I thought the rule was pretty much:
If you know what phishing is, you aren't going to fall for it... (I read that in a Reader's Digest article, no joke, but I have heard it said many times long before I read the RD article.) I actually did get a letter from PayPal that I thought was phishing- i forwarded it to ebay and they said it was a legit letter. That's beside the point, because I cancelled my PayPal account because of their fee increases, but I digress...
I am more worried about a browser hijack leading to pharming...
You can tell who was never in the military- They tend to think that long acronyms are strange.... You aren't used to ADUHTGHERSTTYANYJIIBBBSYEJAA stenciled on things...
According to the AP Style manual, You spell out an acronym and them put the acronym in parentheses next to it (YSOTA) and then when it is mentioned later in the paragraph/story, you just use the acronym. You don't use the acronym and spell it out also, if you are only using the acronym once. So, I believe what we should say is that using an acronym, spelling it out, and then not using the acronym again, is odd.
My question, the one that gives me a headache to think about- is if the big bang is the source of the universe, what was around that little speck of matter before it exploded (yes I know that is an elementary way to describe the big bang)? Does space end? If it does, what is on the other side? Where did the universe come from, or on the flip side, what/who created God?
I wonder if we will ever have the answers to these questions in our lifetimes.
I think the business model is bad for me- for the price of netflix I have all the starz channels including starz on demand. I Have a dvd burner (super low end, cost about 200$ at the time) and I burn dvds all the time. So for the $$ I have all the movies I could want, and occasionally, I will get a pay per view of something new, but usually I will just fork over the $20 for a brand new release on DVD if I am so inclined... Yes, I have to buy DVDs and yes I have to set the DVD burner, but DVDs in bulk aren't expensive... and some day, when TV's have hard drives, I can put all my dvds onto the hard drive....
What about downloads vs. actual use... I wonder what the percentage of people is that hears about firefox, thinks it is cool sounding, then download it and can't figure it out... Don't forget there are a lot of computer users out there who don't know what the click to make default buttons are.
On a side note- I use IE a lot of days because my job involves me registering info online with a lot of corporate sites, and that almost always requires ie (ugh!). At home though, it as all firefox, all the time.... (Except when I am on my Mac, but that is another story)
I guess it wasn't "trail rated"
Seriously though, I have seen pictures of this thing, and you would think that they would put either tracks or baloon tires on it for sand use. Those who have been stuck in the sand in a wheeled armored personel carrier know what I mean... You want tracks.... It is possible to bog a tracked vehicle down in mud or very rarely very soft sand, but that is what I would go with. Tracks= superior traction and weight distribution....
This seems like a good thing, but any time I see something that saves time, I think that also saves labor, and at some point, will require a smaller staff. Good for corporate, but I dont want to be out of work because programs are doing my job!!! Just my two cents.
FYI- In Ohio, which is middle of the road with respect for Mary-Wanna laws, possesion of under an ounce is a Minor Misdemeanor punishable by a $100 fine. Any Pair-a-fan-ale-ya is a felony however. (Sometimes, they charge you with a Minor Misdemeanor for the Maywanja, and a felony for the baggie).
The only reason i hate Marijuana- People who take half a toke and then start laughing and saying they are hungry, like, your cool man, because you smoked some doobage. If you enjoy it fine, but don't make it part of your image (Did someone say white guy with dreads?)
Second, it's IMPOSSIBLE to close off or secure the border with Mexico, while it's much easier to check people at airports.
If I may respectfully disagree- You appearently were never in the service- It is would be simple to secure the entire border. All we need to do is decide that we want to. Whether with troops, or with physical fortifications, or a combination or both- the border can be locked down easily.
Illegal aliens have become the US's dirth little secret- our slave class if you will. And keep inmind, most of the money they earn goes to their home country- estimates as high as 90%. (rent is cheap with 30+ people in a house)
I believe the diffence is that people will choose to buy the sanitized versions. (Except by mistake, like when I buy a tv formatted dvd version of a movie, non letterbox, by accident, and dont notice until it is looking funny on my wide tv)
Can you imagine getting a sanitized version of say, Scarface, and getting it home and having it be 15 minutes long? Ugh
I hate to be the one to point it out, but if people want a sanitized version, it is their choice.
We see sanitized versions of movies all the time on TV, network and the basic cable channels. (Why do I have a ton of premium movie channels, but most of the time I watch movies, I watch them on the basic cable stations with commercials?)
I think it is similar to vehicles in a lot of ways- Some people want a toyota- no style, but does what you need it to do most of the time. I prefer something different, something I can customize and add to (My 73 Camaro).
Have you ever talked to a Chevy guy- I would never drive any truck but my Silverado. I think that is a lot like software- some of our loyalty comes from the heart, not the head necessarily.... There is something cool about Firefox, a certain cache (ha), and I am speaking aside from its features. It has a coolness quotient.
He likely also has an armored car- I read an article in the NY Times about armored cars- It quotes the guy who sells them as saying that 1/3 of the buyers are under threat, 1/3 think they are under threat, and 1/3 wish they were in one of the first two categories... A lot of people are paranoid because they think it makes them important.... Like whats on Burnett's machine, Nude pics of Richard Hatch?
