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Exactly why gmail beats the competition in this department.
I don't need the blocker to use gmail.
Simpler is better and Yahoo doesn't get mixed messages about what customers (email users) prefer, since I don't use the email service that is putting up graphical ads.
For me, the big difference is the use of text for the ads. Gmail advertising is not in your face. Hotmail advertising is obnoxious. Will MS and Yahoo get it? Can they sell toned-down ads to their customers (advertisers)?
When my son was 3 years old (1991), I saw a Fisher-Price CD player and thought "hey, these newfangled CDs are supposed to be indestructible, what a great idea for a Christmas present".
Christmas morning, first thing as we are oohing and aahing over the cd player, a glass of milk gets tipped into it. No problem, quickly cleaned it out and it still worked.
The kid grabs a cd and starts running across the room. He trips, falls, and breaks the cd in half.
If you want to find new failure modes, just give something to a toddler...
Yes, the iPod has a good UI. Personally, there are other features that I rate much higher than a good UI that the iPod doesn't have. I just don't spend that much time using the UI, I bought a device to listen to (and record with!), not fiddle endlessly with...
The term "IpOd killer" is a compliment so know when to be graceful, mac-fan-boy.
Wow, you sure misread me there! I -love- my iRiver iHP-120. My point was actually anti-"mac-fanboy". I hate the ipod killer thing because it's just another sign of drooling over a device that is arguably not the best of breed....
Can we do away with the "iPod Killer" thing, it's old. Nothing is going to "kill" the iPod, it has establised itself as the standard for better or worse. It's like the Walkman. In fact, the iPod is the Walkman killer. Nothing that comes out in the short term is going to be an iPod killer.
Yeah, I've got mixed feelings on the B-Boys. I have been a longtime fan, spent a -shitload- of money on their CD's, and the DRM on their last one was a huge slap in the face. So my B-Boy CD collection is complete, except for their latest. Unless something changes drastically, I won't be buying any more of their stuff.
For a band with "'tude", who are built their little empire on "rhymin' and stealin'", releasing a DRM'd CD, then telling their fans, "it's not us, dude, get over it" was the height of hypocrisy.
Yeah, I'm a little bitter.
It's going to take more than a little publicity stunt like this to make up for what they did, releasing one track under a non-commercial-only sampling license is a pretty weak apology.
You are paraniod beyond reason, my friend. Just stay home until they're grown up if you really feel that having your cell phone on during the relatively miniscule amount of time that you will be in a theatre will make a difference.
I strongly suspect that you are "wrapping them up in cotton wool".
For some people mobiles mean freedom from sitting home where you can be called.
Fine, but that does not extend them the right to be available anywhere they go.
It's bad enough that I have to listen to the annoying buzz on my headphones that a cell phone causes when it makes a connection while I am trying to listen to music on my portable music device when commuting. I sure as hell don't want to be unnecessarily disturbed when I have paid to see a movie/performance.
Also, people who are on call either signed up for it, or are getting paid a premium to be on call, so it is their problem, don't make it mine!
I would personally be quite pissed that just to watch a movie, I would be out of touch for three hours. Not a good idea.
And I would be quite pissed if you took a phone call while I was trying to watch the movie. Your attitude is so frigging self-important. If you cannot be out of touch for 3 hours while you watch a movie, stay at home!
I swear, you see all of these posts that claim, "I must be reachable at all times", I call bullshit. You know what I hear when someone takes a call in a movie theater? I'll give you a hint, 100% of the time it is banal blather. Grow up.
Unless he somehow managed to trick the entire CIA and Congress, they all saw the same info he did and came to the same conclusion. So maybe they all lied to get us into war?
Its strange, you hear the accusations of "lies", and the response is something like the above. But let's just look a little further back, say to when Bush was running for the presidency in 2000.
Look at what he campaigned on and what he promised then, and look at what he has done in four years.
A simple example: his position was that America should not be in the business of "nation building", that America shouldn't be the world's policeman, and that under his adminstration, America wouldn't be. Remember? That was a big part of his foreign policy platform. Look at where we are now. Anyone who believed him on that, fell for a huge lie.
He ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility. Gee, I guess that didn't work out...
Donald Rumsfeld claiming that this war would pay for itself out of oil revenues, what do you know, that was a lie too! Funny thing is, that was ridiculous on the face of it, but nobody called him on it at the time.
I was going to college in Moscow, Idaho when it blew, and believe me, it was impressive, even that far away from the eruption.
Throughout the day a tolkeinesque black cloud grew larger and larger on the western horizon, until it streched all of the way north to south. As it came over it became darker than night, the sky was just black. Then is started to "snow" volcanic ash. Instead of coming down in flakes, it came down as a fine powder, but looking out the window, it looked like snow against the street lights. This was about 3:00 in the afternoon.
