Exactly. I have never bought anything over the Internet. Not because I do not want to, just I have never seen anything that I cannot get elsewhere that justifies me getting a credit card or changing bank accounts.
Besides, I'm lazy, it is easier to do without.
That said, I often click on ads, I'm interested in what some of them say, sometimes I just want to help out the site I'm reading. But if they adopt this, the incentive to help them just goes.
This is a DUPE! The fact that people have been able to search for your name online has been around for years. I swear I saw an article a year or more ago with virtually the exact same wording.
I never use my real name as a handle except where I want people to know who I am. Generally in these cases the online has a basis in real life (a forum discussing a conference or something). But for sites like Slashdot, I can post anything I like and people are not going to be able to associate my comments with me in real life.
The lesson we learn from this, on the Internet people can find out stuff about you. Therefore if you have stuff you do not want people to find out about, do not put it on the Internet!
I 'use' (am abused by) WebCT Vista for my university studies. And it is crap.
When using a web browser you would expect that the standard functions to work, back and forward buttons, multiple tabs on a site and so on. But WebCT Vista doesn't let you do that! Oh no, it restricts you to one page and the navigation is terrible.
People already know how to use webpages, they do not need a new concept thrust at them, especially not a new concept that breaks the old.
I think that Yahoo mail works really well, it is an example of an online app that works with in the web browser concept and offers interaction beyond that for those who want to learn.
Hey that's me! I don't watch movies and thus don't buy DVD movies (or even borrow them). Plus I use Linux and it is too much hassle to get them to work.
I don't watch TV (haven't for weeks and then only the news and then another few weeks and so on).
I don't buy video games. I own some that have been given to me. But none of them have DRM shit. Quake 2, Civilisation 2 and other games of that era.
I don't even know what a digital audio recorder is. But I have to say that I am quite happy with my cassette radio that still works after over 10 years of use.
I am a geek, but I am not a pop person, and I am quite happy with things that work. Sure I'd like some a new Mac, but I don't need it, thus I don't get it.
XML documents can be read everywhere. But two things need to happen, they need to have the doctype (DTD whatever it is) avaliable to the software, and some styling (CSS for example) that enables the document to be displayed nicely. If everyone did this (assuming that the XML is well formed) it would be wonderful. XHTML is XML and can be read everywhere, the DTD is avaliable freely, and CSS is either included with each document or webbrowsers have a default.
What I would like to see is academic books in an electronic format (on a disc distributed with the hard-copy perhaps) so that I could search the text for a phrase or quote that I did not get the page number for. This would make referencing much easier.
Of course having a lot of newspapers and books online from other countries also aids academic researching.
This would definitely make Java more desirable to Free Software users. If any licence were compatible with GNU GPL (or at least LGPL) then it makes it easier to justify using OpenOffice.org.
I would encourage Sun to free Java as it would improve it and mean that less effort would have to go into programs such as the GNU implementation (assuming a decent licence).
Rickets are becoming more common in Australia also. The message that too much sun is bad for you (slip slop & slap) got through, now kids aren't getting enough. Added to which they are probably spending more time indoors in front of the idiot box and computers.
It also affects elderly people in nursing homes.
Umm... USA notes apparently say "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE", I don't know what the status of Australian money is.
But the whole system is bankrupt anyway. It is only because people keep accepting money that it is worth anything. If what happened in Germany before the Nazi's took power happens in the USA, say goodbye global economy.
I use cash for as many things as possible. If I buy something big, I get cash out of the ATM, then buy it. I keep recepts. That way I can see what I buy.
I don't do things that are 'wrong', but why make it easy for Big Brother?
I swear that some where it is written that the notes in my pocket shall be acceptable for any debt public or private. It definitely says that it is legal tender. (From Australia...)
I did this to, but to Xandros. Actually I bought her a new computer (with her money), then installed Xandros on it. Some kind soul installed Windoze XP on it. She was having problems with Xandros, now she has problems with XP. It isn't what she it used to.
But she does do a lot of Internet stuff. I wonder how much crap she will have next time I visit her.
I don't get that many calls now, and I don't think I will sign up for this. It is just another place for your phone number. I just hang up if I am annoyed.
The way it works is if you are on the no call list, you can't be called at all. Else you can only be called during the day. It also applies to call centres outside Australia if an Australian company has contracted the call centre.
(It is also ironic that the US flag is under the Slashdot whilst talking about Australia. We are after all the 53rd state (after the UK and Canada).)
... plants roaming the place chomping on kids and strangling people with vine-like tentacles...
You mean like Triffids?
(read the book, http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/wyndham.html)
on similar things. He basically says (and I agree), that inviting random people to attack (or beta test in this case) your software is not guarenteed to get the best result.
I can't find the link though.
... struggling to survive on a planet we are designed to live on?...
Designed? I swear that there is a debate going on about how there is no evidence that any multi-cellular organism is designed. But plently of evidence that it evolved.
I know that it has been said before, but Gaim doesn't let your AIM friends talk to your YIM friends. It only lets you talk to both of them with a single client. Hopefully this deal will let anybody already with a Yahoo idenity talk with anyone with a MS identity. This is what people want. (Add in Jabber and AIM support too.)
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Exactly. I have never bought anything over the Internet. Not because I do not want to, just I have never seen anything that I cannot get elsewhere that justifies me getting a credit card or changing bank accounts.
Besides, I'm lazy, it is easier to do without.
