There's another way too: open all the pages you want in tabs; go to Tools | Options | General, and click the "Use Current Pages" button for your home page. Easy peasy.
This is probably redundant by now, but I'm in a hurry and don't have time to read every post...
If you don't like the price, don't buy. Go get a killer AMD for less money. Intel sells CPU's for $600+ because people will pay that much, so there's no need to drop their prices. If the market wasn't there, the chips wouldn't sell. See you in AMDville.
Perhaps it's significant because Microsoft is whining about declining CS enrollment and lobbying the government for an increase in the H-1B cap, when they really aren't doing much local hiring.
Perhaps they are'nt doing much local hiring because of the declining CS enrollment? How can you hire what isn't there? I'm no MS fan, but this post seems to miss the mark. Somewhat akin to James Taranto's musings on prison populations: "Hmm, more criminals are in prison and the crime rate is down. Seems like simple cause and effect to us, but somehow it's supposed to be a paradox."
...then I still won't use it. I don't save everything on my main PC, I keep a lot of stuff on my file server (makes it easier to use Mac, Linux, and Windows, having my files centralized). And that whole indexing-everything-including-every-web-page-you-g o-to-and-email-you-read thing kinda creeps me out too. Am I just being paranoid there?
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Next time, can you please indicate that it is shock porn, a disturbing image, or just basically a troll? You just yelled "free porn!". What do you think everyone's here's going to do? Not look?!?
Anyone knows where to find Windows 98 drivers for Dell laptops ?! [Hint: Dell Tech Support are clueless]
Sure...install Ubuntu.:) I've re-installed 2 PCs lately (both Dells). Ubuntu picked up all the hardware and installed the proper drivers flawlessly. Why anyone would want to stick with 98 is beyond me...just because most viruses target NT-based PCs now doesn't mean there's not enough crap floating around out there that will turn your PC into a wh0r3b0x in no time. One of the Dells I re-installed actually was running 98, and it was eaten up with crapware--it would crash if you looked at it funny. Not worth it, IMHO.
I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, those aren't the people you see on CrossFire or Hannity & Colmes, or whatever other shows are out there. Disagreements nowadays usually melt down to shouting matches and insults rather than honest debates.
Not plugging here, but IMHO, the one radio host I've heard who is best able to carry out a decent debate (provided that the guest goes along with it) is Michael Medved. If the guest allows, he can do wonderful, polite interviews, especially with folks who disagree with him.
Disclaimer: I'm a hardcore liberal. But I can't stand it when liberals make the "how can Republicans want the death penalty, but not abortion." It's easy. Unborn children haven't committed crimes. Criminals have. Personally I still don't want the death penalty for a different reason, because there is a clear racial and financial bias going on in the American legal system; however, I still hate it, and feel embarassed when, my friends try to use this idiotic argument of "Republicans are contradicting themselves!" when my friends are arguing for abortion or against the death penalty.
Holy. Crap. I just had my stance fairly and eloquently defined by a self-described "hardcore liberal." You, sir, have earned my respect. *bows*
Very true, but once again, it's merely a failure of the system. There's absolutely no reason to assume that ISPs are purposefully blocking certain political viewpoints. It's ludicrous.
I agree. But the second some political mass-mailer or form letter gets dropped or bounced, the assumption will be conspiracy.
Besides, I wasn't even speaking to political mail. At work, we had a machine running Norton AntiSpam and Thunderbird Junk controls. Norton was overly aggressive, flagging nearly everything as spam; Thunderbird didn't catch spam right away until it was told what spam looked like. The common thread here: WE were the ones training the systems, and filtering through the good and bad decisions they made. If it had been up to the ISP, we may have lost work, and therefore money. No conspiracy, just a bad choice. Same with politics.
False-positives are the reason why Thunderbird sends spam to the Junk folder and not directly to the Trash. Yeah, it sucks having to go through that stuff to make sure nothing accidentally got bundled in there, but it's better than a) having it all in the Inbox, and b) losing something important. But the good thing is, it's my choice. If the ISP starts blocking it, I may never know that I lost something that was supposed to get through. At work, that could cost money. Not good.
...that folks were clamoring for ISPs to do MORE to prevent spam. Now they're doing more, and we're wondering if it's too much and they should do less. decicive bunch, aren't we?
doesn't work in safari for me either... of course, it doesn't work in IE 6 on the XP-SP2 box I use at work (but it DOES work in firefox 1.0.6). what a piece. i'm pretty sure i'll be sticking with google for a while.
Lack of a sense of humor is distasteful here on slashdot.
