Hillary Clinton's idea of "privacy" is about the same as that behind the "Medical Privacy Act". This made it a Federal offense to disclose medical records, standardized the records keeping, and made it all available to the government upon request. To her "privacy" is that between civilians; the government and its employees are a whole 'nother matter.
A web host certainly works better. But considering that this way you're more secure, I strongly recommend it. Remember, any time you're using wi-fi, or even if you're connected to a hard-wired uplink, people can be sniffing your traffic.
If you have a box that's permanently on the net, a machine at home that's always on, a web server, etc, set your laptop up to always tunnel its connections through it. That way, even if someone 0wnz the connection you're on, so long as your software firewall is good, you're set.
The Retail Advertising and Marketing Association estimates 2.5 million people will buy new televisions before Super Sunday, an increase of 47 percent from last year...
Which is why I won't be buying a big screen HDTV set before Superbowl Sunday. I'm waiting for the sales.
If you try to anticipate stock movements based on the contents of the spam you receive, you may be investigated by the FTC, since you'd basically be performing the same investments the pump-and-dumpers would be. The information in that spam probably can't be considered public, which means you'd be technically guilty of insider trading.
I think, at this point, it'd be better to just drop all the rules and let caveat emptor.
Having recently purchased a Mac (Mini), comparing OSX to XP, I have to opine that OSX has a ways yet to go. It "feels" immature, lacking a few seemingly minor features that subjectively make a big difference to me.
My biggest peeve is the display. OSX uses a font-smoothing technology that to me makes the text look fuzzy. I've argued with people on IRC channels over it, and I must admit that it's technically superior and produces a better match with what's eventually going to come out of the printer, but the fact is if I'm reading text off the monitor 8-12 hours per day I want it to be less fuzzy, accurate or not.
Other peeves? Integrating energy saving w/ the screen saver, for instance; if I've configured the Finder to disable the screen saver when I stick the mouse in one corner of the screen, I don't want the system to turn off the monitor or go into sleep mode, either. Another minor screen saver peeve is that once it trips, no matter how quickly I get back to the machine, I have to unlock it with my password. XP gives me a few seconds before locking up the machine.
Something else I don't like is the inability to easily see how many windows are open for each app. Yes, I know about the F9/F10/F11 tricks, but it'd be nice to have a few ticks next to the icon for running apps rather than a single tick showing it's running.
Further, I know Apple has released the Darwin OS as open-source while maintaining OSX separately. I think it'd be better if Apple opened the kernel for OSX and merged with with Darwin, and kept their proprietary fun and games confined to Aqua. It'd mean better hardware flexibility (remember the Nvidia driver bug?).
I didn't know it was caused by the plastic degrading. I thought it was because my mother-in-law smoked like a chimney. So why did the wallpaper turn yellow too?
BTW, when you say "schizophrenic", I say they're covering all the bases. And yeah, it's really annoying, but predictable if you consider they're trying to act in their best interests.
There's the "intellectual property" meme again. Virtual property is unlike real property. If I steal someone's apple, that's a resource he will have to do without. If I copy someone's design, he still has it and can still utilize it. It's thought that treating "intellectual property" as if it were real property, outlawing theft, providing registration, etc. is a good thing, but it's still debateable.
I know many people who simply can't afford new PCs are are stuck running Windows 95 & 98. Is there any way to correct these? (Aside from manually tweaking the clock.)
Well, almost never. Their dial-up software popped up a "you have mail" notification when you used their service, and the first time my CC# changed I used the service before they'd cut me off.
As for the second time... I suppose they might not have left me notification, but I suspect they had.
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Hillary Clinton's idea of "privacy" is about the same as that behind the "Medical Privacy Act". This made it a Federal offense to disclose medical records, standardized the records keeping, and made it all available to the government upon request. To her "privacy" is that between civilians; the government and its employees are a whole 'nother matter.
A web host certainly works better. But considering that this way you're more secure, I strongly recommend it. Remember, any time you're using wi-fi, or even if you're connected to a hard-wired uplink, people can be sniffing your traffic.