It didn't get light again before nightfall. The next morning, it was as if it had snowed, except it was very finely powdered ash, and it didn't go away like snow, it just compacted and then blew around as dust when the wind blew.
It was a very memorable experience, more impressive even than a total solar eclipse (but that's another story)...
Then either the sony 828 is crap or you should learn to use it. With my Canon camera I can take pictures all day with a 20 MB memory stick.
Maybe snapshots at some crap resoution, but if you are taking high quality JPG's (oxymoron?) or raw frames, memory fills up fast, my.5GB card holds about 120 JPG's or 70 RAW's.
That may sound like a lot, but I have run into plenty of (amateur) scenarios where that runs out pretty quick. Shooting sports, insects/birds, astrophotography; 20MB is chicken feed...
They've increased the performance of this technology by a factor of 80 - 100. That's impressive.
You are comparing apples and oranges, and I believe that the fact that you've been "tricked" into making this comparison makes my point that the article isn't exactly without bias.
The 200-500 year figure is for CONCRETE ENTOMBMENT, which is NOT vitrification.
Vitrification is not new. And I would doubt anyone who claimed even 20,000 years of containment. There are a lot of factors that can come into play on those kind of timescales, and these numbers have nothing to back them up. Of course I haven't backed up my doubts of these numbers, but hey, I'm not the one saying "problem solved"...
I'm not saying it is an incremental improvement on concrete entombment (which is -not- vitrification), I am saying that it is just a new technique for vitrification. My main point is that this all seems like a suspiciously cheery and glowing (pun intended) slant on an incremental improvement to an existing method.
After R'ing TFA, it looks like this is nothing new, just a slightly better method of vitrification. I don't know, the tone of the FA was a little, um, enthusiastic for an incremental improvement to an established method...
We have an Avaya system where I work, and I would not recoomend it to an enemy, much less a friend. We have had nothing but trouble with it, and it hasn't gotten any better over the last year.
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Exactly why gmail beats the competition in this department.
I don't need the blocker to use gmail.
Simpler is better and Yahoo doesn't get mixed messages about what customers (email users) prefer, since I don't use the email service that is putting up graphical ads.For me, the big difference is the use of text for the ads. Gmail advertising is not in your face. Hotmail advertising is obnoxious. Will MS and Yahoo get it? Can they sell toned-down ads to their customers (advertisers)?
Gee, sounds like an iPod killer!
2 Year olds
When my son was 3 years old (1991), I saw a Fisher-Price CD player and thought "hey, these newfangled CDs are supposed to be indestructible, what a great idea for a Christmas present".
Christmas morning, first thing as we are oohing and aahing over the cd player, a glass of milk gets tipped into it. No problem, quickly cleaned it out and it still worked.
The kid grabs a cd and starts running across the room. He trips, falls, and breaks the cd in half.
If you want to find new failure modes, just give something to a toddler...
Yes, the iPod has a good UI. Personally, there are other features that I rate much higher than a good UI that the iPod doesn't have. I just don't spend that much time using the UI, I bought a device to listen to (and record with!), not fiddle endlessly with...
The term "IpOd killer" is a compliment so know when to be graceful, mac-fan-boy.
Wow, you sure misread me there! I -love- my iRiver iHP-120. My point was actually anti-"mac-fanboy". I hate the ipod killer thing because it's just another sign of drooling over a device that is arguably not the best of breed....
Can we do away with the "iPod Killer" thing, it's old. Nothing is going to "kill" the iPod, it has establised itself as the standard for better or worse. It's like the Walkman. In fact, the iPod is the Walkman killer. Nothing that comes out in the short term is going to be an iPod killer.
Well for me, it -is- nice to be able to record on the iRiver, even though its interface isn't as nice as the iPod.
There's just so much zealotry all around, it's just another form of the old dick-measuring contest.
Apple fans^H^H^H^Hzealots, are a little smug for my liking, but hey, I guess my FOSS zealotry probably gets old for them too...
Yeah, I've got mixed feelings on the B-Boys. I have been a longtime fan, spent a -shitload- of money on their CD's, and the DRM on their last one was a huge slap in the face. So my B-Boy CD collection is complete, except for their latest. Unless something changes drastically, I won't be buying any more of their stuff.
For a band with "'tude", who are built their little empire on "rhymin' and stealin'", releasing a DRM'd CD, then telling their fans, "it's not us, dude, get over it" was the height of hypocrisy.
Yeah, I'm a little bitter.
It's going to take more than a little publicity stunt like this to make up for what they did, releasing one track under a non-commercial-only sampling license is a pretty weak apology.
Beethoven wrote Fidelio (his only opera), you dumbass!
I am a parent as well.
