Yahoo messenger supports offline messaging.. and webcams and voice.. and file t/fer... well, ok it doesnt do sms I dont think but does most of the useful stuff that icq does...
I personally use Trillian on Windows which works fine on all the IM services (and its skinnable) On Linux, use gaim.
The subscription that everyone is talking about is a subscription to the "live update" service whereby the latest virus definitions may be downloaded and installed automatically.
Symantec make the virus definition updates freely available for you to download EVEN IF YOUR LIVE UPDATE SUBSCRIPTION HAS LAPSED. - Just yse teh "manual" definitions and teh "intelligent updater" - it's a bt more tedious because you have to remember to go to the site, download the updates and install them by hand - but it CAN be done for FREE.
Ummmnio, I beleive he was saying that if you feel 98 is more usable than XP, you can make XP look more like 98 to gain the "bteer usability" that you desire.
I personally feel the new ui features in xp are way better, and xp is rock solid stable - I have never seen a bsod and it runs 24/7, acting as gateway for my home network as well as running a websever and ftp server so it does get heavy use.
But the point of the project is to give better and earlier warnings with a much higher confidence factor. I don't know how good it's going to get but if, just for argument's sake, they start being right 80% of the time then people will listten and lives will be saved.
Any technology that helps prevent large scale loss of life has to be good. Of course, there will always be the dumbasses who stay put no matter what!
It was red/blue stripes when reading in the "header record", yellow/cyan when reading the program.
I remember most games loaded a splash screen off tape and you can watch the image building up in a rather bizzare way - top row of pixels, then a row a third of the way down and then a row 2/3rd way down, then back to the 2nd row at the top... all very strange...
If I visit the US, I don't have to pay sales tax - I can get the sales tax refunded - but I may have to pay import duty when I return to the EU (if I am honest or if customs catch me) - so for "real" stores, consider it is considered to be an EU trade.
"In particular, I don't see that the EU can require a body not actually trading in the EU to pay VAT."
"I can't see it affects small US businesses at all. Or Slashdot subscriptions. It's not up to you to pay EU taxes, though the people you sell to might have to."
These two statements are contradictory...
If I, a European Citizen, buy a product from your US based company, then that's a trade. Your company is trading in the EU.
Sales tax in physical stores is collected by the seller on behalf of the government.
Sales tax on physical products bought overseas over the internet is sometimes, but not always, collected by customs as "import duty" (depending on the value of the goods and how lazy the port authorities are on that day).
Sales tax on non-physical items such as services (e-bay listing/selling fees) or mp3 files bought over the net is not collected at all at the moment. That is what this law is about. They want the seller to cllect the sales tax on their behalf, as if they were a real store, for goods and services traded on the net.
Effecivly yes they do. The seller has to fill out a little green form that gets stuk to the outside of the package, describing the contents and their value. Of course, the seller could lie about the content value but companies are unliekly to do that. I'm in the UK and have bought and sold goods to the US. stuff I've bought from friends always has $10.00 as the declared value and cutoms don't bother collecting import duty on those (although they can, and do, open packages to check the declaration), but a package we ordered from a large company, had the true value of the goods (a couple of hundred bucks) and we had to write the malman a nce cheque to cover the import duty and an "import duty collection fee".
so, to answer you question, yes you fdo have to post a bill o sale on the outside of the package.
If I go see a movie, I want to be immersed in it. It matters not whether I go with friends or family. If they are there, then that's fine as long as they don't start yammering when I'm experiencing the show. Equally, I will enjoy the movie just as much if I am by myself.
I can't even watch tv if someone is talking over it. On the few occasions I sit down to watch a show, I want to watch it and listen to it with 100% concentration, no distractions from other people.
Your assertion that *nobody* watches movies alone is just plain wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
Yahoo messenger supports offline messaging.. and webcams and voice.. and file t/fer... well, ok it doesnt do sms I dont think but does most of the useful stuff that icq does...
I personally use Trillian on Windows which works fine on all the IM services (and its skinnable) On Linux, use gaim.
The subscription that everyone is talking about is a subscription to the "live update" service whereby the latest virus definitions may be downloaded and installed automatically.
Symantec make the virus definition updates freely available for you to download EVEN IF YOUR LIVE UPDATE SUBSCRIPTION HAS LAPSED. - Just yse teh "manual" definitions and teh "intelligent updater" - it's a bt more tedious because you have to remember to go to the site, download the updates and install them by hand - but it CAN be done for FREE.
