Come on versus how the French look down at me at my poor attempts while they visit MY country? I call bullshit.
While its fun/popular to make fun of the US and English speakers, few other language groups will praise someone for their broken sentences as they make their first attempts. Most people are pretty touchy when their tongue is mispronounced. Perhaps that is fair but I wouldn't say its English speakers looking down on others due to their language (perhaps other things but not language).
And no, most Americans do not have a second language. But why would they? Its not like a small European nation where you can travel or see people from other countries on a semi-often basis. There many parts of the US where you will go years without a foreign visitor. You could argue that people should travel to see the world but when you have a nation that is large and varied as a majority of Europe, what's the need? You have enough to do just to know your own country. Wait a few years and most Americans will at least be bilingual, the schools have really picked up the amount of Spanish taught.
Actually the reason is a lot simpler and probably scarier - while the majority of Congress (and Americans) favor ending the embargo, Cuban immigrants do not. They hate Castro and want to make sure that the US puts pressure on him to the bitter end. And while Cuban Americans are a small population nationwide, they are a large percentage in Florida, which is important state in Presidential elections with the Cuban population a swing vote. So no one running for President will ever consider allowing the embargo to end for political reasons (it would be political suicide as you would lose Florida and probably the election), even though the rest of that nation knows what the policy should be.
I have only lived in two states (MI and VA) since the beginning of the Internet age and both required me to pay taxes on purchases made on the Internet or through catalogs.
Michigan was nice as it allowed me to simply pay a flat rate depending on my income or calculate the 6% on all goods and purchases made from out of state. At the time, financially, it always made more sense to pay the flat fee. In Virginia, I have to actually figure it out. Since I make a lot of small purchases online, I sort of guess. I should probably start to keep better records but because I do not, this is the place I am most worried every year. Hopefully a judge will give me the benefit of the doubt for a good faith effort.
For those that keep claiming that they do not have to pay sales tax on these purchases - a) do you live in a state without sales tax? b) do you pay income tax? c) do you read your state tax forms?
Exactly right. My parents are not the most savvy tech people - they call at least once a month to me at work with computer questions. The ads appeal to them, my dad has even started asking whether he should get a Mac. Why? Because he has the experience of the computer not "talking" with the new camera that he purchased or wanting to do a simple slide show of his recent trip to Hawaii. Those are things he knows others do on their computer and he cannot understand why he is not able to. It is to him that the Mac ads are so simple and so appealing.
Of course, Ms. Pelosi was not the Speaker of the House and not even technically the Speaker-elect of the House. Third in line to the President was Speaker Hastert until January. Pelosi was elected on January 4th. She was never elected before then. It was assumed she would be but it was not set in stone. The Speaker is not elected nationally but by the House itself when it comes to session.
Not to say that this is not a despicable comment. But I am not sure how they would be held guilty of this proposed crime.
Are you seriously suggesting that the more patches a program gets, the safer it is? Should Mozilla have you download 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, and 2.0.0.3 this week just so you feel safer without changes? Should they make changes if there are not serious flaws found? I ask because I am not understanding your logic - if you are truly not a troll as you claim.
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Well, my guess is that people will buy the Zune just because it has wireless sharing - even if it doesn't work properly or have anyone to share it with - just because it is what they wanted. They will then complain about how the technology world is going to hell (just like everyone complains America's schools are falling apart). And most of us will shake our heads and say you only have yourself to blame.
While, memory leaks have not necessarily always been the priority of Firefox's developers, it is on their radar screen and something that they recently are putting more of a focus on. A tool was developed to allow people to test for leaks and report leaks in a manner that has allowed devs to actually do something about it. Whinning that you have a bunch of tabs open and a lot of RAM is being used does not usually help a dev make a change.
On top of that, I believe that the Mighty Mouse's buttons are fully customizable in the System Preferences (not sure on that - I still use an old Logitech mouse on my Mac)
I can confirm that. I believe the default was for the middle click (scroll wheel) to bring in dashboard and the side buttons to take advantage of expose. But I quickly found that because I wanted middle clicks to have the same result as what I was used to in Windows and I found that using the corners of the screen was just as effective for Dashboard. Now I hate using the computers at work.
