That's no less lame than this lawsuit is. Just because there is much nanny-state-ism deeply entrenched in the country, we shouldn't support more of the same.
At first becoming intoxicated is your own fault and you should know when to stop but there are other factors (such as alcoholism, mental deficiencies, etc) where a bartender could be influencing the behavior of someone going too far over the limit.
I am not standing up for the behavior of our society when it comes to this, I'm just saying that there is a possibility that those feeding the alcohol to an individual might have something to do w/the outcome after their leave the establishment.
Now, as far as MySpace is concerned -- no one is getting physically intoxicated by the site and they should not be held responsible for the outcome of any relationship built because of the site's existence.
Seamonkey is a Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.
I'm not quite sure why I need a browser, e-mail/news reader, IRC client, and HTML editor together in one package. To me (other than the e-mail and news readers) these are very separate functions that have no business being packaged together. Then again I'm very particular about my IRC client and e-mail and I would much prefer to use a regular text editor for HTML and e-mail. YMMV.
As far as spell check goes -- amen! I *love* in-browser spell checking and can't stand life without it on my mobile device. Not that I'm a bad speller, I'm just a poor typer while driving.
Dubya may be making a lot of mistakes, but he's not Adolph Hilter.
You're absolutely correct. He's George W. Bush. Responsible for the deaths of ~3,000 US Soldiers in Iraq, domestic "spying", ~750 signing statements which in effect alter the original intent of the law, etc, etc, etc.
I really hope GWB's presidency goes down in history as nothing more than an annoying footnote.
It's not the stability or the design,it's just that people now adays say "what's your myspace" rather than "what's your phone number" There's tons of other sites out there with more functionality and more stable servers, but...no one uses those, do they?
Who are you talking about? Teenagers and college students? You must be, because as an adult, I don't know anyone that says anything of the sort and if they did I would ignore them from that point on. Please note, I'm only slightly outside of the age range where that site is most popular.
They are talking about XM radios that allow you to record the content. Are they going to demand that all audio recording devices use DRM to disable people from recording and redistributing this content? This is nothing more than a direct protection of the RIAA cronies by the government to try and hassle Sat radio.
Fuck, we should really mandate all line-in, cassette recorders, and DAT recorders have this technology retroactively installed. We wouldn't want this precious content being recorded by those means!
Report for retroactive DRM installation immediately!
Sure, I support the ability to use DRM. That should be the artist's choice.
Exactly. Microsoft should not be putting this shit into their OS. It's the *artist's* responsibility to protect his work. It's not up to the OS to do it for him. If they artist chooses a method that doesn't work well with whatever is out there, that's his fault for trying to eliminate fair use.
Let the free market decide how to deal with copyright. It's already been shown that we don't want it.
If Apple is really smart, they've already locked Cingular to a reasonable cell plan. They might be able to capture the high-end market with the iPhone, but without cheaper plans, they will never get the majority of people.
If Apple had been smart, they would have went to T-mobile (or Cingular) and worked with them to get a rate plan similar to the T-mobile branded Sidekick. $20.00/month for unlimited data and SMS with a phone plan or $29.99 without. You can't use the device as a modem though...
I refuse to pay the astronomical data plan rates that other providers offer. I especially won't go to Cingular after how I was treated during their switch from AT&T.
if you have a family and they are first in your life above anything else(including work), want to save and not throw money away on outrageous housing costs and want privacy without having to drive one hour one way to work then google is not the place for you even if you could get a job there.
My wife's cousin and her husband from California came to our wedding in September of 2005. In November of 2005 they moved here to get away from California's housing market, traffic, and to give themselves a better chance of having some savings for the rest of their life.
It was a major culture shock for them to move away from the West Coast to the Midwest. They spent the entire first year complaining and working on how to move back. They made it the year and went back to visit at Christmas of 2006 for three weeks. My wife and I were convinced that they would return with a U-Haul.
What surprised us was that they were reminded of why they left CA and moved here. They hated the fact that it took three hours to drive between their parents' houses (a distance of only 75 miles), the fact that houses that go for $210k here are going for $1 million+ there, and the fact that it's just so much faster.
So while there are other options out there, the time it takes to move away from your home where you are comfy does take a while. If you give a shot make sure you allow the time to adjust to your new surroundings. You might actually end up happier in the long run.
Well, the iPhone is an impressive looking device. I only have a few serious concerns with it:
1. Cingular is the only US provider? I'm not a Cingular subscriber nor will I become one. That's disappointing, seriously.
2. So far, the device is priced quite high for a two year contract signing. Those prices should be what the device costs without a contract.
