smooth shave? I have to solidly disagree with this one. My previous electric was one of the fancy Braun models with the self-cleaning base, which I purchased after hearing the "shaves as close as a blade" pitch. Having never used a blade before, I really didn't have anything to compare to, so I just assumed it was true. However, now that I've been using a blade for several months, I can tell you without a doubt, my electric never came CLOSE to the shave a blade can offer. At least not the 4-blade razors that I've been using.
I went the other way round; I used to shave with a double-blaze Gilette razor, but then I switched to electric shavers. I think your problem is, you're using a Braun. I agree that they're pretty shit. Ever tried a Philishave? After I first shaved with that, I felt my face and was *amazed* - it was smoother than I'd ever got with the razor. Maybe a higher quality razor could get as smooth as that, but I fail to see how it could get smoother. I think a better quality electric sjaver (again, the best by far are Philishave) could help to fix this one too:
don't cut you, ever? Probably wouldn't say "ever", but I agree, it's hard to cut yourself with an electric shaver. However, I always seemed to end up with nasty red splotches, almost like a burn or rash, all over my neck after shaving.
Why don't you guys just use a friggin electric shaver, honestly? I've never understood why people still waste time and effort with manual razors. Electric shavers: - are quicker - don't cut you, ever - don't require putting dumbass shaving foam on beforehand - give just as smooth a shave, if not smoother, than most razors.
Then I just take a shower afterwards and don't get annoying itching on my face, either.
Yeah, those holodecks always seem remarkably prone to sudden and catastrophic failure. "Oh no, we can't get out! On no, by an annoying co-incidence, safeties have also been disengaged at the same time!!"
Interesting fact; did you know you can emulate a rotary phone with your phone's "hang up" button? Quickly tapping that button emulates the rotary phone's "pips", so you can dial a number that way. I've done it before!
I have to disagree with you and go in the opposite direction. I'd like to see all ISPs always offering you a dedicated link, with the ability to use anywhere up to 100% of it anywhere up to 100% of the time. I'd rather have a slower link than a horrible metered link where I have to constantly worry about how much I'm downloading.
I don't know how people can live with [white/green] on black; they totally strain my eyes and make me feel as if I need glasses every time I walk away from the computer.
Suppose it's drained by someone who prints checks with a random bank account number on them and it just so happens to be this OpenBSD user's bank account.
Just in case anyone was taking this serviously, this scenario just aint gonna happen.
To login to my bank account online, I need the online account's ID, my PIN, and my secret word. In addition, I also now need my physical debit card, a card reader, and to enter my PIN in the reader and get back a code to enter for login. Not much chance of someone randomly getting in by guessing all those.
That site has fast.co.uk as almost perfectly rated, when it offers a pathetic 40GB transfer/mo for £29/mo at a pathetic 8mbit/0.5mbit transfer speeds. Compare that to Be. The site's ratings don't seem very reliable.
Unfortunately since they have a long history of providing landline connections in the UK, many people assume they must be a worthy internet provider also
Hahahaha, BT's customer service when providing landline connections is hardly great.
No - it's that quite a few people, at least in the early days, and with the help of positive reenforcement from BT's advertising, thought that BT were the *only* ADSL provider. Either that or they just couldn't be bothered to do one iota of research and just went with BT. Given that unfair advantage BT has, it's a testament to how bad their broadband is that they *only* have about a quarter of the market.
"Free, more stable, more secure? Ok, where's the catch? Because if it was, why would anyone still buy software that's less secure, less stable and has a price tag?"
Support? Seems obvious when you point it out.
Also, having a price tag can/sometimes/ lead to better software. Photoshop, Visual Studio w/.net, and some other pieces of software are genuinely better than anything OSS can come up with (I said better, not irreplacable).
*Actually*... I happened to discover a while back that Internet Explorer 6 has exactly this. I think it limits GIF animation periods to a minimum of 100ms or something; I discovered this whilst trying to make some animated buttons. This kind of crazy epilepsy shit is only doable on browsers like Firefox that respect the GIF animation speed settings.
We're coming to a point where freedom in software is gaining in market value. I know it's cliche, and people have been spouting it for a over a decade, but I suspect that the general populace has come to a point where they can see that dollars and cents are in favor of not being tied to a corporation that makes money by selling solutions for the same problems over and over again.
One slight problem with this at the moment; MS really do make the best development tools. They seem to have concentrated well on that. Try finding a good OSS alternative to VS, C#,.net, and TFS, with builtin VS2008 unit testing. Just try.
What about the best of all - Star Trek? It paints a utopian picture of Earth in the future, that picture being one where they've done away with money and capitalism, and are living in a happy world under a system of governance closer to communism than anything else.
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Careful. Many US senators have been fooled by that very argument.
Actually, P4P is just leet speek for 'pap'. As in, this idea is 'pap'. :-)
smooth shave? I have to solidly disagree with this one. My previous electric was one of the fancy Braun models with the self-cleaning base, which I purchased after hearing the "shaves as close as a blade" pitch. Having never used a blade before, I really didn't have anything to compare to, so I just assumed it was true. However, now that I've been using a blade for several months, I can tell you without a doubt, my electric never came CLOSE to the shave a blade can offer. At least not the 4-blade razors that I've been using.
