I've also recently encountered more pop-ups in Mozilla and at first attributed it to the Macromedia Flash plugin. The following page from Hindustan Times (often linked from news.google.com) puts up a pop-up ad that is quite effective -- centered and blocks most of the content such that you have to move it or click it or close it (no chance to have it pop-under). See it/slashdot it here:
In the English version of the page, if you look at the larger picture of the device, the keyboard has a Windows key next to the Alt button. I understand we can remap that key to do whatever we want, but can't we use another image? I'd like to be reminded less of the pervasive MS Windows monopoly.
For family needing to deal with a member with Asperger's Syndrome or autism, try OASIS
If you're curious enough, there are sites, such as this one, that are created by those dealing with autism.
But in reply to your comment, perhaps there already are many working for the NSA. It appears that from the Silberman article, there is a predominance of those with Asperger's syndrome attracted to the tech field, hence a localized concentration of them in Silicon Valley (and perhaps higher cases of new diagnoses in children, because after all, there is a hereditary component).
Since/. received some flak in the past for having AC posts of Church of Scientology material, I was wondering about posting large chunks of EULAs. If I was to take large portions of EULAs and posted them up here for discussion (as some posters have already done), would I be infringing on copyrighted material?
"ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996), holds that terms inside a box of software bind consumers who use the software after an opportunity to read the terms and to reject them by returning the product." - Hill v. Gateway 2000, 105 F.3d 1147, another of Easterbrook's opinions for the 7th Circuit.
I thought that most retail stores won't accept software returns if the box was opened. I'm a linux user who rarely buys software for *dows, but is it urban legend or am I just imagining it? Checking BestBuy.com, I find that their policy is:
30 days from the date merchandise was received, refunds are available on the remainder of our merchandise.
Exceptions
* Computer Software
* Video Games
* Prerecorded Videos
* DVD Software
* Music
In order to receive credit for these items, they must be unopened. If the original is defective, you may be able to exchange these items by returning the item to a Best Buy store within the United States.
To me, credit is not the same as a true full return.
My own steps forweb design on a shoestring budget.
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My steps for web design/web server on shoestring budget (steps 4 and 5 are for those who just want a design).
1. Learn linux enough to manage a server--all the docs and how-to's you ever need are on the web, don't buy books (unless you want a standalone easy quick reference). 2. Buy a domain name from godaddy.com. 3. Get a VPS plan from rimuhosting.com or the multitude of other VPS providers. I prefer to have Debian installed in the VPS because it's minimal in disk space usage and packages can easily be installed with apt-get (i.e. you have have to muck around to try to find rpm's or tar.gz files)--you'll need to apt-get apache to get the webserver up. You'll also need to install a content management engine like wordpress, moveabletype, drupal, geekblog, etc. 4. With the money you saved by NOT buying books on how to design, purchase a web logo from The Logo Company or any comparable business that supplies you the logo for your site. They include full ownership of your logo (to file for trademark if you want) and all the vector graphics files you need to take it from there and build your own templates, CSS, etc. This is the most important part of the "design" process because you will use your logo to assemble your website -- it has the color palette that you want and the overall theme that will be persistent in your site. 5. Using the logo as "inspiration", create the CSS for the content management engine such as wordpress, moveabletype, geekblog, drupal, etc. Drop the CSS into your server.
Obviously, there are lots of in between steps I didn't care to mention, but the main steps are listed. Overall, for the startup cost and the first month of your web page going live, you shouldn't need to spend more than $105 USD ($75 for the logo, $20 per month for the VPS, $10 for a year's worth of domain name service) -- the price of 3 or 4 books.
Since usenet constitutes a source for binaries, I'm sure the **AA's are dancing in celebration. If you can't go after the source of usenet, then go after the access of usenet.
Anyway, there is no way that a virus could be a part of human evolution, because adaptation and evolution are genetic--they result from beneficial traits that are passed on from parent to child--and our genes do not (normally) code for viruses (unless they are infected by one) and can therefore not pass on a gene for a virus to offspring.
