Neither is Amazon and you'll get my Kindle when you pry it from my cold, dead hands...
Seriously, I don't care who sells them so long as they offer the content I want and the cost is right.
Can't you get a "Netbook" for less than a Kindle and read whatever you want on it (and then some) DRM free?
I get the idea of free cell connection to download books (and I have yet to hold a Kindle myself and give it a go), but Amazon's deal seems over priced in my opinion.
I've also read a review on Amazon from someone complaining about books they bought that they couldn't access anymore after moving to Kindle 2.
I wholeheartedly agree. Also, when you are not arrogant and dismissive of people's lack of computer vocabulary, you can eventually teach them something since people are more inclined to listen to someone who does not insult or belittle them.
Point in case, less than 2 years into a job I had a boss (who used to call her computer a hard drive) tell me how annoyed she was at the difference in date calculation algorithms for the calendar feature between two different hand-held devices and the headaches it caused her when moving from one to the other!
Let's see, this thief's actions caused him to: - Lose a career - Lose a girlfriend (whom he lost his wife for) - Go to prison which will permanently be on his records - Lose all respect - Piss off pretty much everyone.. The list goes on..
Gained: - Nothing
Sounds pretty stupid to me.
Louis and Clark probably trespassed across someone's property while they were exploring. So did Henry Hudson, and Amerigo Vespucci;-). Galileo did something real stupid: he pissed off the Pope. Jesus got his ass nailed to a cross.
This self-centered a$$hole was trying to make a quick buck. Way to go comparing this low life to explorers, scientists and religious figures.
DISCLAMER: I work for one of the 3 companies involved here. Not the one you might think.
Then your "disclaimer" is useless because it adds nothing to your post and hence should have been omitted.
- If you were a Sun employee then your disclaimer might support your claims about N2 and Java performance (hey look, at least he's being honest about the fact that he may be biased).
- Ditto for Oracle
- And finally if you were an IBM employee, your disclaimer might get you fired (or promoted).
To expand and simplify on DNS and ICANN, think of it in phone number terms. When I call 999-555-5555, the phone company figures out the area code, prefix and line number then transfer me to the area/network/device that matches what I dialed.
DNS works in a similar way. When you type in say slashdot.cn [China], your computer looks in its own records to see what IP address (server location) this name resolves to. If it doesn't know the answer then it asks your ISP (Comcast, AT&T, whomever) who can answer your question. If your ISP doesn't know the answer, it keeps going up the chain and so on.
ICANN is the master registry, they're the ones who say.com addresses are handled by such and such servers (they handle top level domains (TLDs) such as.com,.org,.net,.us). So following up on the example of slashdot.cn, ICANN would then point your ISP to the entity that handles all the.cn domains (whomever it is that they designated at China to handle domains).
The problem with a free-for-all system where anyone can say which domain points where is that we will all have a different Internet experience. So let's say I use AT&T and you use Comcast and both of them have their own root servers without relying on ICANN. Google.com could take you to Google, while it would take me to a porn site who paid AT&T enough money to point the domain to them.
Think of it in phone number terms, if every phone company parsed phone numbers as they please, 911 could be a hotline if you're on a certain network.
We need a master database that we can all use and agree that google.com = 74.125.155.99.
Now the thing is, ICANN can't really be evil. As cool_story_bro pointed, it's _real_ easy to have your own hosts file pointing a domain to whatever you want. It's equally easy for a company/country to setup their own domain name registry and decide which domain points to what IP address/server (How IP addresses resolve to a physical server is a whole different entity called Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA]).
So the day ICANN (or IANA) misbehave would be the end of the internet as we know it. Every other continent (or even country) could (and probably will) start their own root domain name servers and have their own "Internet" going on.
I personally don't want to live in a world where my bookmarks will take me to an unknown or a competitors site if I move to Italy or something, just as I wouldn't want to live in a world where dialing a phone number will connect me to different people depending on where I am at.
Would you care to explain what you consider to be wrong with Windows 7 rather than just implying that it isn't very good?
The fact that it's beta like the GP highlighted?
Comparing Ubuntu with beta software is like saying it's not good enough to compare with release-quality software. I'm surprised the moderators missed that one.
