I haven't tried AIM in ages.. and don't know anyone who uses it. I use MSN messenger, not because I like it (I'd rather stick with google talk) but because everyone uses MSN. In the realm of IM it really is MSN that has the monopoly, at least in most countries.
Several religions, including the Vatican, have said that ID has nothing to do with religion. According to them Genesis is a story, telling how the world was supposely made by a higher being, and that only idiots would take it literally. The Vatican actually supports evolution as being compatible with their religion.
What does that one guy named Jesus have to do with anything? So you decided to believe a book written thousands of years ago by some guys, which has been found to have inconsistancy, rather than what the vast majority of scientists think? Your choice. But when you force that crazy choice on students that's just bad. Did you know that less than 10 years ago there was still a movement in the US believing very seriously the earth was flat?
It's not surprising really since people really don't even care that much about the music features of the phones, they still prefer to have a camera phone than an MP3 phone. I posted about this a while back: http://cellwatch.blogspot.com/2005/10/trends-peopl e-like-camera-phones-more.html
My guess is that within a year or 2 we'll see people really start getting into multimedia phones. But we'll need quality first and mobile TV is just not there yet.
The part that scares me is the "download firefox with google toolbar" part. I hope the official builds never include the google toolbar, that would be like IE bundeling Alexa or something. If people want that toolbar they can go get it. Personally I think the toolbar is very bad. First most of its features are already in Firefox, and the only useful feature that isn't, pagerank, is a major privacy concern since it clearly said it sends every URL you visit to google. So no thx.
That's complete BS. Most if not all contests I've ever seen that include Canada don't do any special case about Quebec. Loto-Quebec has laws restricting lottery in QUEBEC ONLY. It can't restrict contests from abroad or on the Internet.
As much as I agree with you on software patents, Nokia did have a point. If the US has software patents and is using them agresively (and we know they are), if the EU bans its companies from having any, then european companies have a very real problem. Even if they come up with new ideas, they can't be patented and in the US they will be. The solution is to get rid of software patents everywhere.
This is reported everywhere as a rootkit, something that can't be uninstalled, and that may compromise your system. It is, in fact, a virus. Personally I hope anti-virus software will start detecting it, reporting it as virus to the user ("Sony DRM virus found!") and remove it.
Every encyclopedia, in fact every reference books have errors. There's an article that lists all the Encyclopedia Britanica ones. So while Wikipedia may have more since it has a lot more content, it's a good idea to fact check regardless if it's wikipedia or not.
This article is missing the point of OpenOffice. It doesn't take scientific results to find out OpenOffice is slower to open files than MS Office. Anyone using them will see the difference in a big way regardless what data they use. The fact that it's slow to open files and uses more memory is the primary issue with OpenOffice. The fact that MS Office can't retain compatibility accross versions is the main issue with MS Office.
The point here is that OpenOffice is the first software in years that is on par with MS Office. They are both 'comparable'. People may argue on which one is actually better, but for the first time they are both pretty damn close in what they can or cannot do. Why is it important? Because on every single other aspect OpenOffice wins hands down. It's free, while MS Office costs hundreds. It's open source and totally customizable, while MS Office is closed. It's free of patent issues, while the state of Massachusetts found MS Office's proprietary format isn't.
That's what counts. We finally have a real alternative, that is for ever free, and documents created by it will always be able to be read by any application implementing this open standard. So sure, shout out all day long that OpenOffice uses too much memory for your taste, but at the end of the day, it still wins.
Before everyone starts inventing stuff about wikipedia having banner ads, here's what the deal is:
- A link will be added in the left side bar on Wikipedia to the WP:TOOLS page.
- That page lists software that can be used to improve the user experience of the Wikimedia projects, such as toolbars and other web helpers.
- On that page the 1-Click toolbar will be listed on top.
- People using this toolbar and seeing the ads will bring revenue to both 1-Click Answers and the Wikimedia Foundation.
That is complete BS. Companies spend money on things that will bring them more money: stuff that already has a cure and that they can sell off the counter. Money spent on AIDS, cancer and such is VERY VERY little precisely because of free enterprise. Plus the vast majority of their investments go to marketting firms anyways. I say it's more than time for the government to get involved and set the priorities straight. There should not be 200 researchers working on infertility to 1 working on cancer research.
While this only lasted a few hours, it still caused a mess across the North American Internet during those hours. The point is a small amount of big networks are responsible for over 90% of the traffic on the Internet. If alter.net went down it would be total chaos. If just one of the major peering points went down, sure the traffic would be rerouted, but overloading the other points at such high latency that it would be almost unusuable. You better hope no one destroys MAE-EAST or we'll have a live example of what ife without the Internet is like.
