You are quite right but I feel the need to point out you don't need a gym or expensive equipment to get fit... All the equipment you really need is some dumbbells, a mat, and a pair of trainers. If you already have a soft carpet you can skip the mat.
While I generally agree with your comments, I'd suggest a re-examination of the modern lifestyle would be in order.
The idea that to maintain good health (and a healthy weight), the only options are a gym membership, "expensive equipment" or "equipment" is absurd.
People who like to claim that "there are no illegal aliens because people aren't illegal" are about to find their words ringing hollow in an especially perverse way.
Get over it buddy.
Everybody has guaranteed access to free emergency room care. If there's wasteful spending in health care with respect to the poor or undocumented, that's where you'll find it. And then there's the issue of communicable diseases in that same group. TB, for example, has made a resurgence in recent years. Do you really want the poor or "illegals" (who aren't going anywhere) left untreated?
Either way, see what happens next time you travel and get sick. Chances are high you'll be covered for free. When you come back, you'll join the choir singing praises of universally-provided coverage, and be embarassed at how your own country treats its own people, and its visitors.
So I wonder... would a farm rabbit raised on feed taste better if its diet were changed to something more natural say... a month or so... before it was killed?
Sure, but I don't know about a month.
Don't enjoy rabbit, so I'll pass on commenting. Chicken, on the other hand, if you feed one a steady diet of corn, you get golden-coloured and really tasty meat. Cows that are fed grass (as opposed to grain), give milk that tastes far better than what you'll find in the American supermarket aisles. The cheese made from that milk doubly so. The meat obviously is better too and priced accordingly.
It's a simple concept, really. Garbage in, garbage out.
I'd add that the federal government is the nation's largest employer.
Which is obscene to those who rail at the size of government, but embarrassingly inadequate for those complaining about long lines, waits, processing times, or general lack of oversight and enforcement for everything else.
You can start by explaining how a multi-trillion dollar government program is going to make things better. Perhaps, you can cite the dozens or perhaps hundreds of other programs the government has run that efficiently made things better?
Sigh.
Has it occcurred to you that the argument implicit in your questions, the One Argument To Rule Them All (or, to use Ronald Reagan's words, "Government is the problem"), is not an argument at all? It's an idealogy. And one that's been gradually discredited since the 1980s, and especially so of late.
That said, the following quotation should address your questions about governemnts programs that run efficiently or make things better:
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department. And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.
Personally, I would never replace my POTS phone with anything "high tech".
Unless you have an older model made by AT&T (bonus points if it's rotary and heavy enough to kill a horse), or use business-quality phones at home, chances are good that the quality and feature set of your home phone is "adequate" and not much more.
"Everyone thinks dogs are smarter than cats, until you ask a dog to climb a tree."
I'd suggest that if there is a change of opinion, it reverts to the original when the cat gets "stuck" in the tree.
Either way, animals have little need or use for logic and abstract reasoning, but instead, devote their energies to learning how best to respond to a world that's filled with irrational behaviour and emotions.
In that sense, having a dog or cat as a pet serves as a reminder that our capacity for thinking and ideas isn't as useful as living in the moment.
The problems start, however, at the very point where the website stops working correctly because the user had the "arrogance" of replacing the font with his own, or the "nerve" to press Ctrl++ to try and make the text bigger.
Assuming, of course, that ^C++ (or in my case, repeating ^C-- for every other website) has any effect whatsoever.
I've never seen, for example, a popular blog that didn't have fonts so large they resembled something in a Children's book, or the cover of a magazine as opposed to the inside where the articles are supposed to be. Hell, even news.google.com decided to redo their page some time back with larger fonts.
You have a problem with fonts? I think there's a lot of us who do.
For every Web site you shut down; for every IRC server you pay to have DDoSed; for every eMule node you raid; five more will spring up in their place...
Dude, 1995 called...
This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto." Huh? Right? Manifesto? "You may stop me, but you can't stop us all."
Modern news distribution derives its value from two things: First, the reliability of its product. Second, the timeliness of its product.
