"Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD] [demon.co.uk]"
Actually, the proper rendering of USA dates is November 14, 2004. That comma is important. What it's really saying is: 2004 November 14, which is 2004-11-14. We are ALREADY compliant! We just haven't figured it out yet!
Not to put too fine an edge on it, but if you actually tried Firefox, even you would realise how dead is the horse you have been beating. It's so old it doesn't even stink any more. The door of the prison is open and you are arguing over what color to paint the walls. Come on out and play!
It had simply gotten to the point where I would have taken something with a lot fewer features than Firefox just to get rid of the crap that IE lets these nits put on my machine. I was simply fed up with having to run Ad-Aware and Spybot twice a week just to stay ahead of the buffoons. That Firefox is such a GREAT browser is just icing on the cake. If my own experience is any indication of how most alive and conscious surfers feel, it will rapidly reach its stated goal of 10% of the market in the US and then far exceed it.
As for not being able to automatically "update" Windows, how many of those fixes are for products that need updating simply because you are using Microsoft crapware in the first place?
"Gee, I can't automatically update IE when I use Firefox. What will I do?"
No, you just can't do it automatically. You CAN go to the download page. This has the added advantage of preventing MS/Bill from searching your machine.
"All the more "interesting" then that IE squashed Netscape like a bug during the browser wars."
You seem to have forgotten that Microsoft did that almost exclusively by making IE FREE. And you may want to actually TRY Firefox before making this kind of broad statement. Microsoft ain't gonna squash THIS bug. Even boobs know the difference between a butterfly and a cockroach.
And by strong evidence you mean having to buy oxygen by the tank because the phytoplankton has died and there's a 70% deficit in conversion of carbon dioxide? Or perhaps you're waiting for the Steel Pier in Atlantic City to go floating out to sea? Don't your ears get dirty with your head in the sand?
Thanks for the Burroughs quote. Old Bill can always be counted on to shed some much needed light on any question of reality versus belief. During the entire election process I had a page with links to all the stations carrying Air America with a long quotation from Burroughs, "Listen all you boards syndicates and governments of the earth and you powers behind what filth deals consumated in what lavatory to take what is not yours..." It fit the situation to a "T", including the references to Hassan i Sabbah.
And yes, there would obviously be a fight, but then are these idiots going to endanger the life of the president by shooting at everything that moves or trying to hold out in Air Force One for days or weeks on end?
Actually, the European outfit that bought the Giant grocery and pharmacy chain, the institutors of all this tracking baloney in Maryland and DC, is in serious financial trouble. I will not take personal credit for this, though I did switch to Mars, which is locally owned and has no tracking, but I suspect it didn't do them any good. Once people figure out their other purchases are paying for the 6-bottles-for-a-$1 bargain, they start looking around for something less obtrusive. Folks may buy into George's perverted worldview, but you can't slip an extra 50-cent markup on tuna fish past them.
Using George's logic (assuming what comes out of the wanker's mouth has ANYTHING to do with logic), the flooding of the Potomac and the consequent submerging of the capitol of the United States will be good because it will create jobs. Take this logic a little further and murder becomes good because it creates jobs for undertakers. Rape? Great! It creates jobs for doctors and psychiatrists. Diarrhea? You got it! Jobs for toilet paper manufacturers. You got bad schools? Stop complaining! It's creating jobs for tutors and Evelyn Woodhead reading programs. Bubonic Plague? Bring it on! More jobs for detergent chemists. Water in the gasoline? A bonanza for mechanics.
Dear God, deliver me from these chimpanzees who can't get the 2 1/2 millennia old basic principles of logic into their little anthropoid brains.
So, who do you think is going to make more money and stay in business longer, a store who will sell to anybody or one that artificially limits the number of its customers and annoys the crap out of the ones it has with more and more ersatz bullshit? There were good reasons for the old motto: "The customer is always right." Because you can't do business without customers. The customers go away, your business dies. Any business that puts its own shortterm interests ahead of its customers' satisfaction is on the road to ruin.
Funny how their moral umbrella covers sex but not mass murder. It'll be interesting to see if the Chileans follow through on their threat to arrest Bush when he gets off the plane under an international arrest warrant for the latter.
