SMS isn't anywhere near as big in the US. People dont SMS much because most cellphone plans don't include an alottment of messages, and if they do, they charge you insane prices (10 cents per or something like that) if you go over, or send messages on a phone without an SMS plan.
These days new plans usually come with SMS or an option to get unlimited SMS at a small premium, so usage might pick up in the future. It's very much seen here as a "kids" thing (which makes sense. 95% of the time if you see someone sending a text message, it's a teen)
the reputation that goes with being a tightly-wound stress hound whose "fight" reflex beats the crap out of his "flight" reflex is no fun to live with, and hard to live down.
Does that mean you once beat one of your co workers for spooking you?;)
Excellent spam filtering (Thunderbird, yours rocked, at least it used to, but it had its shortfalls.)
Enough storage to never have to delete email.
Or worry about backing them up.
Accessiblity (web interface.)
Those are the points that have me glued to gMail as opposed to thunderbird. Some things the mail client could improve on (spam filtering and interface) while some are inherent of a webmail system (remote backup, storage, etc)
My guess is badly. Batteries are far less effecient in the cold. My only concern would be how to keep the heater going steadily. Powering it off the batteries would be horribly ineffecient.
It seems like it would perhaps be a bad idea to let three cutthroat competitors into a parternship with an "outsider" ---on the one hand you get 3 different kinds of input, but how do you deal with the competitors squabbling?
Man, I *HATED* Asus for that mobo. Mine had no end of problems, most related to the four in one drivers and Soundblasters doing whacky things, which required playing with PCI timing or something in BIOS to fix, and a video card issue that never ceased. Later in life, it would mysteriously not find drives on the Promise ATA100 controller.
I honestly think most of the problem was the via chipset; IF i was going to avoid one aspect of the board for ever and ever, it would be via's chipsets rather than the Asus brand
One of my friend who'd spent a lot of time in japan once suspected the popularity of various fetishes was dependant on the sexual openness as you mentioned, but also the encouraging of mantaining the status quo in certain walks of life, in particular men who are largely expected to basically be wage slaves their entire lives and conform to the corporate face. In that case, all the urge for deviation tends to get pushed into something you could partake of behind closed doors: sexual gratification.
Having only a bare knowledge of Japan and its culture I have no idea if his speculation is anywhere close to the mark, but it seems to make sense. I'd be interested in your affirmation or denial of the theory.
Nope. Then you click on each label to see the unread emails from each mailing list. Or you could put together a "labeled && unread" filter to show you the day's new emails
off topic, but training to incapacitate with a firearm is a great way to get yourself or others hurt.
For one thing if the situation doesn't warrant deadly force then you shouldn't have a gun out.
Second, trying to be a "cowboy" and kneecap or shoulder-shot---a non-mortal gunshot wound doesn't necessarily have the power to knock someone down, especially if they're in the process of attacking you (or others) or out of their mind on something (PCP among other things)
Since a bit before 1.0PR I havent bothered starting "clean" profile-wise and nothing bad's happened yet. After 1.0 I havent even done the install-to-a-new-folder thing anymore. Doesn't seem to be causing any problems.
I agree though, either way it's a hassle, and having to go do that for a customer instad of letting them just upgrade away makes things seem very unpolished.
More of a 'pointless regulation' thing than a 'loophole' thing.
I think originally the regulations were looser because at some point the vast majority of giant vehicles were actually used in the course of running a business (Delivery vans, hauling equipment/tools/lumber, etc)
Sadly the criteria was only weight and not utility factor, so all these new items (like the hummer) get thrown in when odds are a new hummer will never do a drop of hard work in its life, short of possibly pulling a trailer, which nearly any vehicle can do these days
I read somewhere (no source handy, sorry), that the USA has the lowest number of passports per head of population of any democracy. Does that worry you at all?
Plenty of people travel in the US. It just happens that the type of area most people are interested in going to (beach, ski slopes, whatever) can be gotten at without a passport.
I'd also be willing to say that plenty of people have a desire to travel outside the country, however flying your family to France or (my personal pick) Austria is a lot more expensive than driving or going by train from one end of europe to the other. Why bother getting a passport if you can't afford to go anywhere with it?
I've kept reptiles (mostly snakes) since befor I was ten years old (I'm 22 now)...no offense meant but I'm curious what species you were having trouble with. Based on my experience and knowledge it seems either you were dealing with difficult/finicky species or otherwise had some other factor affecting your reptiles' health.
Well hopefully they've gotten the message that you don't dick around with other people's computer equipment.
If the kids aren't capable of understanding or respecting that, then I quite frankly hope they don't "explore" any more. The world has enough petty hackers.