I went the other way round; I used to shave with a double-blaze Gilette razor, but then I switched to electric shavers. I think your problem is, you're using a Braun. I agree that they're pretty shit. Ever tried a Philishave? After I first shaved with that, I felt my face and was *amazed* - it was smoother than I'd ever got with the razor. Maybe a higher quality razor could get as smooth as that, but I fail to see how it could get smoother. I think a better quality electric sjaver (again, the best by far are Philishave) could help to fix this one too:
don't cut you, ever? Probably wouldn't say "ever", but I agree, it's hard to cut yourself with an electric shaver. However, I always seemed to end up with nasty red splotches, almost like a burn or rash, all over my neck after shaving.
Why don't you guys just use a friggin electric shaver, honestly? I've never understood why people still waste time and effort with manual razors. Electric shavers:
- are quicker
- don't cut you, ever
- don't require putting dumbass shaving foam on beforehand
- give just as smooth a shave, if not smoother, than most razors.
Then I just take a shower afterwards and don't get annoying itching on my face, either.
Yeah, those holodecks always seem remarkably prone to sudden and catastrophic failure. "Oh no, we can't get out! On no, by an annoying co-incidence, safeties have also been disengaged at the same time!!"
Texans do not speak 'perfect English'. :-)
Interesting fact; did you know you can emulate a rotary phone with your phone's "hang up" button? Quickly tapping that button emulates the rotary phone's "pips", so you can dial a number that way. I've done it before!
As a learning tool this is a near perfect example of a truly victimless "crime."
How can you say that? Think of the families being shattered, the children being killed, and the crime being caused by this drug abuse!!!one
I have to disagree with you and go in the opposite direction. I'd like to see all ISPs always offering you a dedicated link, with the ability to use anywhere up to 100% of it anywhere up to 100% of the time. I'd rather have a slower link than a horrible metered link where I have to constantly worry about how much I'm downloading.
I don't know how people can live with [white/green] on black; they totally strain my eyes and make me feel as if I need glasses every time I walk away from the computer.
None of the dissenters speak English anyway.
What bank is this? I'd like to know to avoid it. :-)
Fair enough, so if you don't need it, you won't be needing to make a claim to the bank for your stolen money back, presumably.
Suppose it's drained by someone who prints checks with a random bank account number on them and it just so happens to be this OpenBSD user's bank account.
Just in case anyone was taking this serviously, this scenario just aint gonna happen.
To login to my bank account online, I need the online account's ID, my PIN, and my secret word. In addition, I also now need my physical debit card, a card reader, and to enter my PIN in the reader and get back a code to enter for login. Not much chance of someone randomly getting in by guessing all those.
You sound like you're describing Windows XP.
That site has fast.co.uk as almost perfectly rated, when it offers a pathetic 40GB transfer/mo for £29/mo at a pathetic 8mbit/0.5mbit transfer speeds. Compare that to Be. The site's ratings don't seem very reliable.
Unfortunately since they have a long history of providing landline connections in the UK, many people assume they must be a worthy internet provider also
Hahahaha, BT's customer service when providing landline connections is hardly great.
No - it's that quite a few people, at least in the early days, and with the help of positive reenforcement from BT's advertising, thought that BT were the *only* ADSL provider. Either that or they just couldn't be bothered to do one iota of research and just went with BT. Given that unfair advantage BT has, it's a testament to how bad their broadband is that they *only* have about a quarter of the market.
Certainly, a web server is a web server, and doesn't even differentiate on UI.
Try administrating it.
"Free, more stable, more secure? Ok, where's the catch? Because if it was, why would anyone still buy software that's less secure, less stable and has a price tag?"
/sometimes/ lead to better software. Photoshop, Visual Studio w/ .net, and some other pieces of software are genuinely better than anything OSS can come up with (I said better, not irreplacable).
Support? Seems obvious when you point it out.
Also, having a price tag can
*Actually*... I happened to discover a while back that Internet Explorer 6 has exactly this. I think it limits GIF animation periods to a minimum of 100ms or something; I discovered this whilst trying to make some animated buttons. This kind of crazy epilepsy shit is only doable on browsers like Firefox that respect the GIF animation speed settings.
Just because it's called Acid doesn't mean it's meant to LOOK like you're on acid when you view it.
And how will the end game play out?
We're coming to a point where freedom in software is gaining in market value. I know it's cliche, and people have been spouting it for a over a decade, but I suspect that the general populace has come to a point where they can see that dollars and cents are in favor of not being tied to a corporation that makes money by selling solutions for the same problems over and over again.
.net, and TFS, with builtin VS2008 unit testing. Just try.
One slight problem with this at the moment; MS really do make the best development tools. They seem to have concentrated well on that. Try finding a good OSS alternative to VS, C#,
American sci-fi is disproportionately libertarian
What about the best of all - Star Trek? It paints a utopian picture of Earth in the future, that picture being one where they've done away with money and capitalism, and are living in a happy world under a system of governance closer to communism than anything else.
Whilst I can see the reason why laptops would be the primary beneficiary of this tech, where's my desktop flash-memory hard drive? I want one, damnit!