according to my parents, yes... if their windows blows up, they do expect me to show up and fix it for them for free*. I'm shure I'm no the only one in that situation. and I'm also shure that if I where to install ubuntu or any other unix based os on their pc, I would still need to show up to fix it for them.
*might gain a dinner as compensation, but that depends on when I'm fixing it:)
unless you use firefox. I use all three (outlook, IE and firefox) to read my mail and manage my calendar. exchange in outlook and IE is verry similar but in firefox it's missing most of the basic functionality like flagging a message and decent search.
on the other hand, when not using firefox for it, it's actualy has several good features that I haven't found elswhere tho, the fact that it's easy to sync. the calendar between the exchange server and a pocket pc being one of them.
unless the laws of the universe drastically change when getting close to the moon... why wouldn't they work? the fact that the earth has it's own magnetic field has nothing to do with the smaller magnets on the surface of earth (and on the fridge) working or not.
probably becouse terrorists tend to grow in the wild, making it hard to find every terrorist before they start creating mayhem. however, people have the habbit of searching likeminded people to accomplish common goals. so by keeping an eye on the friends of that known (but hard to hit) terrorist, you can probably catch other terrorists, who in turn can work as bait for more terrorists etc. now weed out the big terrorists on a regular basis and keep an eye on the smaller terrosist and you've probably reached the situation like it is now.
however, if you take down every terrorist as soon as you get a suspicion he is a terrorist, then you will 1) waste allot of resources on people who just seem like terrorists, but who don't have the guts or even the real intend of creating mayhem (just think about the people who try to look big by acting like a hacker, but who coulden't program a 'hello world' app, but then for terrorists) and 2) the real terrorists will be harder to find, as they addapt to survive, untill ofcourse after they end up on the passenger list of that airplane that crashed into a tower earlier that day.
I'm a last year IT student and I'm wondering, how much should I jump ship? On the recruiter seminary they mentioned that changing corp every 3 to 5 years is a good idea and that jumping faster would make it seem like you are gone jump ship anyway, so your not worth the time to recruit and train.
So do you think that switching every 3 to 5 years on average is a good idea? Or do you personaly jump ship faster or slower?
that gives you the people that come on to your site from say google. but does it also tell you howmany of those people went on to buy somthing right away? how about people who used google to find you, checked out your product but only came back a week later, using a bookmark, and then bought your product?
referers give you a good basic idea of where people are coming from, but if you want more than that, you'll have to do the stuff that sounds a bit harder.
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and this movie would probably be the next step.
a whole moon filled with heartbeat seeking robots that don't atack you if you carry the 'good guy' tag.
untill the robots decide that the 'good guy' tag isn't enough to stop them from atacking ofcourse...:)
why do some people insist that any large company is by default a evil company?
Is it so hard for people to see that nothing in this world is black or white, but that it's always a shade of grey?
Neither microsoft nor google will ever have a completely clean past, but atleast google has been trying real hard from the start to avoid doing evil, and microsoft seems to be trying to do less evil to these days.
And to be honest, they'll never be able to do good in everybady's eyes, since there's always some guy who will insist on not seeying the good things, but seeying and enlarging the bad things, becouse they think that will make them popular or somthing (some might even make a site about it;) )
but realy, open your eyes and realize, completely good or bad only happens in fairy tales and comic books, in the real world, it's all a shade of grey.
I think the difference the grand-grandparrent is trying to point at is that with indymedia you would have several articles, all with their own bias (several reporters => several points of view => several biasses) and all the articles would be there, so the reader can pick which ones he wants to read and wich ones he doesen't.
while with cnn etc. you would have 1 or 2 reporters who same a similar point of view (aligned with the station) and the a editor or so would pick the one article that fits with his and the stations bias the mosts and let the reader read that, thereby forcing that bias onto the reader.
btw, I haven't read much on indymedia, so I might be wrong... it's just that for a reader, it's almost always beter to have several different articles to pick from and read than having one article preselected.
I think the point he's trying to make is that he wants to see it in real life and maibe even try it before he buys it, somthing that isn't possible when buying online.
Probably to make shure he isn't buying the famous cat in a bag.
what struck me as kind of funny in there: "Environmentalists from WWF International, Greenpeace and other groups protested as the glacier was covered.
