TiVo will launch the new service to consumers by merchandising products related to several high-profile programs
Yogurt: Moichandising! Moichandising! Moichandising! Where the real money from the movie is made! Spaceballs: the T-shirt, Spaceballs: the Coloring Book, Spaceballs: the Lunchbox, Spaceballs: the Breakfast Cereal. Spaceballs: the Flame Thrower... [fires a short blast from flame thrower] Dinks: Oooooohhhh! Yogurt: The kids love this one. And last, but not least, Spaceballs: the Doll, me. "May the Schwartz be with you!" Yogurt: Adorable.
Katie Holmes did the innocent girl-next-door thing in the last movie that Gyllenhaal would not have pulled off. But Gyllenhaal has the stronger personality and presence (like in the courtroom) that Holmes would not have done well.
So while I also don't like changing actors between movies, each was probably better suited to their role.
In OSX I have to drag it to the Trash Can. Ya... that's a really efficient "workflow".
Apple-Delete, or right-click and choose Delete, or open the folder action menu and choose Delete. I like the keyboard shortcut. And unlike Windows I never accidentally delete anything because it requires two keys, also avoiding a dialog box.
I want to go to www.google.com. So I type it out but accidently type www.boogle.com. Now if I want to delete the B, I have to put the cursor after the B and press backspace. I can't put the cursor in front of the B and press Delete. WTF is up with that? Everyone knows... Backspace moves the cursor to the left and deletes text to the left of the cursor. Delete keeps the cursor in place and deletes text to the right of the cursor. What is so hard about that? Is there a solution to that?
The standard Apple keyboard has two delete keys, one is like the backspace and in the same location. The other is below the Help key and deletes text to the right. You would only have one if you're on a laptop, where space is precious, and therefore Function-Delete will delete to the right.
Well my office is full of programming geeks. We switched to all Macs 3 years ago from Linux desktops. Productivity is way up. In fact, now more people here prefer to buy their own Mac laptops and use them for work. I know far more geek than non-geek Mac users. And none of them made their purchase just because of the pretty box.
I converted to Macs a few years ago and found the OS X interface to be the most intuitive I've ever used. The plus and minus signs at the bottom of lists seems obviously to imply add and remove.
Windows always took me a while to learn the nuances. And then another version with a changed interface would force me to learn the changes. But with OS X I typically just ask myself how something should work and there it is, right where I'd expect it.
So far I've found that most people's issues with learning the OS X interface is actually unlearning another interface.
Well, you can check my site's recent changes to see nothing gets through that contains external links, which are the only anonymous submissions protected with CAPTCHA.
Maybe your site's running some very common software. I have a Drupal site for example, that sometimes hit by bots that are obviously specifically written to attack Drupal sites. Or maybe your CAPTCHA implementations have already been broken, or aren't (pseudo-)random enough.
CAPTCHA is still useful for small to medium sites that aren't specifically targeted. Your average blog, for example, is only hit by random bots that try to get quick and easy posts. Only the largest sites like GMail need to find something better today.
For example, I use reCAPTCHA on DocForge to block the standard wiki spam bots. Since my site's not large enough to be under heavy attack very little gets through. Someday CAPTCHA may be so easy to break that everyone's at risk, but not today.
Actually, the intention of FISA is judicial oversight. With it the executive can perform domestic acts in secret while having another branch keep a check on abuse.
Of course it's believed that the secret court is just a rubber stamp. And requiring oversight hasn't prevented abuse of power.
I personally don't believe any branch of the government should be allowed to do anything in secret, with maybe the exception of military technology research. And even that's only a maybe.
Someone will have to sue a phone company for a warrantless wiretap, of which they probably would not be aware, and appeal all the way to the supreme court, who might then overturn the unconstitutional immunity law.
As for the change to FISA you'll have to vote in representatives and senators who would pass a law to reverse it.
It's only a two-party system because so few vote for other parties. Let him vote for whoever he actually wants to be president. If everyone did that we might no longer have a two-party system.
My fiancee is a big fan of the olympics. We'll be out of the country for the first few weeks of August with no intentions of watching any TV. So she's looking into DVR options. I think every minute of coverage will be available somewhere on the internet after we get back. It'll certainly be easier than trying to pick everything to record beforehand. But she's afraid to take the chance that she'll miss something.
