Whew. Glad I disabled slashdot sigs years and years ago. I would hate to have actually seen it read something useful from a sig. That'd be a first. What would the world come to? (ps - if you want to know, see my sig)
For the rare two hour getaway from the kids, I suggest face time instead of screen time. If you spend those two hours looking at each other, your marriage will be better off. Save the movies for the couch.
You also forget - we're at nearly 10% unemployment and the payments have been extended again and again and again. Eventually, you do run out of money. I'd rather the people who've been on unemployment for over two years be cut off. If they were that unemployable, they should have been getting retrained during that time. I'd rather the money not run out when the next 10% lose their jobs because this administration can't let go of its pet projects and get to work fixing the job market and the economy.
I am certainly NOT an Apple fanboy, but it's silly to claim that this isn't news, *assuming* it turns out to be true. Apple has the most popular smartphone on the market, and the reason why many people, including businesses and me personally, haven't adopted it is because the iPhone is not available on Verizon. The AT&T exclusivity contract is the biggest hindrance to iPhone adoption - not the tech, not the restrictive App Store, and not Apple's policies. If exclusivity is over and there's a real date on it, this is BIG news.
The nice thing about the iPad, as opposed to the Kindle or the Nook, is that there are many ways to buy a book.
Um, no. There are plenty of ways to buy books for the Kindle. It's ONLY if you want to load them on via the 3G connection instead of via the USB plug that you need to use Amazon. But you don't have to buy the book from them to even do that - you could just use your Kindle's e-mail address, though there is a small fee. But you can buy books from anywhere and drang-and-drop them to your Kindle. And, if you wind up with an ebook you want to convert, Calibri will make you.MOBI files all day long.
There may be lots of nice things about the iPad (personally, I have no need for one), but don't pretend that there's any book buying advantages with an iPad over any other device out there. In fact, it's weight, price, and the backlit screen make it much less attractive than an e-ink alternative. Though there's probably more to the iPad than ebooks.
I quit using GIMP years ago in favor of other free alternatives, mainly because of it's terrible interface because the functionality was nearly all there. I wonder if this move will really win anyone back?
> Also, it's entirely possible to not care about your credit score. > It only matters if you want to take on debt all the time.
Unfortunately, that's not true anymore. Insurance companies can use your credit score as part of your "insurance score" and raise your rates if you have bad credit. It can also be used by landlords, employers, and (back on topic) the mobile phone providers. If you have no credit or bad credit, you can now expect to have a tough time of it for things other than loans. Thanks consumerism and our culture of entitlement!
I find myself using Bing quite a bit. The reason - if I'm logged into gmail or Blogger, then Google shows me as logged in when I search in another tab. I can't log out of Google search while staying logged in to gmail or blogger, so I use Bing. Why do I want to log out? I don't really know - it's not like Google can't still identify me, but it just feels icky to have them blatantly flaunt that they track my searches.
A couple of other items of note - for C# programmers, Bing is nicer in that it allows the sharp sign in a search, as opposed to google which doesn't (even though it does a mightly fine job of returning relavent results anyway). And, probably the best feature of Bing is that it's image search is really nice. You just scroll down and more results are loaded. It's worth using Bing for that feature alone.
However, the trouble with numbers like the ones in the article are that very few people will ever use only Bing. Google is still the de facto search engine, and Bing is an alternative for those times when you want something google doesn't do the way you want it to.
essentially correct!? Is that the new journalistic double-speak for untrue. And no - just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I watch or agree with Fox News. Swill is swill, no matter how much you claim it's Kool-Aid.
I think a news organization promoting itself as say fair and balanced while hiding an agenda behind a veneer of respectability is far greater threat to both individuals and the country than the occasional weekend early release accident.
Your little jab at Fox News seems pretty one-sided with Dan Rather having done the same thing - reporting un-vetted fake news to supported a personal agenda is wrong no matter what your agenda is. He was fired at the height of his career, and I admit that I cheered a little. Not because of my personal politics, but because I had some hope for the chilling effects for other 'journalists' who would try the same thing. I know, I know... it's nice to want things.
