I don't know, but I suspect it has something to do with the earlier Viking Labelled Release (LR) experiments, as mentioned in this post.
According to that link, the LR experiment gave a positive result for life. But since a complementary experiment gave a negative result, an alternative explanation posited for the LR data was that there was an oxidising agent in the soil that created a false positive. Since perchlorate is an oxidant, perhaps these latest data represent a conclusive explanation of the Viking LR results as a false positive?
In other words, the data would point to the non-existence of life on Mars. (But that's just a wild guess, I should add.)
Hmm...just struck me as a strange statement. Doesn't everyone put their phone on the charger overnight? It just seemed the common thing for me to do (not an iPhone owner)...I figured everyone charged or 'topped off' their phone nightly.
They should, but most people don't. They get a bit of a thrill seeing if they can beat their old record for the number of days without charge. They also enjoy forgetting to charge it, and then having a dead phone. It's the little things in life...
Seriously, though, it's mainly because phone salespeople are incredibly ignorant about Li-ion batteries. They always tell you that you should charge from empty -- whereas in reality, it's the worst thing you can do for a Li-ion battery (see, for example http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm). Mind you, maybe it helps them sell replacement batteries?
My friends look at me like I'm mad when I tell them to charge their phone every night. It's funny how, even though it's been years since anyone's used a NiCad rechargeable, the "charge from empty" mentality still holds...
Seriously, why the run around. Did they go to the president when the viking Labeled Release results ended up positive?
Well, according to the article you linked to, one experiment on the Viking missions indicated a possible presence of life; another indicated an absence of life. Furthermore, it is possible (again, according to the article you linked to) to explain the positive result as a false-positive. As such, the results were inconclusive, and to suggest that these indicate that there is life on Mars is crazy.
However, it's possible that the current results show the existence of organic compounds after all -- in other words, demonstrating that the negative Viking result was incorrect, and supporting the Viking LR data. Obviously, this would be a very important finding, and together the data from the two missions would provide strong evidence for the presence of life.
(And that, of course, is going to seriously upset the creationists. Although really I think it's pretty obvious that Mars was just a sandbox for God's first attempt at life...)
The people who actually create difficulty for these young ladies are the ones who read this nonsense and use it as input on important decisions.
Threats of physical violence can be actual indicators of danger, but more often are leftover playground trashtalk. It's hurtful, yes, but that's part of communicating with/about people we don't necessarily like. Unless it rises to the point of being actual crime the government shouldn't have to enforce that we all be nice to each other.
The difference is that a hurtful comment made in person lasts all of a second and is gone; it is heard by only those around you and its influence is weak.
On the other hand, something in print lasts a lifetime and can be read again, and again, and again. While I don't necessarily think the posters should be sued, I do think that the forum admins should have deleting the offending comments. That's not the government restricting what you say, it's just common sense being applied by a reasonable, compassionate human being.
Read carefully. I think that's Mrs. Self-confessed Redneck to you, bro.
*laughs*... I think Ms would be the safer option, all things considered! But good point, I never noticed... although it makes her post all the more stronger.
I think the fundamental difference here is that Mr. Self-confessed Redneck was making wild threats to all people on the internet. Whereas the posters in this case were making threats and libellous remarks specifically targeted at a named individual. According to TFA, the threats were numerous enough to appear in the first page of results when the Jane Does' names were searched for, leading to all sorts of employment and personal issues for the two women involved.
Also according to TFA, and perhaps the bigger issue here, is that the law suit only occurred because the admins of the forum refused to remove the offending comments. Surely it doesn't require much common sense to realise that when someone's life is being damaged by hateful and offensive comments, removing those comments is the most sensible action for all involved?
When the gauge claims I have "1/4" I really only have 15% of my fuel tank left.
Are you sure about this? Every car I've owned has (as TFA also discusses) shown 1/4 when in reality it's almost half-full (in my current car, there's 20L of 45L left). Empty still leaves you with nearly 1/4 of a tank (10L of 45L in my current car).
Check how much fuel you put in to fill your car, then check the manufacturer's specs for the size of the tank. I suspect you'll be surprised...
Cuil has only just opened. Already, it is pretty decent.
But it only has one shot -- which is right now, with all the publicity. Offer a clear advantage to Google now, and some users will stay... fail to do this on the first try, and nobody will even remember you a week later.
