I'm not concerned the Sony hackers might have my CC number. After all, Sony surely took that perfectly usable data and hobbled it in such a way that it only works with their own products and services.
Are you suggesting you should be able to work at Microsoft for years developing code and when you leave, you have the right to take every line of code you wrote with you and sell a copy of it to the next company you work for?
It's a good thing they outsourced the voting. If they tried to handle it through the wiki, you'd have a good chance of the whole site being renamed Colbertpedia.
I used to use an app that did precisely this on my previous Windows smartphone. It didn't use GPS data but allowed locations to be defined based on tower codes and relative strengths.
The iPhone could have this as well if you could run background apps and access the network stack without jailbreaking.
Audi and several other car makers do this to a lesser extent. If you want the "performance tuned" car computer software, you can go to a dealer and spend several hundred dollars to have them flip a switch.
You can enable a trial version of this performance tuning on your own that automatically disables after X miles.
If they're going to start drafting computers for their PC army, they're going to have to provide some exemptions. What if my computer is a pacifist or perhaps it's owned by an Amish family...
Well, scratch that last part.
Still, when the PC draft comes, I'm shipping my computer to Canada.
Google is nice enough to offer SSL for most of its services these days. It would make a lot of sense for them to round out their secure offerings with an SSL search as well.
Right now, any request to an encrypted Google search URL redirects you to www.google.com.
One of my computers is an Apple. Another is a nix machine. I'm not saying don't support them. I'm saying you should consider whether that thin (and possibly thinning) slice your traffic is worth the effort.
If you're a stock broker, public service, search engine, or some other high volume site, it may well behoove you to do the work. Everyone else may have to come up with some compelling reasons to upgrade their Geocities pages to support Netscape 4 and Konqueror.
My apologies to the 29 NS/Konqueror visitors to my site this week; I don't know, nor do I feel inclined to check whether it works for you. Honest best wishes, though.
I'm a fan of the 3/3 rule: If it has less than 3% market share or the version is over three years old, strongly consider what your effort is worth before changing code to support it.
Similar, but only in the manner that they can be used without a surface to press against. Tilt sensing is fundamentally different than this or a flying trackball. For one thing, if you set this down, your control point won't go careening to one side or another. Tilt sensitive devices are inherently joysticks. A mouse is a mouse. The Wiimote may bridge that gap, but only if you have an IR sensor beam to provide a position reference.
It would be nice to build a squashed sphere version of this device with two mouse buttons and a scroll wheel. If the scroll wheel was moved just a bit deeper into the shell, you could perform belt actions without accidentally triggering the wheel, and the location of the wheel would provide a nice tactile reference to mouse orientation.
The main difference is that you get a javascript snippet that creates time-sensitive email aliases that forward to you. They are only good for an hour or so, so they are spam proof to all email spiders except those with immediate turnaround.
That won't fly when they can prove you owned the harddrive at the time the files were timestamped.
Suggested solution: Run your system's clock at some point before you acquired the drive. For bonus points, run the clock at a time before DMCA was enacted. Instant grandfathering!
It's not useful to anyone when your partner doesn't respond to anything and you're stuck looking at the same image for 90 seconds. I've had two responsive partners out of six tries. No wonder today's top score is only 2000. After getting 900 in one run, I thought it would be no problem to beat.
Perhaps Google should restrict this to logged-in users only. They might get less matches, but they'd probably get more productive info.
I concur. GE says that their "GE Longlife Plus Soft White Energy Saving" bulb is in fact compatible with dimmers, but the packaging I have found for this product is silent on the dimmer feature.
I'd rather not spend $5 per bulb on lights that may well be useless to me since every light in my home, except three in the bathroom, is on a dimmer.
My biggest gripe is that they don't yet offer a catch-all account. If a mailbox doesn't exist, don't give you the option to catch it in a specific mailbox instead of bouncing it.
Catch-alls are how a lot of people who own their own domains provide unique email addresses to every site they visit so they know if someone sold their address and can block it with ease.
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I'm not concerned the Sony hackers might have my CC number. After all, Sony surely took that perfectly usable data and hobbled it in such a way that it only works with their own products and services.
That's just what they do.
Are you suggesting you should be able to work at Microsoft for years developing code and when you leave, you have the right to take every line of code you wrote with you and sell a copy of it to the next company you work for?
Surely you jest.
