I was wondering about the morality of blocking pop-ups - we're effectively denying revenue to the websites whose content we enjoy. But then I remembered that I don't block all images on websites or Flash, I just hate pop-ups and killing them seems like fair game.
There's nothing immoral about controlling what data your browser requests from a server that is freely offering its data to the world. If you choose to assist the server financially by looking at their ads, that's great: you have the freedom to take that option.
Actually it pretty much makes it mandatory for Canada to check your passport when you enter - why would you let in someone who forgot to bring their US passport? All that gets you is someone stuck in Canada.
Er - no. What that gets you is someone stuck in Canada who then has to spend lots of US dollars on Canadian soil while trying to get back home. Make the most of it, guys...
In many places the catch is convert all IT programs to MS only. It's the only thing you will ever need, so that's all that needs training.
Some places reject the offer as they train UNIX in one form or another and do not wish to be IIS only.
My latest example is when I tried applying for a job as a professor at a university in England (the application is still under way, so I will not name the university). The site is set up to accept covering letters and CV's only in Microsoft Word format: there is a notice expressly forbidding anything else.
On a happier note, I contacted the university to complain about the stunning degree of narrow-mindedness shown by this -- do they really want to exclude anyone who doesn't use Microsoft Word from consideration??? -- and they replied saying that they were extremely sorry and they'd be happy for me to e-mail pdf files to them.
Not quite OpenDocument support, but it's a start. And all without jeopardising my application. Yay!
On the other hand, I wish I could find torrents of Kath & Kim... I guess there isn't much international demand for extraordinarily localizsed Australian comedy.
Surely they must be out there somewhere! It's not as localised as all that - it's popular on this side of the Tasman Sea too. Mind you, so's Home and Away -- no accounting for taste.
I didn't know australians had television....isnt that an island full of convicts?
Yes, sort of like the US, NZ and every other country that the British once colonised.
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Your comment is entirely accurate, except with respect to New Zealand: people came here willingly, because they were trying to escape from Britain. Thank you for your attention.
Movies too. Some of the most interesting movies get released at the same time world-wide, but for others we're up to six months behind the northern hemisphere - I'm in NZ, not Australia, but the problem is similar.
In the case of NZ, though, there is an extra obstacle in the form of a telecommunications monopoly keeping a stranglehold on all ISPs so that all broadband accounts are capped -- usually at 10 GB per month -- though some allow downloads beyond that limit, only at dial-up speeds. This means that downloading isn't quite as viable an option here as it is in Australia.
You obviously haven't been to the UK. I would say per capita London has more hotties than any U.S. city.
I lived in the UK some time ago and spent three years in Manchester. I understand exactly what the gp is talking about. All I can say is YEEEEURRGGGHHH.
You're absolutely right, they shouldn't be. But they are, a great many of them, because unfortunately many 3rd-party apps, especially games, require admin rights to run properly
The WORST you could do is trash your user environment. NOT the OS.
Er, yes; trashing the user environment is the worst thing in the world. I think you're missing a rather important point there. An OS is comparatively easy to replace; user data is much more fragile, and therefore more important than the OS.
I'm left-handed too. I too have become accustomed to using a mouse with my right hand, but for different reasons. One of the main obstacles is the mouse buttons: you can swap the mouse buttons at OS level, but that doesn't mean all applications are going to respect that. (Games are especially evil in this respect.) In particular, life gets very confusing when people tell other people to "left-click" or "right-click", and the confusion leads to too many risks.
I have in the past acclimatised to using a mouse left-handed without swapping the mouse buttons. At the moment, however, at work, I have to use the mouse right-handed because I'm sitting right now at an eMac. (Guess where the USB ports are. Go on, guess.)
Anyway, lots of people don't play games that much, and will not have this obstacle. Normally I would prefer to use a mouse in my left hand. But most of all I am glad to have a symmetrical mouse so that I have the freedom to choose. I would never under any imaginable circumstances buy an asymmetrical mouse.
Sounds trivial, but I agree totally. The amount of time I waste having to find both the cmd and arrow keys... it's only a couple of seconds each time, but that adds up to several minutes per hour. Thank the gods for applications that keep the standard functions for these keys (Dreamweaver, OpenOffice, jEdit, Word) and curses on those that don't (Firefox, Thunderbird, Mail).
I agree, I'm the same. I have OS X at work and WinXP at home, but what I'm mainly interested in is OpenOffice.org... which means I'm much more productive at home.
I have asked for an x86 to replace the Mac: not for ideological reasons but because I really, really hate having to deal with this shit. I don't care that the Mac looks better, that means nothing to me.
(Oh, and in case anyone recommends NeoOffice, it sucks - it crashes on me every few seconds; I'm still using the X11 version, which has its own problems, like the mysteries of trying to configure multiple mouse buttons in X11 - I have solved it now, but it took quite a while.)
FWIW, since I specialise in languages other than English, I wrote to Google asking them what their plans were for dealing with languages other than English, and in particular, books using alphabets other than the Roman alphabet. Their reply is of course copyright Google Inc, but I think it would be permissible for me to re-print the following extract:
At this time, we are working to process only materials in languages using the Roman alphabet, but we hope to expand this program in the future to include various types of works. We are aware of issues concerning OCR of non-roman characters, and are looking into solutions to address these types of materials. Though we are not able to give a time table for the expansion of this project, we're working as quickly as possible to scan and process the huge number of books available to us.
