It is probably because Chrome Support was easy. As IE 9 supports HTML 5 and they are getting away from ActiveX and actually making their Web AppsWeb Compatible.
This. I've used the Office Web Apps before and I couldn't find anything that didn't work in Chrome. Safari was officially supported from the start, and both it and Chrome use WebKit. Support for Chrome is being "added" in only the most technical sense. It's the license that has changed, not the software.
there are no aesthetic qualities to discern in the flavor. its a bitter bean. in the rainbow of coffee flavors, its stilljusta bitterbean, and therefore without aesthetic attraction
maybe you can just admit you are a caffeine addict likeme, and your supposed aesthetic considerations are just a case of the emperor's new clothes
Or maybe you should admit that you don't like coffee, never have, but you started drinking it because you saw other people enjoying it and because you had no real taste for it, you guzzled it in such quantities that you became addicted to caffeine. You should probably switch to energy drinks; you will find the addition of sugar gives you more energy than caffeine alone. Meanwhile I will continue to enjoy my single cup of cappuccino of the day, lovingly handmade from my favorite coffee by me, just the way I like it.
With MSE it won't say anything if you have missed a scan
Sure it will.
hell it won't say anything if you don't update it for several days either
I believe it will, but why on earth would you disable the automatic updates? Windows Update will prompt you to install the latest updates when it runs, but even if you choose not to install them, MSE has its own update mechanism and they get installed anyway.
I've also noticed that MSE, at least in my experience, isn't really great at dealing with JavaScript nastiness, whereas Avast works like a HIPS and scans the page BEFORE it loads, thus keeping drive bys away. It is a subtle difference but an important one IMHO.
Yeah that's the part that sounds too intrusive. I don't need an AV program slowing down every Web page I try to load. But like I said, it's a matter of preference. I don't think the average user really needs a HIPS running on their workstation.
Actually, I think you fail to grasp the reason for the "incremental proof of age." If you selectively decide whom you are going to card, you run the risk of a discrimination lawsuit. You didn't card me because you thought I was underage, you carded me because I was black. You carded me because I was a woman and you wanted to find out my address to stalk me. You turned me away because I didn't have an ID even though I was obviously over 21, and that's age discrimination. Eventually the only option is to just card absolutely everybody, even if they have a grey beard down to their knees.
The English that I learned says that toygeek did it right. Word's ending in "s" should not get the "'s" after them, the apostrophe is sufficient.
I do not think you learned the rule completely. Look carefully at what Strunk & White says in the linked text: "Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's." Words that end with S that are not singular still just take the apostrophe, as you say. So it would be "the witch's cauldron," but in the case of Shakespeare's MacBeth, it would be "the witches' cauldron." For singular words, though, adding the apostrophe-S is generally preferred, because it helps avoid ambiguity. If you think about it, though, this almost never applies to anything but proper names. There really aren't many (any?) words in the English language that end in S but have the same form whether they are plural or singular. Most add -es to make them plural, in which case they just take the apostrophe.
Totally agree. Just a few weeks ago I was having trouble with my video card. One monitor wouldn't power up right, then it would, but it wouldn't get the right resolution, etc. I tried every combination of re-loading a System Restore point, re-installing drivers, swapping out cables... then one afternoon I went to reboot the machine, heard a sharp "Snap!" and a little plume of greyish smoke came out of the back of my PC. The machine kept booting, but neither monitor would light up. "Aaaaaah, so that was it!" These things just happen.
Knowing how to check your RAM isn't like knowing how to rebuild your car engine.
Depends what you mean by "check your RAM." If you mean opening a control panel to find out how much RAM you actually have, sure. But if you mean actually swapping out their RAM or adding more, I really do think that's beyond most people. Haven't you ever seen people with three keys missing on their laptop keyboard and a crack in the case and wondered how somebody could spend $1,000 on something and still treat it that way? Asking those people to plug in a USB cable is one thing; asking them to plug in a DIMM is another.
You're also probably coming from the bias of having built your PC yourself. Some of the cases they use to build consumer off-the-shelf PCs from Best Buy etc. do not make it easy to swap out the hard drive, let alone RAM.