Why do I feel this is nothing more than a marketting move to show MS in a brighter light. After all, they are releasing a new Windows, Office, etc next year...
The point is that it's more than just "we want some.com and you don't want to give it to us". It's things like who ever said all.mil domains are only allowed to be US sites? Why did ICANN give away Iraq's.iq domain to a certain faction and not to another? What if the US decides one day Iran is a dangerous country not deserving of the Internet and tells ICANN to pull the plug? Those are real issues and only an international organization should decide.
The problem isn't that people don't like the US. Let's say that in a few years, Iran continues to develop its nuclear technology, and the US decides that the country is "evil", kinda like they did with Iraq. Then they decide evil countries don't deserve the Internet anymore, and tell icann to pull the plug on all Iraq domains. That would be bad. It hasn't happened yet, but that's the main fear. I do agree that quickly changing who controls DNS is a bad idea, but ultimately it has to go to an International organization.
Buy a cellphone that allows you to use mp3s as ringtones, from a provider that doesn't disable it (or unlock it once bought), and stop buying ringtones! just transfer whichever one you want from your PC. That's what I do and if everyone did that carriers would stop that silliness.
It's very true, and anyone can see how a few big companies basically make the net work in north america. Simply do traceroutes to various big web sites, and you'll notice the packets always go across the same networks. The biggest one seems to be alter.net (MCI), with others including Level3, above.net, AT&T and UUnet. Basically you remove any of these and the North American part of the Internet would be in chaos. The problem is because most ISPs do the same thing. They pick a primary provider, and get a backup one. The problem is they all pick the same few primary companies, and their backup links are much smaller pipes.
It's not Mozilla software that got hacked. If it's indeed the Wiki part, then it's the MediaWiki software, which is also open source but has nothing to do with Mozilla or Firefox. Either way, that web site is very user based where tons of tools were hosted for the community like public forums and freely editable wikis, so it's not surprising that some of them may have issues. Until the actual mozilla.org site gets hacked, which I highly doubt it will ever happen, there's nothing to worry about.
The sad thing is I submitted this story yesterday morning before it was appearing on BoingBoing and it got rejected. Not only is this old news now but the submitted copied it from another source.
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I haven't tried AIM in ages.. and don't know anyone who uses it. I use MSN messenger, not because I like it (I'd rather stick with google talk) but because everyone uses MSN. In the realm of IM it really is MSN that has the monopoly, at least in most countries.
Several religions, including the Vatican, have said that ID has nothing to do with religion. According to them Genesis is a story, telling how the world was supposely made by a higher being, and that only idiots would take it literally. The Vatican actually supports evolution as being compatible with their religion.
What does that one guy named Jesus have to do with anything? So you decided to believe a book written thousands of years ago by some guys, which has been found to have inconsistancy, rather than what the vast majority of scientists think? Your choice. But when you force that crazy choice on students that's just bad. Did you know that less than 10 years ago there was still a movement in the US believing very seriously the earth was flat?
It's not surprising really since people really don't even care that much about the music features of the phones, they still prefer to have a camera phone than an MP3 phone. I posted about this a while back: http://cellwatch.blogspot.com/2005/10/trends-peopl e-like-camera-phones-more.html
My guess is that within a year or 2 we'll see people really start getting into multimedia phones. But we'll need quality first and mobile TV is just not there yet.
The part that scares me is the "download firefox with google toolbar" part. I hope the official builds never include the google toolbar, that would be like IE bundeling Alexa or something. If people want that toolbar they can go get it. Personally I think the toolbar is very bad. First most of its features are already in Firefox, and the only useful feature that isn't, pagerank, is a major privacy concern since it clearly said it sends every URL you visit to google. So no thx.
That's complete BS. Most if not all contests I've ever seen that include Canada don't do any special case about Quebec. Loto-Quebec has laws restricting lottery in QUEBEC ONLY. It can't restrict contests from abroad or on the Internet.
As much as I agree with you on software patents, Nokia did have a point. If the US has software patents and is using them agresively (and we know they are), if the EU bans its companies from having any, then european companies have a very real problem. Even if they come up with new ideas, they can't be patented and in the US they will be. The solution is to get rid of software patents everywhere.
This is reported everywhere as a rootkit, something that can't be uninstalled, and that may compromise your system. It is, in fact, a virus. Personally I hope anti-virus software will start detecting it, reporting it as virus to the user ("Sony DRM virus found!") and remove it.
Every encyclopedia, in fact every reference books have errors. There's an article that lists all the Encyclopedia Britanica ones. So while Wikipedia may have more since it has a lot more content, it's a good idea to fact check regardless if it's wikipedia or not.
