Experts-Exchange isn't such a big deal for me. Usually when it appears in search results it gives the answer to whatever query I have, even though they do make an effort to 'hide' it from you.
What I would really like to go is Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers.
While I don't have any problem with Wikipedia itself, if I have a question that I think a Wikipedia article may contain the answer to, I will check Wikipedia first. I don't then need it to be the first result in every other search I do.
Yahoo Answers... what can I say. While it doesn't come up nearly as often as Wikipedia, I can't think of one time that I've ever found anything even mildly insightful, let alone readable in that clusterfuck. And because they have various subdomains (uk, au, in, ca, fr, etc...) when it is in the results, it normally dominates the whole first fucking page!
The more annoying thing that I found was that iTunes (at least on Windows) kept coming to the foreground every 30-60 seconds. So not only was my phone out of action for 30 minutes, my computer was almost unusable as well.
If Sony had a ~95% marketshare within the UK, and it would require a significant amount of money and effort to transmit signals which are viewable to the 10 other TV manufacturers, would it still make sense? IIRC, the online iPlayer works with Flash (Mac & Linux) and the iPhone/iPod Touch anyway, which accounts for 99.9% of people anyway.
Isn't the driver speeding the one introducing the danger in the first place?
In my mind it makes more sense to try to get the limit changed rather than putting others at risk by exceeding it. After all, what gives you the right to be speeding in the first place? Just because others don't want to break the law, no matter how 'stupid' you consider the law to be.
Why would the mail provider trust you? How exactly would they decide who is and who isn't a legitimate mailing list provider?
At the end of the day, they are there to provide a service to their own customers, not you. If the person receiving your e-mail finds it hard enough to unsubscribe that they decide to mark you e-mail as spam, and enough people mark it as spam to trigger a customer base wide filter, what incentive to they have to work with you rather than their own customer?
Copyright will never not be needed. Regardless of the level of abuse by major companies, it still does help to protect the 'little guy'. Also, how often does the typical person read/watch/listen to content from 50 years ago? 20 years ago? Tastes change, standards change, even language changes. Fresh content is needed.
However copyright as it currently stands is overkill. Realistically copyright terms should be shorter than when they were first established, given how easy it is to propagate new content. 90%+ of content will make 90%+ of its total income within the first five years and the small percentage that doesn't will be, for the most part, the highest earning content.
And how many of those 'bazillions' of viruses will infect a fully patched XP or Vista system? That is, without user interaction - I'll give you a hint, the answer is very close to 0.
The biggest problem by far in terms of Windows security today is the user. You can't stop the user from downloading executable files from P2P networks, or 'codecs' for the latest funny videos, or programs which promise to speed up your PC or whatnot. Almost every major virus (including trojans, keyloggers, etc) is instigated by the user. Yes, Microsoft has had major issues with security in the past and will still have issues in the future, but the bottom line is that you can't protect the user from themselves.
Following on, most viruses today are written with the intent of profiting from them, whether it be as part of a botnet, stealing financial information, or whatever else. If you were looking to make the most amount of money are you going to produce something that has a maximum target of 1 in 40 computers, or 19 in 20? Wake me up when Apple has an equal share of the market with Microsoft, and we'll do a fair comparison then.
How exactly is this defective by design? In fact, how does this relate to DRM at all? Why are there people who go around tagging every Microsoft related story as such?
By doing so, all you do is make the whole campaign less effective, and make yourselves look like Microsoft bashing idiots in the process.
The two main parties probably don't represent the positions of the majority of Slashdot readers (in the UK and the US at least), but it seems to me that the whole point of having two parties are to hold an opposing view of the other regardless of the issue's position on the 'political spectrum.'
Perhaps, but it is probably better described as coercion or extortion.
coerce: to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
extort: To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
A link to Apple. You know, just in case anybody wants to try it out.
As to why you want to use Safari at all I don't know, it has always been the first thing I've replaced whenever I've used a Mac...
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Experts-Exchange isn't such a big deal for me. Usually when it appears in search results it gives the answer to whatever query I have, even though they do make an effort to 'hide' it from you.
What I would really like to go is Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers.
While I don't have any problem with Wikipedia itself, if I have a question that I think a Wikipedia article may contain the answer to, I will check Wikipedia first. I don't then need it to be the first result in every other search I do.
Yahoo Answers... what can I say. While it doesn't come up nearly as often as Wikipedia, I can't think of one time that I've ever found anything even mildly insightful, let alone readable in that clusterfuck. And because they have various subdomains (uk, au, in, ca, fr, etc...) when it is in the results, it normally dominates the whole first fucking page!
