How Thunderbird has gotten this far without integrated calendaring (not just via plugin) I have no idea.
Maybe someone can explain but I just don't get this idea. Why is the current setup so bad? It seems to me that Mozilla's got the best of everything.
Want your calendar integrated with your mail client? Awesome, download the plugin. Want the same great calendar but don't use Thunderbird? Great, download it here now. Didn't want a calendar cause you already like yours? That's cool too, our email client doesn't force you to waste resources by loading a calendar you won't use.
I personally use the third option and do all my calendaring from my phone, but I can see that many people do a lot of scheduling via email and the first option works well, or that people just like the calendar but for whatever reason don't like/can't use Thunderbird so option two is better.
That would be eight or maybe nine. And my parents and I had a similar agreement at that age. However, I don't think it's safe anymore to allow your eight year old to wander a large shopping mall alone.
You've got to be kidding me! Right? I'm going out on a limb here and I'm going to use US stats, but crime rates have been dropping for almost 30 years! So assuming you aren't having kids really late in life chances are it's a lot safer for your kids today than when your parents were letting you run around by yourself. Even the Department of ["the sky is falling, we need your rights to stop the nasty people"] Justice says things are safer: Key Crime & Justice Facts at a Glance Additional Crime Facts at a Glance
I'll admit that depending on your specific location this may vary but it holds true for most people.
if you don't live on the moon's dark side, you have to pay taxes after all that, don't you
Sure you do. Unless you are a big corporation. Then you probably have enough accountants running around to get the government to pay you. Or even better if you are a really big corporation and form a group to support you and your really big buddies then you can probably get them to pass laws so that you get to keep making money indefinitely with no additional work.
Because there is no system setup to eliminate the need for keeping your phone number. DNS was created specifically so that people would not have to remember IP addresses. Therefore eliminates the need to keep the same address. Just point the name to a new address.
Now before you go saying that your number could be listed in a phone book there are differences there as well. Yes, when I'm listed in the phonebook it advertises to the world what my phone number is just like DNS. Unlike my server that will process different requests in different ways disallowing some and allowing others I have no way to filter different types of phone calls. Also while my server is able to handle tons of connection requests without breaking a sweat I have to take time out of my day to answer each and every call.
But we all love BIG corporations . . . right?
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We do a lot of land line number porting at work to get local sales numbers and its my job to make sure that they all work. Let me tell you not all carriers have the same diligence with updating their call routing. And since most of the phone routing is done on the call's originating side there are lots of places where number ports can go wrong.
After you get your number ported to a new carrier test it from every carrier you can get your hands on. If you don't mind the one time costs do some 10-10 dial arounds to test some LD carriers. If you have any small telcos in your area be sure to test from them. Typically the smaller the telco the worse the porting results. (but many times they are the easiest convince to make a fix) And be sure to test the number by originating a call from your old provider. Providers are notorious for not pulling the routing for the ported number and then don't forward the call.
If you do end up getting a problem with reaching your number after the port bitch up a storm to your new carrier. They do have the power and the ability to get in touch with the companies that are screwing things up and they can get these things fixed. Don't let them tell you otherwise. It will probably take 2 days to a week to get the problem fixed but make no mistake they can get it fixed for you.
After saying all this I want to say that number portability for the most part is great. After all the initial hurdles are out of the way we almost never have a problem with the number ever again.
If this is the case then sprint is a really giving company. I've let my contract run out before on other carriers and after some grace period (in which they call repeatedly to get you to renew your contract) they start charging at a per minute rate. Usually $0.40/minute or better.
Can't say I disagree too much, as most HR people never seem to know half the titles they are working to find people for and you can be damned sure I don't know about different types of HR people. But honestly shouldn't it be that the HR person _should_ have a really good idea of what a position entails? Especially if they are supposed to be the first person to weed applicants from the mountain of resumes. I can't say that it's nearly as important that the local IT guy know about the different types of HR possitions as it won't affect how well I can get two routers connected, but as an HR person knowing the exact differences between a Systems and a Database Administrator should be of paramount importance, especially when hiring for a possition.