The thing about Google, back in the day, was that its pagerank algorithm was so incredibly superior to anything else that was available. You could search for something on Google, and have a much better chance of finding it than on Altavista or Lycos. From what I've seen of cuil so far, it's done nothing to make me want to use it again in preference to Google.
god i hope you've read the post just above you. then you would problary have wished you'd posted no questions at all.
Whilst I hadn't read the post you're referring to when I wrote my reply, that poster appears to be very incorrect in their assumptions. Whilst the number of undeveloped follicles in a human female is as many as a million at birth and 300,000 at puberty, these follicles are continuously being lost at the rate of hundreds per month. It is important to note that the process of follicular loss is part of normal ovarian development; and follicular loss may well be a feedback process (the more you've lost, the more you lose). Preventing the process of human aging won't stop this loss of follicles.
For references, you might be interested in reading the first attempt to document and model follicular loss:
Faddy MJ, Gosden RG, Gougeon A, Richardson SJ, Nelson JF. 1992. Hum Reprod. 7(10):1342-6.
a nice (but old) review in
te Velde ER, Scheffer GJ, Dorland M, Broekmans FJ, Fauser BC. 1998. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 145(1-2):67-73.
and the most recent model of follicular loss, which used more accurate stereological techniques to measure follicle numbers in women and suggested a power-model of follicular depletion that might be feedback-associated
only one thing worse than an arrogant prick. an ignorant one.
I couldn't agree more. Perhaps you should pay more attention to your own advice? But no, on second thoughts, just keep firing off rude and un-researched comments... this is/., after all.
If you increase the lifespan of the average human to 1000 years would they remain fertile in proportion? Would a women remain fertile until about age 350?
Obviously not: a woman has a set amount of eggs from birth; it doesn't matter how you prolong life post-natum, you won't change that number.
Also, would a child not encounter puberty until age 130?
Well, no. We're talking about preventing cellular damage post-puberty here, I would imagine. Things don't start to go downhill until your 30s, after all.
Surely you've been asked the overpopulation question before, what is your response?
I wished this had been the only question you'd asked, because it's the only sensible one. I'd be very interested in hearing the response to this, because if you extend the human life-span by a factor of ten, you'd have to reduce the birth rate by a factor of ten in order to cope. And because of the female fertility issues mentioned above (i.e. all mating must happen still happen within the first 40 years of life), you can't really do this without limiting breeding to a select subset of the population. Which you'd probably want to regularly mix to prevent genetic bottlenecks.
In other words, extending the life-span to 1000 without draconian controls on how people reproduce would be a complete disaster, with people probably dying from famine or dehydration rather than natural causes.
Ah, but should the interpretation of music be limited to what the composer had available when he or she wrote the music? You're assuming that just because Palestrina couldn't write music for a choir like the Tallis Scholars, then such a choir would be wrong for his music. And I would disagree with that concept -- music is art, the interpretation of which is constantly changing. If it wasn't, we'd never go to live performances at all, but sit at home with our "ideal" recordings on permanent repeat.
When the composer couldn't even have imagined the instrumental or vocal potential now available, it's impossible to say whether or not such possibilities would have been preferred. Personally I'd rather hear the Tallis Scholars' mature voices, resonant with vibrato, sing Missa Papae Marcelli, than a liturgical choir of boys singing purely and without vibrato. Who knows whether our Giovanni wouldn't have felt similarly if he'd had the chance to experience both?
Or to put the argument another way -- should baroque and classical flute works be only played on a wooden transverse flute, simply because metal ones hadn't been invented? Should the works for viola da gamba never be played on any other instrument? And what of the Art of Fugue, which might not have been intended for any instrument or voice -- would it be wrong to play that music on anything at all?
Many a good choir is ruined by people who sing vibrato. Once a singer learns it, their voice is rarely if ever 'natural' again and many great (usually early) choral works cannot be sung properly.
Try listening to a recording of the Tallis Scholars sometime. Early music combined with a sensible and elegant use of vibrato.
Vibrato will make a voice richer and more expressive. This may not always be desirable (nobody, for example, would sing the high solo soprano notes in the Allegri Miserere with vibrato!) but to eliminate all vibrato is nonsensical.
As I understand it, ClamWin isn't really a desktop solution, though -- you have to initiate all scans manually (and even a small file takes a fair amount of time to scan on my VirtualBox windows installation); there's no automatic scanning of executed processes/opened files. I'm going to give Avast a go, and see how that fares.
Anyway, regardless of whether Whirlpool's suggested alternatives are better or worse than AVG, the more interesting thing in my mind is that they suggested them at all. Hitting a company right where it hurts is the only way to get them to pay attention to you, it seems.