The more annoying thing that I found was that iTunes (at least on Windows) kept coming to the foreground every 30-60 seconds. So not only was my phone out of action for 30 minutes, my computer was almost unusable as well.
If Sony had a ~95% marketshare within the UK, and it would require a significant amount of money and effort to transmit signals which are viewable to the 10 other TV manufacturers, would it still make sense?
IIRC, the online iPlayer works with Flash (Mac & Linux) and the iPhone/iPod Touch anyway, which accounts for 99.9% of people anyway.
Probably because every computer in the last 5-10 years has came with multiple USB ports, and momentum is a powerful thing.
Isn't the driver speeding the one introducing the danger in the first place? In my mind it makes more sense to try to get the limit changed rather than putting others at risk by exceeding it. After all, what gives you the right to be speeding in the first place? Just because others don't want to break the law, no matter how 'stupid' you consider the law to be.
Why would the mail provider trust you? How exactly would they decide who is and who isn't a legitimate mailing list provider?
At the end of the day, they are there to provide a service to their own customers, not you. If the person receiving your e-mail finds it hard enough to unsubscribe that they decide to mark you e-mail as spam, and enough people mark it as spam to trigger a customer base wide filter, what incentive to they have to work with you rather than their own customer?
Some strange language where everything begins with 'Mc'?
That's why you need an iPhone! You don't need to worry about antiquated ideas like 'changing batteries'.
Shouldn't moderation always be according to the content of a post, regardless of poster/subject?
Supported by Firefox, but no other browser.
The actual figure in the article is $2.6 billion.
Copyright will never not be needed. Regardless of the level of abuse by major companies, it still does help to protect the 'little guy'. Also, how often does the typical person read/watch/listen to content from 50 years ago? 20 years ago? Tastes change, standards change, even language changes. Fresh content is needed.
However copyright as it currently stands is overkill. Realistically copyright terms should be shorter than when they were first established, given how easy it is to propagate new content. 90%+ of content will make 90%+ of its total income within the first five years and the small percentage that doesn't will be, for the most part, the highest earning content.
That's commitment!
Because, (in theory) especially for a notebook, you are getting hardware which is Linux compatible.
That's probably because the GeForce 6800 is a year older than the Mobility Radeon x1600.
Money is most likely the reason in the first place.
On the one hand you have a successful product (Firefox) which makes a not insignificant amount of money in terms of search revenue from Google.
On the other you have a product with a much lower adoption rate, with no current potential for revenue.
Which product would you focus on?
So blank emails or emails with random lines of text harvested from the web are better? Besides, who actually reads spam anyway?
And how many of those 'bazillions' of viruses will infect a fully patched XP or Vista system? That is, without user interaction - I'll give you a hint, the answer is very close to 0.
The biggest problem by far in terms of Windows security today is the user. You can't stop the user from downloading executable files from P2P networks, or 'codecs' for the latest funny videos, or programs which promise to speed up your PC or whatnot. Almost every major virus (including trojans, keyloggers, etc) is instigated by the user. Yes, Microsoft has had major issues with security in the past and will still have issues in the future, but the bottom line is that you can't protect the user from themselves.
Following on, most viruses today are written with the intent of profiting from them, whether it be as part of a botnet, stealing financial information, or whatever else. If you were looking to make the most amount of money are you going to produce something that has a maximum target of 1 in 40 computers, or 19 in 20? Wake me up when Apple has an equal share of the market with Microsoft, and we'll do a fair comparison then.
How exactly is this defective by design? In fact, how does this relate to DRM at all? Why are there people who go around tagging every Microsoft related story as such?
By doing so, all you do is make the whole campaign less effective, and make yourselves look like Microsoft bashing idiots in the process.
Any party which did that would have my vote.
The two main parties probably don't represent the positions of the majority of Slashdot readers (in the UK and the US at least), but it seems to me that the whole point of having two parties are to hold an opposing view of the other regardless of the issue's position on the 'political spectrum.'
That would explain why the allTunes client still works then, which was their desktop client.
Perhaps, but it is probably better described as coercion or extortion.
coerce: to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
extort: To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
A link to Apple. You know, just in case anybody wants to try it out. As to why you want to use Safari at all I don't know, it has always been the first thing I've replaced whenever I've used a Mac...
You can get the My Web Search toolbar for Firefox now. :D