That would go against Google's entire philosophy. They have always marketed their search as unbiased, and that would definately make the search biased. I don't think it would make people leave Google in droves, but it would probably make a lot of people more open to trying a different search engine.
Leapfrog doesn't make things for teenagers. The users that Leapfrog is aiming for would tear a GBA to shreds in a few hours.
My 16 month old son LOVES Leapfrog toys. They keep his attention far longer than any of the other toys he has. They are also educational, brightly colored, and fun looking. GBA's are small, have tiny buttons, are boring to look at from a toddler's point of view, have many opening to stick crumbs and other things into, and the clamshell design on the new ones would almost immedeately get torn in half.
Looking at it from the perspective of a parent, I think my son would love one of these. When he's a teenager, he'll want something more advanced, but for now this would be great for him. I think Leapfrog knows what they're doing here.
with just about every work enviroment with a conection to the internet these days (including a few that shouldnt have such connection) and with Java all over the place... WHY???????????
It matters to me when I click a link, expecting Firebird to open, and I'm instead greeted with all the IE crap like popups, boxes asking permission to install Gator, etc...
My copy of Outlook has this "feature", and I hate it. MS needs to learn that I set my default browser to something else for a reason.
If I'm understanding you right, it sounds like you are looking for an "Intro to photography" class more than an "Intro to digital photography". Check your local community colleges, and the better camera shops in your neighborhood for someone offering classes.
Eolas have no problems with open source and W3C compliant commercial browsers.
For now... What happens when a few years down the road, the guy running Eolas decides he wants a new jet or yacht? Maybe he just wants to see how much he can get his net worth up to. Who knows what he's planning or thinking.
He's already shown his stance on IP patents, I have no doubts that suing other browser companies is not that far off, regardless of what he says.
The cost is probably to line the author's pockets. I took an Anthropology class a few years ago, where in addition to buying the $60 textbook the teacher had written, you had to buy a $40 "workbook" that he had written.
The workbook was a stack of about 20 pages that had been copied and stapled together. Of course, all of the assignments were pages from the workbook that you had to write on, then tear out and turn in so you had to buy the stupid thing.
Each page of the workbook was on average a question or two, followed by a lot of blank space to write your answer in. And the pages were all printed on light blue paper, so you couldn't copy them, and the teacher only accepted sheets from the original book.
It's kind of like being charged every time your phone rings. Imagine your bill going up because a bunch of autodialers were set up to call random numbers.
The answer is simple...
If you can find it in your hear to forgive me, just send $1 to Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power!
It was bought just before Christmas of last year as a gift to myself. The Palm Zire cost around $100 at that time, but I ended up buying an M125 (I think that's the model #) for about $120 instead.
Not that it matters, I got tired of having an extra thing to lug around so I gave it to my wife. She got tired of trying to type names and appointments into it instead of using her Day Runner, so it's sitting at home in our desk right now.:)
And currently, I'm waiting for my free Viewsonic V37 that Microsoft is sending me. Not that it will ever be used as a PDA. I plan on installing a few emulators on it and playing MP3's with it while I'm riding the bus to and from work.
I bought it because I was too cheap to buy a Palm. At $50, it looked like a good deal because it had handwriting recognition, and most applications that Palm has.
Everything on it sucked though. The battery would last a day at the most, and it wasn't rechargeable. The handwriting recognition NEVER worked right. The user interface was horrible. I finally took it back and traded it up to a Palm.
Hopefully they designed this one better, and will be a nice choice for a Linux based PDA.
I could never get into that game. And I certainly don't have any desire to purchase all of the $20-$30 add ons they produced for it.
The Sims didn't have the same interest level because I have no desire to have a second fake life I need to take care of. I don't want to worry about going to work, reading, excercising, etc... in a game when I have to worry about that in real life.
Games like Sim City on the other hand would let you use your imagintation, and allow you to do things that most people will never get to do in real life are much more entertaining in my opinion.
Just out of curiosity, is that becuase VoIP doesn't contribute to the tax, so they can't use the service?
My understanding is that it is a technicality. I can plug my Cisco ATA into ANY internet connection around the world, and still have my local # assigned to that phone, I'm assuming that is the problem.
With Vonage, you have to request 911 service. When you do that, you give them the address the phone will be primarily used at, and they verify the address and assign the local police # to it. If they didn't verify the address first, I could theoretically call 911, and have it look like I'm calling from anywhere I want to.
