I'm glad you took my post in the spirit in which it was written. A little good natured ribbing goes a long way. I think it's part of the culture: My propeller is spinning faster than your propeller, etc.
I chided my wife, fiance at the time, without mercy for having an AOL account. (What? I'm married? I CAN'T be a geek!)
As for suggestions, just use the email address of the person you hate the most on any particular day. : )
I don't have mod points at the moment. Somebody mod this post up as Informative, despite the fact that the poster has a hotmail account. Isn't that more embarrassing than having an AOL account?;)
We all know how quickly technology progresses. Maybe software and hardware life cycles are becoming shorter. Apple has always been a leader, "for good or ill," in the words of the Good Doctor.
For instance, in the publishing industry it is possible for a company to sit on a book that has gone stale for decades only to republish it someday when it looks to be profitable again. What's to stop a software company from making the same (possibly illogical?) argument?
Umm...
Innovation that doesn't stem from Microsoft and the fact that software evolves and changes might be one reason, unlike a work of fiction or nonfiction, which remains relatively stale. Do you really want to see a rerelease of MS BOB or (to quell the Apple zealot bashers) Cyber Dog?
People are cheap. Sheesh! I am so sick of this argument. As with all things, you get what you pay for. Do you want to save a nickel now only to spend a dollar later?
The sections you have emphasized sound like standard legal CYA jargon. I wouldn't be too worried about it, unless you happen to be an irretrievably paranoid corporate conspiracy theorist.
Sorry to be a jerk and answer my own question. From the DNC list FAQ:
Will the National Do Not Call Registry cover all telemarketing calls? Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all. Some types of calls are exempt. Political organizations, charities, telephone surveyors, and the business of insurance, to the extent that it is regulated by state law, are permitted to call you.
I just received an unsolicited call from a company claiming to be a market research firm. I immediately asked the phone biscuit to speak with a supervisor biscuit, who summarily informed me that research firms are exempt from the Do-Not-Call list, with which I am registered.
Can anyone provide any insight into whether this claim is true? I was under the impression that only political organizations and charities were exempt.
It is, however, nice to know that IBM's fire-breathing legion of IP lawyers is on the side of the GPL.
I hate to be the cynic (Actually, I really don't mind at all.), but IBM's legion of IP lawyers on the side of IBM, which only just happens to have embraced the GPL. If IBM wasn't pushing Linux, their lawyers wouldn't give the GPL a moment's thought.
I guess my point was that if only 20% of Americans "voted" for the National Do Not Call List by signing up for it, it would not have passed because it did not receive a majority vote.
We're splitting hairs over percentages that apparently came out of your ass. Does that mean we're splitting ass hairs?;)
Perhaps you intended to to write, "[T]he price of freedom is eternal vigilantism. Or, is it evangelism? Damn, the two are so closely entwined, I can't decide. Militarism? Mercantilism? Zealot vs. Zealot? Wasn't that in MAD magazine, which I read when I was a kid and is probably a contributing factor as to why I can't get a date with a girl? Sorry, but I'm late for the militia meeting."
To quote Tom Lehrer, "The rest of you can look it up when you get home."
Gee. You're an Anonymous Coward who can't spell properly and who types before thinking. Imagine that. Mark Twain once wrote something like "It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people assume you're an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it." Maybe that's why you were modded -1 Flamebait.
Post as something other than AC and maybe people will actually give a fuck about what you do or don't think.
Exactly. I ran into this same scenario when I signed up for Road Runner. The exchange went something like this.
Me: I would like to sign up for Road Runner. Tech Biscuit: Fine, sir. What operating system are you running? Me: Mac OS X. Tech Biscuit: And what version of Windows is that? Me: It's not Windows. Tech Biscuit: What version of Windows? Me: It's not Windows. It's OS X. Tech Biscuit: You're not running Windows? How can you not be running Windows? Me: Look, just schedule a fucking lackey to come out and install the splitter. I'll do the rest myself.
Someone whose radio suffered interference from an iTrip could make a complaint. However, the UK equivalent of the FCC would have to find you. Futhermore, they would have to try finding you at the same time you are using your iTrip. The odds of them seeking you out while you are using your iTrip seem fairly long to me.
There's one document that I've not talked about yet, and that's the license agreement. I never have been able to find a copy of the license agreement in any of the printed materials that comes with the laptop. The only copy I know of is on the disk itself.
When you start the software, there is no way of printing the license without agreeing to it. To print it you must install the software. If you install the software, you agree to the license.
Why not just take pictures of the license agreement and either have them developed (if you have a conventional film camera) or print them out (if you have a digital camera) for submission to the court? That seems fairly obvious and easy.
A successor to Hubble is already in the works. See this article on Yahoo! news.
From the article:
But its days (and nights) have always been numbered. NASA has long planned to end Hubble's spectacular run and bring it down in 2010 to make way in the budget for the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2011.
Maybe you should try that, instead of trying to fix a PC for a dumb irate redneck egomaniac know-it-all ignoramus who can't even figure out how to click his mouse or scroll the screen from left to right, and expect him to understand a word of non-urban slang gramatically correct English.
