I have been using Thunderbird since it became available. Anyone know why Thunderbird is not on the toolbar of FF 2.0? I got it onto the IE7 toolbar just fine. I use both FF and IE because some web sites will not load properly in FF.
I can wrap my brain around the idea that "generally accepted accounting principles" is cynical and contrived as a methodology; but having said that, how can criminal application of bits and snippets of U.S. Tax Code to create criminal tax fraud be sanctioned by patent? What am I missing?
Why people who listen to MP3 music are still screwing around with I-pod devices escapes me. My year-old 1-gig Samsung MP3 player with FM radio and voice recorder, when plugged in a USB port, looks like another drive on my Windows Explorer. Drag-and-drop some tunes, and then listen to them until they suck, repeat as necessary. I just saw the newest incarnation of my player for under 60 dollars at Best Buy.
Glorified Secretary? I AM A GLORIFIED SECRETARY, YOU PUSILLANIMOUS ASSHOLE! Wait until you get to the bottom of the next cup of coffee I fetch for you! Speaking on behalf of "glorified secretaries" everywhere, go fuck yourself.
If you are conducting business about which you don't want others to know, then face-to-face is still the best. A wooded area, away from buildings, on a windy day is just good practice. Finally, never do shady things with people you haven't known all your life.
I am allowing all of my computer magazine subscriptions to lapse, because, as others here have noted, the printed news is obsolete by the time it is delivered.
I continue to enjoy reading books for my regular intake of vicarious horror, fantasy, and gatuitous sex and violence. My imagination is a much better creepshow than anything I have ever seen on any screen or any print media, for that matter!
The growth of jobs in the healthcare field is primarily in insurance benefits administration, both for the insurance companies and for the hospitals. In this modern age, the primary function of a medical care facility is to collect money from insurance companies, with actual healthcare services only as a peripheral, serendipitous occurance!
Eventually it was discovered
That God
Did not want us to be
All the same
This was
Bad News
For the Governments of The World
As it seemed contrary
To the doctrine of/Portion Controlled Servings/
Mankind must be made more uniformly
If
The Future
Was going to work
Various ways were sought
To bind us all together
But, alas
Same-ness was unenforcable
It was about this time
That someone
Came up with the idea of
Total Criminalization
Based on the principle that
If we were All crooks
We could at least be uniform
To some degree
In the eyes of
The Law
Shrewdly, our legislators calculated
That most people were
Too lazy to perform a
Real Crime
So new laws were manufactured
Making it possible for anyone
To violate them any time of the day or night,
And
Once we had all broken some kind of law
We'd all be in the same big happy club
Right up there with the President
The most exalted industrialists,
And the clerical big shots
Of all your favorite religions
Total Criminalization
Was the greatest idea of its time
And was vastly popular
Except with those people
Who didn't want to be crooks or outlaws,
So, of course, they had to be
Tricked Into It...
Which is one of the reasons why
Music
Was eventually made
Illegal.
Never, ever, ever be rude to ANYONE who handles any food you plan to eat! Place the unwanted pickles at the side of your wrapper. Never demand extra Special Jack Sauce (TM)!
Some level of personal responsibility is called for, too. I frequently see memory sticks lying beside piles of books at the library. If people can't be bothered to physically protect their belongings, cryptography protection won't prevent someone from picking it up, wiping it, and gaining a nice tool for themselves!
I d/l'd and installed IE 7R1 on top of IE 7B3, and there were no problems. I did a restore point just to be safe, but nothing bad happened. I still use Firefox first, but some Web sites load better in IE. What're ya gonna do?
Judge Judy teaches us that if we give someone something, and they freely accept it, then our responsibility for that product is finished, including proper disposal!
Personal computers are dirt cheap these days, and spending more than about 200 dollars to build a low-budget machine is foolish. Used computers that will run Windows XP start with a Pentium III with 256 megabytes of RAM. A machine of this class, with a CD burner, can be had for under 200 dollars. Check your local newspapers. Always ask to boot a computer when you buy used. If there is ANY problem, always walk away from the deal. As a computer user becomes more sophisticated, he/she can always acquire a more powerful machine. Frequently, a computer user only needs minimal performance to use the Internet and receive E-mail, so there is no need for a fancy gaming computer.
