Firefox growth is slowing because a VERY large market segment doesn't know or care about Firefox. I frequently help my friends to use their computers, and my experience is that most people who buy computers are not highly skilled computer geeks. The usual experience is to take everything out of the box, plug it all in, and run it until it breaks. It is entirely common to find the user's ISP Website as the browser homepage. It can be dial-up or cable, but the browser doesn't get changed from whatever was set up at the purchase. I believe this may be a good thing. My take on matters is these unskilled users believe their new computer is an appliance, not unlike their refrigerator or toaster. Isn't this the outcome for which all we geeks were hoping?
Sure, buy the little thug or thugette a laptop. Just get them a nice used one to lose or have stolen the first week of school, and you will be much less upset with him/her.
Now I understand why my land-line has got to go! The only thing it does now is receive forwarded calls I miss on the cell phone, and that isn't really worth twenty dollars per month.
When undertaking a war, the aggressor HAS to win by whatever means are available. Only total commitment is acceptable. Failure means ass-kicking and subjugation for the losers. After reading about the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, I an saddened that the bombing stopped at two. If I had been a WW2 veteran, I would have been disgruntled at not getting a Japanese POW for a slave after the war.
How soon we forget. Has it really only been twenty years since the 1985 Parental Music Resource Center (PMRC)congressional hearings? The purpose of the committee was to politicize the alleged nasty lyrics of rock 'n' roll and rap music, and was notably fronted by Senator Al Gore's wife Tipper Gore. All of the politicians who chose to become involved with the hearings were made to look like fools. The Frank Zappa album, "Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention" did an excellent job of mocking the proceedings.
If Hillary Clinton tries to politicize a facet of popular culture, it will probably blow up in her face. I really believed she was a lot smarter than that!
There is just NO way this can be a bad thing. Conservatives, who have always been in favor of property rights, when seriously thinking about what has been decided, will enter apoplexy immediately. When real estate swindlers and speculators, many of whom helped to buy the last presidential election, figure out how they have just been hosed, the stuff is going to hit the proverbial fan! I'm loving this.
I only subscribe at all because the cable Internet comes from the same people, and the price is slightly reduced as a package. The PBS programming is usually quite good, and the rest can be ignored. Every year my wife and I make jokes about the shows that have come and gone from television without our ever having seen them. We refer to this as "perfect attendence." The downside of reading instead of watching television is I have very little patience with bad acting, bad writing, and commercials. Sometimes when a new show arrives I will check it out. Such a case was "CSI-Miami." After about one season, a CSI franchise was created, and the level of writing and acting of the original was dumbed down to meet the new entries. I quit watching any of the CSI shows when I realised what was happening. Mostly, when the television is turned on I am watching either a purchased DVD movie or a DVD from the Public Library.
I have been subscribing to ten-dollar minimum cable for some time. After deprogamming the Jesus channels and Home Shopping Network channels from the remote, I have ten channels left. I can surf my dial in under one minute and then shut the box off!
My wife and I have been digital shooters since 1998. We have thousands of pictures on CDs, DVDs, and hard drives. When we want a print, we print it on our own equipment. If you're smart enough to have jumped onto the digital photography bus, you might as take along a printer!
Hey, c'mon . ..don't let the big words and long-winded humor throw you; Tom Wolfe has been a good read since the late nineteen-sixties, when he was writing for "Vanity Fair," "Esquire," and "New Yorker." Some stories, such as "Bonfire of the Vanities" may have been close to sucking, but at the end of the book I was glad I made it through the convoluted prose.
There's something wrong here. If people are copying a broadcast televion show, then they must either think the program has to be rescheduled so they don't miss seeing it, or else they think the show is good enough that they want to see it again. As viewer numbers continue to drop in all demographic profiles, why would network programmers want to do anything to dissuade people watching television?
I bought an Athlon 64 3200+ late last year. I have been installing the MS WinXP upgrades all along, including SP1; but the Win XP SP2 made my machine quit working. I have a Gigabyte K8N Pro MB, an Nvidia video card, and the usual ancillary crap that one plugs into the ports of a nice PC, i.e., external drive, printer, slide scanner, etc.
I have run the install twice. The first time the install seemed to have completed normally and informed me it was successful. When the computer was restarted, it went into a loop of endless rebooting after I typed in my desktop password. I used to stop things, and called up the restore point I had wisely created before the installation.
The second time through I unplugged ALL of my peripheral stuff and turned off my firewall and AV (EZ Armor from Roadrunner). The results were the same. I reset and plugged in everything, turned off the Windows Automatic Upgrade, and went back to using my PC.
Is this this an AMD 64-bit issue or something?
The technology will outpace the current copyright law soon. There is no reason to have physical original copies of music or movies when any entertainment that can be digitized can be offered from satellites in space. Howard Stern is so far out in front of people on this, he's probably very dangerous.
People with bizarre tastes in movies or music can be presented with anything they want to see or hear. The key is to understand that the price for this can be laughably small. Obscure artists who make NO money presently can be offered for their fan's enjoyment.
