It's the apps that he's probably worried about, not the OS. I've never used a Linux PDA, but are the apps at the same level as those in Windows-based or PalmOS-based PDAs?
Good idea. Also, I would suggest they stop forcing me to answer stupid verification questions such as, "what city were you born in?" Questions like this weaken the supposed security of the 20 character, mixed passwords they require.
It's up to each state how to distribute their electoral votes. IIRC, states started going to a winner-takes-all allocation method to make themselves more attractive prizes to candidates. Today, 48 of 50 states use this method. As you stated, the "decided" states are largely ignored. So get your state to change the way it allocates electoral votes.
Electoral votes are allocated the same way seats in the House and Senate are allocated. It's more-or-less based on population, because each state gets one electoral vote for each Representative and Senator. The square milage of the state has nothing to do with it.
Abolishing the Electoral College in favor of a strict popular vote won't really change much:
It will provide for a more fine-grained counting of votes (millions of indiv. votes rather than hundreds of electoral votes).
It will reduce the slight advantage that smaller states have, considering each state gets at least three electoral votes.
These things only matter in the closest of elections. Personally, I wouldn't want to change the system as a result of how any one particular election worked out; things could go exactly the opposite way the next time.
Finally, just because you are outvoted, doesn't mean your vote doesn't count.
I think what you are describing is a "CheckCard." (I'm not sure if there's a more official name, but that's the marketing name.) To the merchant, it acts like a credit card: it has a Visa or MC logo on it. But on your end it acts like a debit card: the money is taken immediately from your account.
BTW, you build no credit history while using a checkcard, because you aren't borrowing any money. I found that out the hard way when applying for my first auto loan. Banks were reluctant to loan me money because I had no credit history. I had the equivalent of a great credit history using my checkcard, though.
I've sure noticed a decrease in the spam I've been getting over the past few days: About a fivefold decrease, down from about 20 per day to about four. I wondered why, but it didn't occur to me that it might be the hurricane(s). Since I only get 20 spams per day anyway, it might just be one particular spammer who was knocked out.
The trains don't have designated "quiet cars"? Perhaps you should suggest it. They have them on the commuter trains in and out of Washington D.C., and I think it's a great idea.
I'd only use automation if it saves a LOT of time. As you hinted, the automation is a whole development project in itself, which means it requires development AND TESTING of its own. Yes, you have to thoroughly test the automation to make sure it's actually doing the tests properly: is it generating the right inputs and checking the outputs? Even then, if automated tests fail, you still have to wonder (and investigate) whether it's a problem with the automated test itself or a problem with the tested software. Worse, if an automated test program, due to some bug, passes a test case that actually fails, you might not find out about it until too late.
Where I work, new releases of the automated test tools (developed in-house) come out more often that the actual application we have to test. This means we have to validate the test tools every time: running the test with the tool, but checking everything manually as we do it. It's a pain.
There frankly are better ways to use the resources.
I still fail to understand this reasoning. Besides money, which is just an abstract creation used for bookkeeping, which resources would you divert and where would you divert them to? (I'm looking at the big picture here, so I'm talking about all the resources Earth has to offer, not just the resources of, say, the U.S. Government.)
The trend today is for the DoD not to excercise total control over system development and give the contractor more leeway. See Performance Based Service Acquisition.
The VIN isn't just an ID, though, it encodes all sorts of relevant information.
More like all sorts of irrelevant information. They put in too much. I don't need to be able to determine how many cupholders the car has by looking at the VIN. I can just look at the cupholders! Why didn't they encode the optimum gasoline octane rating for the engine into the VIN too? Because it's in the manual, that's why. There are some things you'll just have to look up separately.
I would rather have no hold music at all, just silence. As an alternative, maybe you could have an option to "press # to stop the hold music". You see, when I'm on hold - especially for long periods of time - I put the call on the speakerphone and work on something else. Music is distracting. Voices are even more distracting, so don't have anyone talking to me unless it's a live person ready to take my call. Silence would be perfect.
If you are behind NAT or a firewall, make sure you open up the correct port to the outside, so that other clients can connect to you. This should improve things a lot. If you're already doing that, maybe you should try throttling your upload a little bit (I think it's a commandline option).
I've noticed that many digital photos are in a 4:3 aspect ratio, instead of the 3:2 aspect ratio of film. Has anyone who's switched from a film camera to a digital camera had problems with this? I imagine it would be harder to properly fill the more squarish frame, as most subjects seem to be suited to the landscape or portrait proportions. Then again, I often crop my film photos to make desktop wallpaper for my computer, and it doesn't seem to be a big problem.
I think it's the apps themselves that refresh the taskbar system tray, not the other way around. That's why smarter apps, like ZoneAlarm, will put themselves back in the tray. But dumber apps - ones that only place themselves in the tray on startup - do not come back after Explorer crashes.
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AFAIK, an access point is any wireless device in "Master" mode. An Access Point (capital letters) is a consumer device that fills this role.
There are three modes that a wireless device can be in:
Ad-hoc (communicating with anyone and everyone)
Managed (communicating with a single access point)
Master (An access point)
So, to build your own access point, you need a card and driver that supports Master mode. Again, this is all AFAIK.
The IFPI/RIAA is fighting a lost cause. And I think they know it.
