Where do you suggest this "somewhere" is? All his connectivity is/after/ the point at which he is charged, so the ZiProxy would be charged full rate for the uncompressed version of something just so it could compress it and send it on...
And don't forget the wonder that is "Flashblock". That will stop your YouTube movies and other Flash content from loading until you explicitly click on them, so no more "driveby" bandwidth wastage.
What really infuriates me about them is that I can't seem to hang up on them (if you try to hang up and pick up the phone later, the message is still playing).
That's not any special function of the caller, or any collaboration with your teleco - in any call, once it's been accepted, only the person who dialed the call can end it. Just try hanging up on someone who has accidentally speed-dialed you while their 'phone is still in their back pocket; pick up the 'phone two minutes later and they'll still be there.
I would have thought a flatbed truck was the ideal starting point at th moment; batteries are still bulky, so just raising the bed of the truck by a foot to fit in a palette of batteries underneath seems like the best use of space.
I fired up my Linux box and went to the Chrome homepage. It said "Windows only".
So, I wired up my Windows 2000 box and went to the homepage. It now said "XP/Vista only".
Why couldn't they have said that on the Linux version? It would have saved me a frustrating fifteen minutes of crawling around plugging inn video cables.
I remember being ejected from Aberdeen Art Gallery a quarter-century ago for having a "professional-looking" camera. The gallery assistant said that they were told to keep "cameras with interchangeable lenses" off the gallery floor.
This wasn't to protect privacy, though. It was so that you couldn't take a decent photograph of any of the exhibits and thus possibly cut into their sales of photos and post-cards in the gallery shop.
I would assume that they are running at different refresh rates. In general, the higher you can get away with setting the refresh rate the less headache-inducing the screen will be.
A secondary factor may be the settings of the different computers you have the LCDs attached to - if (God forbid) you're using Windows systems, check that both have "Cleartype" enabled and that it has been tweaked for that particular monitor's arrangement of RGB on the screen. It really does make a difference.
Of course, if both give you a headache over prolonged periods, it's most likely your eyesight. Bug your employer to buy you a good set of prescription VDU specs, preferably with a 20% grey tint. It's important that you get your eyes tested specially, even if you already have a prescription, as VDU specs are specifically set to focus your eyes at monitor distance. I'm wearing a pair now, and while the prescription's probably a couple of years out of date they still greatly reduce headaches and eyestrain, plus the 20% grey tint allows you to set the monitor brightness slightly higher which improves the contrast range and reduces the perceived brightness of reflections on the screen.
If you are buying a "real" copy rather than just Torrenting a pirate version, it probably matters to you that you can only legally use that OEM copy on a single machine. Machine dies, you scrap the OS too. It has to be a "proper" copy before you get given the rights to move it on to another machine in the future.
It may just be me, but *every* Micro$oft default in XP needs to be reversed before I can live with it. And, while it's not as bad as Vista, it still has the occasional habit of asking "Are you sure you want to do that?" and when you say "Yes" it'll do something, but quietly revert to its previous default after a reboot. It was the first generation of "Micro$oft Knows Best".
And it's a fallacy that XP runs significantly more packages than 2000 does. It's just that Micro$oft rewrote their installers to check and exit if they were run under 2000. I have successfully installed and used several "XP Only" packages under 2000 by using a hacked set of installer DLLs.
They never were; they were inherited from WordStar for CP/M; the original programmers of Windows included them for their own convenience, but they were initially undocumented.
What's stopping you from "tweaking" an "Uninterruptable power Supply" so the batteries can also be charged from your solar panel/windmill/water wheel? When the grid is up it can top-up the charge; when it's down the UPS kicks in, as it's designed to do. At the output end you don't need to know where the batteries are getting their charge from, you just watch your TV/surf the web/run your energy-saving light bulbs.
As long as you don't plan to sell your excess back to the grid I don't see a problem.
A good friend of mine died of a heart attack recently.
I contacted an online directory that was listing him and asked that they took down his profile because he had died. "Sure", they replied, "just give us his password and the answer to his secret question"...:-(
Much better would be to give it the Dr. Who treatment. The special effects can be total crap, but make the writing good
Er, sorry, have you watched the new "Doctor Who"? The SFX are better than average, which can't be said for some/many of the scripts. I agree there are some good ones, but there are a few stinkers too.
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Where do you suggest this "somewhere" is? All his connectivity is /after/ the point at which he is charged, so the ZiProxy would be charged full rate for the uncompressed version of something just so it could compress it and send it on...
[Insert game show "UH-UH" honk *here*]
And don't forget the wonder that is "Flashblock". That will stop your YouTube movies and other Flash content from loading until you explicitly click on them, so no more "driveby" bandwidth wastage.