Sadly, this model offers very little recompense for the RIAA enforcers. Too bad. Get out of the road if you want to grow old!
I had a terrible experience tonight. I downloaded (12 minutes) and installed the WIN XP SP2, and my computer stopped working. It would boot and offer to take my password, and then reboot as soon as I hit after putting in the password. I went through this drill about six times before I admitted to be being stupid. The restore function worked perfectly after rebooting into "SAFE MODE."
Fortunately, I had read an article in one of the many magazines I read which strongly suggested that under NO circumstances should one install the SP2 without creating a "Restore Point."
ALWAYS READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE PLAYING WITH DYNAMITE!
I believe I will stay with the SP1 WIN XP until a few magazine articles are written listing the necessary caveats for the installation. My wife suggested I might wait for SP2.01!
Beaten but not bowed,
When the memory overhead for just the Windows XP OS, firewall and anti-virus closes in on 200 megabytes, it's hardly a Christmas miracle that entry-level PC's now need 512 megs of RAM, and run nicer with a full gigabyte!
My reading habits have remained constant. I cut my cable television back to bare bones service, which is approximately 12 channels after blocking the infomercial and religious channels, when I began using the Internet, about eight years ago. I've always been a "reader," even when I had full-tilt cable service. I try to read two to three books every week, along with about six to ten periodicals and a couple of daily newspapers.
Unless I'm revisiting a classic, I seldom read books more than three months old. So much new material is published every year, and I can't read everything. If I am not engrossed in a book in about ten minutes, it goes right back to the Public Library.
Cable Internet has opened new doors for learning to me. While I am reading I frequently need to learn more about a topic that's part of a storyline or discussion, and my pedestal-mounted unabridged dictionary and Internet access enables me to get back to my reading fairly quickly.
I can usually tell when a person with whom I'm speaking doesn't read much. The ideas are not complicated and the vocabulary is limited. I try to avoid people like this.
My '92 Tojo Corolla DX wagon(1.4L w/5-speed)averages 35 mpg. The EPA sheet claims 25 city and 30 highway. I usually pull 38-41 on long highway runs at about 68 mph (2,800-3,000 rpm in fifth gear).
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Is this Shelob's mom? She waits.
Firefox growth is slowing because a VERY large market segment doesn't know or care about Firefox. I frequently help my friends to use their computers, and my experience is that most people who buy computers are not highly skilled computer geeks. The usual experience is to take everything out of the box, plug it all in, and run it until it breaks. It is entirely common to find the user's ISP Website as the browser homepage. It can be dial-up or cable, but the browser doesn't get changed from whatever was set up at the purchase. I believe this may be a good thing. My take on matters is these unskilled users believe their new computer is an appliance, not unlike their refrigerator or toaster. Isn't this the outcome for which all we geeks were hoping?
Sure, buy the little thug or thugette a laptop. Just get them a nice used one to lose or have stolen the first week of school, and you will be much less upset with him/her.
Now I understand why my land-line has got to go! The only thing it does now is receive forwarded calls I miss on the cell phone, and that isn't really worth twenty dollars per month.
When undertaking a war, the aggressor HAS to win by whatever means are available. Only total commitment is acceptable. Failure means ass-kicking and subjugation for the losers. After reading about the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, I an saddened that the bombing stopped at two. If I had been a WW2 veteran, I would have been disgruntled at not getting a Japanese POW for a slave after the war.
Wasn't it TOM LERHER who wrote, "Good-bye, Mom; I'm off to drop the bomb..."
How soon we forget. Has it really only been twenty years since the 1985 Parental Music Resource Center (PMRC)congressional hearings? The purpose of the committee was to politicize the alleged nasty lyrics of rock 'n' roll and rap music, and was notably fronted by Senator Al Gore's wife Tipper Gore. All of the politicians who chose to become involved with the hearings were made to look like fools. The Frank Zappa album, "Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention" did an excellent job of mocking the proceedings. If Hillary Clinton tries to politicize a facet of popular culture, it will probably blow up in her face. I really believed she was a lot smarter than that!
Corpspeak and cellphones on belt loops. These people are so easy to identify. Why are any of them still alive?
Is it just me, or are other Firefox users experiencing frequent crashes when applying NoScript to Web sites? Is this a bug or a safety feature?
There is just NO way this can be a bad thing. Conservatives, who have always been in favor of property rights, when seriously thinking about what has been decided, will enter apoplexy immediately. When real estate swindlers and speculators, many of whom helped to buy the last presidential election, figure out how they have just been hosed, the stuff is going to hit the proverbial fan! I'm loving this.
I only subscribe at all because the cable Internet comes from the same people, and the price is slightly reduced as a package. The PBS programming is usually quite good, and the rest can be ignored. Every year my wife and I make jokes about the shows that have come and gone from television without our ever having seen them. We refer to this as "perfect attendence." The downside of reading instead of watching television is I have very little patience with bad acting, bad writing, and commercials. Sometimes when a new show arrives I will check it out. Such a case was "CSI-Miami." After about one season, a CSI franchise was created, and the level of writing and acting of the original was dumbed down to meet the new entries. I quit watching any of the CSI shows when I realised what was happening. Mostly, when the television is turned on I am watching either a purchased DVD movie or a DVD from the Public Library.
