1) They've already recently refused to hear a spam case.
2) They have no problems with First Amendment restrictions, including the Junk Fax law.
3) Chief Justice Berger, U.S. Supreme Court: "Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit. We categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient. The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain."
4. buttons = 2 ekstra 'paging' buttons are implemented
on both sides of the up arrow, and its easy to hit wrong.
annoying.
Glad you mentioned that. They're on my T42 as well, and while I've not had a problem with hitting them accidentally, they're a bit annoying simply because I have no idea what their point is! I have yet to find an app that actually does anything when I hit them.
In general, though, my work system has been some model of ThinkPad for 15 years now and I've been quite happy with them. Not only for all the reasons others have mentioned, but also for that middle mouse button. It's astonishing that other laptops don't have it.
Yes, indeed. My favorite example is http://travelport.net/, the travel-arranging website my employer requires me to use. Try it in Firefox, and you just see a background -- no text, not even an error message. Change the UA to Netscape 7, and everything works fine. Why? The morons responsible for the Travelport website use the UA to whitelist modern versions of Netscape, MSIE, and Opera; they apparently can't be bothered to add a line of javascript to do anything for the others, much less whitelist Firefox.
I pointed out the problem over a year ago, but they are oblivious.
Curious. Just a few days ago I ordered an Inspiron 530N with Ubuntu for $350. Should be on my doorstep tomorrow (I missed the delivery guy today). Granted, that's without monitor, but it includes a bump up to 250G drive and DVD R/W...
Interesting. Microsoft includes a "Virtual Desktop Manager" in their PowerToys. Surely they (and the myriad other providers of multiple/virtual desktop tools for Windows) are equally guilty here?
Necessary is the keyword, and no site dumb enough to do this is necessary.
Ah, would that that were true! Our corporate-mandated travel web site is travelport.net. Their Javascript checks the User Agent name; if it's "MSIE", "Netscape", or "Opera", it uses that to figure out where to find the version, then uses the combination of the two to decide how to proceed. At no point is the possibility of Firefox even considered; with it you get a background but no content or message. So I use User Agent Switcher to claim I'm Netscape 7, and everything works. Idiots.
And, mind you, this is an improvement over the original code, which basically said:
if (MSIE or Netscape) { if (new-enough-version) { proceed } else {alert "use newer version" } }
Consider this another plea for that capability. My employer has turned off the POP3 server on its Exchange, forcing everyone to use Outlook. They did this in the name of security. (No, really; stop laughing.)
In this case, R(ing)TFA may have been a mistake, as I can see where you could get your misunderstanding from it. If you go to the source, though, you'll see this is part of the Novell deal. The actual letter starts:
Last Thursday, Novell and Microsoft announced a new collaborative effort involving both licensing and technology. The Software Freedom Law Center has been following the situation, and as its CTO, I've held a particular interest in how it will impact Free Software developers. One result of the agreement, Microsoft's patent pledge to developers, has received significant interest from the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development community.
A careful examination of Microsoft's Patent Pledge for Non-Compensated Developers reveals that it has little value.
I thought it might be skewed due to being a common misspelling in that part of the world. But, no, it's even more dramatic with the normal spelling!
http://www.google.com/trends?q=jennifer+lopez
Oh, and you realize that by pointing this out you may have Heisenburg'd the data...
As I understand it, one of the key legal arguments is that SpamHaus does not block any emails, but simply provides a list which MTA owners can use to block if they choose. In the ArsTechnica article (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061009-793 8.html), though, Steve Linford is quoted as saying, "Spamhaus.org blocks 50 billion spam messages per day." Seems like he should have chosen his words with more caution.
You want to drag-n-drop window surrogates inside soemthing that's inside the task bar? Wow, you've got good eysight.
I've got my miniwindow set to autohide (takes up 0 screen space unless I'm actually using it), small, and partially transparent. Not exactly "huge chunk".
If drag-n-drop _wasn't_ your goal, then yeah, there are _plenty_ of tools that simply let you switch desktops using icons in the taskbar.