Since Firefox 1.0.3 (or maybe.4) the version would delete all previous registry entries are now deleted. It was long asked for by the community and became a necessity on the 1.0.x branch with updates regularly.
And updates that are not the full installer are working on the 1.5 branch that will be a release in late October. It works great! It actually allows someone to be in a channel so daily testers get new daily changes, while beta testers only get beta builds, and normal people only get final releases. It then is an incremental update so that all you get is about 200k a day (more if more changes). Works great, you will like it in Fx 1.5.
But there is a "microsoft.com" in everyone of the addresses. I know that it can be faked. But he is probably correct in saying that the average person (if they do anything to protect themselves) will look at the domain name. Having a mechanism to put 'mozilla.org' in there for each of the mirrors WOULD BE a good idea IMHO.
While I think the conclusions he draws from all of this are just plain hooey, which has been the reason so many are circling wagons against the article, he does raise some good points of trying to get the user to being to take security seriously. There are some things that we can easily do to encourage this during the download process. Until now we haven't been under the scrutiny but now is the time to take care of some of these very small problems and provide a completely superior user experience.
Of course that is why he does not have popups on his website and he made sure to put a link up at Firefox's release (or Opera's) where his readers would have immediate access and not having to go to their computer after the radio show. Wait, he did not do those things? Glad he is adding to the cause when he can actually make a difference.
Of course a lot of the downloads are upgrades. But you are missing the point of why this was so important - MARKETING.
The release of 1.0 PR garnered a lot of media attention. It appeared on news.google.com's front page. On most tech sites there was a mention. The Wall Street Journal mentioned it twice last week. And then it was going to fall from everyone's attention until 1.0 was released...
Except the MARKETING arm of Mozilla/Firefox decided to have a legitimate goal of 1 million downloads in ten days. This would be the most downloads of the browser ever but it was certainly do able. And then when users pushed it over 1 million much sooner - new press release and new stories. Mind share increased. And all of a sudden, it appears Firefox has huge momentum. And 1.0 is not even out yet. So, does this mean a ton of new users, not necessarily right away. But long term it shows that Mozilla has decided how important MARKETING is and they are ready to use its power to take the program to a whole new level.
You installed an extension for this? Try following these steps:
1. Right-click on any of the icons (say the home icon) and choose 'Customize'.
2. Choose small icons.
3. Then drag all icons and bars (such as the URL and Search) into the top menu bar. Everything should now be along the top. And if there are any icons you do not want or need, simply drag them onto the Customize Box.
4. But you say, there are still two bars without anything in them. Correct. Solve that by going 'View' > 'Toolbars' > and unselect both 'Navigation Toolbar' and 'Bookmark Toolbar.'
Not that the way you did it is wrong. Just that you will want to know about the feature of Customizing for other uses.
I don't exactly know how it works in Germany but from your comment it sounds like you are voting for one candidate or party at a time (i.e one election at a time). If this is not the case, then let me know and I will reevaluate the comment that I am about to make:
When I go to the ballot box this November I will not just be voting for the Presidency, I also have a Congressman on the ballot, a state senator, a state congressman, four judges, three county commissioners, as many as five ballot initiatives, and probably a drain comissioner or two. The Federal System that is in place in the United States means we have a lot of people at different levels to vote for. If just had that sheet of paper with 'X's that you described, we would need a very large sheet and it would have to be different for each small area of the country (still has to be different today but not a huge sheet). So either the text would have to be unreadable on this large sheet to mark the X's or it would have to be stappled or whatever. So having so many people being voted for makes it unrealistic to have the simplistic elegant solution that you propose.
You have to be lying, I mean Survivor is sooooo on CBS. And I always have to change to the Fox channel for my American Idol (and by the way, don't you think Abraham is such a hottie!)
