I switched to TaxCut, too, and I think it's a better program: It's cheaper, the online help is better, and it can do comparative analysis for things like filing jointly vs. separately.
It still, unfortunately, does stupid things like ask you thirty questions to determine whether you are required to pay AMT when you clearly and obviously aren't, but the expert-systems design approach can only take you so far.
Waaaaaay too much time in the outback, there, Bill - you're starting to sound like Larry Ellison.... maybe even Howard Hughs.
Actually, on a more serious note, this just reinforces my suspicion that Steve Ballmer is really the guy running things over there - he's the guy we should really be blaming for all the FUD.
My first advice is to sacrifice an old PC to a real standalone OpenBSD or Linux firewall.
If that's not possible, go to CompUSA and plunk down $50 for an internet connection-sharing NAT box. (LinkSys, NetGear, etc. usually call them modem-sharing/gateway/routers [*SHUDDER*]) If you aren't willing to invest in building and maintaining a real rule-based standalone firewall on a PC using Linux or OpenBSD, this is probably the next best thing and you can't beat the price. IT IS NOT TOTAL SECURITY - you still have to deal with internal threats (ActiveX, spyware, viruses, etc.) be aware thatthe models that are based on Linux kernels may actually be hackable to serve a terminal prompt (though I don't think it's been done) but the NAT/masquerading it provides will block incoming connections and hide your internals, and for most home/so users with Cable/DSL/Wireless connections, a NAT box plus Spybot S&D and Avast AntiVirus should be sufficient.
If that's too risky, do what GNU does - keep the real (sensitive) data offline on an unnetworked box.
VeriSign is selling the functional equivalent of a lifetime registration.
You know, like US copyright law.
Sure, it's not for every domain, but $1000 for 100 years of not having to rely on the kindness of others (who may even hate you) because the boneheads in your internet services division let your company's registration lapse is dirt cheap. It probably won't sell like hotcakes, but jalapeno poppers isn't out of the question. Speaking corporately, it's a lot cheaper than lawyers and bribes you'd need to fund to win your lost domain back.;)
Re:The DirecTiVo is the cheapest PVR out there...
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More of the same: my cable company (Time-Warner) gives us a Scientific Atlanta box with DUAL DIGITAL TUNERS (record 2 shows at once), 40 hour capacity and full service contract for $6/month. Since they fixed the crashing/rebooting problem, my only real remaining complaint is that the menus and onscreen controls are dog slow (I think the hw needs more horsepower.) Tivo is going to have to turn into a software company or die.
Aw, crap. You are right on, brother./. needs an 'unpost' button.
Mods, please down-mod grandparent into obscurity.
[slaps own hand] BAD ME! [more repeated self-slappings]
[Author's note: My original comment was based on misreading the first line of the article. I thought it said *GTK* was due in a week, leading me to reference yesterday's article about the GTK release. heh, heh.... giggle....]
[Another author's note: If I am not willing to read the articles before commenting, why should the mods be bothered to read the articles before modding? I know, we're losing it....]
We should give him some kind of medal - no web site out there does a better job of exposing poor critical thinking than his. [Email forwards are, however, another story!:( ]
The "Flash Click-To-View" extension for FireFox/FireBird is pretty sweet - it replaces all flash objects with a big grey button that doesn't play the flash animation until you click on it.
Our Constitution in the U.S. prevents Congress from making any law infringing on our natural freedom of speech. To me, P2P is communication, which is speech. Therefore, the federal government has no mandate to restrict it.
I agree with you as long as you wrote (and own) the "speech" you're "speaking", but the BOR cannot sanction other violations of the law such as theft, plagiarism, piracy and violation of the copyright restrictions placed on a work by it's owner.
This is where the xxAA's get involved, and despite the fact that they are too stupid to realize there are legitimate uses for P2P as well, they have a point(*): the overwhelming majority of people who are using P2P are doing so illegitimately with the intention of circumventing copyright law to distribute music and movies for which they do not own the copyright.
(*) NOTE: It may sound to the untrained ear like I think the xxIAs are cool. I do not, and they are not. As far as I'm concerned, we'd certainly be better off without the RIAA companies - the music business is soooo out-of whack, it can only be fixed by "blowing it up" (speaking figuratively, of course) and starting over. I haven't made my mind up yet about the MPAA - they are a smidgeon closer to 'getting it', but they need a lot more therapy before they stop suggesting dumb stuff like this.
[the lameness filter rears its ugly head - YET AGAIN - forcing me to type lower-case nonsense to get around the fact that yes, indeed, I am writing in all caps to simulate yelling.]
I get around this by MANUALLY TURNING OFF THE FREAKING STUPID ACROBAT BROWSER PLUGIN INTEGRATION which, unfortunately, actually works for FireFox.
