by your argument dangerous substances would become legal. And they should. If that large a population wants to take drugs, let them. We're supposedly living in free societies. But we're not. Drugs should be a public health issue, not a legal one. Educate the public instead of putting them in jail. People should be allowed to ingest whatever they choose. That's what the majority wants.
The ability to search effectively will soon be considered a skill. I know someone who recently finished school and during his last semester had to take a 1 credit course on Google searching. So as silly as the course itself was, it may prove you're right.
6.5 million customers whose accounts are (supposedly) used for regular criminal activity When that large a proportion of the population is breaking a law, should the law itself be put into question? Basically, if a society doesn't consider something to be objectionable, shouldn't it be legal? That should be a natural consequence of democracy.
I think you're basing this on only the people who post content online, like us. There are far more people who read slashdot than post comments to it, for example. So we don't really know if most people are thinking about and interpreting the content to form their own opinions.
Memory and intelligence are two very different things. A person who remembers a lot doesn't necessarily have the ability to put concepts together and form new ones. So I wouldn't say the ancient Greeks were smarter than us because of what we'd consider feats of memory.
Ironically this article is on CNet, which is full of "byte-sized information", "regurgitated tweets", and "skim thought." Just another sensationalist article on a site that claims to be above the problem while actually promoting it.
Your one experience out of millions proves that Vista doesn't have many issues? Really? No offense but your individual experience is statistically insignificant.
I'm surprised CNet't not defunct. So many parts of their sites are very hard to look at, including this one. It's a shame because I always felt they had such potential, but I really can't browse their sites. It's still hard to understand why CBS valued them so high with their purchase.
IE7 is still not HTTP 1.1 compliant. Just last week I found (again) that a tab after "Content-Type:" in a response header causes the line to be ignored. So XML from a server, for example, is not interpreted as XML. I checked the RFC and any linear white space, including tabs, is supposed to be allowed.
The same HTTP header is interpreted correctly in Firefox and Safari, of course.
It'll be either one of the console vendors Microsoft, Nintendo, or Sony If Sony was capable they could have easily done it by now. They've been selling all of the components, mostly successfully, for many years. They don't seem interested in integration.
Nintendo doesn't seem interested in providing the full experience, either. They focus heavily on each individual product.
Microsoft definitely has the strongest ambition. But they do often shoot themselves in the foot.
My brain initially processed the title as, "First Erotic Space Thruster Test Ends in Explosion". Needless to say I was very disappointed when I read the summary.
So, if I'm reading this correctly (and I'm quite possibly not), does this mean we can all expect to be sprayed before boarding a plane in the near future?
"Retail sales of Office products from January through June [2007] were roughly double those of Office 2003 during its first six months on the market and up 59.6 percent from Office sales for the first six months of [2006]" - Source
We have one of those all-in-one HP printers at my office, where we're all on Macs. When we first got the printer I installed the disk with the Mac drivers. It also installed a bunch of utilities. Playing around with these utilities I found a tedious maze of buttons and windows. I couldn't even find the most obvious features, like where to see a scanned document.
But I also noticed my computer was running slower, even when no HP utilities were being used. So I looked at the Activity Monitor and found the HP background applications were permanently taking up 10% CPU, even if nothing was ever printed or scanned. So I removed all of the HP utilities and drivers and found a driver built into OS X which was for almost the same model number. I have no problems at all printing and my CPU is back to normal utilization.
Not only do these HP utilities suck, but they're annoying when you're not even using them.
I liked the VB6 IDE. I hated the Visual Studio.NET IDE. I think they went way too far in trying to make it flexible and it felt out-of-control. In the first version, at least, too many visual elements would continually shift around as you changed modes. Eclipse works in a similar way, but is far cleaner and more obvious in its approach. I think it's actually much harder to learn Visual Studio these days than it used to be.
