Does google embraces this form of use? What about all the legal bs lately about altering the look of a website, does this apply to search results?
If I wrote software that altered the google search results page to remove the paid listings would they have a legal standing to object, or would the simple fact that it's a search result page and I'm supposed to try and get the information I want, and only what I want(ie: +enhance +performance +car -porn)nullify this legal precedent?
Imagine this thing being hacked, if it's got an internet connection, it's just a matter of time. With the options this thing has it could report you to the RIAA for downloading songs, or start the next "klez variant" outbreak, even record your "extra carricular activities" to play back for your girlfriend. It's a robotic spy waiting to happen.
If they don't get info from the set top box... Info like what the user is watching and what they like etc... Then how do they target the ads effectivly?
If a person cannot use the product then whatever the program's function, it's useless. The usability of even command line programs and scripts depends on how easy it is to make them do what they're designed to do.
While I spend the time it takes to learn how to use the gimp or photoshop to their full potential, I'm also finding things in the UI that are not intuitive, but usable once the little ideosyncracies (sp?) are learned.
The ratio between: A: What I can find on my own B: what I have to look up in places that don't make sense, That's the programs "user friendly" score.
I have no problem looking for things and developing a working knowledge of a program, but the level of organization and structured intuitiv placement is a very big part of the programs usefullness.
If it takes hunting around for something that should have been placed under a submenu where it's obviously needed, then that function isn't going to be effecient and used all the time.
It takes from the functionality of a program to have any part hard to use, even if you know how to do it.
It needs to fill a demand, so it should be intuitive to use in fulfilling the need.
I need to be able to look where it should be and find the answer. If I haven't read the manual I should still be able to navigate the menus and submenus to find the function that I want.
All good products are intuitively easy to use. User friendly is not having three shortcuts to do the same thing, but having one really obvious and intuitively placed shortcut. Menu structure, and Icon placement and pictures are key to easy use.
"The FBI technical person was apparently so upset that he destroyed all the e-mail take, including the take on" the suspect, the memo said.
temper temper FBI Guy.
The Justice Department's Office of Intelligence and Policy Review was furious after learning the evidence captured by the e-mail wiretap system was destroyed because of the glitch, the memo states.
temper temper Justice Dept.
Henry Perritt, who led a team authorized by the FBI to review the surveillance system, said he was surprised the technician deleted the e-mails.
Wha? something wrong in the "system"?!
"The collection is supposed to be retained for judicial review," Perritt said. "If an agent simply deleted a whole bunch of files without the court instructing, that's not the way it's supposed to work."
Really? didn't these guys assure us that everything works fine with carnivore? And that we could trust them not to use it improperly?
Now we have hothead FBI techies misdeploying a software package that has the potential to break the laws they are trying to enforce with the help of the "furious" Dept. of Justice to oversee their work? Somehow I get the feeling I'm gonna be watched by mad men.
Spokesman Jon Murchinson said Microsoft has been talking about how to allow open-source and proprietary software to coexist. "Our goal is to resolve difficult issues that are driving a wedge between the commercial and free software models,"
(Fourty-three Microsoft Marketing Managers in the background immediatly jump up and start pointing at themselves, laughing, and calling eachother "difficult issues")
Couldn't these earthquakes be a result from internal shifting within the Earths core? If a small inner-earth bubble/rupture/explosion/quake/etc occured and was slightly off center then the two resulting earthquakes would be a result of this internal verifiable cause. One directly following another. Rather than a mysterious super dense non detectable string of big-bang aftermath. As they are looking at the effect only, without other data (as far as I saw) this explination fits as well as theirs and doesn't involve unverifiable cosmic strings.
It also had nothing to do with porting Linux to a Cash register.
He just installed it and had to get the attached "LEDs on a stick" and a cuecat to work through a standard interface. Not a challenge. I was just making the article a little bit more worth while/humorous to read.
I'd hate to see a port of WinCE on a cash register, Imagine the small print on the back of the receipt.
