them more.
Tell me again why "personal" information should not be "free" as in speech?
Because we have a right to privacy. It's real and it serves a real purpose. In case you missed history, people in power have a strong tendency to abuse that power and the population needs means to protect themselves from that. It's the reason we were given the right to have guns. It's the reason the government can't just collect private information and go trolling through it at will. We've been lucky so far in that the courts don't seem nearly as crazy as the politicians. Sometimes the courts are crazy, but the politicians are crazy pretty much all the time.
No, that's not what he said. He said that Safari ignores most Windows conventions. That's bad.
What are the Windows conventions? Having used Windows since 3.1, I can't tell what the conventions are. Every app breaks them. The behavior when highlighting text varies from app to app. Some apps seem to want to help you by forcing you into highlighting entire words, even when you don't want that. IE7 actually hides the menus until you hit the Alt key. Have you seen Office2007 at all? The "/" to search in Firefox is not a Windows convention - it's from Vi.
Seems like the reviewer basically said it doesn't do things the way he's used to FireFox doing them and that he doesn't like that. Not much that was useful in that review. IE was barely mentioned despite being in the title.
So does he deserve 11 years in jail? Well, what he did was a very selfish; he stole time from more than one million people and he did it to make money.
I did not render an opinion on whether his sentence was too short or too long. I only made an observation that the general attitude of the Slashdot readership on this seems to contradict its general attitude on "file sharing".
Maximum of five minutes in prison for each of the people he spammed. Seems a little light.
Interesting that all of the people on Slashdot rail against jail time for intellectual property violations, but think that the spammer's sentence was too light. Isn't the underlying argument the same - there really isn't a victim as it's all just bits. The problem is that with spam, the Slahdotters are the victims, and so now they want punishment and the spammers are sitting around saying "what's the big deal? it's just a few bits".
I've seen Pluto, touched him too, down at The Magic Kingdom
I hate to be a jerk and all, but that was just some guy in a costume. Please tell your mommy I'm sorry I revealed the lie, but I needed to restore the integrity of Slashdot and couldn't allow such a misinformed post to stand without rebuttal.
If 1 = $0.15 and = $15, then why is Verizon billing anyone $1100? The max bill should be $15. If I were selling something at $1 for 1 or $10 for 30, I certainly would charge you $12 for 32 of them instead of $32. If I charged you $32, you'd call me sleazy and you wouldn't tolerate it. Why have we been tolerating this from cell phone companies all this time?
The damage is done by the mere perception that Novell is aligned with Redmond.
I won't disagree with that statement, but that's no excuse for this ridiculous story posted to Slashdot. For all of the griping around here about other companies' FUD, this is basically pure FUD itself. Alas, it's not an isolated case. It's too bad so many people read this site - it's a very poor source of information if you just scan the front page.
It's certainly not as crisp as High Def content. It's better than standard def content. It's on par with DVD. I think most people have a TV that's too big for where they sit and this compounds the problem. I have a 50" 1080p set, and I sit 14 feet away from it. I don't really notice how bad the iTMS stuff is. I can tell that it's not high def, but I can't tell that it's awful. I have 20/15 vision, so I can see just fine. Really, I expect them to start cranking out HD content soon. It's a bit goofy that they don't already have it.
Two is better than one. No questions asked. Tiling windows sucks. With two monitors, your windows will automatically maximize to a single monitor, making it quite easy to get full screen apps on both screens at once. I've tried the large monitor thing, and you spend more time fooling around with window placement. With two monitors, much of that ends up being handled for you. I'm actually at the point where I'm ready for a 3rd monitor, I'm just afraid to ask for it - I figure it will become a spectacle.
It has been six years since the iPod came out. Guess what? The original iPod still plays music and will play anything you but today. You're making things up.
It's not supposed to be a DVR or a Tivo. It's supposed to eliminate the need for them. I'm buying one to get rid of my cable bill. At $85/month (factor in digital cable, HD service, DVR box rental, DVR service, etc), my cable bill comes to $1020 on the year. Take out $300 for the AppleTV and $100 for an OTA HDTV antenna, and I've got $620 to spare on buying shows. I don't watch nearly enough shows for that, so the AppleTV pays for itself in the first year. Starting in year two, I have no hardware costs, so I'm saving even more money.
This argument can be used to make almost any expenditure look silly. I can't believe, with all of the homelessness, that our government is [sponsoring arts programs | paying for students to take field trips | building monuments to fallen soldiers | repaving roads |...]
Yes, there is a gray area there, but the TV converter thing is not in the gray area.
IMO, it beats Windows & Linux pretty easily. Also, compare iTunes/iPod to the rest of that market. The rest of that market is a joke, and for the most part, phones suck. The last phone I liked had a black & white interface and it didn't do anything more than make phone calls (the 6160). The rest of the phones have just been a mess. I've tried both Treos and Blackberries, and they make things too hard (yes, I can figure them out, but it should be easy - quit making things so annoying).
Today I did like lots of videocalls. I think it is very nice to see the other person while talking.
I'd prefer the person on the other end not know that I'm taking a dump while talking to them!