Put a datetime or timestamp field in each table called ModifiedOn. Every time the record is changed, update that date. Then, in your data access layer (you have one of those, right?), do not allow an update to a record if the ModfiedOn date has changed since you originally pulled the record. If the date was the same for all records being updated in the transaction, then no one touched them. It's called optimistic locking. Later, you can add more featureful locking on top of this with change resolution/merging, etc. But, this is a failsafe starting point to ensure data integrity.
The part that is most amazing to me is that the software was was spitting errors the whole time the LEM was landing. It seems like that would make it awfully difficult to concentrate on landing when you're basically getting out-of-memory exceptions the whole way down. I think that they wound up landing with something like 17 seconds of fuel left. It's really a wonder we made it as far as we did on that technology.
And with a planet billions of years old, how exactly is it that merely 100 years worth of temperature measurements is statistically enough to definitively say that the earth is unnaturally warming? Seriously? And how long have we been monitoring the moon and Mars to ensure that what scientists think they're observing isn't actually a solar event.
Look - pollution is bad. We should take steps to reduce pollution in every form we can. But, I don't blame the public for being skeptical about the Chicken Little arguments about the sky falling, and I don't blame people for taking the position that we could do more harm than good by trying to over-solve a problem we don't really know if we have. And, with disproven stats like 1998 being the hottest year on record, it's hard to know what to trust and who's just pushing their own agenda.
I've been happily running Vista since it came out and have never once noticed that stuff in the control panel was renamed. Everything is dirt simple to find. And, if you can't find it, there's a search box in the top right hand corner. I just now typed the word "add" in it and that was all it took - Add/Remove Programs is at the top of the list. There are some valid things to complain about with Vista - renaming stuff in the control panel doesn't even make the top 100.
I second this! We call them ".done" files though. So, any transmission you get from me will be SomeFile_DateStamp.pgp, and then once that completes, I'll send you SomeFile_DateStamp.pgp.done which is a text file with an MD5 checksum of the file I sent. If you don't get the.done file, you didn't get a valid file and you might as well delete it and ask for another. If you get the.done file and the checksums don't match, same situation.
This works great with plain old vanilla FTP, which almost everyone supports. PGP keeps it secure, and the "done" file ensures that there were no transmission errors.
Over the last 5 years more people have been killed in the US by swine flu than by terrorists.
In the last 5 years, more American's have been killed by terrorists in the Middle East than by swine flu. It's all about how you phrase it. With only 141 total deaths, while tragic, the swine flu is not really very lethal unless you're old, young, or infirm. You're taking significantly more risk driving to work than exposing yourself to swine flu.
I used to be with Cingular prior to their acquisition by AT&T, and needless to say that AT&T inherited my loathing. Plus - I've never had a single problem with dropped calls, billing, or troubleshooting with Verizon. And, since I'm on a family plan, I also have other family members to consider when changing providers, not just myself.
My wife once had a phone that I accidentally (on purpose) utterly destroyed when I threw the bag that had her phone in it. Totally my fault and I told them that, but Verizon replaced it without making us pay a dime. We've just had good experience with them, and while my troubles with Cingular may have been alleviated with the AT&T acquisition, I'm one of those people who's willing to pay a little more to a company that I have a positive history with - (but ironically, I don't pay more with Verizon - it's cheaper for us than any other plan I've priced for what I need).
Being available for Verizon is the only iPhone feature I'm looking for. No chance I'm going with AT&T - period. Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way, or maybe the lure of the iPhone is enough for other people to make the switch. Meh.
With my new phone, running Windows Mobile 6, I've struggled to find a good browser. PIE is dated and nearly useless. Skyfire is really neat, but it's still beta and it shows. Opera Mini is the best of the three, but it requires a Java MIDLet engine to run it. I would install and use a Google Chrome mobile browser in a heartbeat if it was good and fast. With Android, I'm hoping that that was part of the plan with Chrome all along!
Anyone else think that the Oscars are pretty much irrelevant? Anymore it's just about the movie industry patting itself on the back, and not at all about what was actually praiseworthy. Count me in the buck of "didn't watch, didn't care". What happened to news for nerds and stuff that mattered?
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Whew. Glad I disabled slashdot sigs years and years ago. I would hate to have actually seen it read something useful from a sig. That'd be a first. What would the world come to? (ps - if you want to know, see my sig)
For the rare two hour getaway from the kids, I suggest face time instead of screen time. If you spend those two hours looking at each other, your marriage will be better off. Save the movies for the couch.