I don't necessarily agree that it is destined to be a niche product, but I do believe that it has a lot to do with how the product progresses. If they have the capital to do an MS siege on the product area then they could definitely make it. If you recall almost all MS products start out as crap but they have enough power behind them to produce version after version until they have a quality product. (Ooo, yes I do think they have some quality products, not perfect but quality)
gobe has some great features that could give them enough of a following to keep them alive long enough to bring compatibility up to the MS level. The license alone should give them some added time into their product lifetime. Especially the 1 office place installation. But if they don't keep progressing, yes they will die a very long and painful death.
Unfortunately Mozilla doesn't have the highlight feature for each of the search terms that was entered. Nor does it have the quick search buttons that allow you to search for each one of your search terms on the pages that were returned. These two features alone have saved me loads of time and are what keep me using IE. In fact those two features even trump the lack of ability to use Mozilla as my mailer from inside IE.
Oh and the Up button is kinda useful too. Especialy with Windows "smart" highlighting.
Granted you are correct and home systems can rival the arcade for game content and selection, but the one place that home systems fall way short is on interaction with other human beings. Going to the arcade gives you a chance to compete against other people who love the game just as much as you do. There is probably someone at the arcade that is better than you at any game at any given time. You can't get that level of competition at home.
Not only are pretty much limited to the people that you know when playing at home, and let me tell you playing the same fighting game time and again against the same person with no penalty when you loose get real boring real quick, but the arcade offers a little extra excitement because you know when you loose your money is gone. At home you paid for it, you own it, and the only thing that you loose playing is time.
Now with all this in mind I must say that I think that the idea of playing a networked game in an arcade seems like a brain dead idea. Obviously someone said to them selves, "Well it works with home games, let's take it back to the arcade!" What they are failing to realize is that eliminates more than half of the reason to even go spend money at the arcade - THE PEOPLE!
Now I really don't care who wins this Presidental election thing. There are too many different issues to standfor and all the candidates have something good and a lot of things bad.
So as far as I'm concerned registering to vote doesn't mean that I get to have my views represented on election day. It just means that someday I have to decide if someone is guilty or not, while taking off work, getting paid $5 a day!
So Vote Local or don't Register. It's gonna cost you in the end.
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How Thunderbird has gotten this far without integrated calendaring (not just via plugin) I have no idea.
Maybe someone can explain but I just don't get this idea. Why is the current setup so bad? It seems to me that Mozilla's got the best of everything.
Want your calendar integrated with your mail client? Awesome, download the plugin.
Want the same great calendar but don't use Thunderbird? Great, download it here now.
Didn't want a calendar cause you already like yours? That's cool too, our email client doesn't force you to waste resources by loading a calendar you won't use.
I personally use the third option and do all my calendaring from my phone, but I can see that many people do a lot of scheduling via email and the first option works well, or that people just like the calendar but for whatever reason don't like/can't use Thunderbird so option two is better.
Making it mandatory just seems like bloat.
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There's something awesome about the roadmap for the ODF Add-in for Microsoft Word being distributed as a Microsoft Word Document. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/odf-converter/Roa dmap.doc
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I'll admit that depending on your specific location this may vary but it holds true for most people.
if you don't live on the moon's dark side, you have to pay taxes after all that, don't you
Sure you do. Unless you are a big corporation. Then you probably have enough accountants running around to get the government to pay you. Or even better if you are a really big corporation and form a group to support you and your really big buddies then you can probably get them to pass laws so that you get to keep making money indefinitely with no additional work.
Or am I just being cynical today?
Yeah it's retarded
Or maybe we should stop pissing off the world by telling them they should be more like us.
Because there is no system setup to eliminate the need for keeping your phone number. DNS was created specifically so that people would not have to remember IP addresses. Therefore eliminates the need to keep the same address. Just point the name to a new address.
Now before you go saying that your number could be listed in a phone book there are differences there as well. Yes, when I'm listed in the phonebook it advertises to the world what my phone number is just like DNS. Unlike my server that will process different requests in different ways disallowing some and allowing others I have no way to filter different types of phone calls. Also while my server is able to handle tons of connection requests without breaking a sweat I have to take time out of my day to answer each and every call.
"When deep space exploration ramps up, it will be corporations that name everything. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Starbucks."
We do a lot of land line number porting at work to get local sales numbers and its my job to make sure that they all work. Let me tell you not all carriers have the same diligence with updating their call routing. And since most of the phone routing is done on the call's originating side there are lots of places where number ports can go wrong.