They dismissed the foil as a short-term solution. The worldwide problem of melting glaciers can only be addressed by cracking down on greenhouse gases and other things that contribute to climate change, the environmentalists said."
seems like those environmentalists are protesting the wrong thing there. even tho giving a glacier a nice shiny coat isn't gone solve the problem on the long term, it will extend the glaciers life a bit, giving those environmentalists time to find and sort out the real problem. So why the hell are they protesting it?
btw, I personaly think that the people who did the wrapping in did a good job, it might not make a big difference right now, but in the end, it's allot of such small changes we'll need.
well, considering they are already running the rovers in extra mission time, the sooner they got them free, the more time was left between getting free and the batery etc. giving their last bit of juice (and the rover dying).
so if the batery would last another 6 months and they spend 3 months getting free, that's only 3 months left to explore. if they got free in 1 month however (by working overtime), then they would have 5 months to explore... if I had to choose, I would know what to pick:)
btw, I think they've got a team manning the earth side of the rover mission 24/7 anyway, so beter let them work on getting the rover free than letting them just sit there spinning the camera around to take pictures.
erm... got the feeling your a bit wrong there, you just took the sentence and turned it around.
should be: Untill there is a egg, there will never be a chicken. But untill there is a chicken, there will never be a egg.
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text from the page (managed to load it by changing the %23 in the url into a # like sombady posted higher up)
Why do Adobe pdf files load slowly in Windows?
Adobe Reader 6.0 for Windows loads lots of unused plugins on startup. The Inquirer has a great article explaining how you can disable those unneeded plugins and make Adobe Reader load faster. Basically, you need to do the following:
1. Install Adobe Reader 6.0 and notice where it is installed.
2. Navigate to that folder in Explorer, locate the plug_ins subfolder and rename this folder to plug_ins_disabled.
3. Create a new plug_ins folder.
4. Move the files EWH32.api, printme.api and search.api from plug_ins_disabled to plug_ins.
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You mean that flat, plastic box with a page in it telling you that the manual can be printed from the pdf on the cd?
according to my parents, yes... if their windows blows up, they do expect me to show up and fix it for them for free*.
:)
I'm shure I'm no the only one in that situation.
and I'm also shure that if I where to install ubuntu or any other unix based os on their pc, I would still need to show up to fix it for them.
*might gain a dinner as compensation, but that depends on when I'm fixing it
unless you use firefox.
I use all three (outlook, IE and firefox) to read my mail and manage my calendar.
exchange in outlook and IE is verry similar but in firefox it's missing most of the basic functionality like flagging a message and decent search.
on the other hand, when not using firefox for it, it's actualy has several good features that I haven't found elswhere tho, the fact that it's easy to sync. the calendar between the exchange server and a pocket pc being one of them.
unless the laws of the universe drastically change when getting close to the moon... why wouldn't they work?
the fact that the earth has it's own magnetic field has nothing to do with the smaller magnets on the surface of earth (and on the fridge) working or not.
probably becouse terrorists tend to grow in the wild, making it hard to find every terrorist before they start creating mayhem.
however, people have the habbit of searching likeminded people to accomplish common goals.
so by keeping an eye on the friends of that known (but hard to hit) terrorist, you can probably catch other terrorists, who in turn can work as bait for more terrorists etc.
now weed out the big terrorists on a regular basis and keep an eye on the smaller terrosist and you've probably reached the situation like it is now.
however, if you take down every terrorist as soon as you get a suspicion he is a terrorist, then you will 1) waste allot of resources on people who just seem like terrorists, but who don't have the guts or even the real intend of creating mayhem (just think about the people who try to look big by acting like a hacker, but who coulden't program a 'hello world' app, but then for terrorists) and 2) the real terrorists will be harder to find, as they addapt to survive, untill ofcourse after they end up on the passenger list of that airplane that crashed into a tower earlier that day.
I'm a last year IT student and I'm wondering, how much should I jump ship?
On the recruiter seminary they mentioned that changing corp every 3 to 5 years is a good idea and that jumping faster would make it seem like you are gone jump ship anyway, so your not worth the time to recruit and train.
So do you think that switching every 3 to 5 years on average is a good idea? Or do you personaly jump ship faster or slower?
that gives you the people that come on to your site from say google.
but does it also tell you howmany of those people went on to buy somthing right away?
how about people who used google to find you, checked out your product but only came back a week later, using a bookmark, and then bought your product?
referers give you a good basic idea of where people are coming from, but if you want more than that, you'll have to do the stuff that sounds a bit harder.
order a drink?
