we're using GFI MailEssentials at work, which uses bayesian filtering. all the emails that have a random string of words arent getting through the filter. the ones that are usually contain, e.g. 1 normal sentence, and one link. the problem is, we arent getting the same one over and over, it only comes in once, so it's hard to train the filter to block it.
So how easy is it to print to a shared Mac printer from a Windows machine? Impossible AFAIK.
no, it's as easy as printing to a shared windows printer. i think the only difference is that it will not install the drivers automatically as it does when you connect to a shared windows printer (since it uses different drivers on the mac...). you need to install the drivers manually (if they're not already included with windows) and then you can type in \\computer-name\printer-name
I mean, who the hell has a laser printer connected to a parallel port and wants to share it over a network?
umm... you're kidding right? people do this all the time. maybe no at home as much as in the office (though i do this at home). and printing to shared printers is absurdly easy in windows and mac os x.
this isnt funny, like the pigeon thing. it sounds like it could be completely real, except for maybe the 1 GB per user part... i mean, if google developed a webmail service, it would probably be way better than yahoo, hotmail, etc. how is this an april fool's day joke?
what are the ligitimate uses for a mod chip? backing up your own games, so the original discs don't get damaged. fine. playing , e.g., japanese games on a US console. good. running linux on an x-box. microsoft may not agree with it, but i think that's a valid use.
however, i'm willing to bet that the number of users that are using it to play copied games outweighs any other use. of course there is probably a lot of overlap, people using it for one or more legitimate use, and also playing copied games.
i don't think mod chips should be illegal, when they have legitimate uses. this is the same argument used by proponents of p2p. don't stifle the technology, just because you can use it to play copied games. sometimes people want to try a game before they lay down $50 for it (of course that's what blockbuster is for, but we can ignore that for now...) and sometimes it's easier to download than find someone who has a copy. and again, instead of focusing on the individual users, what about going after the people who are selling or otherwise distributing pirated games. (actually, i remember on one of the playstation undergroud discs that came with my PS1, they had videos of cops showing up at some guy's house and confiscating thousands of copied games...)
SpeedingTicket.net pays the state 10 to 30 cents for each record that it downloads (the state collects about $1.7 million annually this way), then charges lawyers 50 cents to over $1 to relay the data or perform value-added services, such as printing and mailing letters to prospective clients.
it sounds like the state in question (california was it?) is selling this information
hardware costs money to develop, and then it costs money to manufacture. you need raw materials and some sort of fabrication process to make hardware. software costs money to develop (or, it costs time, if someone is programming open source stuff), and then it costs almost nothing to manufacture/distribute. you copy one program onto a million CDs, for pennies per copy.
and hardware will become almost free, but software will continue to cost hundreds of dollars? am i missing something?
if you use microsoft's public newsgroups, it's usually a lot easier to find an answer than searching technet or the kbase yourself. because usually, someone has already had the same problems, and usually people provide links to the specific article you need to read to fix them. (i find that about 75% of my day-to-day MS problems have already been solved and are easily searchable through groups.google.com)
'jabberwocky' and 'eric the viking' really don't count as python films, although some members were involved in them, they didn't include the whole group... monty python only had 4 films.
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Apple didn't innovate iTunes. They bought the SoundJam MP software from Cassidy&Greene and dumbed it down quite a bit. perhaps they've innovated from version 1.0 to 4.x, but the first release was hardly innovative or a new technology...
or are we talking about the iTunes Music Store? I seem to remeber a company called GoodNoise (aka eMusic.com) doing the same thing in 1999. they didnt have the slick interface, or the major label support, (or the DRM) but they were selling digital music...
(note i use and enjoy using the iTunes app and Music Store. but they're hardly innovative. just new versions of old products...)
and there may not be as big a difference between win2000 and win98 as between Mac OS X and OS 9, but it's a lot bigger than the difference between 98 and 95 (or Mac OS 9 and OS 8 for that matter...)