I went a step further. I stopped buying CDs over their response because I thought it was ridculous. There is no way I am going to give money to a company that then turns around and prosecutes me. But I also decided that I did not want to just simply infringe on their copyright without purchasing music - so I stopped getting new music. I have tons of CDs that I had bought in the late 90s, many of them found pre-Napster online and then I purchased them. That's all the music I need. Sure it would be nice to go on and discover some other great groups and my favorite bands are about to stop touring (or have long ago) but I don't want to support the RIAA in any way. So I won't.
I completely understand your position. And I don't necessarily disagree. All I was pointing out was that if you were asked to help them the first time in a situation that you installed Firefox and changed it's name, wouldn't they ask you the second time if there was a problem? I think they would. At which point, since you helped them the first time, you would probably help them the second time and if not at least tell them that you installed a different browser so they knew when they talked with tech support.
From what I know about Utah politics, money won't do it. I am not sure legally you would be able to. Here's the facts about Utah:
their state House has 18 Democrats out of 75 Reps. their state Senate has 7 Democrats out of 29 Senators there are no statewide Democrats currently sitting in the government - at least that I could see both US Senators are Republicans Two out of Three US Congressman are Republicans
Hatch is up for reelection in 2006. Will win easily if he is not beat in the primary. Not sure that any strong Republican candidate will run against this particular incumbent. He is widly popular and is nationally known bringing huge amounts of porkbarreling to his state, the whole time screaming about how we need to cut spending (I have small Republican states, they get more than their fair share of taxes and always complain that the government is too small...)
But they asked him to fix their computer the first time, how many people do you know then turn and call tech support? I have found that the reason people turn to me to fix their computer is because, either:
a) they do not feel comfortable trying to fix it with help through the phone (including help from me on the phone) or
b) tech support is crap through that company (not necessarily their advice - it just takes a long time to actually get someone on the phone).
Either way, they choose to ask someone that posts on Slashdot to help them the first time, wouldn't they do it the second time? At least before calling tech support?
When you get a haircut, do you pay money? Are you engaging in free trade with your barber? Well what's the product? There is nothing created.
What about when you visit a psychologist? Any product? Does it count in a nation's GDP? Of course it does.
See there are things called services. You pay for them all the time and they count as trade. In many cases more important than actual physical products.
Exactly. NASA could have sent it to a journal that would have a handful of scientists look at the arguments (which they are sure to do) or they could let the world know what they were up to and in the process have the entire world analyze things. Sure this data is through a filter of the press, which may make it harder for scientists everywhere to analyze the claim. But they did do it live on NASA TV and surely have information on their website (or soon to). Therefore for you scientists out there, you will have a great opportunity to analyze, scrutinize, etc. a huge finding.
Meanwhile, Joe Blows like me can actually hear about it and read about it rather quickly, instead of waiting for the filter down process after a peer-reviewed journal down to a general science magazine down to Newsweek or Slashdot. And I am very happy about that. After all, I have at least a couple pennies invested in those two rovers. And I should have a right to know what they have found.
Most of the people I know that have an iPod use it for more than a modern walkman. They also plug it into their car stereos or speakers in their living room. With high storage capacities, MP3 players and their like are used for more than simply walking around listening to music. I would assume that this could be used for those situations.
The problem with your logic is that you have not stated what the top 7% of people filing returns made in total income that year. If it is over 51% of the nation's income than they would be paying a lower amount in percentage than someone poorer. Also, income tax is not the only type of tax, most middle class individuals see a huge raise in their percentage due to Social Security taxes. Factor those in and you would see a different percent of taxes being paid by the top 7%. The rich may pay more in taxes (dollar amount), but, of course they are rich and have more (again in real dollars) to pay. The real question becomes should they pay a higher percentage and if so what is the fair rate. That is where it gets tricky and your poor statistics are no help.
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Come on versus how the French look down at me at my poor attempts while they visit MY country? I call bullshit.
