is there a way to 'hard code' that into the bookmark? That is, just specify in that Hotmail bookmark it should always open in an IE tab? Yes, there is. If you go to IE Tab's preferences, there is a "Site Filter" tab. I usually add three rules to it so they always open in IE Tab:
http://*.hotmail.com/*
http://*.live.com/*
https://*.live.com/*
Sucks, I know, but I'd rather do this than wait for Microsoft to fix their websites to work with FF.
I've been using a free WriterRoom clone for Windows called DarkRoom for a couple of months now. Probably not as shiny as WriterRoom, I guess (I don't own a Mac), but it gets the job done of "distraction-free writing", and yes, it's a Godsend when I want to get some "serious" writing done.
I'm sorry, but how, exactly is MS "tying" it to the OS given it's a separate download. It's not like they're shipping it with Vista SP1. It doesn't come with the OS.
From TFA:
Using the Windows Live unified installer also is still an option -- not a requirement -- of the OS, so the services are not as tightly linked to Windows as IE was, Rosoff said.
All they did was come up with a single installer to put all the Windows Live crap on at once (if you chose to do so). Same thing could be said about Google Pack, couldn't it?
I don't mean to sound like an MS fanboy, but the whole article smells like trollbait
and I have to say it's one of the most bloated clunky programs I've ever used.
Ever tried the other corporate standard client? Outlook is worse IMHO. I stopped using Notes in R5 when I changed jobs and I still miss notes. Outlook on my machine takes longer to startup and shutdown than Notes on your machine, and it's not the network. Plus the offline support in Outlook is still sub-par compared to Notes' replication.
But I don't know, maybe IBM completely screwed up the notes client in the last releases, I haven't used it in a while.
"God gave me both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." -- Robin Williams, Live On Broadway (2002?)
I got my girlfriend a Shuffle for her birthday and told her to be careful with the volume. Told her she should keep it at 50-60% (max) of the volume level to avoid hearing loss.
A couple of months later she called me and told me she had blown out her Apple earbuds (!).
In her defense though, she lives in New York, probably the noisiest city in the world, so in order to hear anything with the stock earbuds she had to crank up the volume. That, and the shuffle doesn't let you "see" the volume level you're at (like all other iPods).
Since then, I've gotten her some of the Apple in-ear buds, which help a lot to shut out some of the outside noise and plans to get her a nano are in place (so she can see her volume level)... and maybe in the future I'll get her some etymotic earphones like mine.
At the risk of losing karma, I actually like MSN's search toolbar better. I kinda works like spotlight in that I have a textbox in the task bar, just click and start typing and the results start showing up as you type.
That, plus it doesn't remeber things that I've deleted from my HDD (the way Google Desktop's cache does).
If you are only using the Web Form Validation controls to validate input on your forms than you are not doing a very good job.
You should validate input at all layers of your app., especially the business logic layer. Validation controls are just to save users the hassle of a post-back, but that doesn't mean its the only check you should make. What if a user has javascript turned off on the browser?
I predict this will be completely useless against terrorism and criminal activity. These people will still get into the U.S. ilegally or with counterfeit documentation. My guess is that it will only be "useful" to track people who legally enter the country but might overstay their visa. But this will hurt border cities.
Here's a slice of life:
I live in Cd. Juárez, Chih., México, on the border with El Paso, TX. It is one of (if not the) biggest border metropolitan areas in the world. There are three "bridges" here (border crossings really, since there is hardly a river that runs through anymore).
El Paso has a population of about 1.5 million and Juárez of about 2 million separated by only a couple houndred meters. Almost a 150,000 thousand vehicles and almost a quarter million people cross back and forth DAILY here (IIRC, according to a study that was done a couple of years ago, though I can't find the link anymore). Working or studying in Juárez and living in El Paso or viceversa is commonplace for thousands of people. El Paso's economy is mostly (I think) dependant on the every day crossing of all these people.
Most of the people in Juárez have a border-crosser card, since we cross into the U.S. frequently. It already has my info embedded in it, including my picture. It is the preferred document that is demanded by US. Customs for crossing into the U.S., even if you have a Mexican Passport with a U.S. visa.
And, although not easy, I know it is couterfittable (sp?), just like everything is "crackable", I guess.
So my point is, do they really think criminals or will use legitimately obtained documents? How long before it's counterfitted or cloned? What use will it be then?
