Apple drops support for X feature on a whim. How about PowerPC chips? How about MacOS 9? How about my Newton?
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The great thing about relying on a simple company is your at their mercy. You KNOW that Asus or MSI would throw a Firewire port in if they were competing with apple (and could run OS/X).
ANYTHING that requires a user to install a plugin = EPIC fail.
Why? Lots of users CANNOT install software because of AD rights not to mention OS incomparability.
DIVX plugin? What the HELL, does anyone remember the downloads from DIVX.com that CAME with fcsking SPYWARE built in?!?!?!? I'd trust their plugin about as much as a 40 year women old at last call who says she's on the pill.
Why LOSE 1000's of customers when you can just use a flash video player that requires nothing? (Flash is installed by default on most OS's and browsers now)
Postgrey on non whitelisted servers rejects the first mail attempt with a fail. The sending email server will retry X times, but the 2nd time it accepts it and adds the server to the whitelist.
Postgrey will add a 5 minute lag to an email that's sending server has never sent an email to you. It's worth it to screw the spammers zombies over IMHO.
Also, I would check your postfix/whatever you are using for a mail servers policy. I get 0 spam emails now and my address is posted all over the web.
I do have spamassassin running as well with sieve filtering to put what is marked as spam in a junk folder but the junk folder is empty, every now and then I'll see something -- but very rarely. Like once every 2 months.
It's a LOT easier to make parts for your own stuff. I'm sure it's quite a fracken battle to get the specs out of intel and AMD on their new CPU's while their also completing against via on the chipsets that the cpus will run on.
If you were trying to make a competing part for a car I was making, which I was also selling parts for.... I would definitely put up every barrier possible.
With an 18 month turn around on CPU speed, I bet it's VERY hard for via to keep up with intel and amd on the chipset front.
They simply cannot step onto the private property without permission.
I'm pretty sure the post office steps on private property every time they go up on my porch to deliver a letter. The same with Fedex, UPS, tax appraiser and utility workers.
I beg to differ, part of the measurement of stability is the government that controls it. Look back 100 years and compare.
I think you'll find Argentina is a business nightmare. A communist experiment, failed, constant power shifts.
I'm pretty sure that if you had to build a billion dollar factory, the USA looks far more appealing. There is far less of a chance of the government annexing your property.
This makes a lot of sense. We're concerned about some damage we THINK we did do the environment. So we're going to dumps tons of chemicals into our oceans to counter act something we THINK we may have done?
It seems to me that historically the Earth has had dramatic changes in climate that hasn't been explained with certainty. Species has gone extinct. The landscape has changed, life has changed. I challenge anyone to produce a 50 million year history with temperature variations. I bet it looks pretty fluid over time.
Global warming? Global cooling? Global changes? Global life?
Now I think global warming needs to be proven before a half ass untested theory to "fix it", is implemented.
Am I the only one who picked up on an underlying terrorist theme? When Alfred was outlining the Joker and how he worked, he pointed out that money isn't important to all people and some people just want to destroy the lives of others.
Now seeing the Joker burn all of that cash just for the fun of it, it makes me think of the ultra wealthy in the middle East funding terrorism. It has nothing to do with money, but wanting to destroy the lives of others.
You don't strap a bomb on your chest because you want 20 grand. You do it to DESTROY others. The Joker was a terrorist, he used fear to rule the city quite effectively.
See also women fleeing abusive partners, who have been abandoned by their partner, widows, single rape victims who don't agree with abortion, and any of many more possible reasons for a woman to be left raising a child alone and not be a "harlot".
She made those choices, she should enjoy her life as a waitress for making those choices, not living as a kept women with my tax dollars.
If this program helps 1/10 mothers better raise their children(not becoming criminals) it is still worth it.
You obviously didn't take an economics class, ever. Now your sons education costs 10x more because he has to carry the weight of 10 whores. Oh wow, now he can't afford to go!
Big companies block almost all web mail. They only want their email system used for various reasons, security, support etc.
The best way to block it? Deny connections via a proxy or implicitly through a firewall rule(probably what they did since he can't even send to you). Problem solved (for the business not you).
New physicians and lawyers are now predominantly women. Not only are these fields lucrative, but there's a lot of people practicing in them (that is, there are far more openings than for physicists or mathematicians).
I know in the state of Maine, being the liberal hole it is.... it PAYS (it meaning we) for single mothers(see harlots) to go to college. They pay NOTHING, receive a stipend to live on, food stamps, rent, utilities paid, and oh yeah, if they have an issue with their car the state will pickup the bill. Oh did I mention the state also pays for daycare?
Oh, I also forgot, they don't need to pass. One of my friends was dating one of these single mother system users... she skipped class, dumped her kid at daycare and spent the day having sex with him. What a gem she was.