That's not any special function of the caller, or any collaboration with your teleco - in any call, once it's been accepted, only the person who dialed the call can end it. Just try hanging up on someone who has accidentally speed-dialed you while their 'phone is still in their back pocket; pick up the 'phone two minutes later and they'll still be there.
"0.2% of Gamers are too stupid to operate BitTorrent!"
I would have thought a flatbed truck was the ideal starting point at th moment; batteries are still bulky, so just raising the bed of the truck by a foot to fit in a palette of batteries underneath seems like the best use of space.
...that the first small child to get in will press all the buttons, right?
No good in Linux.
Where did CERN go???
Or... He listed his experience, and the potential employer just nodded and pretended it meant something to them.
I fired up my Linux box and went to the Chrome homepage. It said "Windows only".
So, I wired up my Windows 2000 box and went to the homepage. It now said "XP/Vista only".
Why couldn't they have said that on the Linux version? It would have saved me a frustrating fifteen minutes of crawling around plugging inn video cables.
Indeed. Anything to get it away from its abusive parents.
I remember being ejected from Aberdeen Art Gallery a quarter-century ago for having a "professional-looking" camera. The gallery assistant said that they were told to keep "cameras with interchangeable lenses" off the gallery floor.
This wasn't to protect privacy, though. It was so that you couldn't take a decent photograph of any of the exhibits and thus possibly cut into their sales of photos and post-cards in the gallery shop.
...is that this will allow Phishing scams aimed at GMail users to *seem* so much more plausible.
What? You expected humour?
Either look at the screen with a magnifying glass/camera lens, or just try the four(?) options to see which looks best on your screen.
I would assume that they are running at different refresh rates. In general, the higher you can get away with setting the refresh rate the less headache-inducing the screen will be.
A secondary factor may be the settings of the different computers you have the LCDs attached to - if (God forbid) you're using Windows systems, check that both have "Cleartype" enabled and that it has been tweaked for that particular monitor's arrangement of RGB on the screen. It really does make a difference.
Of course, if both give you a headache over prolonged periods, it's most likely your eyesight. Bug your employer to buy you a good set of prescription VDU specs, preferably with a 20% grey tint. It's important that you get your eyes tested specially, even if you already have a prescription, as VDU specs are specifically set to focus your eyes at monitor distance. I'm wearing a pair now, and while the prescription's probably a couple of years out of date they still greatly reduce headaches and eyestrain, plus the 20% grey tint allows you to set the monitor brightness slightly higher which improves the contrast range and reduces the perceived brightness of reflections on the screen.
If you are buying a "real" copy rather than just Torrenting a pirate version, it probably matters to you that you can only legally use that OEM copy on a single machine. Machine dies, you scrap the OS too. It has to be a "proper" copy before you get given the rights to move it on to another machine in the future.
It may just be me, but *every* Micro$oft default in XP needs to be reversed before I can live with it. And, while it's not as bad as Vista, it still has the occasional habit of asking "Are you sure you want to do that?" and when you say "Yes" it'll do something, but quietly revert to its previous default after a reboot. It was the first generation of "Micro$oft Knows Best".
And it's a fallacy that XP runs significantly more packages than 2000 does. It's just that Micro$oft rewrote their installers to check and exit if they were run under 2000. I have successfully installed and used several "XP Only" packages under 2000 by using a hacked set of installer DLLs.
But you'll only ever be able to use both if you dual-boot. The OEM license for Vista won't let it be used on a different computer.
Indeed, but for my $50 I would rather have a properly supported version of Windows 2000. It's all been downhill since there.
You're right. I'm so ashamed. @'.'@
Still predated Windows, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-C
They never were; they were inherited from WordStar for CP/M; the original programmers of Windows included them for their own convenience, but they were initially undocumented.
"We're sorry, we can only authorise you to share this data with four other nodes. Have a nice day."
No, not the parcel service.
What's stopping you from "tweaking" an "Uninterruptable power Supply" so the batteries can also be charged from your solar panel/windmill/water wheel? When the grid is up it can top-up the charge; when it's down the UPS kicks in, as it's designed to do. At the output end you don't need to know where the batteries are getting their charge from, you just watch your TV/surf the web/run your energy-saving light bulbs.
As long as you don't plan to sell your excess back to the grid I don't see a problem.
A good friend of mine died of a heart attack recently.
:-(
I contacted an online directory that was listing him and asked that they took down his profile because he had died. "Sure", they replied, "just give us his password and the answer to his secret question"...
Er, sorry, have you watched the new "Doctor Who"? The SFX are better than average, which can't be said for some/many of the scripts. I agree there are some good ones, but there are a few stinkers too.