As long as by "Windows and Macs" you mean "Windows." The only Macs left in schools are a few original iMacs left over from when school administrators actually bought Macs, back in 1998. Nobody's buying Macs in schools now.Schools?
As long as by "Windows and Macs" you mean "Windows." The only Macs left in schools are a few original iMacs left over from when school administrators actually bought Macs, back in 1998. Nobody's putting Macs in schools anymore.
> 911 call centers cannot be reached by mapping to any 10-digit number. There is no 10-digit number...
See, this is the problem. It is absolutely stupid for there not to be an alternate unique 10-digit number for each public safety call center. It would be very useful for so many reasons:
Users of Voice over IP, as well as cellphones, could program the relevant emergency numbers into their speed-dial, so that pressing the "Emergency" or "Fire" button on their phones, or another designated speed-dial marked on the phone, would put them in contact with the proper locality's authorities.
More reasons: - Your elderly parent lives two hours away. You're made aware that there's something wrong. Instead of calling your city's 911 and explaining that the problem isn't at your house but rather in such-and-such town, you have the number for her town's 911 by your phone in case of just such an emergency, getting help to her house faster.
- Your cellphone may be your primary phone. Instead of always having to call the CHP 911, you can call your local town 911 if you're at home. Also more likely to be faster.
- Obviously, it would make the job of the VOIP providers ten times easier--just maintain a database of these emergency centers, and map the "911" mnemonic to the one closest to the location on file for the user. And perhaps there could be an alternate number to call if you want to reach 911 for a different locale--for example, 415-240 is an exchange in San Francisco (Central), so if you were in SF with an IP phone registered in New York, dialing, say, *911 415-240 would lookup the most appropriate call center in San Francisco. Obviously, you would have to ask someone their phone number to do this, but it shouldn't be a huge problem--most vacationers likely have access to a "real" phone. That feature should just be there in case you need it, and if you're going to be somewhere without a land-line for a long time, you should update your location.
I think the benefits of doing this are enough that it should be done. How much effort could it possibly take to assign each one a real phone number?
When every AOL CD contains a browser with 128-bit encryption, I think we can safely declare that the "War on Encryption Being Available to Potential Terrorists" (foreign nationals) is over and the potential terrorists have won! Time to move on.
> As I've said elsewhere, your tinfoil hat won't do a damn thing to block a magnetic field, grounded or not. Come on, you can surely find a magnet and piece of foil somewhere in your house and perform the extremely simple and obvious experiment that proves this...
A tip that may prove helpful: Try using a UserContent.css file to block ads in any CSS-compliant browser. (i.e. any modern browser except IE). I know that this doesn't work for all ads, but it works for many. Also, a personal proxy, I hear, does an excellent job of blocking ads, which I think you'd agree are the majority of the annoying animated things. Hopefully more complete ad-blocking will come to Firefox soon. I'm pretty sure Mozilla proper does have more ad-blocking already implemented, so we'll see.
Ok. First off, orkysoft is right, Firefox is pretty much rock-solid. I haven't had any problem with 0.7 or 0.8 (haven't used older versions).
> if the stuff just looked and acted like Microsoft products minus the insecurity.
Stop what you're doing right now. Go download Firefox and Thunderbird. Install and use them. Spend 2 minutes applying a tweak or two to the prefs.
Instant drop-in IE replacement (and a decent OE replacement for a.3 release). I'm sure anybody who does this stuff professionally wouldn't have a problem duplicating the resulting set of prefs for future automatic use.
Now, to address your comment another way, many things about the way IE "looked and acted" SUCK! For example, the toolbar--by default, about 15 huge 32x32 icons with text labels underneath. Most of which are useless. Plus those buttons and toolbars MS allows 3rd parties to add. So every crapware program on the computer adds a browser toolbar, and a button or two to the main toolbar. That's stupid. Contrast FF's default toolbar: Small buttons for back, forward, refresh, stop, home. Address bar in the same toolbar, plus a search box included. All in the same one-line toolbar. Far superior. Did it take time to get used to? About five minutes. The only people who would argue that IE's default (and by default I mean "for all the average joe cares, it's hard-coded) layout is desirable are those idiots who think all change is scary and harmful.
As a bonus, and getting back on topic FF of course doesn't support instant ActiveX installation of browser toolbars and other assorted stupidity.