Whenever my mom stops by my house, she always wants to check her mail- she uses aol, and cant figure out web mail. So I have AOL installed on one of my home machines- everytime i fire up aol on that machine, it lets me know that because I don't have realplayer, a lot of things in aol wont't display correctly. I'm not an aol expert, but it seems to me if all the aol users have realplayer installed, it must have some kind of penetration.... Just my 2 cents.
If the sales staff could use the computers without instruction, would the IT department have to be so big? We need to be thankful for people who need our help (when it means $$ for us)Just my two cents
I agree with your point, however, I think your statement is accurate for many consumers for personal use, but not for business use. Salespeople and many other profs need their PDA to sync with their PIM. When a clamshell phone can sync with ACT or the like, then the PDA may not be needed, or would that mean the phone is a PDA?
I actually read an article about a year ago in Reader's Digest about a guy who for a year wrote down everytime he saw any claim that XXXX is costing America XXXX per year. Things like hangovers cost businesses a billion a year, the flu costs american business billions a year, depression costs Amercian businesses billions a year, all those headlines you see. It was unscientific, he just wrote down the headlines as he saw them, but the total was something like 10 times the US's GDP.... Go figure.
Yes, I'm in Ohio. Yes it's April 25. Yes, I woke up to 8 inches of heavy snow on the ground....
I actually do tend to save hobby/technical magazines. Some because how to articles are still useful years later. So I am not surprised this magazine was kept around, even with the limited circulation at the time.... (I wonder if there is any connection between being a tchie, and being a packrat...)
Having spent three years working at an online edition of a large newspaper, amy I add my 2 cents? Thanks. 1, newspapers make all their money from advertising, not subscriptions. The price you pay for the paper covers getting it to you. Have you ever seen the rate card for the WSJ? It is amazing what ads cost.
Secondly, the WSJ's feature articles are great, take a while to read, and are enjoyable.
Don't foget where the revenue comes from- subscription costs mean little. Plus keep in mind, that at many online versions of newspapers, they are separate business units and actually buy the content from the paper, a sister comany.
I wonder if this is generational- I am 26, and even into college, we were impressed by a CD player that didnt skip. And now we are complaining that 10 gigs of music gets repetitive? I cant believe what a difference 5 or 6 years of age makes....
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I thought the rule was pretty much: If you know what phishing is, you aren't going to fall for it... (I read that in a Reader's Digest article, no joke, but I have heard it said many times long before I read the RD article.) I actually did get a letter from PayPal that I thought was phishing- i forwarded it to ebay and they said it was a legit letter. That's beside the point, because I cancelled my PayPal account because of their fee increases, but I digress... I am more worried about a browser hijack leading to pharming...
You can tell who was never in the military- They tend to think that long acronyms are strange.... You aren't used to ADUHTGHERSTTYANYJIIBBBSYEJAA stenciled on things... According to the AP Style manual, You spell out an acronym and them put the acronym in parentheses next to it (YSOTA) and then when it is mentioned later in the paragraph/story, you just use the acronym. You don't use the acronym and spell it out also, if you are only using the acronym once. So, I believe what we should say is that using an acronym, spelling it out, and then not using the acronym again, is odd.
My question, the one that gives me a headache to think about- is if the big bang is the source of the universe, what was around that little speck of matter before it exploded (yes I know that is an elementary way to describe the big bang)? Does space end? If it does, what is on the other side? Where did the universe come from, or on the flip side, what/who created God? I wonder if we will ever have the answers to these questions in our lifetimes.
I think the business model is bad for me- for the price of netflix I have all the starz channels including starz on demand. I Have a dvd burner (super low end, cost about 200$ at the time) and I burn dvds all the time. So for the $$ I have all the movies I could want, and occasionally, I will get a pay per view of something new, but usually I will just fork over the $20 for a brand new release on DVD if I am so inclined... Yes, I have to buy DVDs and yes I have to set the DVD burner, but DVDs in bulk aren't expensive... and some day, when TV's have hard drives, I can put all my dvds onto the hard drive....
I hate to be the one to say it- But how long before IE incorporates Tabbed Browsing and other Firefox features?
What about downloads vs. actual use... I wonder what the percentage of people is that hears about firefox, thinks it is cool sounding, then download it and can't figure it out... Don't forget there are a lot of computer users out there who don't know what the click to make default buttons are. On a side note- I use IE a lot of days because my job involves me registering info online with a lot of corporate sites, and that almost always requires ie (ugh!). At home though, it as all firefox, all the time.... (Except when I am on my Mac, but that is another story)
I guess it wasn't "trail rated" Seriously though, I have seen pictures of this thing, and you would think that they would put either tracks or baloon tires on it for sand use. Those who have been stuck in the sand in a wheeled armored personel carrier know what I mean... You want tracks.... It is possible to bog a tracked vehicle down in mud or very rarely very soft sand, but that is what I would go with. Tracks= superior traction and weight distribution....
