Is it possible to have friends that do not need to know everything in my life that will fit in a twit?
Sure it is. It's also possible to have friends who enjoy keeping up with what you're doing, and vice versa, I was in the Navy for 5 years and so I have a few close friends that happened to be scattered around, and not always accessible via phone.
I personally can call, E-Mail and text any person in my circle of friends that I think needs it.
Yes, or you can do ONE status update that all your friends can read and respond to.
Mostly though people do not need 37 updates on my day.
Yes because the only to Twitter is do 37 updates though out the day.
That kind of thing is not really about what my friends need to know about me but more likely my need to announce my life to everyone I know in order to feel important.
Umm... it's most fun read your friends twits rather then you're own, so it's nice to reciprocate.
I suppose if you don't have any friends that like to keep up with what's going on in your life and vice versa.
That's what conversations are for. You know, real physical human interaction. Remember that?
Just so I have this straight, phone conversations are real physical human interactions? Are text messages? And how is reading another's twitter feed, and responding to, different then a phone conversation? Twitter isn't meant to replace physical meetings or hanging out with friends, it's for seeing what people are up without having to directly interfere with what they're currently doing. At least until we master the whole being everywhere at once thing. Then Twitter will become outdated.
Thus far Twitter seems like a totally useless idea to me. No, you are not so important that everyone cares what you are doing when you are going shopping.
I suppose if you don't have any friends that like to keep up with what's going on in your life and vice versa.
Then why do you need a system restore disk to get it installed? Why do they need to run their own update service to patch OSX, if not to protect the changes they've made?
Further, the changes that they made to the Software Update service and the changes they made to the patches themselves might be enough to make it a "derivative work".
The update for Leopard 10.5.4 is available through Leopard's native Software Update utility for users who have run our 10.5.3 scripted installer or whose computers shipped with 10.5.3 Leopard. Just click the Apple on the top-left of the screen and select "Software Update" to run the built-in Software Update application.
Most childrens parents have jobs, many of which are full time, so there will be times when the children are at home alone with a computer. And even if the parents were at home, it'd be impossible for them to stand looking over their kids shoulder at what the kid is doing. You're damn right parents have jobs and I believe watching their kids is one of them!
Webfilters to block websites don't block them all, are usually easily circumvented and kids will pretty much always know more than their parents about this kind of stuff (most parents don't sit reading slashdot and keeping up to date with this stuff). Keep in mind that by "kids" and "children" these article usually mean teenagers, who are generally more aware of how the computers work than the parents. If kids were so computer savvy why does Myspace have so many punch the monkey and get a free iPod ads? Until they're hacking they won't be able to get around most filter/monitoring products.
It's impossible to constantly monitor or limit people's access to the internet these days, at least without limitting access to helpful websites as well as the dangerous ones, and most parents wouldn't know how to do it anyway. Blaming parents for what their children do online is just an easy way out of accepting that there is a hard to solve problem. And blaming parents for their childrens actions when the child is the VICTIM is just spiteful, do you blame parents if the child gets mugged or abused in real life, because the children(teenagers) were allowed outside of the house? Umm if the parent's dropped them off and let them wonder in to a dangerous part of town, then yes, it's their fault!
Or if they weren't allowed out but left anyway without permission, teenagers aren't going to follow rules they don't agree with, and they refuse to follow ones that they do agree with if it's less fun. There have been several times when I've gone wandering around with friends at 3 in the morning, or even spent the night on some friends couch while I was supposedly sound asleep in my bed, I knew that the rules were there for a reason, but I just didn't follow them because it was less fun. Great, you were a bad kid, didn't follow rules, and had pulled the wool over your parent's eyes. You lived, congrats! You and you're parents lucked out, but would have had no one else to blame should something have gone wrong in your plan of not having "less fun"
I know the last comparison was a bit over the top, but teenagers won't just accept a webfilter, they'll find a way around it and try (and usually succeed) not to get caught, just as they would in real life when faced with any form of restrictions, no matter how sensible they are. Yes you know what all teenagers will and won't do, thank you sensi. Care to enlighten us on what the role of parents is in enstilling values and morals in to their offspring oh wise one?
You realize you're essentially saying let's throw out the First Amendment to protect the children? No wonder we live in a Nanny state. And just for a little prospective, I have an eight month year old daughter and I fear the day she won't be able to say what she wants due to erosions on her rights more then cyber bullies.
