There's no technological reason that GMail can't import mail from Hotmail or Mail.com. It's being done (see Shadango for example - I use it for checking my Hotmail account and my two Mail.com accounts). Pretty sure I've seen a number of projects on SourceForge for roll-your-own webmail-to-POP3 gateways as well. My guess is that Google wants to make sure that the most important stuff (sending / receiving/etc) works flawlessly before they move on to the more interesting stuff.
At least one of those IP addresses is outside of the US. According to ARIN, 204.83.197.253 is registered to Quill Lake School Internet in Wadena, Saskatchewan, Canada.
I don't think that's in the jurisdiction of the courts that these lawsuits were filed in (Washington and New York).
"...like an athlete that practices for years to hone their reflexes... gamers teach themselves to solve problems with violence and to use weapons quickly and easily..."
This was not a reflex. The guy didn't just pull the gun out of his pants - he went back to his car, got the gun, and returned to the scene of the fight. That's not a reflex - that's making and executing a plan.
Didn't RTFA, 'cause I don't have an Apple ID - maybe someone who did RTFA can say if Apple answers this question:
Does Apple just refurb the "guts" of the iPod, or the whole thing? I've noticed that Apple offers engraving / personalization in their store - I would hope that they would only change the internal hardware, and leave the shell alone in the case of a personalized iPod.
iPod is on my list, but I don't think Santa's gonna be that generous this year...:-(
Taroon became available for free download from Red Hat's ftp site in late July. Red Hat officials said they plan to ship RHEL 3.0 in October. "Oddly enough, we had to delete a large, hidden directory of ghey child porn which belonged to Michael Sims" said the head of Red Hate, "but we've alered the appropriate authorities".
While I have not read the actual article, I sincerely doubt that the preceding quote was actually in the article.
Visibone has a good page dedicated to the more common forms of colorblindness, including a link to an excellent article that has downloadable color palettes (for Photoshop and Paintshop Pro, but I would assume that the Gimp would also be able to make use of those palletes) that you can apply to screenshots / mockups / etc. to simulate colorblindness. Not quite as seamless as having a "colorblindness" video mode, but still useful for determining a color palette to use.
Canadian postal codes follow the pattern letter-number-letter number-letter-number, so there is no worry about mistaking a number for a letter or vice versa.
As well, certain fields have a restricted set of valid vaules. For example, the first letter usually denotes the province or region (larger provinces such as Ontario and Quebec are divided into regions).
You mean the LightWedge that he couldn't find on ThinkGeek?
I don't normally bitch about Ask Slashdot... but for crying out loud, either this guy didn't actually look at Think Geek, or he must have missed the "Gadgets" section, where the LightWedge is a "Geek Pick".
Half-Life (the original) did it right - the demo included a completely new mini-adventure, without actually "spoiling" the full game. You got a good taste of what the engine could do, you got a taste of the weapons, enemies, and evironments... and when you played the full version, you didn't just blow through the first [N] levels saying "Been there, done that".
Check out Black Sun. I can't speak for their basic hosting plans (we're actually co-locating our gear there), but the guys there are good to work with and know what they're talking about. In terms of their gear, they host mostly on Cobalt Raq boxes, with MySQL, PHP, etc. And hey, they're Canadian, so you can benefit from the usually crappy exchange rate. <flamebait>Unless you're one of those drooling hyper-patriotic idiots who refuses to have anything to do with Canada because we didn't send troops to Iraq. In that case, go back to your plate of "Freedom Fries" and flip the TV back to Fox News. Sorry for offending you (hey, I'm Canadian, I have to apologize!).</flamebait> (Kidding - mostly):-)
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Not written anywhere. I'm just curious what state of mind leads someone to contemplate Superman's sex life...
"Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex"
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Having just read Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex (recently linked to by BBspot), I have just one question: How often do you contemplate the sex life of fictional comic-book characters?
Follow up question: if you were to write a similar article based on one of the recent or upcoming movie superheroes (Hulk, Daredevil, Spiderman, X-Men, etc.), who would it be?
No need to find someone to host a scan of the DRA "renewal notice" - domainscams.com beat you to the punch a long time ago. They have scanned samples of these notices from VeriSign, Domain Registry of America, Domain Registry of Canada, and (just recently added) Register.com.
Who cares what somebody on the other side of the globe uses as long as it does not interfere with you.
Well, there's this thing called travel, which usually involves the use of a motor vehicle, train, airplane, or ship of some sort, which often results in people ending up on the other side of the globe, and I'm sure many of them would like to be able to use their radio-based devices (think cell phones, wireless PDAs, and pagers for starters) wherever they are.
