I don't see what all the fuss about email is - sure, it's a useful communications tool but then again so are most other methods. Email in this respect is not unique.
For me, my main communications tools are:
IRC - anyone can reach me at any time when I'm at my PC, if I'm away or out then I can pick up their PM on my return. Mobile phone - either phone calls or SMS can be used to contact me anytime, anywhere. Instant Messaging - I occasionally logon to IM networks, however this is not very often as these types of service tend to intrude on me too much whereas other communication services allow me to deal with information in my own time.
I see email as merely an Internet-based replacement for information-based postal services with a few addititions, most importantly that it allows for near-instant delivery 24/7. I simple have my email client open and if I get new mail I get notified in the bottom right corner of my screen. If I choose not to read the email instantly an envelope icon remains in my system tray to remind me it's there.
I can see why it might be different for those with webmail, as with webmail the user has to actively carry out the task of checking for email, but for myself as an email client user, I'll admit it is a useful tool, but only one of a number of communications tools I use on a daily basis.
Software patents are theft. No two ways about it. Patenting ideas and literary expressions is theft. Expropriation. Corruption.
Would you care to explain what theft has taken place? If crimes such as identity fraud and copyright infringment are not actually theft, I don't see how you can call this theft.
...[S]ome of the security work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2...
more accurately, this should read:...[S]ome of the insecure work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2...
I wasn't aware IE7 had been released either in beta or as an actual product. Could you perhaps give some examples of the insecure work in IE7 that you refer to?
I use Outlook 2003 myself for the simple reason that it handles mail in a sensible way and also integrates with Norton Antivirus. I don't get spam since I effectively manage my email addresses and each site I sign up to gets a unique address at my domain name and can easily be filtered if they step out of line.
I've used applications such as Evolution when I used Linux in the past but in reality it felt to me just like a cheap clone of Outlook with fewer features.
Recently however, I have been using Thunderbird on one of my systems as I am loath to purchase two licenses for MS Office and I've come to like it quite a lot and for someone who isn't looking to spend any more or for whatever reason requires free (as in speech) software I think it's an ideal application. It has junk mail handling which while I haven't had to use it myself, have read it can be quite effective. My one gripe with it is that setting up rules and filtering doesn't seem to be as easy as with Outlook and the user has to enter in any filters manually - ie, I can't click a few buttons to have mail from a certain email address go into a specific folder the way I can in Outlook, or at least if you can I've not found it yet.
That may well be your opinion, but it doesn't necessarily make it right.
If Internet Explorer 7 comes out with features such as tabbed browsing & popup blocking which are my main reason for using Firefox, then it stands to reason that if IE does it better then I would start using Internet Explorer again.
So which operating software do you use? I sense you would be rather limited.
Let's see...
Apple stole the original Xerox GUI idea Microsoft stole the GUI idea from Apple KDE & Gnome stole the idea of a taskbar and GUI system Linux stole ideas from Unix systems DOS was "stole" from one of Bill Gates' associates...
So, you probably use AmigaOS or C64 BASIC or something like that?
Maybe, but that still doesn't equate to new features being implemented in older products in the real world.
Bad analogy to use the car one, but if my car has a serious fault at the time of manufacture I would expect it to be fixed however I wouldn't expect new features from newer models to be backported to it.
I don't like dealing with sites which don't work properly with browsers such as Firefox either, but in all honesty I find features such as tabbed browsing and popup blockers and Ctrl+L to select the address bar text are so much more of an advantage.
I personally use IEView which adds a "View this page in IE" option to the rightclick menu for pages which do not work in Firefox.
My system doesn't crash absurdly. And I don't pay ridiculous amounts for any software.
Same here, at least since I switched back from Linux to Windows a few years back after the X windowing system decided to restart itself randomly numerous times a day.
And the majority of software I have is either free (as in beer and/or speech), included with my laptop's configuration, or commercially available in which case if I feel the software to be worthwhile paying for I will purchase it - if not, I will use a free/cheaper equivalent or go without.
It's Google's problem because they are potentially threatening their business model illegally.
Would you be saying the same thing if for example Microsoft had decided to ignore the copyright of those developers who had contributed code to the Linux kernel? Well I guess you would - as you say, Adapt or Die.
