I'm not too sure about that: I used to play board games with a group of my friends all the time until they started playing WoW. I can't even remember the last time we played a board game anymore.
"And, of course, there is only one operating system to use if you are dependent on Microsoft apps like Outlook, Word, and Excel." Uhh, has the guy ever used a Mac?!? Okay, Macs don't have Outlook, but they have the similar Entourage instead.
Check out http://www.supercook.com/. It'll do just that: you enter the stuff you have in your kitchen, and it'll display a ton of recipes you can make from them.
They're looking at Office 2003, when the latest version of Office is 2007. In 2007, Firefox loaded every time I went to a link, whether in Office, via an Office dialog, or through Office help.
The article states, "it is unusual to require cookies or to use them in a desktop application", yet Office Online is the only part of Office that requires cookies. This doesn't seem that strange to me: no local features require them.
I wasn't able to find any ads in Office 2007, but because I'm running the latest version, none will probably show up until the next version of Office is released. Showing a couple of ad links at the bottom of the help text, and only after the user goes into help, stretches the definition of Adware a bit.
1) It'll re-download all your mail for the past 30 days, so you'll end up with a bunch of duplicate mail in your POP client which you'll have to delete. This only happens when you change the setting, so you'll only have to deal with it the once.
2) You'll start getting all the mail you send out to other people as well, even if you weren't on the 'to', 'cc', or 'bcc' line. This can be a bit of an annoyance, but with a sufficiently advanced POP client, you should be able to filter this mail from your mailing list posts.
Google Calendar has a very important feature that actually makes calendaring much easier to use than in Outlook 2003: the 'Quick Add'. Found in a small menu below 'Create Event' in the top-left corner, 'Quick Add' allows you to type in a dynamic expression that describes an event; for example, 'Pack Saturday' or 'BBQ @ 7:30pm tomorrow'. With this one feature, Google has surpassed Outlook's efficiency at creating appointments. I wonder when Outlook will learn that forcing users to tab through multiple fields in a standardized form like 'Subject, Location, Start Time, End Time' is not the fastest nor the most intuitive way to enter appointments. Also, no double clicking required - a single click in a time slot and a bubble to enter an appointment comes up.
This is simply untrue. I have owned a Sony Vaio FX120K for over a year which came installed with Win2K on it. Soon after Windows XP was released, Sony supplied all the required drivers and patches for download on their website making for a totally painless upgrade.
By this ruling, you can post up a webpage saying anything about anyone and then just wait a year to get it indexed and spread it around and you're in the clear. Just make sure you have proof you posted it a year earlier.
But the article also mentioned about a string of mergers in the gambling business. What is the difference between sharing information inside a mega-corporation and having one company arbitrarily share your information with others? How can you know that every hotel|casino|company affiliated with the casino you go into has the same philosophy as the casino itself? You can't. You also can't be sure that the casino, upon getting a huge $$$ offer from an insurance or credit company won't end up selling that information -- they are in the business of making money after all.
Yeah, I've noticed that since about 4 years ago, when both Princess Diana and Mother Teresa died. I think as you get older, you end up recognizing more people and gradually as time goes on, they'll all have to eventually leave this life. It's not that the number of people dying has increased; it's that more people have affected you and your perception has increased.
These cases seem so ludicrous. I still don't understand how a company can take a three letter word out of a dictionary and patent it so no one else can use it.
Okay, so now we'll have two jets, one commercial, the other military, that will show up on radar as being identical. This seems to me to greatly increase the chance that civilians will be killed accidentally.
My question is whether the toolbar code can send secure URLs off to Google after they've been decrypted... For example, my bank uses a long token attached to the end of the URL to determine that it is indeed me accessing my account. If this was being sent off to Google, it would be easy for someone to attach a timestamp to that URL, check to see whether it was within the past 15 minutes (after which time the token expires) and then have access to my banking information without even worrying about cracking the encryption.
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I'm not too sure about that: I used to play board games with a group of my friends all the time until they started playing WoW. I can't even remember the last time we played a board game anymore.
"And, of course, there is only one operating system to use if you are dependent on Microsoft apps like Outlook, Word, and Excel." Uhh, has the guy ever used a Mac?!? Okay, Macs don't have Outlook, but they have the similar Entourage instead.