I upgraded to 9.04 last night, and so far it seems that things have improved a bit for me. It looks like when PulseAudio crashes applications that are using it do not. Also my fiasco with bluetooth headsets seems to have improved (when PulseAudio crashed I didn't need to restart bluetoothd or reboot the machine to get audio back.
My laptop seems a bit faster in coming back from hibernation, nothing insanely noticeable though.
because I was so used to dumping a half hour into screwing about with Windows and accomplishing nothing productive on a regular basis that I did it obsessively so things would be ready to go when I had work that was urgent
May I ask what kind of tasks you needed to do obsessively to get anything productive done?
I'm a user of both Windows and Ubuntu (and a host of other OS'es), and in _my_ personal experience I spend about 15-20 minutes a day messing with Ubuntu before I can get anything productive done.
I have a bluetooth headset that I spent quite sometime to get it to work at all. The setup is not quite automated since I have to run a series of commands to get it working every time (read: at least twice a day): // Load bluetooth headset
// Unload internal audio (PulseAudio crashes if I have 2 streams playing on 2 different sinks)
pactl unload-module 0
// Pull up pavucontrol and make sure my bluetooth is set as the default sink
pavucontrol
Occasionally I have to restart the bluetooth daemon when Pulse audio keeps hanging for no reason whatsoever except for the fact that I told it to load the bluetooth sink. Sometimes I just get frustrated and either reboot or not listen to anything at all.
If my headset ever goes out of range and gets disconnected PulseAudio crashes and I have to do the above again (including restarting bluetoothd).
If my laptop hibernates, then good luck getting the headset to work without a full reboot (restarting bluetoothd doesn't seem to do the trick here).
I like to listen to music while I'm working, and it really screws things up when I have to mess with getting my headset functional instead of jumping right to work.
All this didn't discourage me from running Ubuntu by the way, I know PulseAudio is new and bluetooth isn't quite there yet, but it is quite frustrating.
So again, what were your problems with windows? I'm genuinely interested in knowing.
Was ist der Unterschied zur Keyword-Suche Lesezeichen?
I just translated your comment in-place to German by highlighting it, bringing up ubiquity and typing: translate selection to german.
I can also delete elements (much like mouse gestures), edit the page, highlight multiple addresses and map them on Google, highlight and email sections of the page, etc.
The plugin seems a bit Google-centric at the moment (Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.), but nevertheless I think it's brilliant.
And yes, it's much more than a simple keyword search, watch the Flash demo to get an idea.
Not only does it allow you to modify CSS/HTML on the fly, its JavaScript debugging features are priceless. By far the BEST web development tool and the reason I'm never switching away from Firefox.
P.S.: I still have web developer because I'm still hooked on CTRL+SHIFT+A and CTRL+SHIFT+S (validate page, disable CSS respectively).
I like Chrome as a dedicated GMail browser and Google Maps viewer. I'm not sure why it has to be an all-or-nothing sort of thing.
Because it's a "Web Browser" not a 2-site application!
Gmail and Google Maps are both web applications that can be viewed with any browser. Why should I download and install a separate browser just for 2 web sites/apps?
Your setup sounds like the same mess we had/have with having to run IE to access crappy websites.
If I'm not forced to run a "second" browser to get something done, I won't voluntarily do it to myself just because a site will run a tiny bit faster or having Google on my desktop would fill me with glee.
Google wants to take over the web browser market (or a big bite out of it) and that's fine. But they'll have to do a hell of a lot more than this to get people to switch over.
Seriously, JavaScript? In a PDF file? Why would you do that?
I believe Adobe Version Cue's PDF review system is one of the applications that uses it.
The idea is that any PDF file posted to Adobe Bridge (design files repository, think SVN-lite) can have a web review process.
An administrator logs to the web interface and starts a review process which sends links to the reviewers. Once a reviewer logs in, they can download a copy of the PDF and start commenting on it and marking it up. When they're finished Acrobat sends only the comments back to the server instead of re-uploading the entire PDF again.
That last piece (uploading comments back) appears to happen using JavaScript inside the PDF copy that the reviewer downloads.
Is it the best way to do this? Maybe not, but that's one thing I can think of that uses JavaScript inside PDFs.