I probably should have stated that I'm more annoyed with multi file RAR's on Torrent downloads. Torrent already does multi-peice downloads so there is no need to do it again by breaking it up into a multi-file archive.
My take on this is that the seeder of the torrent was just too lazy to repackage the release he or she downloaded from Usenet (where releases are commonly broken up to make reposting easier)
When I worked as a tech for a small ISP, many, many times getting rid of AOl's dial up networking adapter would miraculously fix connection problems (despite AOl software sometimes being uninstalled already!)
If, for some reason, teenagers want the new Korn disk, they pool they're money and buy one, burn two. Can you blaim them when a little pile of digital plastic is $17 at retail?
What planet are you from? The teenagers I know borrow a copy and burn it for whoever's interested, or just download the whole thing.
The behavior of showing binary links as text onscreen is a result of a server misconfiguration, not any fault of Mozilla's. IE "guesses" a link's type by its file extension, while Moz relies on server information to determine what to do with it, which is the whole point of sending that info to begin with. Sometime shortly before firefox 1.0 there were some modifications made to cause this to happen less often; since then I havent encountered any problems.
Good lord, xanga layouts are the WORST. The epitome of tacky CSS.
Just try telling one of those little self proclaimed CSS experts their skills suck though, you'll likely get an angst fireball the likes of which you've never seen.
As long as you're not tailgating, you can easily avoid hitting a jacknifed or overturned truck.
I guess my reasoning was that sure, *I* can stop, but there's a lot of traffic behind me that's going to have to do the same thing, safely, without causing a domino chain of rear-end collisions.
That's interesting. In Charlotte, NC, it's explicitly legal for you to left-turn on red if you've been "stuck" in the intersection waiting on traffic to clear so you can turn--precisely to prevent those sorts of gridlocks
Why? An overturned/jacknifed 18wheeler is only a problem for those *behnd* it. Hauling ass to get in front of one is about the safest thing you can do, short of getting off the road period.
imagine a doctor on the way to an emergency having to explain the situation to the cop who just pulled him over... and the cop, having heard that old story a dozen times, not believing him ?
I imagine the Doc would pull out his hospital ID card/tag and furiously vibrating on-call pager and tell the cop to piss off.
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SMS isn't anywhere near as big in the US. People dont SMS much because most cellphone plans don't include an alottment of messages, and if they do, they charge you insane prices (10 cents per or something like that) if you go over, or send messages on a phone without an SMS plan.
These days new plans usually come with SMS or an option to get unlimited SMS at a small premium, so usage might pick up in the future. It's very much seen here as a "kids" thing (which makes sense. 95% of the time if you see someone sending a text message, it's a teen)
You, sir, are my hero. I wish I had mod points.
the reputation that goes with being a tightly-wound stress hound whose "fight" reflex beats the crap out of his "flight" reflex is no fun to live with, and hard to live down.
;)
Does that mean you once beat one of your co workers for spooking you?
A clean interface.
Excellent spam filtering (Thunderbird, yours rocked, at least it used to, but it had its shortfalls.)
Enough storage to never have to delete email.
Or worry about backing them up.
Accessiblity (web interface.)
Those are the points that have me glued to gMail as opposed to thunderbird. Some things the mail client could improve on (spam filtering and interface) while some are inherent of a webmail system (remote backup, storage, etc)
My guess is badly. Batteries are far less effecient in the cold. My only concern would be how to keep the heater going steadily. Powering it off the batteries would be horribly ineffecient.
It seems like it would perhaps be a bad idea to let three cutthroat competitors into a parternship with an "outsider" ---on the one hand you get 3 different kinds of input, but how do you deal with the competitors squabbling?
Contrasting story ahead:
Man, I *HATED* Asus for that mobo. Mine had no end of problems, most related to the four in one drivers and Soundblasters doing whacky things, which required playing with PCI timing or something in BIOS to fix, and a video card issue that never ceased. Later in life, it would mysteriously not find drives on the Promise ATA100 controller.
I honestly think most of the problem was the via chipset; IF i was going to avoid one aspect of the board for ever and ever, it would be via's chipsets rather than the Asus brand
One of my friend who'd spent a lot of time in japan once suspected the popularity of various fetishes was dependant on the sexual openness as you mentioned, but also the encouraging of mantaining the status quo in certain walks of life, in particular men who are largely expected to basically be wage slaves their entire lives and conform to the corporate face. In that case, all the urge for deviation tends to get pushed into something you could partake of behind closed doors: sexual gratification.
Having only a bare knowledge of Japan and its culture I have no idea if his speculation is anywhere close to the mark, but it seems to make sense. I'd be interested in your affirmation or denial of the theory.