Maybe they'll 'fix' that problem with the next Firefox release - I can't for the life of me figure out why you'd want to look at a PDF in a window rather than download and save it, but that's just my opinion.
Those lousy, no good, ignorant users deserve to have their service cut off! How stupid do you have to be to get your self infected with a spamming viruses **AND** **THEN** not do anything about it?!?! Sending online greeting cards would be SOOOO much easier if I didn't have all these stupid popup ads and 350 pieces of spam in my inbox every day! Why I think they oughta take all these people and tie them up by their eX###vcrs and bludg))f*&893####89fjvnv0q3 )*((@)#@)RFF)
))(A*U+_FCI_)WGFU {@WFJ'w3Vs
*** NO CARRIER ***
[/feh, it's prolly already been done today, but I'm too lazy to cheX0r!]
Can anyone who's used both comment on whether "spatial nautilus" is the same sorta thing as Windows Explorer's "Open each folder in a new window" non-feature? It sure sounds like it from the article, but it's the first thing I turn off in Windows, so I have no idea if Explorer tries to remember size and location for each open folder or not.
Some of those linux paths get kinda deep, you know. I can't imagine trying to inspect something like/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o
to make sure I've got the module right name and having Nautilus open each subdir in a new window. Ick.
There is no control group, the methods and techniques of interrogation have not been made public so they can be scrutinized and these results have not yet been independently verified. Therefore, this conclusion was NOT reached by applying the scientific method.
Are you sure that the right use of the word? A plagiarist is someone who copies wholesale, words and paragraphs not belonging to him. A plagiarist exploits people who attribute depth to some idea, but short-circuits the thought processes that went into creating the idea. Instead the plagiatist copies.
Plagiarism is trying to pass off someone else's work as your own. Other than that, I agree with you.
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Let's examine the facts, shall we:
and
Jar Jar == Larry Ellison.
[*rimshot*]
THANK YOU, THANK YOU! YOU'RE A GREAT AUDIENCE! I'LL BE HERE ALL WEEK!
I switched to TaxCut, too, and I think it's a better program: It's cheaper, the online help is better, and it can do comparative analysis for things like filing jointly vs. separately.
It still, unfortunately, does stupid things like ask you thirty questions to determine whether you are required to pay AMT when you clearly and obviously aren't, but the expert-systems design approach can only take you so far.
Waaaaaay too much time in the outback, there, Bill - you're starting to sound like Larry Ellison.... maybe even Howard Hughs.
Actually, on a more serious note, this just reinforces my suspicion that Steve Ballmer is really the guy running things over there - he's the guy we should really be blaming for all the FUD.
Not only that, but I'm *ALSO* getting that feeling about Novell. They should have done this *years* ago. [smacks head with palm of hand.]
My first advice is to sacrifice an old PC to a real standalone OpenBSD or Linux firewall.
If that's not possible, go to CompUSA and plunk down $50 for an internet connection-sharing NAT box. (LinkSys, NetGear, etc. usually call them modem-sharing/gateway/routers [*SHUDDER*]) If you aren't willing to invest in building and maintaining a real rule-based standalone firewall on a PC using Linux or OpenBSD, this is probably the next best thing and you can't beat the price. IT IS NOT TOTAL SECURITY - you still have to deal with internal threats (ActiveX, spyware, viruses, etc.) be aware thatthe models that are based on Linux kernels may actually be hackable to serve a terminal prompt (though I don't think it's been done) but the NAT/masquerading it provides will block incoming connections and hide your internals, and for most home/so users with Cable/DSL/Wireless connections, a NAT box plus Spybot S&D and Avast AntiVirus should be sufficient.
If that's too risky, do what GNU does - keep the real (sensitive) data offline on an unnetworked box.
Eeek. You win.
[/had no idea]
VeriSign is selling the functional equivalent of a lifetime registration.
You know, like US copyright law.
Sure, it's not for every domain, but $1000 for 100 years of not having to rely on the kindness of others (who may even hate you) because the boneheads in your internet services division let your company's registration lapse is dirt cheap. It probably won't sell like hotcakes, but jalapeno poppers isn't out of the question. Speaking corporately, it's a lot cheaper than lawyers and bribes you'd need to fund to win your lost domain back.
More of the same: my cable company (Time-Warner) gives us a Scientific Atlanta box with DUAL DIGITAL TUNERS (record 2 shows at once), 40 hour capacity and full service contract for $6/month. Since they fixed the crashing/rebooting problem, my only real remaining complaint is that the menus and onscreen controls are dog slow (I think the hw needs more horsepower.) Tivo is going to have to turn into a software company or die.
OT: Why would you name a childrens' day camp Diablo? It's spanish for "devil", for crying out loud! That's freakin' creepy.
Aw, crap. You are right on, brother.
Mods, please down-mod grandparent into obscurity.
