A fair point, although everyone I know who moved from ICQ to MSN (I now use both, eventually had to get MSN to communicate with them) moved because the MSN software is nicer than the ICQ software, they just didn't like the client on offer. I know there are other clients, they just didn't want the hassle of changing.
I'd rather catch almost all spam, and give the bulk mail a brief scan for important looking things, than catch barely any spam, and always have to hope I don't accidentalyl delete something valid.
No real mail has gone in my bulk mail for weeks, it's that little, still check it though.
hmm, definitely. Yahoo's spam filter gets 80 to 90% of my spam, grabbing very little that isn't spam and letting very little spam through.
My girlfriend's hotmail account on the other hand receives a similar amount of spam, and the spam filter only grabs 10% of it... and that has included a number of valid e-mails (bulk mails from a doctor's surgery, so we can sortof let it off on that one, they probably do show all the signs of being spam).
The Sun's an extreme example. It's one of those places where you have to search page by page to find something that isn't crap and when you do it's usually the page numbers.
Not quite never, XP itself hadn't crashed on me until last week when I had a total of two bluescreens in 48 hours! Bits of XP crash on me frequently though, but the kernel manages to keep the system fairly stable. Still needs its reboots though.
Well yes, but if you rely on Sun's VM, then you expect it to run securely.
If you write your own insecure VM then obviously it's insecure, but you might as well take your hard drive out and throw it at a wall if you want to do some real damage, it's easier!
Arguably public transport can give you more independence. I often take the train rather than driving at rush hour because, though there's the possibility that the trains will be delayed, the problems with traffic covering the same distance are actually worse. And that's on a line with half hourly trains and the requirement for a change.
Cars will be necessary for going out of town for a long time, but in many cases hire cars at stations would suffice. Would you prefer to fly across the US and then hire a car, or drive it? Surely that thought could be carried over to shorter distances too?
True... though that's somewhat exaggerated when you think about it.
a) most crashes are on takeoff or landing, concode only flies fairly long haul, so per mile you'd expect good stats (747s average longer haul I'll grant you)
b) concorde carries few passengers
Still, that doesn't make it dangerous, merely less safe than people make out. By the same argument that air travel isn't really more safe than car travel... statistics just show it to be (arguable point).
SUV's have their place. I always felt the Suburban was a little over the top, but I'm sure even that has its place.
On the other hand, buying one as a family car to only be driven around the roads of London (or many north american cities) doesn't quite fit the point of necessity. I think that's probably what the author was really thinking of, not saying they were totally pointless.
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A fair point, although everyone I know who moved from ICQ to MSN (I now use both, eventually had to get MSN to communicate with them) moved because the MSN software is nicer than the ICQ software, they just didn't like the client on offer. I know there are other clients, they just didn't want the hassle of changing.
Arguably
I'd rather catch almost all spam, and give the bulk mail a brief scan for important looking things, than catch barely any spam, and always have to hope I don't accidentalyl delete something valid.
No real mail has gone in my bulk mail for weeks, it's that little, still check it though.
hmm, definitely. Yahoo's spam filter gets 80 to 90% of my spam, grabbing very little that isn't spam and letting very little spam through.
My girlfriend's hotmail account on the other hand receives a similar amount of spam, and the spam filter only grabs 10% of it... and that has included a number of valid e-mails (bulk mails from a doctor's surgery, so we can sortof let it off on that one, they probably do show all the signs of being spam).
The Sun's an extreme example. It's one of those places where you have to search page by page to find something that isn't crap and when you do it's usually the page numbers.
Depends on how you define computer. IBM's the world's largest hardware company, and the world's second largest software company (both by revenue).
A good point, but is that any worse than blindly following the data from the inaccurate system?
Not quite never, XP itself hadn't crashed on me until last week when I had a total of two bluescreens in 48 hours! Bits of XP crash on me frequently though, but the kernel manages to keep the system fairly stable. Still needs its reboots though.
Well yes, but if you rely on Sun's VM, then you expect it to run securely.
If you write your own insecure VM then obviously it's insecure, but you might as well take your hard drive out and throw it at a wall if you want to do some real damage, it's easier!
Arguably public transport can give you more independence. I often take the train rather than driving at rush hour because, though there's the possibility that the trains will be delayed, the problems with traffic covering the same distance are actually worse. And that's on a line with half hourly trains and the requirement for a change.
Cars will be necessary for going out of town for a long time, but in many cases hire cars at stations would suffice. Would you prefer to fly across the US and then hire a car, or drive it? Surely that thought could be carried over to shorter distances too?
It's not just here, everywhere I go, and in 90% of news stories that mistake is made.
Very true, the aliens ruined the game for me
Yes, ie catch-22. Until it has the users it won't have the games, and until it has the games, it won't have the users.
Actually it could be argued that in many cases it is, it just gets taken too far.
Many paedophiles would be excellent working with children, problem being you could never quite trust them...
True... though that's somewhat exaggerated when you think about it.
a) most crashes are on takeoff or landing, concode only flies fairly long haul, so per mile you'd expect good stats (747s average longer haul I'll grant you)
b) concorde carries few passengers
Still, that doesn't make it dangerous, merely less safe than people make out. By the same argument that air travel isn't really more safe than car travel... statistics just show it to be (arguable point).
Fair point
That or security, flexibility, stability (theoretically)
Of course it can also mean more layers of bugs...
"You've no mail" would be better still
SUV's have their place. I always felt the Suburban was a little over the top, but I'm sure even that has its place.
On the other hand, buying one as a family car to only be driven around the roads of London (or many north american cities) doesn't quite fit the point of necessity. I think that's probably what the author was really thinking of, not saying they were totally pointless.
Of course, I'm often wrong...
Very unsafe? I think it's done faily well for such old aircraft.
I'll grant you its safety record was over hyped (before the crash, obviously), but very unsafe is pushing it.
No indeed, death can be a terribly easy-going solution... talk about getting off light.
Agreed, but that's not the point my original post was saying.
Technically, XP is more 2k. Target wise, yes then it's more Me.
Probably true, but on balance, does everyone do things for efficiency... think 4x4s.
on the other hand the changes between XP and 2k (which it evolved from) are tiny
I wish I could mod that comment up
The problem there of course is tracking down the original sender of the forged mail.