So will NBC or others make all of the video available online immediately after the events? Will someone else? Is DVR the best option? Or will she have to spend hundreds of dollars on DVDs next year to see the olympics after-the-fact?
At least one neighborhood in Queens, NY just got broadband within the last year. I don't know where people get the idea that the whole country is wired. Much of the country doesn't even have cable. And most is too rural to get DSL or FIOS.
in comparison to Office, it's still slow to startup
OpenOffice Beta 3 launches twice as fast for me ever since I turned off it's use of Java. Uncheck "Use Java runtime environment" in the preferences. I haven't found a feature that I needed yet which requires it.
I don't understand. I currently use mostly PHP and Python. I don't happen to use the languages which were in my original skillset 13 years go.
GP stated "If you want a job you need to know Java" and "Corporate IT are basically only interested in hiring Java developers." Which doesn't match my experiences. "Developers new to the industry" will need whatever the industry is using. And many positions require no Java at all. There are many positions in finance that need C++, many in web development that need PHP, plenty that want.NET, etc. Knowing Java may help round out one's knowledge, but it's often not a requirement.
Really? I've been programming for corporate IT for 13+ years and I've only played with Java. I've never required it before interviewing other programmers, either.
people used to think having a huge Moon like ours was a once-in-a-universe event.
And I should hope that they still think so, seeing as Mars does not have a huge Moon like ours... Despite evidence of an impact that COULD have created one, and yet didn't.
That would make it a once-in-a-solar-system event. There's nothing to say this isn't a common occurrence elsewhere. Unless of course you've observed the complete planetary composition of many other solar systems, which no one else has.
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Quill pens? How about Drench-a-Wench? Or Joust?
TiVo will launch the new service to consumers by merchandising products related to several high-profile programs
Yogurt: Moichandising! Moichandising! Moichandising! Where the real money from the movie is made! Spaceballs: the T-shirt, Spaceballs: the Coloring Book, Spaceballs: the Lunchbox, Spaceballs: the Breakfast Cereal. Spaceballs: the Flame Thrower... [fires a short blast from flame thrower]
Dinks: Oooooohhhh!
Yogurt: The kids love this one. And last, but not least, Spaceballs: the Doll, me.
"May the Schwartz be with you!"
Yogurt: Adorable.
Katie Holmes did the innocent girl-next-door thing in the last movie that Gyllenhaal would not have pulled off. But Gyllenhaal has the stronger personality and presence (like in the courtroom) that Holmes would not have done well.
So while I also don't like changing actors between movies, each was probably better suited to their role.
In OSX I have to drag it to the Trash Can. Ya... that's a really efficient "workflow".
Apple-Delete, or right-click and choose Delete, or open the folder action menu and choose Delete. I like the keyboard shortcut. And unlike Windows I never accidentally delete anything because it requires two keys, also avoiding a dialog box.
I want to go to www.google.com. So I type it out but accidently type www.boogle.com. Now if I want to delete the B, I have to put the cursor after the B and press backspace. I can't put the cursor in front of the B and press Delete. WTF is up with that? Everyone knows... Backspace moves the cursor to the left and deletes text to the left of the cursor. Delete keeps the cursor in place and deletes text to the right of the cursor. What is so hard about that? Is there a solution to that?
The standard Apple keyboard has two delete keys, one is like the backspace and in the same location. The other is below the Help key and deletes text to the right. You would only have one if you're on a laptop, where space is precious, and therefore Function-Delete will delete to the right.
Well my office is full of programming geeks. We switched to all Macs 3 years ago from Linux desktops. Productivity is way up. In fact, now more people here prefer to buy their own Mac laptops and use them for work. I know far more geek than non-geek Mac users. And none of them made their purchase just because of the pretty box.
I converted to Macs a few years ago and found the OS X interface to be the most intuitive I've ever used. The plus and minus signs at the bottom of lists seems obviously to imply add and remove.
Windows always took me a while to learn the nuances. And then another version with a changed interface would force me to learn the changes. But with OS X I typically just ask myself how something should work and there it is, right where I'd expect it.
So far I've found that most people's issues with learning the OS X interface is actually unlearning another interface.
I've never known anyone to buy their first Apple desktop or laptop without trying it out first. Surely they notice the interface is different.