Normally I don't reply to AC posts as they usually are useless, but in this case I just had to inform/. readers that you're wrong. Just do a search for "endogenous viruses" in pubmed.org or scholar.google.com and you'll see what I mean:
Mine melted into the face of a woman. I was about to toss it. But as I grabbed it by its side, there it was, the face of a woman staring at me. I've saved it by my bedside encased in cotton and plastic. It's never grown any mold and I've won thousands of dollars at casinos because the woman told me to do it (I have the receipts to prove it). Some may say a melted mac mini is worthless, but I've proven it otherwise.
If they'd put each item in one logical location instead of spreading them all over the store, and stop rearranging the store every other month to keep people confused, customers could find what they want and spend half the time doing it.
I agree. One of the worst offenders is *ome *epot. There is no clear consistency of product layout from one store to the next. My SO at times often asks me why I would drive twice as far to another HD than the one closer to us--well, it's often because I know where the item is at the other store and don't need to spend 30 minutes trying to find it or heaven-forbid, trying to find an actual human who works there to help me.
In this day in age with great technologies such as RFIDs and portable barcode scanners, you'd think these large department stores would wise-up and have kiosks with built-in google boxes so that customers can just put in a query and have it spit out "Aisle 12, Rack 10, Top Shelf." Heck, allow the customer to enter in a list of what s/he wants on a website and print out the location and the most efficient order of travel in the store before we even get to the store!
Buy two $499 minis when they are released. Upgrade the size of the harddrives in both--they're already pics out that show how, this will satisfy your DIY urge. Have one rsync the the other daily with a cron job--I doubt that you'll be constantly writing critical information frequently enough that you require RAID. They are small, quiet, sleek, and beautiful. From what I've read, you can also buy video adapters for S-Video out to connect to your TV, so you can make them multi-task as: 1) media boxes, 2) NAS, 3) Airport express substitute, 4) AirTunes Express substitute. The cost will run you probably a little over $1200 (for two minis, mind you). For all the things you can do with them, they'll save you money with overlapping functions.
But in all honesty, I agree with the hundreds of other posters who say that it will never measure up to the Mac Mini, especially in price. This is the reason why I've mentioned that Apple Mac Mini sales will cannibalize sales. At the same time Apple will see falling or stagnant sales on its own Airport Express and AirTunes devices since the Mac mini, presumably, can do all of that and more.
Now, I can quit trying to wear a bra on my head, model the girl on my PC with the green monochrome monitor, and hope that lightning strikes. Still no Kelly LeBrock in my closet.
Baahh! I've lived through the years of Prohibition and haven't had a drink since then! I'm not demented like a monkey drinks on the first date of his bar mitvah. Why do people say I'm demented?
If they have to sit down and type away on a wiki themselves, then there will be lots of resistance, especially if the hospital system is not already computerized. If you have a transcription system, then there may be more usage if the transcriptionist could type verbal notes on a commonly used webpage.
No image here on my end. Perhaps/. needs to get into the business of setting up NX servers in subnets all over the world so they could verify the story before posting it -- and have a select few be able to do the same. This setup would be useful for QA of any type of digital content that is restricted to certain regions.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to bet that goatse.cx will increasingly be ruining young minds when google image results is truly implemented in the main search page.
Diane Rehm had a discussion of this SS mess. The big question of this talk was whether or not it was prudent to allow citizens to take money out and invest money on their own. Many of us who advocate open-source and sharing IP may be conflicted about the implications of "taking" away from the SS fund and investing on our own. Part of the benefit of contributing in one fund is that we spread risk, even out the playing field, and ensure that those who were not well off will be taken care of---not unlike how insurance works. But on the other hand, many of us perceive SS as a government endorsed ponzi scheme---taking money from "new members" (i.e. young workers) to fund newly retired persons. By the time my 18 year old son retires, the well will have run dry and he will have to rely on other options that hopefully will be devised to fix this crisis.
Poster shows the battery, but what about the RAM? Where's the 512MB/1GB that these things are supposed to hold---that's the more interesting aspects of this device.