Nope. Then you click on each label to see the unread emails from each mailing list. Or you could put together a "labeled && unread" filter to show you the day's new emails
Good punishment idea, but I'm not sure it'll catch on... What company would go for the idea of willfully lowering productivity?
off topic, but training to incapacitate with a firearm is a great way to get yourself or others hurt.
For one thing if the situation doesn't warrant deadly force then you shouldn't have a gun out.
Second, trying to be a "cowboy" and kneecap or shoulder-shot---a non-mortal gunshot wound doesn't necessarily have the power to knock someone down, especially if they're in the process of attacking you (or others) or out of their mind on something (PCP among other things)
Typically that only applies to betas does it not?
Since a bit before 1.0PR I havent bothered starting "clean" profile-wise and nothing bad's happened yet. After 1.0 I havent even done the install-to-a-new-folder thing anymore. Doesn't seem to be causing any problems.
I agree though, either way it's a hassle, and having to go do that for a customer instad of letting them just upgrade away makes things seem very unpolished.
More of a 'pointless regulation' thing than a 'loophole' thing.
I think originally the regulations were looser because at some point the vast majority of giant vehicles were actually used in the course of running a business (Delivery vans, hauling equipment/tools/lumber, etc)
Sadly the criteria was only weight and not utility factor, so all these new items (like the hummer) get thrown in when odds are a new hummer will never do a drop of hard work in its life, short of possibly pulling a trailer, which nearly any vehicle can do these days
I read somewhere (no source handy, sorry), that the USA has the lowest number of passports per head of population of any democracy. Does that worry you at all?
Plenty of people travel in the US. It just happens that the type of area most people are interested in going to (beach, ski slopes, whatever) can be gotten at without a passport.
I'd also be willing to say that plenty of people have a desire to travel outside the country, however flying your family to France or (my personal pick) Austria is a lot more expensive than driving or going by train from one end of europe to the other. Why bother getting a passport if you can't afford to go anywhere with it?
I've kept reptiles (mostly snakes) since befor I was ten years old (I'm 22 now)...no offense meant but I'm curious what species you were having trouble with. Based on my experience and knowledge it seems either you were dealing with difficult/finicky species or otherwise had some other factor affecting your reptiles' health.
Well hopefully they've gotten the message that you don't dick around with other people's computer equipment.
If the kids aren't capable of understanding or respecting that, then I quite frankly hope they don't "explore" any more. The world has enough petty hackers.
I probably should have stated that I'm more annoyed with multi file RAR's on Torrent downloads. Torrent already does multi-peice downloads so there is no need to do it again by breaking it up into a multi-file archive.
My take on this is that the seeder of the torrent was just too lazy to repackage the release he or she downloaded from Usenet (where releases are commonly broken up to make reposting easier)
When I worked as a tech for a small ISP, many, many times getting rid of AOl's dial up networking adapter would miraculously fix connection problems (despite AOl software sometimes being uninstalled already!)
If, for some reason, teenagers want the new Korn disk, they pool they're money and buy one, burn two. Can you blaim them when a little pile of digital plastic is $17 at retail?
What planet are you from? The teenagers I know borrow a copy and burn it for whoever's interested, or just download the whole thing.
The behavior of showing binary links as text onscreen is a result of a server misconfiguration, not any fault of Mozilla's. IE "guesses" a link's type by its file extension, while Moz relies on server information to determine what to do with it, which is the whole point of sending that info to begin with. Sometime shortly before firefox 1.0 there were some modifications made to cause this to happen less often; since then I havent encountered any problems.
Good lord, xanga layouts are the WORST. The epitome of tacky CSS.
Just try telling one of those little self proclaimed CSS experts their skills suck though, you'll likely get an angst fireball the likes of which you've never seen.
As long as you're not tailgating, you can easily avoid hitting a jacknifed or overturned truck.
I guess my reasoning was that sure, *I* can stop, but there's a lot of traffic behind me that's going to have to do the same thing, safely, without causing a domino chain of rear-end collisions.
That's interesting. In Charlotte, NC, it's explicitly legal for you to left-turn on red if you've been "stuck" in the intersection waiting on traffic to clear so you can turn--precisely to prevent those sorts of gridlocks
Why? An overturned/jacknifed 18wheeler is only a problem for those *behnd* it. Hauling ass to get in front of one is about the safest thing you can do, short of getting off the road period.
imagine a doctor on the way to an emergency having to explain the situation to the cop who just pulled him over ... and the cop, having heard that old story a dozen times, not believing him ?
I imagine the Doc would pull out his hospital ID card/tag and furiously vibrating on-call pager and tell the cop to piss off.