The RFC probably isn't specific enough (like all web standards are anyway) and it probably is a bad implementation on Microsoft's part.
However, if the issue really doesn't "pass scrutiny on a cost-benefit analysis" for you to implement a back-end solution then why are we having this discussion?
If visitors of your site are savvy enough to copy and paste text to use their webmail, they're probably savvy enough to read a nice capitalized and red block of text saying "IE6 is broken, use a better browser, have a nice day".
There's a lot of things that IE6 can and should be beat up for, from PNG support to broken CSS and crazy quirks mode and even high blood pressure for some developers. But this is such a corner case that it's really not worth getting yourself worked up about it.
ok let's forget OS/CPU wars for a second and focus on the fact that most people don't use Adobe reader to read pdfs, at least not in these forums.
Users of Slashdot, sure... maybe, but let's not forget that a lot of people here could be and probably are administering networks where people _do_ use Adobe's reader for one reason or another.
Get off your high horse, quit trolling and honestly if you don't like an article just skip it and spare us the useless posts.
URI producers should use names that conform to the DNS syntax, even when use of DNS is not immediately apparent, and should limit these names to no more than 255 characters in length.
"mailto:" is not the best way to achieve what you're trying to do. Consider people in internet cafe`s with no access to their email, or a visitor who strictly uses webmail.
That reminds me of a funny email about password rules that was going around, it went like this:
CORPORATE DIRECTIVE NUMBER 88-570471
In order to increase the security of all company computing facilities, and to avoid the possibility of unauthorized use of these facilities, new rules are being put into effect concerning the selection of passwords. All users of computing facilities are instructed to change their passwords to conform to these rules immediately.
RULES FOR THE SELECTION OF PASSWORDS:
1. A password must be at least six characters long, and must not contain two occurrences of a character in a row, or a sequence of two or more characters from the alphabet in forward or reverse order. Example: HGQQXP is an invalid password. GFEDCB is an invalid password.
2. A password may not contain two or more letters in the same position as any previous password. Example: If a previous password was GKPWTZ, then NRPWHS would be invalid because PW occurs in the same position in both passwords.
3. A password may not contain the name of a month or an abbreviation for a month. Example: MARCHBC is an invalid password. VWMARBC is an invalid password.
4. A password may not contain the numeric representation of a month. Therefore, a password containing any number except zero is invalid. Example: WKBH3LG is invalid because it contains the numeric representation for the month of March.
5. A password may not contain any words from any language. Thus, a password may not contain the letters A, or I, or sequences such as AT, ME, or TO because these are all words.
6. A password may not contain sequences of two or more characters which are adjacent to each other on a keyboard in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal direction. Example: QWERTY is an invalid password. GHNLWT is an invalid password because G and H are horizontally adjacent to each other. HUKWVM is an invalid password because H and U are diagonally adjacent to each other.
7. A password may not contain the name of a person, place, or thing. Example: JOHNBOY is an invalid password.
Because of the complexity of the password selection rules, there is actually only one password which passes all the tests. To make the selection of this password simpler for the user, it will be distributed to all supervisors. All users are instructed to obtain this password from his or her supervisor and begin using it immediately.
Thank you for responding and for your original post.
I might have been a bit harsh, but things like the Sabra and Shatila massacre and this recent conflict leads an observer like me to believe it's really that bad.
I just hope everyone can let bygones be bygones and work together for a better tomorrow:)
I was just at Best Buy on Sunday. I looked at a lot of LCD TVs (they had very few plasmas I noticed). They had many in a row on 2 levels of shelves so I could easily compare about 8 all at once. I noticed the Sony KDL52W4100 had the best picture as far as color vibrance and contrast are concerned. Why wouldn't the Samsung and the Sony TVs be the same if what you say is true?
Calibration. A lot of stores are either:
1 - Clueless and can't calibrate all their TVs OR (more likely) 2 - Deliberately screwing up the colors to make some TVs stand out
I couldn't even begin to count how many times I've seen pictures so bad on TVs on display that I _knew_ for a fact were good.
One of my favorite quotes is "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity", but I highly doubt that their techs are that bad.
I'm a Muslim and my lunch break is almost over so I can't really write as long of a post as I wanted.