It's a good thing they outsourced the voting. If they tried to handle it through the wiki, you'd have a good chance of the whole site being renamed Colbertpedia.
Agreed. Downtime perhaps?
1.6MBps here. That's better than most other Comcast downloads these days (even though I'm paying for 16MBit).
I used to use an app that did precisely this on my previous Windows smartphone. It didn't use GPS data but allowed locations to be defined based on tower codes and relative strengths.
The iPhone could have this as well if you could run background apps and access the network stack without jailbreaking.
Audi and several other car makers do this to a lesser extent. If you want the "performance tuned" car computer software, you can go to a dealer and spend several hundred dollars to have them flip a switch.
You can enable a trial version of this performance tuning on your own that automatically disables after X miles.
If they're going to start drafting computers for their PC army, they're going to have to provide some exemptions. What if my computer is a pacifist or perhaps it's owned by an Amish family...
Well, scratch that last part.
Still, when the PC draft comes, I'm shipping my computer to Canada.
Google is nice enough to offer SSL for most of its services these days. It would make a lot of sense for them to round out their secure offerings with an SSL search as well.
Right now, any request to an encrypted Google search URL redirects you to www.google.com.
One of my computers is an Apple. Another is a nix machine. I'm not saying don't support them. I'm saying you should consider whether that thin (and possibly thinning) slice your traffic is worth the effort.
If you're a stock broker, public service, search engine, or some other high volume site, it may well behoove you to do the work. Everyone else may have to come up with some compelling reasons to upgrade their Geocities pages to support Netscape 4 and Konqueror.
My apologies to the 29 NS/Konqueror visitors to my site this week; I don't know, nor do I feel inclined to check whether it works for you. Honest best wishes, though.
I'm a fan of the 3/3 rule: If it has less than 3% market share or the version is over three years old, strongly consider what your effort is worth before changing code to support it.
Similar, but only in the manner that they can be used without a surface to press against.
Tilt sensing is fundamentally different than this or a flying trackball. For one thing, if you set this down, your control point won't go careening to one side or another. Tilt sensitive devices are inherently joysticks. A mouse is a mouse. The Wiimote may bridge that gap, but only if you have an IR sensor beam to provide a position reference.
It would be nice to build a squashed sphere version of this device with two mouse buttons and a scroll wheel. If the scroll wheel was moved just a bit deeper into the shell, you could perform belt actions without accidentally triggering the wheel, and the location of the wheel would provide a nice tactile reference to mouse orientation.
I wrote up a simple webapp for similar purposes a while ago:
e _tech/print.php/3596436
http://dodgemail.com/
The main difference is that you get a javascript snippet that creates time-sensitive email aliases that forward to you. They are only good for an hour or so, so they are spam proof to all email spiders except those with immediate turnaround.
Brian Livingston did a much more comprehensive writeup on it here:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executiv
I think I found a naked lady sunbathing!
That won't fly when they can prove you owned the harddrive at the time the files were timestamped.
Suggested solution: Run your system's clock at some point before you acquired the drive.
For bonus points, run the clock at a time before DMCA was enacted. Instant grandfathering!
It's not useful to anyone when your partner doesn't respond to anything and you're stuck looking at the same image for 90 seconds. I've had two responsive partners out of six tries. No wonder today's top score is only 2000. After getting 900 in one run, I thought it would be no problem to beat.
Perhaps Google should restrict this to logged-in users only. They might get less matches, but they'd probably get more productive info.
I concur. GE says that their "GE Longlife Plus Soft White Energy Saving" bulb is in fact compatible with dimmers, but the packaging I have found for this product is silent on the dimmer feature.
I'd rather not spend $5 per bulb on lights that may well be useless to me since every light in my home, except three in the bathroom, is on a dimmer.
The "iPod Paper" is not paper at all. It is a rubber grip mat for your dashboard. The author must have interpreted "sticky pad" as iPod post-it notes.
The topless skin is already in the game. It is just covered up by a bra.
In fact, when you remove the bra, you are left with breasts with flesh shaped like there was a bra molded under the skin.
Aside from all of that, name one person who was ever harmed by looking at a breast.
My biggest gripe is that they don't yet offer a catch-all account. If a mailbox doesn't exist, don't give you the option to catch it in a specific mailbox instead of bouncing it.
Catch-alls are how a lot of people who own their own domains provide unique email addresses to every site they visit so they know if someone sold their address and can block it with ease.
Hmm, now that sounds like a catchy domain name...