Wow. You have no idea what you are missing in v 7.5x, much less what is coming out in v7.6. It's a whole 'nother world compared to v6. Dl one of the free ones and see all the improvements.
v7 certainly handles much more of the DHTML XML and javascript things much better than v6 did.
The UI is very different, but I managed to keep it very close to v6 with a skin and toolbar setup. However, many people RAVE about both M2 for mail (GMail on the desktop for POP3 accounts - came out before GMail though) and Panels - I don't use them, but supposedly you can do all sorts of things with them.
See, my experiance is that FF doesen't do everything Opera does. Not until you start installing a bunch of extensions.
That's my problem with FF, and why I won't use it for the forseeable future. I HATE extensions, I hate installing bunches of new stuff to try and hack together an interface that does what I need.
It's really the same reason I still use WinXP over Linux. I'm willing to pay for something that works for what I need it for. I'm even more willing to pay for something that works well (XP works better than earlier versions of windows, but really only meets my definition of works) like Opera does.
Opera and FF are going for two entirely separate market segments. So I don't see the two competing with each other.
Actually, a lot of Opera is customizable, just it starts getting complex(not necessarily unlike some parts of FF with about:config).
Google for Opsed, this will allow you a GUI to edit the search.ini, and you can then add, remove, and change all the search features, key letters(they can be more than one if you want!).
Actually, no. I find extensions a mess waiting to happen. I hate managing programs, and extensions add another level of "programs" that need to be managed. They have mostly fixed the two extensions breaking FF, but I still hear about major issues with upgrades breaking current extensions you have.
TO me that means that for each upgrade, I'd have to go out looking for upgrades to extensions that also work with it, and if the author decided to quit for some reason, or is running behind, the upgrade causes me to LOSE functionality for a while or possibly permanently.
I think that Opera appeals to people who don't want to mess with extensions, and who want an easy place to e-mail for help. I know I appreciate the support Opera provides.
For ad-blocking, I just installed proxomitron, which is real easy to set up if you use one of the auto installing configuring filtersets like Gryphen's. I think you double click the proxomitron install, and double click the gryphen install.
The "Hard" part if you will is following the clear instructions setting the proxy to localhost port 8080. I'm done then. To me. this is ONE more step compared with downloading an extension - where I set up the proxy server. Also, with gryphens set, I install it and 99% of ads are just blocked. I don't have to right click a bunch of times to set it up.
That seems easier to me, but I'm a power user so...
The features that Opera has over FF to me is the smaller download for new versions, and less downloads as I don't have to mess with extensions. This is a BIG deal where 1mb = 30min on my crappy dial-up.
Also, I find that Opera tends to browse faster, especially back/forward. The whole thing just seems to run faster and smoother. My understanding for FF is that to set it up the way I'd like, I'd need to get a skin, arrange some toolbars, and install a bunch of extensions. Well, the extensions are wasted time for me, something I DON'T have to do with Opera.
Well, I happen to use Proxomitron with Opera, which I am sure works at least as well as ad block, and also can fix webpages that are broken in various ways, or just make them more pleasing to see.
Yeah, but in a year I'd want a new motherboard anyway. I always upgrade processor and motherboard at the same time (and often RAM as well, though I don't plan to this time as DDR400 still will work with the inexpensive A64 3400+ boards).
Then I can pass the mobo/processor(sometimes RAM) on to family or another computer for me to play with...
I've been a big Epson supporter for years. They have great print quality, and work just as well with really cheap 3rd party inks (www.monsterinkjets.com/). Any time I've had it clog, epson replaces the printer under warrenty. I personally like paying $5 per cartridge for my printers. The older model cartridges are even cheaper.
Regarding storage for backups, I think streamload might be a good choice. You can get a free account and store pretty much anything on there, or a cheap $45 a year account with 10GB gaurenteed storage, and only pay for downloads. You do not pay for storage (and I've found their unlimited storage quite reliable).
This is something that worries me quite a bit as a college student, both personally and in terms of our entire society.
We are basically enforcing buzz word complience in hiring practices by using those database tools to screen candidates.
Most people who don't focus more on the buzz word criteria than understanding how to do what they want to do will not meet all or even many of the "flags" the database searches look for.