If your interpretation of "news" is the latest headlines with some facts, pictures, and possibly video footage thrown in to sastisfy the limited attention spans of those watching TV or clicking away in their browser, then sure.
Otherwise, your criteria are rubbish. There are plenty of weekly, bi-monthly and monthly publications that not only are profitable, but also have increasing readership numbers.
I fall into the latter category. The way I see it, reading publications which don't fit your definition are like long and leisurely conversations of events with intelligent and knowledgable people. The initial emotions have subsided, the wheat separated from the chaffe, and everyone with a viewpoint, insight or additional information has been given time to submit input and given due consideration.
I end up with broad and multiple perspectives, analysis and all the relevant facts, and come up away with a full understanding of what happened. What have you got? Timely and reliable reporting telling you that something did?
We had some guys with quirky speech in our engineering college too. We called them "International Students."
For better or worse, misproununced words are often funny to our ears.
I'm wondering, though, to what degree therapy really does help. I know plenty of people who can't pronounce the letter "r" clearly (let alone trill them in succession) even after years of therapy. And then there's those people, both young and old, who have adopted the Barbara Walters style of pronunciation.
By contrast, teaching a non-native English speaker to pronounce the word "the" correctly seems easy.
Also careful shopping can reduce food cost far below average. I've been hiring 2-3 low wage earners/week this year and I notice they spend far more on junk... alone than I spend on half or more of my at home meals...
Careful shopping?
Sure, careful shopping (of any sort) can reduce costs. And cooking at home reduces costs. What you're missing, and what your quoted price/unit costs don't reflect, is that for your low-wage workers, there simply isn't enough money to sustain a proper diet.
In that context, the hierarchy of what's affordable is sugar, carbohydrates, beans/grains, meat, to the most expensive (and frequently hard to find), fresh fruit and produce. The compromise that ends up being made repeatedly is a meal consisting of sugar and refined carbohydrates vs. a meal of chicken and vegetables.
While whole chicken does cost roughly the same per pound as sugar, it certainly doesn't translate it an equivalent number of meals. Using all the parts of a chicken requires both time and well stocked pantry and fridge. Those aren't available even for most upper-income households. So the meat you end up costs substantially more than your cited $1 per pound. More importantly, a pound of sugar will go a lot farther to satiate your hunger and provide energy.
You're living week-to-week and after cashing your paycheck and paying yor bills, you've got $20 left to fill your stomach. You're sufficient American that a diet of mainly beans (or rice) is out of the question. What do you end up buying, if not sugary junk to get you through the working day?
Actually the puzzling thing to me is why is electronic voting so "popular". Why do the people in charge keep promoting it?
Seriously?
Can't speak to Brazil specifically, but the "popularity" of electronic voting, or more correctly, the push to use electronic voting systems to deal with the problems of manual methods, can be summed in two words: hanging chad.
Those two words, in turn, gave rise to another infamous two words: Bush v. Gore.
The aftermath, described here, included the passage of the Help America Vote Act which, among other things, funded the purchase of electronic voting systems.
The rest happened in your state capitol.
If you don't reside in the US, you can be sure that your own elected representatives took note of what happened.
I hate the search bar in Firefox too, so I deleted it and set up keyword searches for the half-dozen search engines I use regularly. (If you're not familiar with this FF function, right-click on any search box and select "add a keyword for this search."
A pre-written list (chosen at random) for easy import.
Isn't most of the food we give to dogs.etc. the remains of stuff that we produce but don't eat? Chicken necks,.etc.
Pet food is made from animal by-products (some of which could be charitably described as meat), but certainly not from chicken necks. Ask a chef or anyone that cooks and they'll tell you chicken necks and those parts of the animal that most people don't associate with food or otherwise serve up on their dinner plates are both valuable and expensive (well, cheaper than meat, but hardly cheap).