Hey, whaddya know, global standards do have some positive consequences.
The way I see it, the problem isn't so much that MS is bundling software with their operating system - it's that they're bundling their own software with the OS, and making it impossible for the hardware vendor to un-bundle and/or ship a third-party product. You can't buy a copy of Windows and install it sans Internet Explorer. Heck, unless you know where to look, you can't even buy a prebuilt computer without having to buy a Windows license (and you'll probably only get a "restore" CD instead of the actual operating system CD).
What is a Linux distribution? A bundle of third-party operating system, utilities, applications, etc. For the most part, the only programs in a Linux distro that are owned/created by the distributor are relatively minor utilities - rpm, apt-get, diskdrake, etc. And often you'll find more than one instance of a particular application. Take web browsers - some distros include lynx, mozilla, Netscape 4.x, w3get, etc. etc. etc. Or user interfaces - KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, plus more window managers than most people know what to do with. Unless AOL starts shipping a Linux distro (and hell promptly freezes over), you'll never be able to accuse a distro of unfair bundling.
If you want Windows, you have to buy Microsoft Windows. If you want Linux, you can get Red Hat, Debian, Suse, Mandrake, Slackware, and dozens upon dozens of other distributions in many different forms - downloaded off the net, purchased from a place like CheapBytes, or a boxed set directly from the distributor - and it's your choice which distribution you get, and (for most of them) what price you pay for it (if any).
So, as I see it, the precedent being set isn't that "bundling is bad". It's that "forced bundling, contractual blocking of competitive products, and lack of consumer choice of whether to buy Windows or not with a new PC" is bad. Linux distros offer choice, which means competition, which (usually) means that the consumer wins.
Outlook 98/2000 can share calendars, task lists, etc. without the use of an Exchange server - a feature called Net Folders. It sends special messages (as MIME attachments? not sure) from client to client through standard mail servers (SMTP/POP/IMAP).
We moved our office from using Exchange to a standard mail server about a year ago, losing very little functionality (replaced common address book with an LDAP server), and gaining the benefits of living life Exchange-free. ________________________
If you want non-happy endings, try Brunner's The Sheep Look Up. I don't want to give away the ending, but the last scene of the book is set in the U.K. (I think - I haven' read it for a couple years now), where two characters are commenting on the smell of smoke drifting over the Atlantic from America...
Of course, there are some people who would find that a happy ending... I'm not sure, but I might be one of those... ________________________
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There's no technological reason that GMail can't import mail from Hotmail or Mail.com. It's being done (see Shadango for example - I use it for checking my Hotmail account and my two Mail.com accounts). Pretty sure I've seen a number of projects on SourceForge for roll-your-own webmail-to-POP3 gateways as well. My guess is that Google wants to make sure that the most important stuff (sending / receiving /etc) works flawlessly before they move on to the more interesting stuff.
I don't think that's in the jurisdiction of the courts that these lawsuits were filed in (Washington and New York).
This was not a reflex. The guy didn't just pull the gun out of his pants - he went back to his car, got the gun, and returned to the scene of the fight. That's not a reflex - that's making and executing a plan.
heh... guess I'm not the only one asking this question...
Didn't RTFA, 'cause I don't have an Apple ID - maybe someone who did RTFA can say if Apple answers this question:
Does Apple just refurb the "guts" of the iPod, or the whole thing? I've noticed that Apple offers engraving / personalization in their store - I would hope that they would only change the internal hardware, and leave the shell alone in the case of a personalized iPod.
iPod is on my list, but I don't think Santa's gonna be that generous this year... :-(
While I have not read the actual article, I sincerely doubt that the preceding quote was actually in the article.
It's European!
Visibone has a good page dedicated to the more common forms of colorblindness, including a link to an excellent article that has downloadable color palettes (for Photoshop and Paintshop Pro, but I would assume that the Gimp would also be able to make use of those palletes) that you can apply to screenshots / mockups / etc. to simulate colorblindness. Not quite as seamless as having a "colorblindness" video mode, but still useful for determining a color palette to use.
Canadian postal codes follow the pattern letter-number-letter number-letter-number, so there is no worry about mistaking a number for a letter or vice versa.
As well, certain fields have a restricted set of valid vaules. For example, the first letter usually denotes the province or region (larger provinces such as Ontario and Quebec are divided into regions).
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I don't normally bitch about Ask Slashdot... but for crying out loud, either this guy didn't actually look at Think Geek, or he must have missed the "Gadgets" section, where the LightWedge is a "Geek Pick".