This also stregnthens the idea that the piece of paper or certificate or whatever is more important than the knowledge. So now you have less people caring about learning or understanding, they know they just need to get the letters or whatever to get jobs. It also discourages the people who are interested in understanding new things because they know that instead of spending time learning or practicing things, they have to study for that next A+ exam or whatever.
Computers do not always perform exactly as instructed - there are hardware errors and the like.
However you are right that computers do not lie - how can a non sentient entity lie?
One of the big issues you hit on above is the anthropomorphizing many people do of computers. For some reason, they think the computer is making some determination based on it's knowledge like a human would. It doesn't. A computer just uses decision trees designed by Humans to classify situations.
Interestingly enough, is a computer any worse at applying a policy than a human would be? All our discussion here is regarding making exceptions to policy. Maybe it's better this way - as many have said, the quickest way to get a bad law or policy repealed is to enforce it strictly and uniformly. Computers are very good at doing just that.
You have a crappy credit card company. I would think about switching.
I have dealt with both a large band(HSBC) and a small bank (Tioga State) on disputes on a Debit card, and each time was quite easy to do.
With HSBC, I called them up, talked to someone on the phone - they called me back in a few days to go over the information in more detail, and credited my account.
With Tioga State we had to go into a branch and fill out a form, but did not have to clarify beyond the form and talking to the branch rep, and again was credited in a week or so.
Neither one required me writing a letter, or sending in recipts. Both were for online purchases though.
Well, my main issue is that if I work for 5 hours, I get paid for 5 hours... once.
But if I claim my 5 hours was "Creative" work, Society suddenly thinks I should get paid of that work over and over again???
That is the cognitave dissonance that makes copyright not work for me right now.
If I spend a week making a table as a carpenter, I expect to sell it... once.
Why if I spent that week writing a short story, should I expect to be paid for it in perpetuity?
Why is "creative" work considered better than any other work, be it saving lives, making tables, or growing food? Why is everyone else a second class citizen to the "creative" worker?
Well, my experiance with Crucial RAM has been very good, however I haven't bought other ram brands in a very long time ~ 6 years. Their prices aren't too much higher for me, and I have no problems, so I see no reason to switch.
Why? What does SP2 offer me? I already have AV. I already run a firewall (non MS). I already run Spybot S&D, AdAware SE. I don't use IE, I use Opera. I don't use OE, I use Eudora. I don't use MSN Messenger, I use Trillian.
So what is SP2 going to give me except likely headaches?
I don't know if anyone has used it, but Lotus Word Pro at least is a very nice wordprocessor that I wish they had marketed properly (collaboration circa 1995 - the big deal in MS OFFICE 2k3) as well as (for me) a nice interface with pretty good visual cues and usibility (like Adobe Photoshop).
It also can open to a greater(or lesser) degree damn near any document file format.
The rest of the Suite is like that also - and able to do most anything you could do in MS Office.
What I think they should do (IANAMBA) is either do a major update from the 2k version with a Linux version too, or just Open Source the thing if they plan on abandoning it(I WISH PEOPLE WOULD OS stuff rather than ABANDON IT - what have they go to lose if they are going to drop it entirely?????). Although, I don't know how many people would be interested in an OSS Lotus Smartsuite as there is OO.org and Koffice now.
Not really. I think death is an easy out vs life in prison.
And I don't see abortions as any different than cutting your hair, in either case you are ridding yourself of parts of your body.
I also am not going to argue these points as they are personal opinions, but I don't see a way to determine the start of life in any logical manner - so I arbitrailary set it at the moment of birth. If I have to be arbitrary, I'll make the line easy to see.
Well, people want authentication for mail, but don't want to work for it. TANSTAAFL. No one is going to do all the work for you. Personally, I trust the big companies/CA's less than most regular people.
I'm also not willing to pay for each e-mail, or pay for e-mail, and based on the number of people using Hotmail or GMail, I think most people will not pay for it.
So how is this central authority going to make money? Or at least afford to assure people that you are who you claim to be?
I honestly think that PGP is the best we've got for the forseeable future, the rest is vaporware as far as I can see in terms of ANYONE actually using it. And all these schemes are only as good as someone using them.
You see - if a bunch of cells (as an embryo) is worth so much to you, how can you be so blase about the killing of a full HUMAN, no matter what they have done?