"...you agree by paying this amount, to never divulge what you paid, or purchased, in any form, written, recorded, or electronicly transcribed in any way, to anybody. By having this receipt, you are violating the EUCEA (End User Cash Exchange Agreement) and must distroy this document, or face an audit of all digital processing and storage devices you own."
Which first of all is NOT 98lite is it? 98micro is for the most stripped install, if you choose to use it you are choosing not to hve the ability to run those programs. It's a CHOICE, just like disabling "active desktop", if you choose not to have it running (and slowing down your system if you don't actually use it's features), then you cannot still use it.
Secondly, 98lite gives you the opyions to leave the dormant files installed so that if you wish to use say quicken2002 you can, but the code isn't running the whole time your computer is on, slowing it down.
"perjury; subornation, of perjury, making a false statement or other crimes which involve some element of deceit, untruthfulness or falsification to be an act of dishonesty or of making a false statement." see also "dishonesty" Dishonesty; the disposition to lie, cheat, deceive, defraud or be untrustworthy.
Who will regulate the uses if the creation cannot be monitored?
Who will know of it's discovery untill it's being used? Perhaps already too late.
That's why we have neuclear testing restrictions, no one wants the results of that research. some scientists want to do it for pure science, but the Govt. has (wisely, in my honest opinion) restricted those kinds of tests to safeguard the safety of the people from results (and in some cases the actual tests, ie: fallout, exposure, etc.) that cannot be reasonably assured as safe and predictable. We don't know what we will release, and the cost to the whole of the human race is too great to justify the persuance of such (possibly dangerous) research.
Without the sarcasm:) , I trust them more than I trust an individual not supervised by anybody but himself.
Think, if you were alone, walking down the street and saw a hundred dollar bill attached to a phone bill or electric bill, would you keep the hundred dollars, or would you spend the.35 cents to mail it in for the person who lost it?
What would you do if you were with your parents?
I can rely on the Govt to an extent, when there is no one else to look to. I don't trust corperations, they have too many benifits, at least the Govt has reporters and alarmists among them to at least keep them more honest than the average CEO or rich "terrorist" backing the research.
In a perfect world I would'nt need to ask anybody to watch over us, scientists could research and discover anything they wanted, no fear of misuse or terrorism. but this is not a perfect world. So my choices are to try and keep things safe a little longer, so that we may have the chance to see the percect world where we can all be as free and idealistic as we want. When we can respect eachother implicitly.
I'd love if you actually quoted what you are talking about, I have been using the program for over a year and a half without problems on multiple boxes. show me how (with specifics) it would: "break a lot of existing applications?". What are they?
With the responsibility that comes with areas of science like this, I'm very glad the Govt. has a hand in curbing and watching development that might release a cure, or weapon, so easily.
With some knowledge, I wouldn't even trust myself.
If it leaves the files behind so that applications can use them then they will not break.
If no application is using them and they have not been uninstalled then they are being run by windows for no reason and slowing down your system, therefore bad.
Do some actual research rather than waisting our time by posting half finished speculation. I've clocked my box at a 12% increase in speed with 98lite over a 1 week period of general use. Have you ever even tried the software?
From the website 98lite.net's Why? page. Important info at bottom of post for all unbelievers of it's practicality.
BTW this was written before Aug 2000.
"Firstly, let me say straight up that I think Microsoft put together some great products. The Windows series of operating systems are excellent interfaces to a computerised work environment - remember DOS word processing packages - ugh! You cant hope to satisfy everyone - but by making software (including operating systems) modular, and highly customisable, you can maximise your number of happy users. Along the way I think that Microsoft forgot the single home user that can not afford the latest gear, that doesnt want a 24 hour internet connection, that doesnt want to upgrade all the time - or that simply doesnt have the dollars to keep up with the fast pace of computer developments. I found myself asking...
"Why is all this stuff that I never use, or dont even have the hardware to support, installed on my computer without me having the choice to delete it, or better yet - not to install it in the first place."
