"My father fought for their freedom, I spent years there protecting their freedom and sure like hell I will make sure that my son won't make that mistake again."
Hey, it seems like the US populout have pretty much come to the same decision regarding their own freedom!
Whenever you buy something the cashier basically *has* to swipe it over ahigh frequency magnetic / EM emitter device to nuke the anti-shoplifiting chips they have.
Of course, RFID chips, being so incredibly small, won't be stuck to every item in the supermarket in future instead of just the high-value items the current chips are attached to.
Aside fromt hat fact, you even said yourself they need to be within 2 or 3 *meters* to read the damn thing. How usefull is that to track *anyone*?
Of course, people are getting paranoid about this instead of considering that humankind, having gone the distance of inventing RFID chips, will go the comparitively small step of refining/improving them so that passive RFID tags can be detected from miles away.
I have FF set as the default browser on my XP machine, and all the links in Outlook Express open fine in FF. I'd be surprised (although not disbelieving) if Outlook behaved differently.
Slight nitpick: this article was regarding a scheme of an insurer in the *UK*, where car insurance is 100% mandatory. The insurers will always have all (legal) car drivers as customers, they'll just foist yet higher insurance prices on the unlucky bastards they deem to be 'more risky', all while letting the government do their advertising (it's ILLEGAL not to get car insurance!) and laughing all the way to the bank. As usual.
Guess it would kinda suck for people who are actually pretty good drivers but, I dunno, live in a rural area and/or travel a lot at night, eh? Regardless of how safe they drive or how many accidents they have, they get slapped with higher fees. Wonderful British fairness for rural folk there.
I'm not sure you'd be too happy with the BBC's coverage of the Olympics, though. They're not the perfect do-gooder organization you seem to think they are. Their Olympic coverage, like all the other national broadcasters, centres on their home country - Great Britain. Rarely are atheletes from other countries covered.
Hmm, but when you have about 3 *billion* people watching your opening ceremony on TV, do you really need word of mouth? The depressing thing is, they may be able to excercise great control *and* get the message of the Olympics (oops, hope they don't sue me there) out because of its sheer availability in the media.
If you're in the UK, use eBid instead. Run by a couple of guys who respond in the forums, and its fees are a fraction of eBay's ripoffs. Yeah, eBid may go bad if they get as bid as eBay but what're you gonna do? Just have to keep moving to better online auctions until you find one that has a clue and doesn't start to suck.
I'm sure there're several eBid equivalents in the US. Don't just complain about eBay - boycott them, and drive their shitty business into the ground.
Shit. This sucks. Google were possibly the best site there is for determining with some accuracy the browsers that people were using, owing to its enormous popularity and wide visitor base. Sure, maybe 5% error margin, but that's still pretty good. Why on earth did they remove the stats instead of just putting a disclaimer on the Zeitgeist page and ignoring any enquiries about it, if they were worried about being sued?:-(
Now, does anyone know another source for reasonably accurate web browser usage stats? Yeah, I know about StatMarket. They charge several thousand $ for you to get your hands on their precious stats.:-(
The reason there are so many Ask Slashdots like this is because simoniker's code for deciding which submission to publish was based on the response to a previous Ask Slashdot, and is as follows.
10 a = number of submissions 20 b = INT rand number from 0->1 * a 30 publish submission number b
Diiiiiiiiid they? How many grandparents do you know that do most of their own car repairs instead of taking it into the garage? Me: 0. In fact, that kinda holds true for all generations.
If an application needs to install files into Windows syetm directories, it will access the necessary partition to do so.
If it doesn't, it will probably write itself to Program Files if there is only 1 partition. Failing that, it will almost certainly write itself to a directory outside Windows dirs that could be confused with app dirs.
Where is the benefit, other than performance-wise, of putting data on a seperate partition?
First, Microsoft created a non-multitasking OS. Then, they created a multitasking OS. Then, they created a pre-emptive multitasking OS. Now, they have created... a triple-tasking OS.
Mmm. Depressing that Windows displays 'avoid using this setting' for the 'off' setting of Windows Firewall, completely ignoring the fact you might be doing it because you're using another firewall. They might even take out this option in future.:-(
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I think the idea is that a Republic is a type of democracy.
"My father fought for their freedom, I spent years there protecting their freedom and sure like hell I will make sure that my son won't make that mistake again."
Hey, it seems like the US populout have pretty much come to the same decision regarding their own freedom!
Whenever you buy something the cashier basically *has* to swipe it over ahigh frequency magnetic / EM emitter device to nuke the anti-shoplifiting chips they have.
Of course, RFID chips, being so incredibly small, won't be stuck to every item in the supermarket in future instead of just the high-value items the current chips are attached to.