Avast free is a better choice, as it has web shield which scans pages before they load and will strip out nasty scripts like drive bys, has P2P and messenger protection, all in all I'd say it is a better AV and with both being 100% free (I'd never give a customer trialware crap) why not use the better solution?
I'd say "better" in this respect is somewhat subjective. Your description of Avast sounds too resource-hungry and intrusive for my own needs. I also find MSE's interface to be that much more brain-dead simple, which in this context is probably a good thing. But I don't see how it really matters either way; you and the GP are essentially giving the same advice.
Knowing how pipes fit together isn't that difficult either. Again, a basic knowledge of plumbing doesn't take very long to learn.
And yet, if you set out to re-do all the plumbing in your house with the understanding that plumbing is really nothing but knowing how to fit pipes together, you're in for a big surprise the first time you flush the toilet.
The problem is that most people (well, the vast majority of Americans, and probably UKers, too, and Asians for that matter, what with the "rice bowl" and "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down") are not naturally curious.
Oh, that's such bullshit.
Q: Have you ever wondered what a wasp's nest looks like on the inside? A: Sure, I guess. Q: Great! You are one of the few naturally curious people left in the world. I happen to have a wasp's nest right here, would you like to stick your head in it?
Do you think most of these people really even care to learn? No. They get pissed when they get ripped off and they'll remember the guy and the company for a long time, but they still don't care about how it works or how to troubleshoot it. Most people are like that and it's just a fact of life.
You act as though you think it's unreasonable to be "like that."
Honestly, if you have enough money to hire somebody to fix your computer for you and you still do it yourself anyway, you are a geek. Period. For most people -- even technically-savvy people -- there is nothing fun or rewarding about cleaning up a wrecked computer. Life's too short, and there are too many other interesting things worth doing.
The real problem is that most people who take a computer in to the shop expect that the people who will be attempting to fix it will be at least as competent as your average auto mechanic. Most are not. I've heard all kinds of crackpot theories, dumb advice, and outright lies that were told to my non-geek friends by computer repair types. There really ought to be some kind of certification, but I'll be damned if I know how to create one and have it mean anything.
So for only $10 millions dollars you can buy a device that is worth billions. Yeah right.
What are the rules of the contest? Is there any language that says you can't file patents for your invention -- or parts of it -- before submitting? $10 million would be a nice chunk of seed capital.
OK, this thing with the half-shown posts is just about the last straw. For all the years that people have been talking about software design and Web design, isn't there one single developer who actually looks at the results before they push a new CSS file out to the live Slashdot site?
I mean, for fuck's sake, it was bad enough when they went to the new design, and you couldn't click on a Reply link without it expanding the parent... then trying again and it would expand the grandparent... then trying again and again and again, and eventually it would let you actually click on the link you wanted to click on.
It was bad enough when the CSS varied from topic to topic, so when you wanted to post a reply on something about, say, games, the UI would work differently than for other topics (maybe the text would be too small to read, for example).
No, now they've figured out a way so that you can't actually read the text of any of the posts, because they all overlap and you can only see the first three pixels or so of any line.
Congratulations,/. wizards! How the fuck you get paid for a living should be an inspiration to anyone who's on their third beer at eight in the morning.
OK, but... how is their business not "selling music"? You say yourself that labels pay to promote music, in hopes that the artists become "successful." Define "success," and where does this concept of "revenue" come in?
Supposedly the difference now is these are storage lockers, that hold what music you upload to it, so like Google Music will have mass copies of some songs, depending on what people have in the their lockers. Google won't just hold 1 copy of Led Zepplin Black Dog, it will have as many copies as people have in their lockers.
That's not clear. At the keynote at Google I/O this morning, Google demonstrated a little future-box called a "Tungsten device." One of the hypothetical demos was a CD case with a NFC tag embedded in it. Walk up to the Tungsten box, wave the CD in front of it, and you hear a little chime. Now the contents of that CD have been added to your Google Music account -- no uploading necessary.
I believe what's different now is that this will be a streaming service. You can play your songs on whatever device supports it. But you can't download them from the locker. This allows Google and the RIAA to arrange a licensing scheme, similar to how terrestrial radio does it.