Since most real businesses use MS Windows, teaching Linux may boost your ego, but it is a waste of time. The same applies to office software. Knowing how to use E-mail is a necessity. Most businesses use MS Outlook. MS Office or Open Office or any MS Office emulator with a word processor and spreadsheet will work just fine, again, because this is what runs on most real business computers. Teach the little thugs and thugettes how to use the Internet, including how to protect themselves when surfing. For home use, have them learn BOTH MS Explorer AND Mozilla for Internet use, because each program has different advantages. Some Websites only work with Windows Explorer, but Mozilla offers better personal security and control. Finally inculcate the idea that learning to use a personal computer will never end, that if they cease learning, someone who continued to learn will take their job away from them!
Hobbies and interests are wonderful pastimes, but frequently no one else cares about any topic quite as much as everyone else. I am currently re-reading the Tolkien stories for the umteenth time. I might mention that I am doing this in conversation, but probably not. No one else gives a shit, and compelling others to share your enthusiasm is just rude!
I have a Samsung MP3 player. I ripped my entire CD collection into MP3 format some time ago. Every week I drag the albums to which I had been listening off and drag six different albums on. My 1G player/FM tuner cost about 130 dollars in September, and now a model with a more sturdy control button is available for about 90 dollars. I had thought about getting more memory, but then I would never change the music!
After Sony's issues with rookit programs, my choice of DVD burner went from always Sony to anything but Sony. My next television set will not be a Sony, even though I have previously bought four Sony Trinitron sets. My next laptop will not be a Sony, either. How many other people who actually buy computer hardware have made similar purchasing decisions? I only buy one piece of equipment at a time. How many corporate decision-makers have been similarly influenced by Sony's poor business judgement when they go out to buy dozens or even hundreds of units of hardware? This could very well be the cause of "Sony's stumble," in my opinion.
If you smoke a lot of dope, probably most of your friends smoke a lot of dope, too. This by no means indicates such behavior is a societal norm. By the same token, if you are a PC maven, then most of your friends are knowledgeable about PCs, too. Please trust me on this; by and large, the great majority of PC users can best be described as chimps, and should not have access to any administrative PC functions. A friend or relative who is educated in such things should set up the unskilled user's PC giving the user a limited account, and visiting once in a while to solve problems or add software with an administrator account.
That's not true. Unless there is an actual contract, the relationship between you and your employer is "at-will," and the relationship is completely reciprocal.
If you are not under contract, just stop going to work. If you give two weeks notice, they'll propably fire you anyway. If your job sucks enough that you want to leave, you should already have the next one lined up.
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I have been using Thunderbird since it became available. Anyone know why Thunderbird is not on the toolbar of FF 2.0? I got it onto the IE7 toolbar just fine. I use both FF and IE because some web sites will not load properly in FF.
I might be stupid, but E-mail seems to have been "disappeared" from my Firefox toolbar. WTF?
I can wrap my brain around the idea that "generally accepted accounting principles" is cynical and contrived as a methodology; but having said that, how can criminal application of bits and snippets of U.S. Tax Code to create criminal tax fraud be sanctioned by patent? What am I missing?
Why people who listen to MP3 music are still screwing around with I-pod devices escapes me. My year-old 1-gig Samsung MP3 player with FM radio and voice recorder, when plugged in a USB port, looks like another drive on my Windows Explorer. Drag-and-drop some tunes, and then listen to them until they suck, repeat as necessary. I just saw the newest incarnation of my player for under 60 dollars at Best Buy.
Glorified Secretary? I AM A GLORIFIED SECRETARY, YOU PUSILLANIMOUS ASSHOLE! Wait until you get to the bottom of the next cup of coffee I fetch for you! Speaking on behalf of "glorified secretaries" everywhere, go fuck yourself.
If you are conducting business about which you don't want others to know, then face-to-face is still the best. A wooded area, away from buildings, on a windy day is just good practice. Finally, never do shady things with people you haven't known all your life.
I am allowing all of my computer magazine subscriptions to lapse, because, as others here have noted, the printed news is obsolete by the time it is delivered. I continue to enjoy reading books for my regular intake of vicarious horror, fantasy, and gatuitous sex and violence. My imagination is a much better creepshow than anything I have ever seen on any screen or any print media, for that matter!