Next time you find a recipe that calls for, say, chicken stock, make a trip to your local butcher to get a deal on the cheap bits used for stock. No local butcher? Try the grocery store. You might find chicken necks or even wings, but everything else (the head, legs, feet, giblets, heart, and ribs have already been sold off to someone else before the store gets their shipment.
The same applies to a "whole" chicken. Unless, of course, you're fortunate to live near a Chinatown where "whole" means just that.
Grass-fed beef and organic chicken still have bits that aren't worth using for human consumption. What do you think happens to that.
It ends up as hamburger? Well, not grass-fed or organic, but that's one place where the "meat" that no one would eat ends up.
Dogs are naturally scavengers and will happily eat most anything. It's presumptuous to think that there's a vast untapped market for the meat or animal byproducts that go into commercially-prepared pet food. And certainly not one as profitable as the pet food industry. Hell, the origin of of commerical pet food in the early 20th century probably grew out of some enterpreneur realising, "Hey, I can make money selling this garbage", and consumers trading their own leftovers (the traditional method of feeding pets) with the convenience of that packaged garbage.
Me, I feed my dog from the table. I cook, so there's no convenience in buying pre-packaged dog food, and there's certainly more than enough "extras" that would otherwise end up in the kitchen trash.
A fair question. If your requirement for a "file server" is simply serving files, then a low-power device may work just fine. For anything more, they're a bad choice.
I'm a big fan of Soekris boards. While I can load one up to function as a firewall and router, in addition to providing mail, DNS, DHCP, IMAP, web, file (Samba and NFS), etc. services and get perfectly adequate and reliable performance, I don't.
For me, a file server, even in a SOHO environment, suggests multiple drives and RAID, among other things. That translates into an "inexpensive server", not a cheap, low-power device.
I suspect most people offering up suggestions have a collection of image or mp3 files (and maybe that once-every-six-months backup of other computers or devices). For them, performance isn't much of an issue.
The vast majority of people with a computer tend to live in their browser's window. And they like it!
By contrast, in the presentation videos for Google's Wave, the ncurses interface (or what seemed like one) garnered the loudest applause. A narrow audience or limited subset of users? Perhaps, but I expect there's enough of us who find using a web browser for anything other than browsing the web inefficient, if not abhorent.
Still, the march to develop new "messaging technologies" is interesting, especially with respect to certain things like collaboration. Personally, I don't even think web or browser-based email works (at least for anyone other than trivial or casual use), so I'm happy to sit things out and watch on the sidelines. Who knows. Maybe they're onto something.
I'd hope most Slashdot users would know this, but it seems it's not the case. You can perform Google searches without visiting the google.com webpage, just as you can perform eBay, imdb, flickr, wiki, etc. searches without first visting those webpages.
With respect to filtering Google searches (along the lines of what's provided by givemebackmygoogle website), just create a bookmark with an appropriate Keyword (a simple "g" would suffice) with the Properties of:
When done, you can type "g mysearchwords" in the address bar to get your results. Obviously, you can add additional search parameters into the URL. The "inurl:|-inurl:" is just one of many.
As always, Google for more info. There's plenty of people who have already figured out the correct search strings for numerous sites and offer a convient, downloadale file you can import into Firefox's bookmarks.
William Safire is gone, so I'll offer the guess that the weasel word "access" came into widespread use around the time HMOs were touted as the saviour of America's health care problems back in the 1990s. Hospitals, doctors and nurses, in turn, were renamed using another weasel word, "providers".
If the analogy holds, Disney is now an Entertainment Services Provider, and Keychest is the equivalent of a Entertainment Care insurance policy.
But my wife received a letter from her Employer asking her to lobby her congress/senate folks on behalf of the health care debate. She didn't feel comfortable doing it at all and told her boss so.
I think most companies have certain social or political beliefs, and it's reasonable to expect they might want to ask their employees to help out, whether that's contributing time or money to a charity, signing a petition, or even writing a letter to Congress. It's just as reasonable to expect that a certain number of employees would want to participate.