Now in a state like Maine (highest taxes in the country) it takes a LOT of effort and cash(since white men don't qualify for anything in aide if their parents make 30g's a year) for men to get through college to begin with.
In the state of Maine one out of three people is on some form of state assistance. Oh course most men don't qualify(need kids or an injury). So to me it seems that the MEN are being crushed by the system and are being forced to pay for these irresponsible women(who some got pregnant I'm sure).
It's like communism, the state takes from the working and dumps all of their income into the lazy.
SO yeah, more women in Maine are in college and more women graduate with degrees. Not all of them are bad, some girls just made a mistake and are capitalizing on the system, BUT the system is FORCING men out of school because they just can't afford it(since they're the only ones who pay).
The Gates foundation may only give 'a fraction' of what it 'robs' (how does one rob by soliciting donations, again?) from the rich to the poor, but it is still donating more than you or I ever will, and therefore, has done more good than you or I will likely do in this context.
Something given has no value. Something earned does. Handouts don't solve anything.
Moron charities make me laugh. They "give" food to keep people from dieing when they should issue a GRANT to build roads and infrastructure in Africa. This would allow businesses to grow and EMPLOY the people. Thus no longer needing handouts.
Part of curing our(USA's) great depression was developing the highways and infrastructure of the country.
Handouts make the GIVER feel/look good. Emanual Kant says there is no motivation for charity beyond the personal reward and I agree. Bill Gates and his foundations loves all the press. "They're saving people" when all their doing to them is perpetuating the poverty by not providing them a way out.
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But they don't work now do they? I can still run DOS and all my dos programs.
Apple drops support for X feature on a whim. How about PowerPC chips? How about MacOS 9? How about my Newton?
print $open-source-rant
The great thing about relying on a simple company is your at their mercy. You KNOW that Asus or MSI would throw a Firewire port in if they were competing with apple (and could run OS/X).
Lots of people watch videos at work buddy. Including the "firm" and the head hunters looking for this type of content to "discover".
ANYTHING that requires a user to install a plugin = EPIC fail.
Why? Lots of users CANNOT install software because of AD rights not to mention OS incomparability.
DIVX plugin? What the HELL, does anyone remember the downloads from DIVX.com that CAME with fcsking SPYWARE built in?!?!?!? I'd trust their plugin about as much as a 40 year women old at last call who says she's on the pill.
Why LOSE 1000's of customers when you can just use a flash video player that requires nothing? (Flash is installed by default on most OS's and browsers now)
Source to backup Spyware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX_Media_Format#DivX_Media_Format_.28DMF.29
Agreed. No changes in spam over here, my domain is still receiving the daily average of about 100 per day.
You should REALLY consider trying postgrey.
http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/
Postgrey on non whitelisted servers rejects the first mail attempt with a fail. The sending email server will retry X times, but the 2nd time it accepts it and adds the server to the whitelist.
Postgrey will add a 5 minute lag to an email that's sending server has never sent an email to you. It's worth it to screw the spammers zombies over IMHO.
Also, I would check your postfix/whatever you are using for a mail servers policy. I get 0 spam emails now and my address is posted all over the web.
I do have spamassassin running as well with sieve filtering to put what is marked as spam in a junk folder but the junk folder is empty, every now and then I'll see something -- but very rarely. Like once every 2 months.
Here's my spam prevention system :-)
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_mynetworks,
permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_unauth_destination,
reject_non_fqdn_sender,
reject_unknown_sender_domain,
reject_non_fqdn_recipient,
reject_unknown_recipient_domain,
reject_unauth_destination,
reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org,
reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,
check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:60000
I can't understand making that move at all.
It's a LOT easier to make parts for your own stuff. I'm sure it's quite a fracken battle to get the specs out of intel and AMD on their new CPU's while their also completing against via on the chipsets that the cpus will run on.
If you were trying to make a competing part for a car I was making, which I was also selling parts for.... I would definitely put up every barrier possible.
With an 18 month turn around on CPU speed, I bet it's VERY hard for via to keep up with intel and amd on the chipset front.
I hear Bill Gates and Steve Jobs value ideas. I bet if you let them in on your design idea they would pay you lots later.
So, yes, there are exceptions, but that doesn't mean that Joe Random Individual can walk up my driveway to take photos of my backyard.
Tell that to Britney Spears.
They simply cannot step onto the private property without permission.
I'm pretty sure the post office steps on private property every time they go up on my porch to deliver a letter. The same with Fedex, UPS, tax appraiser and utility workers.
I don't think that's a valid argument.
I beg to differ, part of the measurement of stability is the government that controls it. Look back 100 years and compare.
I think you'll find Argentina is a business nightmare. A communist experiment, failed, constant power shifts.
