I'm curious, with Comcast's 250 Gig monthly cap, surely they have some incredibly convenient & easy way to check on their website my home has used, right? What's the URL by chance?
Now before anyone answers with some bizarre homebrew method for figuring out bw usage: 1) I'm not buying a new router that I could do some sort of firmware upgrade to add a bw monitor. While nice, I'm not going out of my way to do it. 2) I'm using multiple systems at home, so a TSR app won't cut it 3) Comcast won't believe for a second how much some 3rd party bw monitor says I used, no more than my bank will believe I have a xyz dollars in my account because Quicken says so.
Google Office-like apps: Netbook MS Office: bloated pig laptop that cost $3K.
I'm just fine with the Google Apps. All the extra features that the latest revision of MS Office has that Google doesn't don't ever get any usage from me anyways.
Addendium 6. No google toolbar like on FF. I use that way too often. I don't like Chrome's non-working implementation 7. The installation of an update daemon. It's 2008. Please stop doing this. Did you hire Apple programmers or something? Your program isn't important enough to have an always-running daemon for whatever the heck that is.
1. When browsing on my laptop w/ mousewheel(actually tap zone), it scrolls way too fast. Why do apps insist on overriding the OS setting for mousewheel scroll levels? I set it my way for a reason. 2. Importing FF bookmarks puts ALL the bookmarks 1-subfolder deep. There's no automagic way to move it up one level in the tree. You have to drag them one by one. 3. No flashblock. Flash ads are getting more and more irritating by the day. We need it. Not google's fault entirely. 4. Hanging on "resolving proxy" regardless of the fix you applied. Sometimes it's "resolving host" either way, when it hangs on that, it negates all speed advantages. 5. If Firefox works just fine for me, why switch to Chrome? I see no real need to.
idle.slashdot.org reminds me of CNN's "half hour news hour", which was a pale imitation of The Daily Show. idle is like a pale imitation of fark. Now with even narrower text entry boxes!
Exactly. When people claim loss of business due to piracy, etc(ie anything except poor sales), they assume that their product is selling like hotcakes in said alternate piracy-free universe. If your product sells poorly, you have nobody else to blame in the courts or elsewhere.
Mind you, if a mugger robs me of a lottery ticket, I'm going to sue them for the current PowerBall amount, since, you know, that coulda been the winning ticket.
I know somewhere on the web there's a nationwide wi-fi map, with every point listing their name. I checked my house, and there was my AP. So yeah, pretty slick making software from that data.
Double edged sword here: yes, privacy concerns, but if your laptop gets stolen & the thief is at a documented area, go in for the retrieval!
I have an EEE 4G model, and I actually enjoy the Windows-like tweaks they put into it. I can add/remove start menu programs easier than Ubuntu every day. Sadly, I can't get gcc working wiht it, so it's not perfect. You are right about the repositories. The one for ASUS is just for asus-specific software, and doesn't go beyond that. A nicely-tweaked ubuntu(that doesn't stray too far from the path) sounds like something I might try. Just code for lower resolutions for the dialog boxes and such.
What confuses me is that there's CD audio ripping software pre-installed, but it doesn't have an optical drive. Huh?
Can OCR properly trace the lines at least to replicate it? Meaning, it could make a vector replica of the handwriting? Would be neat if it could do that, then try to straighten out the lines, perhaps to simulate the possible path the original writer took to write it. Of course, the software will have to figure out intersections. Maybe a path of logic would be to know what turns a handwriter would NOT take, and then determine individual letters from that.
Combine that with other logic, like finding "dots" would indicate an i or a j, and maybe it will improve.
How about wiggling letters & numbers? Don't go overboard where humans can't read it, but something you can't hotlink from another site(duh). Or have it play a little game that can't have an automated player figure it out?
(RealPlayer for Linux is actually a really good media player. Works well, plays everything, none of the quasi-spyware behaviour it was famous for on Windows. CULTURE SHOCK!)