This is awesome. From that site, Stacie Orrico's quote about file sharing (emphasis added):
"Well, I do realize how much the picture of artists is skewed when I get questions all the time like, 'Oh, so what kind of car do you drive? How big is your house?' It's like, 'No you don't understand, like I'm just trying to pay for my gas. I don't drive a nice car and I'm just trying to pay the bills and trying to have enough to buy groceries.' People just assume that the second you have a song on the charts," [i.e. you've earned millions of dollars of revenue for record labels] "you're a millionaire and truth is I've been in the industry for six years and still working towards the financial benefit. You put so much financial support into building an album. Between the clothes, and the sets, and the recording, and all the other people who are involved taking little bits of your money as you go along. So, especially if there is an artist that you really like and you're really enjoying, support them, support them with your $10 bucks." [out of which they'll see about 50 cents.] "Show you're a true fan, I think it's important."
Who wants to bet that not a single RIAA/CRIA exec has any problem paying their bills? Perhaps without traditional record labels, an artist like Orrico could record her music herself with a few thousand dollars of studio time (credit card), then sell just 50,000 copies of the single on the iTMS, and actually come out way ahead!
What's that I hear? Oh, it's the moans of agony coming from the RIAA headquarters. The past called. They want their distribution model back.
Lol. I marked you foe because there's functionality there, and since it's pretty hard to have a true enemy on a message board, people whose reasoning skills I find illogical go on that list in the hopes that I won't see their posts in the future and waste my (and your) time, since that would generally be a good thing (I waste too much time on/. as it is). Trust me, though, I attach no significance to these discussions either. Hmm... Maybe I should just swap "friends" with "foes" in terms of the modifiers assigned, and really mess with people's heads. "Wow, he just called me a 'fucking wanker' and then he put me on his friends list! Strange!"
The point still remains that I was right. You say "he...claims that's what he meant"? How are you (and the person to whom I originally replied) more reliable indicators of the OP's intentions than the OP himself? Sorry, the OP has spoken. What part of "You are 100% correct!" didn't you understand? My inference (not assumption, inference) was correct. That makes me right, and it does make fean (the person to whom I replied) dumb for not seeing the inference that I saw. Here's why:
To use a legal analogy, "the reasonable man" would have read the OP's post exactly as I did, since it would be unreasonable to use a browser in a web development setting for no other reason than visual "prettiness." In the lack of other evidence, the only reason fean assumed this unreasonable notion was so that he could portray Michael.Forman as a "Mac fanboy." If Forman had been speaking of an obscure browser for Windows, fean would likely not have initiated the name-calling. Yeah, I've done plenty of name calling in this thread, too. And I often do so when dumb people set themselves up to be knocked down a few pegs.
I'm not a fanboy. You're just jealous because I read his mind. No, seriously. It was obvious from context that he understood the fact that Safari was standards-compliant, and thus felt free to choose it because of its visual quality (over, for example, Mozilla, which is also standards-compliant).
Did I attribute motives which were not stated explicitly? Yes. Was I right? Yes. Does it bug you? Obviously.
> (go ahead, what type of fanboy am I? ha... can't tell, can you?)
You're not any type of fanboy. You're just dumb.
His point was that he used to code for Mozilla, because Moz is very standards-compliant. Now he uses Safari to preview things in, since Safari/KHTML pretty much renders things just like Mozilla does (namely, according to standards)--that's why they made Safari User Agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125
That's because it's so freaking much like Gecko (Mozilla) when it comes to rendering pages according to standards.
He's not trying to cater to one browser--he's using standards-compliant browsers like the excellent Mozilla and Safari to make sure all browsers can render his pages. Just because MSIE has the best market share doesn't mean catering toward it would be a good idea.
Audience that can view a site designed specifically for MSIE 6.0, assuming general public viewership: 95% Audience that can view a site designed specifically to follow standards: 100%
See the benefit now? Show me a website that renders properly in Safari that doesn't render useably in MSIE, and I'll consider removing your dunce cap.
ActiveX, VBScript...random BHO's and hijacking exploits. Oh, yeah. Let's use that browser as the gold standard.
Um, no, you're the dumbass, AC. My Motorola t720c, (and its new revision, the t730), purchased in 2003, is a tri-mode phone. This means it supports analog, both as a fall-back when digital service is unavailable, and with a menu option to set the phone to Analog Only mode.
Clue, meet AC. AC, meet clue.
