(Bear with me, English is not my native language.)
What does it mean when somebody replies to another person's comment with, "This."? Is it merely a stupid and lazy way of saying, "I agree with what you have written."?
It was a mildly interesting and eye-catching way to express agreement, the first 10000 times or that it was used. Then wannabes decided it was cool, and it therefore became boring.
My FB account name uses the given name that I use almost everywhere else (including book covers), which is actually a common short form of my legal given name. The surname's my real/legal one.
But it's *my* choice to do this, with *my* account. I won't presume to make that choice for others.
Off-topic: Using the common English short form of my given name has occasionally caused me problems here in Sweden. Especially when picking up packages addressed to "Will" using ID that says "William". Many people here apparently find it just incredible that one might use a short form of one's given name. Only country I've ever been where this seems to be the case.
Last time I rented a car, I had to pay extra for permission to take it out of the state (Florida, for the curious). Last time I owned a car, I required no such permission to take it anywhere I was able to drive it, the fact that I was still making payments on it notwithstanding.
Last time I rented a home, I didn't like the colour of the walls in the hallway, but the landlord did. Guess which colour remained on the walls?
I now own my home, and the bank doesn't get to tell me what colour I paint it.
Alas, there's no chance that the bank will pay to fix my pipes, should they break--unlike a landlord who is usually required to pay for maintenance and repair of this sort (and to do so whether I'm current with the rent or not).
Owning and owing are not mutually exclusive. If they were, lots fewer people in this world would own their own homes.
As for the new phone: I could have just paid for it outright, and had originally planned to do so. However, my telco offered me a deal that better reflected my usage, reduced my monthly bill by about 30%, and provided me ownership of the phone I wanted. Since I would have been willing to renew my (now previous) contract in any case, I took the offer.
(Yes, I am really am a writer; yes, I really do know the difference; yes, I'm human and occasionally make errors, especially when I've not yet had my coffee.)
When you get a phone on subsidy, you don't own the phone, you are renting it.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
I own the new phone I got over the weekend for extending my contract for another 2 years in the same way that I own my home, the only difference being that Il be making payments on the former until 2015, and on the latter until 2041. In either case, I own the object, and I get to keep it indefinitely following the end of the contract, as long as I make the payments.
One interesting affect of this is that both objects are covered for full repair or replacement by my insurance, which I wouldn't have to carry on them if they weren't my property (and I were not thus responsible for them).
So, no, my subsidised phone is no more rented from my my telco than the home that's subsidised by my bank is rented from them.
True... But you must not actually work in a typical large corporation with chunks of infrastructure that were already growing long in the tooth in 1999, I'm guessing? Otherwise, you'd see that this is in no wise remarkable.
You don't understand this because you're seeing insults and threats as being one and the same thing. They are not...
*dingdingdingding* We have a winner!
Understanding this distinction is key to this whole situation (the Muslim rioters don't get it, either), and the Preacher's post merits many Insightful/Informative mods.
One nice thing about living in a country that has decent transport is that you get to skip the part where you spend 15-20 hours per week in a car. Ick.
Thanks to all in this thread for reminding me how much I don't miss that.
When I saw the name McAfee Social Protection I thought it was going to be an app that helped prevent me from exposing my social data more widely than I wanted to -- something that monitors Facebook (and other) security settings and warns me if something changes in how public any of my data is. Something like that would be truly useful because I don't want to have to keep up with the changing privacy policies and security settings of every site I put my data on.
Same here.
This lasted about 5 seconds until I'd read enough to register extreme disappointment that it's just another No-Right-Click thingo (that didn't work in 1997, and ain't gonna work today).
KDE would work except that email search and address autocomplete doesn't work if you turn off nepomuk (or whatever it's called), and KDE seems to not work if you don't.
I use KDE, have nepomunk disabled, and Thunderbird's email search and address auto-complete work just great for me.
(Just pointing out that you're not obligated to use kmail any more than using Windows forces you to use Outlook.)
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It's easy to care about winning a contest in which you're the only contestant, isn't it.
Yeah, he sort of defines monomania, doesn't he.
Just one question who generated the revenue for the government to create the infrastructure?
*I* did, sonny.
So now your business would like to use the infrastructure I paid for...?
One of the very few variants on "Me too" that's actually less interesting, useful, or original than "This."
Congratulations!
(Proptip: If you've nothing useful to say... Don't say it!)
(Bear with me, English is not my native language.)
What does it mean when somebody replies to another person's comment with, "This."? Is it merely a stupid and lazy way of saying, "I agree with what you have written."?
It was a mildly interesting and eye-catching way to express agreement, the first 10000 times or that it was used. Then wannabes decided it was cool, and it therefore became boring.
My FB account name uses the given name that I use almost everywhere else (including book covers), which is actually a common short form of my legal given name. The surname's my real/legal one.
But it's *my* choice to do this, with *my* account. I won't presume to make that choice for others.
