I've taken my laptop across the border 4 times, my wife has done so many times more, neither of us have had our laptops searched. I've been pulled aside by customs and asked questions once, but even then they did not request to see my laptop.
I think the bottom line is, if you act shady they'll look at your stuff, if you're just getting your business done then you're fine.
I'd love to see linux in general have better boot times. My install of ubuntu on my PC takes about 2.5 minutes while XP is up and running in about 1.5. On my laptop it's the reverse (windows taking forever, opensuse being relatively quick).
As far as 'cheating' by loading services at the login screen, GO FOR IT! It's not cheating if it's making things better for the user, it's called being more efficient.
When I bought my new car last year I got one and was quite pleased. I was planning on getting a vanity plate but when I got the plate in the mail I was like, WTF who needs one now?:)
I don't think anyone is asking for a DNF-like release schedule, but pushing the release back a week so that users don't have to suffer through consistent crashes is not something that anyone would really complain about.
I've submitted almost all of my crash reports to them, and all the crashes I've experienced are known bugs (and had multiple page threads on their forums during alpha/beta testing).
That being said, I think they should have held off a bit on a final release and squashed a few more bugs that were pretty proliferate and user inhibiting.
I'm quickly finding that I prefer 7.10 to 8.04. The overall system seems a lot more bogged down, lots of freezes with programs that never occurred in earlier versions.
I do like a lot of the new functionality but I hope that they iron out some of the outstanding issues (especially considering it's supposed to be a LTR).
Notice I had a caveat at the beginning of my post. I do not believe Microsoft will completely open it up, but if a rival company (say google) were to break open with a competing suite, they (MS) may be forced to open up their API, to an extent, so they can compete.
Despite the source, this could be a great tool for people if implemented correctly (and free). I already find myself using addons for firefox like FoxMarks to synchronize myself across several desktops/OS`. If this had even limited cross-platform support, or an open-API I'd imagine it could go pretty far.
Yea, I agree that some variation of your idea is probably the best way to do it. Although they may want to avoid making it seem like they're punishing sellers or buyers either way. Sellers have always had the upper hand on eBay though which is a horrible thing for consumers.
Anonymous would work for high volume sellers, but probably not for smaller ones. I'm not sure if high volume sellers are the main problem or not so I can't really say. What may be ideal is giving a buyer or seller 5 days or so to file feedback within the initial feedback filing (2 or 3 days after the auction) otherwise no feedback is listed. During that time they cannot see what feedback was left for them.
There are many ways to address this and eBay may have simply taken a cheap way out is what I'm suspecting as I think about this more.
A more interesting application they could have applied would have been to give buyers and sellers a 30 day window to leave feedback. Feedback left would stay off the record for this time period and then become magically available. This would encourage more truthful feedback and alleviate some of the fear of negative feedback from sellers issues.
I always hated leaving feedback because the sellers made you leave feedback first. This led to things occurring like, a seller not having items to ship and having to either refund you, or in many cases, send you a similar item without any notification. When you leave negative feedback (as you should) they'd leave negative feedback as well.
If sellers are going to act like stores, then they should have customer service like one and be willing to suck up the bad comments like normal retailers do. Leaving negative feedback was a childish tit for tat response and actually discouraged me from leaving any feedback whatsoever for a long time.
Memory usage really isn't a huge issue for most end-users. Sure if it was sucking up 800 meg with 2 or 3 tabs open people would complain but right now people are just starting to get used to the idea of tabs much less use 12 of them.
The memory usage now is hardly a system stopper for most people who only run their browser and mail client and maybe an office suite and picture viewer.
Yes, they fixed this in one of the latter betas! It made me so happy after spending hours extracting firmware and setting it up myself! (Quite an endeavor for someone trying to learn Linux like myself.) Now it's part of the drivers that you just have to click a box and say you agree that you're using software as it wasn't originally intended to be used.
It's worth noting that Usenet.com does not own/operate usenet, they are just a download service for usenet. They cannot remove things from usenet, they can only prohibit downloads of certain content from their servers, I'd imagine.
Is there a way to fix windows IME to work with a dvorak layout instead of QWERTY? I looked a while back but couldn't find anything useful. I've been using Dvorak for about 4 years now and hate having to switch back and forth (between QWERTY and Dvorak) to type in Japanese.
This story is about a week old, but still very disturbing. Do these people not respect our freedoms at all? Is our next war going to be "The War on Politicians?"
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I've taken my laptop across the border 4 times, my wife has done so many times more, neither of us have had our laptops searched. I've been pulled aside by customs and asked questions once, but even then they did not request to see my laptop. I think the bottom line is, if you act shady they'll look at your stuff, if you're just getting your business done then you're fine.
