Everytime I'm forced to use IE (read: work and friends' houses that I haven't converted), it is quite shocking how often one click turns into three. One to click and link and two more to close the random pop-up ads. I can't believe that anyone can stand surfing the web while being constantly bombarded by these things.
Enter pop-up blocking. Haven't seen a pop-up in MONTHS. And that's only ONE of the wonderful features about the mozilla-based browsers.
I'm surprised I've never heard of this, as you'd think that a LOT of people would be interested in "being a local call" from anywhere in the nation. That would practically eliminate 1-800 numbers, wouldn't it?
So you'd rather have the providers double-bill you (you and the calling party) on EVERY single call than hang up on a few telemarketers?
Well, isn't that interesting!
Now, I'm no fan of telemarketers, but I think I'd rather sign up on some "do not call list" as they have now-a-days than pay for DOUBLE use on every single call!
First you say:
The rollover min alone make it better than most providers
Then you say:
When I signed up last year I was using my old phone pretty heavy, so I went with the 700 min plan. Now I use at best 150 a month. So I've got a ton of rollover. So yeah I should drop my plan down, but they'd charge me out the ass to do that so...
So it seems to me that the rollover minutes are *completely useless* to you and you should have chosen a provider that lets you change your plan up OR down during at least some part of your contract (like T-Mobile allows...not sure if anyone else does).
How do you plug your computer modem into a cell phone? I'm not being sarcastic... Is there some kind of RJ45 adapter that goes into a cell phone? I believe laptops use IR, which regular boxes don't have.
all the pizza places would be out of business with that rule in effect!
College students count as a large portion of their customer base and most of us (ie. the smart ones) don't pay the ridiculous land line fees and have opted for a single cell phone for all of our calls.
I'd never heard of anyone not delivering to cell phones until I read this!
Oh it's DEFINITELY hard to get a start in it. But once you get it going, then it gets much easier. I have a game going that I've played for a couple weeks and wouldn't die too often. If I did, I'd reload the last save point. This really isn't too different from what you would do on, say, you're PS2 game when you lose progress after a save.
Doesn't anyone else remember this game? I actually have the very old 80's PC version in a box sitting next to me. I'm thinking about redoing this one myself. The graphics are so simple, and the gameplay is just classic SSI.
> Oh... so... how much have YOU donated to charity in the last 5 years?
Yeah, that's great and all, but seriously... Once you have multi-billions of dollars, this is like buying a friend a drink. In other words, no big accomplishment. I can't think of anything else that he could do with that much money. It's not like he can take it to the grave with him. He surely doesn't give the money away privately...so he's definitely getting a "good guy" benefit from it.
Not for whatever educational system they implemented in 2002 at my school. I believe it is a version less than 8, but I don't know exactly.
I read the document from PeopleSoft. Basically they said "Sorry, deal with it."
It's a little like Microsoft not supporting IE6 for win2k because win2k isn't the "most current" product. What a load of crap.
My school recently converted to PS. I often rant about how the old TELNET-based system was about 10 times easier to use, even in plain old black and white, with only keyboard input. Most of my friends agree. It is a horrible horrible curse on end users.
I am simply astounded at their requirements for a web browser. They support IE 5.0, 5.5, or Netscape 4.7. That is *IT*. IE6? Nope. Netscape > 4.7? No can do. And the official reason from the school basically states that PeopleSoft has determined it's not of value to update their software for modern browsers. I can't help but wonder what egghead in the IT dept actually APPROVED a purchase of a million+ dollar system that doesn't even support modern browsers. This is for 40,000+ users!
I work part time at the help desk for this school and our solution for people using XP (which cannot downgrade IE) is to use netscape 4.7! What a horrible solution.
I don't understand HOW they keep getting away with this? First Gnutella, now WASTE. Both of these projects clearly offer nothing to AOL-TW, but at the same time could end up being very costly (lawsuits) to them.
So how does Nullsoft keep getting away with releasing these projects on their own AOL-TW -owned site? I mean, if I released this stuff from a major media company that I worked for, I'd think that it would be raining pink slips the very second they found out about it!
That said, I'm very happy they DO get away with it, because they are usually groundbreaking projects that are completely open source! How many more genies is Nullsoft going to let out before AOL-TW puts their foot down?
After reading the article, it makes me want a BMW even more!
Doors won't open w/o power, windows are hard to break with a HAMMER... Sounds like I've found a car that won't be broken into like all of the cars around my house!
OK, Six Flags Great America is in Gurnee, IL.
and
Raging Bull is 100% smooth-as-silk steel. None of that wood-style shakin' and shiverin'... Whether that's good or bad is your opinion. I like the smoothness.
My god man! You've come to realize that Acrobat is a steaming pile of bloated dogshit, but haven't yet replaced it with Ghostscript and GSView? Well consider today your lucky day!
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
-Snag Ghostscript 8.x and then GSView 4.x from above link.
-Uninstall Acrobat (for good!)
-Install Ghostscript and then GSView
-Update your file type extentions to use GSView for the opening of PDF files.
-Tell everyone you know about how you've discovered a way out from the horrible experience that PDF viewing (under Acrobat) has become!
At least this is the progression that I went through recently... Oh, did I mention this software is absolutely free for personal use, and runs on Win32 and *nix?
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2G is the limit that Microsoft "recommends." At least in Outlook 2000. I doubt anything has changed for XP.
Here's a reminder of what it's like:
IE Simulator
Everytime I'm forced to use IE (read: work and friends' houses that I haven't converted), it is quite shocking how often one click turns into three. One to click and link and two more to close the random pop-up ads. I can't believe that anyone can stand surfing the web while being constantly bombarded by these things.
