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In my copy of QuickTime 5 for Windows, I immediately unchecked the option (Start > Settings > Control Panel > QuickTime > File Type Associations) to associate with Windows file types and Internet file types.
That's more work than necessary. Apple should not assume that you need their program to view files for which there is a perfectly good program for that comes pre-installed with nearly every OS. I can't limit the associations beyond Windows, Mac, or Internet file types, whatever that means. I've got programs that are better at viewing "Macintosh" files than Apple's own software, all except for Sorenson-encoded MOVs. They should at least let you pick associations for each file type, and should never take associations from other programs. And, in a perfect world, they'd just install a system codec and let any application use it.
Nope, doesn't matter in the slightest. I was just wondering if there was a specific reason behind the apparently increasingly popular spelling change. I like to keep on top of these things, y'see?
As for the story getting pulled, you might have noticed the posts pointing out that the method described in the article is almost certainly illegal. The hardware they claim is about $800 AU, but a licensed copy of the software is several thousand dollars (or so it seems from the other posts here). This "hack" is only really cost-effective if you're using a pirated copy of the software.
On a totally unrelated issue, where did the "chics" spelling come from? The term has always been "chicks" to me, its PC quotient notwithstanding. Does it have anything to do with the word spelled chic and pronounced sheek?
Normally I'd gloss over it and think you made a typo, but you're not the first. Is "chics" the preferred spelling among some people?
I don't really care about being modded off-topic either, this story will be pulled shortly I presume.
Many of my teachers, even sadly those in the CS department seemed to have very dated knowledge. It was almost as if they reached a point and decided learning wasn't crucial any more.
You're absolutely right. You know what though? I've nearly reached that point, and I'm a freshman in college. I seriously don't care that X software or Y hardware is new and spectacular. My friends used to call me up for advice on fixing or upgrading their systems, and lately I've been leaving them with "don't know, don't care".
Sure there's a joy in learning new things, but there's always more information to know about any field, more details to consider. After a while, you give up because you realize none of it is really important and you've got more important things to do than read every Slashdot article. (Obviously there are still some vestiges left for me.)
Taken to the extreme, someone who kills in an "artistic" fashion, a form of self-expression, would not be guilty of murder. Of course, despite the seemingly absolute language of the law, our rights have relative value. If your method of free expression infringes on the more important rights of others (not being killed), it is no longer protected. Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins and all that.
The question then is which is more important: the free expression of virus programmers or the undisturbed use of computer services. Everyone's likely to have their own opinion on the matter, and the issue is better left to the courts than Slashdot.
Who says these people actually believe they are Jedi? Maybe they believe that Jedi exist, that "The Force" is real, but they themselves are not Jedi. The Force is not strong in them, or they were not born with quite enough midichlorians, whatever St. George calls them. Han Solo was obviously not a Jedi, but by ROTJ he's been convinced that the force is real. What religion, then, is Han? For lack of a better term, he would mark Jedi on his census form.
So what if it was written by a Scifi hack who didn't believe it himself, filled with aliens and ancient wars? So was Scientology.
The Hotmail account I created specifically to register for MSN Messenger would collect spam. I never gave it out as my email address, and the last time I tried to check it, Hotmail wanted me to re-activate the account because I haven't used it for so long. (I didn't bother.) Funny thing is, the email address was something along the lines of "nospamplease@hotmail.com". Did they just happen to guess that?
That survey doesn't contradict anything I said. Well, maybe if you want to debate the meaning of "far fewer" versus just fewer.
Regardless, my statement still holds: There is less competition for Chinese language sites than their English counterparts. I can't read it, but Hongkong.com looks like one of a thousand Yahoo-like portals. But because it's in Chinese, it's only competing against a smaller subset of those sites. Websites around the world build their entire businesses around "Paypal, only in Finnish". Because Finns can't use the English language equivalent, Paypal.fi gets 100% of the Finnish market, which is 10% of the entire market (completely made up), and much more than they'd get if they tried it in English.