While its fun/popular to make fun of the US and English speakers, few other language groups will praise someone for their broken sentences as they make their first attempts. Most people are pretty touchy when their tongue is mispronounced. Perhaps that is fair but I wouldn't say its English speakers looking down on others due to their language (perhaps other things but not language).
And no, most Americans do not have a second language. But why would they? Its not like a small European nation where you can travel or see people from other countries on a semi-often basis. There many parts of the US where you will go years without a foreign visitor. You could argue that people should travel to see the world but when you have a nation that is large and varied as a majority of Europe, what's the need? You have enough to do just to know your own country. Wait a few years and most Americans will at least be bilingual, the schools have really picked up the amount of Spanish taught.
Actually the reason is a lot simpler and probably scarier - while the majority of Congress (and Americans) favor ending the embargo, Cuban immigrants do not. They hate Castro and want to make sure that the US puts pressure on him to the bitter end. And while Cuban Americans are a small population nationwide, they are a large percentage in Florida, which is important state in Presidential elections with the Cuban population a swing vote. So no one running for President will ever consider allowing the embargo to end for political reasons (it would be political suicide as you would lose Florida and probably the election), even though the rest of that nation knows what the policy should be.
I have only lived in two states (MI and VA) since the beginning of the Internet age and both required me to pay taxes on purchases made on the Internet or through catalogs.
Michigan was nice as it allowed me to simply pay a flat rate depending on my income or calculate the 6% on all goods and purchases made from out of state. At the time, financially, it always made more sense to pay the flat fee. In Virginia, I have to actually figure it out. Since I make a lot of small purchases online, I sort of guess. I should probably start to keep better records but because I do not, this is the place I am most worried every year. Hopefully a judge will give me the benefit of the doubt for a good faith effort.
For those that keep claiming that they do not have to pay sales tax on these purchases - a) do you live in a state without sales tax? b) do you pay income tax? c) do you read your state tax forms?
Exactly right. My parents are not the most savvy tech people - they call at least once a month to me at work with computer questions. The ads appeal to them, my dad has even started asking whether he should get a Mac. Why? Because he has the experience of the computer not "talking" with the new camera that he purchased or wanting to do a simple slide show of his recent trip to Hawaii. Those are things he knows others do on their computer and he cannot understand why he is not able to. It is to him that the Mac ads are so simple and so appealing.
Of course, Ms. Pelosi was not the Speaker of the House and not even technically the Speaker-elect of the House. Third in line to the President was Speaker Hastert until January. Pelosi was elected on January 4th. She was never elected before then. It was assumed she would be but it was not set in stone. The Speaker is not elected nationally but by the House itself when it comes to session.
Not to say that this is not a despicable comment. But I am not sure how they would be held guilty of this proposed crime.
Are you seriously suggesting that the more patches a program gets, the safer it is? Should Mozilla have you download 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, and 2.0.0.3 this week just so you feel safer without changes? Should they make changes if there are not serious flaws found? I ask because I am not understanding your logic - if you are truly not a troll as you claim.
Well, my guess is that people will buy the Zune just because it has wireless sharing - even if it doesn't work properly or have anyone to share it with - just because it is what they wanted. They will then complain about how the technology world is going to hell (just like everyone complains America's schools are falling apart). And most of us will shake our heads and say you only have yourself to blame.
While, memory leaks have not necessarily always been the priority of Firefox's developers, it is on their radar screen and something that they recently are putting more of a focus on. A tool was developed to allow people to test for leaks and report leaks in a manner that has allowed devs to actually do something about it. Whinning that you have a bunch of tabs open and a lot of RAM is being used does not usually help a dev make a change.
Already 1.5.0.1 has incorporated two memory leak fixes and more are on the way in Firefox 2 and 3. For more information check out Jesse Rudderman's post on the matter and if you want to report proper leaks check his write-up on the tool.
On top of that, I believe that the Mighty Mouse's buttons are fully customizable in the System Preferences (not sure on that - I still use an old Logitech mouse on my Mac)
I can confirm that. I believe the default was for the middle click (scroll wheel) to bring in dashboard and the side buttons to take advantage of expose. But I quickly found that because I wanted middle clicks to have the same result as what I was used to in Windows and I found that using the corners of the screen was just as effective for Dashboard. Now I hate using the computers at work.