Windows98 offers many improvements over windows95, unrelated to IE4, that make it a more desireable operating system than its older counterpart:
Greater Stability Better memory management Can execute code direct from the file cache (vcache) Application launch acceleration Better driver support Faster bootup/shutdown ACPI support ...and the list goes on....
It is a great OS, however, there is some extra overhead imposed by some of these new features, that slows your system down. If you dont have the horsepower this slowdown is really noticable. As soon as I upgraded to win98 I noticed that Explorer was slower to load, and that my system seemed to work harder just navigating around my disk.
Harder than it ever did with windows95. In addition, the windows take longer to redraw, and all the icons seem to take longer to get updated and repainted - I could actually watch the windows repainting. It was like there was a large weight sitting on my computers chest.
Granted, I am using a relatively slow computer. It is a NoteBook I have borrowed from work (a no-name clone, P133 (not MMX) 10.5 inch 256 colour LCD display and 14.4 Modem, NO CD, but thankfully 32MB RAM, 2.1G HDD). This system is a real dog, that has sub-par disk and graphics subsystems that benchmark below a 486DX100. I can not afford to buy a faster computer of my own, so I'll do *anything* to squeeze the last drop of system performance from this notebook. Several months after upgrading to Windows98, I concluded that
Windows98's IE Explorer was:
Slower to load Slower to use once loaded Consumed more memory which caused more swapping.and my system was in general 5-10% slower to use.
This was not very satisfying. I reloaded win95 as a dual boot), but I found that I missed all the improvements in Windows98. So I deleted '95 and went back to '98. The speed that Windows98 Explorer loaded really became an issue when I discovered the alternative shell LiteStep. The LiteStep shell gave me an extremely powerful shell replacement and application launch facility in the LiteStep Popup Menu, used less memory, and was a neat interface to boot. Yet, every time I wanted to view a directory, I had to wait for Explorer98 to load. I tried looking for a faster, smaller, Explorer replacement but I really like Explorer in "My Computer" mode (opening a separate window for each folder), something that no third party replacements do very well. I tried for a long time to get the smaller and faster Windows95 Explorer to load instead - and evetually my perseverence paid off... Notice I haven't mentioned the "webification" of Windows98 yet. I dont use IE, simply because I prefer Netscape. I dont dislike IE, it is a nice browser. I simply want the choice. In addition, I dont like the idea of an active desktop (which bogged my P133 system to a crawl)and dont care for web view of folders and all this "integration" that Windows98 promotes. I like to keep my local and internet perspectives separate. I know you can turn off most of the IE4 webification in windows98 - using tweakUI or using a utility from from Windows Annoyances - but turning IE off does nothing to speed up Explorer, and doesn't give me back any hard drive space. Again I find myself asking why I cant remove all these files that I dont use...
Lastly, everyone says... "You cant remove IE from win98 because IE is so tightly interwoven with the operating system"
...thats like waving a red rag to this bull, and 98lite is the culmination of my frustrations. Using 98lite, my system is much "snappier" to use, and MyComputer windows of my hard disk directories simply snap open. My small hard drive has about 40+MB few files on it, and I couldnt be happier. My computer seems much faster, and is simply a much nicer beast to use and my day-to-day computing experienced has improved dramatically. 98lite is not just about removing IE from the system. I have developed 98lite into a tool that gives you the power to choose which system components you want to keep or remove - including the choice to remove IE if you want. Many people are installing Windows98 using 98lite - and then installing IE4.0 or IE5.0 for the their browser. This preserves the faster explorer shell - but gives you IE web browsing if thats your choice. Outlook Express (98 and also version 5) also continue to work well."
The receipts on the page are from rainchecks and people who did get their orders canceled, a couple friends of mine only got their money back only after 6 business days after they filed for a refund through their credit card companies.
98lite.net shows it's not only possible, but helps improve the speed and reliability of windows.
Is perjury still against the law?
Webster: " the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing"
And for all you disagreeing posters, read the actual 98lite.net pages first before you post back.
First I think it needs to be said that NASA benifits the human race, not just science fiction fans.
