Have the made it possible to disable the new profile management that they forced on everyone in 44?
I switched to FF after that and haven't looked back.
I've seen people mention netvibes as a replacement. However I've discovered protopage.com. I think it is better than netvibes b/c you can click and drag to resize each widget (even across columns).
It took me about two hours to move over all my feeds and figure out how to get things like google calendar and gmail to appear correctly. I also added a number of feeds since it was so easy.
I'm extremely disapointed that iGoogle is going away. However I've found something better so it has worked out in the end.
You asking if you should get a patent on a site that is notoriously anti-patent? I'd say you're looking for a certain answer.
At the risk of being modded down, I'm not going to give you that answer. Get the patent. It is good legal protection. It will help if someone else tries to steal your idea and sues you for infringing on the patent they just got. It will help if you later decide to actually get paid for your idea and need to keep others from stealing it.
The patent basically says you thought of this first. It doesn't not say you can't publish your idea, in fact with a patent you must publish your idea.
So bottom line get the patent and then work on making your idea a success.
The real problem is that we no longer have a jury of our peers. Back in the day, your peer was someone who knew you well and shared a common status. Now it's 12 random people who have nothing more in common than someone who lives somewhere in the same county as you. No wonder jurors are trying to find out more info, they don't start with the necessary information about the defendant.
It's not that the government is unwilling to regulate it. It's that government grants them the monopoly. Your local government prohibits other companies from competing with the "authorized" cable franchisee. Get rid of this and allow companies to compete and at least you'll have an option to switch when one of them does something stupid.
Actually what it really means is that a few editors have amassed all the power (much like a few people amass all the power in the government). This problem has been around for a while. I personally stopped contributing after they kept deleting the the article on the stolen sidekick. Its been reduced down to just a few lines in some other article.
There is of course Deletionpedia, but it looks like their bots aren't always on top of the situation. Several of the articles I've tried to find there weren't saved in time.
It's a shame, since Wikipedia could be so much more that the narrow vision of the deletionists.
That's funny. The reason I stopped going to RS (in addition to all the reasons others have mentioned) is that they always demand a photo ID from me. The last time I refused and reported them for violating their merchant agreement with Mastercard
Beware of the blob, it creeps And leaps and glides and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch Be careful of the blob
Every time a new version of Windoze comes out, we see a survey saying most places won't install the new version. So either most places are still using Windows 3.11 or they switched to Linux right?
Ok ok I know most places dont' upgrade every year, so it takes 2-5 years before the newest version takes over. So really this survey is nothing new and I wonder if it is even newsworthy.
Take a deep breath dude, was trying to give you info that I thought might help. Now it seems that you've presented a moving target.
I don't know what the GP is thinking, but here's my thoughts...
At first I thought your help was awesome. But then I realized it being able to filter on From: is not the same as being able to sort on From:
For example...
Joe sends me email which gmail sends to spam. Since I know gmail does this frequently with his emails and that Joe sends me email once a day, I can easily use the filter to find his message in spam.
Now comes the problem. Sally sends me an email which gmail sends to spam. She doesn't normally send me email often so I'm not on the lookout for it. I won't even think to use a filter to find her email. Only by sorting on From: and scanning through the list in Spam would I ever find her email.
I don't think the GP is presenting a moving target. He needs to be able to sort by the headers, like you can in every other email program out there.
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Mod parent up. This is the most insightful comment I've seen on/. in quite a while.
The more "services" the government provides, the more you're dependent on it. That alone will limit your freedoms. However as the above post points out. The real problem is by providing these "services" there's just more government around and it does what government does (attempt to control people).
Want government to provide health care? Next thing you know it will outlaw a bunch of "unhealthy" activities b/c treating the effects are too much for the government provided health care.
Want government to provide water, electricity, and other utilities? Next thing you know watering your lawn, turning on a light, or visiting certain internet sites will be illegal b/c it puts too much of a strain on the government provided system.
You're much better off finding a place with none of these services and fight to keep them from ever being implemented.
Personally I live in the US and have for 6 years been thinking about moving out. Unfortunately there isn't any place more free. However we're on the wrong track heading in the wrong direction, while there are a number of places heading in the right direction.
IMHO after a lot of thought the right choice is to stay and fight. Fleeing will not improve the situation in the long run.
In this day of over-specialization, I can see how someone would be a PHPnerd and not know anything about JavaScript.
Heck where I work, I'm pretty atypical in that I know not only PHP and JavaScript, but Perl and a number of other scripting languages. Most people just know one language and don't seem to have the ability to branch out beyond it.
