Why does it need to be super secure? Credit card transactions are done using a separate "turnkey" machine. A small-store register receipt is nothing but a list of items with no name attached. If someone p0wned your machine the worst they could do that takes hacking knowledge (breaking the machine can be done with a hammer) is change some item to ring up at the wrong value -- or learn that people who by baby wipes also buy baby diapers. Whoopty do. So a basic firewall on an updated OS should be plenty.
NJ does not have a fully closed primary -- if you are not registered for a party, you can walk in and vote for either party. You just can't "jump the aisle" if you are a registered Dem/Rep at the polling station.
And yes -- they sign you in, record your party (or the party you want to vote for if you are an independent), set the machine, and then the only options you see are for your party.
This was how I knew Obama won my district (even though he carried the state). By early evening there were no more Democrat sign-in slips because of the unexpected flood of independents. They were using blank scraps of paper. Plenty of Republican slips left...
Why would quantum computers need to be in the home? Once we have multi-gigabit cellular WiFi, we can have all our processing and data storage done by Google's cloud. So Google buys a couple dozen Quantum boxes to offload math-heavy tasks from their cluster of 150GHz servers, and the whole country buys 12th-gen iPhones that fold out to a 19-in display with a full keyboard instead of computers.
In America, the energy doesn't come from food, it comes from fatrolls. So this not only decreases your electricity usage, it improves your car's MPG and reduces the likelihood of needing to manufacture insulin shots.
Now all we have to do is make the weights out of hypercompressed CO2 and it's a total win.
Well...I know Firebug is incredibly resource hungry. I disable it when I don't absolutely need it, and the difference is stark. Web Developer Toolbar is much leaner as a go-to tool for everyday dev work.
For the rest.....I don't personally know of any leaks, but some of them aren't the lightest of plugins. And I'm not saying that's bad -- I have 11 enabled plugins, starting with a very similar list. I'm just saying that your case looks suspiciously like fresh-install-few-plugins effect.
Yes, and then we would need some name for these "Compact" "Flash" media which are just like SD, but much sturdier, that still conveys that they are "Compact," "Flash" devices...:-)
I've had quite a number of pages that worked fine in IE6, worked fine in firefox (and others), but totally bombed in IE7.
In my experience, most on-screen IE7 oddities come from it doing strange things when calculating the width and height of elements; it doesn't seem to inherit in the same way other browsers do. Nine times out of ten when IE7 is being weird, I can fix it by setting the height/width of the parent element to the same as the child element. Annoying, but at least the final code remains standards-compliant and hack free (and if all sizes are in ems, it even still scales cleanly).
Don't get me started on IE7 printing though...autoscaling is a cute idea for sites without CSS, but a nightmare if you actually have print styles.
Netflix is not a ripoff financially, though they are t3h evil in not being transparent. Basically, you will have trouble renting DVDs for less than $2 each. On a 2-at-a-time plan ($14) you will get immediate service if you rent each movie for an average of one week (7-8 per month). Average more than that and they rather obviously delay your shipments to draw you down to that average.
I find that "evil" for transparency (they are lying about being unlimited), but I am quite content financially with $2 1-week rentals.
If you switch to Dvorak, I would recommend keeping an index next to your monitor rather than switching your keylabels -- that way you learn proper touchtyping while switching, which speeds you up and helps your posture. And when a friend wants to type, you can just switch the OS back to Qwerty and let them go.
The Maltron is supposed to be great. I have the Kinesis version -- the key "wells" are great for reducing finger travel, and the long stroke distance takes away the impact of the the key bottoming out. Very nice, and dramatically extends (more than doubles) the hours per day I can work before my fingers start burning. Took about a day to adjust, and a week to get back up to full speed.
I have nasty RSI or something like it, and the Kinesis just seemed the best balance of bang for the buck -- the Safetype was more for wrist than finger problems, split keyboards and basic ergonomics didn't do enough, and the Datahand (mentioned below) was too spendy for me to try unless the Kinesis wasn't good enough.
Seriously young geeks -- if your fingers start hurting, do something before you do permanent harm. Switch mice (vertical mouse, trackball or tablet), switch keyboards, try Dvorak or Colemak, talk to your doctor -- it just gets worse over time if you don't.
"The whole 'dvorak is better' is just trying to troll"
Not at all -- as much as it's become a joke, it really does considerably drop your daily finger travel, and that is huge if you have RSI problems: http://colemak.com/Compare
Having used (blissfully) a Kinesis Contour for half a year now after a bout with nasty RSI.....I think PC manufacturers still have a long, long way to go. And yes, Dvorak is better than Qwerty (switched shortly before buying the Kinesis). http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured_usb.htm
$6700 is a ridiculous number, since many small cars already exceed that mileage (as I recall, the european and japanese fleet averages are ALREADY above 35mpg). My assumption is that they came up with that cost by assuming it would take $100,000 to make a 700HP Hummer get that mileage and then averaged that over the existing fleet. In reality, higher MPG could lead to LOWER prices for all the people who are pinching pennies, if it means the manufacturers simply import the smaller/cheaper cars that they sell to the ex-US world to bring their fleet average up.
