Of course it's a hattrick. Two reasons just isn't impressive, and four is starting to get cumbersome (like you are droning on). Now 7-boredom are funny again too (depending on how funny the reasons themselves are), but I wasn't sure I could come up with seven on short notice. Three reasons was the optimum length for that post.
I tried it, liked it. I actually used it to take notes in college. I haven't gotten a new overlay for my Clie, but mostly since I don't write as much on it. I never got much more than 20 wpm, but since that is about the fastest I can actually type... (Poor hand-eye cordination. Needed more video games as a kid.)
Problem: it is hard to use in the dark, or not looking at the keyboard. I can do Graffiti by feel. Otherwise I prefer Fitaly.
Why do you assume that someone nessisiarially[1] spent less time thinking through an email then they did a letter? I know I've spent hours writting an email on occasion: making sure my ideas were clear and understandable, and that they were relevent to the topic at hand. The fact that they would also arrive spellchecked and quickly (in a readable format too!) was just a bonus.
Sure I can (and do) send an email quickly without thought. It takes about the same amount of time as it would to write the same length letter. Which would also be quick and without thought. It is not required that I do so however. Most of my emails have had at least one proof-read pass, not including the spellcheck.
The only thing a letter proves is that the sender likes paper.
I beg to differ. I'm a master at chopsticks (the two good resturants growing up didn't even have knifes and forks...) but I still can't hold a pencil correctly.
On the original subject: I much prefer to write in cursive then print, as it is faster. I prefer to type over either since I can actually *read* the results of that...
I thought that was already the deal: as soon as the brodcasters all transfer over to HDTV then they are going to drop UHF as unnessisary (as they can fit more channels in the same space with HDTV since it is designed for better equipment.)
The problem is we are looking at the wrong definition of trust. Most of us have in mind the primary definition: "Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing" or "Custody; care"
But that is the definition they are using. Microsoft feels they can rely on the integrity of a Pallidum-equipped computer system.
Note that this says nothing about the user of the computer. (Unless you consider MS a user...)
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What if it is Microsoft, with their own notion of not-free-freeware?
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The fact that the case was even brought up is a bad thing, never mind that it made it all the way te the Supreme Court. It should have been thrown out at the start as frivolous.
Good strategy, except if you have a lot of people legitimately calling with "Unknown Caller".
One of my better friends runs a business out of their house, they have an unidentified line so they can use it for both business and personal. Much of my family, including my parents, lives out of country so caller id doesn't work. I actually get more legitimate calls that are unidentified than telemarketers. (And some of the telemarketers actually identify themselves.)
Of course, I've gotten less telemarketers since I signed up for MN's state no-call list, (in fact I've gotten about two in six months, both at the beginning) but that ratio is from before that.
Forgive me, but I've always managed to write to CSS2 and Javascript which works fine and dandy in IE and Moz, with the exception that Moz is soooo much slower at rendering.
Me too, I just have to stay away from some stuff that would make my life a lot easier if I could use it. But I can't, since it doesn't work in IE/Win. Though I usually find Moz faster, but then I don't use much Javascript. (And usually IE/Win specific javascript at that.)
And I'd love to see a menu bar like the one at the top of your browser window simulated without any Javascript: submenus and checkable items, plus text-edit items and 'dialog box' submenus (ala RISC OS), etc.
You know, I could do that. Except it wouldn't work in IE/Win: it would need:hover and display: hidden (and probably position: fixed) which don't work correctly there...
Perhaps it's just that I don't use the more esoteric CSS2 properties?
Like float? Or:hover? Both of these have heisenbugs in IE/Win. (Extensively researched though, so they are mostly predictiable.) And I would dearly love position: fixed. Or a little further afield: I would also love q (or:before and:after with which I could duplicate it.) or.png support (which Microsoft promised for IE 4).
Not that IE is trash. It is a perfectly usuable browser. I just wish they would catch up on standards support to where everyone else (including IE/Mac) was two-three years ago. Then I wouldn't always feel I'm designing around it.
I'm talking basic CSS positioning, which works fine in Moz but not in IE. It is over five years old, and works in all browsers but IE so it isn't very cutting edge.
I can probably do anything you need javascript for in CSS in Moz.;-) For instance, I've never used javascript for drop-down menus...
Tell that to a web designer. They'll laugh in your face.
Mozilla is fast, stable, mostly bug-free (and what bugs it has are fairly straightforward to work around) and very standards compliant. The last is important: it means I know what will happen if I write certain code.
Wish I could say the same for IE. Even its bugs have bugs. (Though admittedly it is not as bad as NS 4.)
