Some of us are required to us IE at work because the bosses won't let us install anything else. Of course, having said that, I really wonder if the bosses would notice...
Mind didn't. I ran Firebird on my work computer for six months - from the day I started until the day I went back to school full time.
I'd have to agree. The company that mentions their competitor in their advertising is probably losing.
We've had a dish for a couple of years now and have only lost signal three or four times, if memory serves. The windstorm that took a huge patch of shingles off our roof and the time it was raining so hard that our driveway flooded are the only two weather related interruptions we've had.
Believe it or not, I worked in a cage in the basement of a manufacturing plant. No, really. My desk was in the (dirty) old equipment lockup where I prepped retired PCs for donation to charity.
My dad bought this Beatles Best Of double album for $21.99 CDN in 1995. Since then the price at the store he bought it from has more than doubled to $45.99 CDN. Fifty bucks for a double CD? It's not like the Beatles are getting less popular or something.
I think your assertion that that price should be in Canadian dollars doesn't account for the fact that it's only new releases that cost $12.99.
He's definitely blowing smoke - he blames XUL for Mozilla's poor performance on his workstation. XUL is not the limiting factor as anybody who has used Firebird can attest. Firebird is much quicker than Mozilla and still uses XUL for user interface.
Most of my gibberish words are something along the lines of %randomtext% which seems to indicate that the person or persons sending me SPAM are incompetent and that the text really is for filter busting.
if you lose or break a piece, it's gonna cost you an arm and a leg to replace it
Huh? I wrote to Lego last year about a broken piece of my Lego watch band and they sent me a replacement for free. I also received a letter saying that they would continue to replace parts that were lost or broken but I would have to pay for shipping next time.
In terms of stopping annoying advertising, Nuke Anything is the most useful Firebird extension I've ever seen. It sets the display CSS property for the object you've selected to none. Don't like the obnoxious flash ad that's making the text of the page squish into the left 10% of the screen? *ZAP* Gone. And It re-flows the layout. I use it all the time, especially on that obnoxious new/. frontpage ad.
What about the fact that the U.N. Weapons Inspectors couldn't find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Saddam had no involvment in 9/11, despite the general cloud of confusion that the President has spread over that particular issue. Quite a few experts maintain that Saddam was no threat to the U.S. as long as he was left alone. I won't say the world isn't better off without Saddam but it's the motivation and execution that bother me.
Does none of this inconsistency bother you in any way?
Any website I've put together in the past two years has been standards compliant. Standards compliant pages generally view better in more browsers than non-compliant ones. Given, I've had to work around a few browser bugs (mostly to do with poor CSS support) but in the end my sites always look about the same in any browser and they're compliant with the standards. It's not like it's an either or choice.
I believe that "1/10th size" assertion referred to population - in which case he's right. Canada's population according to the 2000 Census was approximately 30,790.8 * 10^3. The population of the United States according to their Census Bureau was 281,421 * 10^3. That makes Canada's population approximately 10.9% of the U.S. population.
I dunno, this e-mail I got from my service provider seems like it would be pretty effective...
<snip>
EMERGENCY ADVISORY TO ALL COGECO INTERNET CUSTOMERS - September 10, 2003
Cogeco is alerting all customers using the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) operating system to apply the latest patches for their computer to ensure they are not affected by a new vulnerability discovered and released today by Microsoft(R). In the interest of your system security, we are recommending that you update your computer operating system immediately.
Instructions:
Please visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com as soon as possible and apply 'Critical Updates and Service Packs' to your computer system.
Click on 'Scan for updates'
Click on 'Review and Install Updates'
Click on 'Install Now' and follow the directions indicated on the screen.
* You will have to reboot your computer to enable the patch updates.
Overview of the problem:
</snip>
You get the idea and the rest of the e-mail keeps getting eaten by the junk filter.
eMusic was bought by Vivendi Universal so you'd just be feeding money to the RIAA anyway. I was a subscriber for a year but axed my account after Universal screwed over some of my favorite artists at MP3.com.
Okay, your complaint might be a valid one if Slashdot were one entity with one opinion but it's not - Slashdot is a wide variety of differing viewpoints from individuals so trying to make this argument is a fallacy.
The (accredited) Software Engineering program at my school requires students to have access to at least one computer running some form of Unix. Typically this is Mandrake or RedHat on the student's home computer but there are also Solaris and Linux labs on campus for student use.
Typically the only Engineering students who use the MS labs for programming are students in the first year software design class.
The Supreme Court in Canada agrees with the previous poster. Whatever gets beamed into my house, I can legally decode. Bonus. I'm sure this is one reason our satellite provider is rolling the codes once an hour now.
I do have to say that The Toronto Star normally doesn't achieve this level of utter crap. All in all it's not a bad paper but I read this article today (in the paper version) and it made me shake my head and wonder about the person that wrote it.
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Some of us are required to us IE at work because the bosses won't let us install anything else. Of course, having said that, I really wonder if the bosses would notice...
Mind didn't. I ran Firebird on my work computer for six months - from the day I started until the day I went back to school full time.
I'd have to agree. The company that mentions their competitor in their advertising is probably losing.
We've had a dish for a couple of years now and have only lost signal three or four times, if memory serves. The windstorm that took a huge patch of shingles off our roof and the time it was raining so hard that our driveway flooded are the only two weather related interruptions we've had.
