I had a phone like that once. It also had a "do not disturb" ripcord on the back though. If you pulled the cord out of the phone, it would stop ringing. When you plugged it back in later, it would work again.
Well, I suppose you're entitled to your opinion and judging from your comment's moderation you're not the only person who feels that way. However, if you feel that "anyone who does anything purely for the purposes of making their websites show up higher on search engine results than they should are scammers", who decides the "than they should" part? You? The site owner? The search engine?
Well, right now, the answer to that question is the search engine. Google (for instance) looks at your page and decides its relevance based upon a number of criteria. I personally think this is overall the best solution although of course it's not without its problems.
For the record, my job involves optimizing sites as well as working on algorithms to improve our sites' bidding on Overture and Adwords. This is what I do full-time. The sites I work on are well-regarded, well-established, useful sites with proprietary content (no, not porn).
Tell me, what use other than search engine enhancement does something like a title tag in a hyperlink REALLY have (yes, I know about the mouseover)? How about meta tags? How about rearranging the words in your page title so the most relevant ones show up first? These aren't dirty tricks, but they're designed to showcase the content that a site REALLY HAS, so that when a consumer goes to a search engine they find what they're looking for. We don't want to "trick" customers into visiting our sites. That's a very short-sighted tactic. We end up paying for bandwidth of a "non-qualified" "customer", and eventually our advertisers are going to catch on to this as well. It's the same as trying to lure homeless people into Nordstroms. They're unlikely to turn into customers.
Yeah, but have you actually TRIED this feature in Windows? I'm doing it now (have to use Windows XP at work) and the home page of my company's web site is screwed up (yeah not completely Microsoft's fault, but still!) and dialog boxes routinely chop of part of the text at the bottom. It's a feature, but it's not a fully supported feature which makes it of only marginal usefulness.
I'm sad to hear this isn't a feature at all on OS X though. I use a powerbook at home and haven't felt the need to change my font size on either my 12" lcd screen or my 21" monitor. I'd been told it was an option but haven't tried to find it myself.
If you're in a situation where others will be using your phone, how about putting a "not valid for 911" sticker on your phone? Better yet, put the number for the local police, fire and ambulance departments there too. It wasn't that long ago that people DIDN'T have 911 service in many rural areas. Maybe that's still the case.
Additionally, even if you don't set up your address with Vonage, 911 STILL WORKS. The dispatchers just won't know your address. It's likely that you will be able to provide that information in most emergencies. If you have regular visitors, again, POST the information!
Additionally, you can also get a giant red phone and plug it into your POTS line. I don't have a reliable reference, but I'm 99% sure that will still work for 911 calls. Then put a sticker on your VOIP phones saying "USE GIANT RED PHONE IN KITCHEN FOR 911 CALLS".
I'm a Vonage customer myself, and yes I set up the E911 services. Vonage does a very good job of informing their customers of their responsibilities in this area, in my opinion. Honestly, I think people in this country (USA) should, in general, learn to take a little more personal responsibility in areas like this.
Right. People don't seem to realize that having a higher resolution doesn't mean they have to deal with smaller fonts. Just sharper ones.
Perhaps this stems from the fact that in Windows if you change the default font size from either of the "normal" or "larger" settings to a custom size, it screws up many dialog boxes and other display functions. This doesn't seem to be the problem on OS X though.
Hmm yes you are right and I'm wrong. Virgin Mobile runs on T-Mobile's network (AFAIK) in the UK but in the US it's CDMA over Sprint's network. Thanks for the correction.
Being asked to take a proficiency test is fine with me, depending on how it's approached. I can think of two different situations from my own experience. In one case, I was asked to come in for an interview. As this was early on in my career, I put on my suit and tie and spent probably 40 minutes driving to the location. I walked in and was handed an application paper and a skills quiz by a bored-looking front desk clerk. Nobody introduced themselves to me, told me they were happy I'd made it, asked how I was or anything. I sat down, looked at the paperwork, and decided this wasn't the sort of place I'd wanted to work. I walked out and never heard back from them again.
Probably within a month of that, I was contacted by a larger company. I went in for an interview and things went well. Their engineering staff was located in a different city, so I had a phone interview with them and they asked me if I'd be willing to write some code for them. They emailed me the problem and told me it should take me 1-2 hours to finish. It took me 6-8 hours and I stayed up until about 02:00 to do it. When they got my response, they apologized to me as they realized their question was a lot tougher than they'd thought it was, and offered me the job.
I don't have a problem with proving that I know what I'm doing, ONCE the company has shown that they are interested in me and have a baseline of respect for me.
Well that's a fair enough comment, but on the other hand I wouldn't say that I RELY on Vonage. It makes a nice supplement to my mobile phone though.