The difference here is that we're talking about AT&T, not the employees of a small company with narrow or limited interests. I'd suggest that if the rules for a company that wields that much power can't be made different, then their actions should be more carefully scrutinised for abuses.
What you do at your home should be purely divorced from your work.
Perhaps, but it can be ideal when they complement each other. If I was an avid amateur organic farmer and was an employee of Whole Foods, I'd certainly be happy to assist the company in advocating, for example, stricter control of organic labelling.
As for employer abuses, that's a tough call. It's probably true that there's plenty of laws on the books preventing such things from happening just as it's true that such things continue to happen.
From what I can tell, your question boils down to "Can an email server be configured?"
The answer to that, obviously, is yes. Implementing the features you want (or don't want) is a function of reading the documentation for the software you intend to use, and configuring things accordingly.
What software Slackware or Ubuntu includes by default (whether that's Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, etc.), and how the OS and/or the included email software happens to be configured, is irrelevant.
That is incorrect. The Arabic word "Al-Qaida" means "The Base". To make that word into database, well you need to add "data" and then it would be "Qaidat Al Bayanat" (ka-edit al ba-yan-at).?i>
I'm left wondering how and whether "All your base belong to us" translates?
Most people only really have broad demands on how their music sounds. Give them fairly deep bass, no obvious crackle at the high end, and they'll pretty much be happy with anything in between.
If by "music" you exclude most jazz, classical, and choral, among other, then probably yes.
I still blast pop music from time to time, but most of my recordings are classical in nature, and then are primarily solo instruments. Classical guitar recordings, for example, encoded with low bitrates are basically unlistenable, while higher bitrates are iffy.
When I hear "It sounds OK to me", I'm tempted to picture someone who grew up eating a regular diet of fast food commenting on the quality of food sold at farmer's markets, or on the menu choices of a good restaurant. Some people can't tell the difference simply because they never learned how. That's not to say you need to be a farmer or gourmet chef to know what good food is, or that you need to be an audiophile to discern a bad reproduction.
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You are quite right but I feel the need to point out you don't need a gym or expensive equipment to get fit ... All the equipment you really need is some dumbbells, a mat, and a pair of trainers. If you already have a soft carpet you can skip the mat.
While I generally agree with your comments, I'd suggest a re-examination of the modern lifestyle would be in order.
The idea that to maintain good health (and a healthy weight), the only options are a gym membership, "expensive equipment" or "equipment" is absurd.
Then again, so is the way many of us live.
People who like to claim that "there are no illegal aliens because people aren't illegal" are about to find their words ringing hollow in an especially perverse way.
Get over it buddy.
Everybody has guaranteed access to free emergency room care. If there's wasteful spending in health care with respect to the poor or undocumented, that's where you'll find it. And then there's the issue of communicable diseases in that same group. TB, for example, has made a resurgence in recent years. Do you really want the poor or "illegals" (who aren't going anywhere) left untreated?
Either way, see what happens next time you travel and get sick. Chances are high you'll be covered for free. When you come back, you'll join the choir singing praises of universally-provided coverage, and be embarassed at how your own country treats its own people, and its visitors.
So I wonder... would a farm rabbit raised on feed taste better if its diet were changed to something more natural say... a month or so... before it was killed?
Sure, but I don't know about a month.
Don't enjoy rabbit, so I'll pass on commenting. Chicken, on the other hand, if you feed one a steady diet of corn, you get golden-coloured and really tasty meat. Cows that are fed grass (as opposed to grain), give milk that tastes far better than what you'll find in the American supermarket aisles. The cheese made from that milk doubly so. The meat obviously is better too and priced accordingly.
It's a simple concept, really. Garbage in, garbage out.
Excellent points.
I'd add that the federal government is the nation's largest employer.
Which is obscene to those who rail at the size of government, but embarrassingly inadequate for those complaining about long lines, waits, processing times, or general lack of oversight and enforcement for everything else.
You can start by explaining how a multi-trillion dollar government program is going to make things better. Perhaps, you can cite the dozens or perhaps hundreds of other programs the government has run that efficiently made things better?