They gave one to every Google I/O attendee, in fact, so I have one right here. It seems pretty decent, for just having used it for a few minutes. For that matter, the Motorola Xoom isn't all that bad. I'm not sure either one is really competitive with the iPad yet, but that seems to mostly be a matter of what you can actually do with them -- meaning software -- which Google is working on, too.
Of course. The vast majority of civil lawsuits never see trial. Seems as though someone must have thought of this whole "settling" strategy before now.
No, on the contrary, when I say "you're not trying," I mean it. Chances are, if you got those cards when you were a student, the interest rates are capped at some ridiculously high amount. If you applied for a new card, chances are the rate could be a lot lower. There's nothing on your card that will tell you why it works the way it does -- all that information is held at the card company. But not all cards are the same, and if, as you say, there's nothing wrong with your credit, you should be able to chop up those cards and get new ones with decent rates.
Second, if you are getting a 4.65% APR on a credit card this year, that's basically a miracle. My credit rating is very good, and despite the fact that I pay my cards off at the end of the month every month, if I didn't, I'd owe over 25% APR on pretty much every card I have. The banks have used the credit crunch as an excuse to double or triple credit card APRs. Heck, here in California, you can barely even get home mortgages at 4.65%.
I didn't say it wasn't an unusual rate. It is. But 9.9% isn't totally un-doable, even today. And FYI I live in California, and I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, rich.
Home mortgages are a different deal from credit cards. When you sign up for a credit card, they typically set your rate as the current Prime Rate plus XYZ amount. I got my card during the 90s, when times were more flush and the Prime Rate was high, so they set my APR as just a point or two above Prime. They've just never changed the rate on me, which is why my rate is so low, now that the Prime Rate is practically nothing. Home mortgages are financed differently, and different rules and laws apply.
On the other hand, if your typical credit card APR is 25%, you have given me new insight into why you hate credit cards so much, because (no offense) you must have seriously f'ed up at some point in the past. You cannot possibly have a credit rating that is "very good" and still have rates that high, unless you're just not trying.
I have heard it said that credit card companies have a name for people who pay their bills on time every month. They call them deadbeats.
I have also heard it said that when a credit card company raises your interest rate, it's a pretty hard blow against your credit score. If you maintain good credit, credit card companies will be very reluctant to raise your APR, because of the personal damage it does to you. (They'd much rather keep your business, because even if your APR is low, you're a good risk.) If I was you, I'd want to call somebody, whether it be your credit card company or one of the credit reporting agencies, to find out why your rates have gone so high. It could be something you want to know about sooner rather than later.
It also might be something as simple as, as I've mentioned elsewhere, you have the wrong products. I had a bunch of cards with low interest rates, and then I noticed one had a rate of 18% or so. I called the company and said, "What gives? Everybody else is giving me these low rates, and you're screwing me." The lady on the phone told me I would totally qualify for a different rate, but she couldn't give me a lower rate as long as I kept the same card, because mine was basically a "student card," designed for people who were bad credit risks. (BTW, there was absolutely nothing on the card or the bill that indicated such -- it was a regular old "platinum Visa" with a high credit limit.) She encouraged me to apply for a different card right there over the phone. I did, she said she'd put it through the system, and if I was approved I should receive my new card in about four weeks. I did.
Who cares what the interest rate on a credit card is? Why would you ever pay it? Anyone who gives a cent of interest to a credit card company doesn't know what they're doing with money.
And as I've said, I disagree. If I walk down to a store in my city and buy something for $1,000 cash, I will also have to pay 9.5% sales tax. If, on the other hand, I buy the same thing from Amazon.com via credit card, chances are I won't have to pay any sales tax. My APR on my credit card (assuming I have decent credit) might be 9.9% -- but I'll only pay that much if I take an entire year to pay off the $1,000. Otherwise, I can take 3-4 months to pay it off, maintain my cash flow, and still pay less than if I paid cash. And I still gain all the other advantages of credit that I have already enumerated.
Say, instead, that anybody who doesn't know what they're doing with money doesn't know what they're doing with money. For those of us who do know what we're doing with money, please allow us the freedom to make our own decisions without your sanctimonious preaching.
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It is probably because Chrome Support was easy. As IE 9 supports HTML 5 and they are getting away from ActiveX and actually making their Web AppsWeb Compatible.