I have been subscribing to ten-dollar minimum cable for some time. After deprogamming the Jesus channels and Home Shopping Network channels from the remote, I have ten channels left. I can surf my dial in under one minute and then shut the box off!
My wife and I have been digital shooters since 1998. We have thousands of pictures on CDs, DVDs, and hard drives. When we want a print, we print it on our own equipment. If you're smart enough to have jumped onto the digital photography bus, you might as take along a printer!
Hey, c'mon . . .don't let the big words and long-winded humor throw you; Tom Wolfe has been a good read since the late nineteen-sixties, when he was writing for "Vanity Fair," "Esquire," and "New Yorker." Some stories, such as "Bonfire of the Vanities" may have been close to sucking, but at the end of the book I was glad I made it through the convoluted prose.
Am I the only person here who has read Tom Wolfe's novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons?"
When CD burners are outlawed, only outlaws will have CD burners!
There's something wrong here. If people are copying a broadcast televion show, then they must either think the program has to be rescheduled so they don't miss seeing it, or else they think the show is good enough that they want to see it again. As viewer numbers continue to drop in all demographic profiles, why would network programmers want to do anything to dissuade people watching television?
I bought an Athlon 64 3200+ late last year. I have been installing the MS WinXP upgrades all along, including SP1; but the Win XP SP2 made my machine quit working. I have a Gigabyte K8N Pro MB, an Nvidia video card, and the usual ancillary crap that one plugs into the ports of a nice PC, i.e., external drive, printer, slide scanner, etc. I have run the install twice. The first time the install seemed to have completed normally and informed me it was successful. When the computer was restarted, it went into a loop of endless rebooting after I typed in my desktop password. I used to stop things, and called up the restore point I had wisely created before the installation. The second time through I unplugged ALL of my peripheral stuff and turned off my firewall and AV (EZ Armor from Roadrunner). The results were the same. I reset and plugged in everything, turned off the Windows Automatic Upgrade, and went back to using my PC. Is this this an AMD 64-bit issue or something?
The technology will outpace the current copyright law soon. There is no reason to have physical original copies of music or movies when any entertainment that can be digitized can be offered from satellites in space. Howard Stern is so far out in front of people on this, he's probably very dangerous. People with bizarre tastes in movies or music can be presented with anything they want to see or hear. The key is to understand that the price for this can be laughably small. Obscure artists who make NO money presently can be offered for their fan's enjoyment. Sadly, this model offers very little recompense for the RIAA enforcers. Too bad. Get out of the road if you want to grow old!
These employers sound like real assbags. I'd look elsewhere for work. The screwing will only get worse as the bad weather continues later this week!
I had a terrible experience tonight. I downloaded (12 minutes) and installed the WIN XP SP2, and my computer stopped working. It would boot and offer to take my password, and then reboot as soon as I hit after putting in the password. I went through this drill about six times before I admitted to be being stupid. The restore function worked perfectly after rebooting into "SAFE MODE." Fortunately, I had read an article in one of the many magazines I read which strongly suggested that under NO circumstances should one install the SP2 without creating a "Restore Point." ALWAYS READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE PLAYING WITH DYNAMITE! I believe I will stay with the SP1 WIN XP until a few magazine articles are written listing the necessary caveats for the installation. My wife suggested I might wait for SP2.01! Beaten but not bowed,
When the memory overhead for just the Windows XP OS, firewall and anti-virus closes in on 200 megabytes, it's hardly a Christmas miracle that entry-level PC's now need 512 megs of RAM, and run nicer with a full gigabyte!
My reading habits have remained constant. I cut my cable television back to bare bones service, which is approximately 12 channels after blocking the infomercial and religious channels, when I began using the Internet, about eight years ago. I've always been a "reader," even when I had full-tilt cable service. I try to read two to three books every week, along with about six to ten periodicals and a couple of daily newspapers. Unless I'm revisiting a classic, I seldom read books more than three months old. So much new material is published every year, and I can't read everything. If I am not engrossed in a book in about ten minutes, it goes right back to the Public Library. Cable Internet has opened new doors for learning to me. While I am reading I frequently need to learn more about a topic that's part of a storyline or discussion, and my pedestal-mounted unabridged dictionary and Internet access enables me to get back to my reading fairly quickly. I can usually tell when a person with whom I'm speaking doesn't read much. The ideas are not complicated and the vocabulary is limited. I try to avoid people like this.
My '92 Tojo Corolla DX wagon(1.4L w/5-speed)averages 35 mpg. The EPA sheet claims 25 city and 30 highway. I usually pull 38-41 on long highway runs at about 68 mph (2,800-3,000 rpm in fifth gear).