Even if it's a stinkin' embryo, thousands of years of observation STRONGLY suggests that, left unharmed, it's going to become a human being.
That's just not true. Of corse, it depends on the time, as many do - but in the first 2 weeks the chance of a miscarrage is 75%, and about 10% chance up to 6 weeks.
Overall - about 15% to 20% of known pregnancies end up with a miscarrage.
What does this mean? That it is more likely for a miscarrage (cause if you don't get past week 2, you aren't in the running for week 6) than a sucessful pregnancy.
The reason for the known pregnancies to be less than the miscarrages is that when the embryo is a miscarriage during the first 2 weeks, often the woman isn't aware that she is pregnant at all.
When near 1 out of 5 pregnancies that are known about fail naturally, and ~78% of all pregnancies fail - it shows that your statment is wrong.
That changes the equation. When it is quite likely that a pregnancy will fail, especially at the very early stage that you support above, it is easy for others to see the embryo as a bunch of cells rather than human.
I think the reason PGP is difficult is because people think it is.
Now - for people using clients, at least a few have plugins for PGP/GnuPG than make this click and enter a password.
Webmail ought to be able to do the same (though this obvously would not be as secure, but for some reason it seems like 90% of the population can't deal with an e-mail client), and really - these people can enter a password - they had to to access the webmail in the first place!
Yeah, I mean - why has no one just integrated PGP or GunPG (like the Eudora Plugins) into many of the e-mail clients - and force signing of messages?
Then have ISP's sign the e-mail keys, and each ISP can get signed by some central authority (this ought to be able to be done like DNS is - so no charge to end users...) so if you are paranoid you can have a chain of trust.
I mean, it's in place - there are plugins for Eudora at the very least, these programs are OSS and FREE! What is the problem here?
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Wow. You have no idea what you are missing in v 7.5x, much less what is coming out in v7.6. It's a whole 'nother world compared to v6. Dl one of the free ones and see all the improvements.
v7 certainly handles much more of the DHTML XML and javascript things much better than v6 did.
The UI is very different, but I managed to keep it very close to v6 with a skin and toolbar setup.
However, many people RAVE about both M2 for mail (GMail on the desktop for POP3 accounts - came out before GMail though) and Panels - I don't use them, but supposedly you can do all sorts of things with them.
See, my experiance is that FF doesen't do everything Opera does. Not until you start installing a bunch of extensions.
That's my problem with FF, and why I won't use it for the forseeable future. I HATE extensions, I hate installing bunches of new stuff to try and hack together an interface that does what I need.
It's really the same reason I still use WinXP over Linux. I'm willing to pay for something that works for what I need it for. I'm even more willing to pay for something that works well (XP works better than earlier versions of windows, but really only meets my definition of works) like Opera does.
Opera and FF are going for two entirely separate market segments. So I don't see the two competing with each other.
According to Opera Software they make 30% of their revenues on the Desktop.
People buy Opera for a number of reasons. Usually because they find it more suited to their browsing style than the alternatives.
Another big group buy Opera because it is the only browser that has all the features they like Out of the Box, and they hate the idea of extensions.
Actually, a lot of Opera is customizable, just it starts getting complex(not necessarily unlike some parts of FF with about:config). Google for Opsed, this will allow you a GUI to edit the search.ini, and you can then add, remove, and change all the search features, key letters(they can be more than one if you want!).
Actually, no. I find extensions a mess waiting to happen. I hate managing programs, and extensions add another level of "programs" that need to be managed. They have mostly fixed the two extensions breaking FF, but I still hear about major issues with upgrades breaking current extensions you have.
TO me that means that for each upgrade, I'd have to go out looking for upgrades to extensions that also work with it, and if the author decided to quit for some reason, or is running behind, the upgrade causes me to LOSE functionality for a while or possibly permanently.
No thank you.
I think that Opera appeals to people who don't want to mess with extensions, and who want an easy place to e-mail for help. I know I appreciate the support Opera provides.
For ad-blocking, I just installed proxomitron, which is real easy to set up if you use one of the auto installing configuring filtersets like Gryphen's. I think you double click the proxomitron install, and double click the gryphen install.
