Does this really suprise anyone? We've continuously seen spammers/telemarketers/advertisers/etc. sink lower and lower over the years as their tactics are countered. First there was telemarketing then the Telezapper gave us all a little hope that the incessant calls would stop. Then the telemarkters came up with a new tool that beat the telezapper. We responded with the Do Not Call Registry and now the telemarketers are suing on the basis of free speech. They will stop at nothing, not even the breaking the law, to make money.
"That being said, few Iraqis even know that there are operating systems other than M$."
Maybe they're not as far behind the times as we thought. I mean if the users I speak to are any indication, then about two thirds of the American public think that their operating system is Office 98.
I agree. Some of the best input devices I've used have been MS. However they are not all good. At my office we have two different models of their ergonomic keyboards. One is just a plain keyboard aside from the ergonomic feature and it's great (I'm typing on one right now). The other is technically the same model but with hotkeys but the keys were built differently. If you don't press the keys dead center they tend to get stuck. Now this isn't really an issue for the letter and number keys because they are square but it's a huge issue when you try to hit a rectangular shaped button like shift or backspace and are just a little bit off center. It drives me crazy!
On the mouse side of things I've been using an Intellimouse Optical (Not Explorer) at home and at work for well over two years and I have to say it's one of the best mice I've ever used. The wheel has a nice solid click to it and the back and forward buttons are just high enough so that you can't accidentally hit them. The other nice thing about it is that the back and forward buttons are on opposite sides of the mouse unlike the Explorer version. To me this is a more logical layout than the two buttons being on the same side.
"Some of the reasons that he cites are that the Hubble's replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope, could be delayed or suffer some sort of failure."
Sounds like some kind of extortion scam to me...
Pay me to save Hubble or something could happen to your fancy schmancy new one.
I'm staring out the window right now and it's a beautiful sunny day but weather.com reports the temperature at 28 degrees Fahrenheit (Feels like 21 degrees Fahrenheit).
"If I can go to almost any bank machine in the world and be able to use it without needing to sign up for a new account, why can't I do the same with hot spots?"
I just hope that they don't charge me $2.50 everytime I want to use a someone else's hotspot.
My first computer was an ADAM. They stopped making it right after I got it so the only programs I ever had for it was a word processor and a Buck Rogers video game, both of which ran off of cassettes.
Ahh that brings back memories.
I used to do my homework on it and I got in trouble because my teacher thought the computer was doing it for me. To this day that still makes me laugh.
Yes but unless there was some kind of criminal coercion involved (which is entirely possible in this case) then the motivation for the decision is irrelevant.
"agencies receiving an actual failing grade are "the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as the departments of Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and State.""
I'm glad no important goverment agencies failed the test... oh wait.
In other words instead of providing a good quality reliable service they are using, IMO, less than ethical means to guarantee profit.
If cellular companies could provide the "awesome, great, spectacular" service they claim to have then they wouldn't have to worry about forcing customers to stay with them. Customers would stay with them willingly. Well, I would at least.
I think that one of the biggest negative aspects of Linux is that there are too many distros. It makes it too confusing for someone who is interested in switching to Linux to make a choice. If the Linux community standardized then it would speak with one strong voice instead of a confusing drone of smaller ones.
For all of you that say, "But choice of distros is what makes Linux great," let me say this. What makes Linux great is the fact that it is more or less a group project. Thousands of people work on it to make it better. But right now those thousands of people are not unified. They don't work together and the result is that the wheel is often reinvented. But if we took the good things from all the distros and combined the into one "super distro" (for lack of a better term) and then everyone worked to make that one distro better I think that thirty percent figure mentioned in the article would be vastly larger.
Lighten up. The parent can correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure the point he was trying to make was that critics aren't the definitive source that some people consider them to be.
Personally, I don't care what critics have to say about a movie. I'm very capable of making up my own mind about such things.
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"one of the most user friendly spyware protecting programs"
I wonder if that was intentional.
"How 'low' can they go?"
As low as they need to in order to make a buck.
Does this really suprise anyone? We've continuously seen spammers/telemarketers/advertisers/etc. sink lower and lower over the years as their tactics are countered. First there was telemarketing then the Telezapper gave us all a little hope that the incessant calls would stop. Then the telemarkters came up with a new tool that beat the telezapper. We responded with the Do Not Call Registry and now the telemarketers are suing on the basis of free speech. They will stop at nothing, not even the breaking the law, to make money.
You'll find digital almost anywhere you go now (one cable) but that only happened in the last couple of years.
I moved here about 6 or 7 years ago and I remember thinking to myself, "What's the second jack for???" Made no sense then, makes no sense now.
