Does this mean Google will be targetting their advertising based on the kind and number of viruses they filter out?
They already target advertising based on the spam they filter out of my inbox. When I check the spam folder, there are ads for spam salad, spam and eggs, spam soup, spam with pasta, etc., etc. as well as spam recipe books.
If you want to try a service that a) does a good bit of what Glide claims to do and b) is free and doesn't require a credit card to verify anything, try Avvenu.
Blame that on the idiocy of what passes for a package system in Windows.
Wrong. Blame it on incompetent install programmers. If you use the default settings of InstallShield or WISE, upgrading is handled automatically--including managing the Add/Remove Programs entries. Only when programmers who don't know what they're doing start monkeying around with the uninstall Registry stuff do you see multiple ARP entries for the same app.
If you've never been involved in working with Visual Sourcesafe, how can you assert with great authority that it 'has been pretty crap for ages'?
Maybe the GP can't, but I can and so do. Visual SourceSafe is crap, has always been crap, and doesn't show any signs of uncrapping. On the other hand, StarTeam is crappier. My current employer, thankfully, uses CVS.
Okay, I know DirecTV refuses to support *any* of the networking functions on DirecTiVo units; I have a Linksys WUSB54G plugged in to the USB port on my Philips DSR704R17, but it's not recognized. What do I need to do to enable all these nifty features on my DirecTiVo unit?
Do they use tax revenues to pay to air-condition Las Vegas?
No, they ("they" being casino and hotel owners like Steve Wynn) use gambling losses. If you meant public spaces, "they" meaning government offices and such do use tax revenues collected from the casinos.
I ended throwing away the only Stephenson book I ever bought after he took two entire pages to describe a parking lot - including how many and what kind of cars were in it, the height of the curbs and the thickness of the paint lines!
I have to assume you're talking about the scene in Cryptonomicon where the Waterhouse family is dividing up an estate (was it Grandmother Waterhouse's?). The parking lot is a pretty obvious--stated, even--metaphor for the equitable division of loot.
I recently took a 12 day cruise from SF to Alaska and back.
Celebrity Infinity? We're doing that next May.
Your experience in cruise ship security mirrors that of the Carnival cruise we did a couple of years ago. They let me through with my Leatherman, but they did want to inspect it ("hey, that's pretty cool, I'm gonna have to get one") when I came through.
"Why" is obvious, like someone up there said. Because I don't friggin' want to see them. Because they take up space on my desktop I'd rather use for, you know, actual productive stuff. Because I don't like the info harvesting and spyware installation attempts (not that they ever succeed, go Opera!).
So, I use Opera and Ad Muncher. They work very well together--Ad Muncher even has some special settings for Opera--and I haven't seen a non-Google ad in years, except when I've deliberately turned of Ad Muncher filtering. Even then, Opera's non-selected popup blocking means I never ever see a popup add.
And while we're at it, I read Consumer Reports (no ads), 2600 (no ads) and MAKE (few ads), and love my DirecTiVo (30-second commercial skip) and XM Radio (72 channels of commercial-free music)
I've been using virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/ I found it better than powertoys.
Oh my yes. Thanks to your link and recommendation, I've discovered that Virtual Dimension is light-years better than the MSVDM PowerToy, may it rest in peace (though it crashed when I turned it off).
Zonk, my boy, you've done it. First the dupes, then the misleading headlines, and now this. This is the last drop. I can't stand your editorship anymore. Zonk, I hereby award you the dubious honor of being the first editor whose stories are banned from my/. homepage.
While I tend to agree, you should note that the "sovereign nation" reference is a quote from TFA.
Similarly, I use Strip on my Treo 650, and used it on a succession of Visors before (finally) upgrading. After HotSyncing, I use POSE to emulate Palm OS on my PC so I can see the passwords and accounts right there.
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I'd heard of coding Perl while drunk, but this...
If you want to try a service that a) does a good bit of what Glide claims to do and b) is free and doesn't require a credit card to verify anything, try Avvenu.
And yes, I work for them.
That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
Wrong. Blame it on incompetent install programmers. If you use the default settings of InstallShield or WISE, upgrading is handled automatically--including managing the Add/Remove Programs entries. Only when programmers who don't know what they're doing start monkeying around with the uninstall Registry stuff do you see multiple ARP entries for the same app.
Hey, how'd you get my IM log?
You're lucky your engineers have not yet handed you your own boiled, severed penis.
Okay, I know DirecTV refuses to support *any* of the networking functions on DirecTiVo units; I have a Linksys WUSB54G plugged in to the USB port on my Philips DSR704R17, but it's not recognized. What do I need to do to enable all these nifty features on my DirecTiVo unit?
Seriously. Everyone at my company gets one of those, and they're junk.
Your experience in cruise ship security mirrors that of the Carnival cruise we did a couple of years ago. They let me through with my Leatherman, but they did want to inspect it ("hey, that's pretty cool, I'm gonna have to get one") when I came through.
I hereby declare the $sys$ meme... over.
"Why" is obvious, like someone up there said. Because I don't friggin' want to see them. Because they take up space on my desktop I'd rather use for, you know, actual productive stuff. Because I don't like the info harvesting and spyware installation attempts (not that they ever succeed, go Opera!).
So, I use Opera and Ad Muncher. They work very well together--Ad Muncher even has some special settings for Opera--and I haven't seen a non-Google ad in years, except when I've deliberately turned of Ad Muncher filtering. Even then, Opera's non-selected popup blocking means I never ever see a popup add.
And while we're at it, I read Consumer Reports (no ads), 2600 (no ads) and MAKE (few ads), and love my DirecTiVo (30-second commercial skip) and XM Radio (72 channels of commercial-free music)
I carry a pack in mine. I thought it was a bit odd (but forethinking) and am rather surprised to see several other /.ers who do it also.
I'm pretty sure I remember seeing Elizabeth Shue doing it. Ahh, those boots...
Similarly, I use Strip on my Treo 650, and used it on a succession of Visors before (finally) upgrading. After HotSyncing, I use POSE to emulate Palm OS on my PC so I can see the passwords and accounts right there.