Obviously, we'll all have to wait until it's released to see what it's like. Apple are the masters of the UI, and most phones/smartphones I've had have really lousy UI. 3G or not 3G, I'd like to have a phone that doesn't suck to use. At this point, I'd toss out all the current crap and go back to my Nokia 6160 - it did what I needed and stayed out of the way. While I like getting email, Blackberry and Windows have a long way to go before they get away from sucking. I hope Apple's UI is a step forward. I could give a crap which 'G' my phone uses, so long as I like using my phone.
So what's your definition of a "legitimate religion," and why doesn't Scientology fit it?
Scientology has nothing to do with a deity, supernatural or faith. It is a set of principles regarding psychology and methods of counseling. It is no more a religion than psychology is. Most people wouldn't consider psychology to be a religion and suddenly start offering tax shelter to shrinks. Just because Scientology makes less sense and seems to be founded on some stuff most people don't believe doesn't make it a religion.
You pay $7.50 or so, and get to watch a story uninterrupted by commercials.
Do the 20 minutes worth of commercials before the movie not count? Around here, you can't just show up late because the theater is always full and you won't get adjacent seats.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but i've never been that impressed with the results of searches on Google Images. For example, with safe search off and looking for large images only, searching on "redhead" gets 743 results. I think it highly unlikely that there are only 743 different pictures of redheads on the entire internet:-)
Results 1 - 18 of about 20,900 for redhead. (0.17 seconds)
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I have to go - I have to go to the store later and I have to finish making a new wheel - it's way better than the one on my car and I'll look really cool using it.
Or maybe they were pissed that the talented Americans want more money than the talented people from countries where they're used to having less money. So, they hired the same number they would have, but they just paid them more.
Seems like the reviewer basically said it doesn't do things the way he's used to FireFox doing them and that he doesn't like that. Not much that was useful in that review. IE was barely mentioned despite being in the title.
If 1 = $0.15 and = $15, then why is Verizon billing anyone $1100? The max bill should be $15. If I were selling something at $1 for 1 or $10 for 30, I certainly would charge you $12 for 32 of them instead of $32. If I charged you $32, you'd call me sleazy and you wouldn't tolerate it. Why have we been tolerating this from cell phone companies all this time?
The damage is done by the mere perception that Novell is aligned with Redmond.
I won't disagree with that statement, but that's no excuse for this ridiculous story posted to Slashdot. For all of the griping around here about other companies' FUD, this is basically pure FUD itself. Alas, it's not an isolated case. It's too bad so many people read this site - it's a very poor source of information if you just scan the front page.
It's certainly not as crisp as High Def content. It's better than standard def content. It's on par with DVD. I think most people have a TV that's too big for where they sit and this compounds the problem. I have a 50" 1080p set, and I sit 14 feet away from it. I don't really notice how bad the iTMS stuff is. I can tell that it's not high def, but I can't tell that it's awful. I have 20/15 vision, so I can see just fine. Really, I expect them to start cranking out HD content soon. It's a bit goofy that they don't already have it.
Two is better than one. No questions asked. Tiling windows sucks. With two monitors, your windows will automatically maximize to a single monitor, making it quite easy to get full screen apps on both screens at once. I've tried the large monitor thing, and you spend more time fooling around with window placement. With two monitors, much of that ends up being handled for you. I'm actually at the point where I'm ready for a 3rd monitor, I'm just afraid to ask for it - I figure it will become a spectacle.
Name a CD that had 15 tracks that were worth having.
It has been six years since the iPod came out. Guess what? The original iPod still plays music and will play anything you but today. You're making things up.
It's not supposed to be a DVR or a Tivo. It's supposed to eliminate the need for them. I'm buying one to get rid of my cable bill. At $85/month (factor in digital cable, HD service, DVR box rental, DVR service, etc), my cable bill comes to $1020 on the year. Take out $300 for the AppleTV and $100 for an OTA HDTV antenna, and I've got $620 to spare on buying shows. I don't watch nearly enough shows for that, so the AppleTV pays for itself in the first year. Starting in year two, I have no hardware costs, so I'm saving even more money.
Why? The Atari and Nintendo generation are now old enough to have kids. I have kids and I bought the console for myself, not them.
I'd prefer the person on the other end not know that I'm taking a dump while talking to them!
Obviously, we'll all have to wait until it's released to see what it's like. Apple are the masters of the UI, and most phones/smartphones I've had have really lousy UI. 3G or not 3G, I'd like to have a phone that doesn't suck to use. At this point, I'd toss out all the current crap and go back to my Nokia 6160 - it did what I needed and stayed out of the way. While I like getting email, Blackberry and Windows have a long way to go before they get away from sucking. I hope Apple's UI is a step forward. I could give a crap which 'G' my phone uses, so long as I like using my phone.
I have to believe that having not seen in over 50 years, the first glimmer of anything visual would make you cry.
Scientology has nothing to do with a deity, supernatural or faith. It is a set of principles regarding psychology and methods of counseling. It is no more a religion than psychology is. Most people wouldn't consider psychology to be a religion and suddenly start offering tax shelter to shrinks. Just because Scientology makes less sense and seems to be founded on some stuff most people don't believe doesn't make it a religion.
Do the 20 minutes worth of commercials before the movie not count? Around here, you can't just show up late because the theater is always full and you won't get adjacent seats.
Results 1 - 18 of about 20,900 for redhead. (0.17 seconds)