Your system disincentiveizes (yeah, its not a word, deal with it) women from joining in the first place. By effectively telling women that they will be publicly graded and judged on their reply rate, you remove the ability to "just see". While this was kindof your goal, knowing that they cant "just see" will have a very negative effect on women joining the service in the first place. After all, as a woman, would you join the service that you can just watch passively and see if something great comes up, or would you join the one that makes it your job to reply to everyone or you fail? Having people just lurking on the site is something to be discouraged, not encouraged. And yes, women joining to just to see what comes up is the problem he attempts to fix. It's not your job to reply, if you're hot you'll get too many messages to reply to, if you're not hot you'll get less messages to reply to, it evens out.
- The system fails to address new members. What percentage is shown for women who haven't had anyone meeting their criteria reply yet? If the default is zero noone will message them in the first place. If the default is 100, see the next point. If the default is blank, how many messages do you require before it becomes a percentage (see next point). Trival solutions exist, during the initial week (or other time period) no reply percentage displayed. Or live updating based on how many message have been sent. IE, if over the course of an hour (or other time period) they get bombarded, lower the percent displayed since they've already recieved dozens of messages, and if they don't get much increase the percent to encourage. Or just decrease the percent everytime they recieve a message till they log back in and have a chance to read and response.
- It provides major incentive for women to set artificially high secret criteria in order to boost their percentage. If they require someone who makes 500k a year and who is Jewish but was born in the Vatican, they can effectively expect to maintain a 100% listed response rate while only being "required" to respond to a handful of people a year, and can continue to be spectators on the sideline for everyone else. No because with the secret criteria listed you simply wouldn't be able to message that person unless it's matched. So yes, while those that had hard to match secret criteria would have a high percentage of replies, what's the point if they're not able to messaged by most people.
Are you serious? Watch Blackhawk Down, Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Deer Hunter, The Longest Day, and/or Full Metal Jacket. War is bloody and violent and is what we, as humans, do best.
Interesting response. Do you also have a minimum purchases amount for credit card purchases? Because that would be two violations of your merchant agreement. MSNBC did a story on here.
And well yes it is your buisness and you can run things the way you want you did agree to the merchant agreement to process credit card payments. Further more you don't have to prove to the customer that they did indeed buy something you merely have to show the receipt to Visa/Mastercard. They will eat the cost of the sale. That's what you pay them for with the processing fee.
There is a simple reason for this and it's because Visa and Mastercard allow you to let other people use your card if you give them permission. This way I can have a friend pick up lunch for me or whatever else I've authorized. If they were to buy something else it'd be just like any other fraudulent purchase.
And an aside I hate showing ID, giving phone numbers, ZIP codes or any other personal information and wouldn't buy anything from a store that can't be trusted to follow the instructions they agreed to. What ever happened to the customer is always right?
I'm I the only one who can't wait for their bank to get these RFID cards in for their Check Cards? My magnetic swipe is always wearing out. And it will be so great to not even have to pull my card out of my wallet. Now finally cashiers might stop going against the Visa merchant agreement by asking for my ID. Nothing grinds my gears like being asked for ID when using a credit card especially my Check Card. I mean that was the whole point according to the commericals.
I'm not really worried about people stealing the RFID information either. I don't think many people will be making these for credit card fraud. And if it does get stolen screw I'm not responsible for fraudulent purchases.
Why is having less guns on the street a good thing? Especially less guns owned by law obiding citizens. This would be like saying we need to close down eBay because there are scams happening though it.
The company makes it clear that the system works best on the open road where there are few obstructions, and not in a major city where buildings can block the satellite signal.
I think a dot.xxx,.porn, or equivlant would work best. Most porn sites operating on the internet today seem to usually want people to pay for porn, so it would seem to me that a voluntary list of porn sites would work best. Porn site operators would want to be listed on here because people who aren't likely to pay for access, kids, teens, would be blocked. It'd be like directed advertising. I can't imagine many porn sites want children to have access to porn if they can't pay for it. Sites shouldn't be forced on it or off of it. It'd be a voluntary rating. Seems like a good idea to me anyway.
I understand why a mainframe is used instead of a cluster of PCs or other options. It's because of the volume of data it can process. So my question is what kind of data do they normally process?
I can't imagine many businesses with that kind of volume of data to process, and what does process mean exactly? Does it add like bills to other bills? Does it come up with graphs and stuff?
Where does the data go once its processed; a database on the mainframe for one end right? But where does it get outputted too? When is that data called and by what? Data terminals?
