Do you want a wife who is going to do something downright stupid because her horoscope/astrologer/tarot card/tea leaf reader told her she should do it?
Because everyone who reads horoscopes is a lobotomized zombie who can't make decisions without consulting the stars. And disagreeing with someone is the same as having a knock-down-drag-out fight.
Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Arabic: ) is a member of the royal family of Abu Dhabi and the current foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates. He received his position in the cabinet reshuffle in February 2006, and was previously the information and culture minister.
No offense to the guy, of course - just puling an example of a lame Wikipedia article...
Why do you consider this an example of a lame article? The guy's the UAE equivalent of Condoleeza Rice -- do you consider Secretary of State an insignificant figure in the US government, or do you think the UAE isn't noteworthy? The only problem here is the article's a stub -- but I'd rather have some scant information than nothing.
Besides, look at how many pages on obscure sci-fi characters there are, and then tell me that's of relevance to a wide audience...
What's annoying is that people who write those articles do so as though the characters are real people, which often obscures information like what episode they first appeared in, or inconsistencies in their backstory. But you'd have to rewrite the article from the ground up to fix it.
It's beyond that door, where light and shadow meet in a place we call The Twilight Zone. The vacuum's in the corner, with a Talking Tina and broken stopwatch on top.
By repeating the subject line in your message body, you made me download 48 redundant bits. On my 300 baud modem, that's a full minute wasted, you insensitive clod!
Touch screens might be useful for interacting with a GUI, especially on laptops, but they can't replace the tactile response of a keyboard, which is important to touch typists.
And really, do you want fingerprint smudges on the screen where your hands keep touching?
Federation starships don't carry deuterium for fusion -- that's the matter portion of their fuel as established in the TNG episode "Night Terrors" where aliens tell Troi "one moon circles" to indicate they need some of the Enterprise's deuterium. (Strangely Voyager had to stop at one point to mine deuterium off a planet (guess the Bussard collectors were broken and there were no gas giants around) but they never ran low on anti-matter.)
The URL was not intended to be public and everyone involved knows this.
The web is a public network -- everything is assumed to be open to the public unless it's protected, at the very least, by a login. The fact that a someone intends for a page to be private doesn't make it so unless he does something about it. MobiTV is at fault for hiring an incompetent web designer. Period.
Uh, no it's not. If both parties have to "agree" to show feedback, then sellers will never have to show that they received honest, negative feedback.
I didn't say anything about the parties having to agree to show feedback. Feedback in escrow can still be used to affect the user's rating even if the specific comments are hidden. Throw in an expiration date (say three or four months) on leaving feedback, after which the comments show up whether the user wants them to or not.
do you not know what the issue with retaliatory negative feedback is? It prevents buyers from being able to safely leave legitimate feedback for fear of retaliation.
The proper solution would be to create a feedback escrow system where you can't see what the other person said about you until you submit your own feedback. Making the feedback system one-sided is completely idiotic.
OpenDNS is nice for many reason, but if you're relying on it to protect you from phishing, you're screwed. The only real protection is not to enter your password for any financial site unless you've typed the URL yourself.
Had somebody disagree with you once did you? You get that in an open forum.
Once? Any time I post anything remotely critical of Apple (or Google), even if it's something like pointing out that Apple is a business that's out to make money, I get modded troll and flamebait. Being an open forum doesn't do much good when people use mod points to enforce groupthink.
In the past few months I've had to look briefly into Italian law, and every time i learn something new about that country and it's laws I am completely astounded that it's not a 3rd world shithole..
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Well what are you waiting for -- stubbify it.
We're going to grant your wish -- we'll show you a world without sin.
It's beyond that door, where light and shadow meet in a place we call The Twilight Zone. The vacuum's in the corner, with a Talking Tina and broken stopwatch on top.
By repeating the subject line in your message body, you made me download 48 redundant bits. On my 300 baud modem, that's a full minute wasted, you insensitive clod!
Touch screens might be useful for interacting with a GUI, especially on laptops, but they can't replace the tactile response of a keyboard, which is important to touch typists.
And really, do you want fingerprint smudges on the screen where your hands keep touching?
Did you know that if you share a folder in Limewire, it's automatically shared across your LAN?
Come to think of it, what am I doing posting to Slashdot.
Federation starships don't carry deuterium for fusion -- that's the matter portion of their fuel as established in the TNG episode "Night Terrors" where aliens tell Troi "one moon circles" to indicate they need some of the Enterprise's deuterium. (Strangely Voyager had to stop at one point to mine deuterium off a planet (guess the Bussard collectors were broken and there were no gas giants around) but they never ran low on anti-matter.)
Dilithium crystals do not produce any power -- they're essentially carburetors for safely mixing matter and antimatter, which are the true power source in Star Trek.
Geeze, you call yourself a geek?
The difference is that a person's garage is assumed to be private unless stated otherwise. Websites are just the opposite.
The web is a public network -- everything is assumed to be open to the public unless it's protected, at the very least, by a login. The fact that a someone intends for a page to be private doesn't make it so unless he does something about it. MobiTV is at fault for hiring an incompetent web designer. Period.
Do those life expectancy figures include people dying from acute lead poisoning?
Thanks to those notorious neocons Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
OpenDNS is nice for many reason, but if you're relying on it to protect you from phishing, you're screwed. The only real protection is not to enter your password for any financial site unless you've typed the URL yourself.
He'd be modded troll and flamebait for daring to impugn Apple's quality.
... as long as men need some place to go for anonymous gay sex with winos who need two bucks for a 40 oz.
Or so I hear.
Only if you assume that American political terminology is standard for the rest of the world.
In most places "liberal" is equivalent to what Americans call "libertarian," and the parties Americans call "liberal' are known as "labor" or "left".
Um...