You are paraniod beyond reason, my friend. Just stay home until they're grown up if you really feel that having your cell phone on during the relatively miniscule amount of time that you will be in a theatre will make a difference.
I strongly suspect that you are "wrapping them up in cotton wool".
Cheers,
Ped
Listening to your "low battery warning" beep...
For some people mobiles mean freedom from sitting home where you can be called.
Fine, but that does not extend them the right to be available anywhere they go.
It's bad enough that I have to listen to the annoying buzz on my headphones that a cell phone causes when it makes a connection while I am trying to listen to music on my portable music device when commuting. I sure as hell don't want to be unnecessarily disturbed when I have paid to see a movie/performance.
Also, people who are on call either signed up for it, or are getting paid a premium to be on call, so it is their problem, don't make it mine!
I would personally be quite pissed that just to watch a movie, I would be out of touch for three hours. Not a good idea.
And I would be quite pissed if you took a phone call while I was trying to watch the movie. Your attitude is so frigging self-important. If you cannot be out of touch for 3 hours while you watch a movie, stay at home!
I swear, you see all of these posts that claim, "I must be reachable at all times", I call bullshit. You know what I hear when someone takes a call in a movie theater? I'll give you a hint, 100% of the time it is banal blather. Grow up.
Hmm, where to start...Let's take this one:
Unless he somehow managed to trick the entire CIA and Congress, they all saw the same info he did and came to the same conclusion. So maybe they all lied to get us into war?
Its strange, you hear the accusations of "lies", and the response is something like the above. But let's just look a little further back, say to when Bush was running for the presidency in 2000.
Look at what he campaigned on and what he promised then, and look at what he has done in four years.
A simple example: his position was that America should not be in the business of "nation building", that America shouldn't be the world's policeman, and that under his adminstration, America wouldn't be. Remember? That was a big part of his foreign policy platform. Look at where we are now. Anyone who believed him on that, fell for a huge lie.
He ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility. Gee, I guess that didn't work out...
Donald Rumsfeld claiming that this war would pay for itself out of oil revenues, what do you know, that was a lie too! Funny thing is, that was ridiculous on the face of it, but nobody called him on it at the time.
It follows the "cycle" of Windows "upgrades".
Wrong country [blush]. According to a randomly selecte law firm, this long.
How long does it remain valid??
This long.
I was going to college in Moscow, Idaho when it blew, and believe me, it was impressive, even that far away from the eruption.
Throughout the day a tolkeinesque black cloud grew larger and larger on the western horizon, until it streched all of the way north to south. As it came over it became darker than night, the sky was just black. Then is started to "snow" volcanic ash. Instead of coming down in flakes, it came down as a fine powder, but looking out the window, it looked like snow against the street lights. This was about 3:00 in the afternoon.
It didn't get light again before nightfall. The next morning, it was as if it had snowed, except it was very finely powdered ash, and it didn't go away like snow, it just compacted and then blew around as dust when the wind blew.
It was a very memorable experience, more impressive even than a total solar eclipse (but that's another story)...
Then either the sony 828 is crap or you should learn to use it. With my Canon camera I can take pictures all day with a 20 MB memory stick.
Maybe snapshots at some crap resoution, but if you are taking high quality JPG's (oxymoron?) or raw frames, memory fills up fast, my .5GB card holds about 120 JPG's or 70 RAW's.
That may sound like a lot, but I have run into plenty of (amateur) scenarios where that runs out pretty quick. Shooting sports, insects/birds, astrophotography; 20MB is chicken feed...
They've increased the performance of this technology by a factor of 80 - 100. That's impressive.
You are comparing apples and oranges, and I believe that the fact that you've been "tricked" into making this comparison makes my point that the article isn't exactly without bias.
The 200-500 year figure is for CONCRETE ENTOMBMENT, which is NOT vitrification.
Vitrification is not new. And I would doubt anyone who claimed even 20,000 years of containment. There are a lot of factors that can come into play on those kind of timescales, and these numbers have nothing to back them up. Of course I haven't backed up my doubts of these numbers, but hey, I'm not the one saying "problem solved"...
I'm not saying it is an incremental improvement on concrete entombment (which is -not- vitrification), I am saying that it is just a new technique for vitrification. My main point is that this all seems like a suspiciously cheery and glowing (pun intended) slant on an incremental improvement to an existing method.
I seriously doubt the 200,000 year figure.
Nothing to see here, move along...
After R'ing TFA, it looks like this is nothing new, just a slightly better method of vitrification. I don't know, the tone of the FA was a little, um, enthusiastic for an incremental improvement to an established method...
I guess your .sig is apropos. It is NTLM (NT Lan Mangler)...
We have an Avaya system where I work, and I would not recoomend it to an enemy, much less a friend. We have had nothing but trouble with it, and it hasn't gotten any better over the last year.