Who sends the requests for the data? What kind of application requires millions of data transactions per second? I could guess a bank maybe, but then it would be at the center of a banking headquarters right? Well how does the data from one banking location travel to the banking headquarter? Is it just a dumb terminal that requests it or a full workstation desktop computer? What kind of application would run on it? A custom built client or is there some kind of standard app?
I'm very curious about the underlying technologies involved here after seeing the huge numbers specifying a mainframe's capabilities. Its cool seeing those big numbers, but what exactly fills them? I realized I asked a lot just now, so if you can point me to a website or book or whatever I'll read it. Thanks to whoever answers me.
This would be like McDonalds threatening to stop purchasing meat from a beef company if said company continues to sell beef to Burger King. If McDonalds had a (NEAR) monopoly on fast food then the beef company would lose a lot of their revenue and be forced to treat Burger King unfairly and thrus McDonalds would be taken to court!
A reverse example would be if the beef company had a NEAR monoply on the beef market and could tell other fast food restruants to no longer purchase beef from other companies knowing that if resturants did not follow their orders that they would not be able to purchase enough meat to fill their demands.
Companies DO NOT behave this way because its illegal! Its illegal because its unfair!
Microsoft is abusing its position and hurting consumers! This MUST be addressed if the technology sector of the economy is to continue to flourish, otherwise Microsoft will have it all under lock down.
"I choose to IGNORE all advertising..."
"...you're going to start seeing a lot more product placement ads (ie:Spiderman & Dr. Pepper (PepsiCo)) and Rosie O'Donald & her Wendy's salad."
I believe we should write our congressmen and senators and ask, nay demand that they create legislation that will create the following basic rules.
Beautiful, just what we need more laws telling me what I can and can't do.
This is just like junkbuster, it alters content once downloaded according to fair use rights.
Once I download something I can alter it however I want for my own personal use, if I want to change the font size I can, if I want to change the background color I can, if I want add some links I can, if I want it insert the word 'fuck' thoughout it I can, and if I want a program to do this for me I can!
This company is actually kind of nice providing an opt-out for websites. Does junkbuster provide opt-outs for websites?
That's because most teenagers in America lead a really nice life and most havn't had a lot of experience to know when something is really bad. So when they're angsty its usually something about nothing. Ohh my boyfriend dumped me, my parents hate me, etc. That's why angsty teenagers are idiots, they think they know everything.
Have you ever heard of levels? Lead is a toxin, in a large doses! Small amounts don't hurt. Think of it spreading out across the entire sky. Directly indisgenting some is a lot different from breathing in a fractional amount!
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Linus is a nice guy and all, and an autobiography is nice, but that's what it is. Methinks Slashdot wouldn't have reacted the same way with Bill Gates' book.
Of course not, we're not using his operating system!
Well that and while Bill Gates made a lot of money of his idea, Linus gave his idea to the world and created a revolution.
windows games rarely need (debug) patches afterwards
Yea... Windows games never need patches, what version is Half-Life up to now? Ohhh 1.1.0.6. Yea, and Tribes 2, not two weeks after release for the Windows version? It goes from 21570 to 22002 thanks to this patch. SDL is a lot faster then Directx and takes away any multi-distro fears. Meanwhile Directx is slow and bloated, OpenGL is a lot faster. Yet its not used as much, why? Because to get that little Windows stamp it has to use Directx.
[Linux (SDL)] API`s are not as straightforward in use as DX is... and they allways work as predicted
Do you program in either? If you programmed in SDL you'd know that it works as promised, which is very well.
But WTF is wrong with the interfaces of KDE or Gnome, they aren't at all hard to use. They both have that Start bar thing and both have the application bar, what's the difference. Konquer is just like Internet Explorer, and KOffice is very similar to Word, what's the problem? Hell you can even load up a theme to make KDE look just like windows. That's not the only one, though there a bunch.
I would imagine that anybody could install Mandrake 7.1 or EasyLinux, with those tutorials that would be a snap for anybody.
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Is it possible to have friends that do not need to know everything in my life that will fit in a twit?
Sure it is. It's also possible to have friends who enjoy keeping up with what you're doing, and vice versa, I was in the Navy for 5 years and so I have a few close friends that happened to be scattered around, and not always accessible via phone.
I personally can call, E-Mail and text any person in my circle of friends that I think needs it.
Yes, or you can do ONE status update that all your friends can read and respond to.
Mostly though people do not need 37 updates on my day.
Yes because the only to Twitter is do 37 updates though out the day.
