It's a pretty good design, for "cerntain". LOL
It's a pretty good design, for "cerntain". LOL
Stick with XP till Vista SP1 comes out. There are too many bugs and security issues, and slowdown issues, and compatibility issues to take Vista seriously at this point. Wait until the service pack comes out in 2008, and then you can decide.
I should know, I had XP and Vista dual booted on my computer, all Vista is, is eye candy, and a better system wide search function. It's a pretty cool OS, but it's not dependable, if your going to get it, make sure you dual boot it with something like XP.
I'm personally sticking with Xp til Microsoft gets off their *** and releases a good service pack for it.
I keep most of them in MS OneNote 2007, and I password protect the page.
All of my other logins I remember by heart.
(Edit: I argue that if anyone can build a more bloated software beast than MS it's Adobe, which I suppose bodes well for them in this regard.)
Because Adobe doesn't build bloated products already..........
And this is coming from a person who uses CS3 suite (Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks).
Honestly there is absolutely no reason for Adobe to step into this office app thing, unless they have something very significant to bring to the table, it really doesn't matter. You already have the behemoth that is the MS Office suite, you already have Open Office, and you already have Google competing, and you have many other startups competing, why would you want to jump into the fray with that many competitors?
I personally use the MS Office suite because of 3 reasons
1. Got it for free
2. Waiting for OpenOffice to catch up, at which point I will switch
3. Microsoft OneNote 2007 is one of the best apps I have had the privilege of using. I seriously mean that, I would of never expected a piece of software like that to come out of the MS camp.
I don't even use regular notebooks anymore.
Gmail Interface rip-off. And it's not like they even tried to hide it. Same color scheme and everything.
How many are too many? It's too many when your addons are more a novelty than anything. Let's go through your list
* Adblock: Valid.
* Adsense Notifier: I have to call novelty on this one, especially since you can set up a PHP script to notify you..
* Adsense Preview: Novelty, especially since there is no exact way of knowing
* Alexa Sparky: I like to know about Alexa (and related) rankings.
* All-in-one Gestures: I don't know whether to call this novel or not...
* del.icio.us Complete: Valid.
* Gmail Space: Valid
* Google Toolbar: I see no reason to use the google tool bar when there is a search engine in the upper right hand corner of Firefox
* KeyScramber: ??? This seems like an exercise in futility.
* RealPlayer Record Plugin: Novelty.
* Session Fix: Tab Mix Plus
* Shazou: Novelty
* Speak It: Firefox built in spell checker?
* Talkback: This is a toss up, I personally don't use it, because it's not like they are going to fix the problems with Firefox that people have been complaining about for years now...
* Usage Counter: Novelty
If you do curse/swear, make sure that it is warranted. There is nothing worse than the person who says fuck, or a derivative of that word, in each and every sentence.
At which point it becomes filler, because you have nothing productive or intelligent to say.
I don't mind swearing, I just hate it when it seems like a blog is just like "Wow, there isn't a lot of content or information in this blog posting, how can I flesh it out? OH I KNOE!!!".
A couple of good placed ones are better, and drive your point across better.
The weekend and the weekday, nor the time, nor the month mean anything to me, as I am unemployed.
There are so many different sides of the spectrum I could talk about, just from this one posting.
First of all, absolutely ANYONE can get a hold of your personal information if they know what they are doing. All I need is a name or an address, and you really can't hide your address. I can't tell you how many times on youtube, I have seen a video that is really controversial, and someone, like clockwork, posts all the personal information of that person in the video, to the dumbfoundment (yes, I made up this word) of the person in the video. Then from just that simple phone number and name, people pull up address's, cities and states, and once the person changes their phone number, they get the 2nd phone number. If someone really wants to get ahold of your personal information, there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop them
Second of all, there is really no such thing as privacy in todays world, it is just yet again another thing that people tend to believe. I can pay 15 bucks to get a background check on pretty much anyone I want. Do I do stuff like that? Never. Could I if I wanted to? Absolutely. I can do a reverse look up, type your name in, and get all SORTS of information.