This. I've used the Office Web Apps before and I couldn't find anything that didn't work in Chrome. Safari was officially supported from the start, and both it and Chrome use WebKit. Support for Chrome is being "added" in only the most technical sense. It's the license that has changed, not the software.
there are no aesthetic qualities to discern in the flavor. its a bitter bean. in the rainbow of coffee flavors, its stilljusta bitterbean, and therefore without aesthetic attraction
maybe you can just admit you are a caffeine addict likeme, and your supposed aesthetic considerations are just a case of the emperor's new clothes
Or maybe you should admit that you don't like coffee, never have, but you started drinking it because you saw other people enjoying it and because you had no real taste for it, you guzzled it in such quantities that you became addicted to caffeine. You should probably switch to energy drinks; you will find the addition of sugar gives you more energy than caffeine alone. Meanwhile I will continue to enjoy my single cup of cappuccino of the day, lovingly handmade from my favorite coffee by me, just the way I like it.
That may be the biggest load of bullshit I have read in over a decade on Slashdot.
That is baseless hyperbole, sir! Jon Katz was still working for Slashdot ten years ago.
With MSE it won't say anything if you have missed a scan
Sure it will.
hell it won't say anything if you don't update it for several days either
I believe it will, but why on earth would you disable the automatic updates? Windows Update will prompt you to install the latest updates when it runs, but even if you choose not to install them, MSE has its own update mechanism and they get installed anyway.
I've also noticed that MSE, at least in my experience, isn't really great at dealing with JavaScript nastiness, whereas Avast works like a HIPS and scans the page BEFORE it loads, thus keeping drive bys away. It is a subtle difference but an important one IMHO.
Yeah that's the part that sounds too intrusive. I don't need an AV program slowing down every Web page I try to load. But like I said, it's a matter of preference. I don't think the average user really needs a HIPS running on their workstation.
Actually, I think you fail to grasp the reason for the "incremental proof of age." If you selectively decide whom you are going to card, you run the risk of a discrimination lawsuit. You didn't card me because you thought I was underage, you carded me because I was black. You carded me because I was a woman and you wanted to find out my address to stalk me. You turned me away because I didn't have an ID even though I was obviously over 21, and that's age discrimination. Eventually the only option is to just card absolutely everybody, even if they have a grey beard down to their knees.
The English that I learned says that toygeek did it right. Word's ending in "s" should not get the "'s" after them, the apostrophe is sufficient.
I do not think you learned the rule completely. Look carefully at what Strunk & White says in the linked text: "Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's." Words that end with S that are not singular still just take the apostrophe, as you say. So it would be "the witch's cauldron," but in the case of Shakespeare's MacBeth, it would be "the witches' cauldron." For singular words, though, adding the apostrophe-S is generally preferred, because it helps avoid ambiguity. If you think about it, though, this almost never applies to anything but proper names. There really aren't many (any?) words in the English language that end in S but have the same form whether they are plural or singular. Most add -es to make them plural, in which case they just take the apostrophe.
Totally agree. Just a few weeks ago I was having trouble with my video card. One monitor wouldn't power up right, then it would, but it wouldn't get the right resolution, etc. I tried every combination of re-loading a System Restore point, re-installing drivers, swapping out cables ... then one afternoon I went to reboot the machine, heard a sharp "Snap!" and a little plume of greyish smoke came out of the back of my PC. The machine kept booting, but neither monitor would light up. "Aaaaaah, so that was it!" These things just happen.
Knowing how to check your RAM isn't like knowing how to rebuild your car engine.
Depends what you mean by "check your RAM." If you mean opening a control panel to find out how much RAM you actually have, sure. But if you mean actually swapping out their RAM or adding more, I really do think that's beyond most people. Haven't you ever seen people with three keys missing on their laptop keyboard and a crack in the case and wondered how somebody could spend $1,000 on something and still treat it that way? Asking those people to plug in a USB cable is one thing; asking them to plug in a DIMM is another.
You're also probably coming from the bias of having built your PC yourself. Some of the cases they use to build consumer off-the-shelf PCs from Best Buy etc. do not make it easy to swap out the hard drive, let alone RAM.
Avast free is a better choice, as it has web shield which scans pages before they load and will strip out nasty scripts like drive bys, has P2P and messenger protection, all in all I'd say it is a better AV and with both being 100% free (I'd never give a customer trialware crap) why not use the better solution?