And you wasted valuable lunch-break writing that paragraph.
I don't know about you but it doesn't take me that long to type a sentence shorter than 20 words:)
You've correctly enunciated the Arab agenda since before 1948.
Glad we agree on something, although I wouldn't say it's before 1948 and wouldn't slap a cross borders "Arab" label on it.
However, your accusation against Israel is unfounded. If Israel wanted to wipe them all out, it could do it in seconds. They haven't, so your argument is little more than propaganda.
Jordan killed more Palestinians in a week during the seventies, than Israel have in the last 60 years.
Either you are not telling the truth, or Israel isn't trying hard enough.
It would be nice if you could base your views on some facts, rather than what you have heard.
Really? why don't you look at history and do your research before accusing me of spreading propaganda and lying? Tell me that the Sabra and Shatila massacre wasn't about extermination.
Sure, Israel could wipe Palestinians off the map, but look at the global uproar that resulted from the 300-3500 slaughtered in Sabra and Shatila, you think they'd do it even if they have the technical capability to do so? I think not.
You can point fingers all you want (from either side) and say "but look at what they did!", which is exactly what's been going on and exactly why this war will never stop until everyone lets bygones be bygones.
I've stated my position clearly, I believe both sides need to grow up. They both have enough blood on their hands to shame a nation for eons.
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I seem to have missed those discussions. This wasn't a troll or flame-bait though, honest!
Google is not a hardware company.
Neither is Amazon and you'll get my Kindle when you pry it from my cold, dead hands...
Seriously, I don't care who sells them so long as they offer the content I want and the cost is right.
Can't you get a "Netbook" for less than a Kindle and read whatever you want on it (and then some) DRM free?
I get the idea of free cell connection to download books (and I have yet to hold a Kindle myself and give it a go), but Amazon's deal seems over priced in my opinion.
I've also read a review on Amazon from someone complaining about books they bought that they couldn't access anymore after moving to Kindle 2.
How is your experience with Kindle so far?
Communication is 90% knowing your audience
I wholeheartedly agree. Also, when you are not arrogant and dismissive of people's lack of computer vocabulary, you can eventually teach them something since people are more inclined to listen to someone who does not insult or belittle them.
Point in case, less than 2 years into a job I had a boss (who used to call her computer a hard drive) tell me how annoyed she was at the difference in date calculation algorithms for the calendar feature between two different hand-held devices and the headaches it caused her when moving from one to the other!
And yes, she actually said "algorithm".
Depends on what you call stupid.
Let's see, this thief's actions caused him to: .. The list goes on ..
- Lose a career
- Lose a girlfriend (whom he lost his wife for)
- Go to prison which will permanently be on his records
- Lose all respect
- Piss off pretty much everyone
Gained:
- Nothing
Sounds pretty stupid to me.
Louis and Clark probably trespassed across someone's property while they were exploring. So did Henry Hudson, and Amerigo Vespucci ;-). Galileo did something real stupid: he pissed off the Pope. Jesus got his ass nailed to a cross.
This self-centered a$$hole was trying to make a quick buck. Way to go comparing this low life to explorers, scientists and religious figures.
DISCLAMER: I work for one of the 3 companies involved here. Not the one you might think.
Then your "disclaimer" is useless because it adds nothing to your post and hence should have been omitted.
- If you were a Sun employee then your disclaimer might support your claims about N2 and Java performance (hey look, at least he's being honest about the fact that he may be biased).
- Ditto for Oracle
- And finally if you were an IBM employee, your disclaimer might get you fired (or promoted).
A free-for-all system will not really work.
To expand and simplify on DNS and ICANN, think of it in phone number terms. When I call 999-555-5555, the phone company figures out the area code, prefix and line number then transfer me to the area/network/device that matches what I dialed.
DNS works in a similar way. When you type in say slashdot.cn [China], your computer looks in its own records to see what IP address (server location) this name resolves to. If it doesn't know the answer then it asks your ISP (Comcast, AT&T, whomever) who can answer your question. If your ISP doesn't know the answer, it keeps going up the chain and so on.
