Another nice thing about hotmail is their account expiration policy. It used to be 90 days (I went over that once a few years ago, after a move...never checked hotmail during that time, all my saved mail -- not alot, I wasn't really relying on it -- was gone once I signed up again). Then it went to 60 days, now I think it's 30 (they remind you of that in their frequent "you can pay for extra storage" messages).
I *noticed* that it's now 30 days by -- yep -- finding my account deactivated a few days ago. So, fine, everything in there was deleted (all spam anyway). I did notice though that the extra folder I'd created was still there (empty now), and so was, of course, all the marketing info in my profile (old and mostly made up, only my zip code was authentic, though it was old). They only throw out what isn't useful to them.
"A large portion of Wal-Mart's merchandise is produced in third-world countries under sweatshop conditions"
In fact, some of their merchandise has been shown to be manufactured in first-world countries under sweatshop conditions -- and by children, no less (i.e., the Kathie Lee thing). And of course, there's always the Wal-Mart practice of enforcing their own moralist values on their inventory/ services (e.g., their decision not to carry the morning-after pill).
An MS-free PC is a very good thing...but the cost outweighs the...cost, or whatever it is I'm trying to say.
isbn.nu is something of a step in the right sirection...it doesn't sell books directly, so it's pretty much a disinterested party (even imdb isn't really that anymore, since it's an Amazon site). but It would be nice to have something more comprehensive, that covered also books not in print that were important, that would have comprehensive (as best as possible) listings of every edition (in English only) of, say, The Aeneid.
maybe there isn't a widespread interest in this, and that's why it never developed. alt.rec.movies (or whichever usenet group) imdb grew out of obviously filled a need for lotsa people...why didn't this happen with books? maybe it's too late to start now.
still, I'd be interested. as it stands now, people discuss movies, actors, etc in their blogs and link w/out thinking to imdb pages. for books, they end up linking to amazon (or B&N or, even more rearely, booksense). none of those sites give quite the same depth of info on a book as imdb does on a movie.
if it really bothers you that much, just log in using uname:anonymous, pass:anonymous. hell, there are a ton of these that work...IIRC, slashdot/slashdot works, so should mefi/mefi (for metafilter). pick one, set a cookie, be done with it. NYT has has this login shit since '96 at least, but I'm not aware of they're having used it for anything.
well, it's not that he's complaining that apple didn't personally ask him...it's just that so much that was veryvery right about the classic interface has gone away, never (in some cases) to return.
and the administrtor password crisis...that's one of the things that rang most true to me, as my experience was pretty much exactly the same (I think it was installing a printer driver).
It kind of uses the native Mac appearance, but not the exact widgets...what I mean is that the pop up menu does use the system font as set in the control panel and the scroll bars will match the configuration set in the appearance control panel, but Mozilla's still doing most of the work. And this is something that's been improving over time, as in previous milestones, there was no popup menu if you held down the mouse button on a page -- you had to right-click or control-click, and the menu font was always Charcoal (the default mac system font), no matter if you were using something else system-wide. Now it's a simple click-and-hold, just like Netscape 4.x or IE. So I'd bet that Mozilla can be made to use native Aqua widgets to a large degree; it may not use them everywhere (like buttons, etc.) but then neither does IE under OSX (it uses, for example, rounded-region quick-draw style buttons in forms) or even iTunes, which insists on using blue as its highllight/scrollbar color even though I have the system set to use graphite...whew, unintentionally long post. Here's a screenshot if that made no sense.
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Another nice thing about hotmail is their account expiration policy. It used to be 90 days (I went over that once a few years ago, after a move...never checked hotmail during that time, all my saved mail -- not alot, I wasn't really relying on it -- was gone once I signed up again). Then it went to 60 days, now I think it's 30 (they remind you of that in their frequent "you can pay for extra storage" messages).
I *noticed* that it's now 30 days by -- yep -- finding my account deactivated a few days ago. So, fine, everything in there was deleted (all spam anyway). I did notice though that the extra folder I'd created was still there (empty now), and so was, of course, all the marketing info in my profile (old and mostly made up, only my zip code was authentic, though it was old). They only throw out what isn't useful to them.
"A large portion of Wal-Mart's merchandise is produced in third-world countries under sweatshop conditions"
In fact, some of their merchandise has been shown to be manufactured in first-world countries under sweatshop conditions -- and by children, no less (i.e., the Kathie Lee thing). And of course, there's always the Wal-Mart practice of enforcing their own moralist values on their inventory/ services (e.g., their decision not to carry the morning-after pill).
An MS-free PC is a very good thing...but the cost outweighs the...cost, or whatever it is I'm trying to say.
I'll bite...mailto: is ermineshay at yahoo dot com.
isbn.nu is something of a step in the right sirection...it doesn't sell books directly, so it's pretty much a disinterested party (even imdb isn't really that anymore, since it's an Amazon site). but It would be nice to have something more comprehensive, that covered also books not in print that were important, that would have comprehensive (as best as possible) listings of every edition (in English only) of, say, The Aeneid.
maybe there isn't a widespread interest in this, and that's why it never developed. alt.rec.movies (or whichever usenet group) imdb grew out of obviously filled a need for lotsa people...why didn't this happen with books? maybe it's too late to start now.
still, I'd be interested. as it stands now, people discuss movies, actors, etc in their blogs and link w/out thinking to imdb pages. for books, they end up linking to amazon (or B&N or, even more rearely, booksense). none of those sites give quite the same depth of info on a book as imdb does on a movie.
if it really bothers you that much, just log in using uname:anonymous, pass:anonymous. hell, there are a ton of these that work...IIRC, slashdot/slashdot works, so should mefi/mefi (for metafilter). pick one, set a cookie, be done with it. NYT has has this login shit since '96 at least, but I'm not aware of they're having used it for anything.
or, bitch about it each time.
sorry, that was way offtopic
well, it's not that he's complaining that apple didn't personally ask him...it's just that so much that was veryvery right about the classic interface has gone away, never (in some cases) to return.
and the administrtor password crisis...that's one of the things that rang most true to me, as my experience was pretty much exactly the same (I think it was installing a printer driver).
It kind of uses the native Mac appearance, but not the exact widgets...what I mean is that the pop up menu does use the system font as set in the control panel and the scroll bars will match the configuration set in the appearance control panel, but Mozilla's still doing most of the work. And this is something that's been improving over time, as in previous milestones, there was no popup menu if you held down the mouse button on a page -- you had to right-click or control-click, and the menu font was always Charcoal (the default mac system font), no matter if you were using something else system-wide. Now it's a simple click-and-hold, just like Netscape 4.x or IE. So I'd bet that Mozilla can be made to use native Aqua widgets to a large degree; it may not use them everywhere (like buttons, etc.) but then neither does IE under OSX (it uses, for example, rounded-region quick-draw style buttons in forms) or even iTunes, which insists on using blue as its highllight/scrollbar color even though I have the system set to use graphite...whew, unintentionally long post. Here's a screenshot if that made no sense.