(also note i use Mac OS X and windows 2000 regularly as time goes on i have less and less preference for one over the other)
there are a lot of paranoid users (you know the ones, who install every anti-virus and firewall software they can find, i know a few myself) who are worried about their computers being hacked. of course they are not going to believe microsoft when they say that 'it's not vulnerable until we release a patch for it'. if hackers could only find vulnerabilities after a ptach was released, why would they release patches? obviously, people are actively searching for holes in the system and MS has a responsibilty to fill in these holes, and users have a responsibilty to to download and install the patches, if they want their computers to be secure (or, as secure as they can be, at any rate).
About accents... it occurs to me that some people probably respond poorly to indian accents on the tech-support line for one or more of these three reasons:
1)They are racist. 2)They hear a non-american answer the phone and think that an outsourced employee is less able than a non-outsourced one. 3)They hear a non-american answer the phone and think of the negative economic connotations associated with outsourcing.
4) I can't understand a goddamn word they're saying.
doesnt have anything to do with race or expertise. but if i can't understand what they say, how can they help me?
i have comcast cable internet. (previously AT&T broadband). the only thing that changed from at&t was they discontinued unlimited usenet transfers, and outsourced to giganews. on my comcast connection, i transfer all sorts of files, both uploading and downloading. many many gigabytes per month. running web, ftp, email, kdx, and other servers. downloading all sorts of audio and video, linux and other ISOs. maybe 25-50 GB total up and down? they've never complained to me about it...
in the article, it says they wouldnt tell this person how much they had downloadloaded, and how much was acceptable. so, based on that, how can they expect him to comply?
This reminds me of a story one of my teachers told me. One of the "classic" Norwegian authors were once interviewed about a particular scene in one of his book, and the interviewer spent a lot of time talking about all the symbolism in the scene, and how profound it was, and then went on to ask if he was on the right track, on how the author could have come up with what he did. The answer? He'd written the scene because it sounded good.
i believe that anybody can derive any number of meaning from any 'text'. if somebody reads something, it is sure to trigger something in their mind, something that is unique to them.
i don't know anything about deconstruction. i hardly know anything about anything. but i'm constantly fascinated by articles like this, even if they dont mean anything, because it was poured out of someone else's mind and it offers a glimpse of what's inside there.
i'm awful at expressing myself through words, so i love reading things like this, especially things that talk about abstract concepts, because all of this stuff essentially comes out of nowhere
personally i dropped mine about half a dozen times over the course of it's short life. though what killed it was the firewire port breaking off. the hard drive and battery still functioned fine so i sold it for parts on ebay. i'm gonna buy a new one after they announce whatever it is they're announcing...
a 2 gigabyte iPod for $150 and a 4 GB for $200 would beat the muvo and the nitrus. even a brand new (if you can find one) original model 5 GB iPod goes for less than $200
When you can get me a DVD recorder/MP3 player that fits in my pocket, costs $100, and is super simple to use via iTunes, then sure, I'm all over it.
there was the Compaq PM-1 miniCD mp3 player. (i believe phillips made one that was also a burner). if they could make one of these that read MP3s from a miniDVD, that would be pretty nice. i dont think they could make one for $100 to begin with though...
a *new* iPod for anything less than retail price is hard to come by. check out sites like dealmac.com, ipoding.com, ipodlounge.com. you might find links to places that offer 10% off or something similar.
somebody mentioned the educational discount, if you know somebody who has access to the educational prices, you might save 10-25%. you can usually get refurbished iPods, directly from apple's online store, or from resellers like powermax.com. if you want the absolute cheapest price, you can get a used iPod from that site or ebay or other, but you'll really have to be careful if you go ebay.
i'm also currently looking to get an ipod for a good price. those are all the tips i've come across so far.