My dad's pager has a warning sticker on the battery cover:
WARNING: DO NOT EAT BATTERY COVER
Believe it or not, I worked in a cage in the basement of a manufacturing plant. No, really. My desk was in the (dirty) old equipment lockup where I prepped retired PCs for donation to charity.
My dad bought this Beatles Best Of double album for $21.99 CDN in 1995. Since then the price at the store he bought it from has more than doubled to $45.99 CDN. Fifty bucks for a double CD? It's not like the Beatles are getting less popular or something.
I think your assertion that that price should be in Canadian dollars doesn't account for the fact that it's only new releases that cost $12.99.
He's definitely blowing smoke - he blames XUL for Mozilla's poor performance on his workstation. XUL is not the limiting factor as anybody who has used Firebird can attest. Firebird is much quicker than Mozilla and still uses XUL for user interface.
Most of my gibberish words are something along the lines of %randomtext% which seems to indicate that the person or persons sending me SPAM are incompetent and that the text really is for filter busting.
Huh? I wrote to Lego last year about a broken piece of my Lego watch band and they sent me a replacement for free. I also received a letter saying that they would continue to replace parts that were lost or broken but I would have to pay for shipping next time.
I don't think this has changed...
Ever tried to copy and paste a table from web browser into Excel? Try it some time. That's why I switched to OpenOffice...
MSDN printouts?
In terms of stopping annoying advertising, Nuke Anything is the most useful Firebird extension I've ever seen. It sets the display CSS property for the object you've selected to none. Don't like the obnoxious flash ad that's making the text of the page squish into the left 10% of the screen? *ZAP* Gone. And It re-flows the layout. I use it all the time, especially on that obnoxious new /. frontpage ad.
What about the questions surrounding the U.S. Government's knowledge of 9/11 prior to the event itself?
What about the fact that the U.S. Government trained and armed what would become Al Queda in the first place?
What about the fact that the U.N. Weapons Inspectors couldn't find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Saddam had no involvment in 9/11, despite the general cloud of confusion that the President has spread over that particular issue. Quite a few experts maintain that Saddam was no threat to the U.S. as long as he was left alone. I won't say the world isn't better off without Saddam but it's the motivation and execution that bother me.
Does none of this inconsistency bother you in any way?
Any website I've put together in the past two years has been standards compliant. Standards compliant pages generally view better in more browsers than non-compliant ones. Given, I've had to work around a few browser bugs (mostly to do with poor CSS support) but in the end my sites always look about the same in any browser and they're compliant with the standards. It's not like it's an either or choice.
So where's the problem with ideology?
I believe that "1/10th size" assertion referred to population - in which case he's right. Canada's population according to the 2000 Census was approximately 30,790.8 * 10^3. The population of the United States according to their Census Bureau was 281,421 * 10^3. That makes Canada's population approximately 10.9% of the U.S. population.
Just thought I'd reiterate what an AC has posted below...
Bell Canada is owned by BCE group, headquartered in Montreal, PQ. See their Fact Sheet.
I dunno, this e-mail I got from my service provider seems like it would be pretty effective...
<snip>EMERGENCY ADVISORY TO ALL COGECO INTERNET
CUSTOMERS - September 10, 2003
Cogeco is alerting all customers using the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) operating system to apply the latest patches for their computer to ensure they are not affected by a new vulnerability discovered and released today by Microsoft(R). In the interest of your system security, we are recommending that you update your computer operating system immediately.
Instructions:
Please visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com as soon as possible and apply 'Critical Updates and Service Packs' to your computer system.
* You will have to reboot your computer to enable the patch updates.
Overview of the problem:
</snip>
You get the idea and the rest of the e-mail keeps getting eaten by the junk filter.
eMusic was bought by Vivendi Universal so you'd just be feeding money to the RIAA anyway. I was a subscriber for a year but axed my account after Universal screwed over some of my favorite artists at MP3.com.
I'm not sure how this keeps escaping people but eMusic is owned by Vivendi Universal. That makes it officially NOT RIAA free!
Okay, your complaint might be a valid one if Slashdot were one entity with one opinion but it's not - Slashdot is a wide variety of differing viewpoints from individuals so trying to make this argument is a fallacy.
The (accredited) Software Engineering program at my school requires students to have access to at least one computer running some form of Unix. Typically this is Mandrake or RedHat on the student's home computer but there are also Solaris and Linux labs on campus for student use.
Typically the only Engineering students who use the MS labs for programming are students in the first year software design class.
Miranda Instant Messenger. No ads. No crap. All the protocols are plugins - ICQ, MSN (for now), AIM, Jabber, Yahoo and others.
The Supreme Court in Canada agrees with the previous poster. Whatever gets beamed into my house, I can legally decode. Bonus. I'm sure this is one reason our satellite provider is rolling the codes once an hour now.
No, the quarter is their revenue this year.
You're almost entirely right, I think - just one minor correction.
(emphasis mine)They could do it if they wanted. It's not that they're unable, it's that they're unwilling.
I do have to say that The Toronto Star normally doesn't achieve this level of utter crap. All in all it's not a bad paper but I read this article today (in the paper version) and it made me shake my head and wonder about the person that wrote it.