"Please add this number to your Do Not Call list."
(Note the important difference between "add" and "remove" - many people ask for their number to be removed, which does nothing - the company has plenty of lists of people to call, so if you get removed from one list, you're bound to show up on several more.)
Sony has something kind of like it on the remote for their home theater receivers.
Aha! That's what I was thinking of! A round rubber button, vaguely shaped like this (side view, cutaway):/`---\ (except smoother than that and rubbery).
You put your finger in the middle (where the slight dip is) and push up/down/left/right or straight down. This could be used as, for example, the arrow and enter buttons on a DVD remote control.
I have seen mice with a rubbery button in the middle that scrolls up and down; making it work left and right as well isn't too much of a stretch.
Yeah, that's the only time I've ever seen anything like that too. Although, that was a pump, and although I have seen spam for pumps, I think most of it is for pills or something else?
Of course there was SNL Celebrity Jeopardy with Sean Connery and "The Penis Mightier", but that doesn't really count.
That's what I'm confused about, is Phoenix really going to replace the stock Mozilla browser? I thought they branched into two different projects.
Yes. They're merging back together. After 1.4, there will be no more Mozilla application as it exists today. The Mozilla Browser will be the browser formerly known as Phoenix. The Mozilla Mail application will be a stand-alone mail client. Both of these and other Mozilla applications will require the Gecko engine and associated libraries to be installed as a separate package.
If you don't think this will happen, then why were there two project to begin with? There are clearly two different ideas about how the browser should be implemented. What makes anyone think this philosophy will change with the new acquisition?
Uhh, wasn't this EXACTLY the reason for the change? Mozilla's strategy was to build a big bloated application that does everything, then somebody forked Phoenix and made a fast light browser that a lot of people liked better, and the Mozilla team stopped and said "wait a minute... now that we've seen it done, that actually IS better." Many of the developers are actually the same people anyway, working on both projects - now they'll only have to work on one.
The judge threw out the second case, declaring that no right-thinking person could possibly believe that the professional reputation of a highly respected scientist would be tarnished by calling them a "butt-head".
Microsoft won't do it until Apple releases theirs. Microsoft has to have something to copy from. If Apple never does it, Microsoft probably won't either.
Or you could record as much as you want, then load it into iMovie and cut it down to a few minutes you want to keep and delete the rest. That way your 3 minutes don't run out in the middle of something you wanted to keep.
You might be interested in the book In Six Days, edited by John Ashton - it's a collection of 50 essays by scientists in many different fields, each with (at least) a PhD, explaining why they believe in Creation from a scientific perspective.
This is one of the reasons I didn't go to see Episode II at the local OmniMax theater: the movie wasn't shot with an all-encompasing screen in mind. The other reason is, showing a flat movie on a dome screen means the edges stretch and look weird - obviously that's not an issue on most IMAX screens, which are flat.
I really don't see much point in buying the LotR DVD's seperately. You just know that New Line will compile together all three movie's in one big massive package with an infinite amount of DVD extra's.
This is my intention as well. I'd rather shell out $150+ for the 12-disc super extra collector's edition box set, than buy each movie separately. I intend to wait until this is available. In the mean time, I'll borrow them from the library (I'm #5 of 39 holds for the 4-DVD version of FOTR, having already seen the 2-DVD version).
I think the point here is that they had this stuff come out for kids, and then turned around and said that they're not necessarily a kid-oriented site. It may be after the fact, but it's still not the Right Thing to put up (say) fluffy bunnies and deny you do it.
They didn't say they never were a kid-oriented site, they said they aren't now. I would tend to agree with that.
I can access the card catalog system for my county-wide library system online (via telnet or the web), peruse their selection at my leisure (including DVDs and videos from every public library in the county, not just the one 2 blocks from my house - and including items that are currently checked out and not sitting on the shelf), and place a hold on it. If it's available, it will probably be delivered to my local library within 2-3 days; if it's something very popular like a new release on DVD it could take a couple months. I can check the status of a hold, and it'll tell me my position in the queue (I'm in 59th place out of 148 current holds for My Big Fat Greek Wedding on DVD, which I requested about a month and a half ago). When an item is ready, I just walk in, hand them my library card, they hand me my movies, and I get to keep them for 3 or 7 days (depending on the policy of the library the item belongs to, which varies somewhat, and how popular the item is - new releases are generally 3 days). If I return it late, the fine is between $0.10 to $0.25 per day (again depending on the library it belongs to), which they're not picky about if I haven't got any change with me.
The disadvantage of using the library compared to Blockbuster or Hollywood Video is, unless the movie I want is available and sitting on the shelf (not very likely), I can't watch it today. The advantage is that it's free, and the late fees are trivial.
