That's analagous to writing a GUI app (on Windows or OS X or Linux/GTK/Qt) and having it gracefully degrade to a console application. Last I checked, anything that's more than a simple app doesn't do anything like that, and for good reasons.
they'll give te money (at least part) to the top teenager's groups.
Teen-pop groups are almost as exploited by the recording industry as the general public. They have no rights to the music that is penned for them, they get pushed into the rock and roll lifestyle with promises of riches, and find out when they grow up and get a lawyer that their contract says they have to pay back all the expenses before they see anything out of the record sales. A few of them do OK long term by exploiting the fame that they got as teen-pop idols and appearing on TV shows, award ceremonies, launch parties etc. for money, but most fade into obscurity.
It sounds like one of the basic assumptions of this article is that the object of ebay is to win.
Don't underestimate the power of eBay addiction. People gamble for the same reason, even ones who know that the odds are such that the only real long term winner is the house.
is always decked out in the latest running shoes which much cost £100
Maybe the running shoe company gives factory seconds to homeless charities. I wouldn't judge the guy just because of the shoes he's wearing. Big Issue does more than just make magazines for the homeless to sell. The magazine selling is supposed to be a transitional thing, the real objective is to get these people into real jobs, homes, and mainstream society, and getting them a new pair of shoes for a job interview is one of the things they might do.
Likewise, when people say "give a bit of spare change", this is often the worst advice that can be given as much of that money will go directly into feeding their addiction.
I've never understood this logic. Do you understand how strong a heroin or crack addiction is? If these people don't get enough money to feed their addiction through begging, they'll get it some other way. Sure, giving your money to a homeless charity that helps them might be better for them in the long run, but the homeless charities don't have the resources to help all the homeless right now, and they aren't going to quit their addictions cold turkey.
in Japan for instance, where the cost of living is so high you're a dropout almost as soon as you lose a job.
Japan has a similar cost of living as the rest of the West. Don't be fooled by surveys that measure the cost of living for expats, as expats have very different spending patterns than natives, especially when the culture and diet is so different. The homeless problem that suddenly popped up in the 1990's in Japan was caused by insurance providers and banks going bankrupt at the same time as large numbers of middle class workers were laid off. The same could happen in the US due to the reliance on private providers for social services. The Japanese experience is a good example of why the Government really should be the one providing these services.
With the default settings, it does suppress the Firefox context menu, though a second right click does bring it up.
But if you're using Firefox, there are a number of extensions that give you this functionality across all websites without messing with your context menu, so this hack is just annoying.
Are you sure it was google desktop responsible for all those ads or perhaps it was all the p0rn sites visited with IE.
Pretty sure. Turns out it is a feature called "Alerts", which there is no mention of in the normal Preferences, or the documentation for Google Desktop, but if you enable the Desktop Sidebar and look in the menu for that, there is an extra item "Customize Alerts...", where you can disable them. Since I never use the sidebar, I had no idea this feature existed, I guess it got turned on by the IE Google Toolbar since it lay dormant until I fired up IE for the first time.
As for the mods that modded you +1 Informative, rather than Funny, and my original post -1 Troll, you need to stop smoking the Google crack guys.
This may be that next step. I recently got a Dell PC with Google Desktop pre-installed (but disabled until I enabled it after installing the software of my choice to replace IE, Outlook etc). Google Desktop seemed to be working fine as a search tool, until one day I started Internet Explorer. All of a sudden my firewall started warning me of outgoing connections from GoogleDesktopDisplay.exe, and ads started popping up from my taskbar. Even after closing IE, this continued, and after searching the preferences and terms of service for Google Desktop and finding nothing about this "feature", I have now banished this Google spyware from my system.
I'm just a bystander too, but I beleive you're missing the GP's point.
Do newspapers clear an ad, then send their paper off to the advertiser with blank sections in pages for the advertiser to fill in with whatever they want?
The internet advertising industry is broken, because the advertisers have too much control, and when they abuse that like this, it is time to take that control back. Send me your flash animation, animated GIF or whatever, and I will add it to my page. You'll have to trust me on page hits, or get an independant third party to measure them, because the ad will be served from my server. This is the way it works in print media, and for a good reason which this case demonstrates.
Some RSS readers let you filter individual feeds by tags or keywords, so you only see the posts that interest you. Personally I use Blogbridge, which claims this as a feature. I've never used the feature, since I've kept my subscriptions down to the level where scanning the post titles works for me, but it does look useful if you want to subscribe to absolutely everything that might ever post something of interest.
The RPC over HTTPS stuff is very convenient for my mobile laptop users that want to continue using outlook, syncing their folders, without having to rely on VPN connections.
Really? Why abuse HTTPS like that when IMAPS is designed for it from the start?