In terms of Firefox, both things have been fixed.
.4) the version would delete all previous registry entries are now deleted. It was long asked for by the community and became a necessity on the 1.0.x branch with updates regularly.
Since Firefox 1.0.3 (or maybe
And updates that are not the full installer are working on the 1.5 branch that will be a release in late October. It works great! It actually allows someone to be in a channel so daily testers get new daily changes, while beta testers only get beta builds, and normal people only get final releases. It then is an incremental update so that all you get is about 200k a day (more if more changes). Works great, you will like it in Fx 1.5.
But there is a "microsoft.com" in everyone of the addresses. I know that it can be faked. But he is probably correct in saying that the average person (if they do anything to protect themselves) will look at the domain name. Having a mechanism to put 'mozilla.org' in there for each of the mirrors WOULD BE a good idea IMHO.
While I think the conclusions he draws from all of this are just plain hooey, which has been the reason so many are circling wagons against the article, he does raise some good points of trying to get the user to being to take security seriously. There are some things that we can easily do to encourage this during the download process. Until now we haven't been under the scrutiny but now is the time to take care of some of these very small problems and provide a completely superior user experience.
Of course that is why he does not have popups on his website and he made sure to put a link up at Firefox's release (or Opera's) where his readers would have immediate access and not having to go to their computer after the radio show. Wait, he did not do those things? Glad he is adding to the cause when he can actually make a difference.
Of course a lot of the downloads are upgrades. But you are missing the point of why this was so important - MARKETING.
The release of 1.0 PR garnered a lot of media attention. It appeared on news.google.com's front page. On most tech sites there was a mention. The Wall Street Journal mentioned it twice last week. And then it was going to fall from everyone's attention until 1.0 was released...
Except the MARKETING arm of Mozilla/Firefox decided to have a legitimate goal of 1 million downloads in ten days. This would be the most downloads of the browser ever but it was certainly do able. And then when users pushed it over 1 million much sooner - new press release and new stories. Mind share increased. And all of a sudden, it appears Firefox has huge momentum. And 1.0 is not even out yet. So, does this mean a ton of new users, not necessarily right away. But long term it shows that Mozilla has decided how important MARKETING is and they are ready to use its power to take the program to a whole new level.
You installed an extension for this? Try following these steps:
1. Right-click on any of the icons (say the home icon) and choose 'Customize'.
2. Choose small icons.
3. Then drag all icons and bars (such as the URL and Search) into the top menu bar. Everything should now be along the top. And if there are any icons you do not want or need, simply drag them onto the Customize Box.
4. But you say, there are still two bars without anything in them. Correct. Solve that by going 'View' > 'Toolbars' > and unselect both 'Navigation Toolbar' and 'Bookmark Toolbar.'
Not that the way you did it is wrong. Just that you will want to know about the feature of Customizing for other uses.
I don't exactly know how it works in Germany but from your comment it sounds like you are voting for one candidate or party at a time (i.e one election at a time). If this is not the case, then let me know and I will reevaluate the comment that I am about to make:
When I go to the ballot box this November I will not just be voting for the Presidency, I also have a Congressman on the ballot, a state senator, a state congressman, four judges, three county commissioners, as many as five ballot initiatives, and probably a drain comissioner or two. The Federal System that is in place in the United States means we have a lot of people at different levels to vote for. If just had that sheet of paper with 'X's that you described, we would need a very large sheet and it would have to be different for each small area of the country (still has to be different today but not a huge sheet). So either the text would have to be unreadable on this large sheet to mark the X's or it would have to be stappled or whatever. So having so many people being voted for makes it unrealistic to have the simplistic elegant solution that you propose.
You have to be lying, I mean Survivor is sooooo on CBS. And I always have to change to the Fox channel for my American Idol (and by the way, don't you think Abraham is such a hottie!)