As far as the existence of an RJ-11-to-cellular adapter and its viability for TiVo, (A) Cellular modem is usually a 14.4 connection unless you pay for "real" service from your phone company. Ouch. Take all night if a software update came. And many providers make you pay by the KB. (B) When you connect the phone to your computer, it's via serial or USB/serial, and the computer talks to the phone like a modem. Your computer doesn't use its own modem. TiVo already has a modem. You'd have to get the serial cable going into the built-in modem and hack in an interface to your phone's serial interface. HUGE PITA if possible at all (not likely).
To the original poster, just get an ethernet adapter for TiVo and connect it that way. Much less stupid solution, and your program guide won't take the whole night to download.
To the person who claimed to have seen such an adapter, perhaps it was designed to let you use a standard telephone handset--not a telephone--as a "headset" (mic and speaker) device for the cell. Not that it seems very logical, but hey, you never know.
Welcome to Slashdot. First lesson: Always post in "Plain Old Text" (which, despite its name, does still let you use HTML tags) unless you are posting code or ASCII art, in which case you want to use "Code" mode. HTML mode just messes things up. For example, if you want to put a blank line in your comment,
like that one, to delineate paragraphs, Text mode lets you do that easily. With HTML mode it runs it all together unless you manually insert <p> tags.
As far as links, just use the standard <a href="URL">link text</a> which yields a link like this.
Saddam's Chicks? Lied? Please. What a pathetic attempt to smear these women, for exercising their right, nay, responsibility, to express their opinion about the so-called leaders of this country. Care to justify your statement?
And what about the thousands of rednecks who were saying "Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. Why don't we carpet-bomb the whole country and kill all those damn ragheads!!" Now those are people who truly "know nothing about foreign policy" and "babble" anyway.
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Well, that's cool then. Someone should set about creating a database like that.
I'm glad the OP was wrong.
Schools?
As long as by "Windows and Macs" you mean "Windows." The only Macs left in schools are a few original iMacs left over from when school administrators actually bought Macs, back in 1998. Nobody's buying Macs in schools now.Schools?
As long as by "Windows and Macs" you mean "Windows." The only Macs left in schools are a few original iMacs left over from when school administrators actually bought Macs, back in 1998. Nobody's putting Macs in schools anymore.
> 911 call centers cannot be reached by mapping to any 10-digit number. There is no 10-digit number...
See, this is the problem. It is absolutely stupid for there not to be an alternate unique 10-digit number for each public safety call center. It would be very useful for so many reasons:
Users of Voice over IP, as well as cellphones, could program the relevant emergency numbers into their speed-dial, so that pressing the "Emergency" or "Fire" button on their phones, or another designated speed-dial marked on the phone, would put them in contact with the proper locality's authorities.
More reasons:
- Your elderly parent lives two hours away. You're made aware that there's something wrong. Instead of calling your city's 911 and explaining that the problem isn't at your house but rather in such-and-such town, you have the number for her town's 911 by your phone in case of just such an emergency, getting help to her house faster.
- Your cellphone may be your primary phone. Instead of always having to call the CHP 911, you can call your local town 911 if you're at home. Also more likely to be faster.
- Obviously, it would make the job of the VOIP providers ten times easier--just maintain a database of these emergency centers, and map the "911" mnemonic to the one closest to the location on file for the user. And perhaps there could be an alternate number to call if you want to reach 911 for a different locale--for example, 415-240 is an exchange in San Francisco (Central), so if you were in SF with an IP phone registered in New York, dialing, say, *911 415-240 would lookup the most appropriate call center in San Francisco. Obviously, you would have to ask someone their phone number to do this, but it shouldn't be a huge problem--most vacationers likely have access to a "real" phone. That feature should just be there in case you need it, and if you're going to be somewhere without a land-line for a long time, you should update your location.
I think the benefits of doing this are enough that it should be done. How much effort could it possibly take to assign each one a real phone number?
When every AOL CD contains a browser with 128-bit encryption, I think we can safely declare that the "War on Encryption Being Available to Potential Terrorists" (foreign nationals) is over and the potential terrorists have won! Time to move on.
> As I've said elsewhere, your tinfoil hat won't do a damn thing to block a magnetic field, grounded or not. Come on, you can surely find a magnet and piece of foil somewhere in your house and perform the extremely simple and obvious experiment that proves this...
(Score:-1, No Freaking Sense of Humor)
Lol.
Nah, I'm pretty sure it does. I think I could do that with some time, and a little sadistic intent, of course.
Of course, I have no experience with real she-males, so what do I know?
Photoshop!
Thanks for trying out Firefox!