The "Hard" part if you will is following the clear instructions setting the proxy to localhost port 8080. I'm done then. To me. this is ONE more step compared with downloading an extension - where I set up the proxy server. Also, with gryphens set, I install it and 99% of ads are just blocked. I don't have to right click a bunch of times to set it up.
That seems easier to me, but I'm a power user so...
The features that Opera has over FF to me is the smaller download for new versions, and less downloads as I don't have to mess with extensions. This is a BIG deal where 1mb = 30min on my crappy dial-up.
Also, I find that Opera tends to browse faster, especially back/forward. The whole thing just seems to run faster and smoother. My understanding for FF is that to set it up the way I'd like, I'd need to get a skin, arrange some toolbars, and install a bunch of extensions. Well, the extensions are wasted time for me, something I DON'T have to do with Opera.
Well, I happen to use Proxomitron with Opera, which I am sure works at least as well as ad block, and also can fix webpages that are broken in various ways, or just make them more pleasing to see.
Yeah, but in a year I'd want a new motherboard anyway. I always upgrade processor and motherboard at the same time (and often RAM as well, though I don't plan to this time as DDR400 still will work with the inexpensive A64 3400+ boards). Then I can pass the mobo/processor(sometimes RAM) on to family or another computer for me to play with...
I've been a big Epson supporter for years. They have great print quality, and work just as well with really cheap 3rd party inks (www.monsterinkjets.com/). Any time I've had it clog, epson replaces the printer under warrenty. I personally like paying $5 per cartridge for my printers. The older model cartridges are even cheaper.
Regarding storage for backups, I think streamload might be a good choice. You can get a free account and store pretty much anything on there, or a cheap $45 a year account with 10GB gaurenteed storage, and only pay for downloads. You do not pay for storage (and I've found their unlimited storage quite reliable).
This is something that worries me quite a bit as a college student, both personally and in terms of our entire society.
We are basically enforcing buzz word complience in hiring practices by using those database tools to screen candidates.
Most people who don't focus more on the buzz word criteria than understanding how to do what they want to do will not meet all or even many of the "flags" the database searches look for.
This also stregnthens the idea that the piece of paper or certificate or whatever is more important than the knowledge. So now you have less people caring about learning or understanding, they know they just need to get the letters or whatever to get jobs. It also discourages the people who are interested in understanding new things because they know that instead of spending time learning or practicing things, they have to study for that next A+ exam or whatever.
Computers do not always perform exactly as instructed - there are hardware errors and the like. However you are right that computers do not lie - how can a non sentient entity lie? One of the big issues you hit on above is the anthropomorphizing many people do of computers. For some reason, they think the computer is making some determination based on it's knowledge like a human would. It doesn't. A computer just uses decision trees designed by Humans to classify situations. Interestingly enough, is a computer any worse at applying a policy than a human would be? All our discussion here is regarding making exceptions to policy. Maybe it's better this way - as many have said, the quickest way to get a bad law or policy repealed is to enforce it strictly and uniformly. Computers are very good at doing just that.
You have a crappy credit card company. I would think about switching.
I have dealt with both a large band(HSBC) and a small bank (Tioga State) on disputes on a Debit card, and each time was quite easy to do.
With HSBC, I called them up, talked to someone on the phone - they called me back in a few days to go over the information in more detail, and credited my account.
With Tioga State we had to go into a branch and fill out a form, but did not have to clarify beyond the form and talking to the branch rep, and again was credited in a week or so.
Neither one required me writing a letter, or sending in recipts. Both were for online purchases though.
Well, my main issue is that if I work for 5 hours, I get paid for 5 hours... once.
But if I claim my 5 hours was "Creative" work, Society suddenly thinks I should get paid of that work over and over again???
That is the cognitave dissonance that makes copyright not work for me right now.
If I spend a week making a table as a carpenter, I expect to sell it... once.
Why if I spent that week writing a short story, should I expect to be paid for it in perpetuity?
Why is "creative" work considered better than any other work, be it saving lives, making tables, or growing food? Why is everyone else a second class citizen to the "creative" worker?
Well, my experiance with Crucial RAM has been very good, however I haven't bought other ram brands in a very long time ~ 6 years. Their prices aren't too much higher for me, and I have no problems, so I see no reason to switch.
