Someone walks past me with a hand-held scanner and gets my date of birth, and they have one of the more important keys for ID theft. Who's to say they wouldn't eventually ask to put my SSN number on there too?
Thanks, but no thanks - that is totally unnecessary for someone to identify me. I don't need my wallet telling people private info w/o my permission...
Exactly how are people taking "illicit" pictures with cell phones, that they couldn't take with ordinary digital cameras?
If some dude pulls out a cell phone in the locker room and starts snapping pics of you nude, how would you know? Is he checking voice messages and caller ID or is he reviewing his new vouyeristic collection for web posting?
If you live in Idaho, why should "the strength" of your vote be cast in a state you don't live in (Ohio/Florida/Pennsylvania)?
Regardless of the current "legality", vote trading is clearly wrong and manipulates elections in ways they were never meant to be manipluated, and it could threaten the spirit of the Electoral College process if this gains any mainstream traction and attention.
IMO, it amounts to nothing more than "vote selling" that needs to be addressed by the legislatures as soon as possible.
It's really beneficial for developers. It makes it SO much easier to do web development. In my case, monitor #1 has has the dev environment (for me, most of the time it's a fancy text editor) and monitor #2 has the test area (browser window, etc).
The biggest improvement comes when you're using a program like Flash MX 2004, with all the windows/panels. With one monitor it's a pain in the butt, having to open/close panels all day. With 2 monitors, you can actually see what you're doing all at once. If I had to choose between 1 20" LCD and 2 17" LCDs (and a video card for support), I'd take the latter any day now.
The only real negatives are 1) desk space can be an issue for some, and 2) explaining to envious coworkers why you need 2 montiors gets really old fast...
Well, "far longer than any radioactivity will last" is obviously wrong,
Yes, the submitter's text was incorrect. From the article:
Mr Fraser said that the glass would last for "geological times" and
almost all the radiocative particles in it "would decay to non-radioactive elements or compounds long before the glass corrodes away to nothing".
I can point out one big example in Arizona (and probably other states as well) - the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) that real estate agents use. The MLS is IE-Only, and most of its vital features will not work in Mozilla, so my friends who are real estate agents (there seem to be a ton of REAs here these days) are stuck with IE, even though the ones who have used Firefox (the better choice for non-techies, IMO) have loved it otherwise.
As long as sites like this push IE-only services, there will always be a need for IE amongst many groups of professionals, despite the security problems.
The old extensions need to be updated to fit the new extensions theme manager. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246043 for details on the "bug". Essentially, the extension builders need to update the extension or it won't appear in the theme manager, even though it may install.
There's also a new extension that you can install to make the old extensions visible, but the old extensions are still not removable after installation, unlike the new extensions.
One other issue I see with the extension manager: after installing enough extensions to make a scrollbar appear, it was difficult to scroll and the manager became really sluggish. However, I imagine that this is a minor problem that will be worked out over time.
About DVORAK and why I stopped trying to learn it wasn't the speed or the learning curve. I could feel the speed difference as I practiced and everything seemed cool - until I realized that I couldn't use global keyboard shortcuts as easily. Imagine not being able to instinctively and easily use Ctri+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, etc. with your left hand. The time gained while typing seemed to not be worth losing those shortcuts. It may be that you can set some of your programs to use the same keys, but implementing that globally is not worth the hassle IMO.
The Thunderbird logo will convert more users than any single feature X you can name.
Does anyone else think that the small TB logo in the Windows taskbar's Quick Launch looks more like an Anime girl's head w/blue hair than a bird on an envelope?
Actually, VHS was the best and most logical way for a couple of reasons.
1) VHS HQ (2nd generation) was almost as good as Beta while being cheaper.
2) At the time when 2 hour movies were the standard, VHS 6 hour tapes held 3 movies. Beta 4.5 hour tapes held 2 movies and wasted considerable tape space.
Just an FYI - FDR died before the Reconstruction started. It was Truman - the man who is loathed by many as the man who "dropped the bomb" on Japan - who was the great leader you're alluding to.
Also, the main content text size should always be 1em, i.e. not specified, allowing the browser's default size to be used.
One problem is a bug in IE with text sizing. When you use ems in your CSS and then reduce the text size in IE (go from Medium to Smaller), it gets MUCH smaller than it should.
I usually say 'so what' and use em in my CSS designs anyways, hoping that MS will fix that behavior. However, other designers do worry about it and not use ems...
I realized that the 1st Edition AD&D rules were getting out of hand when I saw the "Wilderness Survival Guide". It had dice throwing rules for EVERYTHING - whether the weather would get cold that night, a fire would go out, the wind would pick up (that could affect some spell casting I guess), etc...
There's NO way that a book like that should've ever been created. That book would sap the fun right out of RPGs...
"By the way, how does Replay's Commercial Advance know what is a TV ad to be able to cut it out? Apparently, Replay listens for the temporary volume increase that broadcasters have long told us does not accompany commercials. Liars."
The whole article is worth a read...
I had felt the same way and didn't know why.
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I've also been a Rush fan for years and I was looking forward to hearing the new album after Test for Echo disappointed me. I downloaded some of the tracks to see if I liked them (yes, RIAA, some people DO only download "illegal" tracks to try them out before buying them).
I did like the songs, but after about 10-15 minutes, they were giving me a headache through my headphones and I didn't know why. I ended up passing on the album altogether because of that - good music writing or not...
Sidenote: Funny that he uses Grace Under Pressure (1984) as an example. That album is seemed SO much louder/brighter than Signals (1982), and yet according to the article it's very clean... odd...
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Someone walks past me with a hand-held scanner and gets my date of birth, and they have one of the more important keys for ID theft. Who's to say they wouldn't eventually ask to put my SSN number on there too?