I was looking at alternatives to AVG because of this. Good to know I don't have to keep looking.
If you have a look at the Whirlpool page, you'll see that every page in the forum is headed by an orange banner, that not only references the AVG problem and suggests users uninstall the software, but also recommends and has direct links to "superior alternatives" such as Avast and Avira.
I can't think of a better way to quickly change a company's mind than this sort of strategy:)
Um... I don't think he "got" it quite the way you thought...:)
(hint: try looking at the quotation marks!)
Not that it would matter even if the quote marks weren't there, since language doesn't have to parse logically to make sense. This is why we easily understand the meaning of double-negatives, for example. And also why everyone else on this site instantly understood the GP's point...
Your statement implies that some useful spam exists. I've never found this to be true.
Personally, I get a laugh out of seeing how many different bad euphemisms for penis enlargement spammers can come up with...
e.g. from my spam mail today:
Make your love wand function better
You need to improve your little friend
Gain a voluminous male package
Gain a huge cannon for love
However, the most perplexing one is this:
Help wanted fine actors looking for plausible ass
I'm not sure why that says "penis enlargement pills" to anyone, but I just love the word "plausible" in that context. Bayesian spam filters have increased spammers vocabulary no end...:)
Yeah, that scared me too. I would have thought McAfee had a duty of care to prevent the participant doing something like that.
Giving a real, existing address to the scum of the earth can't be good for your health. Why didn't they set her up a PO Box or something?
Incidentally, the other worrying thing was this quote:
Overall, the most obvious result of the S.P.A.M. experiment was that the PC that McAfee had provided for the project noticeably slowed down, clogged up with spyware, Mooney says.
I really hope there was some sort of firewall running on that machine...
Not with the editors in the publishing business that I know...
Besides, the length of a hyphen is different to the length of an en, which in turn is different to the length of an em. Using - for both a hyphen and an en just looks bad.
According to my friends in the know, very few publishing houses use an unspaced em-dash in their style anymore. Hence the reason why you've probably only seen - and --.
I am looking forward to the day when a Palm OS Emulator will appear for Symbian OS to run the old calendar app on a Version of a Nokia Phone with a touchscreen.
A symbian palm emulator would be nice; but in the meantime you might want to have a look at Papyrus. Shareware, sadly; but it's a very nice (and very customisable) calendar replacement. I actually like it more than any Palm OS calendar software I've used -- which is quite impressive, now I think about it...
I'd guess it's something like "the standard clock speed makes component #57 resonate", and increasing the clock speed moves the frequency out of the range that makes that piece resonate.
As I understand it, that's exactly how warpspeed (and other hacks) work.
However, the issue many of us had with palm was that this was a known problem with several PDAs before the T|X was released. A software hack was already provided by a third-party developer. Why on earth didn't palm simply provide a similar fix with the units?
On a similar note was the power button that stopped working on every palm after about six months of use. This problem came with the form factor from the T|E line (which the T5, TE2 and the T|X also used). and the issue stemmed from a button being soldered onto the PCB. Because the power button was at the top of the unit, the force of pressing the button eventually broke the soldered contacts and the button stopped working. Did palm change the form factor, though? Not a chance...
Jeez, this is the most asinine thread I've ever read. We start with some tasteless jokes about dying animals and end up with the argument that it's all no big deal because a little coastal flooding now and then is good.
Please come back when you're either
a) Not drunk, or b) Gained a sense of humour
Seriously, dude -- lighten up! Just because the planet's screwed, doesn't mean we can't have a bit of fun at its expense...
So you like ads? Honestly, vanilla feature sets aside, yeah, FF and IE are similar. I think IE took one more major release to get tabbed browsing though. That's a big one. But AdBlock is the real reason I use FF. AdBlock is like the DVR of the Internet for me in that it saves me from commercials and makes its respective medium bearable. But then, I abhor ads too.
Why try to convert him? His failure to block ads means that ad companies stay happy with the current ad formats, and don't try more invasive/less blockable strategies (or even worse, completely give up on internet advertising and pull a vast amount of money from the system!)
His browsing essentially subsides yours and mine. Just let him keep on doing what he likes doing...:)
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Yeah, me neither.
I don't know, but I suspect it has something to do with the earlier Viking Labelled Release (LR) experiments, as mentioned in this post.