Third of all, ISP's know all your personal info. As of a couple of month's ago, the FBI initiated a wire-tapping program, and Bush actually passed a bill, giving the FBI pretty much power to wiretap almost anyone they want, without you knowing, and there is nothing you can do about it. It's against the law and the constitution to do such things, but such is the corruption of our government and nation, but that can be saved for a completely different argument.
I usually just give up my e-mail, and I use different screen names. I try not to use my real name unless it's a legit website (which is another issue, giving information to a website that keeps your information confidential, as opposed to a site like facebook that keeps your information for basically a lifetime).
But I know that if someone seriously wanted to find me, I gather it wouldn't be hard. People are real good at tracking other people down. I could give the Fake Steve Jobs incident as an example of that.
That is society, and there is nothing you can do about it.
It's a certifiable double standard, in that a younger person, usually a girl, another double standard, is frowned upon going out with someone who is 1 year older or more.
And reason always given for this, is that your parents are more mature than you, or that you should be going out with people your own age, and etc. There is never a real good reason given, EVER, and you will never hear a good reason.
What's funny to me, is it implies automatically that, no matter who you are as a person, and no matter how mature, it's not ok for 17 and younger, but once you get older, and you pass the magical age of 17/18, somehow in those very few seconds upon reaching that age, you gain the maturity that you so desperately have been longing for, all those years. /sarcasm
Age is NOTHING, but a number to signify how many years you have been on this earth. As far as I know, there is no scientific equation that says age == maturity, and I sure don't see people applying to jobs based on how old they are.
I know 15 year olds who are more mature to handle a relationship like that more so than a adult would. But that's society in today's world, and at this point in time, there is nothing you can do to escape that.
Your ideas and thoughts are not even considered until you hit that magical age of 18. For the first 18 years of your life, your opinion does not matter (unless you happen to agree with society, which in that case you are seen as a well brought up man/woman).
It's no more right than basing the validity of someone's comment on a blog, solely based by their post count (or in 9 rules case, how many points you have). When I was 16, I was more mature than MOST of my family, but like I said, doesn't matter.
And if you choose to fight it, you will be ostracized by society for not keeping that way of thinking, even though they can't give you a sufficient explanation for their reasoning. Unless you are ready to go against the grain of society and for that matter, the grain of all the people you know and love, I wouldn't take that route, because it is a long hard journey. Sometimes it's better to just do what your parents say.
It's ultimately your (or what ever person your referring to) decision to make.
Coming from someone who listens to rap;
Mos Def, Common, and Talib Kweli are indeed talented, but some times it seems they lack that passion that could put them over the top.
Also there is a difference between making educated raps, and crossing the like.
It's like they are doing good 1 minute, and then they go on a 20 second rant with big words
"improbable, philosophical, indominable, abominable"
Rap to me is really about simplicity and power in fewest words as possible. I love those guys sometimes, don't get wrong, but I don't feel that power, and sometimes you can tell that they just went and got a dictionary and a thesaurus and just looked for big words that rhymed to put them in their raps, because if you really look at the string of words I just made up there, it really doesn't make sense if you look at the whole thing.
And none of them have the type of flow that artists like 50 Cent and Jay-Z have.
» Digg Getting More Unoriginal Each Day ... Last Reply: 1 year ago by pelf.
There is good and bad on digg, as on pretty much any other site, which gives users almost complete control. The problem with digg, is that it seems the more respected people on it leave more and more each day by the droves, because of digg not listening to it's audience.
Alot of people left when the whole HD-DVD fiasco went down, I was actually there when that happened and I participated in it too. A lot of the more respected people left when that happened, A lot of people left when they changed the comment system for the worse, now digg has a even more irritating design layout, favoring ads over usability (more so than they should).
You don't know how many times I have seen a story get like 5,000 diggs, and it will be like "Digg this if you hate the current comment section" or "We need a picture Section!". They don't really listen to their user base anymore, and the main people that used to contribute to digg in either comments or submitting stories, have defected to other websites. And when you lose a valuable piece of community like that, a community based site like that goes down the drain.
I think this site is actually a pretty good one. Good design, good notes, etc.
If tomorrow you guys were to lose community like digg has lost, you probably couldn't survive. These sites are all about community, and either fail or succeed solely based on it.