My whole point is that the examples you gave as to successful dot-coms all happened to be in Chinese. Since very few dot-coms were in Chinese, they're not a representative sample, and it appears to me that there's a very simple explanation for their success where many others failed.
Mind if I speculate that there are far fewer Chinese speaking people online and far fewer sites that cater to them, especially proportionately? Perhaps that non-English speaking people might tend to ignore the internet at large and there are plenty of opportunities to simply duplicate the function of English sites without much native-language competition.
You think it's an accident that out of the hundreds of nearly identical colas, the two most popular brands are also the ones that do the most advertising? Advertising doesn't have to work on everyone to do its job, so long as it works on most people, it's more than worth it.
Different wells contain differing amounts of trace minerals which do effect the taste of the water. To me, Aquafina (a reverse osmosis filtered water) tastes sweeter than Evian.
I wonder which Aquafina well you're talking about. At least on the west coast, Aquafina is once-filtered tap water from my hometown. With the small investment of the price of a filter, I could get you "counterfeit" Aquafina water for the price of the bottle. And trust me, our water is not that spectacular. It's even worse when I see people here shell out a buck a bottle for the stuff they get from their tap at home.
The straw that broke the camel's back was when they blew up the Golden Gate Bridge (like I said in my post). They lofted a rock into San Francisco Bay, taking out "a few bridges they're quite fond of" (forgive me on the wording). The Taj Mahal is a historic landmark and the Golden Gate Bridge isn't? That was a real turning point for me in the book, and I wanted to just stop reading then and there. I put up with the book and it didn't get any better.
I don't see how blowing up the Golden Gate Bridge constitutes "ending well". The book was a long and trite "if everyone did things my way, look how great it would be". The protagonists were terrorists by every meaning of the word. They attacked civilian targets, killed innocent people, and we rewarded for it. The bad guys won.
By the end of the book, I was deeply saddened that their plans weren't foiled, that the thinly-veiled United-Nations-cum-Fascist-Overlords didn't blow the colony to smithereens, that they got away with such atrocities, and that Heinlein had the nerve to try and justify it all!
I really hated that book. It sickened me and left me with a very foul impression of its author. Perhaps it was a bad Heinlein book to start off with, because now I refuse to read any of his others, no matter how well recommended they are.
Someone else linked to this article about the NSA tapping fiber. In it, they talked to the people who lay fiber, and they say it's not unheard of for a fishing ship to drop ancor at exactly the wrong spot and cut the line.
So, the question now is how many of those accidents were really accidents? A fishing ship inadvertently cuts the line, a sub a few thousand miles further down splices into the fiber before they can fix it. The fiber's offline anyway, so no one notices. When they come back online, they'll notice some slight signal degradation, but they'll blame it on their own repair job.
I vote for a box to make cell phones ring as you enter an establishment, so that whoever is at the door can hand out a clue.
I think this is the best possible solution if it can be done. Just a shielded hallway everyone has to pass through that tricks cell phones into thinking there's an incoming call. Anyone with experience in the area want to comment on the feasibility?
Then stop visiting the site. Don't be a hypocrite and whine about how evil and annoying ads are, then continue viewing the content a site offers while blocking the ads.
A site has to be pretty damned good, and unique for me to put up with annoying popups. If there is any other option, I'll take it. These sites need to know that their potential customers will simply leave if the ads pester them too much.
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In my copy of QuickTime 5 for Windows, I immediately unchecked the option (Start > Settings > Control Panel > QuickTime > File Type Associations) to associate with Windows file types and Internet file types.
That's more work than necessary. Apple should not assume that you need their program to view files for which there is a perfectly good program for that comes pre-installed with nearly every OS. I can't limit the associations beyond Windows, Mac, or Internet file types, whatever that means. I've got programs that are better at viewing "Macintosh" files than Apple's own software, all except for Sorenson-encoded MOVs. They should at least let you pick associations for each file type, and should never take associations from other programs. And, in a perfect world, they'd just install a system codec and let any application use it.