I'm guessing though, that this program is oriented towards longer visitors visas (B-6?). If I am going on a long trip (longer than 3 days), or going further than 27 miles from the border into the U.S. I have to get one of these. I essentially get a stamped cardboard card with some microprinting that is good for 6 months. You're supposed to give it up at the crossing when you come back into Mexico, but it's not uncommon for one to forget to do it and just come back to give it up after a day or two, or to give it to the immigration officer who forgets to scan the barcode on it (giving me a whole heckuva lot of trouble to get future tourist visas).
It is also not uncommon to just hold on to it until it expires in case you need it for another trip since it is such a pain in the arse to get one. You have to provide proof of travel like plain tickets, pay stubs, Mexican income tax returns, and the like, and it takes up a couple of hours in the process AND you could still be denied entrance if the immigration officer is a repressed Chicano trying to prove how "American" he is by denying anyone that "looks" Mexican entrance (like most of the officers are).
I am a programmer that only goes to El Paso when I'm visiting friends or my aunt, or when I'm cast in a show (play) in a community theater company. This just adds one more annoyance to the border crossing experience.
The way I see it's useless to pit science vs. religion because they simply answer different questions. Science is preocuppied with the HOW ("how stuff works"), where as religion, theology, philosophy, et. al. address the WHY ("as in why am I here?", "why is there suffering?", etc.)
I guess the problem is that even science has roots in metaphysics. It makes assumptions about the universe, not the least of which is that it is goverened (sp?) by a set of *laws*, which are for the most part immutable.
But still, one should not confuse one with the other.
I would not want other children to be taught what I believe any more than I would want my own children to be taught other people's beliefs. Let's leave ID out of the science classrooms.
"He didn't know that the browser [Firefox] was an open source project and a descendant of Netscape Navigator now poised to avenge Netscape's defeat at the hands of Microsoft."
Every time I hear of a major natural disaster, including this one, I am reminded of George Carlin's "The Planet Is Fine". Not to poke fun at a tragedy, but it does remind the human race of just how small we can be... even in our own planet.
It went something like this: "[...]Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through Earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages... And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!
We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.
You wanna know how the planet's doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet's doing. You wanna know if the planet's all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of Earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the Earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the Earth plus plastic. The Earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth. The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?" Plastic...asshole. [...]"
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A friend of mine has a great phrase that I've often had to use on annoying interruptors: "Your lack of planning does not constitute my emergency."
would it matter? I mean (1) they're not selling (they're giving away) the derivative work and (2) from the ID3 Tags they seem to give Copyright to Nintendo and give credit to the original composers and original track titles?
That reminds me of my first experience with Windows XP. My cousin bought a PC with XP Home pre-installed and wanted to burn some of her MP3's with her nifty new CD-Writer, so she called me to show her how. She is very much a noob, so using Nero was out of the question. I noticed that she had MusicMatch pre-installed (which was perfect for her needs), I tried to fire it up and it wouldn't because XP needed the user to have Administrator priveleges. WTF? Format. Lather. Install non-MS OS. And there was much rejoicing... yey...
Canadians, on the other hand, just refuse to live like that. The first step Canadians do: be friendly to others. Respect the difference, accept other's value. No matter how inefficient or stupid Canadian governments sometimes are, Canadians still can live peacefully.
Benito Juarez, one of our most illustrius (sp?)(Mexican) presidents said it a couple of houndred years ago(think "the Mexican Abraham Lincoln): "The respect for your neighbor's rights is peace." ("El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz").
This is one of the reasons Mexico has never been involved in any international conflict except for WWII. We also try to be friendly to others. With this whole Iraqui mess, the U.S. tried to bully our government into giving our vote in favor of them on the UN Security Council (the whole "if your not with us your against us" schpeill).
Had it not been for the level-headed, peace-loving Canadians, many governments, like mine would not have had the ground to stand up to the Americans. Go Canadians!
Yeah, now we only have to think about how to include those other countries in this Utopia, you know those non-U.S., non-Canada and non-European Union countries... what are their names again? Oh yes! Mexico, South America, Africa and Asia... I mean they only have, what, 90% of the world population?
