...and even then, some of their numbers are questionable themselves:
Question 1: List the titles of all the books written by Piers Morgan, editor of the Daily Mirror - Library Stephen Moss, 20sec (1st)
So you're saying that once I'm at the library, it takes me 20 seconds to look up the call number/location of Who's Who, turn to the appropriate page, and list out all of the man's books? Right. More than likely, this is an example of "you are in the library, with the book in hand, opened directly to the page you want."
What's cheap for you isn't always cheap for others. Around here, dial-up may be only $15/mo (easy enough for me), but for the average teenager, $180/yr can be kind of steep. Easier to simply access a free Hotmail account at a school lab or something, I imagine. It's these people that would end up with the brunt of "marketer messages" with MS's new whitelist scheme.
There's nothing less professional looking than putting a free-email address on your business card or website.
Sure, but since when did teenagers, grandma, casual pals, etc. care that much about looking "professional" when they can have a free personal email account?
Business users are a minority. The bulk of Hotmail addresses are used for personal accounts, or for spamming.
What's the reasoning behind why 100-200mA is lethal but >200mA is just severe burns and respritory failure?
It's right in the article provided in the link...
As the current approaches 100 mA, ventricular fibrillation of the heart occurs -an uncoordinated twitching of the walls of the heart's ventricles. There's no worldly help for the victim. ... Above 200 mA, muscular contractions are so severe that the heart is forcibly clamped during the shock. This clamping protects the heart from going into ventricular fibrillation, and the victim's chances for survival are good.
Understandable. If you're already fairly familiar and proficient with it and/or have set up various macros for LaTeX, it's all well and good. I've used it myself for the occasional math paper, but other than that, my knowledge of it is fairly low. Just tossing the suggestion out there, since a number of people still don't know about OO.o's PDF export.
I'm sure as heck not going to _write_ anything in OO while this is a concern. ...
If I'm writing documents in *nix, I use LaTeX and send people postscript or PDF.
OO.o has a native "export to PDF" feature in the latest builds. You might want to give it another whirl. Might save some (potentially) messy LaTeX work, at least for non-methematical documents.
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So can Linus sue now? Seriously, I hope the courts don't rule against Google. It's not like the nasty ads that were being placed over other ads on company websites, it's just a sponsored link.
mangles documents when passed back and forth between MS Office and OpenOffice
As someone who also has to transfer documents between the two applications, I can honestly say that most of the time, Office does far more mangling than OO.o does. Hell, Office often can't even properly read older versions of Office itself!
OO.o isn't completely in the clear, but I find it's more consistent.
Banks are pretty damn secure; why aren't these systems set up the same way as online banking?
A trivial example of why this is problematic: vote buying. It's relatively easy to purchase 1000 votes for $X/ea with associated passwords and whatnot. Click-click-submit, 1000 votes cast online. It's much harder when you have to present yourself face-to-face 1000 times at a specific polling station, or to drive yourself to 1000 different stations.
Depends if you mean sued as in 'successfully sued', or just the initiation of the process, and if you believe your nation's legal system is just and fair.
Even "unsuccessfully sued" can cost someone a hell of a lot of money. Have you seen how long some of these cases can drag out? It costs money just to defend yourself. And if you successfully defend yourself, you still have to launch your own counter-suit if you want to reclaim any of those losses.
While insurance seems of little use to most people, I can see some companies thinking it's a worthwhile investment.
So what exactly did people do before they had television?
Beats me. Maybe they all sat on the couch, staring at an empty wall, thinking "Gee, I sure wish we had something to watch. And something to watch it on."
The program's interface has windows for mock e-mail, instant messaging, Web browser and pager, through which the narrative unfolds.
Just browsing through the table of contents...
Chapter I: John deletes his spam
Chapter II: John closes a million popups
Chapter III: John deletes more spam
Chapter IV: John cybers **hotChIcKa69**
Chapter V: John deletes more spam and sets up a new mail client
Chapter VI: John closes more popups, installs Mozilla
Chapter VII: John deletes more spam, puts his fist through the monitor
Chapter VIII: John goes to the hospital ...
Just because *your* "hello, world" is statically linked to the C++ library and mine isn't, doesn't make mine better because it's smaller.
But on a slow internet connection, I'd rather download the smaller file if I already have the C++ library installed, which is pretty much analogous to the whole DirectX/Windows bundle. So I'd say it *is* better in this regard.
Don't put so much stock in a name, its not all that important.
I don't know about that. Take Phoenix Air for example. I don't know about you, but any airline named after a bird that burts into flames and plummets down from the sky won't be getting my business anytime soon.
If I fast-forward the movie, watching it in less than 2 hours, will I get to see Samus in a skimpy bikini?
Acrobat is a hog
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the acrobat reader... does what it is supposed to and nothing more
I wouldn't say that Acrobat reader does only what it's supposed to do. It's one hell of a resource hog. Upgrading from Acrobat 5, I find that 6 takes approximately 3X the time to load because of all of the default (read: useless) plugins.
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...and even then, some of their numbers are questionable themselves:
Question 1: List the titles of all the books written by Piers Morgan, editor of the Daily Mirror - Library Stephen Moss, 20sec (1st)
So you're saying that once I'm at the library, it takes me 20 seconds to look up the call number/location of Who's Who, turn to the appropriate page, and list out all of the man's books? Right. More than likely, this is an example of "you are in the library, with the book in hand, opened directly to the page you want."
What's cheap for you isn't always cheap for others. Around here, dial-up may be only $15/mo (easy enough for me), but for the average teenager, $180/yr can be kind of steep. Easier to simply access a free Hotmail account at a school lab or something, I imagine. It's these people that would end up with the brunt of "marketer messages" with MS's new whitelist scheme.