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we're using GFI MailEssentials at work, which uses bayesian filtering. all the emails that have a random string of words arent getting through the filter. the ones that are usually contain, e.g. 1 normal sentence, and one link. the problem is, we arent getting the same one over and over, it only comes in once, so it's hard to train the filter to block it.
So how easy is it to print to a shared Mac printer from a Windows machine? Impossible AFAIK.
no, it's as easy as printing to a shared windows printer. i think the only difference is that it will not install the drivers automatically as it does when you connect to a shared windows printer (since it uses different drivers on the mac...). you need to install the drivers manually (if they're not already included with windows) and then you can type in \\computer-name\printer-name
I mean, who the hell has a laser printer connected to a parallel port and wants to share it over a network?
umm... you're kidding right? people do this all the time. maybe no at home as much as in the office (though i do this at home). and printing to shared printers is absurdly easy in windows and mac os x.
this isnt funny, like the pigeon thing. it sounds like it could be completely real, except for maybe the 1 GB per user part... i mean, if google developed a webmail service, it would probably be way better than yahoo, hotmail, etc. how is this an april fool's day joke?
what are the ligitimate uses for a mod chip? backing up your own games, so the original discs don't get damaged. fine. playing , e.g., japanese games on a US console. good. running linux on an x-box. microsoft may not agree with it, but i think that's a valid use.
however, i'm willing to bet that the number of users that are using it to play copied games outweighs any other use. of course there is probably a lot of overlap, people using it for one or more legitimate use, and also playing copied games.
i don't think mod chips should be illegal, when they have legitimate uses. this is the same argument used by proponents of p2p. don't stifle the technology, just because you can use it to play copied games. sometimes people want to try a game before they lay down $50 for it (of course that's what blockbuster is for, but we can ignore that for now...) and sometimes it's easier to download than find someone who has a copy. and again, instead of focusing on the individual users, what about going after the people who are selling or otherwise distributing pirated games. (actually, i remember on one of the playstation undergroud discs that came with my PS1, they had videos of cops showing up at some guy's house and confiscating thousands of copied games...)
anyway, that's what i think.
the same thing happened yesterday on macnn.com, someone left an italic tag open, and the whole page was in italics. i guess it's contagious?
SpeedingTicket.net pays the state 10 to 30 cents for each record that it downloads (the state collects about $1.7 million annually this way), then charges lawyers 50 cents to over $1 to relay the data or perform value-added services, such as printing and mailing letters to prospective clients.
it sounds like the state in question (california was it?) is selling this information
hardware costs money to develop, and then it costs money to manufacture. you need raw materials and some sort of fabrication process to make hardware. software costs money to develop (or, it costs time, if someone is programming open source stuff), and then it costs almost nothing to manufacture/distribute. you copy one program onto a million CDs, for pennies per copy.
and hardware will become almost free, but software will continue to cost hundreds of dollars? am i missing something?
if you use microsoft's public newsgroups, it's usually a lot easier to find an answer than searching technet or the kbase yourself. because usually, someone has already had the same problems, and usually people provide links to the specific article you need to read to fix them. (i find that about 75% of my day-to-day MS problems have already been solved and are easily searchable through groups.google.com)
'jabberwocky' and 'eric the viking' really don't count as python films, although some members were involved in them, they didn't include the whole group... monty python only had 4 films.
oh yeah? you look photoshopped to me...
Apple didn't innovate iTunes. They bought the SoundJam MP software from Cassidy&Greene and dumbed it down quite a bit. perhaps they've innovated from version 1.0 to 4.x, but the first release was hardly innovative or a new technology...
or are we talking about the iTunes Music Store? I seem to remeber a company called GoodNoise (aka eMusic.com) doing the same thing in 1999. they didnt have the slick interface, or the major label support, (or the DRM) but they were selling digital music...
(note i use and enjoy using the iTunes app and Music Store. but they're hardly innovative. just new versions of old products...)
and there may not be as big a difference between win2000 and win98 as between Mac OS X and OS 9, but it's a lot bigger than the difference between 98 and 95 (or Mac OS 9 and OS 8 for that matter...)