[slaps own hand] BAD ME! [more repeated self-slappings]
[Author's note: My original comment was based on misreading the first line of the article. I thought it said *GTK* was due in a week, leading me to reference yesterday's article about the GTK release. heh, heh.... giggle....]
[Another author's note: If I am not willing to read the articles before commenting, why should the mods be bothered to read the articles before modding? I know, we're losing it....]
Did you guys switch the polarity on the temporal transducer again? It's *LIKE* a re-post, but not.
Here ya' go, from yesterday.
Then, there's the obvious:
(ahem)
Well, at least Time-Warner will **MAKE** games that will have an opportunity to suck.
Thank you, thank you very much, I'll be here all week!
Drive safely, remember to tip your wait staff and try teh fish!
Doesn't he remember Atari? T-W owned that from '76-'86, their most profitable and inventive years when they made great games.
We should give him some kind of medal - no web site out there does a better job of exposing poor critical thinking than his. [Email forwards are, however, another story!
The "Flash Click-To-View" extension for FireFox/FireBird is pretty sweet - it replaces all flash objects with a big grey button that doesn't play the flash animation until you click on it.
Our Constitution in the U.S. prevents Congress from making any law infringing on our natural freedom of speech. To me, P2P is communication, which is speech. Therefore, the federal government has no mandate to restrict it.
I agree with you as long as you wrote (and own) the "speech" you're "speaking", but the BOR cannot sanction other violations of the law such as theft, plagiarism, piracy and violation of the copyright restrictions placed on a work by it's owner.
This is where the xxAA's get involved, and despite the fact that they are too stupid to realize there are legitimate uses for P2P as well, they have a point(*): the overwhelming majority of people who are using P2P are doing so illegitimately with the intention of circumventing copyright law to distribute music and movies for which they do not own the copyright.
(*) NOTE: It may sound to the untrained ear like I think the xxIAs are cool. I do not, and they are not. As far as I'm concerned, we'd certainly be better off without the RIAA companies - the music business is soooo out-of whack, it can only be fixed by "blowing it up" (speaking figuratively, of course) and starting over. I haven't made my mind up yet about the MPAA - they are a smidgeon closer to 'getting it', but they need a lot more therapy before they stop suggesting dumb stuff like this.
One word: India.
JUST KIDDING!!!!!
[the lameness filter rears its ugly head - YET AGAIN - forcing me to type lower-case nonsense to get around the fact that yes, indeed, I am writing in all caps to simulate yelling.]
I get around this by MANUALLY TURNING OFF THE FREAKING STUPID ACROBAT BROWSER PLUGIN INTEGRATION which, unfortunately, actually works for FireFox.
Maybe they'll 'fix' that problem with the next Firefox release - I can't for the life of me figure out why you'd want to look at a PDF in a window rather than download and save it, but that's just my opinion.
Can't we all just |= ?
Those lousy, no good, ignorant users deserve to have their service cut off! How stupid do you have to be to get your self infected with a spamming viruses **AND** **THEN** not do anything about it?!?! Sending online greeting cards would be SOOOO much easier if I didn't have all these stupid popup ads and 350 pieces of spam in my inbox every day! Why I think they oughta take all these people and tie them up by their eX###vcrs and bludg))f*&893####89fjvnv0q3 )*((@)#@)RFF)
))(A*U+_FCI_)WGFU {@WFJ'w3Vs
*** NO CARRIER ***
[/feh, it's prolly already been done today, but I'm too lazy to cheX0r!]
And didja know you can re-zip all your zip files to make the ONE QUARTER their original size?!?!
Can anyone who's used both comment on whether "spatial nautilus" is the same sorta thing as Windows Explorer's "Open each folder in a new window" non-feature? It sure sounds like it from the article, but it's the first thing I turn off in Windows, so I have no idea if Explorer tries to remember size and location for each open folder or not.
Some of those linux paths get kinda deep, you know. I can't imagine trying to inspect something like
There is no control group, the methods and techniques of interrogation have not been made public so they can be scrutinized and these results have not yet been independently verified. Therefore, this conclusion was NOT reached by applying the scientific method.
Sincerely,
Mr. Pedantic (TM)
[grin]
Are you sure that the right use of the word? A plagiarist is someone who copies wholesale, words and paragraphs not belonging to him. A plagiarist exploits people who attribute depth to some idea, but short-circuits the thought processes that went into creating the idea. Instead the plagiatist copies.
Plagiarism is trying to pass off someone else's work as your own. Other than that, I agree with you.
If this isn't proof-positive that this guy is a few meg short of a gig, I don't know what is.
Nobody wants to kill McBride. He's doing a pretty good job of destroying himself.
SCO is like an infinte loop. We're just waiting for their resources to get eaten at which point we'll all roast marshmellows over their core dump.
BTW, that's some sweet 'ring 0' phrasology, there, buddy. [chuckle]