I prefer WMP to Explorer and they have broken that as well in Vista/7.
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Given that MS is in the business of selling new, yet Windows development has stagnated these past ten years, they have to make it worse in the short term to achieve their goal. I predict Windows 9 or 10 will offer features we haven't seen since Windows 2000, touted as "new interface improvements".
Since each of these feature subtractions could be a show stopper, someone should set up a site delineating them to help "de sell" Windows #Number.
Prices are not variable because then people might actually start to measure the relative value of movies. This would be a total disaster for the big studios as 99+% of movies are crap.
You need to rock climb out of the prison they built for you.
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This will be one of the few times I'll defend my religious relatives but they are all like the above -- no extraordinary measures, have a cancer/smancer attitude, (my Uncle just died recently -- we watched the mole on his arm for years but he was happy with his 85+ years on this planet and did absolutely nothing about it), etc. And they all go out with memorial services.
There is another audio factor. At home you can jump on the remote whenever the movie audio is way too frickin loud but in the theater you can not. The modern trend is for dialogue to be almost silent, manic scenes to be quite loud, and explosions etc. to be intolerable. For that reason alone I will not go to movie theaters.
I have had T-Mobile's pay as you go plan for almost 3 years. Paid $100 the first year, used half the minutes. Had to renew after a year or would lose the minutes, so spent $10 to renew the minutes for another year. And spent another $10 this year. Total investment: $120 for 36 months = $3.33/month
But soon the U.S. will have come up with enough fake reasons to justify invading Iran and then we will have their oil too! Then we will be in the lead again!!1!
Quoting wiki: "In larger stars, fusion continues until the iron core has grown so large (more than 1.4 solar masses) that it can no longer support its own mass. This core will suddenly collapse as its electrons are driven into its protons, forming neutrons and neutrinos in a burst of inverse beta decay, or electron capture. The shockwave formed by this sudden collapse causes the rest of the star to explode in a supernova."
So don't expect much to happen unless you have 1.4 solar masses worth of iron to toss into the sun. Expect a fizzle.
So needed. My wife and I fled the theater from the auditory monstrosity that is "Inception". We'll probably wear out the batteries on our remote when we finally get around to watching it at home.
Why is our culture so primitive when it comes to audio? I don't just mean what is pumped at us. Why don't people defend themselves by wearing earplugs? We put on rubber gloves, and/or use alcohol gel, to avoid germs but we work around noise all day, or go to something "enjoyable" that is bent on destroying one of our senses, without doing a single thing to defend ourselves.
"The Sugar Blues" starting us on the current nutritional kick. We need something like it for audio pollution. Feel free to call is just that "Audio Pollution". The audio emperor has been nude for quite some time.
The 640 remark was made in 1981, while the 286 -based (PC AT) came out in 1984. The IBM PC was 8088/86 based and could only address 640KB in main memory.
(1) Preference settings are sent back to AdBlock, and made available on their web site for all to see. Maybe color it up with "87% of AdBlock users hate sound in web sites so much they even block it on Whitelist sites".
(2) Expand AdBlock blocking settings so that people can be explicit about what they want blocked, or where they want it block. Post the results online with comments like "Wow, New York Times, time to change the ad rotation as only 9% of AdBlock users want to see any ads on your site." Or "Major shout out to Victoria's Secret who have the best ads for the third straight month!"
With a little creative effort, AdBlock and related products could become major agents of change in the ad world.
Cheap products are less of a problem to me than "refurbished" goods. A $1 product can go bad (rarely) and I'm out a buck. The refurbished ASUS netbook I bought has the battery conk out too soon, and has wireless connectivity issues I can't resolve...now I know why someone else sent it back...too late for me to do the same.
I'm curious how many people use two hands on the wheel. I rarely do. I use my left hand, as it is propped up by the door rest. If I kept my right hand on the wheel at all times it would become tired and would then be less effective when needed. But with modern power(assist) steering, how often do we need to use two hands? When I do it, it is in a situation like an icy road where I am also reducing speed and literally leaning forward to deliberately put myself into a more vigilant state.
Speaking of decapitation, why don't airbags automatically compensate for how far you are from them?
I recall low profile Mercedes tires costing $1,600 each, about 16 years ago. This is 10x more.