Fine. How many times do you want your yard torn up? How much dark fiber do you want laid? You are saying if I want competiton it has to be at least twice, and at least half the fiber laid will be dark...
Well, I can find a Kinesis for $191, around the same price as a regular high-end keyboard. Or for that matter I can switch a standard keyboard to Dvorak layout for free. Both of those options are better than a normal qwerty board.
Very few use either though. People don't think it is worth it: they think it is to hard to learn, or just too expensive when they get a keyboard free with the computer. ZERO would not be enough to get most of my family to try my Kinesis, and it is standard qwerty!
They came up with it, researched and designed the handrests, and programed the software. They could probably sell it for less, but even if they could sell it for the exact same amount as a normal keyboard they wouldn't get a lot of market penetration. For the people who really need it the price is fine, and it will allow them to actualy recoup those costs.
This is the one advantage of working as a temp... I'm paid by the hour, and I have no contract. They can't *force* me to do anything, and if I stay I get paid more, ALWAYS.
If you take your salary at an hourly rate, why watch TV, why play with the kids, why sleep, why read a book?
Because it is worth more to me than the approprate salary payment would be.
Seriously. I'd work less hours at my job if I could, but the money is worth it to me. I won't work more because I have enough and the other activites are worth more to me.
No, if the EFF is not effective I wouldn't. I would find some other, more effective, way of using it. (Not that I know one way or the other if they are mind you. If I ever am out of debt I'll look into it.)
Nah, it affects her too, just in a different way. She normally uses her ablity as a last resort.
Though having everyone stare at her while Wolverine chops them to peices would probalby be a good combat stratagy...
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That would be a logical address to use, but I figured that since that is the FTC and we were talking about the FBI they would need a different address.
After all, what level of co-ordination would it take to get the FTC and FBI to talk to each other? Way more than I normally see in government circles!
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How will the Federal SWAT team know who to raid?
Well, I would assume they would set up an address, something like 'antispam@fbi.gov' (unknown if this address works) and prosocute everyone who sends an email to it. Of course, they would have to research to determine who acutally sent the email, but that is something a competent admin can do in most cases anyway.
Honestly, why do you think they would need to break anyone's privacy? The spammers will probably willingly give them all the evidence they need!
No, this is just running OSX on a PPC chip (inside a linux shell). Porting to x86 would require different binarys, which would mean access to the full source code. (Not just Darwin, which already runs on x86.)
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Of course it's a hattrick. Two reasons just isn't impressive, and four is starting to get cumbersome (like you are droning on). Now 7-boredom are funny again too (depending on how funny the reasons themselves are), but I wasn't sure I could come up with seven on short notice. Three reasons was the optimum length for that post.
And you call yourself a geek. *Sigh*.
It doesn't matter why you need it. It's technical, GPLed, and has to do with Google. That's all the reason you need.
I tried it, liked it. I actually used it to take notes in college. I haven't gotten a new overlay for my Clie, but mostly since I don't write as much on it. I never got much more than 20 wpm, but since that is about the fastest I can actually type... (Poor hand-eye cordination. Needed more video games as a kid.)
Problem: it is hard to use in the dark, or not looking at the keyboard. I can do Graffiti by feel. Otherwise I prefer Fitaly.
Why do you assume that someone nessisiarially[1] spent less time thinking through an email then they did a letter? I know I've spent hours writting an email on occasion: making sure my ideas were clear and understandable, and that they were relevent to the topic at hand. The fact that they would also arrive spellchecked and quickly (in a readable format too!) was just a bonus.
Sure I can (and do) send an email quickly without thought. It takes about the same amount of time as it would to write the same length letter. Which would also be quick and without thought. It is not required that I do so however. Most of my emails have had at least one proof-read pass, not including the spellcheck.
The only thing a letter proves is that the sender likes paper.
[1] (I wish my work browser had a spellcheck...)
I beg to differ. I'm a master at chopsticks (the two good resturants growing up didn't even have knifes and forks...) but I still can't hold a pencil correctly.
On the original subject: I much prefer to write in cursive then print, as it is faster. I prefer to type over either since I can actually *read* the results of that...
Why do I get the feeling /. just got trolled?
Ah well. At least we can use this article to prove something needs to be done. (Like we needed proof.)
Ah, yes. That was it. I wasn't sure how to google search an idea with no terms ;-). Thanks.
I thought that was already the deal: as soon as the brodcasters all transfer over to HDTV then they are going to drop UHF as unnessisary (as they can fit more channels in the same space with HDTV since it is designed for better equipment.)