That said, I often click on ads, I'm interested in what some of them say, sometimes I just want to help out the site I'm reading. But if they adopt this, the incentive to help them just goes.
This is a DUPE! The fact that people have been able to search for your name online has been around for years. I swear I saw an article a year or more ago with virtually the exact same wording.
I never use my real name as a handle except where I want people to know who I am. Generally in these cases the online has a basis in real life (a forum discussing a conference or something). But for sites like Slashdot, I can post anything I like and people are not going to be able to associate my comments with me in real life.
The lesson we learn from this, on the Internet people can find out stuff about you. Therefore if you have stuff you do not want people to find out about, do not put it on the Internet!
If you really want something to keep you warm ... I recomend a partner.
Much better then a stupid cat that goes and eats native animals. Also fun.
Try to find one that is actually willing to stay around (and can legally). Not fun when said partner is half a world away.
I 'use' (am abused by) WebCT Vista for my university studies. And it is crap.
When using a web browser you would expect that the standard functions to work, back and forward buttons, multiple tabs on a site and so on. But WebCT Vista doesn't let you do that! Oh no, it restricts you to one page and the navigation is terrible.
People already know how to use webpages, they do not need a new concept thrust at them, especially not a new concept that breaks the old.
I think that Yahoo mail works really well, it is an example of an online app that works with in the web browser concept and offers interaction beyond that for those who want to learn.
Hey that's me! I don't watch movies and thus don't buy DVD movies (or even borrow them). Plus I use Linux and it is too much hassle to get them to work.
I don't watch TV (haven't for weeks and then only the news and then another few weeks and so on).
I don't buy video games. I own some that have been given to me. But none of them have DRM shit. Quake 2, Civilisation 2 and other games of that era.
I don't even know what a digital audio recorder is. But I have to say that I am quite happy with my cassette radio that still works after over 10 years of use.
I am a geek, but I am not a pop person, and I am quite happy with things that work. Sure I'd like some a new Mac, but I don't need it, thus I don't get it.
Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies.
XML documents can be read everywhere. But two things need to happen, they need to have the doctype (DTD whatever it is) avaliable to the software, and some styling (CSS for example) that enables the document to be displayed nicely. If everyone did this (assuming that the XML is well formed) it would be wonderful. XHTML is XML and can be read everywhere, the DTD is avaliable freely, and CSS is either included with each document or webbrowsers have a default.
Actually I just didn't want to karma whore.
Only on /. will a link to a sport @ Wikipedia be given interesting.
What I would like to see is academic books in an electronic format (on a disc distributed with the hard-copy perhaps) so that I could search the text for a phrase or quote that I did not get the page number for. This would make referencing much easier. Of course having a lot of newspapers and books online from other countries also aids academic researching.
This would definitely make Java more desirable to Free Software users. If any licence were compatible with GNU GPL (or at least LGPL) then it makes it easier to justify using OpenOffice.org. I would encourage Sun to free Java as it would improve it and mean that less effort would have to go into programs such as the GNU implementation (assuming a decent licence).
And here is an article from that never biased paper the Australian on the issue. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867 ,18961105-23289,00.html
Rickets are becoming more common in Australia also. The message that too much sun is bad for you (slip slop & slap) got through, now kids aren't getting enough. Added to which they are probably spending more time indoors in front of the idiot box and computers. It also affects elderly people in nursing homes.
Exactly ...
Who needs a EULA if you have a decent licence in the first place?
EULAs are not good things.
Umm... USA notes apparently say "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE", I don't know what the status of Australian money is. But the whole system is bankrupt anyway. It is only because people keep accepting money that it is worth anything. If what happened in Germany before the Nazi's took power happens in the USA, say goodbye global economy.
I use cash for as many things as possible. If I buy something big, I get cash out of the ATM, then buy it. I keep recepts. That way I can see what I buy. I don't do things that are 'wrong', but why make it easy for Big Brother?
I swear that some where it is written that the notes in my pocket shall be acceptable for any debt public or private. It definitely says that it is legal tender. (From Australia ...)
Don't you mean protected from Symantec
I did this to, but to Xandros. Actually I bought her a new computer (with her money), then installed Xandros on it. Some kind soul installed Windoze XP on it. She was having problems with Xandros, now she has problems with XP. It isn't what she it used to. But she does do a lot of Internet stuff. I wonder how much crap she will have next time I visit her.
I don't get that many calls now, and I don't think I will sign up for this. It is just another place for your phone number. I just hang up if I am annoyed.
The way it works is if you are on the no call list, you can't be called at all. Else you can only be called during the day. It also applies to call centres outside Australia if an Australian company has contracted the call centre.
(It is also ironic that the US flag is under the Slashdot whilst talking about Australia. We are after all the 53rd state (after the UK and Canada).)
... plants roaming the place chomping on kids and strangling people with vine-like tentacles... You mean like Triffids? (read the book, http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/wyndham.html)
on similar things. He basically says (and I agree), that inviting random people to attack (or beta test in this case) your software is not guarenteed to get the best result. I can't find the link though.
... struggling to survive on a planet we are designed to live on? ...
Designed? I swear that there is a debate going on about how there is no evidence that any multi-cellular organism is designed. But plently of evidence that it evolved.
I know that it has been said before, but Gaim doesn't let your AIM friends talk to your YIM friends. It only lets you talk to both of them with a single client. Hopefully this deal will let anybody already with a Yahoo idenity talk with anyone with a MS identity. This is what people want. (Add in Jabber and AIM support too.)