We, being the royal "we," call these types of people aggressively clueless.
so if we have this fast-spreading virus, wouldn't it just wipe out those who don't patch and maintain their servers properly?
and what's left are those nicely patched servers which serve the internet better and everyone's happy ever after.
Let the worms wipe out those who don't patch and maintain their servers properly? Put down the crack pipe and move away from the mouse. You obviously have the luxury of working in a non-Microsoft environment that doesn't require maximum uptime like banks, universities, hospitals, etc. require to function.
Microsoft releases some crucial security update almost literally every week. I simply can't down servers on a regular basis because Microsoft doesn't have the acumen to write a decently secure and stable OS. For instance, last week on Tuesday I built a new authentication server for our VPN connection. On Friday, I patched nonessential servers, the new one being one of them. The newly built server required one crucial security update and at least two nonessential updates.
Of course, there is also the matter of crucial security updates breaking something else. I've read numerous articles about how adverse many sysadmins have become to installing Microsoft patches as soon as they are available. One slashdotters sig sums it all up:
63,000 bugs in the code. 63,000 bugs. You get one whacked with a service pack. 63,005 bugs in the code.
I know you'll say to switch to another OS, but those of us who have to keep things running don't always get to make platform decisions. Sure, I have input, but my boss is an old-schooler married to IBM. At least I've been able to keep him away from IBM and settled on Dell hardware, but that's on ongoing battle.
Sure, CorelDraw is great for graphics if you only want to see your images on screen. You will grapple with the beast if you even think about sending a CorelDraw file to a Postscript RIP, which will choke, puke, sputter, and die when it receives the file. I grew up in the "desktop printing" industry, beginning in 1998. I know how uneasy it is to output CorelDraw files.
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I'm glad you took my post in the spirit in which it was written. A little good natured ribbing goes a long way. I think it's part of the culture: My propeller is spinning faster than your propeller, etc.
I chided my wife, fiance at the time, without mercy for having an AOL account. (What? I'm married? I CAN'T be a geek!)
As for suggestions, just use the email address of the person you hate the most on any particular day. : )
Enjoy and happy holidays!
SiO2
I don't have mod points at the moment. Somebody mod this post up as Informative, despite the fact that the poster has a hotmail account. Isn't that more embarrassing than having an AOL account? ;)
SiO2
I guess if you never want to get laid again, it might.
This is the slashdot crowd you're talking about. We're not getting laid anyway. ; )
SiO2
... to keep Google stocks cheap for a hostile takeover??
Google is a privately held company. Read the first paragraph.
http://www.google.com/corporate/facts.html
SiO2
We all know how quickly technology progresses. Maybe software and hardware life cycles are becoming shorter. Apple has always been a leader, "for good or ill," in the words of the Good Doctor.
SiO2
Such a statement, aparently confirmed by Apple, will keep Mac OS X out of any server applications. Just imagine Sun saying something similar.
snip
Because they are dropping hardware in 10.3, they need to support 10.2 indefinately.
Indefinitely? Are you nuts? Microsoft is phasing out support for Windows NT Server. I'm certain Sun would do the same for an older OS. Sure 10.2 might only be a year old, but it is older than 10.3.
SiO2
For instance, in the publishing industry it is possible for a company to sit on a book that has gone stale for decades only to republish it someday when it looks to be profitable again. What's to stop a software company from making the same (possibly illogical?) argument?
Umm...
Innovation that doesn't stem from Microsoft and the fact that software evolves and changes might be one reason, unlike a work of fiction or nonfiction, which remains relatively stale. Do you really want to see a rerelease of MS BOB or (to quell the Apple zealot bashers) Cyber Dog?
SiO2
Macs are expensive...
People are cheap. Sheesh! I am so sick of this argument. As with all things, you get what you pay for. Do you want to save a nickel now only to spend a dollar later?
SiO2
The sections you have emphasized sound like standard legal CYA jargon. I wouldn't be too worried about it, unless you happen to be an irretrievably paranoid corporate conspiracy theorist.
SiO2
Sorry to be a jerk and answer my own question. From the DNC list FAQ:
Will the National Do Not Call Registry cover all telemarketing calls?
Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all. Some types of calls are exempt. Political organizations, charities, telephone surveyors, and the business of insurance, to the extent that it is regulated by state law, are permitted to call you.
SiO2
I just received an unsolicited call from a company claiming to be a market research firm. I immediately asked the phone biscuit to speak with a supervisor biscuit, who summarily informed me that research firms are exempt from the Do-Not-Call list, with which I am registered.
Can anyone provide any insight into whether this claim is true? I was under the impression that only political organizations and charities were exempt.
Please advise.
Thanks.
SiO2
Maybe so. The manufacturer of my car, though, doesn't issue a recall on an almost weekly basis.
'nough said.
SiO2
It is, however, nice to know that IBM's fire-breathing legion of IP lawyers is on the side of the GPL.