Slashdot Mirror
- http://*.hotmail.com/*
- http://*.live.com/*
- https://*.live.com/*
Sucks, I know, but I'd rather do this than wait for Microsoft to fix their websites to work with FF.I've been using a free WriterRoom clone for Windows called DarkRoom for a couple of months now. Probably not as shiny as WriterRoom, I guess (I don't own a Mac), but it gets the job done of "distraction-free writing", and yes, it's a Godsend when I want to get some "serious" writing done.
I'm sorry, but how, exactly is MS "tying" it to the OS given it's a separate download. It's not like they're shipping it with Vista SP1. It doesn't come with the OS.
From TFA:All they did was come up with a single installer to put all the Windows Live crap on at once (if you chose to do so). Same thing could be said about Google Pack, couldn't it?
I don't mean to sound like an MS fanboy, but the whole article smells like trollbait
Oh well... there goes my karma...
They also killed the "classic" *white* iPod. WTF???
Ever tried the other corporate standard client? Outlook is worse IMHO. I stopped using Notes in R5 when I changed jobs and I still miss notes. Outlook on my machine takes longer to startup and shutdown than Notes on your machine, and it's not the network. Plus the offline support in Outlook is still sub-par compared to Notes' replication.
But I don't know, maybe IBM completely screwed up the notes client in the last releases, I haven't used it in a while.
Oh well *sighs*
Yes, I can definately think of better things to do with my $400 bucks.
I'm sorry, but I can't trust any study done by a woman who is this butt-ugly. Or this superstitious.
Assuming that, in fact, she had anything to do with the report.
(Yes I am being a "lookist" for comedic effect... I'm not a complete prick)
"God gave me both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." -- Robin Williams, Live On Broadway (2002?)
I agree as well, some of it is "common" sense.
I got my girlfriend a Shuffle for her birthday and told her to be careful with the volume. Told her she should keep it at 50-60% (max) of the volume level to avoid hearing loss.
A couple of months later she called me and told me she had blown out her Apple earbuds (!).
In her defense though, she lives in New York, probably the noisiest city in the world, so in order to hear anything with the stock earbuds she had to crank up the volume. That, and the shuffle doesn't let you "see" the volume level you're at (like all other iPods).
Since then, I've gotten her some of the Apple in-ear buds, which help a lot to shut out some of the outside noise and plans to get her a nano are in place (so she can see her volume level)... and maybe in the future I'll get her some etymotic earphones like mine.
At the risk of losing karma, I actually like MSN's search toolbar better. I kinda works like spotlight in that I have a textbox in the task bar, just click and start typing and the results start showing up as you type.
That, plus it doesn't remeber things that I've deleted from my HDD (the way Google Desktop's cache does).
I see a lot of pet snake-loving, tree hugging individuals have already started picketing...
So before that happens let me just say this. I think an alligator is a scary predator (which would enjoy soft, pudgy geek meat like my own).
But scarier still, is the fact that a Burmese python can eat 6-foot-long (2-meter-long) American alligator.
Nuf Said.
well, considering the fact that a python can eat a 6-foot alligator, I'd say dogs aren't as dangerous, they're just more common, I gues...
If you are only using the Web Form Validation controls to validate input on your forms than you are not doing a very good job.
You should validate input at all layers of your app., especially the business logic layer. Validation controls are just to save users the hassle of a post-back, but that doesn't mean its the only check you should make. What if a user has javascript turned off on the browser?
And what does that have to do with this crack?
I predict this will be completely useless against terrorism and criminal activity. These people will still get into the U.S. ilegally or with counterfeit documentation. My guess is that it will only be "useful" to track people who legally enter the country but might overstay their visa. But this will hurt border cities.
Here's a slice of life:
I live in Cd. Juárez, Chih., México, on the border with El Paso, TX. It is one of (if not the) biggest border metropolitan areas in the world. There are three "bridges" here (border crossings really, since there is hardly a river that runs through anymore).
El Paso has a population of about 1.5 million and Juárez of about 2 million separated by only a couple houndred meters. Almost a 150,000 thousand vehicles and almost a quarter million people cross back and forth DAILY here (IIRC, according to a study that was done a couple of years ago, though I can't find the link anymore). Working or studying in Juárez and living in El Paso or viceversa is commonplace for thousands of people. El Paso's economy is mostly (I think) dependant on the every day crossing of all these people.
Most of the people in Juárez have a border-crosser card, since we cross into the U.S. frequently. It already has my info embedded in it, including my picture. It is the preferred document that is demanded by US. Customs for crossing into the U.S., even if you have a Mexican Passport with a U.S. visa.