Virtual desktops are great because you can click-drag windows within the thumbnail - does anyone know a way to do this in Windows (for my corporate laptop) without eating up a huge chunk of screen real estate? VirtuaWin is my favorite, but it's still not quite as good as Gnome/KDE (moving a window takes two clicks and picking from a non-visually-sorted list).
enable Virtual Desktop does it for me. Simple drag-n-drop of a window's thumbnail in the mini-window moves the window within and across desktops. You can resize, reposition, auto-hide, and adjust transparency of the mini-window. It was a bit flakey on Windows 98, but I've been very happy with it on Windows XP.
The article seems to indicate the offers cover CDs with First4Internet's XCP crap, but that's it. There's apparently similar ugliness with CDs using Sunncomm's MediaMaz copy protection (see http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=925) which is not covered. I guess that one hasn't gotten enough mainstream media coverage yet...
Short on screen space? The sidebar can autohide!
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I've seen several people comment -- usually negatively -- on the screen space this takes up. Perhaps they are unaware that you can tell the sidebar to autohide? I wouldn't use it otherwise on my laptop, but with that feature it's great!
I am assuming that to get the credit report you had to give this operation your SSN. If they're as dodgy as you suspect, that would be worrying me...
FYI, http://www.annualcreditreport.com/ is the only site recommended for requesting the free government-mandated free annual credit report. And even there you should watch for pre-checked boxes requesting paid services you don't want.
Sorry, but I can be pedantic when it comes to using the full vocabulary defined in a spec. For example, I think 410 Gone is on the web way too rarely.
Absolutely. And not just because the distinction was made in the spec so that software and users could know not to bother trying again later. I've argued (elsewhere) for years that when an ISP pulls the plug on a website because the owner violated the TOS (usually by spamming), they should ensure the site comes up 410 (we nuked it) rather than the usual 404 (may be back tomorrow).
I noticed the same thing with 1.0.6 on my Windows XP system. Clicking middle on "Read More" fails, but clicking middle on the article count link works. Similarly, some links in Google search results can be middle-clicked, others cannot. Dunno why.
The bill defines "information location tool" as "any instrument through which one can locate information that is available by means of the Internet or any other digital network." Can someone explain to me how that excludes hyperlinks? Anybody with a web page that has a link to another page, as long as the latter has copyrighted information (and virtually evey page qualifies), would be liable, no? So much for Canadians creating web sites, if this idiocy goes through.
I doubt much of anything will come of this. Since she is the model in the images, she was not the photographer and therefore has no claim to the images whatsoever. Since she is merely going for their removal, she was more than likely a willing participant in the photo shoot.
Do you have any references to back up that assertion? I've spoken with quite a few models and model photographers, and my understanding is you cannot legally sell or publish unless the model permits it. This is usually via a Model Release form signed by the model and the photographer.
A while back, SCO said it had "terminated IBM's right to use or distribute" AIX. IBM quite reasonably (and with Novell's backing) ignored this. Now, from the affidavit, we have:
9. In accordance with the Court's January 18, 2005 Order, IBM identified and extracted from CMVC all of the source code, documentation, and other information related to the AIX operating system, built an AIX server loaded with the appropriate version of CMVC along with the source code and documentation related to the AIX operating system, tested the system to ensure it was functional, and delivered and installed the server to allow access to SCO.
IBM built an AIX server to deliver everything to SCO. You gotta love it.
The 50 cent piece hasn't been made in years, it has been phased out just like your currency, the only difference is we never quit accepting it, we just quit using it.
Sorry, no. The Kennedy half dollar is still being minted; you can get them here:
US Mint. It's an understandable mistake -- you rarely see them in circulation; i.e. as you say "we just quit using it".
I would also quibble with your "only minor changes since the late 1800s"; the "Barber" coins (through 1915 or so) are quite different from the later coins.
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1) They've already recently refused to hear a spam case.
2) They have no problems with First Amendment restrictions, including the Junk Fax law.
3) Chief Justice Berger, U.S. Supreme Court: "Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit. We categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient. The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain."
Glad you mentioned that. They're on my T42 as well, and while I've not had a problem with hitting them accidentally, they're a bit annoying simply because I have no idea what their point is! I have yet to find an app that actually does anything when I hit them.
In general, though, my work system has been some model of ThinkPad for 15 years now and I've been quite happy with them. Not only for all the reasons others have mentioned, but also for that middle mouse button. It's astonishing that other laptops don't have it.