If google was to go the ISP route, then they will most likely buyout current ISP (like AOL, which probably can be had at bargain basement prices in a few years). Somehow, I don't think this is google's plan. If I could distill their main objective, they're around to make the internet more "meaningful"--better search results, better email, heck better social connections (with Orkut). Providing a connection to the internet doesn't appear to fit into this mold--they'll leave it up to others to do. I could be wrong. Personally I think they should stick with their original plan and stay the course with devices such as google boxes in private intranets for fast indexing and searching; and making their search engine more refined since content on the internet has no where else to go but up.
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I've also recently encountered more pop-ups in Mozilla and at first attributed it to the Macromedia Flash plugin. The following page from Hindustan Times (often linked from news.google.com) puts up a pop-up ad that is quite effective -- centered and blocks most of the content such that you have to move it or click it or close it (no chance to have it pop-under). See it/slashdot it here:
Gurinder Chadha believes Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth!
In the English version of the page, if you look at the larger picture of the device, the keyboard has a Windows key next to the Alt button. I understand we can remap that key to do whatever we want, but can't we use another image? I'd like to be reminded less of the pervasive MS Windows monopoly.
But in reply to your comment, perhaps there already are many working for the NSA. It appears that from the Silberman article, there is a predominance of those with Asperger's syndrome attracted to the tech field, hence a localized concentration of them in Silicon Valley (and perhaps higher cases of new diagnoses in children, because after all, there is a hereditary component).
Since /. received some flak in the past for having AC posts of Church of Scientology material, I was wondering about posting large chunks of EULAs. If I was to take large portions of EULAs and posted them up here for discussion (as some posters have already done), would I be infringing on copyrighted material?
I thought that most retail stores won't accept software returns if the box was opened. I'm a linux user who rarely buys software for *dows, but is it urban legend or am I just imagining it? Checking BestBuy.com, I find that their policy is:
To me, credit is not the same as a true full return.
My steps for web design/web server on shoestring budget (steps 4 and 5 are for those who just want a design).
1. Learn linux enough to manage a server--all the docs and how-to's you ever need are on the web, don't buy books (unless you want a standalone easy quick reference).
2. Buy a domain name from godaddy.com.
3. Get a VPS plan from rimuhosting.com or the multitude of other VPS providers. I prefer to have Debian installed in the VPS because it's minimal in disk space usage and packages can easily be installed with apt-get (i.e. you have have to muck around to try to find rpm's or tar.gz files)--you'll need to apt-get apache to get the webserver up. You'll also need to install a content management engine like wordpress, moveabletype, drupal, geekblog, etc.
4. With the money you saved by NOT buying books on how to design, purchase a web logo from The Logo Company or any comparable business that supplies you the logo for your site. They include full ownership of your logo (to file for trademark if you want) and all the vector graphics files you need to take it from there and build your own templates, CSS, etc. This is the most important part of the "design" process because you will use your logo to assemble your website -- it has the color palette that you want and the overall theme that will be persistent in your site.
5. Using the logo as "inspiration", create the CSS for the content management engine such as wordpress, moveabletype, geekblog, drupal, etc. Drop the CSS into your server.
Obviously, there are lots of in between steps I didn't care to mention, but the main steps are listed. Overall, for the startup cost and the first month of your web page going live, you shouldn't need to spend more than $105 USD ($75 for the logo, $20 per month for the VPS, $10 for a year's worth of domain name service) -- the price of 3 or 4 books.
Since usenet constitutes a source for binaries, I'm sure the **AA's are dancing in celebration. If you can't go after the source of usenet, then go after the access of usenet.
Normally I don't reply to AC posts as they usually are useless, but in this case I just had to inform
Many retroviral sequences have become permanently integrated into the human genome as human endogenous retroviruses, or HERVs.
Hate Messages on Google Site Draw Concern.
Mine melted into the face of a woman. I was about to toss it. But as I grabbed it by its side, there it was, the face of a woman staring at me. I've saved it by my bedside encased in cotton and plastic. It's never grown any mold and I've won thousands of dollars at casinos because the woman told me to do it (I have the receipts to prove it). Some may say a melted mac mini is worthless, but I've proven it otherwise.