Are you willing to give up reliability? Are you willing to give up 911. What?
In both caes, yes. Our phone has only been down twice since we've had it. Once when Charter was working on the line (Down for about an hour), and once when I was rerouting the cables by the computer. Both times, Vonage recognized that the phone was down, and automatically routed any incoming calls to my cell phone.
As far as not having 911, our emergency calls are automatically routed to the local police station, which happens to be right across the street. The one time we had to call 911, the police were at our house before our neighbors had even gotten connected to a 911 operator. They were still on hold.
VOiP users don't get access to 911 call centers though. So why should we have to pay for it? When I call 911 from my VOiP line, it goes directly to the police station, not the 911 call center.
Vonage offers residential service cheap. I've had them for about 6 months, and am so far extremely happy with their service.
For $25/month, I get 500 minutes to anywhere in the US or Canada, and unlimited local. Anything over that is 3.9 cents/minute.
Or for $40, you can get unlimited.
Both plans include voicemail, caller id, call forwarding. You can also get a second # for $5 that will forward to your number. It's useful if you have out of state family that calls you frequently, and you want to make it a local call for them.
I don't work for Vonage, or have any stake in them, I'm just an extremely happy customer of theirs.
I pay $46 for my cable tv and cable modem, and $25 for the phone service. The $71 still comes out cheaper than my POTS was, and I get cable TV and cable modem.
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Think about it, I bet the CGI guys have plenty of copies of prerelease stuff sitting in a shared network folder somewhere, or on an internal FTP site.
So will the feds come bust them too, or will they selectivly apply this law?
I'd give it a 7/10, mainly because it's a bit overpriced at $149 (it'd be an 8 if it was, let's say, $75).
You bought a $500 MP3 player, and you're bitching that the speakers cost too much?
host on Google, get a bump in your search rating?
That would go against Google's entire philosophy. They have always marketed their search as unbiased, and that would definately make the search biased. I don't think it would make people leave Google in droves, but it would probably make a lot of people more open to trying a different search engine.
Leapfrog doesn't make things for teenagers. The users that Leapfrog is aiming for would tear a GBA to shreds in a few hours.
My 16 month old son LOVES Leapfrog toys. They keep his attention far longer than any of the other toys he has. They are also educational, brightly colored, and fun looking. GBA's are small, have tiny buttons, are boring to look at from a toddler's point of view, have many opening to stick crumbs and other things into, and the clamshell design on the new ones would almost immedeately get torn in half.
Looking at it from the perspective of a parent, I think my son would love one of these. When he's a teenager, he'll want something more advanced, but for now this would be great for him. I think Leapfrog knows what they're doing here.
with just about every work enviroment with a conection to the internet these days (including a few that shouldnt have such connection) and with Java all over the place... WHY???????????
Why not?
Thunderbird doesn't work with an Exchange server, as far as I know. At home I use Thunderbird, at work I'm stuck with Outlook (For now).
Does it really matter which browser opens up?
It matters to me when I click a link, expecting Firebird to open, and I'm instead greeted with all the IE crap like popups, boxes asking permission to install Gator, etc...
My copy of Outlook has this "feature", and I hate it. MS needs to learn that I set my default browser to something else for a reason.
If I'm understanding you right, it sounds like you are looking for an "Intro to photography" class more than an "Intro to digital photography". Check your local community colleges, and the better camera shops in your neighborhood for someone offering classes.
Is here, although I doubt it is the kind of distro you're looking for :)
Eolas have no problems with open source and W3C compliant commercial browsers.
For now... What happens when a few years down the road, the guy running Eolas decides he wants a new jet or yacht? Maybe he just wants to see how much he can get his net worth up to. Who knows what he's planning or thinking.
He's already shown his stance on IP patents, I have no doubts that suing other browser companies is not that far off, regardless of what he says.
It's probably been said already, but Mozilla Firebird
No pop-ups, easily configurable for no ads, no spyware, no ActiveX crap, and it is free.
So Nokia's making model trains now? Is it going to be like the old sport's illustrated shoe phone, except it will be the Nokia train phone?
More free computers for all! :p
Bookpool has it $2 cheaper than Amazon, and you're not giving business to someone who is abusing the patent system.
