I agree. I spend a lot of time in coffeeshops, and many people complain when someone's talking on a cell phone, despite plenty of others talking just as loud with other people across the table.
Not pressure sensitive, but I think it does most everything else the board does
The Magna Doodles I've seen have hexagonal pixels about 2-3 millimetres in diameter, giving fairly low resolution and only letting you write a few words at a time. If I were to have jaw surgery, I'd much rather touch-type on a laptop, but for handwriting and diagrams, this device looks like a big step up from a Magna Doodle.
On the flip side, most of the advertisers on the website of a local news outlet in Ottawa, Illinois (pop. ~18,000), are local businesses. If enough people from my hometown of Ottawa, Ontario (pop. 900,000) follow our aggregators' links to their site because of a headline like "big crash on Main Street in Ottawa", their advertisers will probably find they're not getting their money's worth. (Admittedly, not a scenario that gives me much concern as a reader)
You joke, but many of the free commuter dailies frequently have add 'outserts' that are a cover outside the front page. In the newspaper boxes, you don't see headlines, only the stupid full-front-page ads. The first page of the paper is inside it.
I work with a similar, poorly-designed, IE-based system. The password is generated as sufficiently random alphanumeric, but the username is based on their name. People (especially Francophones) with accented characters in their name can't log in in certain browsers because the character encoding isn't properly defined.
I'm amused by how hard it is for people to comprehend this, and how amazed they are when they realize it.
Took me a while to figure this out, but I realized that I get it too.
I also use [givenname]@[surname].TLD, where [givenname] is a fairly common name, and [surname] is very uncommon.
I've had a few people have asked me "how'd you score that username?", thinking that I got my e-mail address from a webmail provider at [surname].TLD . They're just used to john@ and tammy@ to be impossible-to-get usernames, and they must assume my domain is one of those [jibberish].TLD webmail providers.
Why is Gmail any more "professional" than Hotmail?
I had to use Hotmail once because it was the generic e-mail address for a group I was involved with. It was a serious pain in the ass to use it for anything except (1) read e-mail in inbox, (2) move e-mail to trash.
I can't stand it when someone with a Yahoo or Hotmail account asks me at a meeting to re-send them something I e-mailed them a few weeks ago "because I already deleted it" or "I can't find the printout."
A person who uses Gmail is more likely to be have the foresight to realize they might need to refer to an e-mail weeks or months down the road. While they might not use the features, the fact is they are using an engine with the ability to file e-mails in multiple locations, access them from any computer with an internet connection, and to search for them very easily, all with little worry of running out of space.
The only common benefit of people who use Hotmail or AOL is that they probably have a lot of patience.
Frankly, I'm just waiting for someone in my past to run for senator...then some of those party pics of them might come back out, unless I get a cushy job.:)
Whoa whoa whoa there. That's not ethical, and could get you in a lot of legal trouble.
Much safer to wait until they're famous and sell the photos to a major media corporation with an exclusivity deal. Potentially more lucrative too.
Likewise, Canada wouldn't create a wood shortage if they announced that they will no longer sell logs but instead sell only kiln-dried boards.
And we (Canada) are wasting our economy with such a high proportion of our exports being raw materials (I think it's something like 90%), instead of refining/processing them within our borders before export, thus creating jobs (and higher-level ones to boot).
China might have fewer restraints than Canada (Free Trade agreements and so on), but in terms of economic growth, they're doing it right.
As a Canadian, I say adopt Brazil's rule on this type of matter - an eye for an eye.
Canada would like passenger information on all US flights overflying Canadian airspace. We won't tell you what we want it for, or what we're going to do with it. Oh, and we may veto business passengers on their way to Europe.
Still OK with this policy?
Right, but the US doesn't have laws for corporate use of private information, so such disclosures wouldn't be a problem for US airlines as it is for Canadian ones.
Rather than being an eye for an eye, they probably wouldn't even blink.
You're looking at it backwards. Instead of asking who you should ask permission for, instead ask who would object. If you can't identify which of your family members (or otherwise) is the copyright holder on a little-known low-print-run book, chances are the copyright holder also doesn't know, and probably would never find out.
As the saying goes, it's easier to seek forgiveness than permission.
Somehow we have to invent a one-sentence explanation, that explains "loose" by linking to a Goatse pic, and "lose" as what happens to you, if you actually click that link. ^^
Pictures of loose bums will make you lose your lunch.
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I am skeptical that fair-use rights to create the digital copy would remain once you sell (or return) the original.
I've found that when I post less I tend to get more mod points.
Traffic loyalty scheme? If you haven't been posting much lately, maybe it's because you haven't been reading/visiting much either. Mod points (esp. when notified by the Slashdotter FF extension) perhaps serve to bring you back in.
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So the vast mayority of users will have a unique non-changeable ID, making cookies or this kind of tracking obsolete.
Except when I log in with my laptop at home instead of work, or from a hotel or access point?
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I agree. I spend a lot of time in coffeeshops, and many people complain when someone's talking on a cell phone, despite plenty of others talking just as loud with other people across the table.
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Not pressure sensitive, but I think it does most everything else the board does
The Magna Doodles I've seen have hexagonal pixels about 2-3 millimetres in diameter, giving fairly low resolution and only letting you write a few words at a time. If I were to have jaw surgery, I'd much rather touch-type on a laptop, but for handwriting and diagrams, this device looks like a big step up from a Magna Doodle.