I agree. One of the worst offenders is *ome *epot. There is no clear consistency of product layout from one store to the next. My SO at times often asks me why I would drive twice as far to another HD than the one closer to us--well, it's often because I know where the item is at the other store and don't need to spend 30 minutes trying to find it or heaven-forbid, trying to find an actual human who works there to help me.
In this day in age with great technologies such as RFIDs and portable barcode scanners, you'd think these large department stores would wise-up and have kiosks with built-in google boxes so that customers can just put in a query and have it spit out "Aisle 12, Rack 10, Top Shelf." Heck, allow the customer to enter in a list of what s/he wants on a website and print out the location and the most efficient order of travel in the store before we even get to the store!
Buy two $499 minis when they are released. Upgrade the size of the harddrives in both--they're already pics out that show how, this will satisfy your DIY urge. Have one rsync the the other daily with a cron job--I doubt that you'll be constantly writing critical information frequently enough that you require RAID. They are small, quiet, sleek, and beautiful. From what I've read, you can also buy video adapters for S-Video out to connect to your TV, so you can make them multi-task as: 1) media boxes, 2) NAS, 3) Airport express substitute, 4) AirTunes Express substitute. The cost will run you probably a little over $1200 (for two minis, mind you). For all the things you can do with them, they'll save you money with overlapping functions.
Someone beat you to the punch and has written up a blurb about his machine.
But in all honesty, I agree with the hundreds of other posters who say that it will never measure up to the Mac Mini, especially in price. This is the reason why I've mentioned that Apple Mac Mini sales will cannibalize sales. At the same time Apple will see falling or stagnant sales on its own Airport Express and AirTunes devices since the Mac mini, presumably, can do all of that and more.
Now, I can quit trying to wear a bra on my head, model the girl on my PC with the green monochrome monitor, and hope that lightning strikes. Still no Kelly LeBrock in my closet.
Can it be networked with the Gibson guitar with built-in ethernet?
Darn it! When can linux ever be touted as the innovator?
Baahh! I've lived through the years of Prohibition and haven't had a drink since then! I'm not demented like a monkey drinks on the first date of his bar mitvah. Why do people say I'm demented?
If they have to sit down and type away on a wiki themselves, then there will be lots of resistance, especially if the hospital system is not already computerized. If you have a transcription system, then there may be more usage if the transcriptionist could type verbal notes on a commonly used webpage.
No image here on my end. Perhaps /. needs to get into the business of setting up NX servers in subnets all over the world so they could verify the story before posting it -- and have a select few be able to do the same. This setup would be useful for QA of any type of digital content that is restricted to certain regions.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to bet that goatse.cx will increasingly be ruining young minds when google image results is truly implemented in the main search page.
I agree. This is not the first time she's caught flak for putting out false claims. I'm actually surprised she still has a job.
Diane Rehm had a discussion of this SS mess. The big question of this talk was whether or not it was prudent to allow citizens to take money out and invest money on their own. Many of us who advocate open-source and sharing IP may be conflicted about the implications of "taking" away from the SS fund and investing on our own. Part of the benefit of contributing in one fund is that we spread risk, even out the playing field, and ensure that those who were not well off will be taken care of---not unlike how insurance works. But on the other hand, many of us perceive SS as a government endorsed ponzi scheme---taking money from "new members" (i.e. young workers) to fund newly retired persons. By the time my 18 year old son retires, the well will have run dry and he will have to rely on other options that hopefully will be devised to fix this crisis.
Poster shows the battery, but what about the RAM? Where's the 512MB/1GB that these things are supposed to hold---that's the more interesting aspects of this device.
If google was to go the ISP route, then they will most likely buyout current ISP (like AOL, which probably can be had at bargain basement prices in a few years). Somehow, I don't think this is google's plan. If I could distill their main objective, they're around to make the internet more "meaningful"--better search results, better email, heck better social connections (with Orkut). Providing a connection to the internet doesn't appear to fit into this mold--they'll leave it up to others to do. I could be wrong. Personally I think they should stick with their original plan and stay the course with devices such as google boxes in private intranets for fast indexing and searching; and making their search engine more refined since content on the internet has no where else to go but up.