But that is the definition they are using. Microsoft feels they can rely on the integrity of a Pallidum-equipped computer system.
Note that this says nothing about the user of the computer. (Unless you consider MS a user...)
What if it is Microsoft, with their own notion of not-free-freeware?
The fact that the case was even brought up is a bad thing, never mind that it made it all the way te the Supreme Court. It should have been thrown out at the start as frivolous.
Good strategy, except if you have a lot of people legitimately calling with "Unknown Caller".
One of my better friends runs a business out of their house, they have an unidentified line so they can use it for both business and personal. Much of my family, including my parents, lives out of country so caller id doesn't work. I actually get more legitimate calls that are unidentified than telemarketers. (And some of the telemarketers actually identify themselves.)
Of course, I've gotten less telemarketers since I signed up for MN's state no-call list, (in fact I've gotten about two in six months, both at the beginning) but that ratio is from before that.
Me too, I just have to stay away from some stuff that would make my life a lot easier if I could use it. But I can't, since it doesn't work in IE/Win. Though I usually find Moz faster, but then I don't use much Javascript. (And usually IE/Win specific javascript at that.)
You know, I could do that. Except it wouldn't work in IE/Win: it would need :hover and display: hidden (and probably position: fixed) which don't work correctly there...
Like float? Or :hover? Both of these have heisenbugs in IE/Win. (Extensively researched though, so they are mostly predictiable.) And I would dearly love position: fixed. Or a little further afield: I would also love q (or :before and :after with which I could duplicate it.) or .png support (which Microsoft promised for IE 4).
Not that IE is trash. It is a perfectly usuable browser. I just wish they would catch up on standards support to where everyone else (including IE/Mac) was two-three years ago. Then I wouldn't always feel I'm designing around it.
I'm talking basic CSS positioning, which works fine in Moz but not in IE. It is over five years old, and works in all browsers but IE so it isn't very cutting edge.
;-) For instance, I've never used javascript for drop-down menus...
I can probably do anything you need javascript for in CSS in Moz.
Tell that to a web designer. They'll laugh in your face.
Mozilla is fast, stable, mostly bug-free (and what bugs it has are fairly straightforward to work around) and very standards compliant. The last is important: it means I know what will happen if I write certain code.
Wish I could say the same for IE. Even its bugs have bugs. (Though admittedly it is not as bad as NS 4.)
Fine. How many times do you want your yard torn up? How much dark fiber do you want laid? You are saying if I want competiton it has to be at least twice, and at least half the fiber laid will be dark...
Well, I can find a Kinesis for $191, around the same price as a regular high-end keyboard. Or for that matter I can switch a standard keyboard to Dvorak layout for free. Both of those options are better than a normal qwerty board.
Very few use either though. People don't think it is worth it: they think it is to hard to learn, or just too expensive when they get a keyboard free with the computer. ZERO would not be enough to get most of my family to try my Kinesis, and it is standard qwerty!
Development costs.
They came up with it, researched and designed the handrests, and programed the software. They could probably sell it for less, but even if they could sell it for the exact same amount as a normal keyboard they wouldn't get a lot of market penetration. For the people who really need it the price is fine, and it will allow them to actualy recoup those costs.
This is the one advantage of working as a temp... I'm paid by the hour, and I have no contract. They can't *force* me to do anything, and if I stay I get paid more, ALWAYS.
Other parts suck of course.
Because it is worth more to me than the approprate salary payment would be.
Seriously. I'd work less hours at my job if I could, but the money is worth it to me. I won't work more because I have enough and the other activites are worth more to me.
No, if the EFF is not effective I wouldn't. I would find some other, more effective, way of using it. (Not that I know one way or the other if they are mind you. If I ever am out of debt I'll look into it.)
Nah, it affects her too, just in a different way. She normally uses her ablity as a last resort.
Though having everyone stare at her while Wolverine chops them to peices would probalby be a good combat stratagy...
That would be a logical address to use, but I figured that since that is the FTC and we were talking about the FBI they would need a different address.
After all, what level of co-ordination would it take to get the FTC and FBI to talk to each other? Way more than I normally see in government circles!
Well, I would assume they would set up an address, something like 'antispam@fbi.gov' (unknown if this address works) and prosocute everyone who sends an email to it. Of course, they would have to research to determine who acutally sent the email, but that is something a competent admin can do in most cases anyway.
Honestly, why do you think they would need to break anyone's privacy? The spammers will probably willingly give them all the evidence they need!
No, this is just running OSX on a PPC chip (inside a linux shell). Porting to x86 would require different binarys, which would mean access to the full source code. (Not just Darwin, which already runs on x86.)