I forgot to mention that the author even offers to sell you an illegal copy of the OS for $400 AU.
Nope, doesn't matter in the slightest. I was just wondering if there was a specific reason behind the apparently increasingly popular spelling change. I like to keep on top of these things, y'see?
As for the story getting pulled, you might have noticed the posts pointing out that the method described in the article is almost certainly illegal. The hardware they claim is about $800 AU, but a licensed copy of the software is several thousand dollars (or so it seems from the other posts here). This "hack" is only really cost-effective if you're using a pirated copy of the software.
On a totally unrelated issue, where did the "chics" spelling come from? The term has always been "chicks" to me, its PC quotient notwithstanding. Does it have anything to do with the word spelled chic and pronounced sheek?
Normally I'd gloss over it and think you made a typo, but you're not the first. Is "chics" the preferred spelling among some people?
I don't really care about being modded off-topic either, this story will be pulled shortly I presume.
Many of my teachers, even sadly those in the CS department seemed to have very dated knowledge. It was almost as if they reached a point and decided learning wasn't crucial any more.
You're absolutely right. You know what though? I've nearly reached that point, and I'm a freshman in college. I seriously don't care that X software or Y hardware is new and spectacular. My friends used to call me up for advice on fixing or upgrading their systems, and lately I've been leaving them with "don't know, don't care".
Sure there's a joy in learning new things, but there's always more information to know about any field, more details to consider. After a while, you give up because you realize none of it is really important and you've got more important things to do than read every Slashdot article. (Obviously there are still some vestiges left for me.)
Ironically, your attempt to clarify your ealier post requires more clarification than the post it means to clarify!
Forgive me though, it seems as if you are not a native speaker, so don't take it to heart.
Never mind - I'll encode my whole MP3 collection into AC-3 files ...
Uhh.. many DVD players can play MP3s on a data disk just fine. Why recompress them?
Taken to the extreme, someone who kills in an "artistic" fashion, a form of self-expression, would not be guilty of murder. Of course, despite the seemingly absolute language of the law, our rights have relative value. If your method of free expression infringes on the more important rights of others (not being killed), it is no longer protected. Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins and all that.
The question then is which is more important: the free expression of virus programmers or the undisturbed use of computer services. Everyone's likely to have their own opinion on the matter, and the issue is better left to the courts than Slashdot.
Who says these people actually believe they are Jedi? Maybe they believe that Jedi exist, that "The Force" is real, but they themselves are not Jedi. The Force is not strong in them, or they were not born with quite enough midichlorians, whatever St. George calls them. Han Solo was obviously not a Jedi, but by ROTJ he's been convinced that the force is real. What religion, then, is Han? For lack of a better term, he would mark Jedi on his census form.
So what if it was written by a Scifi hack who didn't believe it himself, filled with aliens and ancient wars? So was Scientology.
The Hotmail account I created specifically to register for MSN Messenger would collect spam. I never gave it out as my email address, and the last time I tried to check it, Hotmail wanted me to re-activate the account because I haven't used it for so long. (I didn't bother.) Funny thing is, the email address was something along the lines of "nospamplease@hotmail.com". Did they just happen to guess that?
I don't get it. I buy stock at $5/share, stock goes down $2/share, company liquidates and returns my money for $3/share. How does that make me money?
That survey doesn't contradict anything I said. Well, maybe if you want to debate the meaning of "far fewer" versus just fewer.
Regardless, my statement still holds: There is less competition for Chinese language sites than their English counterparts. I can't read it, but Hongkong.com looks like one of a thousand Yahoo-like portals. But because it's in Chinese, it's only competing against a smaller subset of those sites. Websites around the world build their entire businesses around "Paypal, only in Finnish". Because Finns can't use the English language equivalent, Paypal.fi gets 100% of the Finnish market, which is 10% of the entire market (completely made up), and much more than they'd get if they tried it in English.
