Your cellphone company's taking the piss. They have no interest in helping you prevent unwanted calls when they can make a decent profit out of you by encouraging the practice.
I agree. I wear an Oris automatic, which has a clear display so you can see the mechanical workings. I find this far more fascinating than most 'geek' watches, and can sit and stare at it for ages:-)
That's certainly the way it works in the UK - while I can program any CID I like into the PBX, if it doesn't match one of the numbers the line provider has for me, it doesn't get transmitted.
Businesses who legitimately want to send a different number to the number of the line can request it, but you have to own both numbers.
Seconded. I ordered a pair of switches at 4.30pm on Monday, they arrived at 9 the next day, with the price reduced by my account manager so I didn't have to pay extra for the early delivery:)
I can't remember the exact solution, but one of the steps will involve dividing by (x-x). (x-x) is, of course, equal to zero, and division by zero is not allowed.
In the UK, you'd have been protected by the Sale of Goods and Services act. Basically, goods must be of "suitable quality and fit for their purpose". "Suitable quality" is obviously open to interpretation, but nobody could claim that a $1000 tv could reasonably be expected to last just a year.
I've had a load of small APC UPI (plural of UPS:-)) which kill the outlet power when the internal logic decides that the battery's dead. The engineer in me says "sound a loud alarm, page the swashbuckling sysadmin, but don't cut the doddam power!!"
A statement from CopySwede: "As the law stands, people have the right to make copies for private use, so the copyright owners should be fairly compensated."
Isn't that what they pay for when they buy the music?
Or is he saying that Swedes only pay for the right to have a single copy of the music on the medium supplied, and must not transfer it to any other medium?
Does copying it in electronic form to stranded copper count?:-)
In my case, I was using it before Firefox was available and I happen to like it. I have Firefox installed, but see no reason to go searching for all the plugins and options necessary to replicate the Opera experience.
The killer features which got me hooked way back when were the MDI and gestures. Yes, I know you can do that on FF as well...
As to what attracts new users to Opera over Firefox: I don't know. Personal choice maybe? Being recommended by a friend? Trying both out and (shock! horror!) actually preferring Opera?
- The average PC is stuffed full of malware. Would you let anyone come and plug into your router? Risk infecting your own PC?
- Do you want all their crappy traffic to choke your connection? When it slows down, will you consider unplugging the WAP to see if someone with a spyware-infested PC is connected, or will you be whining to your ISP?
- Porn. Someone uses your connection to download the illegal stuff. Police come to your door, confiscate your equipment, and throw you in a cell with Bubba. Sure, you've got plausable deniability, but do you want to go through the whole debacle?
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I think he's using a click wheel rather than the newer touchpad kind.
The later mouses are a better shape, but that's when they started the 'whole body as a button' thing, which has three problems:
- I accidentally click the thing just by placing my hand on the mouse.
- The cable gets stuck under the front and prevents clicking
- No sodding scroll wheel!
Then teach her not to give her address out to anyone she doesn't know. My main address for the last 5 years is spam-free, whereas the one I use for junk registrations gets about 2000 spam mails per day.
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I recently took 2 car-loads of workstations, servers, printers & accessories over to a client.
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I returned with 1 car-load of packaging.
While installing the kit, I managed to build a floor-to-ceiling fort in their reception area
For the local PC, sure. What a surprise. This gets you access to network resources how?
Dog licence?? Haven't needed one of those for many many years.
You, sir, are a genius.
Then switch it off! There's a simple option at the bottom of the page.
$1.99 per month per number??
Your cellphone company's taking the piss. They have no interest in helping you prevent unwanted calls when they can make a decent profit out of you by encouraging the practice.
The one I've seen recently is from a company called Market, which makes label printers which go on large packaging machines.
My client requires parallel ports on all machines used in production just so they can run the damn software.
I agree. I wear an Oris automatic, which has a clear display so you can see the mechanical workings. I find this far more fascinating than most 'geek' watches, and can sit and stare at it for ages :-)
That's certainly the way it works in the UK - while I can program any CID I like into the PBX, if it doesn't match one of the numbers the line provider has for me, it doesn't get transmitted.
Businesses who legitimately want to send a different number to the number of the line can request it, but you have to own both numbers.
Seconded. I ordered a pair of switches at 4.30pm on Monday, they arrived at 9 the next day, with the price reduced by my account manager so I didn't have to pay extra for the early delivery :)
I can't remember the exact solution, but one of the steps will involve dividing by (x-x). (x-x) is, of course, equal to zero, and division by zero is not allowed.
In the UK, you'd have been protected by the Sale of Goods and Services act. Basically, goods must be of "suitable quality and fit for their purpose". "Suitable quality" is obviously open to interpretation, but nobody could claim that a $1000 tv could reasonably be expected to last just a year.
I've had a load of small APC UPI (plural of UPS :-)) which kill the outlet power when the internal logic decides that the battery's dead. The engineer in me says "sound a loud alarm, page the swashbuckling sysadmin, but don't cut the doddam power!!"
This may just be me being picky.
A statement from CopySwede: "As the law stands, people have the right to make copies for private use, so the copyright owners should be fairly compensated."
:-)
Isn't that what they pay for when they buy the music?
Or is he saying that Swedes only pay for the right to have a single copy of the music on the medium supplied, and must not transfer it to any other medium?
Does copying it in electronic form to stranded copper count?
That's a bullshit rant that gets posted every so often. Google for a random phrase from the middle of the post and see what turns up.
Opera does that. I use it a few times a week, it's a great feature.
Wonder if there's a firefox plugin to do it...
then some bugger'd take the battery out and lose the precious precious score :-(
In my case, I was using it before Firefox was available and I happen to like it. I have Firefox installed, but see no reason to go searching for all the plugins and options necessary to replicate the Opera experience.
The killer features which got me hooked way back when were the MDI and gestures. Yes, I know you can do that on FF as well...
As to what attracts new users to Opera over Firefox: I don't know. Personal choice maybe? Being recommended by a friend? Trying both out and (shock! horror!) actually preferring Opera?
Only free at the point of sale. The cell company has to pay for it somehow. Guess who they pass those costs on to?
Three issues to think about:
- The average PC is stuffed full of malware. Would you let anyone come and plug into your router? Risk infecting your own PC?
- Do you want all their crappy traffic to choke your connection? When it slows down, will you consider unplugging the WAP to see if someone with a spyware-infested PC is connected, or will you be whining to your ISP?
- Porn. Someone uses your connection to download the illegal stuff. Police come to your door, confiscate your equipment, and throw you in a cell with Bubba. Sure, you've got plausable deniability, but do you want to go through the whole debacle?
I think he's using a click wheel rather than the newer touchpad kind.
Besides, these stats are for XP machines which, oddly enough, are what most of the worms are targeting.
Aaah! The pucks!
Most uncomfortable mouse I've ever used.
The later mouses are a better shape, but that's when they started the 'whole body as a button' thing, which has three problems:
- I accidentally click the thing just by placing my hand on the mouse.
- The cable gets stuck under the front and prevents clicking
- No sodding scroll wheel!
Then teach her not to give her address out to anyone she doesn't know. My main address for the last 5 years is spam-free, whereas the one I use for junk registrations gets about 2000 spam mails per day.
Do you not think that would be giving away a huuuge chunk of MS's preccciouss secrets?
They'd just reclassify it as 'semi-retired on a consultancy basis', and deny source access.