This seems like a good thing, but any time I see something that saves time, I think that also saves labor, and at some point, will require a smaller staff. Good for corporate, but I dont want to be out of work because programs are doing my job!!! Just my two cents.
FYI- In Ohio, which is middle of the road with respect for Mary-Wanna laws, possesion of under an ounce is a Minor Misdemeanor punishable by a $100 fine. Any Pair-a-fan-ale-ya is a felony however. (Sometimes, they charge you with a Minor Misdemeanor for the Maywanja, and a felony for the baggie). The only reason i hate Marijuana- People who take half a toke and then start laughing and saying they are hungry, like, your cool man, because you smoked some doobage. If you enjoy it fine, but don't make it part of your image (Did someone say white guy with dreads?)
Second, it's IMPOSSIBLE to close off or secure the border with Mexico, while it's much easier to check people at airports. If I may respectfully disagree- You appearently were never in the service- It is would be simple to secure the entire border. All we need to do is decide that we want to. Whether with troops, or with physical fortifications, or a combination or both- the border can be locked down easily. Illegal aliens have become the US's dirth little secret- our slave class if you will. And keep inmind, most of the money they earn goes to their home country- estimates as high as 90%. (rent is cheap with 30+ people in a house)
I believe the diffence is that people will choose to buy the sanitized versions. (Except by mistake, like when I buy a tv formatted dvd version of a movie, non letterbox, by accident, and dont notice until it is looking funny on my wide tv) Can you imagine getting a sanitized version of say, Scarface, and getting it home and having it be 15 minutes long? Ugh I hate to be the one to point it out, but if people want a sanitized version, it is their choice. We see sanitized versions of movies all the time on TV, network and the basic cable channels. (Why do I have a ton of premium movie channels, but most of the time I watch movies, I watch them on the basic cable stations with commercials?)
I think it is similar to vehicles in a lot of ways- Some people want a toyota- no style, but does what you need it to do most of the time. I prefer something different, something I can customize and add to (My 73 Camaro). Have you ever talked to a Chevy guy- I would never drive any truck but my Silverado. I think that is a lot like software- some of our loyalty comes from the heart, not the head necessarily.... There is something cool about Firefox, a certain cache (ha), and I am speaking aside from its features. It has a coolness quotient.
Nobody wants his porn? What if he has nude pics of Richard Hatch!!! Seriously, what could Burnett have that anyone would want?
He likely also has an armored car- I read an article in the NY Times about armored cars- It quotes the guy who sells them as saying that 1/3 of the buyers are under threat, 1/3 think they are under threat, and 1/3 wish they were in one of the first two categories... A lot of people are paranoid because they think it makes them important.... Like whats on Burnett's machine, Nude pics of Richard Hatch?
Whenever my mom stops by my house, she always wants to check her mail- she uses aol, and cant figure out web mail. So I have AOL installed on one of my home machines- everytime i fire up aol on that machine, it lets me know that because I don't have realplayer, a lot of things in aol wont't display correctly. I'm not an aol expert, but it seems to me if all the aol users have realplayer installed, it must have some kind of penetration.... Just my 2 cents.
If the sales staff could use the computers without instruction, would the IT department have to be so big? We need to be thankful for people who need our help (when it means $$ for us)Just my two cents
I agree with your point, however, I think your statement is accurate for many consumers for personal use, but not for business use. Salespeople and many other profs need their PDA to sync with their PIM. When a clamshell phone can sync with ACT or the like, then the PDA may not be needed, or would that mean the phone is a PDA?
Wouldn't that be cool- A giant, copper DVD of liberty in NY harbor!
I actually read an article about a year ago in Reader's Digest about a guy who for a year wrote down everytime he saw any claim that XXXX is costing America XXXX per year. Things like hangovers cost businesses a billion a year, the flu costs american business billions a year, depression costs Amercian businesses billions a year, all those headlines you see. It was unscientific, he just wrote down the headlines as he saw them, but the total was something like 10 times the US's GDP.... Go figure. Yes, I'm in Ohio. Yes it's April 25. Yes, I woke up to 8 inches of heavy snow on the ground....
What is the saying? If a man speaks in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
I actually do tend to save hobby/technical magazines. Some because how to articles are still useful years later. So I am not surprised this magazine was kept around, even with the limited circulation at the time.... (I wonder if there is any connection between being a tchie, and being a packrat...)
Its not rocket surgery....
Having spent three years working at an online edition of a large newspaper, amy I add my 2 cents? Thanks. 1, newspapers make all their money from advertising, not subscriptions. The price you pay for the paper covers getting it to you. Have you ever seen the rate card for the WSJ? It is amazing what ads cost. Secondly, the WSJ's feature articles are great, take a while to read, and are enjoyable. Don't foget where the revenue comes from- subscription costs mean little. Plus keep in mind, that at many online versions of newspapers, they are separate business units and actually buy the content from the paper, a sister comany.
STOP! Or I'll say stop again. Or else, shine this flashlight at you.
I wonder if this is generational- I am 26, and even into college, we were impressed by a CD player that didnt skip. And now we are complaining that 10 gigs of music gets repetitive? I cant believe what a difference 5 or 6 years of age makes....