Google really needs to offer an easy way to do offline backups. Right now I use their POP3 functionality to back up my emails, but this is a manual process. And the only way to save these documents is to do so one by one. They need a desktop client to synchronize an offline copy. Maybe a Firefox extension (though their Google Sync extension is pretty badly implemented as it loses bookmarks all the time for me) or maybe some Java app (so as to be cross platform), but either way there is no way I would use Google Docs without being able to easily have my documents. What happens if Google Docs is unavailable, Google decides to close it, or I just plainly want to migrate off of it? If I had thousands of documents stored there I would find myself in a really painful situation.
They seem to make up for it a little by global cooling due to the jet trails they leave behind. The constant cloud created around where air traffic is dense cools by a few degrees (according to someone I saw on TV who studied it during the post September 11, 2001 days when no airplanes were flying). I don't know which effect is more frighting.
When they start doing that is when I start using Adblock on Google as well. Up to now I've excluded Google as I felt the ads were unobtrusive. Once they cross over, I'm nixing all of them.
"This is essentially a move to shut out smaller possible competitors"
Do you think that if they had set it to much lower no one would have gone that high? Or do you think that they should place a maximum? I'd like to see how that pans out, $1 million dollar maximum, $100 minimum. That should cover every small company out there. Let's see how the bidding will go.
As long as we're wishing, I'll go one better. The corporations should be forced to pay upfront for the plaintiff's defense if he can't afford a good one. If the corp wins, they win the court costs too. That way people can't be intimidated into folding even when they haven't done anything wrong.
Your comment reminded me of the scifi story Trends by Asimov. In it a scientist who wants to build and fly his own rocket ship is almost killed by the religious fanatics who think he's challenging God. Eventually he does it anyway in secret and he's treated as a hero. We haven't reached a perfect equilibrium and we probably won't for a long time (if ever). The pendulum is just in the religious court right now. I wish there were no religions at all, but then again I'm awaiting at the other end.
I remember when MS had a version of IE running on Unix (HP-UX specifically, probably Solaris too). Of course, it no longer does. IE on the Mac has been discontinued as well.
Bookmark the secure address and use that (who wouldn't over open wireless??). You could also use http://www.customizegoogle.com/ with Firefox if you're using Gmail to force it to go to the secure URL.
I can't take this overspread and reliance on flash. It chews up CPU like crazy and halts my system, and often I can't hear the sound. I've resorted to the unplug extension on fireox, downloading the movies, and playing them on mplayer. As cumbersome as this is, it doesn't work in all cases. Some are too deeply embedded. Of course there are also the newer movies that require flash 9, which theoretically has a linux firefox plugin, but it crashes firefox every time. Just give me the damn mpeg (or whatever format) to *download* please!
That's true and the reason for that is not that those companies want to sell the cheaper products, it's that Wal-mart quotes them a price and won't sell at any higher price.
No it wasn't, it was in response to the blind test from Pepsi showing people preferred it. Read the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, he mentions it there. Turns out the New Coke was better than Pepsi at the sip test, but people hated it overall. Original Coke was better.
You know you could use Wikipedia as representative of the web (it has links to other articles). Some enterprising mind could use the Wikipedia database as a starting off point. Sure it's not completely like the Internet as it doesn't have as much spam in there, but like I said it's a cheap way to get started.
However, because not all applications may handle symbolic links correctly, creating a symbolic link requires the new Create Symbolic Link privilege that only administrators have by default.
Why would they do this? Just make the default be the deletion of the symlink instead of the target. And why would you need this permission if you already have permission to modify the directory (to create the link) and the permission to read the target? Instead they go and take the ability of normal users (meaning most people) to use symlinks by default.
This is not the right time for comparing IE7 effect on Firefox. The time will be when Vista comes out and new PCs come preloaded with Vista and IE7. At that time, people will get rid of the old PCs and we'll see whether they're sufficiently satisfied with IE7 that they won't bother with downloading Firefox. At the same time we'll also see if people used to IE6, when presented with IE7's new interface, might switch to Firefox. Whichever way the pendulum swings, that's when we should watch it.
You can backup your gmail account through the use of POP, however this is cumbersome and it does not allow you to reimport them should something happen. Google should really consider offering a zipped archive of all your mail as well as some file with the metadata and allow you to reimport all your emails (they could keep some checksum to make sure it's really gmail messages that used to be there). This would make gmail even better (it's already better than most webmail free services which don't allow POP).