3. I love the idea of the touch screen with the proximity sensors to turn it on and off (the biggest complaint I have with touchscreen phones is your ear touching buttons while you're talking) but I don't know how well I will be able to type on it. I use my mobile device constantly for e-mail, IM, taking notes, and browsing. Tactile is something I have grown used to (touch typing). How will I handle no buttons?
I love the idea of location aware applications, I just wonder how/where that data is stored. Is it just used locally or will Google and Apple, Inc. now know everything about where I go as well?
Overall a great idea with a bad choice of mobile providers.
Now, maybe you are enough of a redneck that you never travel outside the US, but other people do, and to them this matters.
And *I* was modded "Troll"?:roll:
I don't travel outside of the US because I don't care for the way I am treated there. I was detained crossing the border into Canada (for an hour) while the border guards milled around chatting as if they were all on break at the same time. While waiting, we watched as *three* individuals were allowed through that had prior convictions that they lied to other border agents about and didn't have their car searched. We all had our proper documents, our background checks were spotless, and yet we were further detained while they searched our vehicle and questioned us about our laptops, maps, and GPS units.
On our return trip we crossed into the US without issue. Hmm.
This device still resembles a computer too much to be adopted and placed in the living room of the common household. Some day though...
I don't know what TiVo you're talking about but both my standalone TiVo and my DirecTiVo look pretty much like my DVD players.
The reason that TiVo has a low adoption rate is the fact that it costs $14/month to use it (standalone) and most people can't see the point of paying $14 to disrupt their lives being disrupted by TV show programming times. It has nothing to do w/how it looks.
Welcome to the home of the suspected criminals, land of the bold (if they dare to speak up).
While I am 100% against fingerprinting CITIZENS of this country, I couldn't give a shit less if someone from outside of the US is fingerprinted. It's their choice to travel to the US and cross our borders. I would certainly avoid leaving the US to travel to another country that wanted to fingerprint me on arrival.
Would a 'global warming controversy' exist without the millions of dollars spent by fossil fuel companies to discredit scientific conclusions?
Yes. I'm one of them and for good reason. Ice cores and incomplete and inaccurate data only going back ~125 years, of which only 50% is probably usable, can only tell us so much. There is so much to learn about how the weather patterns on the Earth operate.
Should the other end be fixed? Why should it be possible to steal someone's identity with the simple personal details people make available online?
You have the wrong "other end" identified. The "other end" that needs to be fixed is the human creating the profile. People should not be entering data that can be used against them (birth date, sex, full name, etc).
"If someone tells you to jump off the Empire State Building, would you do it?" Just because the form asks for your personal info does it mean you will openly give it?
Do some research. Spend TWO MINUTES looking over the NUMEROUS web pages that have lots of screen shots. I know that many of you don't like "software by focus group", but I think MS got it right this time (if they used a focus group for the UI, that is. They probably did...)
I apologize for not having access to the actual software to use before its release. Some of us are much less fortunate than others.
For your information, I *have* looked at the screenshots that are available and I don't see the point. I'm one of those people that disables all icons on a menu bar and prefers text only.
As far as my opinions on their UI by Focus Group failures and how many others believe that they were successful, my only good example would be the XBox controller. I found it bulky and unusable. It made my hands sore after only a few minutes which could only mean that it wasn't designed well -- the Playstation controller *never* did that to me.
Can you please send the link to an article that indicates that decisions on office UI are made solely by Bill Gates and the head of Office development?
It was an article I read and it inferred that the head of Office was scared that she might lose her job if the ribbon scheme in Office didn't take off. Bill Gates personally approved of the change (as he should) after being presented with it by the head of Office. Now, I'm 100% positive that you can find the exact sources that quote this material that I read recently (within the month IIRC), I'm not going to bother.
Why was it rated Insightful? I don't know, people agreed that changing a common UI (adopted by most other programs to date) to something completely different might actually be a bad thing for the majority of users?
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That's no less lame than this lawsuit is. Just because there is much nanny-state-ism deeply entrenched in the country, we shouldn't support more of the same.
At first becoming intoxicated is your own fault and you should know when to stop but there are other factors (such as alcoholism, mental deficiencies, etc) where a bartender could be influencing the behavior of someone going too far over the limit.
I am not standing up for the behavior of our society when it comes to this, I'm just saying that there is a possibility that those feeding the alcohol to an individual might have something to do w/the outcome after their leave the establishment.
Now, as far as MySpace is concerned -- no one is getting physically intoxicated by the site and they should not be held responsible for the outcome of any relationship built because of the site's existence.
Seamonkey is a Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.
