There's plenty of reasons why a preview pane is a 'bad idea'. Ever remember a certain OS, with a certain bundled graphics library that would allow someone to infect your computer with a carefully crafted embedded image file? Now display that image immediately before the user can delete the email, oh shi...
How long will it take for hackers to find out other ways into your system via instantly displayed non-text elements?
Thank you very much, but I'll keep auto-preview turned off.
Gmail does it right imho.. it displays a snippet of the first sentence, more than enough for me to tell if it's worth opening when the subject/sender is questionable.
In fact, calibrating a radar gun with a tuning fork is a good demonstration of its susceptibility to AM noise.
Eh, thats sounds nice and all but you don't CALIBRATE a police radar gun with a tuning fork. The tuning fork is there to only verify that the radar is displaying the speed matching the speed stamped on the fork. If the wrong speed is displayed when holding a ringing tuning fork to a radar antenna, it's taken out of service. The officer can't adjust or calibrate it.
When starting and ending a shift, the officer verifies the displayed speed with the fork and makes note of it. Your allowed to call that evidence and it will be granted providing the judge doesn't feel your just wasting his time. The operator is not a radar technician, he has no control over what the radar displays period.
No court hear such arguments as yours because there are so many BS excuses the judge has heard them already. It's ancient proven technology. That's as lame as trying to tell the judge that because the cop got your speed while aiming his radar down from an overpass that it's inaccurate. Well, due to cosine error, your correct.. but also means you were going faster than you were ticked for, the judge also knows that as well.
I used to spend significant amounts of time in Second Life.. if fact I met my life mate on SL, even though he lived on the other side of the country, we now live together in RL.
SL has alot of benefits in terms of social interaction, especially for those that are clumbsy in dealing with people or shy IRL. Sadly Linden Labs did a number of things to their virtual world, like catering to non-paying freeloaders instead of their paying customer base, and encouraging their world to turn into one big commercial advertisement by pandering to big business.
Those that are addicted to SL are simply biding their time for something better to come along. I left SL and alot of dear friends because I value morality, which Linden Labs has as much of as a rotten tomato.
Brick and Morter is a real concern.. at least, it is for me. I bought some CD's from Best Buy a while ago. I lost them when I loved, So what did I do? I tried to get a free replacement CD since I'd paid for it before, right? Apparently not - once you've taken the CD, you don't get to take it again. What a waste of money. *rolls eyes*
Yes, because iTunes should keep a backup for you in perpetuity because your an idiot.
Re:Next week we'll compare the PS one to the Xbox
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Come on, really -- what's the difference? What does the 360 provide that the XBox doesn't already give us? I'd like to know.
I empathize with your comments.. in fact the game I'm playing right now is Half-Life 2.
There's still _alot_ of life left in the current batch of consoles and from my perspective, it seems the biggest reason for both introducing the xbox 360 and the ps3 is to push hi-def, and of course the need to generate profits from the next big console buying frenzy.
At least with the Revolution, Nintendo is trying to do something new and innovative (only the future will tell if they have a winner on their hands).
The difference in value (terms of speed and graphic capabilities) from the PS1 to the PS2 was huge, and much less so to the PS3/360.
This all sounds very similar to the hi-def dvd format war that's looming for the summer. I don't _need_ another format, I don't _want_ to buy the movies all over again that I already own on DVD. It's the electronics manufacturers and movie studios making a push for a new format so they can sell us new hardware and better (read: unbroken) DRM. But yet again, sometimes progress needs to be 'pushed' along.
Next week we'll compare the PS one to the Xbox 360
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So they determined that even though the original xbox launch had more selection and better games, the xbox 360 wins because it's technically superior? WTF? Why bother even comparing the two then? I should certainly hope that it's technically superior to the original after 5 years.
If that's their criteria for determining the winner, then all it sounds like is a paid advertisement.
I currently have a xbox, ps2 and gamecube.. but there's no way I'm going to buy either of the new offerings until they are all out and can make an informed decision myself, not from someone _telling me_ what I _should_ buy.
Granted it's free and all (well, for 6 months anyways), still Norton Anti-Virus is practically the WORST anti-virus software on the market (corporately I had to replace it with AVG because Norton missed WAY too many viruses that even the free version of AVG found on 'NAV protected' computers). Detection of spyware, ditto goes for Ad-Aware. Both were fine products in their day, but both have been religated to collecting dust on a shelf as they fail miserably to meet current computing needs.