We almost bought a used VW golf, 3 years back, strictly as a minimalist commuter car. We had signed the papers and the guy handed us the only key that came with it -- one of those "chip" keys that would cost us $70 to duplicate. Things is we wanted more than 2 keys. A nightmare flashed before my eyes of expensive replacement parts...and we drove a GMC Sierra off the lot instead. It has proved itself ten times over and is one of the greatest vehicles I have ever owned. And we have 4 keys for it...cost us a whole $3 to get the other 3 made.
Vehicles are more than their purchase price/reliability. MBs & BMWs, for example, have the most primitive heat/AC controls. Controls that appear unchanged in 50 years. It is beyond me why anyone would want that. The first time I drove my Cadillac Eldorado and set the digital thermostat to the temperature I wanted, I knew this was the car for me. That Eldorado was the other great vehicle I have owned. It also had the most roomy and comfortable back seat of any vehicle I have ever been in.
The entire Eldorado cost me less than 4 MB replacement tires.
Given that Opera has always been the lightest weight I am pretty shocked you would say that Firefox was the lightest weight. Maybe there is some new calibration metric here I am not familiar. So is he a lightweight then? Sigh, so much recalibration work to do.
Ok, it appears this guy has more name variants than Muammar Gaddafi.
Quoting wiki: "Khalil Gibran, born Gubran Khalil Gubran, in academic contexts often spelled Jubran Khalil Jubran,
Jibran Khalil Jibran, or Jibran Xalil Jibran; also known as Kahlil Gibran..."
Still, westerners usually spell it "Khalil Gibran".
"Burzynski The Movie: Cancer Is Serious Business" puts quite a different spin on things. From the IMDB plot summary: Ph.D biochemist, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, won one of the largest legal battles against the Food & Drug Administration in U.S. history. Dr. Burzynski and his patients endured a treacherous 14-year journey in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials for a new cancer-fighting drug. His groundbreaking medical and legal battles have brought revolutionary cancer treatment to the public. Upon completion, his treatment will be available the world over - sending a shock wave through the cancer industry
We have suffered with Ford Focus POS at work as well. In addition to the crap stereo you mentioned, there is no visibility due to massive headrests and just lousy design.
For comparison we also have a bare bones Toyota Yaris and it puts the Focus to shame. Great visibility, typical Toyota engine that never complains and is suprisingly peppy, etc. etc.
BTW, we briefly had a Chevy Aveo...This is what happens when a car is made too small for its own good. Needless to say, Consumer Reports was not at all kind to the Aveo.
A shame, really, that North America can't make good low end cars.
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Given that MS is in the business of selling new, yet Windows development has stagnated these past ten years, they have to make it worse in the short term to achieve their goal. I predict Windows 9 or 10 will offer features we haven't seen since Windows 2000, touted as "new interface improvements".
Since each of these feature subtractions could be a show stopper, someone should set up a site delineating them to help "de sell" Windows #Number.
Can we ask for nothing but coins when we withdraw money from a bank? (I'm thinking rolls of quarters.)
Prices are not variable because then people might actually start to measure the relative value of movies. This would be a total disaster for the big studios as 99+% of movies are crap.
You need to rock climb out of the prison they built for you.
This will be one of the few times I'll defend my religious relatives but they are all like the above -- no extraordinary measures, have a cancer/smancer attitude, (my Uncle just died recently -- we watched the mole on his arm for years but he was happy with his 85+ years on this planet and did absolutely nothing about it), etc. And they all go out with memorial services.
There is another audio factor. At home you can jump on the remote whenever the movie audio is way too frickin loud but in the theater you can not. The modern trend is for dialogue to be almost silent, manic scenes to be quite loud, and explosions etc. to be intolerable. For that reason alone I will not go to movie theaters.
I have had T-Mobile's pay as you go plan for almost 3 years. Paid $100 the first year, used half the minutes. Had to renew after a year or would lose the minutes, so spent $10 to renew the minutes for another year. And spent another $10 this year. Total investment: $120 for 36 months = $3.33/month
"How are you today?"
"Sunny and 52 degrees!"
"Care to go to the mall with me?"
"Only if you keep driving down 32nd and turn right in 8 blocks"
"Does your head hurt after that nasty fall?"
"Nope, and besides I got 5 new friends when I posted the bruises on Facebook."
"Siri, do you love me?"
"I've always loved you."
"Thank you, Siri. You made my day!"
But soon the U.S. will have come up with enough fake reasons to justify invading Iran and then we will have their oil too! Then we will be in the lead again!!1!