Sigh.
Has it occcurred to you that the argument implicit in your questions, the One Argument To Rule Them All (or, to use Ronald Reagan's words, "Government is the problem"), is not an argument at all? It's an idealogy. And one that's been gradually discredited since the 1980s, and especially so of late.
That said, the following quotation should address your questions about governemnts programs that run efficiently or make things better:
Credits to the orginal poster or writer.
Personally, I would never replace my POTS phone with anything "high tech".
Unless you have an older model made by AT&T (bonus points if it's rotary and heavy enough to kill a horse), or use business-quality phones at home, chances are good that the quality and feature set of your home phone is "adequate" and not much more.
"Everyone thinks dogs are smarter than cats, until you ask a dog to climb a tree."
I'd suggest that if there is a change of opinion, it reverts to the original when the cat gets "stuck" in the tree.
Either way, animals have little need or use for logic and abstract reasoning, but instead, devote their energies to learning how best to respond to a world that's filled with irrational behaviour and emotions.
In that sense, having a dog or cat as a pet serves as a reminder that our capacity for thinking and ideas isn't as useful as living in the moment.
The problems start, however, at the very point where the website stops working correctly because the user had the "arrogance" of replacing the font with his own, or the "nerve" to press Ctrl++ to try and make the text bigger.
Assuming, of course, that ^C++ (or in my case, repeating ^C-- for every other website) has any effect whatsoever.
I've never seen, for example, a popular blog that didn't have fonts so large they resembled something in a Children's book, or the cover of a magazine as opposed to the inside where the articles are supposed to be. Hell, even news.google.com decided to redo their page some time back with larger fonts.
You have a problem with fonts? I think there's a lot of us who do.
For every Web site you shut down; for every IRC server you pay to have DDoSed; for every eMule node you raid; five more will spring up in their place ...
Dude, 1995 called ...
Claim your prize here.
Modern news distribution derives its value from two things: First, the reliability of its product. Second, the timeliness of its product.
If your interpretation of "news" is the latest headlines with some facts, pictures, and possibly video footage thrown in to sastisfy the limited attention spans of those watching TV or clicking away in their browser, then sure.
Otherwise, your criteria are rubbish. There are plenty of weekly, bi-monthly and monthly publications that not only are profitable, but also have increasing readership numbers.
I fall into the latter category. The way I see it, reading publications which don't fit your definition are like long and leisurely conversations of events with intelligent and knowledgable people. The initial emotions have subsided, the wheat separated from the chaffe, and everyone with a viewpoint, insight or additional information has been given time to submit input and given due consideration.
I end up with broad and multiple perspectives, analysis and all the relevant facts, and come up away with a full understanding of what happened. What have you got? Timely and reliable reporting telling you that something did?
IANACE, but how is that an improvement over a cow that naturally grazes on fresh grass?
We had some guys with quirky speech in our engineering college too. We called them "International Students."
For better or worse, misproununced words are often funny to our ears.
I'm wondering, though, to what degree therapy really does help. I know plenty of people who can't pronounce the letter "r" clearly (let alone trill them in succession) even after years of therapy. And then there's those people, both young and old, who have adopted the Barbara Walters style of pronunciation.
By contrast, teaching a non-native English speaker to pronounce the word "the" correctly seems easy.
Also careful shopping can reduce food cost far below average. I've been hiring 2-3 low wage earners/week this year and I notice they spend far more on junk ... alone than I spend on half or more of my at home meals ...
Careful shopping?
Sure, careful shopping (of any sort) can reduce costs. And cooking at home reduces costs. What you're missing, and what your quoted price/unit costs don't reflect, is that for your low-wage workers, there simply isn't enough money to sustain a proper diet.
In that context, the hierarchy of what's affordable is sugar, carbohydrates, beans/grains, meat, to the most expensive (and frequently hard to find), fresh fruit and produce. The compromise that ends up being made repeatedly is a meal consisting of sugar and refined carbohydrates vs. a meal of chicken and vegetables.