According to that link, the LR experiment gave a positive result for life. But since a complementary experiment gave a negative result, an alternative explanation posited for the LR data was that there was an oxidising agent in the soil that created a false positive. Since perchlorate is an oxidant, perhaps these latest data represent a conclusive explanation of the Viking LR results as a false positive?
In other words, the data would point to the non-existence of life on Mars. (But that's just a wild guess, I should add.)
Hmm...just struck me as a strange statement. Doesn't everyone put their phone on the charger overnight? It just seemed the common thing for me to do (not an iPhone owner)...I figured everyone charged or 'topped off' their phone nightly.
They should, but most people don't. They get a bit of a thrill seeing if they can beat their old record for the number of days without charge. They also enjoy forgetting to charge it, and then having a dead phone. It's the little things in life ...
Seriously, though, it's mainly because phone salespeople are incredibly ignorant about Li-ion batteries. They always tell you that you should charge from empty -- whereas in reality, it's the worst thing you can do for a Li-ion battery (see, for example http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm). Mind you, maybe it helps them sell replacement batteries?
My friends look at me like I'm mad when I tell them to charge their phone every night. It's funny how, even though it's been years since anyone's used a NiCad rechargeable, the "charge from empty" mentality still holds ...
Seriously, why the run around. Did they go to the president when the viking Labeled Release results ended up positive?
Well, according to the article you linked to, one experiment on the Viking missions indicated a possible presence of life; another indicated an absence of life. Furthermore, it is possible (again, according to the article you linked to) to explain the positive result as a false-positive. As such, the results were inconclusive, and to suggest that these indicate that there is life on Mars is crazy.
However, it's possible that the current results show the existence of organic compounds after all -- in other words, demonstrating that the negative Viking result was incorrect, and supporting the Viking LR data. Obviously, this would be a very important finding, and together the data from the two missions would provide strong evidence for the presence of life.
(And that, of course, is going to seriously upset the creationists. Although really I think it's pretty obvious that Mars was just a sandbox for God's first attempt at life ...)
The people who actually create difficulty for these young ladies are the ones who read this nonsense and use it as input on important decisions.
Threats of physical violence can be actual indicators of danger, but more often are leftover playground trashtalk. It's hurtful, yes, but that's part of communicating with/about people we don't necessarily like. Unless it rises to the point of being actual crime the government shouldn't have to enforce that we all be nice to each other.
The difference is that a hurtful comment made in person lasts all of a second and is gone; it is heard by only those around you and its influence is weak.
On the other hand, something in print lasts a lifetime and can be read again, and again, and again. While I don't necessarily think the posters should be sued, I do think that the forum admins should have deleting the offending comments. That's not the government restricting what you say, it's just common sense being applied by a reasonable, compassionate human being.
Mr. Self-confessed Redneck
Read carefully. I think that's Mrs. Self-confessed Redneck to you, bro.
*laughs* ... I think Ms would be the safer option, all things considered! But good point, I never noticed ... although it makes her post all the more stronger.
Now who's making threats? Should you go to jail?
I think the fundamental difference here is that Mr. Self-confessed Redneck was making wild threats to all people on the internet. Whereas the posters in this case were making threats and libellous remarks specifically targeted at a named individual. According to TFA, the threats were numerous enough to appear in the first page of results when the Jane Does' names were searched for, leading to all sorts of employment and personal issues for the two women involved.
Also according to TFA, and perhaps the bigger issue here, is that the law suit only occurred because the admins of the forum refused to remove the offending comments. Surely it doesn't require much common sense to realise that when someone's life is being damaged by hateful and offensive comments, removing those comments is the most sensible action for all involved?
When the gauge claims I have "1/4" I really only have 15% of my fuel tank left.
Are you sure about this? Every car I've owned has (as TFA also discusses) shown 1/4 when in reality it's almost half-full (in my current car, there's 20L of 45L left). Empty still leaves you with nearly 1/4 of a tank (10L of 45L in my current car).
Check how much fuel you put in to fill your car, then check the manufacturer's specs for the size of the tank. I suspect you'll be surprised ...
Cuil has only just opened. Already, it is pretty decent.
But it only has one shot -- which is right now, with all the publicity. Offer a clear advantage to Google now, and some users will stay ... fail to do this on the first try, and nobody will even remember you a week later.
The thing about Google, back in the day, was that its pagerank algorithm was so incredibly superior to anything else that was available. You could search for something on Google, and have a much better chance of finding it than on Altavista or Lycos. From what I've seen of cuil so far, it's done nothing to make me want to use it again in preference to Google.
god i hope you've read the post just above you. then you would problary have wished you'd posted no questions at all.