The constitution specifically gives Congress the right to oversee the Supreme Court. How long is THAT check and balance going to take to be implimented?
That was the first thing that occurred to me. On the contrary, one would think that building in redundancy where it's needed would be an important element in the overall security framework. I have to suspect this has more to do with W helping out his corporate buddies than anything else.
"I'm sure kids in the US had the same sort of thing with Buck Rogers or Battlestar Galactica..."
Battlestar Ponderosa was just BAD...
Dr. Who reminds me of some of the Inspector Morse series, in that about halfway through it starts not making any sense. I suppose it has something to do with subtle language differences or perhaps just the peculiar way Brits think...;-)
Inconvenience? Huh? I have a DVD-RAM drive for backups of important photos and data (genealogy) and I prefer the format to jewelboxes. You don't have to fiddle with getting the disc off the hub and there's very little danger of scratching anything. As for saving space, well, I'd trade a little space for added permanence of my irreplaceable data.
As for blu-ray, I don't really see the point unless you plan on buying an 80-inch LCD monitor. My 37" looks just fine with regular old DVD. Sometimes I think these guys change standards just because they can. And as Niro Nakamichi points out, a lot of the reality of the DVD experience comes from surround sound speakers and not great big screens.
Any other company in the world (except maybe ATT) and I'd think you were just paranoid--but yeah, I wouldn't put anything past L'il Bill. Unfortunately, I suspect it's just MS's old habit of being at the right place at the right time. Remember how these bozos got into the OS business? Because IBM didn't want to screw with it? This is, like, "LUCK" in character stats in video games.
Have you considered buying a dictionary? You can get them at Amazon or your local bookstore. That's the place where they sell those old-fashioned paper thingies that have words printed on paper.
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"Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD] [demon.co.uk]" Actually, the proper rendering of USA dates is November 14, 2004. That comma is important. What it's really saying is: 2004 November 14, which is 2004-11-14. We are ALREADY compliant! We just haven't figured it out yet!
You have said it all. Discussion over. Everyone go home and play with Firefox. ...
Not to put too fine an edge on it, but if you actually tried Firefox, even you would realise how dead is the horse you have been beating. It's so old it doesn't even stink any more. The door of the prison is open and you are arguing over what color to paint the walls. Come on out and play!
It had simply gotten to the point where I would have taken something with a lot fewer features than Firefox just to get rid of the crap that IE lets these nits put on my machine. I was simply fed up with having to run Ad-Aware and Spybot twice a week just to stay ahead of the buffoons. That Firefox is such a GREAT browser is just icing on the cake. If my own experience is any indication of how most alive and conscious surfers feel, it will rapidly reach its stated goal of 10% of the market in the US and then far exceed it.
As for not being able to automatically "update" Windows, how many of those fixes are for products that need updating simply because you are using Microsoft crapware in the first place?
"Gee, I can't automatically update IE when I use Firefox. What will I do?"
Yeah, I'm fine too, though there seems to be a built-in delay while Firefox figures out where you were on a page when you return to that page.
Too bad you can't find somebody to pay to do your spelling for you....
No, you just can't do it automatically. You CAN go to the download page. This has the added advantage of preventing MS/Bill from searching your machine.
"All the more "interesting" then that IE squashed Netscape like a bug during the browser wars."
You seem to have forgotten that Microsoft did that almost exclusively by making IE FREE. And you may want to actually TRY Firefox before making this kind of broad statement. Microsoft ain't gonna squash THIS bug. Even boobs know the difference between a butterfly and a cockroach.
And by strong evidence you mean having to buy oxygen by the tank because the phytoplankton has died and there's a 70% deficit in conversion of carbon dioxide? Or perhaps you're waiting for the Steel Pier in Atlantic City to go floating out to sea? Don't your ears get dirty with your head in the sand?
Thanks for the Burroughs quote. Old Bill can always be counted on to shed some much needed light on any question of reality versus belief. During the entire election process I had a page with links to all the stations carrying Air America with a long quotation from Burroughs, "Listen all you boards syndicates and governments of the earth and you powers behind what filth deals consumated in what lavatory to take what is not yours..." It fit the situation to a "T", including the references to Hassan i Sabbah.