I'm pretty sure that if you had to build a billion dollar factory, the USA looks far more appealing. There is far less of a chance of the government annexing your property.
You sir are a racist or a bigot.
No just kidding, good point.
Welcome to margaritaville :-)
This makes a lot of sense. We're concerned about some damage we THINK we did do the environment. So we're going to dumps tons of chemicals into our oceans to counter act something we THINK we may have done?
It seems to me that historically the Earth has had dramatic changes in climate that hasn't been explained with certainty. Species has gone extinct. The landscape has changed, life has changed. I challenge anyone to produce a 50 million year history with temperature variations. I bet it looks pretty fluid over time.
Global warming? Global cooling? Global changes? Global life?
Now I think global warming needs to be proven before a half ass untested theory to "fix it", is implemented.
Am I the only one who picked up on an underlying terrorist theme? When Alfred was outlining the Joker and how he worked, he pointed out that money isn't important to all people and some people just want to destroy the lives of others.
Now seeing the Joker burn all of that cash just for the fun of it, it makes me think of the ultra wealthy in the middle East funding terrorism. It has nothing to do with money, but wanting to destroy the lives of others.
You don't strap a bomb on your chest because you want 20 grand. You do it to DESTROY others. The Joker was a terrorist, he used fear to rule the city quite effectively.
Hamas has been doing this for years.
Cost of shipping 150$?
See also women fleeing abusive partners, who have been abandoned by their partner, widows, single rape victims who don't agree with abortion, and any of many more possible reasons for a woman to be left raising a child alone and not be a "harlot".
She made those choices, she should enjoy her life as a waitress for making those choices, not living as a kept women with my tax dollars.
If this program helps 1/10 mothers better raise their children(not becoming criminals) it is still worth it.
You obviously didn't take an economics class, ever. Now your sons education costs 10x more because he has to carry the weight of 10 whores. Oh wow, now he can't afford to go!
That's progress!!!! Maine style!
They haven't lived in a state where liberal democrats have had free run for 18 years.
The closest place to it is Russia.
Big companies block almost all web mail. They only want their email system used for various reasons, security, support etc.
The best way to block it? Deny connections via a proxy or implicitly through a firewall rule(probably what they did since he can't even send to you). Problem solved (for the business not you).
New physicians and lawyers are now predominantly women. Not only are these fields lucrative, but there's a lot of people practicing in them (that is, there are far more openings than for physicists or mathematicians).
I know in the state of Maine, being the liberal hole it is.... it PAYS (it meaning we) for single mothers(see harlots) to go to college. They pay NOTHING, receive a stipend to live on, food stamps, rent, utilities paid, and oh yeah, if they have an issue with their car the state will pickup the bill. Oh did I mention the state also pays for daycare?
Oh, I also forgot, they don't need to pass. One of my friends was dating one of these single mother system users... she skipped class, dumped her kid at daycare and spent the day having sex with him. What a gem she was.
Now in a state like Maine (highest taxes in the country) it takes a LOT of effort and cash(since white men don't qualify for anything in aide if their parents make 30g's a year) for men to get through college to begin with.
In the state of Maine one out of three people is on some form of state assistance. Oh course most men don't qualify(need kids or an injury). So to me it seems that the MEN are being crushed by the system and are being forced to pay for these irresponsible women(who some got pregnant I'm sure).
It's like communism, the state takes from the working and dumps all of their income into the lazy.
SO yeah, more women in Maine are in college and more women graduate with degrees. Not all of them are bad, some girls just made a mistake and are capitalizing on the system, BUT the system is FORCING men out of school because they just can't afford it(since they're the only ones who pay).
It's OK I run hurd.
If he were methodical he probably wouldn't have committed murder, what a stupid thing to do!
Murder has it's place. Ask the CIA.
The Gates foundation may only give 'a fraction' of what it 'robs' (how does one rob by soliciting donations, again?) from the rich to the poor, but it is still donating more than you or I ever will, and therefore, has done more good than you or I will likely do in this context.
Something given has no value. Something earned does. Handouts don't solve anything.
Moron charities make me laugh. They "give" food to keep people from dieing when they should issue a GRANT to build roads and infrastructure in Africa. This would allow businesses to grow and EMPLOY the people. Thus no longer needing handouts.
Part of curing our(USA's) great depression was developing the highways and infrastructure of the country.
Handouts make the GIVER feel/look good. Emanual Kant says there is no motivation for charity beyond the personal reward and I agree. Bill Gates and his foundations loves all the press. "They're saving people" when all their doing to them is perpetuating the poverty by not providing them a way out.
Even if it's late.
I'm pretty sure my families selfmade multimillion dollar empire will be fine.
Thanks for worrying though.