I gues this proves the old argument that cellphone's of today are stronger than the pc's of yesterday...
you don't have to be aerodynamic to have a nose...
just take the side that will be pointed forward most of the time.
and this movie would probably be the next step. :)
a whole moon filled with heartbeat seeking robots that don't atack you if you carry the 'good guy' tag.
untill the robots decide that the 'good guy' tag isn't enough to stop them from atacking ofcourse...
illegal on earth maibe, but is it illegal on mars to? :p
"Place on campfire and cook at least 45 minutes"
and
"Preparation time: 15 minutes"
does this also include a blueprint for the time machine that you'll need?
why do some people insist that any large company is by default a evil company?
;) )
Is it so hard for people to see that nothing in this world is black or white, but that it's always a shade of grey?
Neither microsoft nor google will ever have a completely clean past, but atleast google has been trying real hard from the start to avoid doing evil, and microsoft seems to be trying to do less evil to these days.
And to be honest, they'll never be able to do good in everybady's eyes, since there's always some guy who will insist on not seeying the good things, but seeying and enlarging the bad things, becouse they think that will make them popular or somthing (some might even make a site about it
but realy, open your eyes and realize, completely good or bad only happens in fairy tales and comic books, in the real world, it's all a shade of grey.
I think the difference the grand-grandparrent is trying to point at is that with indymedia you would have several articles, all with their own bias (several reporters => several points of view => several biasses) and all the articles would be there, so the reader can pick which ones he wants to read and wich ones he doesen't.
while with cnn etc. you would have 1 or 2 reporters who same a similar point of view (aligned with the station) and the a editor or so would pick the one article that fits with his and the stations bias the mosts and let the reader read that, thereby forcing that bias onto the reader.
btw, I haven't read much on indymedia, so I might be wrong...
it's just that for a reader, it's almost always beter to have several different articles to pick from and read than having one article preselected.
I think the point he's trying to make is that he wants to see it in real life and maibe even try it before he buys it, somthing that isn't possible when buying online.
Probably to make shure he isn't buying the famous cat in a bag.
simple, just run it in reverse.
what struck me as kind of funny in there:
"Environmentalists from WWF International, Greenpeace and other groups protested as the glacier was covered.
They dismissed the foil as a short-term solution. The worldwide problem of melting glaciers can only be addressed by cracking down on greenhouse gases and other things that contribute to climate change, the environmentalists said."
seems like those environmentalists are protesting the wrong thing there.
even tho giving a glacier a nice shiny coat isn't gone solve the problem on the long term, it will extend the glaciers life a bit, giving those environmentalists time to find and sort out the real problem.
So why the hell are they protesting it?
btw, I personaly think that the people who did the wrapping in did a good job, it might not make a big difference right now, but in the end, it's allot of such small changes we'll need.
well, considering they are already running the rovers in extra mission time, the sooner they got them free, the more time was left between getting free and the batery etc. giving their last bit of juice (and the rover dying).
:)
so if the batery would last another 6 months and they spend 3 months getting free, that's only 3 months left to explore.
if they got free in 1 month however (by working overtime), then they would have 5 months to explore...
if I had to choose, I would know what to pick
btw, I think they've got a team manning the earth side of the rover mission 24/7 anyway, so beter let them work on getting the rover free than letting them just sit there spinning the camera around to take pictures.
if the missile decides to blow up, would you rather have it over land or over sea?
and there's also the fact that they can load it onto the sub wherever they want and then just move it to where they want to launch it.
erm... got the feeling your a bit wrong there, you just took the sentence and turned it around.
should be:
Untill there is a egg, there will never be a chicken. But untill there is a chicken, there will never be a egg.
text from the page (managed to load it by changing the %23 in the url into a # like sombady posted higher up)
Why do Adobe pdf files load slowly in Windows?
Adobe Reader 6.0 for Windows loads lots of unused plugins on startup. The Inquirer has a great article explaining how you can disable those unneeded plugins and make Adobe Reader load faster. Basically, you need to do the following:
1. Install Adobe Reader 6.0 and notice where it is installed.
2. Navigate to that folder in Explorer, locate the plug_ins subfolder and rename this folder to plug_ins_disabled.
3. Create a new plug_ins folder.
4. Move the files EWH32.api, printme.api and search.api from plug_ins_disabled to plug_ins.
it is, but it's allot more of them together than ever before, so that it isn't considers just atoms anymore, but a spacecraft.
big difference (literaly)
I asume the point is that is does crash, in a planned way...
:D
would be funny if the one probe that is supposed to crash misses it's target and doesen't crash tho
great... :(
I gues all the dyslectic people will just need to stay single