I seem to get a Critical Security Update to Windows Genuine Advantage tool every week lately. Its a wonder Microsoft haven't given up and started uninstalling this useless peice of software if it has so many critical security problems.
It's not huge but enough people listen to make it worthwhile.
How do you measure worthwhile? If you're trying to make a buck by selling advertising, or even subscriptions, then I guess you've got some sort of absolute measurement, but if you're an amateur, you're probably as much motivated by your own interest in the topic and podcasting in general, and the number of listeners, while ego-boosting, is probably not that important to whether you keep going, right?
I've been downloading "podcasts" by various people for maybe seven years.
True, but what has made it mainstream, and caused someone to give it a specific name, is that the audio files are now enclosed in a standard subscription format that popular audio players can parse and automatically download new episodes when they become available.
Proper way to say it would be "citizens of the USA" or "United States Citizens" or even (longwindedly) "natural citizens of the United States of America"
Or in keeping with this thread, we could start calling them "loosers".
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It's sad to filter an entire geographic region like that, but my users never talk to people from the Pacific Rim that I know of.
You've made damn sure of that, haven't you. Personally, I have never encountered a company that did not need to communicate with someone on APNIC from time to time, but maybe you're a sysadmin for a small company that only deals with people in your own hick town.
I definitely go through a depression for a few days after a hardcore adderall studying binge, and probably don't retain the information as well as I would if I had studied it in a timely manner throughout the semester.
Pretty much all drugs, legal and illegal, are like that. A good diet, exercise and sleep can improve your mind, body and mood long term. All drugs can do is borrow from the future. You can put off payback by taking them regularly, but if you put it off long enough, it'll start taking years off your lifespan.
In theory, this may even be true, but in reality it is not what happens. Outsourcing has become extremely competitive in India, and companies are cost cutting by assigning a high ratio of inexperienced staff to projects where they are out of their depth, employee retention is a major problem, and the culture means as soon as someone gets some experience they want to be a manager so they have a very top heavy management structure.
Not just the search, even if you know where on MSDN to find the information you are looking for, it is next to impossible to navigate. Clicking on "Platform SDK" in this list of topics takes you to some legal bullshit page in the preface for that manual, with no interesting child nodes and seemingly no way out other than the back button. Until one day you figure out by accident that clicking the "Up One Level" link takes you not back to the main list of topics, but to the table of contents for the Platform SDK manual.
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That's analagous to writing a GUI app (on Windows or OS X or Linux/GTK/Qt) and having it gracefully degrade to a console application. Last I checked, anything that's more than a simple app doesn't do anything like that, and for good reasons.
Are you suggesting that Emacs is a simple app?
they'll give te money (at least part) to the top teenager's groups.
Teen-pop groups are almost as exploited by the recording industry as the general public. They have no rights to the music that is penned for them, they get pushed into the rock and roll lifestyle with promises of riches, and find out when they grow up and get a lawyer that their contract says they have to pay back all the expenses before they see anything out of the record sales. A few of them do OK long term by exploiting the fame that they got as teen-pop idols and appearing on TV shows, award ceremonies, launch parties etc. for money, but most fade into obscurity.
It sounds like one of the basic assumptions of this article is that the object of ebay is to win.
Don't underestimate the power of eBay addiction. People gamble for the same reason, even ones who know that the odds are such that the only real long term winner is the house.
Specifically, we're talking about "another way to feed their addiction".
Of course they'll find another way to feed their addiction, but there's no reason you should feed it.
You might not have much choice when you're on the wrong end of a knife or gun.
Maybe the running shoe company gives factory seconds to homeless charities. I wouldn't judge the guy just because of the shoes he's wearing. Big Issue does more than just make magazines for the homeless to sell. The magazine selling is supposed to be a transitional thing, the real objective is to get these people into real jobs, homes, and mainstream society, and getting them a new pair of shoes for a job interview is one of the things they might do.
Likewise, when people say "give a bit of spare change", this is often the worst advice that can be given as much of that money will go directly into feeding their addiction.
I've never understood this logic. Do you understand how strong a heroin or crack addiction is? If these people don't get enough money to feed their addiction through begging, they'll get it some other way. Sure, giving your money to a homeless charity that helps them might be better for them in the long run, but the homeless charities don't have the resources to help all the homeless right now, and they aren't going to quit their addictions cold turkey.
in Japan for instance, where the cost of living is so high you're a dropout almost as soon as you lose a job.
Japan has a similar cost of living as the rest of the West. Don't be fooled by surveys that measure the cost of living for expats, as expats have very different spending patterns than natives, especially when the culture and diet is so different. The homeless problem that suddenly popped up in the 1990's in Japan was caused by insurance providers and banks going bankrupt at the same time as large numbers of middle class workers were laid off. The same could happen in the US due to the reliance on private providers for social services. The Japanese experience is a good example of why the Government really should be the one providing these services.