Back in the day, we called these sort of packages 'shovelware'.. shovel as much useless crap to make it seem more valuable. The only difference with this is the price tag is non-existant.
The thing is, the only people I know that want HD content are those that bought HDTV's. Everyone else is going "uh, yeah, whatever..". It sounds more plausable that all the yea sayers are those same people that bought an expensive toy and are disappointed with the slimpickins of HD content.
The only way I'll buy an HD television is when three criteria are met:
- The majority of broadcasts are in HD - The price is the same as SDTV's - My perfectly working, picture quality looks good as new, 32" Trinitron dies and becomes economically unfeasable to repair.
Until then, those of us that don't see the preceived value will stick with what we've already got.
If your pro-union, you'll probably mod me down, but the reality is unions have no place in modern society. Sure, they were useful 30-40 years ago, but now it only serves to protect senior staff (those to old to find another job) and the lazy (those who want to maximize their income for minimal labour).
If you don't want to work that badly because you feel your being mistreated, then find another gawd damn job! I don't know where YOU live, but the unemployment rates in Canada have been the lowest I can ever recall seeing, and lots of opportunity for employment.
I respect what the Gainers meat packing plant did for it's workforce that regularly went on strike.. they said, so you don't want to work, fine, we'll just close the doors perminently and you'll all be out of work.
Like come on, why should a grocery bagger that's been working at a union store for 10 years make $25/hr just because he unionized. And they can't figure out why prices are so damn high. The only time I'll shop at one of those unionized stores is when they're on strike, just so I can snub the picketers on the way in and out of the store.
Yes, I hate unions.. an antiquated tool from days gone by.
Nice illusion of security....wonder how many people will fall for it.
- How many corporations continue to run MS IIS to drive their corporate websites?
- How many people continue to run IE?
- How many people continue to run Windows and download the latest spyware infected software because it's trendy, even after they've had their computers infected countless times?
Your right, security is an illusion, and some people prefer to turn a blind eye rather than look at the root cause.
This is one of the reasons why I stopped bothing with gaming on the PC. You buy a game and then have to play patch of the week just to get the damn thing to work. (Ultima Online anyone?)
Console games are on a fixed media (CD, Cart, whatever) and the manufacture can't release craptastic code without performing whack of play testing. A PC game manufacturer just shrugs it off an pushes out to get the door before the next quarters fiscal report knowing full well that they can just 'patch' it later.
Isn't the point of April Fool's is to try and FOOL someone? This 'story' is so lame it's not even remotely possible (forget the Bill Gates & Hawaii thing thrown in).
The UN doesn't have the power to shut down the Internet in the first place, making the entire story unbelievable. Nice attempt. NOT!
Give me a break, this has nothing to do with privacy but everything to do with accountability. You need to be held accountable for what ends up on your website, or what comes from you mail server. If privacy is what your looking for, get yourself a geocities account, but don't expect to hide behind a public TLD.
I think my grocery store does this too with their 'membership discount card'.
Ever since I quickly went into the store to buy a box of Milkbones(tm) and a box of condoms, I keep getting spammed with ads for farmboys.com and puppybangin.com!
Fairly big? How about the same size, but about twice the thickness of the original iPod? The satellite antenna, not aerial, is about 2.5" long, 2" wide and about.75" thick, and that's including the magnetic base.
The new generation receivers (like the Audiovox PNP3) are getting smaller and smaller (PNP3 is about 70% of the cubic size as the PNP2) with each new version.
Funny, I experience the exact opposite.. I live about 400 miles north of the US border, and I get solid full signal strenth ALL THE TIME (without the benefit of terrestrial repeaters). Sounds to me like improper installation of the antennas on those rental cars.
Oh, and Howard Stern starts in January of 2006, not "for a few years yet".
This was reported back on September 8th that he lost.. granted it was a rumour back then, but it was reported by multiple sources, including this site.
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There's plenty of reasons why a preview pane is a 'bad idea'. Ever remember a certain OS, with a certain bundled graphics library that would allow someone to infect your computer with a carefully crafted embedded image file? Now display that image immediately before the user can delete the email, oh shi...