There's nothing less professional looking than putting a free-email address on your business card or website.
Sure, but since when did teenagers, grandma, casual pals, etc. care that much about looking "professional" when they can have a free personal email account?
Business users are a minority. The bulk of Hotmail addresses are used for personal accounts, or for spamming.
What's the reasoning behind why 100-200mA is lethal but >200mA is just severe burns and respritory failure?
It's right in the article provided in the link...
As the current approaches 100 mA, ventricular fibrillation of the heart occurs -an uncoordinated twitching of the walls of the heart's ventricles. There's no worldly help for the victim.
...
Above 200 mA, muscular contractions are so severe that the heart is forcibly clamped during the shock. This clamping protects the heart from going into ventricular fibrillation, and the victim's chances for survival are good.
Doesn't seem to indicate that on their own site.
When has Microsoft EVER used patents as a tool for gaining market control?
How about using patents to extract FAT licensing fees from removable solid state media manufacturers? Or is that too easy?
You try saying "ghu neH Ha' lItHa'?" to some chick and see what happens.
What's worse than saying that? Having the gal reply back, interested.
*shudders*
I use LaTeX by preference.
Understandable. If you're already fairly familiar and proficient with it and/or have set up various macros for LaTeX, it's all well and good. I've used it myself for the occasional math paper, but other than that, my knowledge of it is fairly low. Just tossing the suggestion out there, since a number of people still don't know about OO.o's PDF export.
I'm sure as heck not going to _write_ anything in OO while this is a concern.
...
If I'm writing documents in *nix, I use LaTeX and send people postscript or PDF.
OO.o has a native "export to PDF" feature in the latest builds. You might want to give it another whirl. Might save some (potentially) messy LaTeX work, at least for non-methematical documents.
once they patent the direction the water flows when flushed
You can always move to Australia.
A quick search for 'Linux' brings up the following #1 sponsored link:
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Why is Windows cheaper than Linux?
Get all the facts Now!
www.microsoft.ca/getthefacts
So can Linus sue now? Seriously, I hope the courts don't rule against Google. It's not like the nasty ads that were being placed over other ads on company websites, it's just a sponsored link.
mangles documents when passed back and forth between MS Office and OpenOffice
As someone who also has to transfer documents between the two applications, I can honestly say that most of the time, Office does far more mangling than OO.o does. Hell, Office often can't even properly read older versions of Office itself!
OO.o isn't completely in the clear, but I find it's more consistent.
obviously you can't have an OS that isn't tightly integrated with the internet.
Even more: I hear they'll be giving the browser away for free. It's madness, I say! Madness!
Banks are pretty damn secure; why aren't these systems set up the same way as online banking?
A trivial example of why this is problematic: vote buying. It's relatively easy to purchase 1000 votes for $X/ea with associated passwords and whatnot. Click-click-submit, 1000 votes cast online. It's much harder when you have to present yourself face-to-face 1000 times at a specific polling station, or to drive yourself to 1000 different stations.
Depends if you mean sued as in 'successfully sued', or just the initiation of the process, and if you believe your nation's legal system is just and fair.
Even "unsuccessfully sued" can cost someone a hell of a lot of money. Have you seen how long some of these cases can drag out? It costs money just to defend yourself. And if you successfully defend yourself, you still have to launch your own counter-suit if you want to reclaim any of those losses.
While insurance seems of little use to most people, I can see some companies thinking it's a worthwhile investment.
Are people so bored that they must be watching movies/television constantly? How about READING a BOOK?
I'd rather they WATCHED the ROAD.
So what exactly did people do before they had television?
Beats me. Maybe they all sat on the couch, staring at an empty wall, thinking "Gee, I sure wish we had something to watch. And something to watch it on."
The program's interface has windows for mock e-mail, instant messaging, Web browser and pager, through which the narrative unfolds.
Just browsing through the table of contents...
Chapter I: John deletes his spam
...
Chapter II: John closes a million popups
Chapter III: John deletes more spam
Chapter IV: John cybers **hotChIcKa69**
Chapter V: John deletes more spam and sets up a new mail client
Chapter VI: John closes more popups, installs Mozilla
Chapter VII: John deletes more spam, puts his fist through the monitor
Chapter VIII: John goes to the hospital
FireBird Insurance?
After reviewing current trademark holdings, the FireBird Insurance Project has decided to adopt a new name:
InsuraFox
Please refer to all further policies by this name.
Just because *your* "hello, world" is statically linked to the C++ library and mine isn't, doesn't make mine better because it's smaller.
But on a slow internet connection, I'd rather download the smaller file if I already have the C++ library installed, which is pretty much analogous to the whole DirectX/Windows bundle. So I'd say it *is* better in this regard.
Looks like your link got monkied up with that space in there. Here's a working one:
Display Your Digital Wonderland
they become vulnerable to lawsuits from The Walt Disney Company
The Linspire folks don't have to worry about this. These folks might, though I doubt it.
Don't put so much stock in a name, its not all that important.
I don't know about that. Take Phoenix Air for example. I don't know about you, but any airline named after a bird that burts into flames and plummets down from the sky won't be getting my business anytime soon.
If I fast-forward the movie, watching it in less than 2 hours, will I get to see Samus in a skimpy bikini?
the acrobat reader ... does what it is supposed to and nothing more
I wouldn't say that Acrobat reader does only what it's supposed to do. It's one hell of a resource hog. Upgrading from Acrobat 5, I find that 6 takes approximately 3X the time to load because of all of the default (read: useless) plugins.
Fortunately, you can disable most of the unused features and get it almost as fast as previous versions.