ICANN is the master registry, they're the ones who say .com addresses are handled by such and such servers (they handle top level domains (TLDs) such as .com, .org, .net, .us). So following up on the example of slashdot.cn, ICANN would then point your ISP to the entity that handles all the .cn domains (whomever it is that they designated at China to handle domains).
The problem with a free-for-all system where anyone can say which domain points where is that we will all have a different Internet experience. So let's say I use AT&T and you use Comcast and both of them have their own root servers without relying on ICANN. Google.com could take you to Google, while it would take me to a porn site who paid AT&T enough money to point the domain to them.
Think of it in phone number terms, if every phone company parsed phone numbers as they please, 911 could be a hotline if you're on a certain network.
We need a master database that we can all use and agree that google.com = 74.125.155.99.
Now the thing is, ICANN can't really be evil. As cool_story_bro pointed, it's _real_ easy to have your own hosts file pointing a domain to whatever you want. It's equally easy for a company/country to setup their own domain name registry and decide which domain points to what IP address/server (How IP addresses resolve to a physical server is a whole different entity called Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA]).
So the day ICANN (or IANA) misbehave would be the end of the internet as we know it. Every other continent (or even country) could (and probably will) start their own root domain name servers and have their own "Internet" going on.
I personally don't want to live in a world where my bookmarks will take me to an unknown or a competitors site if I move to Italy or something, just as I wouldn't want to live in a world where dialing a phone number will connect me to different people depending on where I am at.
This is actually a wonderful idea for them. it lowers the barrier for the transition. Even companies can push their costs forward in time.
I believe the 1 year "free" copy is Windows 7 Release Candidate (from the summary and the article).
I highly doubt any company will be installing RC quality software to replace whatever stable OS they have in place. I can assure you mine isn't :)
For testing purposes and sneak-peak previews, yeah this sounds nice.
Would you care to explain what you consider to be wrong with Windows 7 rather than just implying that it isn't very good?
The fact that it's beta like the GP highlighted?
Comparing Ubuntu with beta software is like saying it's not good enough to compare with release-quality software. I'm surprised the moderators missed that one.
I upgraded to 9.04 last night, and so far it seems that things have improved a bit for me. It looks like when PulseAudio crashes applications that are using it do not. Also my fiasco with bluetooth headsets seems to have improved (when PulseAudio crashed I didn't need to restart bluetoothd or reboot the machine to get audio back.
My laptop seems a bit faster in coming back from hibernation, nothing insanely noticeable though.
And I too seem to hate the Pidgin/Notification integration that someone else was talking about yesterday.
because I was so used to dumping a half hour into screwing about with Windows and accomplishing nothing productive on a regular basis that I did it obsessively so things would be ready to go when I had work that was urgent
May I ask what kind of tasks you needed to do obsessively to get anything productive done?
I'm a user of both Windows and Ubuntu (and a host of other OS'es), and in _my_ personal experience I spend about 15-20 minutes a day messing with Ubuntu before I can get anything productive done.
I have a bluetooth headset that I spent quite sometime to get it to work at all. The setup is not quite automated since I have to run a series of commands to get it working every time (read: at least twice a day):
// Load bluetooth headset
pactl load-module module-alsa-sink device="bluetooth"
pactl unload-module 0
pavucontrol
Occasionally I have to restart the bluetooth daemon when Pulse audio keeps hanging for no reason whatsoever except for the fact that I told it to load the bluetooth sink. Sometimes I just get frustrated and either reboot or not listen to anything at all.
If my headset ever goes out of range and gets disconnected PulseAudio crashes and I have to do the above again (including restarting bluetoothd).
If my laptop hibernates, then good luck getting the headset to work without a full reboot (restarting bluetoothd doesn't seem to do the trick here).
I like to listen to music while I'm working, and it really screws things up when I have to mess with getting my headset functional instead of jumping right to work.
All this didn't discourage me from running Ubuntu by the way, I know PulseAudio is new and bluetooth isn't quite there yet, but it is quite frustrating.
So again, what were your problems with windows? I'm genuinely interested in knowing.
Am I the only one that read this article...
Probably.
Was ist der Unterschied zur Keyword-Suche Lesezeichen?
I just translated your comment in-place to German by highlighting it, bringing up ubiquity and typing: translate selection to german.
