I doubt I'd be paying for dedicated hardware such as the Kindle to read E-Books. $399 is a bit steep. If they had an ebook credit equal to or greater than the price of the Kindle I'd reconsider it. That said, it is very cool technology and I do like the look of it.
I've tried palm ebooks.. they're not bad, but not great... I've gotten several eBooks from Tor for free (legally).
My preferred electronic book format it the unabridged Audiobook. I can get 'em from Audible.com (and no, I don't work for Audible) for about $11.50 each, same as a paperback at the store. I put 'em into my iPod Mini or my Garmin GPS and I'm good to go.
I've used it to find businesses and also directions to specific addresses within Ottawa (Ontario), Toronto (Ontario) and Montreal (Quebec) with good success.
I'll admit the map side is blank for Moscow and Beijing, but the satellite views are there and in good quality.
So... For maps, it's known good in Canada, US and UK. For satellite it's looking good in other areas too.
So, either a) google has made a major change in their search resulting which is only visible to those in new zealand, or b) your information is incorrect.
Either way, Google is currently providing direct links to the site returned in the search results. So, I guess the point you were making is rather moot now.:-)
Just FYI, MS Anti Spyware does report false positives. It believes that TightVNC is spyware. Hmm.. I guess it competes with the MS remote assitance tool.:-) It kinda makes you wonder how it finds "finding twice as many infected files", eh?
I can't say about any users who had a problem updating... my copy of Firefox updated just fine and without issue.
IMHO, it's not about if a patch / update is needed... if that were the case, we'd all be running MS Windows 2.0, IE3, NetScape3, and Phoenix or the likes and no one would run Sendmail or Apache.
What it IS about is this: How soon is a patch available after a vunerability is known? With Firefox that's a pretty short period of vunerability.
Here's How:
Google indexes a page with a link to a non existant domain that expired last month. SiteFinder redirects the google spider to another, unrelated page. It gets indexed as being related to the initial page. The end result is the google index gets very messed up.
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-Do Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly with your God!
Myself, I've tried domain based systems like SpamCop (overall good, but not perfect), double blind email systems (like SneakEMail and client side filtering.
Presently, I'm trying the 'intelligent' filtering in Mozilla with pretty good results. As I don't pay a per MB charge for bandwidth this solution works for me on an individual level. The one cost is waiting for 50 - 100 spams to download while I get 1 or 2 good messages. (Note, the current Mozilla is kind enough to move auto flagged spam to a Junk folder for me).
I've found that even when it flags "legitimate" emails, they're marketting emails sent from orginzations I do other business with. I'm quite happy to not see their marketting emails.:-)
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>It's also a fossil fuel so it increases the amount of CO2 in the air.
As I recall, whenever you burn any substance containing hydrocarbon(s) (incl sugar, gasoline, biodiesal, etc.) you release CO2 into the atmosphere. For a lesson in the basic chemistry of burning hydrocarbon fuels, see this article.
I agree that low sulpher is a good thing though as that will help reduce environmental issues.
In Galeon it's very easy to disable popup's. Click on the "Settings" menu and deselect "Allow Popups".
Note, this does not disable popup windows which open as a result of a mouse click. I have tested this in Galeon version 1.2.0.
For those who find Mozilla to be a bit heavy on the overhead, Galeon is a nice alternative. It has all the benifits of the Mozilla rendering engine, yet keeps a minimalist kind of interface. I love it.
(Galeon is based upon the Mozilla rendering engine)
In my humble opinion, Chretien is not the real problem. The real problem in our current government is the near total lack of a functioning opposition. The other real problem is that Canada's newspaper and news media is largely owned by card carrying liberals. The last time a well known national reporter did an in depth investigative report that made the Chretien government look bad the reporter found himself looking for work. This reporter was published in papers across the country through the Southam news chain.
For all Americans out there, our situation is like this: 85% of all the seats in the house are republican and the president is republican as well. In addition, 85% or more of the news media is owned or controlled by card carrying republicans and the journalists are too scared to say anything for fear of losing their jobs.
Under existing copyright law in Canada, we have the right to make a backup of copyright materiel we have legally obtained. Citizens of the United States used to have this right as well until the DCMA stripped them of this right.
We need to send the message loud and strong to our MP's (Members of Parliment) that existing rights need to be protected. If we cannot backup our copyright material then we will be forced to pay the royalties a second time if our original is damaged in some way.
I am all for prosecution of those who circumvent copy protection measures in order to sell or give copies of copyright material to a third party. This directly affects the copyright holder's earnings.
What needs to be done is ensure that the everyday user is still allowed to make reasonable copies of content for personal use. Why? Simply because media can and does become damaged. How many people have had a tape player eat a cassette tape? I know I have. That's why I make a single copy of each cassette I purchase and only play the copy. My master is safe and out of harms way. Under current Canadian copyright law this is 100% legal. I've had CD's get damaged as well. I was glad I had the content on a Cassette as is protected under existing law.
I do not want to see this right taken from myself and my fellow Canadians.
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I doubt I'd be paying for dedicated hardware such as the Kindle to read E-Books. $399 is a bit steep. If they had an ebook credit equal to or greater than the price of the Kindle I'd reconsider it. That said, it is very cool technology and I do like the look of it.
.. they're not bad, but not great... I've gotten several eBooks from Tor for free (legally).
I've tried palm ebooks
My preferred electronic book format it the unabridged Audiobook. I can get 'em from Audible.com (and no, I don't work for Audible) for about $11.50 each, same as a paperback at the store. I put 'em into my iPod Mini or my Garmin GPS and I'm good to go.