While whole chicken does cost roughly the same per pound as sugar, it certainly doesn't translate it an equivalent number of meals. Using all the parts of a chicken requires both time and well stocked pantry and fridge. Those aren't available even for most upper-income households. So the meat you end up costs substantially more than your cited $1 per pound. More importantly, a pound of sugar will go a lot farther to satiate your hunger and provide energy.
You're living week-to-week and after cashing your paycheck and paying yor bills, you've got $20 left to fill your stomach. You're sufficient American that a diet of mainly beans (or rice) is out of the question. What do you end up buying, if not sugary junk to get you through the working day?
Actually the puzzling thing to me is why is electronic voting so "popular". Why do the people in charge keep promoting it?
Seriously?
Can't speak to Brazil specifically, but the "popularity" of electronic voting, or more correctly, the push to use electronic voting systems to deal with the problems of manual methods, can be summed in two words: hanging chad.
Those two words, in turn, gave rise to another infamous two words: Bush v. Gore.
The aftermath, described here, included the passage of the Help America Vote Act which, among other things, funded the purchase of electronic voting systems.
The rest happened in your state capitol.
If you don't reside in the US, you can be sure that your own elected representatives took note of what happened.
I hate the search bar in Firefox too, so I deleted it and set up keyword searches for the half-dozen search engines I use regularly. (If you're not familiar with this FF function, right-click on any search box and select "add a keyword for this search."
A pre-written list (chosen at random) for easy import.
Isn't most of the food we give to dogs .etc. the remains of stuff that we produce but don't eat? Chicken necks, .etc.
Pet food is made from animal by-products (some of which could be charitably described as meat), but certainly not from chicken necks. Ask a chef or anyone that cooks and they'll tell you chicken necks and those parts of the animal that most people don't associate with food or otherwise serve up on their dinner plates are both valuable and expensive (well, cheaper than meat, but hardly cheap).
Next time you find a recipe that calls for, say, chicken stock, make a trip to your local butcher to get a deal on the cheap bits used for stock. No local butcher? Try the grocery store. You might find chicken necks or even wings, but everything else (the head, legs, feet, giblets, heart, and ribs have already been sold off to someone else before the store gets their shipment.
The same applies to a "whole" chicken. Unless, of course, you're fortunate to live near a Chinatown where "whole" means just that.
Grass-fed beef and organic chicken still have bits that aren't worth using for human consumption. What do you think happens to that.
It ends up as hamburger? Well, not grass-fed or organic, but that's one place where the "meat" that no one would eat ends up.
Dogs are naturally scavengers and will happily eat most anything. It's presumptuous to think that there's a vast untapped market for the meat or animal byproducts that go into commercially-prepared pet food. And certainly not one as profitable as the pet food industry. Hell, the origin of of commerical pet food in the early 20th century probably grew out of some enterpreneur realising, "Hey, I can make money selling this garbage", and consumers trading their own leftovers (the traditional method of feeding pets) with the convenience of that packaged garbage.
Me, I feed my dog from the table. I cook, so there's no convenience in buying pre-packaged dog food, and there's certainly more than enough "extras" that would otherwise end up in the kitchen trash.
A fair question. If your requirement for a "file server" is simply serving files, then a low-power device may work just fine. For anything more, they're a bad choice.
I'm a big fan of Soekris boards. While I can load one up to function as a firewall and router, in addition to providing mail, DNS, DHCP, IMAP, web, file (Samba and NFS), etc. services and get perfectly adequate and reliable performance, I don't.
For me, a file server, even in a SOHO environment, suggests multiple drives and RAID, among other things. That translates into an "inexpensive server", not a cheap, low-power device.
I suspect most people offering up suggestions have a collection of image or mp3 files (and maybe that once-every-six-months backup of other computers or devices). For them, performance isn't much of an issue.
The vast majority of people with a computer tend to live in their browser's window. And they like it!