Northeastern yuppies are too spoiled for winter tires and chains these days. Growing up, I would see chains and studded snow tires everywhere. I haven't seen them on a suburban vehicle in a decade. Advertisers conveniently stopped marketing them and dealers stopped mentioning them when $UVs came out...so not many yuppies in the lower northeast remember such advanced technologies exist.
In Soviet Russia, most people in the goulags were there for crimes of black market. Thing is, everybody practiced the black market, so when the authorities wanted to send someone away, they just picked that.
That is indeed interesting, and applies well to systematic US arrests with excessive punishments. But the analogy fails to apply here on the lines that (1) "everybody" was not line-jumping (2) a night in the county jail is hardly equal to a life in the gulag (3) the point of civil disobedience is to get arrested; the nice thing about the US is that you also get released, and (4) when there is actually a remotely viable third-party candidate, the networks are THRILLED to host him or her to boost ratings.
If you want a conspiracy by the ruling US parties to shut out third-party candidates, please point to things like campaign finance law, winner-take-all districting, and gerrymandering, rather than theories that local rent-a-cops would even recognize the libertarian candidate.
While the US is no shining star in things like this, Badnarik and Cobb were arrested for *jumping a police line,* not for being dissidents. And they were promptly released, without being blackmailed, beaten or shot. I would hardly call that an oppressive action -- the police didn't even seem to know who they were arresting at the time.
It doesn't have to be illegal for Comcast to hate it -- remember that they have to pay some pennies for that pesky, pesky upstream traffic. Poor dears.
Amen. And if they want to keep it serious, why not have a native fork, like Wiktionary and Wikimedia, where "all that's not yet fit to print" can live? Call it "Wikipop" or "Wikitrivi" and banish, rather than delete, trivial articles. The catch is -- it has to be an integrated with Wikipedia to remain useful -- independent projects don't count.
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Why does it need to be super secure? Credit card transactions are done using a separate "turnkey" machine. A small-store register receipt is nothing but a list of items with no name attached. If someone p0wned your machine the worst they could do that takes hacking knowledge (breaking the machine can be done with a hammer) is change some item to ring up at the wrong value -- or learn that people who by baby wipes also buy baby diapers. Whoopty do. So a basic firewall on an updated OS should be plenty.
There can still be competition between manufacturers without competition between codecs...
NJ does not have a fully closed primary -- if you are not registered for a party, you can walk in and vote for either party. You just can't "jump the aisle" if you are a registered Dem/Rep at the polling station.
And yes -- they sign you in, record your party (or the party you want to vote for if you are an independent), set the machine, and then the only options you see are for your party.
This was how I knew Obama won my district (even though he carried the state). By early evening there were no more Democrat sign-in slips because of the unexpected flood of independents. They were using blank scraps of paper. Plenty of Republican slips left...
Why would quantum computers need to be in the home? Once we have multi-gigabit cellular WiFi, we can have all our processing and data storage done by Google's cloud. So Google buys a couple dozen Quantum boxes to offload math-heavy tasks from their cluster of 150GHz servers, and the whole country buys 12th-gen iPhones that fold out to a 19-in display with a full keyboard instead of computers.
In America, the energy doesn't come from food, it comes from fatrolls. So this not only decreases your electricity usage, it improves your car's MPG and reduces the likelihood of needing to manufacture insulin shots.
Now all we have to do is make the weights out of hypercompressed CO2 and it's a total win.
Well...I know Firebug is incredibly resource hungry. I disable it when I don't absolutely need it, and the difference is stark. Web Developer Toolbar is much leaner as a go-to tool for everyday dev work.
For the rest.....I don't personally know of any leaks, but some of them aren't the lightest of plugins. And I'm not saying that's bad -- I have 11 enabled plugins, starting with a very similar list. I'm just saying that your case looks suspiciously like fresh-install-few-plugins effect.
"I switched to ff3-b. The difference is very notable...missing...most of the add-ons."
FF2 might not be the memory problem...
Yes, and then we would need some name for these "Compact" "Flash" media which are just like SD, but much sturdier, that still conveys that they are "Compact," "Flash" devices... :-)
I've had quite a number of pages that worked fine in IE6, worked fine in firefox (and others), but totally bombed in IE7.
In my experience, most on-screen IE7 oddities come from it doing strange things when calculating the width and height of elements; it doesn't seem to inherit in the same way other browsers do. Nine times out of ten when IE7 is being weird, I can fix it by setting the height/width of the parent element to the same as the child element. Annoying, but at least the final code remains standards-compliant and hack free (and if all sizes are in ems, it even still scales cleanly).