I'd say "better" in this respect is somewhat subjective. Your description of Avast sounds too resource-hungry and intrusive for my own needs. I also find MSE's interface to be that much more brain-dead simple, which in this context is probably a good thing. But I don't see how it really matters either way; you and the GP are essentially giving the same advice.
Knowing how pipes fit together isn't that difficult either. Again, a basic knowledge of plumbing doesn't take very long to learn.
And yet, if you set out to re-do all the plumbing in your house with the understanding that plumbing is really nothing but knowing how to fit pipes together, you're in for a big surprise the first time you flush the toilet.
The problem is that most people (well, the vast majority of Americans, and probably UKers, too, and Asians for that matter, what with the "rice bowl" and "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down") are not naturally curious.
Oh, that's such bullshit.
Q: Have you ever wondered what a wasp's nest looks like on the inside?
A: Sure, I guess.
Q: Great! You are one of the few naturally curious people left in the world. I happen to have a wasp's nest right here, would you like to stick your head in it?
Do you think most of these people really even care to learn? No. They get pissed when they get ripped off and they'll remember the guy and the company for a long time, but they still don't care about how it works or how to troubleshoot it. Most people are like that and it's just a fact of life.
You act as though you think it's unreasonable to be "like that."
Honestly, if you have enough money to hire somebody to fix your computer for you and you still do it yourself anyway, you are a geek. Period. For most people -- even technically-savvy people -- there is nothing fun or rewarding about cleaning up a wrecked computer. Life's too short, and there are too many other interesting things worth doing.
The real problem is that most people who take a computer in to the shop expect that the people who will be attempting to fix it will be at least as competent as your average auto mechanic. Most are not. I've heard all kinds of crackpot theories, dumb advice, and outright lies that were told to my non-geek friends by computer repair types. There really ought to be some kind of certification, but I'll be damned if I know how to create one and have it mean anything.
No, because of allergies.
You're allergic to titanium?
So for only $10 millions dollars you can buy a device that is worth billions. Yeah right.
What are the rules of the contest? Is there any language that says you can't file patents for your invention -- or parts of it -- before submitting? $10 million would be a nice chunk of seed capital.
OK, this thing with the half-shown posts is just about the last straw. For all the years that people have been talking about software design and Web design, isn't there one single developer who actually looks at the results before they push a new CSS file out to the live Slashdot site?
I mean, for fuck's sake, it was bad enough when they went to the new design, and you couldn't click on a Reply link without it expanding the parent... then trying again and it would expand the grandparent... then trying again and again and again, and eventually it would let you actually click on the link you wanted to click on.
It was bad enough when the CSS varied from topic to topic, so when you wanted to post a reply on something about, say, games, the UI would work differently than for other topics (maybe the text would be too small to read, for example).
No, now they've figured out a way so that you can't actually read the text of any of the posts, because they all overlap and you can only see the first three pixels or so of any line.
Congratulations, /. wizards! How the fuck you get paid for a living should be an inspiration to anyone who's on their third beer at eight in the morning.
OK, but... how is their business not "selling music"? You say yourself that labels pay to promote music, in hopes that the artists become "successful." Define "success," and where does this concept of "revenue" come in?
Supposedly the difference now is these are storage lockers, that hold what music you upload to it, so like Google Music will have mass copies of some songs, depending on what people have in the their lockers. Google won't just hold 1 copy of Led Zepplin Black Dog, it will have as many copies as people have in their lockers.
That's not clear. At the keynote at Google I/O this morning, Google demonstrated a little future-box called a "Tungsten device." One of the hypothetical demos was a CD case with a NFC tag embedded in it. Walk up to the Tungsten box, wave the CD in front of it, and you hear a little chime. Now the contents of that CD have been added to your Google Music account -- no uploading necessary.
I believe what's different now is that this will be a streaming service. You can play your songs on whatever device supports it. But you can't download them from the locker. This allows Google and the RIAA to arrange a licensing scheme, similar to how terrestrial radio does it.
