Correct me if I'm wrong, but Google Voice is only available in a whopping 1 of the 195 nations on this planet.
I had an account with a competitor named Gizmo back in the day. It routed calls over SIP directly to my Nokia N810. Worked beautifully here. Then Google bought Gizmo, shut it down, and still doesn't offer anything to those living in such far-off, mythical lands as... Canada.
I got a used Fitbit Flex for $45 (Canadian) over 3 years ago. The battery used to last about 7-8 days; now it lasts about 6-7 days. In that time I've had to do a reset on it once, and it has otherwise worked flawlessly.
It syncs in the background with my computer via tiny USB dongle, or I could connect it with my phone over bluetooth if I cared to install their app. I get updates about meeting my step goals and sleep using IFTTT.
I've had to replace the band a few times. I bought a cheap 10-pack off Amazon, and they seem to be the same quality as the original.
If your life is awesome, you don't want/need a bunch of kids to feel important and you've got better things to do with your life than just pump out kids.
My life is awesome because I have kids. It's not an either/or sort of thing. They give me levels of joy that I never imagined before they were in my life. I wouldn't trade them for anything.
Increasing the standard of living decreases population growth, especially when women get a piece of that action.
But I do agree with you there. Lower standards of living are often accompanied by lower life expectancy and higher infant/child mortality rates. More kids makes up for that, and provides more workers to help the family get more food, water, etc.
Increased education tends to lead to improved standard of living, leading to more sustainable and healthier populations. But we don't get rid of the children.
The letters IHS were the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus IHSOYS, which stood for Yahweh.
Just a nitpick (and I know you're quoting another site): The Greek name of Jesus is IHSOYS in Greek letters, or Iesous transliterated into English letters. It doesn't stand for Yahweh, God's name used in the Old Testament. It just says Jesus.
There are a few hosted solutions like that as well. I'm using Blogtrottr now. Seems good and reliable. Feed My Inbox ran well for a few years, but shut down at the beginning of the year.
Email works great. We already have mature clients for reading them. And it doesn't become a separate inbox/site/client I need to check.
When we were trying to plan our wedding from two different countries, collaborative documents were extremely useful. We could both add things, review what the other was doing, and keep everything in a single place. It kept everything simple and easy.
While not everyone needs collaborative editing, it is extremely useful in some situations.
The big speed difference I notice between Opera and some other browsers isn't so much in the HTML/JS performance but in overall responsiveness. Opening a tab is nearly instantaneous, even on older systems. The browser just gets out of the way and lets me work. That speed difference won't be shown in most benchmarks.
The current version is still 9.64, with 9.7 in beta testing, so it will be some time before 10 comes out.
I don't believe there is a 9.7 beta. The Opera 10 beta was released recently, and this builds upon it. They are definitely working towards a v10 release in the relatively near future.
... said Windows user Joe Beleaguered, who had lost all his email, business files, MP3s and porn again.
Offhandedly, I've had iTunes remove songs and complete albums on several occasions, actually deleting the files. This has occured under both OS X and WinXP. And an iTunes "upgrade" recently deleted my entire library (again, deleting the files, not just removing their entries in iTunes). Quite a pain in the buttocks.
I much prefer working on a Mac, but I wouldn't trust iTunes with anything of value. It's the only program I've ever had which has done things like this. Windows is annoying, but usually not actively destructive.
In this case it's option three: Still locked, but simply not bound to a contract. You still can only use it on AT&T, but are not locked in to a specific monthly plan.
Likewise, I've been a happy FM user for about 6 years. It's fast. It's very, very reliable (ever since they added good redundancy after a nasty outage a few years ago). Free accounts are available, but they are a paid service and they don't try to pretend otherwise. $25/year lets me host multiple domains with them (with full control over the DNS), gives me good storage, excellent spam filtering, custom rules, IMAP access, file storage accessible via web, webdav, ftp. IMAP is really their specialty; POP is just tacked on because people are used to it.
Seriously. Check them out. And register your own domain, whether you go with FM or not. It's cheap, easy, and worth it, even if it's just for a catch-all email address.
Did it not appear with the whole Active Desktop thing associated with IE4.0?
Yep. Plain ol' Win95 didn't have it, but updating to IE 4 added the extras, including a different version of Explorer (like the one found in Win98). Skipping IE 4 and just installing IE 5 only updated the browser, leaving Active Desktop, the Quick Launch toolbar (and other toolbars), and the updated (and slower) Explorer out.
I mean, isn't it just following God's degree to "be fruitful and multiply"?
Another thing to keep in mind is that the Roman Catholic Church highly emphasizes keeping two aspects of the sexual act together: the unity/good of the couple, and procreation & education of children. Artificial insemination arguably separates the two. Procreation is done, but not in union with the (wonderful) sexual act.
The same argument is used as the basis for the Church's objection to artificial contraception. It separates the possibility of procreation from the sexual act.
What is there that you can do with folders but not with labels?
Access my mail from any number of different clients and see the exact same thing. At this point, labels are not standardized, while folders are. Folders mean I am not locked in with any single provider or mail client.
No, it does not. There is a major font rendering bug in the current stable branch for OS X which makes it virtually unusable for both on-screen and printed work. It's a known issue which is being worked on, but AbiWord (as much as I love and support it) definitely does not "work like a charm" on OS X these days.
Check out Virgin Mobile. We just compared a lot of cell phone plans (out in Alberta) and they stood out as just being simple and not hiding everything. And there's no contract to sign. I think they're worth checking out.
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That is... SO COOL!
I think I'm hilarious.
But Hangouts (in Canada) doesn't offer a phone number for incoming calls. Google Voice does.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Google Voice is only available in a whopping 1 of the 195 nations on this planet.