The only disadvantages of using the library compared to NetFlix that I can think of are, instead of delivering to my mailbox, I have to walk two blocks (or the library will mail it to me for a $2.00 charge if I want), and I can only keep it for 3-7 days before returning it (I can afford the overdue fines, but I don't like to deprive others who are waiting). The advantage, again, is that it's free (aside from fines mentioned above).
Does your local library kick this much ass? Maybe not, but give it a try, you might be surprised.
Hmm, also, did the $7.6 million loss include hardware/software purchases and one-time engineering costs that now must only be maintained, not purchased again?
As I mentioned in the beginning, ASP can execute on a Linux server as well as a Windows server.
Have you ever actually done this? From what I've heard, it's not as simple as ChiliSoft makes it out to be - but then, I haven't tried it myself, since I don't use ASP.
Also, the biggest issue that this will solve is that of those stupid flyers I get with every newspaper, I hate those things, they are far worse than spam, actually requiring physical effort to dispose of, the real spam.
Spam is worse because it costs a lot of money that the spammer doesn't pay for (not significant per-message, and not significant for most end users, but as an epidemic it's very expensive to ISPs). At a national ISP I worked for, with 160,000 residential broadband customers on static IP addresses, we had at least one full-time employee in the Abuse department devoted to handling spam complaints (with other employees assisting as needed - and they were often needed). Add to that the technical support costs associated with customers calling in to complain of legitimate mail being blocked (either our mail servers blocked it, or the recipient's ISP's mail servers blocked it); I'd say this generated several calls per day and certainly caused several cancellations. That doesn't even include the cost of processing all those extra messages on the mail servers!
I bet you've never had spam forwarded to your alphanumeric pager or cell phone.;-)
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whoa... déjà vu. Have you posted about this before? Not recently, but like, a year ago or something?
Of course, the best thing to say is:
"Please add this number to your Do Not Call list."
(Note the important difference between "add" and "remove" - many people ask for their number to be removed, which does nothing - the company has plenty of lists of people to call, so if you get removed from one list, you're bound to show up on several more.)
Sony has something kind of like it on the remote for their home theater receivers.
/`---\
Aha! That's what I was thinking of! A round rubber button, vaguely shaped like this (side view, cutaway):
(except smoother than that and rubbery).
You put your finger in the middle (where the slight dip is) and push up/down/left/right or straight down. This could be used as, for example, the arrow and enter buttons on a DVD remote control.
I have seen mice with a rubbery button in the middle that scrolls up and down; making it work left and right as well isn't too much of a stretch.
Yeah, that's the only time I've ever seen anything like that too. Although, that was a pump, and although I have seen spam for pumps, I think most of it is for pills or something else?
Of course there was SNL Celebrity Jeopardy with Sean Connery and "The Penis Mightier", but that doesn't really count.
That's what I'm confused about, is Phoenix really going to replace the stock Mozilla browser? I thought they branched into two different projects.
Yes. They're merging back together. After 1.4, there will be no more Mozilla application as it exists today. The Mozilla Browser will be the browser formerly known as Phoenix. The Mozilla Mail application will be a stand-alone mail client. Both of these and other Mozilla applications will require the Gecko engine and associated libraries to be installed as a separate package.
If you don't think this will happen, then why were there two project to begin with? There are clearly two different ideas about how the browser should be implemented. What makes anyone think this philosophy will change with the new acquisition?
Uhh, wasn't this EXACTLY the reason for the change? Mozilla's strategy was to build a big bloated application that does everything, then somebody forked Phoenix and made a fast light browser that a lot of people liked better, and the Mozilla team stopped and said "wait a minute... now that we've seen it done, that actually IS better." Many of the developers are actually the same people anyway, working on both projects - now they'll only have to work on one.
The judge threw out the second case, declaring that no right-thinking person could possibly believe that the professional reputation of a highly respected scientist would be tarnished by calling them a "butt-head".
Israel and Palestine aren't even on the map
Uhh. They're not? Haven't several people mentioned them recently? We're gonna make them two separate countries.
Microsoft won't do it until Apple releases theirs. Microsoft has to have something to copy from. If Apple never does it, Microsoft probably won't either.
Several of the new Sony digital cameras allow unlimited recording onto solid-state memory...
What exactly is unlimited about it? Sounds to me like you're severely limited by the size of the memory stick, no?
Or you could record as much as you want, then load it into iMovie and cut it down to a few minutes you want to keep and delete the rest. That way your 3 minutes don't run out in the middle of something you wanted to keep.
You might be interested in the book In Six Days, edited by John Ashton - it's a collection of 50 essays by scientists in many different fields, each with (at least) a PhD, explaining why they believe in Creation from a scientific perspective.