~~Douglas
The maps for Canada seem pretty good.
I've used it to find businesses and also directions to specific addresses within Ottawa (Ontario), Toronto (Ontario) and Montreal (Quebec) with good success.
I'll admit the map side is blank for Moscow and Beijing, but the satellite views are there and in good quality.
So... For maps, it's known good in Canada, US and UK. For satellite it's looking good in other areas too.
~~DouglasK
As GreaseMonkey.MozDev.Org is slashdotted, here's the obligitory link to get Greasemonkey:
Install/Download GreaseMonkey
Enjoy!
Same here... I've been with them for years and you couldn't pay me to switch.
They don't sell via Spam, they are stable, and they are accessible. They have my vote of cash.
I just Checked it out and when I copy the link, it is simply to http://www.bobthebuilder.org/, not to some fancy redirection script.
I verified this on: http://www.google.com, http://www.google.ca, and, as you claim, on http://www.google.co.nz. This was verified using IE and Firefox.
So, either a) google has made a major change in their search resulting which is only visible to those in new zealand, or b) your information is incorrect.
Either way, Google is currently providing direct links to the site returned in the search results. So, I guess the point you were making is rather moot now. :-)
~~~Douglas
Note, they SELL this item off that page (click on the round boutique link in the upper right.)
As they financially gain from promoting this product, their review is less than worthless: It's most likely intentionally misleading.
Cheers!
Just FYI, MS Anti Spyware does report false positives. It believes that TightVNC is spyware. Hmm.. I guess it competes with the MS remote assitance tool. :-) It kinda makes you wonder how it finds "finding twice as many infected files", eh?
Obligatory link to Google Cache of the web site showing the schematics, etc.
I can't say about any users who had a problem updating... my copy of Firefox updated just fine and without issue.
IMHO, it's not about if a patch / update is needed... if that were the case, we'd all be running MS Windows 2.0, IE3, NetScape3, and Phoenix or the likes and no one would run Sendmail or Apache.
What it IS about is this: How soon is a patch available after a vunerability is known? With Firefox that's a pretty short period of vunerability.
~~Douglas
Could it be that Verisign's Site Finder service is giving problems to the Google search engine?
Here's How:
Google indexes a page with a link to a non existant domain that expired last month. SiteFinder redirects the google spider to another, unrelated page. It gets indexed as being related to the initial page. The end result is the google index gets very messed up.
============
-Do Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly with your God!
Does this mean it's solid and it stinks or that it solidly stinks? I just couldn't resist asking.
Myself, I've tried domain based systems like SpamCop (overall good, but not perfect), double blind email systems (like SneakEMail and client side filtering.
Presently, I'm trying the 'intelligent' filtering in Mozilla with pretty good results. As I don't pay a per MB charge for bandwidth this solution works for me on an individual level. The one cost is waiting for 50 - 100 spams to download while I get 1 or 2 good messages. (Note, the current Mozilla is kind enough to move auto flagged spam to a Junk folder for me).
I've found that even when it flags "legitimate" emails, they're marketting emails sent from orginzations I do other business with. I'm quite happy to not see their marketting emails. :-)
As I recall, whenever you burn any substance containing hydrocarbon(s) (incl sugar, gasoline, biodiesal, etc.) you release CO2 into the atmosphere. For a lesson in the basic chemistry of burning hydrocarbon fuels, see this article.
I agree that low sulpher is a good thing though as that will help reduce environmental issues.
In Galeon it's very easy to disable popup's. Click on the "Settings" menu and deselect "Allow Popups".
Note, this does not disable popup windows which open as a result of a mouse click. I have tested this in Galeon version 1.2.0.
For those who find Mozilla to be a bit heavy on the overhead, Galeon is a nice alternative. It has all the benifits of the Mozilla rendering engine, yet keeps a minimalist kind of interface. I love it.
(Galeon is based upon the Mozilla rendering engine)
In my humble opinion, Chretien is not the real problem. The real problem in our current government is the near total lack of a functioning opposition. The other real problem is that Canada's newspaper and news media is largely owned by card carrying liberals. The last time a well known national reporter did an in depth investigative report that made the Chretien government look bad the reporter found himself looking for work. This reporter was published in papers across the country through the Southam news chain.
For all Americans out there, our situation is like this: 85% of all the seats in the house are republican and the president is republican as well. In addition, 85% or more of the news media is owned or controlled by card carrying republicans and the journalists are too scared to say anything for fear of losing their jobs.
Under existing copyright law in Canada, we have the right to make a backup of copyright materiel we have legally obtained. Citizens of the United States used to have this right as well until the DCMA stripped them of this right.
We need to send the message loud and strong to our MP's (Members of Parliment) that existing rights need to be protected. If we cannot backup our copyright material then we will be forced to pay the royalties a second time if our original is damaged in some way.
I am all for prosecution of those who circumvent copy protection measures in order to sell or give copies of copyright material to a third party. This directly affects the copyright holder's earnings.
What needs to be done is ensure that the everyday user is still allowed to make reasonable copies of content for personal use. Why? Simply because media can and does become damaged. How many people have had a tape player eat a cassette tape? I know I have. That's why I make a single copy of each cassette I purchase and only play the copy. My master is safe and out of harms way. Under current Canadian copyright law this is 100% legal. I've had CD's get damaged as well. I was glad I had the content on a Cassette as is protected under existing law.
I do not want to see this right taken from myself and my fellow Canadians.