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On the flip side, most of the advertisers on the website of a local news outlet in Ottawa, Illinois (pop. ~18,000), are local businesses. If enough people from my hometown of Ottawa, Ontario (pop. 900,000) follow our aggregators' links to their site because of a headline like "big crash on Main Street in Ottawa", their advertisers will probably find they're not getting their money's worth. (Admittedly, not a scenario that gives me much concern as a reader)
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You joke, but many of the free commuter dailies frequently have add 'outserts' that are a cover outside the front page. In the newspaper boxes, you don't see headlines, only the stupid full-front-page ads. The first page of the paper is inside it.
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I work with a similar, poorly-designed, IE-based system. The password is generated as sufficiently random alphanumeric, but the username is based on their name. People (especially Francophones) with accented characters in their name can't log in in certain browsers because the character encoding isn't properly defined.
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that must include at least 1 capitol letter...
We get that too. It's problematic because you can't log in when the President is on vacation and his staff won't write them on his behalf.
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Because they are nano sized would that not make them under lords?
Probably. It would take a beowulf cluster of them--at the very least--to be any real threat.
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I'm amused by how hard it is for people to comprehend this, and how amazed they are when they realize it.
Took me a while to figure this out, but I realized that I get it too.
I also use [givenname]@[surname].TLD, where [givenname] is a fairly common name, and [surname] is very uncommon.
I've had a few people have asked me "how'd you score that username?", thinking that I got my e-mail address from a webmail provider at [surname].TLD . They're just used to john@ and tammy@ to be impossible-to-get usernames, and they must assume my domain is one of those [jibberish].TLD webmail providers.
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Why is Gmail any more "professional" than Hotmail?
I had to use Hotmail once because it was the generic e-mail address for a group I was involved with. It was a serious pain in the ass to use it for anything except (1) read e-mail in inbox, (2) move e-mail to trash.
I can't stand it when someone with a Yahoo or Hotmail account asks me at a meeting to re-send them something I e-mailed them a few weeks ago "because I already deleted it" or "I can't find the printout."
A person who uses Gmail is more likely to be have the foresight to realize they might need to refer to an e-mail weeks or months down the road. While they might not use the features, the fact is they are using an engine with the ability to file e-mails in multiple locations, access them from any computer with an internet connection, and to search for them very easily, all with little worry of running out of space.
The only common benefit of people who use Hotmail or AOL is that they probably have a lot of patience.
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Frankly, I'm just waiting for someone in my past to run for senator...then some of those party pics of them might come back out, unless I get a cushy job. :)
Whoa whoa whoa there. That's not ethical, and could get you in a lot of legal trouble.
Much safer to wait until they're famous and sell the photos to a major media corporation with an exclusivity deal. Potentially more lucrative too.
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"The Burj Dubai ('Dubai Tower' in Arabic)
That would be the "Burj Dubai" in Arabic, it's the "Dubai Tower" in English.
No. It's saying "Burj Dubai = Arabic(Dubai Tower)"
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I never realized that. I'll have to take another look at that full set of OMNIs stashed away in my closet...
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UNPREDICTABLE serial number
Aren't serial numbers by definition produced in order?
(Of course this is just semantic; "ID number" would work.)
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...patients who want a prescription to justify their trip to the doctor's office...
I never thought I'd say this, but finally a use for homeopathy!
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No, the rest of the world would be 90 metres. ;)
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Either way, 2010 and 2016 are both shorter than Y2K10 or Y2K16, so the 'abbreviation' is absurd.
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Likewise, Canada wouldn't create a wood shortage if they announced that they will no longer sell logs but instead sell only kiln-dried boards.
And we (Canada) are wasting our economy with such a high proportion of our exports being raw materials (I think it's something like 90%), instead of refining/processing them within our borders before export, thus creating jobs (and higher-level ones to boot).
China might have fewer restraints than Canada (Free Trade agreements and so on), but in terms of economic growth, they're doing it right.
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As a Canadian, I say adopt Brazil's rule on this type of matter - an eye for an eye.
Canada would like passenger information on all US flights overflying Canadian airspace.
We won't tell you what we want it for, or what we're going to do with it.
Oh, and we may veto business passengers on their way to Europe.
Still OK with this policy?
Right, but the US doesn't have laws for corporate use of private information, so such disclosures wouldn't be a problem for US airlines as it is for Canadian ones.
Rather than being an eye for an eye, they probably wouldn't even blink.
- RG>
You're looking at it backwards. Instead of asking who you should ask permission for, instead ask who would object. If you can't identify which of your family members (or otherwise) is the copyright holder on a little-known low-print-run book, chances are the copyright holder also doesn't know, and probably would never find out.
As the saying goes, it's easier to seek forgiveness than permission.
- RG>
Somehow we have to invent a one-sentence explanation, that explains "loose" by linking to a Goatse pic, and "lose" as what happens to you, if you actually click that link. ^^
Pictures of loose bums will make you lose your lunch.
- RG>
I am skeptical that fair-use rights to create the digital copy would remain once you sell (or return) the original.
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Exxon-Mobil actually outright offered a prize for anyone who could get a paper published that defended their positions, right?
I think this is a great idea. The pro-AGW people should do this too, if they're so confident, in the same vein as the James Randi prize.
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A sample size of one is sufficient to disprove the hypothesis that the judicial system is ALWAYS racist, ALWAYS biased, and ALWAYS corrupt.
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I've found that when I post less I tend to get more mod points.
Traffic loyalty scheme? If you haven't been posting much lately, maybe it's because you haven't been reading/visiting much either. Mod points (esp. when notified by the Slashdotter FF extension) perhaps serve to bring you back in.
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