A tip that may prove helpful:
Try using a UserContent.css file to block ads in any CSS-compliant browser. (i.e. any modern browser except IE). I know that this doesn't work for all ads, but it works for many. Also, a personal proxy, I hear, does an excellent job of blocking ads, which I think you'd agree are the majority of the annoying animated things. Hopefully more complete ad-blocking will come to Firefox soon. I'm pretty sure Mozilla proper does have more ad-blocking already implemented, so we'll see.
Ok. First off, orkysoft is right, Firefox is pretty much rock-solid. I haven't had any problem with 0.7 or 0.8 (haven't used older versions).
.3 release). I'm sure anybody who does this stuff professionally wouldn't have a problem duplicating the resulting set of prefs for future automatic use.
> if the stuff just looked and acted like Microsoft products minus the insecurity.
Stop what you're doing right now. Go download Firefox and Thunderbird. Install and use them. Spend 2 minutes applying a tweak or two to the prefs.
Instant drop-in IE replacement (and a decent OE replacement for a
Now, to address your comment another way, many things about the way IE "looked and acted" SUCK! For example, the toolbar--by default, about 15 huge 32x32 icons with text labels underneath. Most of which are useless. Plus those buttons and toolbars MS allows 3rd parties to add. So every crapware program on the computer adds a browser toolbar, and a button or two to the main toolbar. That's stupid. Contrast FF's default toolbar: Small buttons for back, forward, refresh, stop, home. Address bar in the same toolbar, plus a search box included. All in the same one-line toolbar. Far superior. Did it take time to get used to? About five minutes. The only people who would argue that IE's default (and by default I mean "for all the average joe cares, it's hard-coded) layout is desirable are those idiots who think all change is scary and harmful.
As a bonus, and getting back on topic FF of course doesn't support instant ActiveX installation of browser toolbars and other assorted stupidity.
A. AirPort [/Extreme] Base Station = Home DSL/Cable router with 802.11b/g access point.
Cross reference: Netgear WGR614, Linksys WRT54G, D-Link DI-824VUP.
B. Such products use DHCP servers and NAT to share the Internet connection. That's what they do.
C. Because of A and B, it can be deduced that the AirPort Base Station has a DHCP server.
Perhaps you weren't previously aware of point "A." I guess I could see if you thought it was just an access point?
This is awesome.
From that site, Stacie Orrico's quote about file sharing (emphasis added):
"Well, I do realize how much the picture of artists is skewed when I get questions all the time like, 'Oh, so what kind of car do you drive? How big is your house?' It's like, 'No you don't understand, like I'm just trying to pay for my gas. I don't drive a nice car and I'm just trying to pay the bills and trying to have enough to buy groceries.' People just assume that the second you have a song on the charts," [i.e. you've earned millions of dollars of revenue for record labels] "you're a millionaire and truth is I've been in the industry for six years and still working towards the financial benefit. You put so much financial support into building an album. Between the clothes, and the sets, and the recording, and all the other people who are involved taking little bits of your money as you go along. So, especially if there is an artist that you really like and you're really enjoying, support them, support them with your $10 bucks." [out of which they'll see about 50 cents.] "Show you're a true fan, I think it's important."
Who wants to bet that not a single RIAA/CRIA exec has any problem paying their bills? Perhaps without traditional record labels, an artist like Orrico could record her music herself with a few thousand dollars of studio time (credit card), then sell just 50,000 copies of the single on the iTMS, and actually come out way ahead!
What's that I hear? Oh, it's the moans of agony coming from the RIAA headquarters. The past called. They want their distribution model back.
Lol. I marked you foe because there's functionality there, and since it's pretty hard to have a true enemy on a message board, people whose reasoning skills I find illogical go on that list in the hopes that I won't see their posts in the future and waste my (and your) time, since that would generally be a good thing (I waste too much time on /. as it is). Trust me, though, I attach no significance to these discussions either. Hmm... Maybe I should just swap "friends" with "foes" in terms of the modifiers assigned, and really mess with people's heads. "Wow, he just called me a 'fucking wanker' and then he put me on his friends list! Strange!"
The point still remains that I was right. You say "he...claims that's what he meant"? How are you (and the person to whom I originally replied) more reliable indicators of the OP's intentions than the OP himself? Sorry, the OP has spoken. What part of "You are 100% correct!" didn't you understand? My inference (not assumption, inference) was correct. That makes me right, and it does make fean (the person to whom I replied) dumb for not seeing the inference that I saw. Here's why:
To use a legal analogy, "the reasonable man" would have read the OP's post exactly as I did, since it would be unreasonable to use a browser in a web development setting for no other reason than visual "prettiness." In the lack of other evidence, the only reason fean assumed this unreasonable notion was so that he could portray Michael.Forman as a "Mac fanboy." If Forman had been speaking of an obscure browser for Windows, fean would likely not have initiated the name-calling. Yeah, I've done plenty of name calling in this thread, too. And I often do so when dumb people set themselves up to be knocked down a few pegs.