In the UK we text a lot more than other countries, especially the UK and this has been the case for a long time. And a phone is also discrete and can be used in places such as work or when you can't talk.
The reason I went through 5,000 text messages a month is because they were unlimited and when that happens you tend not to worry about a bill or think "do I really need to send this" and you'd send text messages for random things and I would send text messages to people who had multiple cellphones once to each phone and have conversations by text rather than over the internet since this was a time when I was still paying per minute charges for being online via dial-up.
I wish we had such good deals in the UK for unlimited text messaging.
At one time Genie (now owned by o2) offered such a service for £10.00 per month and a lot of people signed up for it since it was so useful. I actually ended up "in trouble" from the company after using 5,000 text messages in a month - so much for unlimited.
Nowadays you either pay per message, buy bundles of messages at a reduced rate, or take out a contract that includes a certain number of free messages per month.
Now, try to think freely, without cognitive dissonance: if Windows and other MS products do the job for a certain company, why would not "staying with Microsoft" be a plan? Really?
Quite simply, it doesn't fit the the slashbots' ideals that everyone and his dog should be using some sort of open source solution even if said solution is the wrong one to use.
Not necessarily. I use Thunderbird for my email and there is absolutely nothing to stop me from saving/running executable attachments receieved via email.
The fortunate thing is that unless the user had edited the registry he/she is safer with later versions of Outlook which actually block executable files from being saved or ran, period.
They're actually rather tasty - the Mars Bar is deep fried in a nice coating of batter and the inside of the chocolate bar is all gooey and makes for a rather nice taste.
Something like this is absolutely fine in moderation, but when you have a fish n chip bar, kebab shops, curry takeaways and the like on almost every street it does take the "moderation" part out of the question hence why we have such a large number of cases of heart disease and other conditions which come as a direct result of our diets.
If you pay your Council Tax to Glasgow City Council then yes actually it is.
Being a Glaswegien myself and having read all about this in our local press I think it's a truly brilliant idea. For those of you who are unaware of the reasons behind this, Glasgow and most of the west of Scotland is commonly called the "sick man of Europe" due to the high amount of fatty and junk foods we consume. By junk food I'm not talking about McDonalds, BK and their ilk but in fact such delicacies as deep fried Mars Bars and friend pakora suppers.
This scheme is designed to encourage Glasgow's school children to start eating healthier and to raise the average life expectancy of Glaswegiens which is currently the worst in the UK at 72.9 years, compared to the highest of 82.4 years.
In short, you might not like your taxes going towards incentives for Glasgow's kids to eat healthier but then again I'm sure many other citizens don't like their taxes going towards services that you use and they have no use for. Guess it's a two-way street, hmm?
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For me, my main communications tools are:
IRC - anyone can reach me at any time when I'm at my PC, if I'm away or out then I can pick up their PM on my return.
Mobile phone - either phone calls or SMS can be used to contact me anytime, anywhere.
Instant Messaging - I occasionally logon to IM networks, however this is not very often as these types of service tend to intrude on me too much whereas other communication services allow me to deal with information in my own time.
I see email as merely an Internet-based replacement for information-based postal services with a few addititions, most importantly that it allows for near-instant delivery 24/7. I simple have my email client open and if I get new mail I get notified in the bottom right corner of my screen. If I choose not to read the email instantly an envelope icon remains in my system tray to remind me it's there.
I can see why it might be different for those with webmail, as with webmail the user has to actively carry out the task of checking for email, but for myself as an email client user, I'll admit it is a useful tool, but only one of a number of communications tools I use on a daily basis.
Would you care to explain what theft has taken place? If crimes such as identity fraud and copyright infringment are not actually theft, I don't see how you can call this theft.
more accurately, this should read: ...[S]ome of the insecure work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2...
I wasn't aware IE7 had been released either in beta or as an actual product. Could you perhaps give some examples of the insecure work in IE7 that you refer to?
From what the article says it seems to be more about the localisation of the software than anything else, in an attempt to encourage computer use.
I've used applications such as Evolution when I used Linux in the past but in reality it felt to me just like a cheap clone of Outlook with fewer features.