My whole point is that the examples you gave as to successful dot-coms all happened to be in Chinese. Since very few dot-coms were in Chinese, they're not a representative sample, and it appears to me that there's a very simple explanation for their success where many others failed.
Mind if I speculate that there are far fewer Chinese speaking people online and far fewer sites that cater to them, especially proportionately? Perhaps that non-English speaking people might tend to ignore the internet at large and there are plenty of opportunities to simply duplicate the function of English sites without much native-language competition.
You think it's an accident that out of the hundreds of nearly identical colas, the two most popular brands are also the ones that do the most advertising? Advertising doesn't have to work on everyone to do its job, so long as it works on most people, it's more than worth it.
Different wells contain differing amounts of trace minerals which do effect the taste of the water. To me, Aquafina (a reverse osmosis filtered water) tastes sweeter than Evian.
I wonder which Aquafina well you're talking about. At least on the west coast, Aquafina is once-filtered tap water from my hometown. With the small investment of the price of a filter, I could get you "counterfeit" Aquafina water for the price of the bottle. And trust me, our water is not that spectacular. It's even worse when I see people here shell out a buck a bottle for the stuff they get from their tap at home.
Checking... yep. I still hate the book.
The straw that broke the camel's back was when they blew up the Golden Gate Bridge (like I said in my post). They lofted a rock into San Francisco Bay, taking out "a few bridges they're quite fond of" (forgive me on the wording). The Taj Mahal is a historic landmark and the Golden Gate Bridge isn't? That was a real turning point for me in the book, and I wanted to just stop reading then and there. I put up with the book and it didn't get any better.
Then there's calculus. What's the derivative of sin x? Can you prove it?
No, but I'm sure some dweeb will copy and paste the results of a Google search and claim as it their own any minute now.
I don't see how blowing up the Golden Gate Bridge constitutes "ending well". The book was a long and trite "if everyone did things my way, look how great it would be". The protagonists were terrorists by every meaning of the word. They attacked civilian targets, killed innocent people, and we rewarded for it. The bad guys won.
By the end of the book, I was deeply saddened that their plans weren't foiled, that the thinly-veiled United-Nations-cum-Fascist-Overlords didn't blow the colony to smithereens, that they got away with such atrocities, and that Heinlein had the nerve to try and justify it all!
I really hated that book. It sickened me and left me with a very foul impression of its author. Perhaps it was a bad Heinlein book to start off with, because now I refuse to read any of his others, no matter how well recommended they are.
Someone else linked to this article about the NSA tapping fiber. In it, they talked to the people who lay fiber, and they say it's not unheard of for a fishing ship to drop ancor at exactly the wrong spot and cut the line.
So, the question now is how many of those accidents were really accidents? A fishing ship inadvertently cuts the line, a sub a few thousand miles further down splices into the fiber before they can fix it. The fiber's offline anyway, so no one notices. When they come back online, they'll notice some slight signal degradation, but they'll blame it on their own repair job.
I vote for a box to make cell phones ring as you enter an establishment, so that whoever is at the door can hand out a clue.
I think this is the best possible solution if it can be done. Just a shielded hallway everyone has to pass through that tricks cell phones into thinking there's an incoming call. Anyone with experience in the area want to comment on the feasibility?
I can make out the number, but I can't read the message -- once again proving that digital cameras can't make up for bad photography.
Calling a Trekkie a Trekker is like calling a Cracker a Hacker.
Exactly -- the distinction is only important to the people who invented it and is generally regarded as laughable by everyone else.
Then stop visiting the site. Don't be a hypocrite and whine about how evil and annoying ads are, then continue viewing the content a site offers while blocking the ads.
A site has to be pretty damned good, and unique for me to put up with annoying popups. If there is any other option, I'll take it. These sites need to know that their potential customers will simply leave if the ads pester them too much.
It's not mentioned in the article, but Mozilla's hostname-based image blocking is gone from Netscape as well.