Perhaps the developers of RealNetworks haven't yet figured out how to incorporate spyware, etc, and 200 other annoyances into Linux yet.
All lawsuits aside, RealNetworks is a company that has a horrible product that hasn't kept up with the rest of the world. The only innovations they have done are negative ones, such as bundling excess junk onto one product, and reminding you to buy it. I'm honestly surprised they are still in business.
I have a 45 single from a new wave band(MainFrame). The B-side doesn't contain a song, but a program, in 3 different versions for some UK computers. Pretty slick. There's a whole web page devoted to cassette programs stuck on Vinyl. I think even The Stranglers did it on a release.
Sadly, you are right. I'm on sqaforums.com, and 99% of the threads posted there are n00bs from India asking people to do their job for them. It seems a high percentage of people there don't want to learn on their own and figure out things. A lot of them just grasp on to buzzwords and ask vague questions about various qa test tools. Guess I should find a different forum.:)
1. Has a tendency to make your browser freeze up 2. Tries to infect some sort of TSR in Windows called Acrord32 3. Will frequently pop up a "checking for updates" dialog 4. Makes the fastest of computers slow to a crawl. 5. a super-jumpy scrolling interface
No wait, those aren't malware symptoms, that's just in Adobe's product. Next week we will discuss the incredible annoyances of the "java runtime environment" daily annoyances & clog-ups in "Add/Remove Programs". Do ANY software vendors know how annoying their software can be at times? Even Apple is guilty of forcing add-on installs you have no choice to get out of.
The whole reason Palin is using Yahoo instead of government sponsored email is that any email sent through those channels is archived for a Very Long Time as a matter of public record. Wondering what the clerk at the DMV is REALLY emailing about? Put in a freedom of information act request and it's all yours.
I just assume getting a Yahoo email account working was faster & more efficient than getting a government-issued email account working. I mean look how badly the white house lost all those emails!
Here's what I don't get: Napster started as a free app to download pirated music. Now after many changes, it's being sold for millions of dollars. What are they exactly bringing to the table? Just the subscribers?
The sale of myspace for an obscene amount of money makes more sense than this(eyes to see ads). Still not quite getting the Napster sale.
Then again, this is the same world that the "I'm rich!" iPhone app sold for a while.
The next time your neighbor's house is on fire, and you're the only one awake to see the flames, remember back to that incident. Remember it very clearly before you suddenly forget the last digit to 999(or whatever your country's equivalent of 911 is).
I'm for order, but when you go to far in "snitching" on your neighbors, suddenly any feeling of "community" is thrown right out the window. Those fences start to get higher, and those neighbors are suddenly less "how you doing?" when you walk on by.
Remember "online services" of yesteryear? GeNie, The Source, CompuServe? TEXnet? QuantumLink?
They were charging crazy rates(like $10, etc) per HOUR of usage? PER HOUR people. And that was on dialup. And there were premium fees for certain this or that. We have things better than we ever did before.
I'm okay with that. I'm only using the 'net when I'm at home, so it's all good.
Don't worry about the site redesign, you will "Get over it".
+20 points if you get that reference. I am sick of websites that insist on redesigning their layout every few years for no real reason. Digg added their bouncy rubber text entry boxes.
Why do websites have text entry boxes' width a mere fraction of what it's going to look like on the final site?
My secure webmail site I used had their certificate expire. EVERY single time in FF2 I had to hit the button on that dialog. I prefer the exception method in FF3.
Sure, yes, the certificate expired. Big deal. Not the end of the world. Life goes on, and I'd rather have it encrypted than non-encrypted.
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I'm curious, with Comcast's 250 Gig monthly cap, surely they have some incredibly convenient & easy way to check on their website my home has used, right? What's the URL by chance?
Now before anyone answers with some bizarre homebrew method for figuring out bw usage:
1) I'm not buying a new router that I could do some sort of firmware upgrade to add a bw monitor. While nice, I'm not going out of my way to do it.