If you have a box that's permanently on the net, a machine at home that's always on, a web server, etc, set your laptop up to always tunnel its connections through it. That way, even if someone 0wnz the connection you're on, so long as your software firewall is good, you're set.
This should create a nice market for upgraded replacement bulbs for these TVs. LED bulbs, anyone?
The Retail Advertising and Marketing Association estimates 2.5 million people will buy new televisions before Super Sunday, an increase of 47 percent from last year...
Which is why I won't be buying a big screen HDTV set before Superbowl Sunday. I'm waiting for the sales.
Why does everyone think people will rush out to buy players when there are only a handful of HD *movies* out on the market?
I'm reporting you to the Department of Redundancy Department.
If you try to anticipate stock movements based on the contents of the spam you receive, you may be investigated by the FTC, since you'd basically be performing the same investments the pump-and-dumpers would be. The information in that spam probably can't be considered public, which means you'd be technically guilty of insider trading.
I think, at this point, it'd be better to just drop all the rules and let caveat emptor.
Just FYI, at the moment only Cingular and T-Mobile will be able to support the phone in the US at this time.
What's wrong with the interface? Describe one you think would be better, maybe someone will implement it.
Having recently purchased a Mac (Mini), comparing OSX to XP, I have to opine that OSX has a ways yet to go. It "feels" immature, lacking a few seemingly minor features that subjectively make a big difference to me.
My biggest peeve is the display. OSX uses a font-smoothing technology that to me makes the text look fuzzy. I've argued with people on IRC channels over it, and I must admit that it's technically superior and produces a better match with what's eventually going to come out of the printer, but the fact is if I'm reading text off the monitor 8-12 hours per day I want it to be less fuzzy, accurate or not.
Other peeves? Integrating energy saving w/ the screen saver, for instance; if I've configured the Finder to disable the screen saver when I stick the mouse in one corner of the screen, I don't want the system to turn off the monitor or go into sleep mode, either. Another minor screen saver peeve is that once it trips, no matter how quickly I get back to the machine, I have to unlock it with my password. XP gives me a few seconds before locking up the machine.
Something else I don't like is the inability to easily see how many windows are open for each app. Yes, I know about the F9/F10/F11 tricks, but it'd be nice to have a few ticks next to the icon for running apps rather than a single tick showing it's running.
Further, I know Apple has released the Darwin OS as open-source while maintaining OSX separately. I think it'd be better if Apple opened the kernel for OSX and merged with with Darwin, and kept their proprietary fun and games confined to Aqua. It'd mean better hardware flexibility (remember the Nvidia driver bug?).
I didn't know it was caused by the plastic degrading. I thought it was because my mother-in-law smoked like a chimney. So why did the wallpaper turn yellow too?
I'm waiting for the simulated typhus and bulbonic plague epidemics now.
...since it's already associated with protection...
Considering the announcement in the topic...
"I'm not dead yet!"
"I'm getting better!"
"I don't want to go on the cart!"
...but isn't the OSX kernel open source? Has anyone taken a look at the driver to see if it's something stupid that can be fixed quickly?
Could someone please paste the pastebin contents here?
BTW, when you say "schizophrenic", I say they're covering all the bases. And yeah, it's really annoying, but predictable if you consider they're trying to act in their best interests.
As an open-source author, I'd like to get my hands on one, see how it feels, and maybe dream up some applications or utilities to fit on one.
There's the "intellectual property" meme again. Virtual property is unlike real property. If I steal someone's apple, that's a resource he will have to do without. If I copy someone's design, he still has it and can still utilize it. It's thought that treating "intellectual property" as if it were real property, outlawing theft, providing registration, etc. is a good thing, but it's still debateable.
They see the coming collapse of the entire patent system and would rather have some capability of holding monopolies than lose any chance of it.
On hearing the name of the service, the one thing that came to mind was - "Pssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss..."
I know many people who simply can't afford new PCs are are stuck running Windows 95 & 98. Is there any way to correct these? (Aside from manually tweaking the clock.)
...the iCantAffordIt. :-P
Well, almost never. Their dial-up software popped up a "you have mail" notification when you used their service, and the first time my CC# changed I used the service before they'd cut me off.
As for the second time... I suppose they might not have left me notification, but I suspect they had.