Aside fromt hat fact, you even said yourself they need to be within 2 or 3 *meters* to read the damn thing. How usefull is that to track *anyone*?
Of course, people are getting paranoid about this instead of considering that humankind, having gone the distance of inventing RFID chips, will go the comparitively small step of refining/improving them so that passive RFID tags can be detected from miles away.
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Ya know, if there's one company in the world I wouldnt mind MS crushing and replacing, it's Paypal. :-) It'd be pretty hard for MS to do a worse job.
I have FF set as the default browser on my XP machine, and all the links in Outlook Express open fine in FF. I'd be surprised (although not disbelieving) if Outlook behaved differently.
Slight nitpick: this article was regarding a scheme of an insurer in the *UK*, where car insurance is 100% mandatory. The insurers will always have all (legal) car drivers as customers, they'll just foist yet higher insurance prices on the unlucky bastards they deem to be 'more risky', all while letting the government do their advertising (it's ILLEGAL not to get car insurance!) and laughing all the way to the bank. As usual.
Guess it would kinda suck for people who are actually pretty good drivers but, I dunno, live in a rural area and/or travel a lot at night, eh? Regardless of how safe they drive or how many accidents they have, they get slapped with higher fees. Wonderful British fairness for rural folk there.
"If you don't want to, you don't have to read your e-mail."
If you want a break from the Olympics, I know a news site that has virtually nothing on them at all...
I'm not sure you'd be too happy with the BBC's coverage of the Olympics, though. They're not the perfect do-gooder organization you seem to think they are. Their Olympic coverage, like all the other national broadcasters, centres on their home country - Great Britain. Rarely are atheletes from other countries covered.
Hmm, but when you have about 3 *billion* people watching your opening ceremony on TV, do you really need word of mouth? The depressing thing is, they may be able to excercise great control *and* get the message of the Olympics (oops, hope they don't sue me there) out because of its sheer availability in the media.
That's because eBay sucks.
If you're in the UK, use eBid instead. Run by a couple of guys who respond in the forums, and its fees are a fraction of eBay's ripoffs. Yeah, eBid may go bad if they get as bid as eBay but what're you gonna do? Just have to keep moving to better online auctions until you find one that has a clue and doesn't start to suck.
I'm sure there're several eBid equivalents in the US. Don't just complain about eBay - boycott them, and drive their shitty business into the ground.
Hehe. :-) An example in English would be Wang, who produced some word processing software. 'I type with my wang.' :-)
Shit. This sucks. Google were possibly the best site there is for determining with some accuracy the browsers that people were using, owing to its enormous popularity and wide visitor base. Sure, maybe 5% error margin, but that's still pretty good. Why on earth did they remove the stats instead of just putting a disclaimer on the Zeitgeist page and ignoring any enquiries about it, if they were worried about being sued? :-(
:-(
Now, does anyone know another source for reasonably accurate web browser usage stats? Yeah, I know about StatMarket. They charge several thousand $ for you to get your hands on their precious stats.
Point is, the OP used the term 'intranet' instead of 'internet'. :-)
The reason there are so many Ask Slashdots like this is because simoniker's code for deciding which submission to publish was based on the response to a previous Ask Slashdot, and is as follows.
10 a = number of submissions
20 b = INT rand number from 0->1 * a
30 publish submission number b
It was deemed too complex for most Slashdotters to understand.
who encourages workers to adopt her strategy of calculated loafing
In english: reading/posting on slashdot
Actually, I believe in English it's called 'working'.
Diiiiiiiiid they? How many grandparents do you know that do most of their own car repairs instead of taking it into the garage? Me: 0. In fact, that kinda holds true for all generations.
I call bullshit.
If an application needs to install files into Windows syetm directories, it will access the necessary partition to do so.
If it doesn't, it will probably write itself to Program Files if there is only 1 partition. Failing that, it will almost certainly write itself to a directory outside Windows dirs that could be confused with app dirs.
Where is the benefit, other than performance-wise, of putting data on a seperate partition?
Mmm. Sounds attractive. Virtually the same userbase, less functionality and only thrice the work than they had before!
(I know I know, that's ignoring cross-platform toolkits that exist nowadays)
Please explain to me how these definitions are different from what the grandparent meant?
The Olympics stuff is new, and deserves topical reporting.
:-)
Really? I thought it was pretty old, but each to their own. I'd love to see how new you think this 'language stuff' is.
First, Microsoft created a non-multitasking OS.
Then, they created a multitasking OS.
Then, they created a pre-emptive multitasking OS.
Now, they have created... a triple-tasking OS.
It's not a step backward, honest!
Mmm. Depressing that Windows displays 'avoid using this setting' for the 'off' setting of Windows Firewall, completely ignoring the fact you might be doing it because you're using another firewall. They might even take out this option in future. :-(