If by "distasteful" you mean "will get you modded Redundant or Flamebait," I totally agree:) Check my history for proof, or just wait till the mods get a hold of this post. I'll learn to use that AC checkbox one day (prolly when I set up another account just so I can post from one place and mod myself up from another...isn't that how it works anyway?).
mod CptTripps up, not OT. what does cold soldering have to do with phishing? that makes no sense. just pointing out that a large portion of phishers come from romania, that doesn't mean that every romaninan is being singled out.
De Raadt makes a rival open source operating system called OpenBSD...
Sour grapes? Maybe.
ok, who's got a chip on their shoulder? anyone? this is flamebait, pure and simple. I love Linus's extremely diplomatic quote: "Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is 'difficult' and declined to comment further." Well played.
and then there's the last paragraph:
"You know what I found? Right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system, I found a developer's comment that said, 'Does this belong here?' "Lok says. "What kind of confidence does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch."
HUH?! You switched to BSD because of a friggin comment?! I've stepped in puddles deeper than that. What a load...
If the government tries to make that happen, the ISPs and users of the world will shout out a resounding "Fuck You". Not only is that invasion of privacy, it is technologically very difficult to store such a massive amount of information.
wishful thingking at best. there are many people who would think, "i don't do anything wrong/immoral/illegal, so what do i care if they look?" those users vastly outnumber the users who would be upset. besides, once every isp keeps these logs, those of us who are unhappy with it won't have anywhere else to go for intarweb access. eventually everyone will come to accept it as a way of life.
as for the storage problems, storage is becoming faster, better, and cheaper every day. this could easily boost the storage industry, and even create a new industry dedicated to log storage, retrieval, searching, auto-flagging potential problems, etc. it won't happen right away, but don't expect it not to happen.
way to miss the point! what i was getting at was that you can't just leave work on company time to go to the library and use their computers, especially if you're in the "blue collar, contract, warehouse workers" category.
Those publicly-funded buildings called...public libraries offer free access.
So, for the price of... zero, they can get all the internets they want.
"'Scuse me, boss, I'll be right back."
"Where are YOU going?"
"To the library to check my email...10, 20 minutes tops, mmkay?"
"Oh, sure thing, no problem! Hey, while you're there, you might want to cruise over to Monster.com and find a job to replace the one you'll lose if you walk off this job site, ass."
This makes sense, because they are trying to influence the world with it. Thus, they are more interested in power (number of readers) than money (subscription revenues).
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There's another way too: open all the pages you want in tabs; go to Tools | Options | General, and click the "Use Current Pages" button for your home page. Easy peasy.
This is probably redundant by now, but I'm in a hurry and don't have time to read every post...
If you don't like the price, don't buy. Go get a killer AMD for less money. Intel sells CPU's for $600+ because people will pay that much, so there's no need to drop their prices. If the market wasn't there, the chips wouldn't sell. See you in AMDville.holy hell, the trolls are out.
Perhaps it's significant because Microsoft is whining about declining CS enrollment and lobbying the government for an increase in the H-1B cap, when they really aren't doing much local hiring.
Perhaps they are'nt doing much local hiring because of the declining CS enrollment? How can you hire what isn't there? I'm no MS fan, but this post seems to miss the mark. Somewhat akin to James Taranto's musings on prison populations: "Hmm, more criminals are in prison and the crime rate is down. Seems like simple cause and effect to us, but somehow it's supposed to be a paradox."...then I still won't use it. I don't save everything on my main PC, I keep a lot of stuff on my file server (makes it easier to use Mac, Linux, and Windows, having my files centralized). And that whole indexing-everything-including-every-web-page-you-g o-to-and-email-you-read thing kinda creeps me out too. Am I just being paranoid there?
Next time, can you please indicate that it is shock porn, a disturbing image, or just basically a troll? You just yelled "free porn!". What do you think everyone's here's going to do? Not look?!?
Your eyes hurtin' too? Man...Anyone knows where to find Windows 98 drivers for Dell laptops ?! [Hint: Dell Tech Support are clueless]
Sure...install Ubuntu.Yeah, because Star Trek fans never did anything constructive.
Oh, wait...
I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, those aren't the people you see on CrossFire or Hannity & Colmes, or whatever other shows are out there. Disagreements nowadays usually melt down to shouting matches and insults rather than honest debates.
Not plugging here, but IMHO, the one radio host I've heard who is best able to carry out a decent debate (provided that the guest goes along with it) is Michael Medved. If the guest allows, he can do wonderful, polite interviews, especially with folks who disagree with him.
