I use Google sync on three computers. Unfortunately, it frequently leaves my bookmarks unsync'ed - keeping old bookmarks on one computer, even though I've deleted them on another, and failing to include new bookmarks that I've added.
I still use it because it's better than nothing. It's not much better than nothing, though.
I'm missing the keyboard of a WANG computer I used as a student back in the 1970s.
It did not have a QWERTY keyboard but an ABCDEF keyboard! All the keys were placed in alphabetical order. It was probably great for a novice, but for someone like myself who was used to typewriters it was horrible.
Young people are usually very enthusiastic when it comes to voting and democracy. And usually this enthusiasm wanes when they get older and more experienced. I wonder what the reason could be.
You may want to rethink that comment. Please note that the main article referred to young people at NYU who were willing to sell their vote. This goes against what you say.
Furthermore, I am 54 - not exactly young - and I value my right to vote.
I've looked through a number of the comments on this page, and a lot of the comments run something like this: "My vote doesn't count, and I don't like the candidates anyway, so my vote is for sale."
Honestly, people. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Firstly, this is how a democracy works: A single vote is unlikely to make a difference, but the total of all the single votes does make a difference. (Countries where a single vote does make a difference are called dictatorships, and the single vote is that of the dictator.)
Secondly, in many countries around the world, people a fighting, being tortured and dying to secure the right to vote for their fellow countrymen. We who already have that right should not treat it nonchalantly.
Thirdly, some people seem to think that being callous and cynical about the way one's country is run is a mark of maturity and insight. Not so! In my humble opinion it is highly immature. It is so much easier to be cynical than making an active effort.
Medical science is full of instances where a drug designed for one thing turns out to be useful for other things as well. Why, then, is it so amusing to consider if Viagra may have interesting and useful side effects?
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I think "Joe" is a reference to the Jonathan behind the JOVE editor.
Several years ago I came across a huge ad in Scientific American. BMW announced that when coasting downhill their cars used no gas. The headline read in huge letters: "60 miles per hour at 0 miles per gallon". What they really meant was, of course, "0 gallons per mile".
One thing that really bothers me about many web sites is this: If I have to enter my name, address etc., I frequently find that the web page designer thinks that all countries are the same.
I may find that I am required to write in which state I live. My country doesn't have states.
Or I may be required to write a 10-digit phone number. My phone number has 8 digits.
Or I may be forced to put the postal code after the city. In my country, the postal code goes before the city.
Dear web form designers: It is not unreasonable to expect that people know how to write their own address correctly. You don't have to check everything for them. (Especially if you don't know what to check for.)
I assume that what you mean is not that "medical" equals "socialism", but that some American politicians think that "medical" equals "socialism".
Two things in life are certain: Death and taxes. But given a choice, I'd prefer taxes over death any day. Especially if the taxes give my country healthcare.
You know, one of my friends actually managed to get an inifinte number of monkeys together. He gave them an infinite number of typewriters, and they started typing.
My friend walked around the infinitely large room an looked at what the monkeys were typing.
I am not a lawyer, but I would guess that that depends on what country you're talking about. It may not be a crime in your country, but I wouldn't be too sure about other countries.
But the unlocked door analogy, especially in this situation, is NOT THE FUCKING SAME THING.
I beg to differ. Access to my garden is completely open. I have no gate, no lock, nothing. Even so, this does not mean that everybody is allowed to walk into my garden and sit down. They are not even stealing any resources from me, but they're still trespassing.
The open access to my garden is not an invitation to walk right in.
The Danish version of Windows already uses (the Danish equivalent of) "This computer" instead of "My computer" and "Documents" instead of "My documents".
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I really have some trouble conceiving that...
This has been adressed in a previous comment: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
I use Google sync on three computers. Unfortunately, it frequently leaves my bookmarks unsync'ed - keeping old bookmarks on one computer, even though I've deleted them on another, and failing to include new bookmarks that I've added. I still use it because it's better than nothing. It's not much better than nothing, though.
Obesity is everywhere.
I can lock my house, but even if I do not do so, you will still be trespassing if you enter my house.
It did not have a QWERTY keyboard but an ABCDEF keyboard! All the keys were placed in alphabetical order. It was probably great for a novice, but for someone like myself who was used to typewriters it was horrible.
You may want to rethink that comment. Please note that the main article referred to young people at NYU who were willing to sell their vote. This goes against what you say.
Furthermore, I am 54 - not exactly young - and I value my right to vote.
I've looked through a number of the comments on this page, and a lot of the comments run something like this: "My vote doesn't count, and I don't like the candidates anyway, so my vote is for sale."
Honestly, people. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Firstly, this is how a democracy works: A single vote is unlikely to make a difference, but the total of all the single votes does make a difference. (Countries where a single vote does make a difference are called dictatorships, and the single vote is that of the dictator.)
Secondly, in many countries around the world, people a fighting, being tortured and dying to secure the right to vote for their fellow countrymen. We who already have that right should not treat it nonchalantly.
Thirdly, some people seem to think that being callous and cynical about the way one's country is run is a mark of maturity and insight. Not so! In my humble opinion it is highly immature. It is so much easier to be cynical than making an active effort.
I must have missed something.
Medical science is full of instances where a drug designed for one thing turns out to be useful for other things as well. Why, then, is it so amusing to consider if Viagra may have interesting and useful side effects?
JOVE = Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
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And in Scientific American of all places!
This deeply religious Christian would not mind living next to a bearded Muslim.
One thing that really bothers me about many web sites is this: If I have to enter my name, address etc., I frequently find that the web page designer thinks that all countries are the same.
I may find that I am required to write in which state I live. My country doesn't have states.
Or I may be required to write a 10-digit phone number. My phone number has 8 digits.
Or I may be forced to put the postal code after the city. In my country, the postal code goes before the city.
Dear web form designers: It is not unreasonable to expect that people know how to write their own address correctly. You don't have to check everything for them. (Especially if you don't know what to check for.)
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In 1520 no country had changed yet. The first countries changed in 1582.
It puzzles me that people use a "quantum leap" as a term for a large jump, when in reality it is the smallest jump possible.
An unquestioning acceptance of statements in the EB is hardly better than a cautious acceptance of statements found on Wikipedia.
Two things in life are certain: Death and taxes. But given a choice, I'd prefer taxes over death any day. Especially if the taxes give my country healthcare.
My friend walked around the infinitely large room an looked at what the monkeys were typing.
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And so on.
Eventually he reached monkey #32198734267244672 and his heart leapt:
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I am not a lawyer, but I would guess that that depends on what country you're talking about. It may not be a crime in your country, but I wouldn't be too sure about other countries.
I beg to differ. Access to my garden is completely open. I have no gate, no lock, nothing. Even so, this does not mean that everybody is allowed to walk into my garden and sit down. They are not even stealing any resources from me, but they're still trespassing.
The open access to my garden is not an invitation to walk right in.
The Danish version of Windows already uses (the Danish equivalent of) "This computer" instead of "My computer" and "Documents" instead of "My documents".
What prevents the Mozilla team from implementing a XAML interpreter?