You also forget - we're at nearly 10% unemployment and the payments have been extended again and again and again. Eventually, you do run out of money. I'd rather the people who've been on unemployment for over two years be cut off. If they were that unemployable, they should have been getting retrained during that time. I'd rather the money not run out when the next 10% lose their jobs because this administration can't let go of its pet projects and get to work fixing the job market and the economy.
I am certainly NOT an Apple fanboy, but it's silly to claim that this isn't news, *assuming* it turns out to be true. Apple has the most popular smartphone on the market, and the reason why many people, including businesses and me personally, haven't adopted it is because the iPhone is not available on Verizon. The AT&T exclusivity contract is the biggest hindrance to iPhone adoption - not the tech, not the restrictive App Store, and not Apple's policies. If exclusivity is over and there's a real date on it, this is BIG news.
So... say you have some problem. You decide that the answer is getting the government to legislate a solution. Now you have two problems.
The nice thing about the iPad, as opposed to the Kindle or the Nook, is that there are many ways to buy a book.
Um, no. There are plenty of ways to buy books for the Kindle. It's ONLY if you want to load them on via the 3G connection instead of via the USB plug that you need to use Amazon. But you don't have to buy the book from them to even do that - you could just use your Kindle's e-mail address, though there is a small fee. But you can buy books from anywhere and drang-and-drop them to your Kindle. And, if you wind up with an ebook you want to convert, Calibri will make you .MOBI files all day long.
There may be lots of nice things about the iPad (personally, I have no need for one), but don't pretend that there's any book buying advantages with an iPad over any other device out there. In fact, it's weight, price, and the backlit screen make it much less attractive than an e-ink alternative. Though there's probably more to the iPad than ebooks.
I quit using GIMP years ago in favor of other free alternatives, mainly because of it's terrible interface because the functionality was nearly all there. I wonder if this move will really win anyone back?
> Also, it's entirely possible to not care about your credit score.
> It only matters if you want to take on debt all the time.
Unfortunately, that's not true anymore. Insurance companies can use your credit score as part of your "insurance score" and raise your rates if you have bad credit. It can also be used by landlords, employers, and (back on topic) the mobile phone providers. If you have no credit or bad credit, you can now expect to have a tough time of it for things other than loans. Thanks consumerism and our culture of entitlement!
I find myself using Bing quite a bit. The reason - if I'm logged into gmail or Blogger, then Google shows me as logged in when I search in another tab. I can't log out of Google search while staying logged in to gmail or blogger, so I use Bing. Why do I want to log out? I don't really know - it's not like Google can't still identify me, but it just feels icky to have them blatantly flaunt that they track my searches.
A couple of other items of note - for C# programmers, Bing is nicer in that it allows the sharp sign in a search, as opposed to google which doesn't (even though it does a mightly fine job of returning relavent results anyway). And, probably the best feature of Bing is that it's image search is really nice. You just scroll down and more results are loaded. It's worth using Bing for that feature alone.
However, the trouble with numbers like the ones in the article are that very few people will ever use only Bing. Google is still the de facto search engine, and Bing is an alternative for those times when you want something google doesn't do the way you want it to.
essentially correct!? Is that the new journalistic double-speak for untrue. And no - just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I watch or agree with Fox News. Swill is swill, no matter how much you claim it's Kool-Aid.
I think a news organization promoting itself as say fair and balanced while hiding an agenda behind a veneer of respectability is far greater threat to both individuals and the country than the occasional weekend early release accident.
Your little jab at Fox News seems pretty one-sided with Dan Rather having done the same thing - reporting un-vetted fake news to supported a personal agenda is wrong no matter what your agenda is. He was fired at the height of his career, and I admit that I cheered a little. Not because of my personal politics, but because I had some hope for the chilling effects for other 'journalists' who would try the same thing. I know, I know... it's nice to want things.
Put a datetime or timestamp field in each table called ModifiedOn. Every time the record is changed, update that date. Then, in your data access layer (you have one of those, right?), do not allow an update to a record if the ModfiedOn date has changed since you originally pulled the record. If the date was the same for all records being updated in the transaction, then no one touched them. It's called optimistic locking. Later, you can add more featureful locking on top of this with change resolution/merging, etc. But, this is a failsafe starting point to ensure data integrity.