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To just put Clippy, or any other Microsoft Agent into your app. And tyo make your app really cool, make sure you can't disable it.
The cost is probably to line the author's pockets. I took an Anthropology class a few years ago, where in addition to buying the $60 textbook the teacher had written, you had to buy a $40 "workbook" that he had written.
The workbook was a stack of about 20 pages that had been copied and stapled together. Of course, all of the assignments were pages from the workbook that you had to write on, then tear out and turn in so you had to buy the stupid thing.
Each page of the workbook was on average a question or two, followed by a lot of blank space to write your answer in. And the pages were all printed on light blue paper, so you couldn't copy them, and the teacher only accepted sheets from the original book.
Bastard.
It's kind of like being charged every time your phone rings. Imagine your bill going up because a bunch of autodialers were set up to call random numbers.
The answer is simple...
If you can find it in your hear to forgive me, just send $1 to Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power!
It was bought just before Christmas of last year as a gift to myself. The Palm Zire cost around $100 at that time, but I ended up buying an M125 (I think that's the model #) for about $120 instead.
:)
Not that it matters, I got tired of having an extra thing to lug around so I gave it to my wife. She got tired of trying to type names and appointments into it instead of using her Day Runner, so it's sitting at home in our desk right now.
And currently, I'm waiting for my free Viewsonic V37 that Microsoft is sending me. Not that it will ever be used as a PDA. I plan on installing a few emulators on it and playing MP3's with it while I'm riding the bus to and from work.
I bought it because I was too cheap to buy a Palm. At $50, it looked like a good deal because it had handwriting recognition, and most applications that Palm has.
Everything on it sucked though. The battery would last a day at the most, and it wasn't rechargeable. The handwriting recognition NEVER worked right. The user interface was horrible. I finally took it back and traded it up to a Palm.
Hopefully they designed this one better, and will be a nice choice for a Linux based PDA.
I could never get into that game. And I certainly don't have any desire to purchase all of the $20-$30 add ons they produced for it.
The Sims didn't have the same interest level because I have no desire to have a second fake life I need to take care of. I don't want to worry about going to work, reading, excercising, etc... in a game when I have to worry about that in real life.
Games like Sim City on the other hand would let you use your imagintation, and allow you to do things that most people will never get to do in real life are much more entertaining in my opinion.
Am I the only one that won't miss crappy plug-ins like Flash, embedded midi players, ActiveX controls making IE required, etc...?
I say take the things out, and don't replace them.
Just out of curiosity, is that becuase VoIP doesn't contribute to the tax, so they can't use the service?
My understanding is that it is a technicality. I can plug my Cisco ATA into ANY internet connection around the world, and still have my local # assigned to that phone, I'm assuming that is the problem.
With Vonage, you have to request 911 service. When you do that, you give them the address the phone will be primarily used at, and they verify the address and assign the local police # to it. If they didn't verify the address first, I could theoretically call 911, and have it look like I'm calling from anywhere I want to.
Are you willing to give up reliability? Are you willing to give up 911. What?
In both caes, yes. Our phone has only been down twice since we've had it. Once when Charter was working on the line (Down for about an hour), and once when I was rerouting the cables by the computer. Both times, Vonage recognized that the phone was down, and automatically routed any incoming calls to my cell phone.
As far as not having 911, our emergency calls are automatically routed to the local police station, which happens to be right across the street. The one time we had to call 911, the police were at our house before our neighbors had even gotten connected to a 911 operator. They were still on hold.
VOiP users don't get access to 911 call centers though. So why should we have to pay for it? When I call 911 from my VOiP line, it goes directly to the police station, not the 911 call center.
Vonage offers residential service cheap. I've had them for about 6 months, and am so far extremely happy with their service.
For $25/month, I get 500 minutes to anywhere in the US or Canada, and unlimited local. Anything over that is 3.9 cents/minute.
Or for $40, you can get unlimited.
Both plans include voicemail, caller id, call forwarding. You can also get a second # for $5 that will forward to your number. It's useful if you have out of state family that calls you frequently, and you want to make it a local call for them.
I don't work for Vonage, or have any stake in them, I'm just an extremely happy customer of theirs.
I pay $46 for my cable tv and cable modem, and $25 for the phone service. The $71 still comes out cheaper than my POTS was, and I get cable TV and cable modem.