Half-Life (the original) did it right - the demo included a completely new mini-adventure, without actually "spoiling" the full game. You got a good taste of what the engine could do, you got a taste of the weapons, enemies, and evironments... and when you played the full version, you didn't just blow through the first [N] levels saying "Been there, done that".
Check out Black Sun. I can't speak for their basic hosting plans (we're actually co-locating our gear there), but the guys there are good to work with and know what they're talking about. In terms of their gear, they host mostly on Cobalt Raq boxes, with MySQL, PHP, etc. And hey, they're Canadian, so you can benefit from the usually crappy exchange rate. <flamebait>Unless you're one of those drooling hyper-patriotic idiots who refuses to have anything to do with Canada because we didn't send troops to Iraq. In that case, go back to your plate of "Freedom Fries" and flip the TV back to Fox News. Sorry for offending you (hey, I'm Canadian, I have to apologize!).</flamebait> (Kidding - mostly) :-)
Not written anywhere. I'm just curious what state of mind leads someone to contemplate Superman's sex life...
Follow up question: if you were to write a similar article based on one of the recent or upcoming movie superheroes (Hulk, Daredevil, Spiderman, X-Men, etc.), who would it be?
<ob_editor_bitching>How about a little fact checking, eh?</ob_editor_bitching>
No need to find someone to host a scan of the DRA "renewal notice" - domainscams.com beat you to the punch a long time ago. They have scanned samples of these notices from VeriSign, Domain Registry of America, Domain Registry of Canada, and (just recently added) Register.com.
Check the list again, my friend - you listed eight classes. Rather ironic, considering the topic here is advanced math...
...or have I (and a moderator or two) just been trolled? :=]
Well, there's this thing called travel, which usually involves the use of a motor vehicle, train, airplane, or ship of some sort, which often results in people ending up on the other side of the globe, and I'm sure many of them would like to be able to use their radio-based devices (think cell phones, wireless PDAs, and pagers for starters) wherever they are.
Hey, whaddya know, global standards do have some positive consequences.
Oh - my bad. I'm in SK, so whenever I hear "middle of nowhere", I think "oh, must be local". :-)
Seriously, though - how the heck did you manage to get DSL on a farm? That's usually out of range for that type of connection...
hey, that's exactly my situation too - including the "middle of nowhere". Lemme guess - Saskatchewan?
What is a Linux distribution? A bundle of third-party operating system, utilities, applications, etc. For the most part, the only programs in a Linux distro that are owned/created by the distributor are relatively minor utilities - rpm, apt-get, diskdrake, etc. And often you'll find more than one instance of a particular application. Take web browsers - some distros include lynx, mozilla, Netscape 4.x, w3get, etc. etc. etc. Or user interfaces - KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, plus more window managers than most people know what to do with. Unless AOL starts shipping a Linux distro (and hell promptly freezes over), you'll never be able to accuse a distro of unfair bundling.
If you want Windows, you have to buy Microsoft Windows. If you want Linux, you can get Red Hat, Debian, Suse, Mandrake, Slackware, and dozens upon dozens of other distributions in many different forms - downloaded off the net, purchased from a place like CheapBytes, or a boxed set directly from the distributor - and it's your choice which distribution you get, and (for most of them) what price you pay for it (if any).
So, as I see it, the precedent being set isn't that "bundling is bad". It's that "forced bundling, contractual blocking of competitive products, and lack of consumer choice of whether to buy Windows or not with a new PC" is bad. Linux distros offer choice, which means competition, which (usually) means that the consumer wins.
Steve Ballmer: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches..."
Agent Smith: "Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure..."
Spooky...
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Hmmm.... let's try a little something here:
Funny... it still sounds right. now let's try: Spooky - sounds like a Microsoft press release. Now, for the grande finale: OK, well maybe that was pushing it just a little...________________________
Outlook 98/2000 can share calendars, task lists, etc. without the use of an Exchange server - a feature called Net Folders. It sends special messages (as MIME attachments? not sure) from client to client through standard mail servers (SMTP/POP/IMAP).
We moved our office from using Exchange to a standard mail server about a year ago, losing very little functionality (replaced common address book with an LDAP server), and gaining the benefits of living life Exchange-free.
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If you want non-happy endings, try Brunner's The Sheep Look Up. I don't want to give away the ending, but the last scene of the book is set in the U.K. (I think - I haven' read it for a couple years now), where two characters are commenting on the smell of smoke drifting over the Atlantic from America...
Of course, there are some people who would find that a happy ending... I'm not sure, but I might be one of those...
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