That's not quite accurate. Both MasterCard and Visa have fraud departments. Both monitor fraud and require their member banks to remain below a certain threshold, otherwise their fees increase or contracts get withdrawn. Fraud is a large expense (customer service, closed accounts, etc.) and is considered harmful to their brand image.
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I think you're basing this on only the people who post content online, like us. There are far more people who read slashdot than post comments to it, for example. So we don't really know if most people are thinking about and interpreting the content to form their own opinions.
Memory and intelligence are two very different things. A person who remembers a lot doesn't necessarily have the ability to put concepts together and form new ones. So I wouldn't say the ancient Greeks were smarter than us because of what we'd consider feats of memory.
Ironically this article is on CNet, which is full of "byte-sized information", "regurgitated tweets", and "skim thought." Just another sensationalist article on a site that claims to be above the problem while actually promoting it.
Trying to conserve e-paper?
Hey! All I have to type is Y. (To Marge) Hey, Miss Doesn't-find-me-attractive-sexually-anymore: I just tripled my productivity!
Your one experience out of millions proves that Vista doesn't have many issues? Really? No offense but your individual experience is statistically insignificant.
I'm surprised CNet't not defunct. So many parts of their sites are very hard to look at, including this one. It's a shame because I always felt they had such potential, but I really can't browse their sites. It's still hard to understand why CBS valued them so high with their purchase.
IE7 is still not HTTP 1.1 compliant. Just last week I found (again) that a tab after "Content-Type:" in a response header causes the line to be ignored. So XML from a server, for example, is not interpreted as XML. I checked the RFC and any linear white space, including tabs, is supposed to be allowed.
The same HTTP header is interpreted correctly in Firefox and Safari, of course.
They might as well run a poll and let the readers guess.
Nintendo doesn't seem interested in providing the full experience, either. They focus heavily on each individual product.
Microsoft definitely has the strongest ambition. But they do often shoot themselves in the foot.
My brain initially processed the title as, "First Erotic Space Thruster Test Ends in Explosion". Needless to say I was very disappointed when I read the summary.
Same results here in the NYC suburbs (via speakeasy). Soon I'll be able to read slashdot 3 times faster!
So, if I'm reading this correctly (and I'm quite possibly not), does this mean we can all expect to be sprayed before boarding a plane in the near future?
"Retail sales of Office products from January through June [2007] were roughly double those of Office 2003 during its first six months on the market and up 59.6 percent from Office sales for the first six months of [2006]" - Source
Not exactly the failure you describe.
We have one of those all-in-one HP printers at my office, where we're all on Macs. When we first got the printer I installed the disk with the Mac drivers. It also installed a bunch of utilities. Playing around with these utilities I found a tedious maze of buttons and windows. I couldn't even find the most obvious features, like where to see a scanned document.
But I also noticed my computer was running slower, even when no HP utilities were being used. So I looked at the Activity Monitor and found the HP background applications were permanently taking up 10% CPU, even if nothing was ever printed or scanned. So I removed all of the HP utilities and drivers and found a driver built into OS X which was for almost the same model number. I have no problems at all printing and my CPU is back to normal utilization.
Not only do these HP utilities suck, but they're annoying when you're not even using them.
I liked the VB6 IDE. I hated the Visual Studio.NET IDE. I think they went way too far in trying to make it flexible and it felt out-of-control. In the first version, at least, too many visual elements would continually shift around as you changed modes. Eclipse works in a similar way, but is far cleaner and more obvious in its approach. I think it's actually much harder to learn Visual Studio these days than it used to be.
That's not quite accurate. Both MasterCard and Visa have fraud departments. Both monitor fraud and require their member banks to remain below a certain threshold, otherwise their fees increase or contracts get withdrawn. Fraud is a large expense (customer service, closed accounts, etc.) and is considered harmful to their brand image.
We can send a man to the moon, but we can't make a reliable number pad? The failure rate of the 9 buttons should (hopefully) be extremely small.
Deep Ellum? Sounds like a really bad sequel to Debbie Does Dallas.