I'd love to see linux in general have better boot times. My install of ubuntu on my PC takes about 2.5 minutes while XP is up and running in about 1.5. On my laptop it's the reverse (windows taking forever, opensuse being relatively quick). As far as 'cheating' by loading services at the login screen, GO FOR IT! It's not cheating if it's making things better for the user, it's called being more efficient.
Worthless without pics ;)
Is there any anticipated changelist for 3 yet?
When I bought my new car last year I got one and was quite pleased. I was planning on getting a vanity plate but when I got the plate in the mail I was like, WTF who needs one now? :)
Most of the women I know enjoy porn as well. You know they can vote now too, right?
i always thought that porn was a redeeming factor for the internet!
looks like ipv4 is the antichrist, three times over...
I don't think anyone is asking for a DNF-like release schedule, but pushing the release back a week so that users don't have to suffer through consistent crashes is not something that anyone would really complain about.
I've submitted almost all of my crash reports to them, and all the crashes I've experienced are known bugs (and had multiple page threads on their forums during alpha/beta testing). That being said, I think they should have held off a bit on a final release and squashed a few more bugs that were pretty proliferate and user inhibiting.
I'm quickly finding that I prefer 7.10 to 8.04. The overall system seems a lot more bogged down, lots of freezes with programs that never occurred in earlier versions. I do like a lot of the new functionality but I hope that they iron out some of the outstanding issues (especially considering it's supposed to be a LTR).
Notice I had a caveat at the beginning of my post. I do not believe Microsoft will completely open it up, but if a rival company (say google) were to break open with a competing suite, they (MS) may be forced to open up their API, to an extent, so they can compete.
Despite the source, this could be a great tool for people if implemented correctly (and free). I already find myself using addons for firefox like FoxMarks to synchronize myself across several desktops/OS`. If this had even limited cross-platform support, or an open-API I'd imagine it could go pretty far.
Yea, I agree that some variation of your idea is probably the best way to do it. Although they may want to avoid making it seem like they're punishing sellers or buyers either way. Sellers have always had the upper hand on eBay though which is a horrible thing for consumers.
Anonymous would work for high volume sellers, but probably not for smaller ones. I'm not sure if high volume sellers are the main problem or not so I can't really say. What may be ideal is giving a buyer or seller 5 days or so to file feedback within the initial feedback filing (2 or 3 days after the auction) otherwise no feedback is listed. During that time they cannot see what feedback was left for them. There are many ways to address this and eBay may have simply taken a cheap way out is what I'm suspecting as I think about this more.
A more interesting application they could have applied would have been to give buyers and sellers a 30 day window to leave feedback. Feedback left would stay off the record for this time period and then become magically available. This would encourage more truthful feedback and alleviate some of the fear of negative feedback from sellers issues.
I always hated leaving feedback because the sellers made you leave feedback first. This led to things occurring like, a seller not having items to ship and having to either refund you, or in many cases, send you a similar item without any notification. When you leave negative feedback (as you should) they'd leave negative feedback as well.
If sellers are going to act like stores, then they should have customer service like one and be willing to suck up the bad comments like normal retailers do. Leaving negative feedback was a childish tit for tat response and actually discouraged me from leaving any feedback whatsoever for a long time.
Memory usage really isn't a huge issue for most end-users. Sure if it was sucking up 800 meg with 2 or 3 tabs open people would complain but right now people are just starting to get used to the idea of tabs much less use 12 of them. The memory usage now is hardly a system stopper for most people who only run their browser and mail client and maybe an office suite and picture viewer.
And stop breast cancer at the same time?
If anyone can do it, shouldn't the RIAA be doing it? :P
Yes, they fixed this in one of the latter betas! It made me so happy after spending hours extracting firmware and setting it up myself! (Quite an endeavor for someone trying to learn Linux like myself.) Now it's part of the drivers that you just have to click a box and say you agree that you're using software as it wasn't originally intended to be used.
It's worth noting that Usenet.com does not own/operate usenet, they are just a download service for usenet. They cannot remove things from usenet, they can only prohibit downloads of certain content from their servers, I'd imagine.
Is there a way to fix windows IME to work with a dvorak layout instead of QWERTY? I looked a while back but couldn't find anything useful. I've been using Dvorak for about 4 years now and hate having to switch back and forth (between QWERTY and Dvorak) to type in Japanese.
This story is about a week old, but still very disturbing. Do these people not respect our freedoms at all? Is our next war going to be "The War on Politicians?"
There's also the mirrordot link
Does that mean it's legal in most states now?