I can also delete elements (much like mouse gestures), edit the page, highlight multiple addresses and map them on Google, highlight and email sections of the page, etc.
The plugin seems a bit Google-centric at the moment (Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.), but nevertheless I think it's brilliant.
And yes, it's much more than a simple keyword search, watch the Flash demo to get an idea.
Have you tried the web developer extension for firefox?
Dude, Firebug, Firebug and Firebug!
Not only does it allow you to modify CSS/HTML on the fly, its JavaScript debugging features are priceless. By far the BEST web development tool and the reason I'm never switching away from Firefox.
P.S.: I still have web developer because I'm still hooked on CTRL+SHIFT+A and CTRL+SHIFT+S (validate page, disable CSS respectively).
Aha! So _you_ must be the one who created Telnet Star Wars!!
(Reference: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl)
(Also on http at http://www.asciimation.co.nz/)
O hai!
Can I haz senzitiv dataz?
kthxbai
Sure, if you write a trojan horse with a LOLCODE parser!
You might have to propose "senzitiv dataz" to be added to the spec, or you can implement it on your own.
I like Chrome as a dedicated GMail browser and Google Maps viewer. I'm not sure why it has to be an all-or-nothing sort of thing.
Because it's a "Web Browser" not a 2-site application!
Gmail and Google Maps are both web applications that can be viewed with any browser. Why should I download and install a separate browser just for 2 web sites/apps?
Your setup sounds like the same mess we had/have with having to run IE to access crappy websites.
If I'm not forced to run a "second" browser to get something done, I won't voluntarily do it to myself just because a site will run a tiny bit faster or having Google on my desktop would fill me with glee.
Google wants to take over the web browser market (or a big bite out of it) and that's fine. But they'll have to do a hell of a lot more than this to get people to switch over.
You've confused Bridge with Version Cue, and Version Cue with Acrobat reviews. Just sayin'
You are absolutely right, thanks for catching that!
Seriously, JavaScript? In a PDF file? Why would you do that?
I believe Adobe Version Cue's PDF review system is one of the applications that uses it.
The idea is that any PDF file posted to Adobe Bridge (design files repository, think SVN-lite) can have a web review process.
An administrator logs to the web interface and starts a review process which sends links to the reviewers. Once a reviewer logs in, they can download a copy of the PDF and start commenting on it and marking it up. When they're finished Acrobat sends only the comments back to the server instead of re-uploading the entire PDF again.
That last piece (uploading comments back) appears to happen using JavaScript inside the PDF copy that the reviewer downloads.
Is it the best way to do this? Maybe not, but that's one thing I can think of that uses JavaScript inside PDFs.
The RFC probably isn't specific enough (like all web standards are anyway) and it probably is a bad implementation on Microsoft's part.
However, if the issue really doesn't "pass scrutiny on a cost-benefit analysis" for you to implement a back-end solution then why are we having this discussion?
If visitors of your site are savvy enough to copy and paste text to use their webmail, they're probably savvy enough to read a nice capitalized and red block of text saying "IE6 is broken, use a better browser, have a nice day".
There's a lot of things that IE6 can and should be beat up for, from PNG support to broken CSS and crazy quirks mode and even high blood pressure for some developers. But this is such a corner case that it's really not worth getting yourself worked up about it.
ok let's forget OS/CPU wars for a second and focus on the fact that most people don't use Adobe reader to read pdfs, at least not in these forums.
Users of Slashdot, sure... maybe, but let's not forget that a lot of people here could be and probably are administering networks where people _do_ use Adobe's reader for one reason or another.
Get off your high horse, quit trolling and honestly if you don't like an article just skip it and spare us the useless posts.
Check RFC3986 (Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)):
URI producers should use names that conform to the DNS syntax, even when use of DNS is not immediately apparent, and should limit these names to no more than 255 characters in length.
"mailto:" is not the best way to achieve what you're trying to do. Consider people in internet cafe`s with no access to their email, or a visitor who strictly uses webmail.
Just my 2 cents.
That reminds me of a funny email about password rules that was going around, it went like this:
CORPORATE DIRECTIVE NUMBER 88-570471
In order to increase the security of all company computing facilities, and to avoid the possibility of unauthorized use of these facilities, new rules are being put into effect concerning the selection of passwords. All users of computing facilities are instructed to change their passwords to conform to these rules immediately.