Obviously this doesn't disarm the concern about representing world literature from an anglophone perspective, but it seems to make clear that (a) English, or at least languages using the Roman alphabet, are their first priority, and (b) they intend to get around to other languages and literatures in due course.
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There's nothing immoral about controlling what data your browser requests from a server that is freely offering its data to the world. If you choose to assist the server financially by looking at their ads, that's great: you have the freedom to take that option .
That could be because you're using Adblock ...
Er - no. What that gets you is someone stuck in Canada who then has to spend lots of US dollars on Canadian soil while trying to get back home. Make the most of it, guys ...
Are you crazy??!! Make it as easy as humanly possible for them to give their tourist dollars to you!
I beg to differ: James Madison's administration was even more hostile.
My latest example is when I tried applying for a job as a professor at a university in England (the application is still under way, so I will not name the university). The site is set up to accept covering letters and CV's only in Microsoft Word format: there is a notice expressly forbidding anything else.
On a happier note, I contacted the university to complain about the stunning degree of narrow-mindedness shown by this -- do they really want to exclude anyone who doesn't use Microsoft Word from consideration??? -- and they replied saying that they were extremely sorry and they'd be happy for me to e-mail pdf files to them.
Not quite OpenDocument support, but it's a start. And all without jeopardising my application. Yay!
Yikes. I had assumed otherwise. Sorry to hear that ..
Surely they must be out there somewhere! It's not as localised as all that - it's popular on this side of the Tasman Sea too. Mind you, so's Home and Away -- no accounting for taste.
Your comment is entirely accurate, except with respect to New Zealand: people came here willingly, because they were trying to escape from Britain. Thank you for your attention.
Movies too. Some of the most interesting movies get released at the same time world-wide, but for others we're up to six months behind the northern hemisphere - I'm in NZ, not Australia, but the problem is similar.
In the case of NZ, though, there is an extra obstacle in the form of a telecommunications monopoly keeping a stranglehold on all ISPs so that all broadband accounts are capped -- usually at 10 GB per month -- though some allow downloads beyond that limit, only at dial-up speeds. This means that downloading isn't quite as viable an option here as it is in Australia.
1. Learn to spell;
2. Learn grammar.
There are reasons some people get huge salaries even though they're no brighter than anyone else. Presentation of ideas is one of them.
I lived in the UK some time ago and spent three years in Manchester. I understand exactly what the gp is talking about. All I can say is YEEEEURRGGGHHH.
... 16 hours here. Not too long until April Fool's Day is over!
*cough*OpenOffice*cough*
*cough* sense of smell *cough*
Er, yes; trashing the user environment is the worst thing in the world. I think you're missing a rather important point there. An OS is comparatively easy to replace; user data is much more fragile, and therefore more important than the OS.
Last I heard, he's a bit ill at the moment because of his throat operation, but I gather he's hoping to be able to say a few words by next Sunday. :-)
I'm left-handed too. I too have become accustomed to using a mouse with my right hand, but for different reasons. One of the main obstacles is the mouse buttons: you can swap the mouse buttons at OS level, but that doesn't mean all applications are going to respect that. (Games are especially evil in this respect.) In particular, life gets very confusing when people tell other people to "left-click" or "right-click", and the confusion leads to too many risks.
I have in the past acclimatised to using a mouse left-handed without swapping the mouse buttons. At the moment, however, at work, I have to use the mouse right-handed because I'm sitting right now at an eMac. (Guess where the USB ports are. Go on, guess.)
Anyway, lots of people don't play games that much, and will not have this obstacle. Normally I would prefer to use a mouse in my left hand. But most of all I am glad to have a symmetrical mouse so that I have the freedom to choose. I would never under any imaginable circumstances buy an asymmetrical mouse.
Thanks for that, very handy. Any idea how to make it work in Thunderbird too? :-)
Sounds trivial, but I agree totally. The amount of time I waste having to find both the cmd and arrow keys ... it's only a couple of seconds each time, but that adds up to several minutes per hour. Thank the gods for applications that keep the standard functions for these keys (Dreamweaver, OpenOffice, jEdit, Word) and curses on those that don't (Firefox, Thunderbird, Mail).
I agree, I'm the same. I have OS X at work and WinXP at home, but what I'm mainly interested in is OpenOffice.org ... which means I'm much more productive at home.
I have asked for an x86 to replace the Mac: not for ideological reasons but because I really, really hate having to deal with this shit. I don't care that the Mac looks better, that means nothing to me.
(Oh, and in case anyone recommends NeoOffice, it sucks - it crashes on me every few seconds; I'm still using the X11 version, which has its own problems, like the mysteries of trying to configure multiple mouse buttons in X11 - I have solved it now, but it took quite a while.)
From the Feature Guide:
Supported, as wes33 observed, by libwpd.
FWIW, since I specialise in languages other than English, I wrote to Google asking them what their plans were for dealing with languages other than English, and in particular, books using alphabets other than the Roman alphabet. Their reply is of course copyright Google Inc, but I think it would be permissible for me to re-print the following extract:
Obviously this doesn't disarm the concern about representing world literature from an anglophone perspective, but it seems to make clear that (a) English, or at least languages using the Roman alphabet, are their first priority, and (b) they intend to get around to other languages and literatures in due course.
Ahem:
War is peace
/. won't LET ME YELL)
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
and we've always been at war with Eurasia.
(I know it's in capitals in the book, but