So don't expect much to happen unless you have 1.4 solar masses worth of iron to toss into the sun. Expect a fizzle.
Would that energy the vacuum decays into happen to be dark?
Why is our culture so primitive when it comes to audio? I don't just mean what is pumped at us. Why don't people defend themselves by wearing earplugs? We put on rubber gloves, and/or use alcohol gel, to avoid germs but we work around noise all day, or go to something "enjoyable" that is bent on destroying one of our senses, without doing a single thing to defend ourselves.
"The Sugar Blues" starting us on the current nutritional kick. We need something like it for audio pollution. Feel free to call is just that "Audio Pollution". The audio emperor has been nude for quite some time.
e e cummings also avoided periods so he is probably doubly turning over in his grave at his wiki link.
The 640 remark was made in 1981, while the 286 -based (PC AT) came out in 1984. The IBM PC was 8088/86 based and could only address 640KB in main memory.
(2) Expand AdBlock blocking settings so that people can be explicit about what they want blocked, or where they want it block. Post the results online with comments like "Wow, New York Times, time to change the ad rotation as only 9% of AdBlock users want to see any ads on your site." Or "Major shout out to Victoria's Secret who have the best ads for the third straight month!"
With a little creative effort, AdBlock and related products could become major agents of change in the ad world.
Cheap products are less of a problem to me than "refurbished" goods. A $1 product can go bad (rarely) and I'm out a buck. The refurbished ASUS netbook I bought has the battery conk out too soon, and has wireless connectivity issues I can't resolve...now I know why someone else sent it back...too late for me to do the same.
Speaking of decapitation, why don't airbags automatically compensate for how far you are from them?
We almost bought a used VW golf, 3 years back, strictly as a minimalist commuter car. We had signed the papers and the guy handed us the only key that came with it -- one of those "chip" keys that would cost us $70 to duplicate. Things is we wanted more than 2 keys. A nightmare flashed before my eyes of expensive replacement parts...and we drove a GMC Sierra off the lot instead. It has proved itself ten times over and is one of the greatest vehicles I have ever owned. And we have 4 keys for it...cost us a whole $3 to get the other 3 made.
Vehicles are more than their purchase price/reliability. MBs & BMWs, for example, have the most primitive heat/AC controls. Controls that appear unchanged in 50 years. It is beyond me why anyone would want that. The first time I drove my Cadillac Eldorado and set the digital thermostat to the temperature I wanted, I knew this was the car for me. That Eldorado was the other great vehicle I have owned. It also had the most roomy and comfortable back seat of any vehicle I have ever been in.
The entire Eldorado cost me less than 4 MB replacement tires.
Given that Opera has always been the lightest weight I am pretty shocked you would say that Firefox was the lightest weight. Maybe there is some new calibration metric here I am not familiar. So is he a lightweight then? Sigh, so much recalibration work to do.
Quoting wiki: "Khalil Gibran, born Gubran Khalil Gubran, in academic contexts often spelled Jubran Khalil Jubran, Jibran Khalil Jibran, or Jibran Xalil Jibran; also known as Kahlil Gibran..."
Still, westerners usually spell it "Khalil Gibran".
Great quote. It is Khalil Gibran, BTW.
You meant to refer to Steve Wozniak, right? Without him, Steve Jobs would have been nothing.
"Burzynski The Movie: Cancer Is Serious Business" puts quite a different spin on things. From the IMDB plot summary: Ph.D biochemist, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, won one of the largest legal battles against the Food & Drug Administration in U.S. history. Dr. Burzynski and his patients endured a treacherous 14-year journey in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials for a new cancer-fighting drug. His groundbreaking medical and legal battles have brought revolutionary cancer treatment to the public. Upon completion, his treatment will be available the world over - sending a shock wave through the cancer industry
TWO: Given a max of 8GB on a DVD, 250 will fit on a 2TB drive. If the drive costs $250, "per DVD" cost will be 100 cents/DVD, not 8 cents/DVD.
Either your math (or mine) is scary.
For comparison we also have a bare bones Toyota Yaris and it puts the Focus to shame. Great visibility, typical Toyota engine that never complains and is suprisingly peppy, etc. etc.
BTW, we briefly had a Chevy Aveo...This is what happens when a car is made too small for its own good. Needless to say, Consumer Reports was not at all kind to the Aveo.
A shame, really, that North America can't make good low end cars.