Secondly, it also needs to be said that NASA is a money burning black hole bun by a bunch of blunder-budget bloated bought-out nearsited beaurocrats.
Third, it's the best shot at a future in space that we have.
Seriously, NASA needs to have some fresh blood pumped into it by having a public audit by the most penny pinching science obsessed geeks they can find. I hear on slashdot that a group at a school built a working satilite that interfaces with the gps system and ham radios for a tiny fraction of the cost of a similar satilite built by NASA, albiet they needed help funding a launch into orbit, but the cost of building it was staggeringly small compaired to NASAs.
I also remember reading in the local paper that it cost NASA $500 for a hammer and even more for a standard toilet seat in the GROUND COMPLEX. There's nothing special about NASA's ground complex restroom toilets that need hundred dollar toilet seats!
Their budget needs to be totally audited and publically analyzed.
As far as taxing another 1% on all "space oriented" merchandise, I'm all for it if they show me the budget and that the money was going directly to cost effective NASA projects. The only thing I would suggest to whomever wants to collect the tax, PUT IT TO A VOTE!
Litterally, go into every store that sells stuff you plan to tax, and have a voting box, go online and at every website that sells the stuff, ask if they would support a 1% tax for NASA projects.
This will get a much better reception by the people if they followed the above budget plan, and if they ask the people they plan to tax, then they might like the response they get. After all where do you think their budget comes from now? And 1% off an average paperback book sale is around.05 -.06 cents. I think that's reasonable, IF they use it wisely.
Slashdot Mirror
Does google embraces this form of use?
What about all the legal bs lately about altering the look of a website, does this apply to search results?
If I wrote software that altered the google search results page to remove the paid listings would they have a legal standing to object, or would the simple fact that it's a search result page and I'm supposed to try and get the information I want, and only what I want(ie: +enhance +performance +car -porn)nullify this legal precedent?
Imagine this thing being hacked, if it's got an internet connection, it's just a matter of time. With the options this thing has it could report you to the RIAA for downloading songs, or start the next "klez variant" outbreak, even record your "extra carricular activities" to play back for your girlfriend. It's a robotic spy waiting to happen.
If they don't get info from the set top box...
Info like what the user is watching and what they like etc...
Then how do they target the ads effectivly?
If a person cannot use the product then whatever the program's function, it's useless. The usability of even command line programs and scripts depends on how easy it is to make them do what they're designed to do.
While I spend the time it takes to learn how to use the gimp or photoshop to their full potential, I'm also finding things in the UI that are not intuitive, but usable once the little ideosyncracies (sp?) are learned.
The ratio between:
A: What I can find on my own
B: what I have to look up in places that don't make sense,
That's the programs "user friendly" score.
I have no problem looking for things and developing a working knowledge of a program, but the level of organization and structured intuitiv placement is a very big part of the programs usefullness.
If it takes hunting around for something that should have been placed under a submenu where it's obviously needed, then that function isn't going to be effecient and used all the time.
It takes from the functionality of a program to have any part hard to use, even if you know how to do it.
It needs to fill a demand, so it should be intuitive to use in fulfilling the need.
I need to be able to look where it should be and find the answer. If I haven't read the manual I should still be able to navigate the menus and submenus to find the function that I want.
All good products are intuitively easy to use.
User friendly is not having three shortcuts to do the same thing, but having one really obvious and intuitively placed shortcut. Menu structure, and Icon placement and pictures are key to easy use.
"The FBI technical person was apparently so upset
that he destroyed all the e-mail take, including the take on" the suspect, the memo said.
temper temper FBI Guy.
The Justice Department's Office of Intelligence and Policy Review was furious after learning the evidence captured by the e-mail wiretap system was destroyed because of the glitch, the memo states.
temper temper Justice Dept.
Henry Perritt, who led a team authorized by the FBI to review the surveillance system, said he was surprised the technician deleted the e-mails.
Wha? something wrong in the "system"?!
