Whats really going to rock in SP1 for XP is the new Mira technology stuff. If you dont know what that is - I suggest you cruise on over to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/mira_preview. asp and take a long hard look at some of the cool shit MS is doing.
OT, but here we go:
I frankly don't see the big deal about Mira's technology. It's really not much different from having a laptop with a 802.11 card in it; if you need to mirror your desktop's screen, open a VNC session, etc. A little lighter and fewer moving parts, but certainly not much cheaper; 15" Mira displays will be over $1000! Plus they are way too heavy to be user friendly right now.
It is certainly not technology I want either. I don't want to lug out a screen to show off pictures like a frame, which is how they envision these devices being used. And honestly, I'm tired of wireless devices; the more wireless devices you have, the harder it is to get away from them. How long before your office makes you carry a Mira screen with you at all times?? I don't want or need to answer emails in my kitchen, and I sure as hell don't want to bring Microsoft onto my computer, let alone into my living room.
Great. And then most of the bands you love you would never have even heard of.
Apparently you're under the assumption that all of us need the labels to hear about new music we are interested in!
For me personally, not a single band that I listen to gets radio play around here (or in general!), and yet they have quite a fanbase, and several CDs. I find out about bands by going to concerts/shows and by borrowing CDs from friends. Labels are totally unnecessary in this equation; at least one quarter of the bands I listen to are self-produced and unsigned anyway.
I really hope that one day we will see the figure for "Box Office" in terms of HOW MANY PEOPLE PURCHASING THE TICKETS, instead of HOW MUCH $$$$.
Kindly turn off your caps lock, then point your browser at http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted/. It shows the adjusted all-time figures for ticket sales vs. prices at that time.
I bet there was no one amongst this crowd who ever thought Spider-Man would out perform -ANY- episode of Star Wars at the box office. Ever.
Actually, I saw it coming, and I couldn't be happier!! A friend of mine didn't believe me when I said that Spidey would beat Episode II, and so we placed a nice $50 bet on it.
I just called him up, and he answered the phone with "Fine, you fucker, you win!". I guess he just loaded slashdot too!;)
The Librarian of Congress can do three things. He could approve the decision, which nobody seems to like.
You know, I'm glad someone said it...
The best thing the Librarian of Congress could do would be to reject the proprosal, and then deal with the inevitable appeals in Federal Court from the RIAA. Let's all keep our fingers crossed. (when they aren't busy dialing our Congressmen!)
I agree. We tested the Netscape/Mozilla vulnerability and it work on Linux systems also. I submitted the link to Slashdot and the story was REJECTED.
(Guess how this post will be mod'd;-)
It will most likely be modded down, and probably for good reason. Your submission was rejected because Slashdot covered the hole in NS/Mozilla in this Slashback.
Just because your submission was rejected does not mean the story didn't make it on the site.
Please, if you are going to post something negative, at least get your facts straight first. Also, FYI, the Mozilla vulnerability was fixed within 24 hours, and does not affect 1.0RC2+.
If every musicians in the world went broke from napster, I would still think it was great.
Can you name me one musician who ever went broke from Napster??
The fact of the matter is that the only people in the music business that napster hurt were the middlemen. Not the artists themselves, but the middlemen who take all the money for the artists respective work.
Under the current system, almost all artists make their money from concerts, not from CD sales. Therefore, even if people downloaded music without paying for the CD, it really didn't hurt the artist all that much. Instead, it offered free advertising for how good that artist's music was.
I can distinctly remember going to see a band that I liked before Napster really started getting popular. I saw them at a club, and no more than 200 people were there. A friend of mine put their stuff up on Napster (yes, this was illegal). 3 months later, they were playing a larger venue, and the show was sold out. Over 900 people were in attendance. Personally, I think a lot of this was due to Napster. People who had never heard of them could now listen to all their music.
Honestly, what's better for the artist? 200 people buying their CDs at $15 a pop, of which they might see $.50 to $1 per disc, or 900 people paying $20 a pop to see them play live??
Say, aren't we supposed to boycott Sony for screwing up our iMacs?
I guess you didn't get the new revised itinerary...sorry!!
Anyway, the new schedule is: Monday: Boycott Sony/MPAA Tuesday: Relax, check out new tech products and video games. Wednesday: Boycott RIAA, Call congresscritters over latest atrocious bill. Thursday: Relax, check out the latest CDs coming on the market. Friday: Boycott the MPAA in the daytime, go see a movie at night. Saturday & Sunday: Pretend we have lives outside of work and don't post on Slashdot.
You're describing a Photon Light. You can buy them at ThinkGeek!
I love them. I keep 2 on my keychain at all times. You just never know when you might need one. The last CAT5 drop I was doing, the power went out (I was working in a thunderstorm). Thanks to my Photon Light, I was able to finish the drop with no problem at all. 2 White LEDs and I had more than enough light to keep working for over an hour straight.
All this means for me, and probably most of the people here on/., is more Spam. I already get a ton for.BIZ,.INFO, etc., now I'll be getting.PRO spam too. Great.
If Microsoft had done their past few weeks of security audits properly then there is no way that this vulnerability would remain unpatched.
More importantly, if Microsoft had done their job properly in the first place, Outlook would have never been released with so many gaping security holes.