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Google really needs to offer an easy way to do offline backups. Right now I use their POP3 functionality to back up my emails, but this is a manual process. And the only way to save these documents is to do so one by one. They need a desktop client to synchronize an offline copy. Maybe a Firefox extension (though their Google Sync extension is pretty badly implemented as it loses bookmarks all the time for me) or maybe some Java app (so as to be cross platform), but either way there is no way I would use Google Docs without being able to easily have my documents. What happens if Google Docs is unavailable, Google decides to close it, or I just plainly want to migrate off of it? If I had thousands of documents stored there I would find myself in a really painful situation.
They seem to make up for it a little by global cooling due to the jet trails they leave behind. The constant cloud created around where air traffic is dense cools by a few degrees (according to someone I saw on TV who studied it during the post September 11, 2001 days when no airplanes were flying). I don't know which effect is more frighting.
When they start doing that is when I start using Adblock on Google as well. Up to now I've excluded Google as I felt the ads were unobtrusive. Once they cross over, I'm nixing all of them.
That's not a test of the GPL, it's a test of representing yourself in a lawsuit and how badly you can do if you're not a lawyer.
No kidding, look at all of these reports: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksear ch=flash+crash
As long as we're wishing, I'll go one better. The corporations should be forced to pay upfront for the plaintiff's defense if he can't afford a good one. If the corp wins, they win the court costs too. That way people can't be intimidated into folding even when they haven't done anything wrong.
Your comment reminded me of the scifi story Trends by Asimov. In it a scientist who wants to build and fly his own rocket ship is almost killed by the religious fanatics who think he's challenging God. Eventually he does it anyway in secret and he's treated as a hero. We haven't reached a perfect equilibrium and we probably won't for a long time (if ever). The pendulum is just in the religious court right now. I wish there were no religions at all, but then again I'm awaiting at the other end.
You're reading it wrong, it means they're durable, as long as they're scratch free.
I remember when MS had a version of IE running on Unix (HP-UX specifically, probably Solaris too). Of course, it no longer does. IE on the Mac has been discontinued as well.
Bookmark the secure address and use that (who wouldn't over open wireless??). You could also use http://www.customizegoogle.com/ with Firefox if you're using Gmail to force it to go to the secure URL.
I can't take this overspread and reliance on flash. It chews up CPU like crazy and halts my system, and often I can't hear the sound. I've resorted to the unplug extension on fireox, downloading the movies, and playing them on mplayer. As cumbersome as this is, it doesn't work in all cases. Some are too deeply embedded. Of course there are also the newer movies that require flash 9, which theoretically has a linux firefox plugin, but it crashes firefox every time. Just give me the damn mpeg (or whatever format) to *download* please!
That's true and the reason for that is not that those companies want to sell the cheaper products, it's that Wal-mart quotes them a price and won't sell at any higher price.
I use DreamHost, they make updates to WordPress pretty simple.
When you get to 20+ sites that update rarely but that you want to follow regularly you'll get it. Saves lots of time.
No it wasn't, it was in response to the blind test from Pepsi showing people preferred it. Read the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, he mentions it there. Turns out the New Coke was better than Pepsi at the sip test, but people hated it overall. Original Coke was better.
We're experimenting some techmonological differences
You should really love this in python: >>> 3+4.755 7.7549999999999999
Not if you're Jason Biggs.
Haven't seen the FreeBSD spoof, link?
You know you could use Wikipedia as representative of the web (it has links to other articles). Some enterprising mind could use the Wikipedia database as a starting off point. Sure it's not completely like the Internet as it doesn't have as much spam in there, but like I said it's a cheap way to get started.
This is not the right time for comparing IE7 effect on Firefox. The time will be when Vista comes out and new PCs come preloaded with Vista and IE7. At that time, people will get rid of the old PCs and we'll see whether they're sufficiently satisfied with IE7 that they won't bother with downloading Firefox. At the same time we'll also see if people used to IE6, when presented with IE7's new interface, might switch to Firefox. Whichever way the pendulum swings, that's when we should watch it.
Ramen? Who will speak his death?
You can backup your gmail account through the use of POP, however this is cumbersome and it does not allow you to reimport them should something happen. Google should really consider offering a zipped archive of all your mail as well as some file with the metadata and allow you to reimport all your emails (they could keep some checksum to make sure it's really gmail messages that used to be there). This would make gmail even better (it's already better than most webmail free services which don't allow POP).