Don't get me started on IE7 printing though...autoscaling is a cute idea for sites without CSS, but a nightmare if you actually have print styles.
Netflix is not a ripoff financially, though they are t3h evil in not being transparent. Basically, you will have trouble renting DVDs for less than $2 each. On a 2-at-a-time plan ($14) you will get immediate service if you rent each movie for an average of one week (7-8 per month). Average more than that and they rather obviously delay your shipments to draw you down to that average.
I find that "evil" for transparency (they are lying about being unlimited), but I am quite content financially with $2 1-week rentals.
elmer's glue is your friend.
If your symptoms disappear or lessen considerably, yes, if not, no. Easy test. :-)
If you switch to Dvorak, I would recommend keeping an index next to your monitor rather than switching your keylabels -- that way you learn proper touchtyping while switching, which speeds you up and helps your posture. And when a friend wants to type, you can just switch the OS back to Qwerty and let them go.
The Maltron is supposed to be great. I have the Kinesis version -- the key "wells" are great for reducing finger travel, and the long stroke distance takes away the impact of the the key bottoming out. Very nice, and dramatically extends (more than doubles) the hours per day I can work before my fingers start burning. Took about a day to adjust, and a week to get back up to full speed.
I have nasty RSI or something like it, and the Kinesis just seemed the best balance of bang for the buck -- the Safetype was more for wrist than finger problems, split keyboards and basic ergonomics didn't do enough, and the Datahand (mentioned below) was too spendy for me to try unless the Kinesis wasn't good enough.
Seriously young geeks -- if your fingers start hurting, do something before you do permanent harm. Switch mice (vertical mouse, trackball or tablet), switch keyboards, try Dvorak or Colemak, talk to your doctor -- it just gets worse over time if you don't.
"The whole 'dvorak is better' is just trying to troll"
Not at all -- as much as it's become a joke, it really does considerably drop your daily finger travel, and that is huge if you have RSI problems: http://colemak.com/Compare
Having used (blissfully) a Kinesis Contour for half a year now after a bout with nasty RSI.....I think PC manufacturers still have a long, long way to go. And yes, Dvorak is better than Qwerty (switched shortly before buying the Kinesis). http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured_usb.htm
or over 50% of users never update. *shudder*
The chart in this blog is brilliant: http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/2006/04/fuel-efficiency-and-lessons-from.html
$6700 is a ridiculous number, since many small cars already exceed that mileage (as I recall, the european and japanese fleet averages are ALREADY above 35mpg). My assumption is that they came up with that cost by assuming it would take $100,000 to make a 700HP Hummer get that mileage and then averaged that over the existing fleet. In reality, higher MPG could lead to LOWER prices for all the people who are pinching pennies, if it means the manufacturers simply import the smaller/cheaper cars that they sell to the ex-US world to bring their fleet average up.
Northeastern yuppies are too spoiled for winter tires and chains these days. Growing up, I would see chains and studded snow tires everywhere. I haven't seen them on a suburban vehicle in a decade. Advertisers conveniently stopped marketing them and dealers stopped mentioning them when $UVs came out...so not many yuppies in the lower northeast remember such advanced technologies exist.
In Soviet Russia, most people in the goulags were there for crimes of black market. Thing is, everybody practiced the black market, so when the authorities wanted to send someone away, they just picked that.
That is indeed interesting, and applies well to systematic US arrests with excessive punishments. But the analogy fails to apply here on the lines that (1) "everybody" was not line-jumping (2) a night in the county jail is hardly equal to a life in the gulag (3) the point of civil disobedience is to get arrested; the nice thing about the US is that you also get released, and (4) when there is actually a remotely viable third-party candidate, the networks are THRILLED to host him or her to boost ratings.
If you want a conspiracy by the ruling US parties to shut out third-party candidates, please point to things like campaign finance law, winner-take-all districting, and gerrymandering, rather than theories that local rent-a-cops would even recognize the libertarian candidate.
While the US is no shining star in things like this, Badnarik and Cobb were arrested for *jumping a police line,* not for being dissidents. And they were promptly released, without being blackmailed, beaten or shot. I would hardly call that an oppressive action -- the police didn't even seem to know who they were arresting at the time.
It doesn't have to be illegal for Comcast to hate it -- remember that they have to pay some pennies for that pesky, pesky upstream traffic. Poor dears.
Amen. And if they want to keep it serious, why not have a native fork, like Wiktionary and Wikimedia, where "all that's not yet fit to print" can live? Call it "Wikipop" or "Wikitrivi" and banish, rather than delete, trivial articles. The catch is -- it has to be an integrated with Wikipedia to remain useful -- independent projects don't count.