I had a similar situation with my DSL ... it was fast during the day but slowed dramatically in the evening. It turns out that there was a tap on the line someplace. The first two techs were clueless, but finally somebody brought out a special piece of diagnostic equipment and found that there was a tap on the line exactly 2200 feet (or whatever) from the house. (I would guess they send a burst down the line and wait for a reflection.) A day or two later they sent someone out to remove the tap and all was well. Good luck!

Yeah, at first the ribbon looked weird and bloated to me, but after awhile I realized that 95% of what I needed to do was on the ribbon; it makes my occasional forays into Office-land quicker and more efficient.

The original article has a quote from one person who sees through the mess to the root of the problem:

The revision "doesn't resolve the underlying geophysical issue"

Simply resolve the "underlying geophysical issue" and the problem will be solved.

Agreed! I was surprised Photoshop Elements wasn't mentioned earlier in all these replies. It writes data to the files and also stores it in a db, so you get the best of both worlds: your photos are portable, with all their info, and as a bonus for you tech guys and gals, you can hack the SqlLite db it uses.

However I don't believe it does non-destructive edits, if that's important to you. Personally, the fact the Picasa doesn't write the edits to the file is a dealbreaker for me.

In the late 60's or early 70's Mad magazine had a few pages of cartoons ("art"?) made on a typewriter. One that struck me was a rocket, looking something like this:

A
H
H
I

(imagine it in Courier ...)

A few years later I had a BASIC programming class, and when we finally got a few CRTs (to replace the printout only outputs we had previously) one of the first things I did, now that things could really "move"!, was to write a program to make this Ascii rocket take off! I remember showing it off to others in the class.

But, alas, this discovery from 1968 means I can no longer claim to be "the father of computer animation." Oh well, it was time for new business cards anyway ...

In the late 60's or early 70's Mad magazine had a few pages of cartoons ("art"?) made on a typewriter. One that struck me was a rocket, looking something like this: A H H I (imagine it in Courier ...) A few years later I had a BASIC programming class, and when we finally got a few CRTs (to replace the printout only outputs we had previously) one of the first things I did, now that things could really "move"!, was to write a program to make this Ascii rocket take off! I remember showing it off to others in the class. But, alas, this discovery from 1968 means I can no longer claim to be "the father of computer animation." Oh well, it was time for new business cards anyway ...

Based on what? That the thief had the routing and checking account numbers? Those numbers are so easy to get it's equivalent to no security at all.

How about if automated clearing house transfers only worked if you'd authorized the payee in advance?

This would probably mean some practices would need to change, but isn't that better than what we have now, where anybody you've ever written a check to can scoop money out of your account any time they want?