Thanks, but no thanks - that is totally unnecessary for someone to identify me. I don't need my wallet telling people private info w/o my permission...
Exactly how are people taking "illicit" pictures with cell phones, that they couldn't take with ordinary digital cameras?
If some dude pulls out a cell phone in the locker room and starts snapping pics of you nude, how would you know? Is he checking voice messages and caller ID or is he reviewing his new vouyeristic collection for web posting?
If you live in Idaho, why should "the strength" of your vote be cast in a state you don't live in (Ohio/Florida/Pennsylvania)? Regardless of the current "legality", vote trading is clearly wrong and manipulates elections in ways they were never meant to be manipluated, and it could threaten the spirit of the Electoral College process if this gains any mainstream traction and attention. IMO, it amounts to nothing more than "vote selling" that needs to be addressed by the legislatures as soon as possible.
It's really beneficial for developers. It makes it SO much easier to do web development. In my case, monitor #1 has has the dev environment (for me, most of the time it's a fancy text editor) and monitor #2 has the test area (browser window, etc).
The biggest improvement comes when you're using a program like Flash MX 2004, with all the windows/panels. With one monitor it's a pain in the butt, having to open/close panels all day. With 2 monitors, you can actually see what you're doing all at once. If I had to choose between 1 20" LCD and 2 17" LCDs (and a video card for support), I'd take the latter any day now.
The only real negatives are 1) desk space can be an issue for some, and 2) explaining to envious coworkers why you need 2 montiors gets really old fast...
Well, "far longer than any radioactivity will last" is obviously wrong,
Yes, the submitter's text was incorrect. From the article:
I can't imagine there being any more spoilers in it than there were in the trailer...
I can point out one big example in Arizona (and probably other states as well) - the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) that real estate agents use. The MLS is IE-Only, and most of its vital features will not work in Mozilla, so my friends who are real estate agents (there seem to be a ton of REAs here these days) are stuck with IE, even though the ones who have used Firefox (the better choice for non-techies, IMO) have loved it otherwise.
As long as sites like this push IE-only services, there will always be a need for IE amongst many groups of professionals, despite the security problems.
The old extensions need to be updated to fit the new extensions theme manager. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246043 for details on the "bug". Essentially, the extension builders need to update the extension or it won't appear in the theme manager, even though it may install.
There's also a new extension that you can install to make the old extensions visible, but the old extensions are still not removable after installation, unlike the new extensions.
One other issue I see with the extension manager: after installing enough extensions to make a scrollbar appear, it was difficult to scroll and the manager became really sluggish. However, I imagine that this is a minor problem that will be worked out over time.
About DVORAK and why I stopped trying to learn it wasn't the speed or the learning curve. I could feel the speed difference as I practiced and everything seemed cool - until I realized that I couldn't use global keyboard shortcuts as easily. Imagine not being able to instinctively and easily use Ctri+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, etc. with your left hand. The time gained while typing seemed to not be worth losing those shortcuts. It may be that you can set some of your programs to use the same keys, but implementing that globally is not worth the hassle IMO.
The Thunderbird logo will convert more users than any single feature X you can name.
Does anyone else think that the small TB logo in the Windows taskbar's Quick Launch looks more like an Anime girl's head w/blue hair than a bird on an envelope?
The keyboard's re-arrangement including:
UFAG
and
LOL
... great stuff ... thanks for the laughs...
The keyboard's re-arrangement including: UFAG and LOL ... great stuff ...
Actually, VHS was the best and most logical way for a couple of reasons. 1) VHS HQ (2nd generation) was almost as good as Beta while being cheaper. 2) At the time when 2 hour movies were the standard, VHS 6 hour tapes held 3 movies. Beta 4.5 hour tapes held 2 movies and wasted considerable tape space.
"GWB is no FDR"
Just an FYI - FDR died before the Reconstruction started. It was Truman - the man who is loathed by many as the man who "dropped the bomb" on Japan - who was the great leader you're alluding to.
One problem is a bug in IE with text sizing. When you use ems in your CSS and then reduce the text size in IE (go from Medium to Smaller), it gets MUCH smaller than it should.
I usually say 'so what' and use em in my CSS designs anyways, hoping that MS will fix that behavior. However, other designers do worry about it and not use ems...
Did anyone else notice he posted this anonymously?
I realized that the 1st Edition AD&D rules were getting out of hand when I saw the "Wilderness Survival Guide". It had dice throwing rules for EVERYTHING - whether the weather would get cold that night, a fire would go out, the wind would pick up (that could affect some spell casting I guess), etc...
There's NO way that a book like that should've ever been created. That book would sap the fun right out of RPGs...
And just how am I going to exert this peer pressure on him when he's a mile down the road before the light turns green again?
From I, Cringely:
"By the way, how does Replay's Commercial Advance know what is a TV ad to be able to cut it out? Apparently, Replay listens for the temporary volume increase that broadcasters have long told us does not accompany commercials. Liars."
The whole article is worth a read...
I've also been a Rush fan for years and I was looking forward to hearing the new album after Test for Echo disappointed me. I downloaded some of the tracks to see if I liked them (yes, RIAA, some people DO only download "illegal" tracks to try them out before buying them).
I did like the songs, but after about 10-15 minutes, they were giving me a headache through my headphones and I didn't know why. I ended up passing on the album altogether because of that - good music writing or not...
Sidenote: Funny that he uses Grace Under Pressure (1984) as an example. That album is seemed SO much louder/brighter than Signals (1982), and yet according to the article it's very clean... odd...
@import url("/frontpage/nav4Sucks.css");
Did anyone else see:
@import url("/frontpage/nav4Sucks.ass"); ??