This article is missing the point of OpenOffice. It doesn't take scientific results to find out OpenOffice is slower to open files than MS Office. Anyone using them will see the difference in a big way regardless what data they use. The fact that it's slow to open files and uses more memory is the primary issue with OpenOffice. The fact that MS Office can't retain compatibility accross versions is the main issue with MS Office. The point here is that OpenOffice is the first software in years that is on par with MS Office. They are both 'comparable'. People may argue on which one is actually better, but for the first time they are both pretty damn close in what they can or cannot do. Why is it important? Because on every single other aspect OpenOffice wins hands down. It's free, while MS Office costs hundreds. It's open source and totally customizable, while MS Office is closed. It's free of patent issues, while the state of Massachusetts found MS Office's proprietary format isn't. That's what counts. We finally have a real alternative, that is for ever free, and documents created by it will always be able to be read by any application implementing this open standard. So sure, shout out all day long that OpenOffice uses too much memory for your taste, but at the end of the day, it still wins.
Interestingly, Slashdot had a Google story 22 times since Oct 1. Yahoo had 3 times and Linux 21 times.
Before everyone starts inventing stuff about wikipedia having banner ads, here's what the deal is: - A link will be added in the left side bar on Wikipedia to the WP:TOOLS page. - That page lists software that can be used to improve the user experience of the Wikimedia projects, such as toolbars and other web helpers. - On that page the 1-Click toolbar will be listed on top. - People using this toolbar and seeing the ads will bring revenue to both 1-Click Answers and the Wikimedia Foundation.
That is complete BS. Companies spend money on things that will bring them more money: stuff that already has a cure and that they can sell off the counter. Money spent on AIDS, cancer and such is VERY VERY little precisely because of free enterprise. Plus the vast majority of their investments go to marketting firms anyways. I say it's more than time for the government to get involved and set the priorities straight. There should not be 200 researchers working on infertility to 1 working on cancer research.
While this only lasted a few hours, it still caused a mess across the North American Internet during those hours. The point is a small amount of big networks are responsible for over 90% of the traffic on the Internet. If alter.net went down it would be total chaos. If just one of the major peering points went down, sure the traffic would be rerouted, but overloading the other points at such high latency that it would be almost unusuable. You better hope no one destroys MAE-EAST or we'll have a live example of what ife without the Internet is like.
They don't need free software but they sure try to sell them some for $200+
Why do I feel this is nothing more than a marketting move to show MS in a brighter light. After all, they are releasing a new Windows, Office, etc next year...
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The point is that it's more than just "we want some .com and you don't want to give it to us". It's things like who ever said all .mil domains are only allowed to be US sites? Why did ICANN give away Iraq's .iq domain to a certain faction and not to another? What if the US decides one day Iran is a dangerous country not deserving of the Internet and tells ICANN to pull the plug? Those are real issues and only an international organization should decide.
The problem isn't that people don't like the US. Let's say that in a few years, Iran continues to develop its nuclear technology, and the US decides that the country is "evil", kinda like they did with Iraq. Then they decide evil countries don't deserve the Internet anymore, and tell icann to pull the plug on all Iraq domains. That would be bad. It hasn't happened yet, but that's the main fear. I do agree that quickly changing who controls DNS is a bad idea, but ultimately it has to go to an International organization.
Check the high end nokia devices, like the N90/N91 communicator, they have no camera.
Buy a cellphone that allows you to use mp3s as ringtones, from a provider that doesn't disable it (or unlock it once bought), and stop buying ringtones! just transfer whichever one you want from your PC. That's what I do and if everyone did that carriers would stop that silliness.
It's very true, and anyone can see how a few big companies basically make the net work in north america. Simply do traceroutes to various big web sites, and you'll notice the packets always go across the same networks. The biggest one seems to be alter.net (MCI), with others including Level3, above.net, AT&T and UUnet. Basically you remove any of these and the North American part of the Internet would be in chaos. The problem is because most ISPs do the same thing. They pick a primary provider, and get a backup one. The problem is they all pick the same few primary companies, and their backup links are much smaller pipes.
It's not Mozilla software that got hacked. If it's indeed the Wiki part, then it's the MediaWiki software, which is also open source but has nothing to do with Mozilla or Firefox. Either way, that web site is very user based where tons of tools were hosted for the community like public forums and freely editable wikis, so it's not surprising that some of them may have issues. Until the actual mozilla.org site gets hacked, which I highly doubt it will ever happen, there's nothing to worry about.
How much do we need to pay to have Option 3: Firefox ?
The sad thing is I submitted this story yesterday morning before it was appearing on BoingBoing and it got rejected. Not only is this old news now but the submitted copied it from another source.