How long will it take for hackers to find out other ways into your system via instantly displayed non-text elements?
Thank you very much, but I'll keep auto-preview turned off.
Gmail does it right imho.. it displays a snippet of the first sentence, more than enough for me to tell if it's worth opening when the subject/sender is questionable.
In fact, calibrating a radar gun with a tuning fork is a good demonstration of its susceptibility to AM noise.
Eh, thats sounds nice and all but you don't CALIBRATE a police radar gun with a tuning fork. The tuning fork is there to only verify that the radar is displaying the speed matching the speed stamped on the fork. If the wrong speed is displayed when holding a ringing tuning fork to a radar antenna, it's taken out of service. The officer can't adjust or calibrate it.
When starting and ending a shift, the officer verifies the displayed speed with the fork and makes note of it. Your allowed to call that evidence and it will be granted providing the judge doesn't feel your just wasting his time. The operator is not a radar technician, he has no control over what the radar displays period.
No court hear such arguments as yours because there are so many BS excuses the judge has heard them already. It's ancient proven technology. That's as lame as trying to tell the judge that because the cop got your speed while aiming his radar down from an overpass that it's inaccurate. Well, due to cosine error, your correct.. but also means you were going faster than you were ticked for, the judge also knows that as well.
I used to spend significant amounts of time in Second Life.. if fact I met my life mate on SL, even though he lived on the other side of the country, we now live together in RL.
SL has alot of benefits in terms of social interaction, especially for those that are clumbsy in dealing with people or shy IRL. Sadly Linden Labs did a number of things to their virtual world, like catering to non-paying freeloaders instead of their paying customer base, and encouraging their world to turn into one big commercial advertisement by pandering to big business.
Those that are addicted to SL are simply biding their time for something better to come along. I left SL and alot of dear friends because I value morality, which Linden Labs has as much of as a rotten tomato.
You mean they have no choice but to use Steam? Seriously, this is laughable.. and hardly "News".
Brick and Morter is a real concern.. at least, it is for me. I bought some CD's from Best Buy a while ago. I lost them when I loved, So what did I do? I tried to get a free replacement CD since I'd paid for it before, right? Apparently not - once you've taken the CD, you don't get to take it again. What a waste of money. *rolls eyes*
Yes, because iTunes should keep a backup for you in perpetuity because your an idiot.
Come on, really -- what's the difference? What does the 360 provide that the XBox doesn't already give us? I'd like to know.
I empathize with your comments.. in fact the game I'm playing right now is Half-Life 2.
There's still _alot_ of life left in the current batch of consoles and from my perspective, it seems the biggest reason for both introducing the xbox 360 and the ps3 is to push hi-def, and of course the need to generate profits from the next big console buying frenzy.
At least with the Revolution, Nintendo is trying to do something new and innovative (only the future will tell if they have a winner on their hands).
The difference in value (terms of speed and graphic capabilities) from the PS1 to the PS2 was huge, and much less so to the PS3/360.
This all sounds very similar to the hi-def dvd format war that's looming for the summer. I don't _need_ another format, I don't _want_ to buy the movies all over again that I already own on DVD. It's the electronics manufacturers and movie studios making a push for a new format so they can sell us new hardware and better (read: unbroken) DRM. But yet again, sometimes progress needs to be 'pushed' along.
So they determined that even though the original xbox launch had more selection and better games, the xbox 360 wins because it's technically superior? WTF? Why bother even comparing the two then? I should certainly hope that it's technically superior to the original after 5 years.
If that's their criteria for determining the winner, then all it sounds like is a paid advertisement.
I currently have a xbox, ps2 and gamecube.. but there's no way I'm going to buy either of the new offerings until they are all out and can make an informed decision myself, not from someone _telling me_ what I _should_ buy.
Oops - sorry, I was replying to the post about Google Pack another poster made.
Granted it's free and all (well, for 6 months anyways), still Norton Anti-Virus is practically the WORST anti-virus software on the market (corporately I had to replace it with AVG because Norton missed WAY too many viruses that even the free version of AVG found on 'NAV protected' computers). Detection of spyware, ditto goes for Ad-Aware. Both were fine products in their day, but both have been religated to collecting dust on a shelf as they fail miserably to meet current computing needs.