Yes, they are fighting a losing battle. But I must say, IMHO, no, they do not know it. Others on Slashdot say the IFPI/RIAA are desperate, but I think they are not. They are powerful, angry, and organized. They intend to win this fight, not only to protect their income, but to protect their rights. Copyright law backs them on this, and they have the resources to pursue it. I don't like it either, but that's the way it is right now.
Even today, with some car radios (GM models, it seems) you can tune all the way down to channel 6 (audio). I also have a handheld, manual tune, AM/FM radio that will also let me tune into VHF TV audio. It doesn't go down to channel 2, though. I'm not sure why.
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Except for the Ubergeek webmaster, it sounds like most of the information in that example was exchanged by good old voice communications.
It's the apps that he's probably worried about, not the OS. I've never used a Linux PDA, but are the apps at the same level as those in Windows-based or PalmOS-based PDAs?
Good idea. Also, I would suggest they stop forcing me to answer stupid verification questions such as, "what city were you born in?" Questions like this weaken the supposed security of the 20 character, mixed passwords they require.
Another tax return to fill out? No thanks.
Electoral votes are allocated the same way seats in the House and Senate are allocated. It's more-or-less based on population, because each state gets one electoral vote for each Representative and Senator. The square milage of the state has nothing to do with it.
Abolishing the Electoral College in favor of a strict popular vote won't really change much:
- It will provide for a more fine-grained counting of votes (millions of indiv. votes rather than hundreds of electoral votes).
- It will reduce the slight advantage that smaller states have, considering each state gets at least three electoral votes.
These things only matter in the closest of elections. Personally, I wouldn't want to change the system as a result of how any one particular election worked out; things could go exactly the opposite way the next time.Finally, just because you are outvoted, doesn't mean your vote doesn't count.
BTW, you build no credit history while using a checkcard, because you aren't borrowing any money. I found that out the hard way when applying for my first auto loan. Banks were reluctant to loan me money because I had no credit history. I had the equivalent of a great credit history using my checkcard, though.
I've sure noticed a decrease in the spam I've been getting over the past few days: About a fivefold decrease, down from about 20 per day to about four. I wondered why, but it didn't occur to me that it might be the hurricane(s). Since I only get 20 spams per day anyway, it might just be one particular spammer who was knocked out.
If you leave it to the last minute, it will only take a minute to do!
The trains don't have designated "quiet cars"? Perhaps you should suggest it. They have them on the commuter trains in and out of Washington D.C., and I think it's a great idea.
Where I work, new releases of the automated test tools (developed in-house) come out more often that the actual application we have to test. This means we have to validate the test tools every time: running the test with the tool, but checking everything manually as we do it. It's a pain.
The trend today is for the DoD not to excercise total control over system development and give the contractor more leeway. See Performance Based Service Acquisition.
More like all sorts of irrelevant information. They put in too much. I don't need to be able to determine how many cupholders the car has by looking at the VIN. I can just look at the cupholders! Why didn't they encode the optimum gasoline octane rating for the engine into the VIN too? Because it's in the manual, that's why. There are some things you'll just have to look up separately.
I would rather have no hold music at all, just silence. As an alternative, maybe you could have an option to "press # to stop the hold music". You see, when I'm on hold - especially for long periods of time - I put the call on the speakerphone and work on something else. Music is distracting. Voices are even more distracting, so don't have anyone talking to me unless it's a live person ready to take my call. Silence would be perfect.
If you are behind NAT or a firewall, make sure you open up the correct port to the outside, so that other clients can connect to you. This should improve things a lot. If you're already doing that, maybe you should try throttling your upload a little bit (I think it's a commandline option).
There was a class action lawsuit. I got a whole $13.86 in the settlement.
How far away are the rabbit ears from your computer? I think you'd almost want them in a different room, to avoid all the interference.
I've noticed that many digital photos are in a 4:3 aspect ratio, instead of the 3:2 aspect ratio of film. Has anyone who's switched from a film camera to a digital camera had problems with this? I imagine it would be harder to properly fill the more squarish frame, as most subjects seem to be suited to the landscape or portrait proportions. Then again, I often crop my film photos to make desktop wallpaper for my computer, and it doesn't seem to be a big problem.
I think it's the apps themselves that refresh the taskbar system tray, not the other way around. That's why smarter apps, like ZoneAlarm, will put themselves back in the tray. But dumber apps - ones that only place themselves in the tray on startup - do not come back after Explorer crashes.
There are three modes that a wireless device can be in:
So, to build your own access point, you need a card and driver that supports Master mode. Again, this is all AFAIK.
Yes, they are fighting a losing battle. But I must say, IMHO, no, they do not know it. Others on Slashdot say the IFPI/RIAA are desperate, but I think they are not. They are powerful, angry, and organized. They intend to win this fight, not only to protect their income, but to protect their rights. Copyright law backs them on this, and they have the resources to pursue it. I don't like it either, but that's the way it is right now.
Isn't that why all restuarants now have their own (usually stupid) pseudo-version of "Happy Birthday" that they sing?
Even today, with some car radios (GM models, it seems) you can tune all the way down to channel 6 (audio). I also have a handheld, manual tune, AM/FM radio that will also let me tune into VHF TV audio. It doesn't go down to channel 2, though. I'm not sure why.
"john@gmail.com" will get spammed by dictionary attack so fast his head will spin. There's a downside to simple email addresses.