I'm not quite sure why I need a browser, e-mail/news reader, IRC client, and HTML editor together in one package. To me (other than the e-mail and news readers) these are very separate functions that have no business being packaged together. Then again I'm very particular about my IRC client and e-mail and I would much prefer to use a regular text editor for HTML and e-mail. YMMV.
As far as spell check goes -- amen! I *love* in-browser spell checking and can't stand life without it on my mobile device. Not that I'm a bad speller, I'm just a poor typer while driving.
The poster could have left off the 'and humans' part.
Then it would be a real news site and not Slashdot. They have to keep raising the bar to set themselves apart from the rest!
So if a reasonably well known person, like a media personality annoys enough people, you can use the death penalty on him?
You are confusing several important things here:
1. This has nothing to do w/the death penalty.
2. He hasn't been sentenced yet. That happens on 6/11. Just because he's been convicted doesn't mean his sentence will be anything close to 101 years.
3. Fraud isn't just "annoying".
If this is relating to computer fraud how the fuck can they justify over 100 years of punishment? Rapists and murderers get less.
Rapists and murderers usually rape and murder less people. This douchebag probably targeted millions of people.
Right, because no one ever stuffed a ballot box.
It's quite a bit harder to do that than it will be with e-voting.
I would *never* vote on the web.
And yet I'd much prefer that we just continue voting as we have for the last few centuries. Somehow it has worked just fine.
Dubya may be making a lot of mistakes, but he's not Adolph Hilter.
You're absolutely correct. He's George W. Bush. Responsible for the deaths of ~3,000 US Soldiers in Iraq, domestic "spying", ~750 signing statements which in effect alter the original intent of the law, etc, etc, etc.
I really hope GWB's presidency goes down in history as nothing more than an annoying footnote.
It's not the stability or the design,it's just that people now adays say "what's your myspace" rather than "what's your phone number" There's tons of other sites out there with more functionality and more stable servers, but...no one uses those, do they?
Who are you talking about? Teenagers and college students? You must be, because as an adult, I don't know anyone that says anything of the sort and if they did I would ignore them from that point on. Please note, I'm only slightly outside of the age range where that site is most popular.
Until the burners become affordable. The limiting factor is really the bandwidth, not the storage space.
They are talking about XM radios that allow you to record the content. Are they going to demand that all audio recording devices use DRM to disable people from recording and redistributing this content? This is nothing more than a direct protection of the RIAA cronies by the government to try and hassle Sat radio.
Fuck, we should really mandate all line-in, cassette recorders, and DAT recorders have this technology retroactively installed. We wouldn't want this precious content being recorded by those means!
Report for retroactive DRM installation immediately!
Sure, I support the ability to use DRM. That should be the artist's choice.
Exactly. Microsoft should not be putting this shit into their OS. It's the *artist's* responsibility to protect his work. It's not up to the OS to do it for him. If they artist chooses a method that doesn't work well with whatever is out there, that's his fault for trying to eliminate fair use.
Let the free market decide how to deal with copyright. It's already been shown that we don't want it.
If Apple is really smart, they've already locked Cingular to a reasonable cell plan. They might be able to capture the high-end market with the iPhone, but without cheaper plans, they will never get the majority of people.
If Apple had been smart, they would have went to T-mobile (or Cingular) and worked with them to get a rate plan similar to the T-mobile branded Sidekick. $20.00/month for unlimited data and SMS with a phone plan or $29.99 without. You can't use the device as a modem though...
I refuse to pay the astronomical data plan rates that other providers offer. I especially won't go to Cingular after how I was treated during their switch from AT&T.
if you have a family and they are first in your life above anything else(including work), want to save and not throw money away on outrageous housing costs and want privacy without having to drive one hour one way to work then google is not the place for you even if you could get a job there.
My wife's cousin and her husband from California came to our wedding in September of 2005. In November of 2005 they moved here to get away from California's housing market, traffic, and to give themselves a better chance of having some savings for the rest of their life.
It was a major culture shock for them to move away from the West Coast to the Midwest. They spent the entire first year complaining and working on how to move back. They made it the year and went back to visit at Christmas of 2006 for three weeks. My wife and I were convinced that they would return with a U-Haul.
What surprised us was that they were reminded of why they left CA and moved here. They hated the fact that it took three hours to drive between their parents' houses (a distance of only 75 miles), the fact that houses that go for $210k here are going for $1 million+ there, and the fact that it's just so much faster.
So while there are other options out there, the time it takes to move away from your home where you are comfy does take a while. If you give a shot make sure you allow the time to adjust to your new surroundings. You might actually end up happier in the long run.
