Irish people have a habit of voting No to EU treaties
We voted No to the Nice treaty once. When the government told us we got the answer wrong we meekly voted Yes the next time. Every other treaty we've passed by a 2 to 1 ratio or thereabouts. I wouldn't call that a habit of voting No.
Also, I don't know about the big backlash against the EU if they did force Microsoft to stop business in the EU. I reckon you'd see quite a few people voting yes for finally seeing politicians having a bit of backbone. Or maybe that'd be just me...
Hotmail can only be used with Outloook Express, and to get POP access with Yahoo mail you have to pay. GMail is the only free web mail service that I know of that you can access through any email client.
For a lot of people the killer feature is compatibility with the software everyone else is using. I run OO, and recently my wife updated her resume using it. Which was fine until she needed to email it in Word format to an recruitment agency (why they wouldn't accept PDF is beyond me). We used the export feature but the result just wouldn't render properly in Word. Luckily, we still had an old version of MSOffice lying around and that came to our rescue, but the fact that we needed it shows that using Open Office can cause problems when interacting with the software the majority of the world uses.
I'm not sure if it's my slightly unusual setup (English vesion of Firefox on a Japanese language Windows XP) but the font on the main page looks absolutely terrible to me. Its very hard on the eyes. When I click through the "Read More" link it's fine though.
Just thought I'd let whoever may be reading this know.
3) creating a new tab doesn't copy the history like it does in IE. In IE, when you spawn a new window you get the history of the old window. This is really, really handy.
So true. But at the same time, fairy tales can be comforting. I'm a complete athiest, but I certainly didn't have the heart to tell my Mum while she lay on her deathbed that I thought her belief in an afterlife was delusional. I like to think that the hope of eternal happiness helped eased her passing. When I'm in the same situation, my conviction that this life is all we've got will probably make it all that more painful.
A great intro to the subject is Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works. While it doesn't (obviously) fully explain how our brain works, it does a great job of explaining how evolution has moulded our ways of thinking. One fascinating nugget, humans find certain logic puzzles difficult but if equivalent questions are phrased in such a way as they become tests to detect other humans cheating, they solve them with ease.
I've an Master's degree in Electronic Engineering and consider myself pretty good at Maths but I found the introduction to maths in this book tough going. The first 10 or so chapters were fine as I'd studied a lot of the material before but he almost lost me when he started talking about manifolds which I'd never studied properly. It took about three or four rereads before I could start to really grasp the concepts.
If I found it that tough, I don't think your average layperson has much of a hope.
For me, it's now on to the actual physics. Wish me luck!
While in college I took a job which involved cleaning toilets in a nightclub. Believe me, women can be a lot messier than men (especially if they're off their heads)
Something that has always pissed me off is that if I'm talking to someone and they get a phone call, they always give the phone call priority, no matter who the caller, whereas if someone came by in person, looking to talk, they'd make a decision, based on who dropped by and what they're talking to me about, on who they need to be talking to.
The phone call isn't always more important you know!!
Exactly what is your strategy to deal with global warming. You said you would come up with a more workable alternative to the Kyoto Treaty. You've had four years. What is your plan?
Please don't say that the evidence isn't there. The ten hottest years on record have been since 1990. The southwest of the US has been hit by three hurricanes this year. Europe was hit by a record heatwave last summmer (2003). The records keep piling up. What will the US do to help save humanity?
Sounds like that something that isn't absolutely essential for life but pleasurable might cause withdrawl symptoms if one is deprived of it.
I'm logging off the computer to have a few beers, meet a few girls and laugh with friends.
They've already given back more loads than they've taken. I remember reading the article the authors wrote in Scientific American (either June or July 1999), trying it out and immediately finding that they were giving me much better results than the best of the best of the time (Metacrawler, altavista etc., etc.,) were. For a few months I felt that I was one of very few in on an amazing secret.
So what if they used GNU software to power their engine. Exactly what part of their search algorithm depends on GNU software?
The fact is that for the last five years I have used Google exclusively for web searches and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I clicked though one of their ads. I owe them loads, they owe me nothing. Good luck to them and thanks again for all the results (whoops nearly said fish there).
I don't know about anyone else but I've seen a dramatic drop in the amount of spam I get at my hotmail account in the last couple of weeks. It's gone from an average of 50 a day to 1 a day. The reduction happened around the same time that the interface changed. Has Microsoft actually put in an effective filter or is there another reason for it?
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We voted No to the Nice treaty once. When the government told us we got the answer wrong we meekly voted Yes the next time. Every other treaty we've passed by a 2 to 1 ratio or thereabouts. I wouldn't call that a habit of voting No.
Also, I don't know about the big backlash against the EU if they did force Microsoft to stop business in the EU. I reckon you'd see quite a few people voting yes for finally seeing politicians having a bit of backbone. Or maybe that'd be just me...
Alcohol can only be sold to those over 21 years of age and must be covered in a brown paper bag lest some unfortunate soul might see it.