That kind of thing is not really about what my friends need to know about me but more likely my need to announce my life to everyone I know in order to feel important.
Umm... it's most fun read your friends twits rather then you're own, so it's nice to reciprocate.
I suppose if you don't have any friends that like to keep up with what's going on in your life and vice versa.
That's what conversations are for. You know, real physical human interaction. Remember that?
Just so I have this straight, phone conversations are real physical human interactions? Are text messages? And how is reading another's twitter feed, and responding to, different then a phone conversation? Twitter isn't meant to replace physical meetings or hanging out with friends, it's for seeing what people are up without having to directly interfere with what they're currently doing. At least until we master the whole being everywhere at once thing. Then Twitter will become outdated.
Thus far Twitter seems like a totally useless idea to me. No, you are not so important that everyone cares what you are doing when you are going shopping.
I suppose if you don't have any friends that like to keep up with what's going on in your life and vice versa.
Let me get this straight, you think it's a copyright violation to change a config file to point to a different source?
Then why do you need a system restore disk to get it installed? Why do they need to run their own update service to patch OSX, if not to protect the changes they've made?
Further, the changes that they made to the Software Update service and the changes they made to the patches themselves might be enough to make it a "derivative work".
Not true! From Pystar's homepage:
The update for Leopard 10.5.4 is available through Leopard's native Software Update utility for users who have run our 10.5.3 scripted installer or whose computers shipped with 10.5.3 Leopard. Just click the Apple on the top-left of the screen and select "Software Update" to run the built-in Software Update application.
You mean like selling a copy with an altered kernel to allow it to run on non-Apple hardware?
Yeah, see, even if we accept your interpretation of that legal language, the argument still doesn't work.
Wrong it's the BIOS on the motherboard that's altered so OS X runs without modifications. But nice try there!
You realize you're essentially saying let's throw out the First Amendment to protect the children? No wonder we live in a Nanny state. And just for a little prospective, I have an eight month year old daughter and I fear the day she won't be able to say what she wants due to erosions on her rights more then cyber bullies.
So does this mean Kyle can go to the Raging Pussies' concert?
Are you serious? Watch Blackhawk Down, Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Deer Hunter, The Longest Day, and/or Full Metal Jacket. War is bloody and violent and is what we, as humans, do best.
Interesting response. Do you also have a minimum purchases amount for credit card purchases? Because that would be two violations of your merchant agreement. MSNBC did a story on here.
And well yes it is your buisness and you can run things the way you want you did agree to the merchant agreement to process credit card payments. Further more you don't have to prove to the customer that they did indeed buy something you merely have to show the receipt to Visa/Mastercard. They will eat the cost of the sale. That's what you pay them for with the processing fee.
There is a simple reason for this and it's because Visa and Mastercard allow you to let other people use your card if you give them permission. This way I can have a friend pick up lunch for me or whatever else I've authorized. If they were to buy something else it'd be just like any other fraudulent purchase.
And an aside I hate showing ID, giving phone numbers, ZIP codes or any other personal information and wouldn't buy anything from a store that can't be trusted to follow the instructions they agreed to. What ever happened to the customer is always right?
I'm I the only one who can't wait for their bank to get these RFID cards in for their Check Cards? My magnetic swipe is always wearing out. And it will be so great to not even have to pull my card out of my wallet. Now finally cashiers might stop going against the Visa merchant agreement by asking for my ID. Nothing grinds my gears like being asked for ID when using a credit card especially my Check Card. I mean that was the whole point according to the commericals.
I'm not really worried about people stealing the RFID information either. I don't think many people will be making these for credit card fraud. And if it does get stolen screw I'm not responsible for fraudulent purchases.
Why is having less guns on the street a good thing? Especially less guns owned by law obiding citizens. This would be like saying we need to close down eBay because there are scams happening though it.
No, when the admin user "unlocks" your computer it logs you out and doesn't let him do anything til your logged out.
The company makes it clear that the system works best on the open road where there are few obstructions, and not in a major city where buildings can block the satellite signal.
I think a dot .xxx, .porn, or equivlant would work best. Most porn sites operating on the internet today seem to usually want people to pay for porn, so it would seem to me that a voluntary list of porn sites would work best. Porn site operators would want to be listed on here because people who aren't likely to pay for access, kids, teens, would be blocked. It'd be like directed advertising. I can't imagine many porn sites want children to have access to porn if they can't pay for it. Sites shouldn't be forced on it or off of it. It'd be a voluntary rating. Seems like a good idea to me anyway.