Disclaimer: I'm a hardcore liberal. But I can't stand it when liberals make the "how can Republicans want the death penalty, but not abortion." It's easy. Unborn children haven't committed crimes. Criminals have. Personally I still don't want the death penalty for a different reason, because there is a clear racial and financial bias going on in the American legal system; however, I still hate it, and feel embarassed when, my friends try to use this idiotic argument of "Republicans are contradicting themselves!" when my friends are arguing for abortion or against the death penalty.
Holy. Crap. I just had my stance fairly and eloquently defined by a self-described "hardcore liberal." You, sir, have earned my respect. *bows*Very true, but once again, it's merely a failure of the system. There's absolutely no reason to assume that ISPs are purposefully blocking certain political viewpoints. It's ludicrous.
I agree. But the second some political mass-mailer or form letter gets dropped or bounced, the assumption will be conspiracy.Besides, I wasn't even speaking to political mail. At work, we had a machine running Norton AntiSpam and Thunderbird Junk controls. Norton was overly aggressive, flagging nearly everything as spam; Thunderbird didn't catch spam right away until it was told what spam looked like. The common thread here: WE were the ones training the systems, and filtering through the good and bad decisions they made. If it had been up to the ISP, we may have lost work, and therefore money. No conspiracy, just a bad choice. Same with politics.
False-positives are the reason why Thunderbird sends spam to the Junk folder and not directly to the Trash. Yeah, it sucks having to go through that stuff to make sure nothing accidentally got bundled in there, but it's better than a) having it all in the Inbox, and b) losing something important. But the good thing is, it's my choice. If the ISP starts blocking it, I may never know that I lost something that was supposed to get through. At work, that could cost money. Not good.
...that folks were clamoring for ISPs to do MORE to prevent spam. Now they're doing more, and we're wondering if it's too much and they should do less. decicive bunch, aren't we?
doesn't work in safari for me either... of course, it doesn't work in IE 6 on the XP-SP2 box I use at work (but it DOES work in firefox 1.0.6). what a piece. i'm pretty sure i'll be sticking with google for a while.
Lack of a sense of humor is distasteful here on slashdot.
If by "distasteful" you mean "will get you modded Redundant or Flamebait," I totally agree :) Check my history for proof, or just wait till the mods get a hold of this post. I'll learn to use that AC checkbox one day (prolly when I set up another account just so I can post from one place and mod myself up from another...isn't that how it works anyway?).
trolly trolly trolly....And it MUST go to 11.
We need a "John Dvorak" category on Slashdot, so all "stories" related to his latest rants can be filtered out.
Better yet,mod CptTripps up, not OT. what does cold soldering have to do with phishing? that makes no sense. just pointing out that a large portion of phishers come from romania, that doesn't mean that every romaninan is being singled out.
from TFA:
ok, who's got a chip on their shoulder? anyone? this is flamebait, pure and simple. I love Linus's extremely diplomatic quote: "Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is 'difficult' and declined to comment further." Well played.
and then there's the last paragraph: HUH?! You switched to BSD because of a friggin comment?! I've stepped in puddles deeper than that. What a load...If the government tries to make that happen, the ISPs and users of the world will shout out a resounding "Fuck You". Not only is that invasion of privacy, it is technologically very difficult to store such a massive amount of information.
wishful thingking at best. there are many people who would think, "i don't do anything wrong/immoral/illegal, so what do i care if they look?" those users vastly outnumber the users who would be upset. besides, once every isp keeps these logs, those of us who are unhappy with it won't have anywhere else to go for intarweb access. eventually everyone will come to accept it as a way of life.
as for the storage problems, storage is becoming faster, better, and cheaper every day. this could easily boost the storage industry, and even create a new industry dedicated to log storage, retrieval, searching, auto-flagging potential problems, etc. it won't happen right away, but don't expect it not to happen.GAH! No way! Tesla SUCKED!
way to miss the point! what i was getting at was that you can't just leave work on company time to go to the library and use their computers, especially if you're in the "blue collar, contract, warehouse workers" category.
Those publicly-funded buildings called...public libraries offer free access. ... zero, they can get all the internets they want.
"'Scuse me, boss, I'll be right back."So, for the price of
"Where are YOU going?"
"To the library to check my email...10, 20 minutes tops, mmkay?"
"Oh, sure thing, no problem! Hey, while you're there, you might want to cruise over to Monster.com and find a job to replace the one you'll lose if you walk off this job site, ass."
Yeah, low cost access indeed.
This makes sense, because they are trying to influence the world with it. Thus, they are more interested in power (number of readers) than money (subscription revenues).
So what is the NYT doing, preaching to the choir?