Whilst I hadn't read the post you're referring to when I wrote my reply, that poster appears to be very incorrect in their assumptions. Whilst the number of undeveloped follicles in a human female is as many as a million at birth and 300,000 at puberty, these follicles are continuously being lost at the rate of hundreds per month. It is important to note that the process of follicular loss is part of normal ovarian development; and follicular loss may well be a feedback process (the more you've lost, the more you lose). Preventing the process of human aging won't stop this loss of follicles.
For references, you might be interested in reading the first attempt to document and model follicular loss:
Faddy MJ, Gosden RG, Gougeon A, Richardson SJ, Nelson JF. 1992. Hum Reprod. 7(10):1342-6.
a nice (but old) review in
te Velde ER, Scheffer GJ, Dorland M, Broekmans FJ, Fauser BC. 1998. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 145(1-2):67-73.
and the most recent model of follicular loss, which used more accurate stereological techniques to measure follicle numbers in women and suggested a power-model of follicular depletion that might be feedback-associated
Hansen KR, Knowlton NS, Thyer AC, Charleston JS, Soules MR, Klein NA. 2008. Hum Reprod. 23(3):699-708.
only one thing worse than an arrogant prick. an ignorant one.
I couldn't agree more. Perhaps you should pay more attention to your own advice? But no, on second thoughts, just keep firing off rude and un-researched comments ... this is /., after all.
If you increase the lifespan of the average human to 1000 years would they remain fertile in proportion? Would a women remain fertile until about age 350?
Obviously not: a woman has a set amount of eggs from birth; it doesn't matter how you prolong life post-natum, you won't change that number.
Also, would a child not encounter puberty until age 130?
Well, no. We're talking about preventing cellular damage post-puberty here, I would imagine. Things don't start to go downhill until your 30s, after all.
Surely you've been asked the overpopulation question before, what is your response?
I wished this had been the only question you'd asked, because it's the only sensible one. I'd be very interested in hearing the response to this, because if you extend the human life-span by a factor of ten, you'd have to reduce the birth rate by a factor of ten in order to cope. And because of the female fertility issues mentioned above (i.e. all mating must happen still happen within the first 40 years of life), you can't really do this without limiting breeding to a select subset of the population. Which you'd probably want to regularly mix to prevent genetic bottlenecks.
In other words, extending the life-span to 1000 without draconian controls on how people reproduce would be a complete disaster, with people probably dying from famine or dehydration rather than natural causes.
Ah, but should the interpretation of music be limited to what the composer had available when he or she wrote the music? You're assuming that just because Palestrina couldn't write music for a choir like the Tallis Scholars, then such a choir would be wrong for his music. And I would disagree with that concept -- music is art, the interpretation of which is constantly changing. If it wasn't, we'd never go to live performances at all, but sit at home with our "ideal" recordings on permanent repeat.
When the composer couldn't even have imagined the instrumental or vocal potential now available, it's impossible to say whether or not such possibilities would have been preferred. Personally I'd rather hear the Tallis Scholars' mature voices, resonant with vibrato, sing Missa Papae Marcelli, than a liturgical choir of boys singing purely and without vibrato. Who knows whether our Giovanni wouldn't have felt similarly if he'd had the chance to experience both?
Or to put the argument another way -- should baroque and classical flute works be only played on a wooden transverse flute, simply because metal ones hadn't been invented? Should the works for viola da gamba never be played on any other instrument? And what of the Art of Fugue, which might not have been intended for any instrument or voice -- would it be wrong to play that music on anything at all?
Many a good choir is ruined by people who sing vibrato. Once a singer learns it, their voice is rarely if ever 'natural' again and many great (usually early) choral works cannot be sung properly.
Try listening to a recording of the Tallis Scholars sometime. Early music combined with a sensible and elegant use of vibrato.
Vibrato will make a voice richer and more expressive. This may not always be desirable (nobody, for example, would sing the high solo soprano notes in the Allegri Miserere with vibrato!) but to eliminate all vibrato is nonsensical.
As I understand it, ClamWin isn't really a desktop solution, though -- you have to initiate all scans manually (and even a small file takes a fair amount of time to scan on my VirtualBox windows installation); there's no automatic scanning of executed processes/opened files. I'm going to give Avast a go, and see how that fares.
Anyway, regardless of whether Whirlpool's suggested alternatives are better or worse than AVG, the more interesting thing in my mind is that they suggested them at all. Hitting a company right where it hurts is the only way to get them to pay attention to you, it seems.