"The collection is supposed to be retained for judicial review," Perritt said. "If an agent simply deleted a whole bunch of files without the court instructing, that's not the way it's supposed to work."
Really? didn't these guys assure us that everything works fine with carnivore? And that we could trust them not to use it improperly?
Now we have hothead FBI techies misdeploying a software package that has the potential to break the laws they are trying to enforce with the help of the "furious" Dept. of Justice to oversee their work?
Somehow I get the feeling I'm gonna be watched by mad men.
Spokesman Jon Murchinson said Microsoft
has been talking about how to allow
open-source and proprietary software to
coexist. "Our goal is to resolve difficult
issues that are driving a wedge between the
commercial and free software models,"
(Fourty-three Microsoft Marketing Managers in the background immediatly jump up and start pointing at themselves, laughing, and calling eachother "difficult issues")
That's nine less emulators I need to have on my Game cabinet!
Hope the cartriges are easy to port
Couldn't these earthquakes be a result from internal shifting within the Earths core? If a small inner-earth bubble/rupture/explosion/quake/etc occured and was slightly off center then the two resulting earthquakes would be a result of this internal verifiable cause. One directly following another. Rather than a mysterious super dense non detectable string of big-bang aftermath.
As they are looking at the effect only, without other data (as far as I saw) this explination fits as well as theirs and doesn't involve unverifiable cosmic strings.
It also had nothing to do with porting Linux to a Cash register.
He just installed it and had to get the attached "LEDs on a stick" and a cuecat to work through a standard interface. Not a challenge. I was just making the article a little bit more worth while/humorous to read.
It looks to me like he says it's has got a pentium 233 in it. Not what I'd call a true OS install, more of a "getting the periferals to work" project.
I'd hate to see a port of WinCE on a cash register, Imagine the small print on the back of the receipt.
"...you agree by paying this amount, to never divulge what you paid, or purchased, in any form, written, recorded, or electronicly transcribed in any way, to anybody. By having this receipt, you are violating the EUCEA (End User Cash Exchange Agreement) and must distroy this document, or face an audit of all digital processing and storage devices you own."
k, now read your own post.
98micro.
Which first of all is NOT 98lite is it?
98micro is for the most stripped install, if you choose to use it you are choosing not to hve the ability to run those programs. It's a CHOICE, just like disabling "active desktop", if you choose not to have it running (and slowing down your system if you don't actually use it's features), then you cannot still use it.
Secondly, 98lite gives you the opyions to leave the dormant files installed so that if you wish to use say quicken2002 you can, but the code isn't running the whole time your computer is on, slowing it down.
Black's Dictionary def for perjury:
"perjury; subornation, of perjury, making a false
statement or other crimes which involve some element of deceit, untruthfulness or falsification to be an act of dishonesty or of making a false statement."
see also "dishonesty"
Dishonesty; the disposition to lie, cheat,
deceive, defraud or be untrustworthy.
Who will regulate the uses if the creation cannot be monitored?
Who will know of it's discovery untill it's being used? Perhaps already too late.
That's why we have neuclear testing restrictions, no one wants the results of that research. some scientists want to do it for pure science, but the Govt. has (wisely, in my honest opinion) restricted those kinds of tests to safeguard the safety of the people from results (and in some cases the actual tests, ie: fallout, exposure, etc.) that cannot be reasonably assured as safe and predictable. We don't know what we will release, and the cost to the whole of the human race is too great to justify the persuance of such (possibly dangerous) research.
Without the sarcasm :)
.35 cents to mail it in for the person who lost it?
, I trust them more than I trust an individual not supervised by anybody but himself.
Think, if you were alone, walking down the street and saw a hundred dollar bill attached to a phone bill or electric bill, would you keep the hundred dollars, or would you spend the
What would you do if you were with your parents?
I can rely on the Govt to an extent, when there is no one else to look to. I don't trust corperations, they have too many benifits, at least the Govt has reporters and alarmists among them to at least keep them more honest than the average CEO or rich "terrorist" backing the research.