As for what hulu is doing... I'm guessing (I haven't read anything more than the summary like a good/.er) hulu is encrypting the video and on the same page in plain text is the way to decrypt the video.
Right after college, desperate for a job, I interviewed with Circuit City.
I had to go to the main place down near the city instead of out in Henrico.
First thing I notice is there are a bunch of people who look like a bunch of junkies hanging out in fron of the door.
I walk past that into the reception area. After a brief wait, a guy and a girl who I think were younger than me at the time, took me into an office for the interview.
As soon as I sat down they started reading questions from their clipboard.
These questions weren't the kind that would see if you knew anything about their products or could otherwise do your jobs. They were all about "If you saw one of your coworkers using illegal drugs in their home, what would you do?" With few exceptions they were all about drug use.
The last question was, do you have any questions for us? My answer was "Yes I do. Since y'all seem extremely interested in drug use, does Circuit City have a lot of employees with a drug problem? I certainly don't want to work in such an environment."
They gave me some BS answer about weeding out that kind of employee.
I walked out the door knowing I would not accept a job with them no matter what.
Of course they didn't call me either so I guess I didn't give them the answers they wanted.
I hope you realize that by paying the fee, you also are admitting to be guilty of driving without a license. So on all future job applications you need to check that little box saying you have been convicted of a traffic violation.
Actually his writeup hits a point I've been struggling with for a while and one that is making me reconsider Linux as my desktop OS.
Is there a diagram editor that works on Linux? I've tried Dia and it seems clunky and lacking. Is there anything out there with the functionality of Visio, but runs on Linux?
It's already happened before (back when you still used film in cameras). Some folks took pictures of their kid in the tub just playing with some kid's toys.
The person at the place that developed the pictures (fox photo I think), call the police and I believe the parents ended up with jail time and had their kid taken from them.
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Have the made it possible to disable the new profile management that they forced on everyone in 44?
I switched to FF after that and haven't looked back.
I've seen people mention netvibes as a replacement. However I've discovered protopage.com. I think it is better than netvibes b/c you can click and drag to resize each widget (even across columns). It took me about two hours to move over all my feeds and figure out how to get things like google calendar and gmail to appear correctly. I also added a number of feeds since it was so easy. I'm extremely disapointed that iGoogle is going away. However I've found something better so it has worked out in the end.
You asking if you should get a patent on a site that is notoriously anti-patent? I'd say you're looking for a certain answer.
At the risk of being modded down, I'm not going to give you that answer. Get the patent. It is good legal protection. It will help if someone else tries to steal your idea and sues you for infringing on the patent they just got. It will help if you later decide to actually get paid for your idea and need to keep others from stealing it.
The patent basically says you thought of this first. It doesn't not say you can't publish your idea, in fact with a patent you must publish your idea.
So bottom line get the patent and then work on making your idea a success.
The real problem is that we no longer have a jury of our peers. Back in the day, your peer was someone who knew you well and shared a common status. Now it's 12 random people who have nothing more in common than someone who lives somewhere in the same county as you. No wonder jurors are trying to find out more info, they don't start with the necessary information about the defendant.
It's not that the government is unwilling to regulate it. It's that government grants them the monopoly. Your local government prohibits other companies from competing with the "authorized" cable franchisee. Get rid of this and allow companies to compete and at least you'll have an option to switch when one of them does something stupid.
Actually what it really means is that a few editors have amassed all the power (much like a few people amass all the power in the government). This problem has been around for a while. I personally stopped contributing after they kept deleting the the article on the stolen sidekick. Its been reduced down to just a few lines in some other article.
There is of course Deletionpedia, but it looks like their bots aren't always on top of the situation. Several of the articles I've tried to find there weren't saved in time.
It's a shame, since Wikipedia could be so much more that the narrow vision of the deletionists.
They never, ever, asked for picture ID.
That's funny. The reason I stopped going to RS (in addition to all the reasons others have mentioned) is that they always demand a photo ID from me. The last time I refused and reported them for violating their merchant agreement with Mastercard
Beware of the blob, it creeps
And leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor
Right through the door
And all around the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Be careful of the blob
-The Five Blobs
Every time a new version of Windoze comes out, we see a survey saying most places won't install the new version. So either most places are still using Windows 3.11 or they switched to Linux right?
Ok ok I know most places dont' upgrade every year, so it takes 2-5 years before the newest version takes over. So really this survey is nothing new and I wonder if it is even newsworthy.
Take a deep breath dude, was trying to give you info that I thought might help. Now it seems that you've presented a moving target.
I don't know what the GP is thinking, but here's my thoughts...