2) I'm using multiple systems at home, so a TSR app won't cut it
3) Comcast won't believe for a second how much some 3rd party bw monitor says I used, no more than my bank will believe I have a xyz dollars in my account because Quicken says so.
Good to see where US tax money spent in past.
And think of how much revenue & jobs it has created for US companies many years later. I would say it was a damn good investment.
Google Office-like apps: Netbook
MS Office: bloated pig laptop that cost $3K.
I'm just fine with the Google Apps. All the extra features that the latest revision of MS Office has that Google doesn't don't ever get any usage from me anyways.
Addendium
6. No google toolbar like on FF. I use that way too often. I don't like Chrome's non-working implementation
7. The installation of an update daemon. It's 2008. Please stop doing this. Did you hire Apple programmers or something? Your program isn't important enough to have an always-running daemon for whatever the heck that is.
1. When browsing on my laptop w/ mousewheel(actually tap zone), it scrolls way too fast. Why do apps insist on overriding the OS setting for mousewheel scroll levels? I set it my way for a reason.
2. Importing FF bookmarks puts ALL the bookmarks 1-subfolder deep. There's no automagic way to move it up one level in the tree. You have to drag them one by one.
3. No flashblock. Flash ads are getting more and more irritating by the day. We need it. Not google's fault entirely.
4. Hanging on "resolving proxy" regardless of the fix you applied. Sometimes it's "resolving host" either way, when it hangs on that, it negates all speed advantages.
5. If Firefox works just fine for me, why switch to Chrome? I see no real need to.
idle.slashdot.org reminds me of CNN's "half hour news hour", which was a pale imitation of The Daily Show. idle is like a pale imitation of fark. Now with even narrower text entry boxes!
..even have a facility for the webcam and mic anyways?
Exactly. When people claim loss of business due to piracy, etc(ie anything except poor sales), they assume that their product is selling like hotcakes in said alternate piracy-free universe. If your product sells poorly, you have nobody else to blame in the courts or elsewhere.
Mind you, if a mugger robs me of a lottery ticket, I'm going to sue them for the current PowerBall amount, since, you know, that coulda been the winning ticket.
I know somewhere on the web there's a nationwide wi-fi map, with every point listing their name. I checked my house, and there was my AP. So yeah, pretty slick making software from that data.
Double edged sword here: yes, privacy concerns, but if your laptop gets stolen & the thief is at a documented area, go in for the retrieval!
I have an EEE 4G model, and I actually enjoy the Windows-like tweaks they put into it. I can add/remove start menu programs easier than Ubuntu every day. Sadly, I can't get gcc working wiht it, so it's not perfect. You are right about the repositories. The one for ASUS is just for asus-specific software, and doesn't go beyond that. A nicely-tweaked ubuntu(that doesn't stray too far from the path) sounds like something I might try. Just code for lower resolutions for the dialog boxes and such.
What confuses me is that there's CD audio ripping software pre-installed, but it doesn't have an optical drive. Huh?
Can OCR properly trace the lines at least to replicate it? Meaning, it could make a vector replica of the handwriting? Would be neat if it could do that, then try to straighten out the lines, perhaps to simulate the possible path the original writer took to write it. Of course, the software will have to figure out intersections. Maybe a path of logic would be to know what turns a handwriter would NOT take, and then determine individual letters from that.
Combine that with other logic, like finding "dots" would indicate an i or a j, and maybe it will improve.
How about wiggling letters & numbers? Don't go overboard where humans can't read it, but something you can't hotlink from another site(duh). Or have it play a little game that can't have an automated player figure it out?
VRML was hyped when we only had dial-up modems. We have a wee bit more bandwidth now, and a bit more graphic processing power than last time.
(RealPlayer for Linux is actually a really good media player. Works well, plays everything, none of the quasi-spyware behaviour it was famous for on Windows. CULTURE SHOCK!)