I hate to be the cynic (Actually, I really don't mind at all.), but IBM's legion of IP lawyers on the side of IBM, which only just happens to have embraced the GPL. If IBM wasn't pushing Linux, their lawyers wouldn't give the GPL a moment's thought.
SiO2
Yes. I figured 20% was fictitious.
;)
I guess my point was that if only 20% of Americans "voted" for the National Do Not Call List by signing up for it, it would not have passed because it did not receive a majority vote.
We're splitting hairs over percentages that apparently came out of your ass. Does that mean we're splitting ass hairs?
I'm probably just asking for trouble by pointing this out. The last time I checked, 20% is not a majority.
SiO2
The article is a somewhat general topic piece on worms in general.
From the redundant department of redundancy department...
SiO2
the price of Freedom is eternal vigilantism.
Perhaps you intended to to write, "[T]he price of freedom is eternal vigilantism. Or, is it evangelism? Damn, the two are so closely entwined, I can't decide. Militarism? Mercantilism? Zealot vs. Zealot? Wasn't that in MAD magazine, which I read when I was a kid and is probably a contributing factor as to why I can't get a date with a girl? Sorry, but I'm late for the militia meeting."
To quote Tom Lehrer, "The rest of you can look it up when you get home."
SiO2
I would beleive this but this story
Gee. You're an Anonymous Coward who can't spell properly and who types before thinking. Imagine that. Mark Twain once wrote something like "It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people assume you're an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it." Maybe that's why you were modded -1 Flamebait.
Post as something other than AC and maybe people will actually give a fuck about what you do or don't think.
SiO2
Exactly. I ran into this same scenario when I signed up for Road Runner. The exchange went something like this.
Me: I would like to sign up for Road Runner.
Tech Biscuit: Fine, sir. What operating system are you running?
Me: Mac OS X.
Tech Biscuit: And what version of Windows is that?
Me: It's not Windows.
Tech Biscuit: What version of Windows?
Me: It's not Windows. It's OS X.
Tech Biscuit: You're not running Windows? How can you not be running Windows?
Me: Look, just schedule a fucking lackey to come out and install the splitter. I'll do the rest myself.
Someone whose radio suffered interference from an iTrip could make a complaint. However, the UK equivalent of the FCC would have to find you. Futhermore, they would have to try finding you at the same time you are using your iTrip. The odds of them seeking you out while you are using your iTrip seem fairly long to me.
From the article:
There's one document that I've not talked about yet, and that's the license agreement. I never have been able to find a copy of the license agreement in any of the printed materials that comes with the laptop. The only copy I know of is on the disk itself.
When you start the software, there is no way of printing the license without agreeing to it. To print it you must install the software. If you install the software, you agree to the license.
Why not just take pictures of the license agreement and either have them developed (if you have a conventional film camera) or print them out (if you have a digital camera) for submission to the court? That seems fairly obvious and easy.
SiO2
We just have to move on and produce a successor.
A successor to Hubble is already in the works. See this article on Yahoo! news.
From the article:
But its days (and nights) have always been numbered. NASA has long planned to end Hubble's spectacular run and bring it down in 2010 to make way in the budget for the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2011.
SiO2
Maybe you should try that, instead of trying to fix a PC for a dumb irate redneck egomaniac know-it-all ignoramus who can't even figure out how to click his mouse or scroll the screen from left to right, and expect him to understand a word of non-urban slang gramatically correct English.
We, being the royal "we," call these types of people aggressively clueless.
SiO2
so if we have this fast-spreading virus, wouldn't it just wipe out those who don't patch and maintain their servers properly?
and what's left are those nicely patched servers which serve the internet better and everyone's happy ever after.
Let the worms wipe out those who don't patch and maintain their servers properly? Put down the crack pipe and move away from the mouse. You obviously have the luxury of working in a non-Microsoft environment that doesn't require maximum uptime like banks, universities, hospitals, etc. require to function.
Microsoft releases some crucial security update almost literally every week. I simply can't down servers on a regular basis because Microsoft doesn't have the acumen to write a decently secure and stable OS. For instance, last week on Tuesday I built a new authentication server for our VPN connection. On Friday, I patched nonessential servers, the new one being one of them. The newly built server required one crucial security update and at least two nonessential updates.
Of course, there is also the matter of crucial security updates breaking something else. I've read numerous articles about how adverse many sysadmins have become to installing Microsoft patches as soon as they are available. One slashdotters sig sums it all up:
63,000 bugs in the code.
63,000 bugs.
You get one whacked with a service pack.
63,005 bugs in the code.
I know you'll say to switch to another OS, but those of us who have to keep things running don't always get to make platform decisions. Sure, I have input, but my boss is an old-schooler married to IBM. At least I've been able to keep him away from IBM and settled on Dell hardware, but that's on ongoing battle.
Sure, CorelDraw is great for graphics if you only want to see your images on screen. You will grapple with the beast if you even think about sending a CorelDraw file to a Postscript RIP, which will choke, puke, sputter, and die when it receives the file. I grew up in the "desktop printing" industry, beginning in 1998. I know how uneasy it is to output CorelDraw files.