I understand why a mainframe is used instead of a cluster of PCs or other options. It's because of the volume of data it can process. So my question is what kind of data do they normally process?
I can't imagine many businesses with that kind of volume of data to process, and what does process mean exactly? Does it add like bills to other bills? Does it come up with graphs and stuff?
Where does the data go once its processed; a database on the mainframe for one end right? But where does it get outputted too? When is that data called and by what? Data terminals?
Who sends the requests for the data? What kind of application requires millions of data transactions per second? I could guess a bank maybe, but then it would be at the center of a banking headquarters right? Well how does the data from one banking location travel to the banking headquarter? Is it just a dumb terminal that requests it or a full workstation desktop computer? What kind of application would run on it? A custom built client or is there some kind of standard app?
I'm very curious about the underlying technologies involved here after seeing the huge numbers specifying a mainframe's capabilities. Its cool seeing those big numbers, but what exactly fills them? I realized I asked a lot just now, so if you can point me to a website or book or whatever I'll read it. Thanks to whoever answers me.
This would be like McDonalds threatening to stop purchasing meat from a beef company if said company continues to sell beef to Burger King. If McDonalds had a (NEAR) monopoly on fast food then the beef company would lose a lot of their revenue and be forced to treat Burger King unfairly and thrus McDonalds would be taken to court!
A reverse example would be if the beef company had a NEAR monoply on the beef market and could tell other fast food restruants to no longer purchase beef from other companies knowing that if resturants did not follow their orders that they would not be able to purchase enough meat to fill their demands.
Companies DO NOT behave this way because its illegal! Its illegal because its unfair!
Microsoft is abusing its position and hurting consumers! This MUST be addressed if the technology sector of the economy is to continue to flourish, otherwise Microsoft will have it all under lock down.
"I choose to IGNORE all advertising..."
"...you're going to start seeing a lot more product placement ads (ie:Spiderman & Dr. Pepper (PepsiCo)) and Rosie O'Donald & her Wendy's salad."
Keep up the good work!
I believe we should write our congressmen and senators and ask, nay demand that they create legislation that will create the following basic rules.
Beautiful, just what we need more laws telling me what I can and can't do.
This is just like junkbuster, it alters content once downloaded according to fair use rights.
Once I download something I can alter it however I want for my own personal use, if I want to change the font size I can, if I want to change the background color I can, if I want add some links I can, if I want it insert the word 'fuck' thoughout it I can, and if I want a program to do this for me I can!
This company is actually kind of nice providing an opt-out for websites. Does junkbuster provide opt-outs for websites?
That's because most teenagers in America lead a really nice life and most havn't had a lot of experience to know when something is really bad. So when they're angsty its usually something about nothing. Ohh my boyfriend dumped me, my parents hate me, etc. That's why angsty teenagers are idiots, they think they know everything.
Have you ever heard of levels? Lead is a toxin, in a large doses! Small amounts don't hurt. Think of it spreading out across the entire sky. Directly indisgenting some is a lot different from breathing in a fractional amount!
Linus is a nice guy and all, and an autobiography is nice, but that's what it is. Methinks Slashdot wouldn't have reacted the same way with Bill Gates' book.
Of course not, we're not using his operating system!
Well that and while Bill Gates made a lot of money of his idea, Linus gave his idea to the world and created a revolution.
windows games rarely need (debug) patches afterwards
... and they allways work as predicted
Yea... Windows games never need patches, what version is Half-Life up to now? Ohhh 1.1.0.6. Yea, and Tribes 2, not two weeks after release for the Windows version? It goes from 21570 to 22002 thanks to this patch. SDL is a lot faster then Directx and takes away any multi-distro fears. Meanwhile Directx is slow and bloated, OpenGL is a lot faster. Yet its not used as much, why? Because to get that little Windows stamp it has to use Directx.
[Linux (SDL)] API`s are not as straightforward in use as DX is
Do you program in either? If you programmed in SDL you'd know that it works as promised, which is very well.
But WTF is wrong with the interfaces of KDE or Gnome, they aren't at all hard to use. They both have that Start bar thing and both have the application bar, what's the difference. Konquer is just like Internet Explorer, and KOffice is very similar to Word, what's the problem? Hell you can even load up a theme to make KDE look just like windows. That's not the only one, though there a bunch.
I would imagine that anybody could install Mandrake 7.1 or EasyLinux, with those tutorials that would be a snap for anybody.