In a perfect world I would'nt need to ask anybody to watch over us, scientists could research and discover anything they wanted, no fear of misuse or terrorism. but this is not a perfect world. So my choices are to try and keep things safe a little longer, so that we may have the chance to see the percect world where we can all be as free and idealistic as we want. When we can respect eachother implicitly.
I'd love if you actually quoted what you are talking about, I have been using the program for over a year and a half without problems on multiple boxes. show me how (with specifics) it would: "break a lot of existing applications?".
What are they?
With the responsibility that comes with areas of science like this, I'm very glad the Govt. has a hand in curbing and watching development that might release a cure, or weapon, so easily.
With some knowledge, I wouldn't even trust myself.
Anonymous Coward says " "
response, "yup."
If it leaves the files behind so that applications can use them then they will not break.
If no application is using them and they have not been uninstalled then they are being run by windows for no reason and slowing down your system, therefore bad.
Do some actual research rather than waisting our time by posting half finished speculation. I've clocked my box at a 12% increase in speed with 98lite over a 1 week period of general use. Have you ever even tried the software?
do you people get off not reading a post or the material it is discussing before posting back?
READ THE SITE!
It works on WinME and XP!
from their FAQ:
3.Windows Me - Where is Melite?
Windows ME support is already included in 98lite Professional. Full support for WindowsMe starts in 98lite IV -Millennium Edition-
Like I said, READ THE SITE BEFORE YOU RESPOND!
It works on WinXP and on WinME
what "current" version do you use at home?
Pro? Which is for an (OFFICE ENVIRONMENT)
READ THE SITE!
From the website 98lite.net's Why? page.
Important info at bottom of post for all unbelievers of it's practicality.
BTW this was written before Aug 2000.
"Firstly, let me say straight up that I think Microsoft put together some great products. The Windows series of operating systems are excellent interfaces to a computerised work environment - remember DOS word processing packages - ugh! You cant hope to satisfy everyone - but by making software (including operating systems) modular, and highly customisable, you can maximise your number of happy users. Along the way I think that Microsoft forgot the single home user that can not afford the latest gear, that doesnt want a 24 hour internet connection, that doesnt want to upgrade all the time - or that simply doesnt have the dollars to keep up with the fast pace of computer developments. I found myself asking...
"Why is all this stuff that I never use, or dont even have the hardware to support, installed on my computer without me having the choice to delete it, or better yet - not to install it in the first place."
Windows98 offers many improvements over windows95, unrelated to IE4, that make it a more desireable operating system than its older counterpart:
Greater Stability
Better memory management
Can execute code direct from the file cache (vcache)
Application launch acceleration
Better driver support
Faster bootup/shutdown
ACPI support
...and the list goes on....
It is a great OS, however, there is some extra overhead imposed by some of these new features, that slows your system down. If you dont have the horsepower this slowdown is really noticable. As soon as I upgraded to win98 I noticed that Explorer was slower to load, and that my system seemed to work harder just navigating around my disk.
Harder than it ever did with windows95. In addition, the windows take longer to redraw, and all the icons seem to take longer to get updated and repainted - I could actually watch the windows repainting. It was like there was a large weight sitting on my computers chest.
Granted, I am using a relatively slow computer. It is a NoteBook I have borrowed from work (a no-name clone, P133 (not MMX) 10.5 inch 256 colour LCD display and 14.4 Modem, NO CD, but thankfully 32MB RAM, 2.1G HDD). This system is a real dog, that has sub-par disk and graphics subsystems that benchmark below a 486DX100. I can not afford to buy a faster computer of my own, so I'll do *anything* to squeeze the last drop of system performance from this notebook. Several months after upgrading to Windows98, I concluded that
Windows98's IE Explorer was:
Slower to load
Slower to use once loaded
Consumed more memory which caused more swapping.and my system was in general 5-10% slower to use.