Yeah, the land of the free alright
Hotmail can only be used with Outloook Express, and to get POP access with Yahoo mail you have to pay.
GMail is the only free web mail service that I know of that you can access through any email client.
I remember getting a phone (not my own line, just a phone) in my room when I was 13, and I thought even that was a little unnecessary
I'll take a wild guess that you're male
For a lot of people the killer feature is compatibility with the software everyone else is using. I run OO, and recently my wife updated her resume using it. Which was fine until she needed to email it in Word format to an recruitment agency (why they wouldn't accept PDF is beyond me). We used the export feature but the result just wouldn't render properly in Word. Luckily, we still had an old version of MSOffice lying around and that came to our rescue, but the fact that we needed it shows that using Open Office can cause problems when interacting with the software the majority of the world uses.
Completely OT but cheers for that link. Especially liked the Patrick Stewart clip.
Patrick Stewart: You're not married, you don't have a girlfriend and you've never watched Star Trek?
Ricky Gervais: No
PS: Good Lord
Because $2 an hour is a living wage in those countries?
I'm not sure if it's my slightly unusual setup (English vesion of Firefox on a Japanese language Windows XP) but the font on the main page looks absolutely terrible to me. Its very hard on the eyes. When I click through the "Read More" link it's fine though.
Just thought I'd let whoever may be reading this know.
3) creating a new tab doesn't copy the history like it does in IE. In IE, when you spawn a new window you get the history of the old window. This is really, really handy.
Try the Duplicate Tab extension.
This really should be default behaviour.
By that logic South Africa could be referred to as Africa.
So true.
But at the same time, fairy tales can be comforting.
I'm a complete athiest, but I certainly didn't have the heart to tell my Mum while she lay on her deathbed that I thought her belief in an afterlife was delusional. I like to think that the hope of eternal happiness helped eased her passing.
When I'm in the same situation, my conviction that this life is all we've got will probably make it all that more painful.
Popular Misconception:
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
Actual Quote:
Sarcasm is the highest form of wit, I don't think
A great intro to the subject is Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works. While it doesn't (obviously) fully explain how our brain works, it does a great job of explaining how evolution has moulded our ways of thinking.
One fascinating nugget, humans find certain logic puzzles difficult but if equivalent questions are phrased in such a way as they become tests to detect other humans cheating, they solve them with ease.
I've an Master's degree in Electronic Engineering and consider myself pretty good at Maths but I found the introduction to maths in this book tough going. The first 10 or so chapters were fine as I'd studied a lot of the material before but he almost lost me when he started talking about manifolds which I'd never studied properly. It took about three or four rereads before I could start to really grasp the concepts.
If I found it that tough, I don't think your average layperson has much of a hope.
For me, it's now on to the actual physics. Wish me luck!
Or for an even better security system: A well trained dog.
You can't scroll pages in continous mode in XPdf* which is a major problem for my style of reading ebooks online.
*if you can it's not something that is very obvious
While in college I took a job which involved cleaning toilets in a nightclub. Believe me, women can be a lot messier than men (especially if they're off their heads)
Something that has always pissed me off is that if I'm talking to someone and they get a phone call, they always give the phone call priority, no matter who the caller, whereas if someone came by in person, looking to talk, they'd make a decision, based on who dropped by and what they're talking to me about, on who they need to be talking to. The phone call isn't always more important you know!!
Just saw the news about hurricane Jeanne. Make that FOUR hurricanes
Exactly what is your strategy to deal with global warming. You said you would come up with a more workable alternative to the Kyoto Treaty. You've had four years. What is your plan?
Please don't say that the evidence isn't there. The ten hottest years on record have been since 1990. The southwest of the US has been hit by three hurricanes this year. Europe was hit by a record heatwave last summmer (2003). The records keep piling up. What will the US do to help save humanity?
Sounds like that something that isn't absolutely essential for life but pleasurable might cause withdrawl symptoms if one is deprived of it. I'm logging off the computer to have a few beers, meet a few girls and laugh with friends.
They've already given back more loads than they've taken. I remember reading the article the authors wrote in Scientific American (either June or July 1999), trying it out and immediately finding that they were giving me much better results than the best of the best of the time (Metacrawler, altavista etc., etc.,) were. For a few months I felt that I was one of very few in on an amazing secret.
So what if they used GNU software to power their engine. Exactly what part of their search algorithm depends on GNU software?
The fact is that for the last five years I have used Google exclusively for web searches and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I clicked though one of their ads. I owe them loads, they owe me nothing. Good luck to them and thanks again for all the results (whoops nearly said fish there).
At the end he asks for it not to be circulated widely. Ah well......
Can you make phone calls with them?
I don't know about anyone else but I've seen a dramatic drop in the amount of spam I get at my hotmail account in the last couple of weeks. It's gone from an average of 50 a day to 1 a day. The reduction happened around the same time that the interface changed. Has Microsoft actually put in an effective filter or is there another reason for it?