Recently however, I have been using Thunderbird on one of my systems as I am loath to purchase two licenses for MS Office and I've come to like it quite a lot and for someone who isn't looking to spend any more or for whatever reason requires free (as in speech) software I think it's an ideal application. It has junk mail handling which while I haven't had to use it myself, have read it can be quite effective. My one gripe with it is that setting up rules and filtering doesn't seem to be as easy as with Outlook and the user has to enter in any filters manually - ie, I can't click a few buttons to have mail from a certain email address go into a specific folder the way I can in Outlook, or at least if you can I've not found it yet.
I disagree. Had tabbed browsing been patented I would need to use Opera if I wanted to use tabbed browsing - something I hope I am never forced to do.
If Internet Explorer 7 comes out with features such as tabbed browsing & popup blocking which are my main reason for using Firefox, then it stands to reason that if IE does it better then I would start using Internet Explorer again.
How I wish Firefox had a similar feature.
Let's see...
Apple stole the original Xerox GUI idea
Microsoft stole the GUI idea from Apple
KDE & Gnome stole the idea of a taskbar and GUI system
Linux stole ideas from Unix systems
DOS was "stole" from one of Bill Gates' associates...
So, you probably use AmigaOS or C64 BASIC or something like that?
Bad analogy to use the car one, but if my car has a serious fault at the time of manufacture I would expect it to be fixed however I wouldn't expect new features from newer models to be backported to it.
I personally use IEView which adds a "View this page in IE" option to the rightclick menu for pages which do not work in Firefox.
Same here, at least since I switched back from Linux to Windows a few years back after the X windowing system decided to restart itself randomly numerous times a day.
And the majority of software I have is either free (as in beer and/or speech), included with my laptop's configuration, or commercially available in which case if I feel the software to be worthwhile paying for I will purchase it - if not, I will use a free/cheaper equivalent or go without.
Would you be saying the same thing if for example Microsoft had decided to ignore the copyright of those developers who had contributed code to the Linux kernel? Well I guess you would - as you say, Adapt or Die.
Screenshot 4 on the Web Sense link perfectly explains how to decrypt the files...
I had that same problem, in the end I ended up doing a "copy dir.com ls.com"
Of course, because personal data cannot be deliberately illegally copied using other operating systems, right?
The reason I went through 5,000 text messages a month is because they were unlimited and when that happens you tend not to worry about a bill or think "do I really need to send this" and you'd send text messages for random things and I would send text messages to people who had multiple cellphones once to each phone and have conversations by text rather than over the internet since this was a time when I was still paying per minute charges for being online via dial-up.
At one time Genie (now owned by o2) offered such a service for £10.00 per month and a lot of people signed up for it since it was so useful. I actually ended up "in trouble" from the company after using 5,000 text messages in a month - so much for unlimited.
Nowadays you either pay per message, buy bundles of messages at a reduced rate, or take out a contract that includes a certain number of free messages per month.
That's correct - we have standardised GSM/GPRS/UMTS(3G) networks in the UK and services such as this are merely provided at the cost specified.
I must not have caught the press release for that.
Quite simply, it doesn't fit the the slashbots' ideals that everyone and his dog should be using some sort of open source solution even if said solution is the wrong one to use.
The fortunate thing is that unless the user had edited the registry he/she is safer with later versions of Outlook which actually block executable files from being saved or ran, period.
And there was I thinking I could open attachments in Thunderbird and Evolution and any other mail client I've ever used.
Something like this is absolutely fine in moderation, but when you have a fish n chip bar, kebab shops, curry takeaways and the like on almost every street it does take the "moderation" part out of the question hence why we have such a large number of cases of heart disease and other conditions which come as a direct result of our diets.
Being a Glaswegien myself and having read all about this in our local press I think it's a truly brilliant idea. For those of you who are unaware of the reasons behind this, Glasgow and most of the west of Scotland is commonly called the "sick man of Europe" due to the high amount of fatty and junk foods we consume. By junk food I'm not talking about McDonalds, BK and their ilk but in fact such delicacies as deep fried Mars Bars and friend pakora suppers.
This scheme is designed to encourage Glasgow's school children to start eating healthier and to raise the average life expectancy of Glaswegiens which is currently the worst in the UK at 72.9 years, compared to the highest of 82.4 years.
In short, you might not like your taxes going towards incentives for Glasgow's kids to eat healthier but then again I'm sure many other citizens don't like their taxes going towards services that you use and they have no use for. Guess it's a two-way street, hmm?