Why? What does SP2 offer me? I already have AV. I already run a firewall (non MS). I already run Spybot S&D, AdAware SE. I don't use IE, I use Opera. I don't use OE, I use Eudora. I don't use MSN Messenger, I use Trillian.
So what is SP2 going to give me except likely headaches?
And heck, update/upgrade Lotus SmartSuite.
I don't know if anyone has used it, but Lotus Word Pro at least is a very nice wordprocessor that I wish they had marketed properly (collaboration circa 1995 - the big deal in MS OFFICE 2k3) as well as (for me) a nice interface with pretty good visual cues and usibility (like Adobe Photoshop).
It also can open to a greater(or lesser) degree damn near any document file format.
The rest of the Suite is like that also - and able to do most anything you could do in MS Office.
What I think they should do (IANAMBA) is either do a major update from the 2k version with a Linux version too, or just Open Source the thing if they plan on abandoning it(I WISH PEOPLE WOULD OS stuff rather than ABANDON IT - what have they go to lose if they are going to drop it entirely?????). Although, I don't know how many people would be interested in an OSS Lotus Smartsuite as there is OO.org and Koffice now.
Not really. I think death is an easy out vs life in prison.
And I don't see abortions as any different than cutting your hair, in either case you are ridding yourself of parts of your body.
I also am not going to argue these points as they are personal opinions, but I don't see a way to determine the start of life in any logical manner - so I arbitrailary set it at the moment of birth. If I have to be arbitrary, I'll make the line easy to see.
Well, people want authentication for mail, but don't want to work for it. TANSTAAFL. No one is going to do all the work for you. Personally, I trust the big companies/CA's less than most regular people.
I'm also not willing to pay for each e-mail, or pay for e-mail, and based on the number of people using Hotmail or GMail, I think most people will not pay for it.
So how is this central authority going to make money? Or at least afford to assure people that you are who you claim to be?
I honestly think that PGP is the best we've got for the forseeable future, the rest is vaporware as far as I can see in terms of ANYONE actually using it. And all these schemes are only as good as someone using them.
I would ask that question, yes.
You see - if a bunch of cells (as an embryo) is worth so much to you, how can you be so blase about the killing of a full HUMAN, no matter what they have done?
Replying to myself is bad I know, but cites that I forgot of course:
g e= 1
http://www.pregnancyloss.info/statistics.htm
and
http://www.birth.com.au/class.asp?class=6620&pa
Even if it's a stinkin' embryo, thousands of years of observation STRONGLY suggests that, left unharmed, it's going to become a human being.
That's just not true. Of corse, it depends on the time, as many do - but in the first 2 weeks the chance of a miscarrage is 75%, and about 10% chance up to 6 weeks.
Overall - about 15% to 20% of known pregnancies end up with a miscarrage.
What does this mean? That it is more likely for a miscarrage (cause if you don't get past week 2, you aren't in the running for week 6) than a sucessful pregnancy.
The reason for the known pregnancies to be less than the miscarrages is that when the embryo is a miscarriage during the first 2 weeks, often the woman isn't aware that she is pregnant at all.
When near 1 out of 5 pregnancies that are known about fail naturally, and ~78% of all pregnancies fail - it shows that your statment is wrong.
That changes the equation. When it is quite likely that a pregnancy will fail, especially at the very early stage that you support above, it is easy for others to see the embryo as a bunch of cells rather than human.
I think the reason PGP is difficult is because people think it is.
Now - for people using clients, at least a few have plugins for PGP/GnuPG than make this click and enter a password.
Webmail ought to be able to do the same (though this obvously would not be as secure, but for some reason it seems like 90% of the population can't deal with an e-mail client), and really - these people can enter a password - they had to to access the webmail in the first place!
Yeah, I mean - why has no one just integrated PGP or GunPG (like the Eudora Plugins) into many of the e-mail clients - and force signing of messages?
Then have ISP's sign the e-mail keys, and each ISP can get signed by some central authority (this ought to be able to be done like DNS is - so no charge to end users...) so if you are paranoid you can have a chain of trust.
I mean, it's in place - there are plugins for Eudora at the very least, these programs are OSS and FREE! What is the problem here?
Are you sure that if MSIE, Mozilla and Opera all screw up on your table that the table isn't messed up?