RULES FOR THE SELECTION OF PASSWORDS:
1. A password must be at least six characters long, and must not contain two occurrences of a character in a row, or a sequence of two or more characters from the alphabet in forward or reverse order. Example: HGQQXP is an invalid password. GFEDCB is an invalid password.
2. A password may not contain two or more letters in the same position as any previous password. Example: If a previous password was GKPWTZ, then NRPWHS would be invalid because PW occurs in the same position in both passwords.
3. A password may not contain the name of a month or an abbreviation for a month. Example: MARCHBC is an invalid password. VWMARBC is an invalid password.
4. A password may not contain the numeric representation of a month. Therefore, a password containing any number except zero is invalid. Example: WKBH3LG is invalid because it contains the numeric representation for the month of March.
5. A password may not contain any words from any language. Thus, a password may not contain the letters A, or I, or sequences such as AT, ME, or TO because these are all words.
6. A password may not contain sequences of two or more characters which are adjacent to each other on a keyboard in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal direction. Example: QWERTY is an invalid password. GHNLWT is an invalid password because G and H are horizontally adjacent to each other. HUKWVM is an invalid password because H and U are diagonally adjacent to each other.
7. A password may not contain the name of a person, place, or thing. Example: JOHNBOY is an invalid password.
Because of the complexity of the password selection rules, there is actually only one password which passes all the tests. To make the selection of this password simpler for the user, it will be distributed to all supervisors. All users are instructed to obtain this password from his or her supervisor and begin using it immediately.
Will they sell HHD DVVDD BVDs there?
It looks like you didn't learn you AA, BB, CC's, god god dammit dammit.
--Mitch Hedberg
Thank you for responding and for your original post.
I might have been a bit harsh, but things like the Sabra and Shatila massacre and this recent conflict leads an observer like me to believe it's really that bad.
I just hope everyone can let bygones be bygones and work together for a better tomorrow :)
I was just at Best Buy on Sunday. I looked at a lot of LCD TVs (they had very few plasmas I noticed). They had many in a row on 2 levels of shelves so I could easily compare about 8 all at once. I noticed the Sony KDL52W4100 had the best picture as far as color vibrance and contrast are concerned. Why wouldn't the Samsung and the Sony TVs be the same if what you say is true?
Calibration. A lot of stores are either:
1 - Clueless and can't calibrate all their TVs
OR (more likely)
2 - Deliberately screwing up the colors to make some TVs stand out
I couldn't even begin to count how many times I've seen pictures so bad on TVs on display that I _knew_ for a fact were good.
One of my favorite quotes is "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity", but I highly doubt that their techs are that bad.
I'm a Muslim and my lunch break is almost over so I can't really write as long of a post as I wanted.
And you wasted valuable lunch-break writing that paragraph.
I don't know about you but it doesn't take me that long to type a sentence shorter than 20 words :)
You've correctly enunciated the Arab agenda since before 1948.
Glad we agree on something, although I wouldn't say it's before 1948 and wouldn't slap a cross borders "Arab" label on it.
However, your accusation against Israel is unfounded. If Israel wanted to wipe them all out, it could do it in seconds. They haven't, so your argument is little more than propaganda.
Jordan killed more Palestinians in a week during the seventies, than Israel have in the last 60 years.
Either you are not telling the truth, or Israel isn't trying hard enough.
It would be nice if you could base your views on some facts, rather than what you have heard.
Really? why don't you look at history and do your research before accusing me of spreading propaganda and lying? Tell me that the Sabra and Shatila massacre wasn't about extermination.
Sure, Israel could wipe Palestinians off the map, but look at the global uproar that resulted from the 300-3500 slaughtered in Sabra and Shatila, you think they'd do it even if they have the technical capability to do so? I think not.
You can point fingers all you want (from either side) and say "but look at what they did!", which is exactly what's been going on and exactly why this war will never stop until everyone lets bygones be bygones.
I've stated my position clearly, I believe both sides need to grow up. They both have enough blood on their hands to shame a nation for eons.