After you get your number ported to a new carrier test it from every carrier you can get your hands on. If you don't mind the one time costs do some 10-10 dial arounds to test some LD carriers. If you have any small telcos in your area be sure to test from them. Typically the smaller the telco the worse the porting results. (but many times they are the easiest convince to make a fix) And be sure to test the number by originating a call from your old provider. Providers are notorious for not pulling the routing for the ported number and then don't forward the call.
If you do end up getting a problem with reaching your number after the port bitch up a storm to your new carrier. They do have the power and the ability to get in touch with the companies that are screwing things up and they can get these things fixed. Don't let them tell you otherwise. It will probably take 2 days to a week to get the problem fixed but make no mistake they can get it fixed for you.
After saying all this I want to say that number portability for the most part is great. After all the initial hurdles are out of the way we almost never have a problem with the number ever again.
If this is the case then sprint is a really giving company. I've let my contract run out before on other carriers and after some grace period (in which they call repeatedly to get you to renew your contract) they start charging at a per minute rate. Usually $0.40/minute or better.
Actually here in the US the collection of taxes can acutally go beyond any corporation and go after the owners of the corporation for any owed taxes.
Can't say I disagree too much, as most HR people never seem to know half the titles they are working to find people for and you can be damned sure I don't know about different types of HR people. But honestly shouldn't it be that the HR person _should_ have a really good idea of what a position entails? Especially if they are supposed to be the first person to weed applicants from the mountain of resumes. I can't say that it's nearly as important that the local IT guy know about the different types of HR possitions as it won't affect how well I can get two routers connected, but as an HR person knowing the exact differences between a Systems and a Database Administrator should be of paramount importance, especially when hiring for a possition.
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I don't necessarily agree that it is destined to be a niche product, but I do believe that it has a lot to do with how the product progresses. If they have the capital to do an MS siege on the product area then they could definitely make it. If you recall almost all MS products start out as crap but they have enough power behind them to produce version after version until they have a quality product. (Ooo, yes I do think they have some quality products, not perfect but quality)
gobe has some great features that could give them enough of a following to keep them alive long enough to bring compatibility up to the MS level. The license alone should give them some added time into their product lifetime. Especially the 1 office place installation. But if they don't keep progressing, yes they will die a very long and painful death.
Unfortunately Mozilla doesn't have the highlight feature for each of the search terms that was entered. Nor does it have the quick search buttons that allow you to search for each one of your search terms on the pages that were returned. These two features alone have saved me loads of time and are what keep me using IE. In fact those two features even trump the lack of ability to use Mozilla as my mailer from inside IE.
Oh and the Up button is kinda useful too. Especialy with Windows "smart" highlighting.
Try "How to verb"
By surrounding it with quotes it looks for the entire phrase
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Not in the slightest!
Granted you are correct and home systems can rival the arcade for game content and selection, but the one place that home systems fall way short is on interaction with other human beings. Going to the arcade gives you a chance to compete against other people who love the game just as much as you do. There is probably someone at the arcade that is better than you at any game at any given time. You can't get that level of competition at home.
Not only are pretty much limited to the people that you know when playing at home, and let me tell you playing the same fighting game time and again against the same person with no penalty when you loose get real boring real quick, but the arcade offers a little extra excitement because you know when you loose your money is gone. At home you paid for it, you own it, and the only thing that you loose playing is time.
Now with all this in mind I must say that I think that the idea of playing a networked game in an arcade seems like a brain dead idea. Obviously someone said to them selves, "Well it works with home games, let's take it back to the arcade!" What they are failing to realize is that eliminates more than half of the reason to even go spend money at the arcade - THE PEOPLE!
Yea Yea 640GB but check out that perty design on the case. Now if that's not enought to make you want to buy it I don't know what will be.
Talk about being in touch with your feminine side.
Now I really don't care who wins this Presidental election thing. There are too many different issues to standfor and all the candidates have something good and a lot of things bad.
So as far as I'm concerned registering to vote doesn't mean that I get to have my views represented on election day. It just means that someday I have to decide if someone is guilty or not, while taking off work, getting paid $5 a day!
So Vote Local or don't Register. It's gonna cost you in the end.
If the damned thing can increase my battery life by a lot while running programs at even P2 or even meer Pentium speeds then it's doing its job.
It lets you go farther with your laptop!