With the default settings, it does suppress the Firefox context menu, though a second right click does bring it up.
But if you're using Firefox, there are a number of extensions that give you this functionality across all websites without messing with your context menu, so this hack is just annoying.
Are you sure it was google desktop responsible for all those ads or perhaps it was all the p0rn sites visited with IE.
Pretty sure. Turns out it is a feature called "Alerts", which there is no mention of in the normal Preferences, or the documentation for Google Desktop, but if you enable the Desktop Sidebar and look in the menu for that, there is an extra item "Customize Alerts...", where you can disable them. Since I never use the sidebar, I had no idea this feature existed, I guess it got turned on by the IE Google Toolbar since it lay dormant until I fired up IE for the first time.
As for the mods that modded you +1 Informative, rather than Funny, and my original post -1 Troll, you need to stop smoking the Google crack guys.
This may be that next step. I recently got a Dell PC with Google Desktop pre-installed (but disabled until I enabled it after installing the software of my choice to replace IE, Outlook etc). Google Desktop seemed to be working fine as a search tool, until one day I started Internet Explorer. All of a sudden my firewall started warning me of outgoing connections from GoogleDesktopDisplay.exe, and ads started popping up from my taskbar. Even after closing IE, this continued, and after searching the preferences and terms of service for Google Desktop and finding nothing about this "feature", I have now banished this Google spyware from my system.
Easier???!!!
Have you recommended Gentoo to your grandmother lately?
I'm just a bystander too, but I beleive you're missing the GP's point.
Do newspapers clear an ad, then send their paper off to the advertiser with blank sections in pages for the advertiser to fill in with whatever they want?
The internet advertising industry is broken, because the advertisers have too much control, and when they abuse that like this, it is time to take that control back. Send me your flash animation, animated GIF or whatever, and I will add it to my page. You'll have to trust me on page hits, or get an independant third party to measure them, because the ad will be served from my server. This is the way it works in print media, and for a good reason which this case demonstrates.
New research finds that beggars receive 10x as much spare change when dark clouds appear in the sky.
I don't feel particulay sorry for fools who fall for phishing scams
I sure wouldn't want to bank with a company that called its customers fools when the phishing scam was being run from the bank's own website.
Some RSS readers let you filter individual feeds by tags or keywords, so you only see the posts that interest you. Personally I use Blogbridge, which claims this as a feature. I've never used the feature, since I've kept my subscriptions down to the level where scanning the post titles works for me, but it does look useful if you want to subscribe to absolutely everything that might ever post something of interest.
Really? Why abuse HTTPS like that when IMAPS is designed for it from the start?
I seem to get a Critical Security Update to Windows Genuine Advantage tool every week lately. Its a wonder Microsoft haven't given up and started uninstalling this useless peice of software if it has so many critical security problems.
How do you measure worthwhile? If you're trying to make a buck by selling advertising, or even subscriptions, then I guess you've got some sort of absolute measurement, but if you're an amateur, you're probably as much motivated by your own interest in the topic and podcasting in general, and the number of listeners, while ego-boosting, is probably not that important to whether you keep going, right?
True, but what has made it mainstream, and caused someone to give it a specific name, is that the audio files are now enclosed in a standard subscription format that popular audio players can parse and automatically download new episodes when they become available.
Or in keeping with this thread, we could start calling them "loosers".
You've made damn sure of that, haven't you. Personally, I have never encountered a company that did not need to communicate with someone on APNIC from time to time, but maybe you're a sysadmin for a small company that only deals with people in your own hick town.
I definitely go through a depression for a few days after a hardcore adderall studying binge, and probably don't retain the information as well as I would if I had studied it in a timely manner throughout the semester.
Pretty much all drugs, legal and illegal, are like that. A good diet, exercise and sleep can improve your mind, body and mood long term. All drugs can do is borrow from the future. You can put off payback by taking them regularly, but if you put it off long enough, it'll start taking years off your lifespan.
In theory, this may even be true, but in reality it is not what happens. Outsourcing has become extremely competitive in India, and companies are cost cutting by assigning a high ratio of inexperienced staff to projects where they are out of their depth, employee retention is a major problem, and the culture means as soon as someone gets some experience they want to be a manager so they have a very top heavy management structure.
The search at the MSDN is nearly useless.
Not just the search, even if you know where on MSDN to find the information you are looking for, it is next to impossible to navigate. Clicking on "Platform SDK" in this list of topics takes you to some legal bullshit page in the preface for that manual, with no interesting child nodes and seemingly no way out other than the back button. Until one day you figure out by accident that clicking the "Up One Level" link takes you not back to the main list of topics, but to the table of contents for the Platform SDK manual.