Back in the day, we called these sort of packages 'shovelware'.. shovel as much useless crap to make it seem more valuable. The only difference with this is the price tag is non-existant.
Hmm .. x != Not y ..
By any chance work, do you work for Microsoft?
The thing is, the only people I know that want HD content are those that bought HDTV's. Everyone else is going "uh, yeah, whatever..". It sounds more plausable that all the yea sayers are those same people that bought an expensive toy and are disappointed with the slimpickins of HD content.
The only way I'll buy an HD television is when three criteria are met:
- The majority of broadcasts are in HD
- The price is the same as SDTV's
- My perfectly working, picture quality looks good as new, 32" Trinitron dies and becomes economically unfeasable to repair.
Until then, those of us that don't see the preceived value will stick with what we've already got.
If your pro-union, you'll probably mod me down, but the reality is unions have no place in modern society. Sure, they were useful 30-40 years ago, but now it only serves to protect senior staff (those to old to find another job) and the lazy (those who want to maximize their income for minimal labour).
If you don't want to work that badly because you feel your being mistreated, then find another gawd damn job! I don't know where YOU live, but the unemployment rates in Canada have been the lowest I can ever recall seeing, and lots of opportunity for employment.
I respect what the Gainers meat packing plant did for it's workforce that regularly went on strike.. they said, so you don't want to work, fine, we'll just close the doors perminently and you'll all be out of work.
Like come on, why should a grocery bagger that's been working at a union store for 10 years make $25/hr just because he unionized. And they can't figure out why prices are so damn high. The only time I'll shop at one of those unionized stores is when they're on strike, just so I can snub the picketers on the way in and out of the store.
Yes, I hate unions.. an antiquated tool from days gone by.
- How many corporations continue to run MS IIS to drive their corporate websites?
- How many people continue to run IE?
- How many people continue to run Windows and download the latest spyware infected software because it's trendy, even after they've had their computers infected countless times?
Your right, security is an illusion, and some people prefer to turn a blind eye rather than look at the root cause.
You got your peanutbutter on my chocolate.
Woah, for a minute there I thought that was pornographic!
This is one of the reasons why I stopped bothing with gaming on the PC. You buy a game and then have to play patch of the week just to get the damn thing to work. (Ultima Online anyone?)
Console games are on a fixed media (CD, Cart, whatever) and the manufacture can't release craptastic code without performing whack of play testing. A PC game manufacturer just shrugs it off an pushes out to get the door before the next quarters fiscal report knowing full well that they can just 'patch' it later.
Hey, at least if you were yaking up your 6 tequila nightcap, you could use the bidet nozzle to gargle the nasties outta your mouth.
"Stink Different"
Isn't the point of April Fool's is to try and FOOL someone? This 'story' is so lame it's not even remotely possible (forget the Bill Gates & Hawaii thing thrown in).
The UN doesn't have the power to shut down the Internet in the first place, making the entire story unbelievable. Nice attempt. NOT!
~ - TLD
Give me a break, this has nothing to do with privacy but everything to do with accountability. You need to be held accountable for what ends up on your website, or what comes from you mail server. If privacy is what your looking for, get yourself a geocities account, but don't expect to hide behind a public TLD.
I think my grocery store does this too with their 'membership discount card'.
Ever since I quickly went into the store to buy a box of Milkbones(tm) and a box of condoms, I keep getting spammed with ads for farmboys.com and puppybangin.com!
I can see it now..
:)
All the producers have to do is tragically kill off the entire crew.
Let see you revive the series then! HA!
Fairly big? How about the same size, but about twice the thickness of the original iPod? The satellite antenna, not aerial, is about 2.5" long, 2" wide and about .75" thick, and that's including the magnetic base.
The new generation receivers (like the Audiovox PNP3) are getting smaller and smaller (PNP3 is about 70% of the cubic size as the PNP2) with each new version.
Funny, I experience the exact opposite.. I live about 400 miles north of the US border, and I get solid full signal strenth ALL THE TIME (without the benefit of terrestrial repeaters). Sounds to me like improper installation of the antennas on those rental cars.
Oh, and Howard Stern starts in January of 2006, not "for a few years yet".
My ride outta here, man. It's comin'.
This ain't your daddy's magic comet ride!
This was reported back on September 8th that he lost.. granted it was a rumour back then, but it was reported by multiple sources, including this site.