(also note i use Mac OS X and windows 2000 regularly as time goes on i have less and less preference for one over the other)
it was actually mentioned in the movie that he was over 80...
there are a lot of paranoid users (you know the ones, who install every anti-virus and firewall software they can find, i know a few myself) who are worried about their computers being hacked. of course they are not going to believe microsoft when they say that 'it's not vulnerable until we release a patch for it'. if hackers could only find vulnerabilities after a ptach was released, why would they release patches? obviously, people are actively searching for holes in the system and MS has a responsibilty to fill in these holes, and users have a responsibilty to to download and install the patches, if they want their computers to be secure (or, as secure as they can be, at any rate).
1)They are racist.
2)They hear a non-american answer the phone and think that an outsourced employee is less able than a non-outsourced one.
3)They hear a non-american answer the phone and think of the negative economic connotations associated with outsourcing.
4) I can't understand a goddamn word they're saying.
doesnt have anything to do with race or expertise. but if i can't understand what they say, how can they help me?
umm... i knew exactly wtf i was doing. when there's 3 pages of comments, not many people are gonna read my comment on the last page.
i have comcast cable internet. (previously AT&T broadband). the only thing that changed from at&t was they discontinued unlimited usenet transfers, and outsourced to giganews. on my comcast connection, i transfer all sorts of files, both uploading and downloading. many many gigabytes per month. running web, ftp, email, kdx, and other servers. downloading all sorts of audio and video, linux and other ISOs. maybe 25-50 GB total up and down? they've never complained to me about it...
in the article, it says they wouldnt tell this person how much they had downloadloaded, and how much was acceptable. so, based on that, how can they expect him to comply?
can you use Preview for authoring PDFs? my guess is that he's using acrobat to create them, not just view them?
with quartz extreme in mac os x 10.2 and up, you can set a screensaver as the background, similar to what you're describing. (FYI)
He'd written the scene because it sounded good.
i believe that anybody can derive any number of meaning from any 'text'. if somebody reads something, it is sure to trigger something in their mind, something that is unique to them.
i don't know anything about deconstruction. i hardly know anything about anything. but i'm constantly fascinated by articles like this, even if they dont mean anything, because it was poured out of someone else's mind and it offers a glimpse of what's inside there.
i'm awful at expressing myself through words, so i love reading things like this, especially things that talk about abstract concepts, because all of this stuff essentially comes out of nowhere
aww come on, mod parent funny
personally i dropped mine about half a dozen times over the course of it's short life. though what killed it was the firewire port breaking off. the hard drive and battery still functioned fine so i sold it for parts on ebay. i'm gonna buy a new one after they announce whatever it is they're announcing...
a 2 gigabyte iPod for $150 and a 4 GB for $200 would beat the muvo and the nitrus. even a brand new (if you can find one) original model 5 GB iPod goes for less than $200
there was the Compaq PM-1 miniCD mp3 player. (i believe phillips made one that was also a burner). if they could make one of these that read MP3s from a miniDVD, that would be pretty nice. i dont think they could make one for $100 to begin with though...
but it's fun...
And what's up with clapping during the show
well, you've got one thing right anyway. that's the only thing i didnt like about the movie, the audience.
a *new* iPod for anything less than retail price is hard to come by. check out sites like dealmac.com, ipoding.com, ipodlounge.com. you might find links to places that offer 10% off or something similar.
somebody mentioned the educational discount, if you know somebody who has access to the educational prices, you might save 10-25%. you can usually get refurbished iPods, directly from apple's online store, or from resellers like powermax.com. if you want the absolute cheapest price, you can get a used iPod from that site or ebay or other, but you'll really have to be careful if you go ebay.
i'm also currently looking to get an ipod for a good price. those are all the tips i've come across so far.