Today's mice are well known to spiral the cursor in a circular motion around your screen at a high rate of speed, clicking the screen randomly when their internal circuitry begins to fry.
I've witnessed it twice... once at a colleague's desk, and another time during an application demo. It's great fun to explain that the problem is the mouse and not your app to a room full of speculative non-technical people.
Without a doubt, the first edition of this book is the best web book I've owned. I use it regularly to check myself on unmemorized topics, and lend it out to friends that find themselves in the same boat.
It's a great combination of HTML/Javascript/DHTML/CSS etc.
I suppose his 100% victory in the recent election is due to the entire country agreeing? That's quite an achievement...
Face it... you'd disagree with whatever agenda the Bush administration supported. You probably supported our anti-Iraq actions taken and maintained during the Clinton administration, didn't you?
Last week I completed a transaction using PayPal which I explicitly indicated that I wanted 100% of the funds to come from my registered credit card. I even got the confirmation email stating that it would come from that credit card, so I could keep a balance in my PayPal account.
What they ended up doing was debiting my PayPal balance to $0.00, and deducting the remainder of the transaction from my credit card.
PayPal saved me the trouble of debiting my account down to zero. Now it'll be easy to close.
I inquired and got the following email:
- - - - -
When you use PayPal to send money, the balance in your PayPal Account is used first. If you do not have enough money in your PayPal Account to cover the whole transaction, please refer to the information below:
If you do have a registered credit card, but do not have a confirmed bank account listed on your PayPal Account PayPal will first use the balance in your account and charge the rest to your registered credit card.
If you do not have a registered credit card, but you do have a confirmed bank account listed on your PayPal Account The balance will not be used. The entire amount of the payment will be drawn from your bank account. The payment will take 4 business days to complete.
If you have both a registered credit card and a bank account The "Instant Transfer" method is the default method of payment (an instant electronic funds transfer from your checking account) when there are insufficient funds in your PayPal Account to complete the transfer.
If you have more than one positive currency balance on your PayPal Account The entire amount will be funded from this balance. If the balance used to send the payment is insufficient, it may default to another currency balance depending on the amount of funds available.
You can view the "Source of Funds" on the "Check Payment Details" page. If the payment that you are sending exceeds the amount of funds in your PayPal Account, you can click the "More Funding Options" link to choose whether to draw funds from your checking account or your credit card. If you choose to draw funds from your checking account, you have the option of an "Instant Transfer" or "eCheck" transfer. Instant Transfer is backed up by either your credit card or a secondary bank account and occurs immediately, whereas the eCheck payments may take four business days to post as complete.
Please note that once a payment has been sent, it is not possible to alter the method of funding.
I saw about 50 of these yesterday... but the best one had to be a 1'x1' sticker that had been pasted onto the front windshield of a car that had been abandoned on Houston Street. The thing completely obstructing the passenger's view. If it was my car, I'd be pissed, but it's a hell of a lot better than being flooded with those damn AOL CDs.
One company breaks the law **cough*MSFT*cough**, they get chastized...
Another company DOESN'T break the law **cough*GOOGLE*cough** they get chastized...
Like it or not... agree with them or not... Companies should adhere to the laws within which they operate. If you disagree with the law, take it up with the law makers... but don't take blame the company.
Drag the edge of your browser so that it's very very small. Watch as text and images probably just got moved all over the place. Once it's on your "machine" you can do with it what you please.
"It would seem to me that in the long haul, Microsoft would support such efforts because they could sell more devices (and potentially more software if they licensed an opensource validation library)... "
The problem is that Microsoft loses money on the hardware, and they make it back on the software. So if you allow users to circumvent the price they pay for the software, Microsoft loses in the end.
My XBOX was sitting on the shelf for quite a while. I'd kinda lost interest. Then my XBOX LIVE Beta kit showed up. Honestly... it changed everything. I've stopped playing PC online games... and the online XBOX experience is truly addictive. In my opinion, it's online done right for the console world.
When you get spam, look up the contact for whatever domain sent the spam in the "Whois" directory, and give them a call. I do it all the time. I did it today. Works like a charm because they want to talk to you less than you want to receive their spam.
"He simply said that MS had no idea how people would act in-game with the communicator, and that some risk was involved in the effort to bring voice to gaming, but that he and his team were convinced that it was worth a try."
I've been beta testing XBOX Live, and the voice communicator has been a damn fine addition to online gaming. For the most part, players have been cordial, and I really haven't seen that big of a problem with people abusing the technology. Thumbs up Microsoft. So far, so good.
PC Tools leaked early versions of their software into the pirate (Arrrr!) market in order to compete with the already-established Norton Utilities. It worked to a certain degree... and it spread the tool's use through some circles... but we all know who's still standing today.
Slashdot Mirror
actually ... it takes kibbles and bits...
Today's mice are well known to spiral the cursor in a circular motion around your screen at a high rate of speed, clicking the screen randomly when their internal circuitry begins to fry.