The part that is most amazing to me is that the software was was spitting errors the whole time the LEM was landing. It seems like that would make it awfully difficult to concentrate on landing when you're basically getting out-of-memory exceptions the whole way down. I think that they wound up landing with something like 17 seconds of fuel left. It's really a wonder we made it as far as we did on that technology.
And with a planet billions of years old, how exactly is it that merely 100 years worth of temperature measurements is statistically enough to definitively say that the earth is unnaturally warming? Seriously? And how long have we been monitoring the moon and Mars to ensure that what scientists think they're observing isn't actually a solar event.
Look - pollution is bad. We should take steps to reduce pollution in every form we can. But, I don't blame the public for being skeptical about the Chicken Little arguments about the sky falling, and I don't blame people for taking the position that we could do more harm than good by trying to over-solve a problem we don't really know if we have. And, with disproven stats like 1998 being the hottest year on record, it's hard to know what to trust and who's just pushing their own agenda.
Sarcoidosis?
I've been happily running Vista since it came out and have never once noticed that stuff in the control panel was renamed. Everything is dirt simple to find. And, if you can't find it, there's a search box in the top right hand corner. I just now typed the word "add" in it and that was all it took - Add/Remove Programs is at the top of the list. There are some valid things to complain about with Vista - renaming stuff in the control panel doesn't even make the top 100.
I second this! We call them ".done" files though. So, any transmission you get from me will be SomeFile_DateStamp.pgp, and then once that completes, I'll send you SomeFile_DateStamp.pgp.done which is a text file with an MD5 checksum of the file I sent. If you don't get the .done file, you didn't get a valid file and you might as well delete it and ask for another. If you get the .done file and the checksums don't match, same situation.
This works great with plain old vanilla FTP, which almost everyone supports. PGP keeps it secure, and the "done" file ensures that there were no transmission errors.
Over the last 5 years more people have been killed in the US by swine flu than by terrorists.
In the last 5 years, more American's have been killed by terrorists in the Middle East than by swine flu. It's all about how you phrase it. With only 141 total deaths, while tragic, the swine flu is not really very lethal unless you're old, young, or infirm. You're taking significantly more risk driving to work than exposing yourself to swine flu.
I used to be with Cingular prior to their acquisition by AT&T, and needless to say that AT&T inherited my loathing. Plus - I've never had a single problem with dropped calls, billing, or troubleshooting with Verizon. And, since I'm on a family plan, I also have other family members to consider when changing providers, not just myself.
My wife once had a phone that I accidentally (on purpose) utterly destroyed when I threw the bag that had her phone in it. Totally my fault and I told them that, but Verizon replaced it without making us pay a dime. We've just had good experience with them, and while my troubles with Cingular may have been alleviated with the AT&T acquisition, I'm one of those people who's willing to pay a little more to a company that I have a positive history with - (but ironically, I don't pay more with Verizon - it's cheaper for us than any other plan I've priced for what I need).
I pay $60 for two phones with 500 shared minutes. Total. So you're saying that AT&T is $0.00??? Okay, perhaps I'd consider switching then...
Being available for Verizon is the only iPhone feature I'm looking for. No chance I'm going with AT&T - period. Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way, or maybe the lure of the iPhone is enough for other people to make the switch. Meh.
With my new phone, running Windows Mobile 6, I've struggled to find a good browser. PIE is dated and nearly useless. Skyfire is really neat, but it's still beta and it shows. Opera Mini is the best of the three, but it requires a Java MIDLet engine to run it. I would install and use a Google Chrome mobile browser in a heartbeat if it was good and fast. With Android, I'm hoping that that was part of the plan with Chrome all along!
Right, wrong, or indifferent - we don't need the government being thought police.
Anyone else think that the Oscars are pretty much irrelevant? Anymore it's just about the movie industry patting itself on the back, and not at all about what was actually praiseworthy. Count me in the buck of "didn't watch, didn't care". What happened to news for nerds and stuff that mattered?
I takes a lot of faith to believe that all this is the result of one big accident of nature. Hope that works out for ya.