At first I thought your help was awesome. But then I realized it being able to filter on From: is not the same as being able to sort on From:
For example...
Joe sends me email which gmail sends to spam. Since I know gmail does this frequently with his emails and that Joe sends me email once a day, I can easily use the filter to find his message in spam.
Now comes the problem. Sally sends me an email which gmail sends to spam. She doesn't normally send me email often so I'm not on the lookout for it. I won't even think to use a filter to find her email. Only by sorting on From: and scanning through the list in Spam would I ever find her email.
I don't think the GP is presenting a moving target. He needs to be able to sort by the headers, like you can in every other email program out there.
This is not a good work around for me. I like being able to tell which links I've already visited. I suspect a lot of people like it too.
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Mod parent up. This is the most insightful comment I've seen on /. in quite a while.
The more "services" the government provides, the more you're dependent on it. That alone will limit your freedoms. However as the above post points out. The real problem is by providing these "services" there's just more government around and it does what government does (attempt to control people).
Want government to provide health care? Next thing you know it will outlaw a bunch of "unhealthy" activities b/c treating the effects are too much for the government provided health care.
Want government to provide water, electricity, and other utilities? Next thing you know watering your lawn, turning on a light, or visiting certain internet sites will be illegal b/c it puts too much of a strain on the government provided system.
You're much better off finding a place with none of these services and fight to keep them from ever being implemented.
Personally I live in the US and have for 6 years been thinking about moving out. Unfortunately there isn't any place more free. However we're on the wrong track heading in the wrong direction, while there are a number of places heading in the right direction.
IMHO after a lot of thought the right choice is to stay and fight. Fleeing will not improve the situation in the long run.
PHP is not JavaScript.
In this day of over-specialization, I can see how someone would be a PHPnerd and not know anything about JavaScript.
Heck where I work, I'm pretty atypical in that I know not only PHP and JavaScript, but Perl and a number of other scripting languages. Most people just know one language and don't seem to have the ability to branch out beyond it.
As for what hulu is doing... /.er) hulu is encrypting the video and on the same page in plain text is the way to decrypt the video.
I'm guessing (I haven't read anything more than the summary like a good
It's already been cracked. When will people learn?
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/04/01/hulu-tried-to-encrypt-content-already-cracked
The reason we use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL at work is mainly because the JDBC drivers for MySQL are GPL licensed, while Postgres' isn't.
Um... wouldn't that be a reason to use MySQL?
Right after college, desperate for a job, I interviewed with Circuit City.
I had to go to the main place down near the city instead of out in Henrico.
First thing I notice is there are a bunch of people who look like a bunch of junkies hanging out in fron of the door.
I walk past that into the reception area. After a brief wait, a guy and a girl who I think were younger than me at the time, took me into an office for the interview.
As soon as I sat down they started reading questions from their clipboard.
These questions weren't the kind that would see if you knew anything about their products or could otherwise do your jobs. They were all about "If you saw one of your coworkers using illegal drugs in their home, what would you do?" With few exceptions they were all about drug use.
The last question was, do you have any questions for us? My answer was "Yes I do. Since y'all seem extremely interested in drug use, does Circuit City have a lot of employees with a drug problem? I certainly don't want to work in such an environment."
They gave me some BS answer about weeding out that kind of employee.
I walked out the door knowing I would not accept a job with them no matter what.
Of course they didn't call me either so I guess I didn't give them the answers they wanted.
Not possible. The phrase before the conjunction is contradicted by the phrase after the conjunction.
Either you're a trek fan and your horrified by the new movie. Or you're not a trek fan and are excited about the new movie.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s.00436:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.01076:
Why is this under idle. It really should be YRO.
I hope you realize that by paying the fee, you also are admitting to be guilty of driving without a license. So on all future job applications you need to check that little box saying you have been convicted of a traffic violation.
The signature on the card must be reasonably close to the signature on the slip they sign.
Mastercard has a nice little web form to report merchant violations. It usually only takes one or two reports to get the merchant in line.
Actually his writeup hits a point I've been struggling with for a while and one that is making me reconsider Linux as my desktop OS.
Is there a diagram editor that works on Linux? I've tried Dia and it seems clunky and lacking. Is there anything out there with the functionality of Visio, but runs on Linux?
I guess you've never gotten a raise and ended up with a smaller paycheck. It happens all too frequently.
It's already happened before (back when you still used film in cameras). Some folks took pictures of their kid in the tub just playing with some kid's toys.
The person at the place that developed the pictures (fox photo I think), call the police and I believe the parents ended up with jail time and had their kid taken from them.