I had an account with a competitor named Gizmo back in the day. It routed calls over SIP directly to my Nokia N810. Worked beautifully here. Then Google bought Gizmo, shut it down, and still doesn't offer anything to those living in such far-off, mythical lands as... Canada.
I'm still grumpy about that.
I got a used Fitbit Flex for $45 (Canadian) over 3 years ago. The battery used to last about 7-8 days; now it lasts about 6-7 days. In that time I've had to do a reset on it once, and it has otherwise worked flawlessly.
It syncs in the background with my computer via tiny USB dongle, or I could connect it with my phone over bluetooth if I cared to install their app. I get updates about meeting my step goals and sleep using IFTTT.
I've had to replace the band a few times. I bought a cheap 10-pack off Amazon, and they seem to be the same quality as the original.
It just does what it's supposed to do.
My life is awesome because I have kids. It's not an either/or sort of thing. They give me levels of joy that I never imagined before they were in my life. I wouldn't trade them for anything.
But I do agree with you there. Lower standards of living are often accompanied by lower life expectancy and higher infant/child mortality rates. More kids makes up for that, and provides more workers to help the family get more food, water, etc.
Increased education tends to lead to improved standard of living, leading to more sustainable and healthier populations. But we don't get rid of the children.
Just a nitpick (and I know you're quoting another site): The Greek name of Jesus is IHSOYS in Greek letters, or Iesous transliterated into English letters. It doesn't stand for Yahweh, God's name used in the Old Testament. It just says Jesus.
Awesome comment though.
There are a few hosted solutions like that as well. I'm using Blogtrottr now. Seems good and reliable. Feed My Inbox ran well for a few years, but shut down at the beginning of the year.
Email works great. We already have mature clients for reading them. And it doesn't become a separate inbox/site/client I need to check.
I run it just fine on a P4 with 512MB RAM. It's very smooth and fine for day-to-day use.
When we were trying to plan our wedding from two different countries, collaborative documents were extremely useful. We could both add things, review what the other was doing, and keep everything in a single place. It kept everything simple and easy.
While not everyone needs collaborative editing, it is extremely useful in some situations.
The big speed difference I notice between Opera and some other browsers isn't so much in the HTML/JS performance but in overall responsiveness. Opening a tab is nearly instantaneous, even on older systems. The browser just gets out of the way and lets me work. That speed difference won't be shown in most benchmarks.
Did you install it as an upgrade of your previous version, or as a separate install?
I believe the alpha/beta versions default to a separate install.
I don't believe there is a 9.7 beta. The Opera 10 beta was released recently, and this builds upon it. They are definitely working towards a v10 release in the relatively near future.
... said Windows user Joe Beleaguered, who had lost all his email, business files, MP3s and porn again.
Offhandedly, I've had iTunes remove songs and complete albums on several occasions, actually deleting the files. This has occured under both OS X and WinXP. And an iTunes "upgrade" recently deleted my entire library (again, deleting the files, not just removing their entries in iTunes). Quite a pain in the buttocks.
I much prefer working on a Mac, but I wouldn't trust iTunes with anything of value. It's the only program I've ever had which has done things like this. Windows is annoying, but usually not actively destructive.
Hurray for backups.
In this case it's option three: Still locked, but simply not bound to a contract. You still can only use it on AT&T, but are not locked in to a specific monthly plan.
I disagree. HTML always renders fast enough. Slowdowns are from scripts and ads.
Not always. Facebook on Opera 9.6 is painful to load, even with JS & plugins turned off.
My car battery died this morning. Who'd have thought that thing had a clock in it?!
From Canada, I can't even watch the bleeped video in the article. "Copyrights restrict us from playing this video outside the U.S." Pfft! Pfft, I say!
Likewise, I've been a happy FM user for about 6 years. It's fast. It's very, very reliable (ever since they added good redundancy after a nasty outage a few years ago). Free accounts are available, but they are a paid service and they don't try to pretend otherwise. $25/year lets me host multiple domains with them (with full control over the DNS), gives me good storage, excellent spam filtering, custom rules, IMAP access, file storage accessible via web, webdav, ftp. IMAP is really their specialty; POP is just tacked on because people are used to it.
Seriously. Check them out. And register your own domain, whether you go with FM or not. It's cheap, easy, and worth it, even if it's just for a catch-all email address.
Also, these forums might be a useful resource: http://www.emaildiscussions.com/
Did it not appear with the whole Active Desktop thing associated with IE4.0?
Yep. Plain ol' Win95 didn't have it, but updating to IE 4 added the extras, including a different version of Explorer (like the one found in Win98). Skipping IE 4 and just installing IE 5 only updated the browser, leaving Active Desktop, the Quick Launch toolbar (and other toolbars), and the updated (and slower) Explorer out.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the Roman Catholic Church highly emphasizes keeping two aspects of the sexual act together: the unity/good of the couple, and procreation & education of children. Artificial insemination arguably separates the two. Procreation is done, but not in union with the (wonderful) sexual act.
The same argument is used as the basis for the Church's objection to artificial contraception. It separates the possibility of procreation from the sexual act.
Access my mail from any number of different clients and see the exact same thing. At this point, labels are not standardized, while folders are. Folders mean I am not locked in with any single provider or mail client.
No, it does not. There is a major font rendering bug in the current stable branch for OS X which makes it virtually unusable for both on-screen and printed work. It's a known issue which is being worked on, but AbiWord (as much as I love and support it) definitely does not "work like a charm" on OS X these days.
Check out Virgin Mobile. We just compared a lot of cell phone plans (out in Alberta) and they stood out as just being simple and not hiding everything. And there's no contract to sign. I think they're worth checking out.
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