I was looking at alternatives to AVG because of this. Good to know I don't have to keep looking.
If you have a look at the Whirlpool page, you'll see that every page in the forum is headed by an orange banner, that not only references the AVG problem and suggests users uninstall the software, but also recommends and has direct links to "superior alternatives" such as Avast and Avira.
I can't think of a better way to quickly change a company's mind than this sort of strategy :)
Um ... I don't think he "got" it quite the way you thought ... :)
(hint: try looking at the quotation marks!)
Not that it would matter even if the quote marks weren't there, since language doesn't have to parse logically to make sense. This is why we easily understand the meaning of double-negatives, for example. And also why everyone else on this site instantly understood the GP's point ...
Your statement implies that some useful spam exists. I've never found this to be true.
Personally, I get a laugh out of seeing how many different bad euphemisms for penis enlargement spammers can come up with ...
e.g. from my spam mail today:
However, the most perplexing one is this:
I'm not sure why that says "penis enlargement pills" to anyone, but I just love the word "plausible" in that context. Bayesian spam filters have increased spammers vocabulary no end ... :)
She gave our her home address.
Yeah, that scared me too. I would have thought McAfee had a duty of care to prevent the participant doing something like that.
Giving a real, existing address to the scum of the earth can't be good for your health. Why didn't they set her up a PO Box or something?
Incidentally, the other worrying thing was this quote:
Overall, the most obvious result of the S.P.A.M. experiment was that the PC that McAfee had provided for the project noticeably slowed down, clogged up with spyware, Mooney says.
I really hope there was some sort of firewall running on that machine ...
Not with the editors in the publishing business that I know ...
Besides, the length of a hyphen is different to the length of an en, which in turn is different to the length of an em. Using - for both a hyphen and an en just looks bad.
According to my friends in the know, very few publishing houses use an unspaced em-dash in their style anymore. Hence the reason why you've probably only seen - and --.
I think you've been out of it for too long: -- is an en-dash, not an em-dash.
(sorry about the extraneous apostrophe there, btw ... ugh!)
sorry, too used to using - for an em-dash 'cause I can't even find an em-dash on my laptop.
Using the LaTeX code (---) will generally work around here :)
Personally, though, I'm a spaced en-dash guy. Unspaced em's are *so* nineteenth century ...
I am looking forward to the day when a Palm OS Emulator will appear for Symbian OS to run the old calendar app on a Version of a Nokia Phone with a touchscreen.
A symbian palm emulator would be nice; but in the meantime you might want to have a look at Papyrus. Shareware, sadly; but it's a very nice (and very customisable) calendar replacement. I actually like it more than any Palm OS calendar software I've used -- which is quite impressive, now I think about it ...
I'd guess it's something like "the standard clock speed makes component #57 resonate", and increasing the clock speed moves the frequency out of the range that makes that piece resonate.
As I understand it, that's exactly how warpspeed (and other hacks) work.
However, the issue many of us had with palm was that this was a known problem with several PDAs before the T|X was released. A software hack was already provided by a third-party developer. Why on earth didn't palm simply provide a similar fix with the units?
On a similar note was the power button that stopped working on every palm after about six months of use. This problem came with the form factor from the T|E line (which the T5, TE2 and the T|X also used). and the issue stemmed from a button being soldered onto the PCB. Because the power button was at the top of the unit, the force of pressing the button eventually broke the soldered contacts and the button stopped working. Did palm change the form factor, though? Not a chance ...
Jeez, this is the most asinine thread I've ever read. We start with some tasteless jokes about dying animals and end up with the argument that it's all no big deal because a little coastal flooding now and then is good.
Please come back when you're either
a) Not drunk, or
b) Gained a sense of humour
Seriously, dude -- lighten up! Just because the planet's screwed, doesn't mean we can't have a bit of fun at its expense ...
So you like ads? Honestly, vanilla feature sets aside, yeah, FF and IE are similar. I think IE took one more major release to get tabbed browsing though. That's a big one. But AdBlock is the real reason I use FF. AdBlock is like the DVR of the Internet for me in that it saves me from commercials and makes its respective medium bearable. But then, I abhor ads too.
Why try to convert him? His failure to block ads means that ad companies stay happy with the current ad formats, and don't try more invasive/less blockable strategies (or even worse, completely give up on internet advertising and pull a vast amount of money from the system!)
His browsing essentially subsides yours and mine. Just let him keep on doing what he likes doing ... :)