Perhaps the developers of RealNetworks haven't yet figured out how to incorporate spyware, etc, and 200 other annoyances into Linux yet.
All lawsuits aside, RealNetworks is a company that has a horrible product that hasn't kept up with the rest of the world. The only innovations they have done are negative ones, such as bundling excess junk onto one product, and reminding you to buy it. I'm honestly surprised they are still in business.
I have a 45 single from a new wave band(MainFrame). The B-side doesn't contain a song, but a program, in 3 different versions for some UK computers. Pretty slick. There's a whole web page devoted to cassette programs stuck on Vinyl. I think even The Stranglers did it on a release.
Sadly, you are right. I'm on sqaforums.com, and 99% of the threads posted there are n00bs from India asking people to do their job for them. It seems a high percentage of people there don't want to learn on their own and figure out things. A lot of them just grasp on to buzzwords and ask vague questions about various qa test tools. Guess I should find a different forum. :)
You're right. Here's an idea for safe browsing. Call it the "one time coffee shop" method.
1. Go to coffee shop & browse away
2. after surfing, torch the coffee house.
You can only do this once per coffee shop. Sadly, Starbucks doesn't supply computers since there's an abundance of said shops.
1. Has a tendency to make your browser freeze up
2. Tries to infect some sort of TSR in Windows called Acrord32
3. Will frequently pop up a "checking for updates" dialog
4. Makes the fastest of computers slow to a crawl.
5. a super-jumpy scrolling interface
No wait, those aren't malware symptoms, that's just in Adobe's product. Next week we will discuss the incredible annoyances of the "java runtime environment" daily annoyances & clog-ups in "Add/Remove Programs". Do ANY software vendors know how annoying their software can be at times? Even Apple is guilty of forcing add-on installs you have no choice to get out of.
The whole reason Palin is using Yahoo instead of government sponsored email is that any email sent through those channels is archived for a Very Long Time as a matter of public record. Wondering what the clerk at the DMV is REALLY emailing about? Put in a freedom of information act request and it's all yours.
I just assume getting a Yahoo email account working was faster & more efficient than getting a government-issued email account working. I mean look how badly the white house lost all those emails!
Here's what I don't get: Napster started as a free app to download pirated music. Now after many changes, it's being sold for millions of dollars. What are they exactly bringing to the table? Just the subscribers?
The sale of myspace for an obscene amount of money makes more sense than this(eyes to see ads). Still not quite getting the Napster sale.
Then again, this is the same world that the "I'm rich!" iPhone app sold for a while.
The next time your neighbor's house is on fire, and you're the only one awake to see the flames, remember back to that incident. Remember it very clearly before you suddenly forget the last digit to 999(or whatever your country's equivalent of 911 is).
I'm for order, but when you go to far in "snitching" on your neighbors, suddenly any feeling of "community" is thrown right out the window. Those fences start to get higher, and those neighbors are suddenly less "how you doing?" when you walk on by.
Remember "online services" of yesteryear? GeNie, The Source, CompuServe? TEXnet? QuantumLink?
They were charging crazy rates(like $10, etc) per HOUR of usage? PER HOUR people. And that was on dialup. And there were premium fees for certain this or that. We have things better than we ever did before.
I'm okay with that. I'm only using the 'net when I'm at home, so it's all good.
Don't worry about the site redesign, you will "Get over it".
+20 points if you get that reference. I am sick of websites that insist on redesigning their layout every few years for no real reason. Digg added their bouncy rubber text entry boxes.
Why do websites have text entry boxes' width a mere fraction of what it's going to look like on the final site?
If we needed proof that there are way too many computer acronyms in the world.
I meant it in the fact I said ME as in "myself", not Millennium Edition.
My secure webmail site I used had their certificate expire. EVERY single time in FF2 I had to hit the button on that dialog. I prefer the exception method in FF3.
Sure, yes, the certificate expired. Big deal. Not the end of the world. Life goes on, and I'd rather have it encrypted than non-encrypted.