The slashdot post happened to coincide with scheduled downtime for router replacement. It's back up now.
Good reason not to put all your DNS servers behind one router. Microsoft made that mistake, and it was funny.
Indeed. I hope he updates it again, once they get power and phones working.
This is one of the reasons I didn't go to see Episode II at the local OmniMax theater: the movie wasn't shot with an all-encompasing screen in mind. The other reason is, showing a flat movie on a dome screen means the edges stretch and look weird - obviously that's not an issue on most IMAX screens, which are flat.
I don't remember any of that at all.
I guess I'll continue to avoid any DVD not labeled at least Special Edition.
I really don't see much point in buying the LotR DVD's seperately. You just know that New Line will compile together all three movie's in one big massive package with an infinite amount of DVD extra's.
This is my intention as well. I'd rather shell out $150+ for the 12-disc super extra collector's edition box set, than buy each movie separately. I intend to wait until this is available. In the mean time, I'll borrow them from the library (I'm #5 of 39 holds for the 4-DVD version of FOTR, having already seen the 2-DVD version).
I think the point here is that they had this stuff come out for kids, and then turned around and said that they're not necessarily a kid-oriented site. It may be after the fact, but it's still not the Right Thing to put up (say) fluffy bunnies and deny you do it.
They didn't say they never were a kid-oriented site, they said they aren't now. I would tend to agree with that.
You need to get out more.
To you, "getting out" means going to Toys-R-Us and looking at the dolls?
Hmm.
rofl.. wish I had mod points to mod you up.
Know where I can buy a cheap SEP field generator?
Hell yes, libraries kick ass.
I can access the card catalog system for my county-wide library system online (via telnet or the web), peruse their selection at my leisure (including DVDs and videos from every public library in the county, not just the one 2 blocks from my house - and including items that are currently checked out and not sitting on the shelf), and place a hold on it. If it's available, it will probably be delivered to my local library within 2-3 days; if it's something very popular like a new release on DVD it could take a couple months. I can check the status of a hold, and it'll tell me my position in the queue (I'm in 59th place out of 148 current holds for My Big Fat Greek Wedding on DVD, which I requested about a month and a half ago). When an item is ready, I just walk in, hand them my library card, they hand me my movies, and I get to keep them for 3 or 7 days (depending on the policy of the library the item belongs to, which varies somewhat, and how popular the item is - new releases are generally 3 days). If I return it late, the fine is between $0.10 to $0.25 per day (again depending on the library it belongs to), which they're not picky about if I haven't got any change with me.
The disadvantage of using the library compared to Blockbuster or Hollywood Video is, unless the movie I want is available and sitting on the shelf (not very likely), I can't watch it today. The advantage is that it's free, and the late fees are trivial.
The only disadvantages of using the library compared to NetFlix that I can think of are, instead of delivering to my mailbox, I have to walk two blocks (or the library will mail it to me for a $2.00 charge if I want), and I can only keep it for 3-7 days before returning it (I can afford the overdue fines, but I don't like to deprive others who are waiting). The advantage, again, is that it's free (aside from fines mentioned above).
Does your local library kick this much ass? Maybe not, but give it a try, you might be surprised.
Newspapers might as well die (so long as TV news dies as well). American journalism is dead anyway.
So just because American journalism sucks, that means it's OK for ALL newspapers to die?
What makes you think the quality of journalism would improve by print newspapers being replaced by online newspapers?
Hmm, also, did the $7.6 million loss include hardware/software purchases and one-time engineering costs that now must only be maintained, not purchased again?
As I mentioned in the beginning, ASP can execute on a Linux server as well as a Windows server.
Have you ever actually done this? From what I've heard, it's not as simple as ChiliSoft makes it out to be - but then, I haven't tried it myself, since I don't use ASP.
Also, the biggest issue that this will solve is that of those stupid flyers I get with every newspaper, I hate those things, they are far worse than spam, actually requiring physical effort to dispose of, the real spam.
;-)
Spam is worse because it costs a lot of money that the spammer doesn't pay for (not significant per-message, and not significant for most end users, but as an epidemic it's very expensive to ISPs). At a national ISP I worked for, with 160,000 residential broadband customers on static IP addresses, we had at least one full-time employee in the Abuse department devoted to handling spam complaints (with other employees assisting as needed - and they were often needed). Add to that the technical support costs associated with customers calling in to complain of legitimate mail being blocked (either our mail servers blocked it, or the recipient's ISP's mail servers blocked it); I'd say this generated several calls per day and certainly caused several cancellations. That doesn't even include the cost of processing all those extra messages on the mail servers!
I bet you've never had spam forwarded to your alphanumeric pager or cell phone.