I'm not a fanboy. You're just jealous because I read his mind. No, seriously. It was obvious from context that he understood the fact that Safari was standards-compliant, and thus felt free to choose it because of its visual quality (over, for example, Mozilla, which is also standards-compliant).
Did I attribute motives which were not stated explicitly? Yes.
Was I right? Yes.
Does it bug you? Obviously.
You're not any type of fanboy. You're just dumb.
His point was that he used to code for Mozilla, because Moz is very standards-compliant. Now he uses Safari to preview things in, since Safari/KHTML pretty much renders things just like Mozilla does (namely, according to standards)--that's why they made Safari User Agent string:That's because it's so freaking much like Gecko (Mozilla) when it comes to rendering pages according to standards.
He's not trying to cater to one browser--he's using standards-compliant browsers like the excellent Mozilla and Safari to make sure all browsers can render his pages. Just because MSIE has the best market share doesn't mean catering toward it would be a good idea.
Audience that can view a site designed specifically for MSIE 6.0, assuming general public viewership: 95%
Audience that can view a site designed specifically to follow standards: 100%
See the benefit now?
Show me a website that renders properly in Safari that doesn't render useably in MSIE, and I'll consider removing your dunce cap.
ActiveX, VBScript...random BHO's and hijacking exploits. Oh, yeah. Let's use that browser as the gold standard.
Yes, this is the case at PIT. See this person's comment.
That's awesome.
Just want you to know that many people would be willing to pay money for a copy or disk image of that CD. And by "many people" I mean me. =)
Interested? I'm sure we could work something out. I have PayPal.
Um, no, you're the dumbass, AC. My Motorola t720c, (and its new revision, the t730), purchased in 2003, is a tri-mode phone. This means it supports analog, both as a fall-back when digital service is unavailable, and with a menu option to set the phone to Analog Only mode.
Clue, meet AC. AC, meet clue.
As far as the existence of an RJ-11-to-cellular adapter and its viability for TiVo, (A) Cellular modem is usually a 14.4 connection unless you pay for "real" service from your phone company. Ouch. Take all night if a software update came. And many providers make you pay by the KB. (B) When you connect the phone to your computer, it's via serial or USB/serial, and the computer talks to the phone like a modem. Your computer doesn't use its own modem. TiVo already has a modem. You'd have to get the serial cable going into the built-in modem and hack in an interface to your phone's serial interface. HUGE PITA if possible at all (not likely).
To the original poster, just get an ethernet adapter for TiVo and connect it that way. Much less stupid solution, and your program guide won't take the whole night to download.
To the person who claimed to have seen such an adapter, perhaps it was designed to let you use a standard telephone handset--not a telephone--as a "headset" (mic and speaker) device for the cell. Not that it seems very logical, but hey, you never know.
I pimp runaway kids you insensitive clod!!
I tried this, trying to filter on the IMG SRC since the A tag on MSN ads is so vague (g.msn.com/...), but it didn't work:
Or do ads that are "document.written()" by JavaScript just bypass the stylesheet completely?
It's called "Launch Bar" for Mac OS X. I love it.
> we certainly don't live in the past
That's right. The RIAA are the ones who live in the past.
Very true. I have a perfect record with respect to interviews. Every time I get an interview, I get the job. Getting the interview is the hard part.
Welcome to Slashdot.
First lesson: Always post in "Plain Old Text" (which, despite its name, does still let you use HTML tags) unless you are posting code or ASCII art, in which case you want to use "Code" mode. HTML mode just messes things up. For example, if you want to put a blank line in your comment,
like that one, to delineate paragraphs, Text mode lets you do that easily. With HTML mode it runs it all together unless you manually insert <p> tags.
As far as links, just use the standard <a href="URL">link text</a> which yields a link like this.
Saddam's Chicks? Lied? Please. What a pathetic attempt to smear these women, for exercising their right, nay, responsibility, to express their opinion about the so-called leaders of this country. Care to justify your statement?
And what about the thousands of rednecks who were saying "Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. Why don't we carpet-bomb the whole country and kill all those damn ragheads!!" Now those are people who truly "know nothing about foreign policy" and "babble" anyway.