Yes, indeed. My favorite example is http://travelport.net/, the travel-arranging website my employer requires me to use. Try it in Firefox, and you just see a background -- no text, not even an error message. Change the UA to Netscape 7, and everything works fine. Why? The morons responsible for the Travelport website use the UA to whitelist modern versions of Netscape, MSIE, and Opera; they apparently can't be bothered to add a line of javascript to do anything for the others, much less whitelist Firefox. I pointed out the problem over a year ago, but they are oblivious.
Curious. Just a few days ago I ordered an Inspiron 530N with Ubuntu for $350. Should be on my doorstep tomorrow (I missed the delivery guy today). Granted, that's without monitor, but it includes a bump up to 250G drive and DVD R/W...
Interesting. Microsoft includes a "Virtual Desktop Manager" in their PowerToys. Surely they (and the myriad other providers of multiple/virtual desktop tools for Windows) are equally guilty here?
And, mind you, this is an improvement over the original code, which basically said:
if (MSIE or Netscape) { if (new-enough-version) { proceed } else {alert "use newer version" } }
Consider this another plea for that capability. My employer has turned off the POP3 server on its Exchange, forcing everyone to use Outlook. They did this in the name of security. (No, really; stop laughing.)
I thought it might be skewed due to being a common misspelling in that part of the world. But, no, it's even more dramatic with the normal spelling! http://www.google.com/trends?q=jennifer+lopez Oh, and you realize that by pointing this out you may have Heisenburg'd the data...
As I understand it, one of the key legal arguments is that SpamHaus does not block any emails, but simply provides a list which MTA owners can use to block if they choose. In the ArsTechnica article (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061009-793 8.html), though, Steve Linford is quoted as saying, "Spamhaus.org blocks 50 billion spam messages per day." Seems like he should have chosen his words with more caution.
You want to drag-n-drop window surrogates inside soemthing that's inside the task bar? Wow, you've got good eysight. I've got my miniwindow set to autohide (takes up 0 screen space unless I'm actually using it), small, and partially transparent. Not exactly "huge chunk". If drag-n-drop _wasn't_ your goal, then yeah, there are _plenty_ of tools that simply let you switch desktops using icons in the taskbar.
The article seems to indicate the offers cover CDs with First4Internet's XCP crap, but that's it. There's apparently similar ugliness with CDs using Sunncomm's MediaMaz copy protection (see http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=925) which is not covered. I guess that one hasn't gotten enough mainstream media coverage yet...
I've seen several people comment -- usually negatively -- on the screen space this takes up. Perhaps they are unaware that you can tell the sidebar to autohide? I wouldn't use it otherwise on my laptop, but with that feature it's great!
I am assuming that to get the credit report you had to give this operation your SSN. If they're as dodgy as you suspect, that would be worrying me... FYI, http://www.annualcreditreport.com/ is the only site recommended for requesting the free government-mandated free annual credit report. And even there you should watch for pre-checked boxes requesting paid services you don't want.
I noticed the same thing with 1.0.6 on my Windows XP system. Clicking middle on "Read More" fails, but clicking middle on the article count link works. Similarly, some links in Google search results can be middle-clicked, others cannot. Dunno why.
I mean, c'mon, guys...
The bill defines "information location tool" as "any instrument through which one can locate information that is available by means of the Internet or any other digital network." Can someone explain to me how that excludes hyperlinks? Anybody with a web page that has a link to another page, as long as the latter has copyrighted information (and virtually evey page qualifies), would be liable, no? So much for Canadians creating web sites, if this idiocy goes through.
Sheesh!
I doubt much of anything will come of this. Since she is the model in the images, she was not the photographer and therefore has no claim to the images whatsoever. Since she is merely going for their removal, she was more than likely a willing participant in the photo shoot.
Do you have any references to back up that assertion? I've spoken with quite a few models and model photographers, and my understanding is you cannot legally sell or publish unless the model permits it. This is usually via a Model Release form signed by the model and the photographer.
Perhaps the parent poster knows this. But this is for the benefit of anyone who didn't. Please help stamp out that bogus meme! http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_334.html http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_marie_ant oinette.htm
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