Enter pop-up blocking. Haven't seen a pop-up in MONTHS. And that's only ONE of the wonderful features about the mozilla-based browsers.
It does seem hard to believe...
I'm surprised I've never heard of this, as you'd think that a LOT of people would be interested in "being a local call" from anywhere in the nation. That would practically eliminate 1-800 numbers, wouldn't it?
So you'd rather have the providers double-bill you (you and the calling party) on EVERY single call than hang up on a few telemarketers?
Well, isn't that interesting!
Now, I'm no fan of telemarketers, but I think I'd rather sign up on some "do not call list" as they have now-a-days than pay for DOUBLE use on every single call!
So if someone calls your cell phone with the NJ-area-code number, from Los Angeles, on a land line...
How is it that they aren't going to be charged long distance again? Yeah...
First you say:
The rollover min alone make it better than most providers
Then you say:
When I signed up last year I was using my old phone pretty heavy, so I went with the 700 min plan. Now I use at best 150 a month. So I've got a ton of rollover. So yeah I should drop my plan down, but they'd charge me out the ass to do that so...
So it seems to me that the rollover minutes are *completely useless* to you and you should have chosen a provider that lets you change your plan up OR down during at least some part of your contract (like T-Mobile allows...not sure if anyone else does).
How do you plug your computer modem into a cell phone? I'm not being sarcastic... Is there some kind of RJ45 adapter that goes into a cell phone? I believe laptops use IR, which regular boxes don't have.
all the pizza places would be out of business with that rule in effect!
College students count as a large portion of their customer base and most of us (ie. the smart ones) don't pay the ridiculous land line fees and have opted for a single cell phone for all of our calls.
I'd never heard of anyone not delivering to cell phones until I read this!
Oh it's DEFINITELY hard to get a start in it. But once you get it going, then it gets much easier. I have a game going that I've played for a couple weeks and wouldn't die too often. If I did, I'd reload the last save point. This really isn't too different from what you would do on, say, you're PS2 game when you lose progress after a save.
Doesn't anyone else remember this game? I actually have the very old 80's PC version in a box sitting next to me. I'm thinking about redoing this one myself. The graphics are so simple, and the gameplay is just classic SSI.
Actually ma'am, these documents are from Area 51B.
> Oh... so... how much have YOU donated to charity in the last 5 years?
Yeah, that's great and all, but seriously... Once you have multi-billions of dollars, this is like buying a friend a drink. In other words, no big accomplishment. I can't think of anything else that he could do with that much money. It's not like he can take it to the grave with him. He surely doesn't give the money away privately...so he's definitely getting a "good guy" benefit from it.
Dude, do you realize your web site links to www.slashdot.COM? Ok...
Wow. Very nice! You're summed up my view of Microsoft much better than I ever could!
Not for whatever educational system they implemented in 2002 at my school. I believe it is a version less than 8, but I don't know exactly.
I read the document from PeopleSoft. Basically they said "Sorry, deal with it."
It's a little like Microsoft not supporting IE6 for win2k because win2k isn't the "most current" product. What a load of crap.
My school recently converted to PS. I often rant about how the old TELNET-based system was about 10 times easier to use, even in plain old black and white, with only keyboard input. Most of my friends agree. It is a horrible horrible curse on end users.
I am simply astounded at their requirements for a web browser. They support IE 5.0, 5.5, or Netscape 4.7. That is *IT*. IE6? Nope. Netscape > 4.7? No can do. And the official reason from the school basically states that PeopleSoft has determined it's not of value to update their software for modern browsers. I can't help but wonder what egghead in the IT dept actually APPROVED a purchase of a million+ dollar system that doesn't even support modern browsers. This is for 40,000+ users!
I work part time at the help desk for this school and our solution for people using XP (which cannot downgrade IE) is to use netscape 4.7! What a horrible solution.
I hope you're not being serious...
I just had to quietly contain about 5 minutes of continuous laughter because of your post.
I don't understand HOW they keep getting away with this? First Gnutella, now WASTE. Both of these projects clearly offer nothing to AOL-TW, but at the same time could end up being very costly (lawsuits) to them.
So how does Nullsoft keep getting away with releasing these projects on their own AOL-TW -owned site? I mean, if I released this stuff from a major media company that I worked for, I'd think that it would be raining pink slips the very second they found out about it!
That said, I'm very happy they DO get away with it, because they are usually groundbreaking projects that are completely open source! How many more genies is Nullsoft going to let out before AOL-TW puts their foot down?
Um, I use "g" for google in firebird. Been using that since 0.4.
Seems to me the "moz/firebird" way of doing things is exactly the same except we don't have to download powertoys...
After reading the article, it makes me want a BMW even more!
Doors won't open w/o power, windows are hard to break with a HAMMER... Sounds like I've found a car that won't be broken into like all of the cars around my house!
OK, Six Flags Great America is in Gurnee, IL.
and
Raging Bull is 100% smooth-as-silk steel. None of that wood-style shakin' and shiverin'... Whether that's good or bad is your opinion. I like the smoothness.
My god man! You've come to realize that Acrobat is a steaming pile of bloated dogshit, but haven't yet replaced it with Ghostscript and GSView? Well consider today your lucky day!
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
-Snag Ghostscript 8.x and then GSView 4.x from above link.
-Uninstall Acrobat (for good!)
-Install Ghostscript and then GSView
-Update your file type extentions to use GSView for the opening of PDF files.
-Tell everyone you know about how you've discovered a way out from the horrible experience that PDF viewing (under Acrobat) has become!
At least this is the progression that I went through recently... Oh, did I mention this software is absolutely free for personal use, and runs on Win32 and *nix?
then just tape the ends of the film together. The movie is over when the projector overheats, much like my old NES. ouch, my sides!