By contrast, in the presentation videos for Google's Wave, the ncurses interface (or what seemed like one) garnered the loudest applause. A narrow audience or limited subset of users? Perhaps, but I expect there's enough of us who find using a web browser for anything other than browsing the web inefficient, if not abhorent.
Still, the march to develop new "messaging technologies" is interesting, especially with respect to certain things like collaboration. Personally, I don't even think web or browser-based email works (at least for anyone other than trivial or casual use), so I'm happy to sit things out and watch on the sidelines. Who knows. Maybe they're onto something.
I'd hope most Slashdot users would know this, but it seems it's not the case. You can perform Google searches without visiting the google.com webpage, just as you can perform eBay, imdb, flickr, wiki, etc. searches without first visting those webpages.
With respect to filtering Google searches (along the lines of what's provided by givemebackmygoogle website), just create a bookmark with an appropriate Keyword (a simple "g" would suffice) with the Properties of:
When done, you can type "g mysearchwords" in the address bar to get your results. Obviously, you can add additional search parameters into the URL. The "inurl:|-inurl:" is just one of many.
As always, Google for more info. There's plenty of people who have already figured out the correct search strings for numerous sites and offer a convient, downloadale file you can import into Firefox's bookmarks.
Good catch.
William Safire is gone, so I'll offer the guess that the weasel word "access" came into widespread use around the time HMOs were touted as the saviour of America's health care problems back in the 1990s. Hospitals, doctors and nurses, in turn, were renamed using another weasel word, "providers".
If the analogy holds, Disney is now an Entertainment Services Provider, and Keychest is the equivalent of a Entertainment Care insurance policy.
But my wife received a letter from her Employer asking her to lobby her congress/senate folks on behalf of the health care debate. She didn't feel comfortable doing it at all and told her boss so.
I think most companies have certain social or political beliefs, and it's reasonable to expect they might want to ask their employees to help out, whether that's contributing time or money to a charity, signing a petition, or even writing a letter to Congress. It's just as reasonable to expect that a certain number of employees would want to participate.
The difference here is that we're talking about AT&T, not the employees of a small company with narrow or limited interests. I'd suggest that if the rules for a company that wields that much power can't be made different, then their actions should be more carefully scrutinised for abuses.
What you do at your home should be purely divorced from your work.
Perhaps, but it can be ideal when they complement each other. If I was an avid amateur organic farmer and was an employee of Whole Foods, I'd certainly be happy to assist the company in advocating, for example, stricter control of organic labelling.
As for employer abuses, that's a tough call. It's probably true that there's plenty of laws on the books preventing such things from happening just as it's true that such things continue to happen.
From what I can tell, your question boils down to "Can an email server be configured?"
The answer to that, obviously, is yes. Implementing the features you want (or don't want) is a function of reading the documentation for the software you intend to use, and configuring things accordingly.
What software Slackware or Ubuntu includes by default (whether that's Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, etc.), and how the OS and/or the included email software happens to be configured, is irrelevant.
That is incorrect. The Arabic word "Al-Qaida" means "The Base". To make that word into database, well you need to add "data" and then it would be "Qaidat Al Bayanat" (ka-edit al ba-yan-at).?i>
I'm left wondering how and whether "All your base belong to us" translates?
Most people only really have broad demands on how their music sounds. Give them fairly deep bass, no obvious crackle at the high end, and they'll pretty much be happy with anything in between.
If by "music" you exclude most jazz, classical, and choral, among other, then probably yes.
I still blast pop music from time to time, but most of my recordings are classical in nature, and then are primarily solo instruments. Classical guitar recordings, for example, encoded with low bitrates are basically unlistenable, while higher bitrates are iffy.
When I hear "It sounds OK to me", I'm tempted to picture someone who grew up eating a regular diet of fast food commenting on the quality of food sold at farmer's markets, or on the menu choices of a good restaurant. Some people can't tell the difference simply because they never learned how. That's not to say you need to be a farmer or gourmet chef to know what good food is, or that you need to be an audiophile to discern a bad reproduction.