And, although not easy, I know it is couterfittable (sp?), just like everything is "crackable", I guess.
So my point is, do they really think criminals or will use legitimately obtained documents? How long before it's counterfitted or cloned? What use will it be then?
I'm guessing though, that this program is oriented towards longer visitors visas (B-6?). If I am going on a long trip (longer than 3 days), or going further than 27 miles from the border into the U.S. I have to get one of these. I essentially get a stamped cardboard card with some microprinting that is good for 6 months. You're supposed to give it up at the crossing when you come back into Mexico, but it's not uncommon for one to forget to do it and just come back to give it up after a day or two, or to give it to the immigration officer who forgets to scan the barcode on it (giving me a whole heckuva lot of trouble to get future tourist visas).
It is also not uncommon to just hold on to it until it expires in case you need it for another trip since it is such a pain in the arse to get one. You have to provide proof of travel like plain tickets, pay stubs, Mexican income tax returns, and the like, and it takes up a couple of hours in the process AND you could still be denied entrance if the immigration officer is a repressed Chicano trying to prove how "American" he is by denying anyone that "looks" Mexican entrance (like most of the officers are).
I am a programmer that only goes to El Paso when I'm visiting friends or my aunt, or when I'm cast in a show (play) in a community theater company. This just adds one more annoyance to the border crossing experience.
*sigh*
As another Catholic I totally agree.
The way I see it's useless to pit science vs. religion because they simply answer different questions. Science is preocuppied with the HOW ("how stuff works"), where as religion, theology, philosophy, et. al. address the WHY ("as in why am I here?", "why is there suffering?", etc.)
I guess the problem is that even science has roots in metaphysics. It makes assumptions about the universe, not the least of which is that it is goverened (sp?) by a set of *laws*, which are for the most part immutable.
But still, one should not confuse one with the other.
I would not want other children to be taught what I believe any more than I would want my own children to be taught other people's beliefs. Let's leave ID out of the science classrooms.
Or George Carlin's "Filhty Words" bit, which got him arrested but was also overturned by the Supreme Court
Every time I hear of a major natural disaster, including this one, I am reminded of George Carlin's "The Planet Is Fine". Not to poke fun at a tragedy, but it does remind the human race of just how small we can be... even in our own planet.
It went something like this:
"[...]Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through Earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages... And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!
We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.
You wanna know how the planet's doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet's doing. You wanna know if the planet's all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of Earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the Earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the Earth plus plastic. The Earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth. The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?" Plastic...asshole.
[...]"
A friend of mine has a great phrase that I've often had to use on annoying interruptors: "Your lack of planning does not constitute my emergency."
"Just the thought of it makes me want to pee"
would it matter? I mean (1) they're not selling (they're giving away) the derivative work and (2) from the ID3 Tags they seem to give Copyright to Nintendo and give credit to the original composers and original track titles?
" 'M' as in Moron... " ya always have to translate these things :-)
That reminds me of my first experience with Windows XP. My cousin bought a PC with XP Home pre-installed and wanted to burn some of her MP3's with her nifty new CD-Writer, so she called me to show her how. She is very much a noob, so using Nero was out of the question. I noticed that she had MusicMatch pre-installed (which was perfect for her needs), I tried to fire it up and it wouldn't because XP needed the user to have Administrator priveleges. WTF? Format. Lather. Install non-MS OS. And there was much rejoicing... yey...
Benito Juarez, one of our most illustrius (sp?)(Mexican) presidents said it a couple of houndred years ago(think "the Mexican Abraham Lincoln): "The respect for your neighbor's rights is peace." ("El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz").
This is one of the reasons Mexico has never been involved in any international conflict except for WWII. We also try to be friendly to others. With this whole Iraqui mess, the U.S. tried to bully our government into giving our vote in favor of them on the UN Security Council (the whole "if your not with us your against us" schpeill).
Had it not been for the level-headed, peace-loving Canadians, many governments, like mine would not have had the ground to stand up to the Americans. Go Canadians!
Yeah, now we only have to think about how to include those other countries in this Utopia, you know those non-U.S., non-Canada and non-European Union countries... what are their names again? Oh yes! Mexico, South America, Africa and Asia... I mean they only have, what, 90% of the world population?