... once at a colleague's desk, and another time during an application demo.
I've witnessed it twice
It's great fun to explain that the problem is the mouse and not your app to a room full of speculative non-technical people.
You can't fix it yourself?
Dude, the source is right there...
Without a doubt, the first edition of this book is the best web book I've owned. I use it regularly to check myself on unmemorized topics, and lend it out to friends that find themselves in the same boat.
It's a great combination of HTML/Javascript/DHTML/CSS etc.
Well worth the money.
I suppose his 100% victory in the recent election is due to the entire country agreeing? That's quite an achievement...
... you'd disagree with whatever agenda the Bush administration supported. You probably supported our anti-Iraq actions taken and maintained during the Clinton administration, didn't you?
Face it
Tell them you're getting your PC next week, and thank him at the door.
While Saddam shuffles from palace to palace, gasses his own people, and forces a 100% election ... this is what his country's children look forward to:
picture
It's time for a change.
Hack his email.
Crush his forces.
Get him out of power.
Do something for the people that couldn't leave if they wanted to...
Last week I completed a transaction using PayPal which I explicitly indicated that I wanted 100% of the funds to come from my registered credit card. I even got the confirmation email stating that it would come from that credit card, so I could keep a balance in my PayPal account.
What they ended up doing was debiting my PayPal balance to $0.00, and deducting the remainder of the transaction from my credit card.
PayPal saved me the trouble of debiting my account down to zero. Now it'll be easy to close.
I inquired and got the following email:
- - - - -
When you use PayPal to send money, the balance in your PayPal Account is used first. If you do not have enough money in your PayPal Account to cover the whole transaction, please refer to the information below:
If you do have a registered credit card, but do not have a confirmed bank account listed on your PayPal Account
PayPal will first use the balance in your account and charge the rest to your registered credit
card.
If you do not have a registered credit card, but you do have a confirmed bank account listed on your PayPal Account
The balance will not be used. The entire amount of the payment will be drawn from your bank
account. The payment will take 4 business days to complete.
If you have both a registered credit card and a bank account
The "Instant Transfer" method is the default method of payment (an instant electronic funds transfer from your checking account) when there are insufficient funds in your PayPal Account to complete the transfer.
If you have more than one positive currency balance on your PayPal Account
The entire amount will be funded from this balance. If the balance used to send the payment is insufficient, it may default to another currency balance depending on the amount of funds available.
You can view the "Source of Funds" on the "Check Payment Details" page. If the payment that you are sending exceeds the amount of funds in your PayPal Account, you can click the "More Funding Options" link to choose whether to draw funds from your checking account or your credit card. If you choose to draw funds from your checking account, you have the option of an "Instant Transfer" or "eCheck" transfer. Instant Transfer is backed up by either your credit card or a secondary bank account and occurs immediately, whereas the eCheck payments may take four business days to post as complete.
Please note that once a payment has been sent, it is not possible to alter
the method of funding.
IBM invented stickers?
I saw about 50 of these yesterday ... but the best one had to be a 1'x1' sticker that had been pasted onto the front windshield of a car that had been abandoned on Houston Street. The thing completely obstructing the passenger's view. If it was my car, I'd be pissed, but it's a hell of a lot better than being flooded with those damn AOL CDs.
One company breaks the law **cough*MSFT*cough**, they get chastized...
... agree with them or not ... Companies should adhere to the laws within which they operate. If you disagree with the law, take it up with the law makers ... but don't take blame the company.
Another company DOESN'T break the law **cough*GOOGLE*cough** they get chastized...
Like it or not
I've got a 1 pixel image. Can it detect when I rotate it 360 degrees and perform a mirror translation on it?
Telstar
How do you erase?
How do you chew on the end?
For those that like CounterStrike, check out UrbanTerror. It's a TC built upon the Q3 engine, and it's quite nice.
Try this:
Drag the edge of your browser so that it's very very small. Watch as text and images probably just got moved all over the place. Once it's on your "machine" you can do with it what you please.
The problem is that Microsoft loses money on the hardware, and they make it back on the software. So if you allow users to circumvent the price they pay for the software, Microsoft loses in the end.
My XBOX was sitting on the shelf for quite a while. I'd kinda lost interest. Then my XBOX LIVE Beta kit showed up. Honestly ... it changed everything. I've stopped playing PC online games ... and the online XBOX experience is truly addictive. In my opinion, it's online done right for the console world.
When you get spam, look up the contact for whatever domain sent the spam in the "Whois" directory, and give them a call. I do it all the time. I did it today. Works like a charm because they want to talk to you less than you want to receive their spam.
Because it's easier to send out a memo and infringe on students' rights, than it is to configure a network properly.
PC Tools leaked early versions of their software into the pirate (Arrrr!) market in order to compete with the already-established Norton Utilities. It worked to a certain degree ... and it spread the tool's use through some circles ... but we all know who's still standing today.