I most certainly am not running IIS, Bleah!!!
Its not only a gateway I also use it for my windoze dev work and gaming. Wife uses it for web browsing and kids use it sometimes too.
Didya look at the pics? Them's plastic fish in that thar tank...
Ummmnio, I beleive he was saying that if you feel 98 is more usable than XP, you can make XP look more like 98 to gain the "bteer usability" that you desire.
I personally feel the new ui features in xp are way better, and xp is rock solid stable - I have never seen a bsod and it runs 24/7, acting as gateway for my home network as well as running a websever and ftp server so it does get heavy use.
ui of course is a very subjective thing.
But the point of the project is to give better and earlier warnings with a much higher confidence factor. I don't know how good it's going to get but if, just for argument's sake, they start being right 80% of the time then people will listten and lives will be saved.
Any technology that helps prevent large scale loss of life has to be good. Of course, there will always be the dumbasses who stay put no matter what!
Or a grammar book... "stolen" not "stealed" :)
ummm the purpose is to SAVE LIVES... who gives a damn about property/possessions when your life may be in danger...
Blue/cyan - what's a few green pixels between friends anyway? :)
But I stand corrected, thankyou.
It was red/blue stripes when reading in the "header record", yellow/cyan when reading the program.
I remember most games loaded a splash screen off tape and you can watch the image building up in a rather bizzare way - top row of pixels, then a row a third of the way down and then a row 2/3rd way down, then back to the 2nd row at the top... all very strange...
Would that be the "The Mirror of Galadriel" then?
wouldn't that mean you have both hands full... it wonder be rather difficult to "achieve your objective" shall we say while youre spying ;)
Charles, obviously!
in the 90's? In the UK they still do that today, especially on the bbc radio stations!
If you take the time to read the article, you discover that these things don't work in a vacuum.
"woke up dead" ummm how can you wake up if you're dead ????
nah, he's too busy downloading mp3 and divx files to be reading email...
ummm... Should't that first sentence say "without any judicial oversight or review" ???
Yes it does, I use trillian and can have conversations with people on messenger, yahoo, icq and AIM simultaniously
"New ground rules already are being adopted...
Among them: new methods for handling potentially deadly problems once a mission is under way. "
If it's launched, it can't be a ground rule!
Hint:Humour...
If I visit the US, I don't have to pay sales tax - I can get the sales tax refunded - but I may have to pay import duty when I return to the EU (if I am honest or if customs catch me) - so for "real" stores, consider it is considered to be an EU trade.
Why should it be different for the net?
I think you are contradicting yourself...
"In particular, I don't see that the EU can require a body not actually trading in the EU to pay VAT."
"I can't see it affects small US businesses at all. Or Slashdot subscriptions. It's not up to you to pay EU taxes, though the people you sell to might have to."
These two statements are contradictory...
If I, a European Citizen, buy a product from your US based company, then that's a trade. Your company is trading in the EU.
Sales tax in physical stores is collected by the seller on behalf of the government.
Sales tax on physical products bought overseas over the internet is sometimes, but not always, collected by customs as "import duty" (depending on the value of the goods and how lazy the port authorities are on that day).
Sales tax on non-physical items such as services (e-bay listing/selling fees) or mp3 files bought over the net is not collected at all at the moment. That is what this law is about. They want the seller to cllect the sales tax on their behalf, as if they were a real store, for goods and services traded on the net.
Effecivly yes they do. The seller has to fill out a little green form that gets stuk to the outside of the package, describing the contents and their value. Of course, the seller could lie about the content value but companies are unliekly to do that. I'm in the UK and have bought and sold goods to the US. stuff I've bought from friends always has $10.00 as the declared value and cutoms don't bother collecting import duty on those (although they can, and do, open packages to check the declaration), but a package we ordered from a large company, had the true value of the goods (a couple of hundred bucks) and we had to write the malman a nce cheque to cover the import duty and an "import duty collection fee".
so, to answer you question, yes you fdo have to post a bill o sale on the outside of the package.
If I go see a movie, I want to be immersed in it. It matters not whether I go with friends or family. If they are there, then that's fine as long as they don't start yammering when I'm experiencing the show. Equally, I will enjoy the movie just as much if I am by myself.
I can't even watch tv if someone is talking over it. On the few occasions I sit down to watch a show, I want to watch it and listen to it with 100% concentration, no distractions from other people.
Your assertion that *nobody* watches movies alone is just plain wrong.
*cough* *cough* humour *cough* *cough*