Just to keep this on a rational basis, this is the original story: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worl dNews&storyID=6618677
I first picked this up on the Mike Malloy Show.
And yes, there would obviously be a fight, but then are these idiots going to endanger the life of the president by shooting at everything that moves or trying to hold out in Air Force One for days or weeks on end?
Actually, the European outfit that bought the Giant grocery and pharmacy chain, the institutors of all this tracking baloney in Maryland and DC, is in serious financial trouble. I will not take personal credit for this, though I did switch to Mars, which is locally owned and has no tracking, but I suspect it didn't do them any good. Once people figure out their other purchases are paying for the 6-bottles-for-a-$1 bargain, they start looking around for something less obtrusive. Folks may buy into George's perverted worldview, but you can't slip an extra 50-cent markup on tuna fish past them.
Using George's logic (assuming what comes out of the wanker's mouth has ANYTHING to do with logic), the flooding of the Potomac and the consequent submerging of the capitol of the United States will be good because it will create jobs. Take this logic a little further and murder becomes good because it creates jobs for undertakers. Rape? Great! It creates jobs for doctors and psychiatrists. Diarrhea? You got it! Jobs for toilet paper manufacturers. You got bad schools? Stop complaining! It's creating jobs for tutors and Evelyn Woodhead reading programs. Bubonic Plague? Bring it on! More jobs for detergent chemists. Water in the gasoline? A bonanza for mechanics.
Dear God, deliver me from these chimpanzees who can't get the 2 1/2 millennia old basic principles of logic into their little anthropoid brains.
So, who do you think is going to make more money and stay in business longer, a store who will sell to anybody or one that artificially limits the number of its customers and annoys the crap out of the ones it has with more and more ersatz bullshit? There were good reasons for the old motto: "The customer is always right." Because you can't do business without customers. The customers go away, your business dies. Any business that puts its own shortterm interests ahead of its customers' satisfaction is on the road to ruin.
So you're suggesting one can resubmit a patent that has expired? Funny I never heard of THAT before. ;-)
Funny how their moral umbrella covers sex but not mass murder. It'll be interesting to see if the Chileans follow through on their threat to arrest Bush when he gets off the plane under an international arrest warrant for the latter.
The constitution specifically gives Congress the right to oversee the Supreme Court. How long is THAT check and balance going to take to be implimented?
That was the first thing that occurred to me. On the contrary, one would think that building in redundancy where it's needed would be an important element in the overall security framework. I have to suspect this has more to do with W helping out his corporate buddies than anything else.
"I'm sure kids in the US had the same sort of thing with Buck Rogers or Battlestar Galactica..."
;-)
Battlestar Ponderosa was just BAD...
Dr. Who reminds me of some of the Inspector Morse series, in that about halfway through it starts not making any sense. I suppose it has something to do with subtle language differences or perhaps just the peculiar way Brits think...
Inconvenience? Huh? I have a DVD-RAM drive for backups of important photos and data (genealogy) and I prefer the format to jewelboxes. You don't have to fiddle with getting the disc off the hub and there's very little danger of scratching anything. As for saving space, well, I'd trade a little space for added permanence of my irreplaceable data. As for blu-ray, I don't really see the point unless you plan on buying an 80-inch LCD monitor. My 37" looks just fine with regular old DVD. Sometimes I think these guys change standards just because they can. And as Niro Nakamichi points out, a lot of the reality of the DVD experience comes from surround sound speakers and not great big screens.
leave Martha alone! Go pick on Ken Lay.
Beekawzz dey bee havvin maw wurdz in dem dan dose awnlyin thingeez.
Any other company in the world (except maybe ATT) and I'd think you were just paranoid--but yeah, I wouldn't put anything past L'il Bill. Unfortunately, I suspect it's just MS's old habit of being at the right place at the right time. Remember how these bozos got into the OS business? Because IBM didn't want to screw with it? This is, like, "LUCK" in character stats in video games.
Have you considered buying a dictionary? You can get them at Amazon or your local bookstore. That's the place where they sell those old-fashioned paper thingies that have words printed on paper.
You may also want to look at the Crutchfield site. They give you charts for which stereos fit into which cars. They have it down to a science.