The growth of jobs in the healthcare field is primarily in insurance benefits administration, both for the insurance companies and for the hospitals. In this modern age, the primary function of a medical care facility is to collect money from insurance companies, with actual healthcare services only as a peripheral, serendipitous occurance!
Never, ever, ever be rude to ANYONE who handles any food you plan to eat! Place the unwanted pickles at the side of your wrapper. Never demand extra Special Jack Sauce (TM)!
I always enjoyed the shows, but I knew that the wildlife studies version of "Jackass" would end badly.
Is this a JTHM joke?
Some level of personal responsibility is called for, too. I frequently see memory sticks lying beside piles of books at the library. If people can't be bothered to physically protect their belongings, cryptography protection won't prevent someone from picking it up, wiping it, and gaining a nice tool for themselves!
I d/l'd and installed IE 7R1 on top of IE 7B3, and there were no problems. I did a restore point just to be safe, but nothing bad happened. I still use Firefox first, but some Web sites load better in IE. What're ya gonna do?
Arguing is what science is about. Voting on scientific topics smacks of a theological debate. Splitters!
Judge Judy teaches us that if we give someone something, and they freely accept it, then our responsibility for that product is finished, including proper disposal!
Personal computers are dirt cheap these days, and spending more than about 200 dollars to build a low-budget machine is foolish. Used computers that will run Windows XP start with a Pentium III with 256 megabytes of RAM. A machine of this class, with a CD burner, can be had for under 200 dollars. Check your local newspapers. Always ask to boot a computer when you buy used. If there is ANY problem, always walk away from the deal. As a computer user becomes more sophisticated, he/she can always acquire a more powerful machine. Frequently, a computer user only needs minimal performance to use the Internet and receive E-mail, so there is no need for a fancy gaming computer. Since most real businesses use MS Windows, teaching Linux may boost your ego, but it is a waste of time. The same applies to office software. Knowing how to use E-mail is a necessity. Most businesses use MS Outlook. MS Office or Open Office or any MS Office emulator with a word processor and spreadsheet will work just fine, again, because this is what runs on most real business computers. Teach the little thugs and thugettes how to use the Internet, including how to protect themselves when surfing. For home use, have them learn BOTH MS Explorer AND Mozilla for Internet use, because each program has different advantages. Some Websites only work with Windows Explorer, but Mozilla offers better personal security and control. Finally inculcate the idea that learning to use a personal computer will never end, that if they cease learning, someone who continued to learn will take their job away from them!
Hobbies and interests are wonderful pastimes, but frequently no one else cares about any topic quite as much as everyone else. I am currently re-reading the Tolkien stories for the umteenth time. I might mention that I am doing this in conversation, but probably not. No one else gives a shit, and compelling others to share your enthusiasm is just rude!
I have a Samsung MP3 player. I ripped my entire CD collection into MP3 format some time ago. Every week I drag the albums to which I had been listening off and drag six different albums on. My 1G player/FM tuner cost about 130 dollars in September, and now a model with a more sturdy control button is available for about 90 dollars. I had thought about getting more memory, but then I would never change the music!
After Sony's issues with rookit programs, my choice of DVD burner went from always Sony to anything but Sony. My next television set will not be a Sony, even though I have previously bought four Sony Trinitron sets. My next laptop will not be a Sony, either. How many other people who actually buy computer hardware have made similar purchasing decisions? I only buy one piece of equipment at a time. How many corporate decision-makers have been similarly influenced by Sony's poor business judgement when they go out to buy dozens or even hundreds of units of hardware? This could very well be the cause of "Sony's stumble," in my opinion.
Jeebus H. Cribbs! Just d/l and use Godfather for formatting your MP3 files!
If you smoke a lot of dope, probably most of your friends smoke a lot of dope, too. This by no means indicates such behavior is a societal norm. By the same token, if you are a PC maven, then most of your friends are knowledgeable about PCs, too. Please trust me on this; by and large, the great majority of PC users can best be described as chimps, and should not have access to any administrative PC functions. A friend or relative who is educated in such things should set up the unskilled user's PC giving the user a limited account, and visiting once in a while to solve problems or add software with an administrator account.
That's not true. Unless there is an actual contract, the relationship between you and your employer is "at-will," and the relationship is completely reciprocal.
If you are not under contract, just stop going to work. If you give two weeks notice, they'll propably fire you anyway. If your job sucks enough that you want to leave, you should already have the next one lined up.