Well, you can check my site's recent changes to see nothing gets through that contains external links, which are the only anonymous submissions protected with CAPTCHA.
Maybe your site's running some very common software. I have a Drupal site for example, that sometimes hit by bots that are obviously specifically written to attack Drupal sites. Or maybe your CAPTCHA implementations have already been broken, or aren't (pseudo-)random enough.
CAPTCHA is still useful for small to medium sites that aren't specifically targeted. Your average blog, for example, is only hit by random bots that try to get quick and easy posts. Only the largest sites like GMail need to find something better today.
For example, I use reCAPTCHA on DocForge to block the standard wiki spam bots. Since my site's not large enough to be under heavy attack very little gets through. Someday CAPTCHA may be so easy to break that everyone's at risk, but not today.
Did you read that article before you linked to it?
Yes, and apparently I interpret it differently than you do. That can happen, you know.
Other people's games... often hit and run.
Hit and run games are fun, too. Now hit and miss games I could understand not liking. ;)
I'm not an Obama guy - His lack of experience scares me
You're right. 20 years of experience in public service and law isn't nearly enough.
We were dealing with a weird red-tape issue
You call it red tape. I call it my constitutionally protected rights. And that's why most people here will disagree with you.
Actually, the intention of FISA is judicial oversight. With it the executive can perform domestic acts in secret while having another branch keep a check on abuse.
Of course it's believed that the secret court is just a rubber stamp. And requiring oversight hasn't prevented abuse of power.
I personally don't believe any branch of the government should be allowed to do anything in secret, with maybe the exception of military technology research. And even that's only a maybe.
Someone will have to sue a phone company for a warrantless wiretap, of which they probably would not be aware, and appeal all the way to the supreme court, who might then overturn the unconstitutional immunity law.
As for the change to FISA you'll have to vote in representatives and senators who would pass a law to reverse it.
Both extremely unlikely.
It's only a two-party system because so few vote for other parties. Let him vote for whoever he actually wants to be president. If everyone did that we might no longer have a two-party system.
My fiancee is a big fan of the olympics. We'll be out of the country for the first few weeks of August with no intentions of watching any TV. So she's looking into DVR options. I think every minute of coverage will be available somewhere on the internet after we get back. It'll certainly be easier than trying to pick everything to record beforehand. But she's afraid to take the chance that she'll miss something.
So will NBC or others make all of the video available online immediately after the events? Will someone else? Is DVR the best option? Or will she have to spend hundreds of dollars on DVDs next year to see the olympics after-the-fact?
Well, except most people don't vote, only about 120 million votes were cast in the 04 US election.
Which was 60% of the eligible voting population. The majority of people who had the right to vote did vote.
Windsor Park in Bayside. Time Warner and Verizon told them "it's coming soon!" for years.
At least one neighborhood in Queens, NY just got broadband within the last year. I don't know where people get the idea that the whole country is wired. Much of the country doesn't even have cable. And most is too rural to get DSL or FIOS.
in comparison to Office, it's still slow to startup
OpenOffice Beta 3 launches twice as fast for me ever since I turned off it's use of Java. Uncheck "Use Java runtime environment" in the preferences. I haven't found a feature that I needed yet which requires it.
I don't understand. I currently use mostly PHP and Python. I don't happen to use the languages which were in my original skillset 13 years go.
GP stated "If you want a job you need to know Java" and "Corporate IT are basically only interested in hiring Java developers." Which doesn't match my experiences. "Developers new to the industry" will need whatever the industry is using. And many positions require no Java at all. There are many positions in finance that need C++, many in web development that need PHP, plenty that want .NET, etc. Knowing Java may help round out one's knowledge, but it's often not a requirement.
Really? I've been programming for corporate IT for 13+ years and I've only played with Java. I've never required it before interviewing other programmers, either.
I'm pretty sure he was being facetious. Everyone knows Java is in heavy use in various industries. Lighten up.
people used to think having a huge Moon like ours was a once-in-a-universe event.
And I should hope that they still think so, seeing as Mars does not have a huge Moon like ours... Despite evidence of an impact that COULD have created one, and yet didn't.
That would make it a once-in-a-solar-system event. There's nothing to say this isn't a common occurrence elsewhere. Unless of course you've observed the complete planetary composition of many other solar systems, which no one else has.