They gave one to every Google I/O attendee, in fact, so I have one right here. It seems pretty decent, for just having used it for a few minutes. For that matter, the Motorola Xoom isn't all that bad. I'm not sure either one is really competitive with the iPad yet, but that seems to mostly be a matter of what you can actually do with them -- meaning software -- which Google is working on, too.
Actually, it was remastered in high definition video for the iPad...
Of course. The vast majority of civil lawsuits never see trial. Seems as though someone must have thought of this whole "settling" strategy before now.
many companies, such as Walmart, have worked very hard to NOT be seen as a target.
And, ironically, Target has worked very hard not to be seen as a Walmart.
No, on the contrary, when I say "you're not trying," I mean it. Chances are, if you got those cards when you were a student, the interest rates are capped at some ridiculously high amount. If you applied for a new card, chances are the rate could be a lot lower. There's nothing on your card that will tell you why it works the way it does -- all that information is held at the card company. But not all cards are the same, and if, as you say, there's nothing wrong with your credit, you should be able to chop up those cards and get new ones with decent rates.
Second, if you are getting a 4.65% APR on a credit card this year, that's basically a miracle. My credit rating is very good, and despite the fact that I pay my cards off at the end of the month every month, if I didn't, I'd owe over 25% APR on pretty much every card I have. The banks have used the credit crunch as an excuse to double or triple credit card APRs. Heck, here in California, you can barely even get home mortgages at 4.65%.
I didn't say it wasn't an unusual rate. It is. But 9.9% isn't totally un-doable, even today. And FYI I live in California, and I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, rich.
Home mortgages are a different deal from credit cards. When you sign up for a credit card, they typically set your rate as the current Prime Rate plus XYZ amount. I got my card during the 90s, when times were more flush and the Prime Rate was high, so they set my APR as just a point or two above Prime. They've just never changed the rate on me, which is why my rate is so low, now that the Prime Rate is practically nothing. Home mortgages are financed differently, and different rules and laws apply.
On the other hand, if your typical credit card APR is 25%, you have given me new insight into why you hate credit cards so much, because (no offense) you must have seriously f'ed up at some point in the past. You cannot possibly have a credit rating that is "very good" and still have rates that high, unless you're just not trying.
I have heard it said that credit card companies have a name for people who pay their bills on time every month. They call them deadbeats.
I have also heard it said that when a credit card company raises your interest rate, it's a pretty hard blow against your credit score. If you maintain good credit, credit card companies will be very reluctant to raise your APR, because of the personal damage it does to you. (They'd much rather keep your business, because even if your APR is low, you're a good risk.) If I was you, I'd want to call somebody, whether it be your credit card company or one of the credit reporting agencies, to find out why your rates have gone so high. It could be something you want to know about sooner rather than later.
It also might be something as simple as, as I've mentioned elsewhere, you have the wrong products. I had a bunch of cards with low interest rates, and then I noticed one had a rate of 18% or so. I called the company and said, "What gives? Everybody else is giving me these low rates, and you're screwing me." The lady on the phone told me I would totally qualify for a different rate, but she couldn't give me a lower rate as long as I kept the same card, because mine was basically a "student card," designed for people who were bad credit risks. (BTW, there was absolutely nothing on the card or the bill that indicated such -- it was a regular old "platinum Visa" with a high credit limit.) She encouraged me to apply for a different card right there over the phone. I did, she said she'd put it through the system, and if I was approved I should receive my new card in about four weeks. I did.
Who cares what the interest rate on a credit card is? Why would you ever pay it? Anyone who gives a cent of interest to a credit card company doesn't know what they're doing with money.
And as I've said, I disagree. If I walk down to a store in my city and buy something for $1,000 cash, I will also have to pay 9.5% sales tax. If, on the other hand, I buy the same thing from Amazon.com via credit card, chances are I won't have to pay any sales tax. My APR on my credit card (assuming I have decent credit) might be 9.9% -- but I'll only pay that much if I take an entire year to pay off the $1,000. Otherwise, I can take 3-4 months to pay it off, maintain my cash flow, and still pay less than if I paid cash. And I still gain all the other advantages of credit that I have already enumerated.
Say, instead, that anybody who doesn't know what they're doing with money doesn't know what they're doing with money. For those of us who do know what we're doing with money, please allow us the freedom to make our own decisions without your sanctimonious preaching.