I'm also not sure that anyone needing to rely on a particular telecommunications system would be better served relying on a network of personal computers hooked up to the internet and POTS system with consumer-grade asterisk cards. It would be a fun project, though.
The thing is, how much do you pay for your land line? For that price, only one person is going to be able to use it at a time. I pay US$15/month for my Vonage box which gives me 500 minutes per month of calling in Canada and the USA. For my small monthly payment I get a more mature, higher quality and cheaper solution than what you propose.
It would have been a great idea to implement 6 years ago, but these days with cheap, widespread, reliable and idiot-proof VOIP, it's hard to argue the value of a homegrown solution beyond its innate geek credibility and cool-factor.
It wouldn't really be THAT hard for Google. After all, they have their toolbar installed on countless computers around the world.
They could easily double-check links from users' computers with the Google Toolbar installed. A change to their EULA or some sort of opt-in and I would be OK with that, personally.
- Andrew.
Does your friend have a password set? When I have the password off, my 12" almost always comes back in under a second. I read somewhere that that was one of Steve's "design mandates". It does sometimes take longer, maybe up to 10 seconds, to get a login prompt when I have that turned on though.
Well, different strokes and all that, but I guess that's why iTunes provides the option of not moving and renaming music files.
Back in the day I had a laboriously and anally categorized music folder hierarchy. Coming from Windows and Linux to OS X about a year and a half ago I felt like I needed to keep a tight control on how my files were organized. After having my powerbook for a couple months though, I just decided "screw it" and let iTunes have its way with my music folder. Honestly, things have been much easier since I just decided to let Mac OS X do what it wants to do. I feel less stress and frustration about setting things up "just so", because the computer does as good of a job as I could 95% of the time for 5% of the hassle of doing it myself. That seems like a good tradeoff to me.
And I can still do things like move my music collection to my external folder with a symlink. And you can of course do the same if there's a music file you want in some other folder (or whatever your preferred file retrieval metaphor may be).
So I say, jump off the cliff and abandon yourself to the whim of Apple, and let Steve catch you safely below in his turtleneck-bedecked arms. Or whatever.
Yeah, no kidding. I actually PAID for Quicktime 6 a few months before 7 came out. Of course, my key for 6 doesn't work with the new version. What a waste of money.
So now I have to say, VLC is the way to go. The only thing I can't do (and want to do) with VLC that I could do with Quicktime Pro is chop bits out of my videos that I don't want. And that's not worth another $30 to me.
I'm a little confused about Debian versions. There's "Woody" which is "Stable", and "Sarge" which is "Testing". OK.
When 3.1 comes out next week or whenever, will Woody go away or will the existing package list that is Sarge just start to be called Woody? Or will they start calling Stable Sarge, testing Sid and unstable something else?
I'm installing linux on a new server and want to try out Debian. I installed Ubuntu last night which seems fine, except it doesn't seem to include some software I need, like spamassassin. I think I'll give the current testing a whirl, but if I want the sorts of package versions currently found in Sarge, should I install Sarge or Woody? If I wait a week and install 3.1, will I be "stuck" with packages that don't get updated for 2 more years?
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Your phone might have that feature too.
Yeah, I can think of one site with a misspelled domain name that really tanked. www.googol.com or something like that?
Well, right now, the answer to that question is the search engine. Google (for instance) looks at your page and decides its relevance based upon a number of criteria. I personally think this is overall the best solution although of course it's not without its problems.
For the record, my job involves optimizing sites as well as working on algorithms to improve our sites' bidding on Overture and Adwords. This is what I do full-time. The sites I work on are well-regarded, well-established, useful sites with proprietary content (no, not porn).
Tell me, what use other than search engine enhancement does something like a title tag in a hyperlink REALLY have (yes, I know about the mouseover)? How about meta tags? How about rearranging the words in your page title so the most relevant ones show up first? These aren't dirty tricks, but they're designed to showcase the content that a site REALLY HAS, so that when a consumer goes to a search engine they find what they're looking for. We don't want to "trick" customers into visiting our sites. That's a very short-sighted tactic. We end up paying for bandwidth of a "non-qualified" "customer", and eventually our advertisers are going to catch on to this as well. It's the same as trying to lure homeless people into Nordstroms. They're unlikely to turn into customers.
Anyway, that's just a counterpoint to consider.
I'm sad to hear this isn't a feature at all on OS X though. I use a powerbook at home and haven't felt the need to change my font size on either my 12" lcd screen or my 21" monitor. I'd been told it was an option but haven't tried to find it myself.
Additionally, even if you don't set up your address with Vonage, 911 STILL WORKS. The dispatchers just won't know your address. It's likely that you will be able to provide that information in most emergencies. If you have regular visitors, again, POST the information!