"That being said, few Iraqis even know that there are operating systems other than M$."
Maybe they're not as far behind the times as we thought. I mean if the users I speak to are any indication, then about two thirds of the American public think that their operating system is Office 98.
I agree. Some of the best input devices I've used have been MS. However they are not all good. At my office we have two different models of their ergonomic keyboards. One is just a plain keyboard aside from the ergonomic feature and it's great (I'm typing on one right now). The other is technically the same model but with hotkeys but the keys were built differently. If you don't press the keys dead center they tend to get stuck. Now this isn't really an issue for the letter and number keys because they are square but it's a huge issue when you try to hit a rectangular shaped button like shift or backspace and are just a little bit off center. It drives me crazy!
On the mouse side of things I've been using an Intellimouse Optical (Not Explorer) at home and at work for well over two years and I have to say it's one of the best mice I've ever used. The wheel has a nice solid click to it and the back and forward buttons are just high enough so that you can't accidentally hit them. The other nice thing about it is that the back and forward buttons are on opposite sides of the mouse unlike the Explorer version. To me this is a more logical layout than the two buttons being on the same side.
"Some of the reasons that he cites are that the Hubble's replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope, could be delayed or suffer some sort of failure."
Sounds like some kind of extortion scam to me...
Pay me to save Hubble or something could happen to your fancy schmancy new one.
Microsoft can't sue people because windows is too general a term but Playboy can???
That seems a little hypocritical to me.
Sunny does not always equal hot.
I'm staring out the window right now and it's a beautiful sunny day but weather.com reports the temperature at 28 degrees Fahrenheit (Feels like 21 degrees Fahrenheit).
That's about the high for where I live (DC Metro area). These are usually the ATM's that banks put in the grocery stores.
"If I can go to almost any bank machine in the world and be able to use it without needing to sign up for a new account, why can't I do the same with hot spots?"
I just hope that they don't charge me $2.50 everytime I want to use a someone else's hotspot.
I had completely forgotten about that. Man I wish I still had that thing. My parents threw it out years ago. I think it still worked too.
My first computer was an ADAM. They stopped making it right after I got it so the only programs I ever had for it was a word processor and a Buck Rogers video game, both of which ran off of cassettes.
Ahh that brings back memories.
I used to do my homework on it and I got in trouble because my teacher thought the computer was doing it for me. To this day that still makes me laugh.
Yes but unless there was some kind of criminal coercion involved (which is entirely possible in this case) then the motivation for the decision is irrelevant.
Only if you use Verizon's poor excuse for DSL.
Yes but compelled is the magic word. If the above mentioned ISPs gave the names up willingly then I think that past rulings would stand.
This decision basically says that ISPs have the right to say no but that doesn't mean that they have to.
"agencies receiving an actual failing grade are "the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as the departments of Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and State.""
I'm glad no important goverment agencies failed the test... oh wait.
"He emphasizes the cost and practicality of such a station, as well its potential as a 'bridge to the heavens.'"
:-)
I'd much prefer a stairway to the heavens.
In other words instead of providing a good quality reliable service they are using, IMO, less than ethical means to guarantee profit.
If cellular companies could provide the "awesome, great, spectacular" service they claim to have then they wouldn't have to worry about forcing customers to stay with them. Customers would stay with them willingly. Well, I would at least.
"my guess is the laywer handling the case saw an easy way to win"
Yeah but what happens when the FBI figures out how to do it without disabling the saftey features???
phase 2 was ????
that all of the cheese is going to go bad???
"the company had a few hundred employees and called itself MicroSoft."
MicroSoft is dead! Long live Microsoft! Umm...wait a minute...that didn't come out right.
"30% by 20006? thats impressive.."
:)
I don't know, 18000 years is a long time. Seems very doable to me.
I think that one of the biggest negative aspects of Linux is that there are too many distros. It makes it too confusing for someone who is interested in switching to Linux to make a choice. If the Linux community standardized then it would speak with one strong voice instead of a confusing drone of smaller ones. For all of you that say, "But choice of distros is what makes Linux great," let me say this. What makes Linux great is the fact that it is more or less a group project. Thousands of people work on it to make it better. But right now those thousands of people are not unified. They don't work together and the result is that the wheel is often reinvented. But if we took the good things from all the distros and combined the into one "super distro" (for lack of a better term) and then everyone worked to make that one distro better I think that thirty percent figure mentioned in the article would be vastly larger.
Lighten up. The parent can correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure the point he was trying to make was that critics aren't the definitive source that some people consider them to be.
Personally, I don't care what critics have to say about a movie. I'm very capable of making up my own mind about such things.