Just go through the Google address book. ;-)
Check out http://www.supercook.com/. It'll do just that: you enter the stuff you have in your kitchen, and it'll display a ton of recipes you can make from them.
They're looking at Office 2003, when the latest version of Office is 2007. In 2007, Firefox loaded every time I went to a link, whether in Office, via an Office dialog, or through Office help.
The article states, "it is unusual to require cookies or to use them in a desktop application", yet Office Online is the only part of Office that requires cookies. This doesn't seem that strange to me: no local features require them.
I wasn't able to find any ads in Office 2007, but because I'm running the latest version, none will probably show up until the next version of Office is released. Showing a couple of ad links at the bottom of the help text, and only after the user goes into help, stretches the definition of Adware a bit.
So if we're missing out if we don't read it, why isn't XKCD in the Funnies Slashbox then?
The problem with opt-in statistical gathering is that they can skew a sample, subtly biasing it. This would invalidate a lot of scientific research.
There is a solution: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=47948. Just prefix your POP client's POP server login information with recent: e.g. billg@gmail.com would become recent:billg@gmail.com.
However, there are a couple of caveats:
1) It'll re-download all your mail for the past 30 days, so you'll end up with a bunch of duplicate mail in your POP client which you'll have to delete. This only happens when you change the setting, so you'll only have to deal with it the once.
2) You'll start getting all the mail you send out to other people as well, even if you weren't on the 'to', 'cc', or 'bcc' line. This can be a bit of an annoyance, but with a sufficiently advanced POP client, you should be able to filter this mail from your mailing list posts.
Killing rats for 30 minutes is fine? You haven't played FFXI or WoW, have you? ;-)
Google Calendar has a very important feature that actually makes calendaring much easier to use than in Outlook 2003: the 'Quick Add'. Found in a small menu below 'Create Event' in the top-left corner, 'Quick Add' allows you to type in a dynamic expression that describes an event; for example, 'Pack Saturday' or 'BBQ @ 7:30pm tomorrow'. With this one feature, Google has surpassed Outlook's efficiency at creating appointments. I wonder when Outlook will learn that forcing users to tab through multiple fields in a standardized form like 'Subject, Location, Start Time, End Time' is not the fastest nor the most intuitive way to enter appointments. Also, no double clicking required - a single click in a time slot and a bubble to enter an appointment comes up.
This is simply untrue. I have owned a Sony Vaio FX120K for over a year which came installed with Win2K on it. Soon after Windows XP was released, Sony supplied all the required drivers and patches for download on their website making for a totally painless upgrade.
Keenan
By this ruling, you can post up a webpage saying anything about anyone and then just wait a year to get it indexed and spread it around and you're in the clear. Just make sure you have proof you posted it a year earlier.
Keenan
So if we choose to subscribe, are we paying to moderate posts? Every time we moderate, we postback -- does that count as an additional page hit?
Keenan
But the article also mentioned about a string of mergers in the gambling business. What is the difference between sharing information inside a mega-corporation and having one company arbitrarily share your information with others? How can you know that every hotel|casino|company affiliated with the casino you go into has the same philosophy as the casino itself? You can't. You also can't be sure that the casino, upon getting a huge $$$ offer from an insurance or credit company won't end up selling that information -- they are in the business of making money after all.
Yeah, I've noticed that since about 4 years ago, when both Princess Diana and Mother Teresa died. I think as you get older, you end up recognizing more people and gradually as time goes on, they'll all have to eventually leave this life. It's not that the number of people dying has increased; it's that more people have affected you and your perception has increased.
Keenan
Oops -- meant trademark, not patent.
These cases seem so ludicrous. I still don't understand how a company can take a three letter word out of a dictionary and patent it so no one else can use it.
Okay, so now we'll have two jets, one commercial, the other military, that will show up on radar as being identical. This seems to me to greatly increase the chance that civilians will be killed accidentally.
My question is whether the toolbar code can send secure URLs off to Google after they've been decrypted... For example, my bank uses a long token attached to the end of the URL to determine that it is indeed me accessing my account. If this was being sent off to Google, it would be easy for someone to attach a timestamp to that URL, check to see whether it was within the past 15 minutes (after which time the token expires) and then have access to my banking information without even worrying about cracking the encryption.