This was not very satisfying. I reloaded win95 as a dual boot), but I found that I missed all the improvements in Windows98. So I deleted '95 and went back to '98. The speed that Windows98 Explorer loaded really became an issue when I discovered the alternative shell LiteStep. The LiteStep shell gave me an extremely powerful shell replacement and application launch facility in the LiteStep Popup Menu, used less memory, and was a neat interface to boot. Yet, every time I wanted to view a directory, I had to wait for Explorer98 to load. I tried looking for a faster, smaller, Explorer replacement but I really like Explorer in "My Computer" mode (opening a separate window for each folder), something that no third party replacements do very well. I tried for a long time to get the smaller and faster Windows95 Explorer to load instead - and evetually my perseverence paid off... Notice I haven't mentioned the "webification" of Windows98 yet. I dont use IE, simply because I prefer Netscape. I dont dislike IE, it is a nice browser. I simply want the choice. In addition, I dont like the idea of an active desktop (which bogged my P133 system to a crawl)and dont care for web view of folders and all this "integration" that Windows98 promotes. I like to keep my local and internet perspectives separate. I know you can turn off most of the IE4 webification in windows98 - using tweakUI or using a utility from from Windows Annoyances - but turning IE off does nothing to speed up Explorer, and doesn't give me back any hard drive space. Again I find myself asking why I cant remove all these files that I dont use...
Lastly, everyone says...
"You cant remove IE from win98 because IE is so tightly interwoven with the operating system"
...thats like waving a red rag to this bull, and 98lite is the culmination of my frustrations. Using 98lite, my system is much "snappier" to use, and MyComputer windows of my hard disk directories simply snap open. My small hard drive has about 40+MB few files on it, and I couldnt be happier. My computer seems much faster, and is simply a much nicer beast to use and my day-to-day computing experienced has improved dramatically. 98lite is not just about removing IE from the system. I have developed 98lite into a tool that gives you the power to choose which system components you want to keep or remove - including the choice to remove IE if you want. Many people are installing Windows98 using 98lite - and then installing IE4.0 or IE5.0 for the their browser. This preserves the faster explorer shell - but gives you IE web browsing if thats your choice. Outlook Express (98 and also version 5) also continue to work well."
The receipts on the page are from rainchecks and people who did get their orders canceled, a couple friends of mine only got their money back only after 6 business days after they filed for a refund through their credit card companies.
98Lite.net
98lite.net shows it's not only possible, but helps improve the speed and reliability of windows.
Is perjury still against the law?
Webster: " the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing"
And for all you disagreeing posters, read the actual 98lite.net pages first before you post back.
First I think it needs to be said that NASA benifits the human race, not just science fiction fans.
.05 - .06 cents. I think that's reasonable, IF they use it wisely.
Secondly, it also needs to be said that NASA is a money burning black hole bun by a bunch of blunder-budget bloated bought-out nearsited beaurocrats.
Third, it's the best shot at a future in space that we have.
Seriously, NASA needs to have some fresh blood pumped into it by having a public audit by the most penny pinching science obsessed geeks they can find. I hear on slashdot that a group at a school built a working satilite that interfaces with the gps system and ham radios for a tiny fraction of the cost of a similar satilite built by NASA, albiet they needed help funding a launch into orbit, but the cost of building it was staggeringly small compaired to NASAs.
I also remember reading in the local paper that it cost NASA $500 for a hammer and even more for a standard toilet seat in the GROUND COMPLEX. There's nothing special about NASA's ground complex restroom toilets that need hundred dollar toilet seats!
Their budget needs to be totally audited and publically analyzed.
As far as taxing another 1% on all "space oriented" merchandise, I'm all for it if they show me the budget and that the money was going directly to cost effective NASA projects. The only thing I would suggest to whomever wants to collect the tax, PUT IT TO A VOTE!
Litterally, go into every store that sells stuff you plan to tax, and have a voting box, go online and at every website that sells the stuff, ask if they would support a 1% tax for NASA projects.
This will get a much better reception by the people if they followed the above budget plan, and if they ask the people they plan to tax, then they might like the response they get. After all where do you think their budget comes from now? And 1% off an average paperback book sale is around