I went a step further. I stopped buying CDs over their response because I thought it was ridculous. There is no way I am going to give money to a company that then turns around and prosecutes me. But I also decided that I did not want to just simply infringe on their copyright without purchasing music - so I stopped getting new music. I have tons of CDs that I had bought in the late 90s, many of them found pre-Napster online and then I purchased them. That's all the music I need. Sure it would be nice to go on and discover some other great groups and my favorite bands are about to stop touring (or have long ago) but I don't want to support the RIAA in any way. So I won't.
I completely understand your position. And I don't necessarily disagree. All I was pointing out was that if you were asked to help them the first time in a situation that you installed Firefox and changed it's name, wouldn't they ask you the second time if there was a problem? I think they would. At which point, since you helped them the first time, you would probably help them the second time and if not at least tell them that you installed a different browser so they knew when they talked with tech support.
From what I know about Utah politics, money won't do it. I am not sure legally you would be able to. Here's the facts about Utah:
their state House has 18 Democrats out of 75 Reps.
their state Senate has 7 Democrats out of 29 Senators
there are no statewide Democrats currently sitting in the government - at least that I could see
both US Senators are Republicans
Two out of Three US Congressman are Republicans
Hatch is up for reelection in 2006. Will win easily if he is not beat in the primary. Not sure that any strong Republican candidate will run against this particular incumbent. He is widly popular and is nationally known bringing huge amounts of porkbarreling to his state, the whole time screaming about how we need to cut spending (I have small Republican states, they get more than their fair share of taxes and always complain that the government is too small...)
But they asked him to fix their computer the first time, how many people do you know then turn and call tech support? I have found that the reason people turn to me to fix their computer is because, either:
a) they do not feel comfortable trying to fix it with help through the phone (including help from me on the phone) or
b) tech support is crap through that company (not necessarily their advice - it just takes a long time to actually get someone on the phone).
Either way, they choose to ask someone that posts on Slashdot to help them the first time, wouldn't they do it the second time? At least before calling tech support?
When you get a haircut, do you pay money? Are you engaging in free trade with your barber? Well what's the product? There is nothing created.
What about when you visit a psychologist? Any product? Does it count in a nation's GDP? Of course it does.
See there are things called services. You pay for them all the time and they count as trade. In many cases more important than actual physical products.
Exactly. NASA could have sent it to a journal that would have a handful of scientists look at the arguments (which they are sure to do) or they could let the world know what they were up to and in the process have the entire world analyze things. Sure this data is through a filter of the press, which may make it harder for scientists everywhere to analyze the claim. But they did do it live on NASA TV and surely have information on their website (or soon to). Therefore for you scientists out there, you will have a great opportunity to analyze, scrutinize, etc. a huge finding.
Meanwhile, Joe Blows like me can actually hear about it and read about it rather quickly, instead of waiting for the filter down process after a peer-reviewed journal down to a general science magazine down to Newsweek or Slashdot. And I am very happy about that. After all, I have at least a couple pennies invested in those two rovers. And I should have a right to know what they have found.
Most of the people I know that have an iPod use it for more than a modern walkman. They also plug it into their car stereos or speakers in their living room. With high storage capacities, MP3 players and their like are used for more than simply walking around listening to music. I would assume that this could be used for those situations.
More likely the Incas are Inuit refugees. Or descendents from the same people that spread out after coming across the Bering Straits a long time ago.
The problem with your logic is that you have not stated what the top 7% of people filing returns made in total income that year. If it is over 51% of the nation's income than they would be paying a lower amount in percentage than someone poorer. Also, income tax is not the only type of tax, most middle class individuals see a huge raise in their percentage due to Social Security taxes. Factor those in and you would see a different percent of taxes being paid by the top 7%. The rich may pay more in taxes (dollar amount), but, of course they are rich and have more (again in real dollars) to pay. The real question becomes should they pay a higher percentage and if so what is the fair rate. That is where it gets tricky and your poor statistics are no help.