Off-topic: Using the common English short form of my given name has occasionally caused me problems here in Sweden. Especially when picking up packages addressed to "Will" using ID that says "William". Many people here apparently find it just incredible that one might use a short form of one's given name. Only country I've ever been where this seems to be the case.
The total spent on the phone over 2 years is about 4% greater than paying for it up front. I consider that a reasonable rate of interest.
Last time I rented a car, I had to pay extra for permission to take it out of the state (Florida, for the curious). Last time I owned a car, I required no such permission to take it anywhere I was able to drive it, the fact that I was still making payments on it notwithstanding.
Last time I rented a home, I didn't like the colour of the walls in the hallway, but the landlord did. Guess which colour remained on the walls?
I now own my home, and the bank doesn't get to tell me what colour I paint it.
Alas, there's no chance that the bank will pay to fix my pipes, should they break--unlike a landlord who is usually required to pay for maintenance and repair of this sort (and to do so whether I'm current with the rent or not).
Owning and owing are not mutually exclusive. If they were, lots fewer people in this world would own their own homes.
As for the new phone: I could have just paid for it outright, and had originally planned to do so. However, my telco offered me a deal that better reflected my usage, reduced my monthly bill by about 30%, and provided me ownership of the phone I wanted. Since I would have been willing to renew my (now previous) contract in any case, I took the offer.
Early-morning pre-caffeine typo.
(Yes, I am really am a writer; yes, I really do know the difference; yes, I'm human and occasionally make errors, especially when I've not yet had my coffee.)
(Happy now?)
When you get a phone on subsidy, you don't own the phone, you are renting it.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
I own the new phone I got over the weekend for extending my contract for another 2 years in the same way that I own my home, the only difference being that Il be making payments on the former until 2015, and on the latter until 2041. In either case, I own the object, and I get to keep it indefinitely following the end of the contract, as long as I make the payments.
One interesting affect of this is that both objects are covered for full repair or replacement by my insurance, which I wouldn't have to carry on them if they weren't my property (and I were not thus responsible for them).
So, no, my subsidised phone is no more rented from my my telco than the home that's subsidised by my bank is rented from them.
Most of this article reads like its 1999 now.
True... But you must not actually work in a typical large corporation with chunks of infrastructure that were already growing long in the tooth in 1999, I'm guessing? Otherwise, you'd see that this is in no wise remarkable.
You don't understand this because you're seeing insults and threats as being one and the same thing. They are not...
*dingdingdingding* We have a winner!
Understanding this distinction is key to this whole situation (the Muslim rioters don't get it, either), and the Preacher's post merits many Insightful/Informative mods.
One nice thing about living in a country that has decent transport is that you get to skip the part where you spend 15-20 hours per week in a car. Ick.
Thanks to all in this thread for reminding me how much I don't miss that.
You missed the "private" pages on Orkut, which were anything but, as the 5 minutes it took to write a JS bookmarklet demonstrated quite handily.
Even after I published the exploit, people refused to believe anything b-b-b-but Orkut says it's PRIVATE!!
Good times.
So do McAfee--this group just doesn't include any of the users.
When I saw the name McAfee Social Protection I thought it was going to be an app that helped prevent me from exposing my social data more widely than I wanted to -- something that monitors Facebook (and other) security settings and warns me if something changes in how public any of my data is. Something like that would be truly useful because I don't want to have to keep up with the changing privacy policies and security settings of every site I put my data on.
Same here.
This lasted about 5 seconds until I'd read enough to register extreme disappointment that it's just another No-Right-Click thingo (that didn't work in 1997, and ain't gonna work today).
* The photos are hosted on a McAfee server
Oh, won't that be enteraining when the central DB eventually gets hacked and all the photos are released.
Dunno about you, but I stuck a bag of Insta-Pop in the m-wave as soon as I read the summary.
i'd rather have mcafee make me a sandwich or something and leave security and privacy to the experts.
I'd like to have that engraved on a plaque that I could present to people who tell me their machines must be secure because they run McAfee.
Ok, now we *know* you're from that alternate universe where Spock has a beard. Thanks for confirming!
KDE would work except that email search and address autocomplete doesn't work if you turn off nepomuk (or whatever it's called), and KDE seems to not work if you don't.
I use KDE, have nepomunk disabled, and Thunderbird's email search and address auto-complete work just great for me.
(Just pointing out that you're not obligated to use kmail any more than using Windows forces you to use Outlook.)
evorster voted with his wallet when he did not pull it out and dump its contents into the hot and eager mitts of either Microsoft or Apple.
Real men use wget. Or telnet.
TFTFY
I just heard such a loud Whoooosh that I got up and looked out the window to make sure it wasn't a drone flying by.
What's really innovative about sliced bread is how they slice it without cutting the wrapper it comes in. Ingenious!
I've no mod points today, but I think you've just won the thread. :)
You left out the use of 'transition' as a verb.