Additionally, you can also get a giant red phone and plug it into your POTS line. I don't have a reliable reference, but I'm 99% sure that will still work for 911 calls. Then put a sticker on your VOIP phones saying "USE GIANT RED PHONE IN KITCHEN FOR 911 CALLS".
I'm a Vonage customer myself, and yes I set up the E911 services. Vonage does a very good job of informing their customers of their responsibilities in this area, in my opinion. Honestly, I think people in this country (USA) should, in general, learn to take a little more personal responsibility in areas like this.
I'll head off your "haha Canada isn't really a country" lame joke at the pass, but ... oh fugetaboutit.
I don't know what service the GP uses, but I use Vonage and it lets me do that.
Perhaps this stems from the fact that in Windows if you change the default font size from either of the "normal" or "larger" settings to a custom size, it screws up many dialog boxes and other display functions. This doesn't seem to be the problem on OS X though.
Hmm yes you are right and I'm wrong. Virgin Mobile runs on T-Mobile's network (AFAIK) in the UK but in the US it's CDMA over Sprint's network. Thanks for the correction.
Virgin Mobile runs over T-Mobile's network in the USA, which is GSM.
Probably within a month of that, I was contacted by a larger company. I went in for an interview and things went well. Their engineering staff was located in a different city, so I had a phone interview with them and they asked me if I'd be willing to write some code for them. They emailed me the problem and told me it should take me 1-2 hours to finish. It took me 6-8 hours and I stayed up until about 02:00 to do it. When they got my response, they apologized to me as they realized their question was a lot tougher than they'd thought it was, and offered me the job.
I don't have a problem with proving that I know what I'm doing, ONCE the company has shown that they are interested in me and have a baseline of respect for me.
I'm also not sure that anyone needing to rely on a particular telecommunications system would be better served relying on a network of personal computers hooked up to the internet and POTS system with consumer-grade asterisk cards. It would be a fun project, though.
How sure are you that "soupdevil" is a guy?
It would have been a great idea to implement 6 years ago, but these days with cheap, widespread, reliable and idiot-proof VOIP, it's hard to argue the value of a homegrown solution beyond its innate geek credibility and cool-factor.
Hmm, it almost sounds like you're talking about going to Eurodisney.
It wouldn't really be THAT hard for Google. After all, they have their toolbar installed on countless computers around the world.
They could easily double-check links from users' computers with the Google Toolbar installed. A change to their EULA or some sort of opt-in and I would be OK with that, personally. - Andrew.
You'd think with all those electric items in his belt, he'd need some spare bat-teries as well...
I'd really like to see a bluetooth natural keyboard. You know, one that looks like this one but uses bluetooth. Does anyone know if one exists?
Yay, I learned a new word today. My mood is one of "arrant" and unspeakable beatification.
Does your friend have a password set? When I have the password off, my 12" almost always comes back in under a second. I read somewhere that that was one of Steve's "design mandates". It does sometimes take longer, maybe up to 10 seconds, to get a login prompt when I have that turned on though.
Back in the day I had a laboriously and anally categorized music folder hierarchy. Coming from Windows and Linux to OS X about a year and a half ago I felt like I needed to keep a tight control on how my files were organized. After having my powerbook for a couple months though, I just decided "screw it" and let iTunes have its way with my music folder. Honestly, things have been much easier since I just decided to let Mac OS X do what it wants to do. I feel less stress and frustration about setting things up "just so", because the computer does as good of a job as I could 95% of the time for 5% of the hassle of doing it myself. That seems like a good tradeoff to me.
And I can still do things like move my music collection to my external folder with a symlink. And you can of course do the same if there's a music file you want in some other folder (or whatever your preferred file retrieval metaphor may be).
So I say, jump off the cliff and abandon yourself to the whim of Apple, and let Steve catch you safely below in his turtleneck-bedecked arms. Or whatever.
So now I have to say, VLC is the way to go. The only thing I can't do (and want to do) with VLC that I could do with Quicktime Pro is chop bits out of my videos that I don't want. And that's not worth another $30 to me.
No, but I'll look into that, thanks. My hands-on experience with Debian and Ubuntu is now about 12 hours old, including sleeping time ;-)
When 3.1 comes out next week or whenever, will Woody go away or will the existing package list that is Sarge just start to be called Woody? Or will they start calling Stable Sarge, testing Sid and unstable something else?
I'm installing linux on a new server and want to try out Debian. I installed Ubuntu last night which seems fine, except it doesn't seem to include some software I need, like spamassassin. I think I'll give the current testing a whirl, but if I want the sorts of package versions currently found in Sarge, should I install Sarge or Woody? If I wait a week and install 3.1, will I be "stuck" with packages that don't get updated for 2 more years?
These are the questions I ponder.
The joke's gone now, but it was supposed to be: <humour>What is "HUMOR"?</humour>