Make it open to all providers and thus anyone that has GSM could use the phone rather than tying us down to one -- the worst one...
Well, the iPhone is an impressive looking device. I only have a few serious concerns with it:
1. Cingular is the only US provider? I'm not a Cingular subscriber nor will I become one. That's disappointing, seriously.
2. So far, the device is priced quite high for a two year contract signing. Those prices should be what the device costs without a contract.
3. I love the idea of the touch screen with the proximity sensors to turn it on and off (the biggest complaint I have with touchscreen phones is your ear touching buttons while you're talking) but I don't know how well I will be able to type on it. I use my mobile device constantly for e-mail, IM, taking notes, and browsing. Tactile is something I have grown used to (touch typing). How will I handle no buttons?
I love the idea of location aware applications, I just wonder how/where that data is stored. Is it just used locally or will Google and Apple, Inc. now know everything about where I go as well?
Overall a great idea with a bad choice of mobile providers.
Now, maybe you are enough of a redneck that you never travel outside the US, but other people do, and to them this matters.
:roll:
And *I* was modded "Troll"?
I don't travel outside of the US because I don't care for the way I am treated there. I was detained crossing the border into Canada (for an hour) while the border guards milled around chatting as if they were all on break at the same time. While waiting, we watched as *three* individuals were allowed through that had prior convictions that they lied to other border agents about and didn't have their car searched. We all had our proper documents, our background checks were spotless, and yet we were further detained while they searched our vehicle and questioned us about our laptops, maps, and GPS units.
On our return trip we crossed into the US without issue. Hmm.
This device still resembles a computer too much to be adopted and placed in the living room of the common household. Some day though...
I don't know what TiVo you're talking about but both my standalone TiVo and my DirecTiVo look pretty much like my DVD players.
The reason that TiVo has a low adoption rate is the fact that it costs $14/month to use it (standalone) and most people can't see the point of paying $14 to disrupt their lives being disrupted by TV show programming times. It has nothing to do w/how it looks.
Welcome to the home of the suspected criminals, land of the bold (if they dare to speak up).
While I am 100% against fingerprinting CITIZENS of this country, I couldn't give a shit less if someone from outside of the US is fingerprinted. It's their choice to travel to the US and cross our borders. I would certainly avoid leaving the US to travel to another country that wanted to fingerprint me on arrival.
Would a 'global warming controversy' exist without the millions of dollars spent by fossil fuel companies to discredit scientific conclusions?
Yes. I'm one of them and for good reason. Ice cores and incomplete and inaccurate data only going back ~125 years, of which only 50% is probably usable, can only tell us so much. There is so much to learn about how the weather patterns on the Earth operate.
Ah, yes, people revealing incredibly personal details like their name is the problem. Phone books must scare the crap out of you.
I suggest you read my signature.
Should the other end be fixed? Why should it be possible to steal someone's identity with the simple personal details people make available online?
You have the wrong "other end" identified. The "other end" that needs to be fixed is the human creating the profile. People should not be entering data that can be used against them (birth date, sex, full name, etc).
"If someone tells you to jump off the Empire State Building, would you do it?" Just because the form asks for your personal info does it mean you will openly give it?
Do some research. Spend TWO MINUTES looking over the NUMEROUS web pages that have lots of screen shots. I know that many of you don't like "software by focus group", but I think MS got it right this time (if they used a focus group for the UI, that is. They probably did...)
I apologize for not having access to the actual software to use before its release. Some of us are much less fortunate than others.
For your information, I *have* looked at the screenshots that are available and I don't see the point. I'm one of those people that disables all icons on a menu bar and prefers text only.
As far as my opinions on their UI by Focus Group failures and how many others believe that they were successful, my only good example would be the XBox controller. I found it bulky and unusable. It made my hands sore after only a few minutes which could only mean that it wasn't designed well -- the Playstation controller *never* did that to me.
Can you please send the link to an article that indicates that decisions on office UI are made solely by Bill Gates and the head of Office development?
It was an article I read and it inferred that the head of Office was scared that she might lose her job if the ribbon scheme in Office didn't take off. Bill Gates personally approved of the change (as he should) after being presented with it by the head of Office. Now, I'm 100% positive that you can find the exact sources that quote this material that I read recently (within the month IIRC), I'm not going to bother.
Why was it rated Insightful? I don't know, people agreed that changing a common UI (adopted by most other programs to date) to something completely different might actually be a bad thing for the majority of users?
(If they didn't think so, they'd opt not to upgrade, or would consider a different product, right?)
What other product? There are none that are viable for large scale deployment and system wide interoperability.