We must take action quickly and protect our economy against this offshoring threat. I propose introducing legislation that creates incentive to conducting identity theft within our borders instead of off-shoring it.
It's actually not that bad of a place... It's kind of like taking a state road from one interstate to another. And the strip of businesses is pretty convenient.
First of all: The 1600dpi sampling is very nice. It is not a waste, as some have claimed. I used to use the previous mouse at the highest cursor tracking speed, and the cursor was always jumping over pixels. I set this one to about 75% tracking speed and the cursor still moves faster than the previous mouse, but no more pixel jumping.
The insanely fast cursor tracking speed takes about a week to get used to. During this week, you are flying past buttons that you're trying to click, and it's mildly annoying. However, it results in a huge reduction in wrist strain, because not only are you moving the mouse much shorter distances, you no longer have to lift it up.
The low-friction feet are not a lie -- this mouse glides with almost no effort, which also cuts down on wrist strain. This is countered somewhat by the high-friction cord, described below.
Aside from the sampling, this mouse sucks. It is not ergonomic, not comfortable to hold, and the extra buttons are impossible to reach without shifting your hand (a common problem with extra-button mice.) The switches for the main buttons seem to be of low quality, because the left-click button has developed a problem where it makes two clicking sounds for every time I press it -- a lot more annoying than it may seem. The scroll wheel placement seems to have been made with lesbian pornstars in mind, or someone with equally long fingers. Finally, the cord is made of a high-friction rubbery material, requiring me to suspend it from the wall to prevent friction on my desk.
From my experience, it's not even across sessions. If you paused a download or your connection dropped, the download is gone and you have to restart it from scratch -- as simple as that. I have never been able to restart a download in Firefox.
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Ok, here are the three main drawbacks I can think of so far:
Signing up seems to take place on a web site. This rules out being accessible to people who don't have computers or Internet access -- the only benefit I could imagine for this service.
My cell phone has a tiny screen. I won't even bother to elaborate on this.
I pay per-kilobyte charges for network traffic. Social networking just isn't important enough to pay for.
It's not leaving later that saves you time, it's not driving when everyone else is driving. Not only does this ignore anyone who doesn't drive to work -- my subway commute is a lot faster during rush hour -- but it totally misses the point.
At a previous job, leaving 15 minutes early would save me 30 minutes of commute time, since I would get in before rush hour traffic.
The pop-up is a good idea, but I think that it should have that delay feature that other pop-up dialogs have (where the buttons are disabled for a few seconds.)
Servers being down some of the time shouldn't cause large-scale delivery problems. Remember, when e-mail protocols were being designed, a lot of these servers were down for a good portion of each day. E-mail protocols were designed to deliver e-mail in whatever window existed. If the receiving server is down, the sending server will try again for a good while before giving up.
Also, as someone else has already mentioned, there are the MX priority lists...
All I really want is to be able to bookmark comments and articles with one click. Kuro5hin/Scoop has had this feature (named Hotlist) for years, and has allowed me to keep track of my favorite articles.
I agree wholeheartedly, and love my (now second) iPod. One thing that the iPod lacks, IMO, is a dedicated volume control. It can be kind of frustrating trying to turn down a song that is way too loud while the iPod is not in the Now Playing screen.
Now that I've figured it out for myself, I offer the following tips for other iPod users:
The Play/Pause button will always pause the currently playing song. Use this to minimize damage to your ears.
The Play/Pause button will not always unpause the song you just paused. If the selected menu is an artist, album, song, or playlist, it will start playing it. This is also how you can queue up an artist's several albums at once.
The Prev/Next buttons will always skip to the next/previous song, no matter what menu you're in.
The fastest way to get back to the Now Playing screen -- other than waiting a few seconds for it to reappear -- is to mash the Menu button 3-6 times, scroll all the way down, and hit the center button.
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We must take action quickly and protect our economy against this offshoring threat. I propose introducing legislation that creates incentive to conducting identity theft within our borders instead of off-shoring it.
Hey, I was just there yesterday!
It's actually not that bad of a place... It's kind of like taking a state road from one interstate to another. And the strip of businesses is pretty convenient.
Have you actually looked at the store? Most of the items are being sold in bulk sizes and quantities.
This mouse was a huge disappointment.
First of all: The 1600dpi sampling is very nice. It is not a waste, as some have claimed. I used to use the previous mouse at the highest cursor tracking speed, and the cursor was always jumping over pixels. I set this one to about 75% tracking speed and the cursor still moves faster than the previous mouse, but no more pixel jumping.
The insanely fast cursor tracking speed takes about a week to get used to. During this week, you are flying past buttons that you're trying to click, and it's mildly annoying. However, it results in a huge reduction in wrist strain, because not only are you moving the mouse much shorter distances, you no longer have to lift it up.
The low-friction feet are not a lie -- this mouse glides with almost no effort, which also cuts down on wrist strain. This is countered somewhat by the high-friction cord, described below.
Aside from the sampling, this mouse sucks. It is not ergonomic, not comfortable to hold, and the extra buttons are impossible to reach without shifting your hand (a common problem with extra-button mice.) The switches for the main buttons seem to be of low quality, because the left-click button has developed a problem where it makes two clicking sounds for every time I press it -- a lot more annoying than it may seem. The scroll wheel placement seems to have been made with lesbian pornstars in mind, or someone with equally long fingers. Finally, the cord is made of a high-friction rubbery material, requiring me to suspend it from the wall to prevent friction on my desk.
Just chiming in to say, Jabber. I work at a large financial institution and that's what we use. It works great. I use Pandion for my client.
I would say that the useful cut-off point is when the quality of the digital image approaches the image you could've captured on 35mm film.
A beautiful piece of art: i love my thinkpad even though i know macs are better
From my experience, it's not even across sessions. If you paused a download or your connection dropped, the download is gone and you have to restart it from scratch -- as simple as that. I have never been able to restart a download in Firefox.
Not to mention the number of times I've accidentally closed a window instead of switching to it.
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It seems that, if BBC's web designers are to be believed, "Web 2.0" really just means "make all your fonts huge".
From a big fan of the current bbc.co.uk.It's not leaving later that saves you time, it's not driving when everyone else is driving. Not only does this ignore anyone who doesn't drive to work -- my subway commute is a lot faster during rush hour -- but it totally misses the point.
At a previous job, leaving 15 minutes early would save me 30 minutes of commute time, since I would get in before rush hour traffic.
A link to the actual Bonjour product page at Apple.com would've been helpful.
Wow, I really thought this was a joke, but there are packages at that URL.
The pop-up is a good idea, but I think that it should have that delay feature that other pop-up dialogs have (where the buttons are disabled for a few seconds.)
Servers being down some of the time shouldn't cause large-scale delivery problems. Remember, when e-mail protocols were being designed, a lot of these servers were down for a good portion of each day. E-mail protocols were designed to deliver e-mail in whatever window existed. If the receiving server is down, the sending server will try again for a good while before giving up.
Also, as someone else has already mentioned, there are the MX priority lists...
All I really want is to be able to bookmark comments and articles with one click. Kuro5hin/Scoop has had this feature (named Hotlist) for years, and has allowed me to keep track of my favorite articles.
Yep, I trust Sony. That's why I don't mind them installing a rootkit on my computer.
Remember to drink plenty of water.
Now that I've figured it out for myself, I offer the following tips for other iPod users:
There was a related discussion on this subject on Flickr a few weeks ago...
Check out just one of the edits.
Here's a related article, The Puritan Work Ethic at Anxiety Culture.