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My bank, and I believe most others in the U.S. that offer the free check-sending service, also transmit the money directly between accounts, sans paper check, if the utility is modern and in the bank's database. It's only the mom and pop small stores/landlords/utilities that receive an actual check in the mail.
Yahoo was great - a categorical index of noteworthy websites. You could drill down through the hierarchy looking at sites in categories or subcategories of those you were interested in. Back in the day there were even huge listings of personal homepages indexed by last name.
Yahoo was a portal to that huge, amazing index. But over the years they slowly hid the index and became a portal to a world of crap services.
People who are really intelligent know to evaluate based on content, not form. Grammar nazi's, by contrast, are just autistics who've managed to find a dictionary.
If you can't spell or read, demonstrating your ignorance to others does you no favors. That doesn't mean you're unintelligent, but it's difficult to evaluate content when the form is wrong. Imagine someone you just met ejecting spittle in your face during a conversation because they haven't yet learned how to speak. Sure, maybe their message is fine, but you'd probably rather talk to someone else.
You know, I actually never thought about pinning it to the Start Menu. Pretty stupid, as I've done that with the DOS prompt and a few other programs I use often. Thanks for the reminder!
I'm fairly anal with my desktop. I limit the taskbar pinned programs to a few specifics (Putty, WinSCP, Thunderbird, etc.) and IDLE just isn't used enough to warrant inclusion.
Loaded quickly and code seemed to execute quickly. Some sort of documentation/about/FAQ would be nice.
Sadly I'll probably use this neat tool because of Windows 7... You see, in Windows XP I could click Start, navigate quickly to All Programs > IDLE, and have a Python command line to do simple math or quickie calculations. However Windows 7 makes me click on Start, click on All Programs, click on the scroll gadget to scroll down to Python 3.2, click on Python 3.2 to open its directory, and finally click on IDLE.
Yes, I am lazy.
Never much caught on in the U.S., you mean.
In the late 1990's, early 2000's portable minidisc players/recorders were incredibly popular in Japan and Europe.
I have to agree with this, several bugs. The most annoying one is having the comments scroll to the top of the page when I click anything.
Links are now unclickable, at least on the first 4 or 5 tries. Each time you click a link in someone's post, the page jumps and/or another post expands/collapses. The sheer level of ignorance and/or lack of interest in their own site on the part of the Slashdot owners is mind-boggling.
(Click on links? I must be new here.)
Seriously, Slashdot, fix your goddam site.
In Japan, a country that considers a train late if it arrives more than 20 seconds later than scheduled
As someone who lived in Japan for 7 years, HA HA HA. Right. Trains are mostly timely but arrival times vary widely from published schedules, frequently by multiple minutes.
A young little application called Beluga caught the attention of Facebook, which purchased the company a Thursday.
Nice. Wish someone would buy me a Thursday.
I use Godaddy almost exclusively for my many (too many) domains... that said, let's be honest.
It's not a mistake. Their checkout process is designed to wave as many unnecessary - yet seemingly useful - options as possible in front of novice domain customers, in hopes that one or two will fall into their basket by mistake. No doubt their logs are full of new customers landing and searching for an unavailable
Now by defaulting to
Memory fault - where am I?