Seriously, there is no excuse for releasing a product that auto-executes code/macros in email upon retrieval, EVER.
From the Softfield website: We accept PayPal and Money Order payments for all our products, parts and services. Please contact vr3@softfield.com with the items you wish to purchase.
Does that seem very shady to anyone else? Maybe I'm just overly paranoid, but whenever a company only accepts money orders and/or paypal, it makes me a little wary. Plus there is not one mention of an "ST VR3" on their site, just a picture of a VR3 "H2O" model.
Personally, I think I'll pass and see if anyone else is brave enough to order and actually gets their PDA. Something about the combination of Paypal and the low low price tag make me cautious.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants an Agenda VR3 and wants to be assured that they will receive it, Agenda Germany is still taking orders! Check out their site here (http://www.agendacomputing.de)
Like I said in one of my previous posts on the subject (that I cannot find now for the life of me!), the company that I work for is already very wary of it's data and the "toys" people bring into the office. And now thanks to those keychain-sized USB drives, every guest has his keychain checked before he enters, and has to empty his pockets. Of course, you could still sneak one in, anything is possible as we aren't going to be implementing strip searches anytime soon.;)
In the mean time, we keep all the sensitive data as locked down as possible, and hope for the best. I suppose in the end it is just part of human nature; even the most honest, trustworthy of people will steal from you if given the right motivation. Caring managers and a good working environment go a long way to prevent theft (and general unhappiness/turnover!), perhaps even moreso than good security personnel.
Since it is already slashdotted, here is the main page. I managed to grab one overhead of the church, you can see it here
"This project is dedicated to my cat, Precious, who passed away January 8, 2002, the same day construction was completed. May this church, of such amusement to My Little Chirper, express some of the joy she brought me.
"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you"
Philippians 1:3
About this project
I got back into LEGO building after a twenty-year "dark ages" as a means of dealing with grief after my first cat, Murray, passed away in June, 2000. I also adopted Precious, my third cat, at that time. She loved to be amidst my building from the start. She didn't disturb partially assembled LEGO objects, or even piles of bricks, so I only had to concern myself with cleaning up loose pieces when I was done working, and I could leave her to play around my assembled work without too much fear of damage.
My first project was to be a large house, about 4 feet by 2 feet in size. I drew floor plans, and then built much of the front wall as a test of concept. Then I set about creating a pattern for the floor that was to become the living room. I quickly came up with a double row of crosses that reminded me of the center aisle of a church, and building a church suddenly seemed like a more interesting project.
And so the Abston Church of Christ was conceived as my first LEGO project in twenty years. As the picture above shows, Precious continued to enjoy my building, and as you'll see in the Cats in Church pictures, she and her sister, Anya, made this project quite a lot of fun. Read about it in the construction log.
As chance would have it, I only had a few hours of work to complete after Precious passed away, so in her honor I wrapped it up that same day. I didn't have a chance to do some small revisions or to build a piano for the church because I wanted to leave it as it was on that day.
I hope you enjoy this church, because that's how I get to share the memory of My Little Chirper with you. I like to think of this as Precious's Church. "
Honestly, this is an amazing project, but the site gives me the creeps for some reason.
Titanium is also excellent in body piercing.
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Titanium has seen more and more use over the past decade in body piercing as well. While it is just as strong as 316LVM (Implant Grade) Steel, it does not contain nickel either. People who have numerous and/or severe nickel allergies can be safely pierced thanks largely in part to Titanium (and Niobium as well).
The lighter weight of titanium is another highly-touted feature of the metal in body piercing. Once the piercing goes past a certain point in terms of size, called gauges, weight can become extremely prohibitive for successful healing. Titanium solves a lot of those problems, and allows people to easily start piercings at sizes like 2 gauge (1/4") without having the weight be problematic. I know several men and women who both swear by titanium in their bodies, and will never go back to another metal.
I know you are trolling, but I'll bite. If you reread my post, I never said anything about the music I listen to being more indie or in any way better than other music, nor was I implying it. My point was only that one of the main, often-cited reasons why people go online to try to find music is that they simply cannot find music they like elsewhere!
Radio in the US is very limited & homogenized, thanks to large corporations being very controlling with the playlists that they send out to their hundreds of stations. So where is the diversity? Online, that's where! The RIAA created that situation themselves by not promoting smaller acts, using payola situations to ensure that certain bands get played around-the-clock on stations all across the country, etc. If the RIAA would diversify the types of music that they actively promote, maybe so many people wouldn't feel the need to go searching online.
"If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading... but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it," said Hilary Rosen
<sarcasm>Yes, because all CD burners are sold to make discs full of illegally downloaded music!</sarcasm>
Maybe if the RIAA would price their CDs more reasonably, actually give money to their artists, and stop the overwhelming and unnecessary homogenization of the music which they promote to (read: push on) the public, people wouldn't be so inclined to download music.
These boxes were selling for just over $1500.00, and now they are down to $600? Is this decrease due to getting cheaper bulk goods, or is this an unofficial liquidation??
Even at $600, it's a little pricey, but it definitely looks a lot better than throwing a PC in your entertainment center. I honestly might buy one of these now for a music server with screen overlay project I've been cooking up.
you cannot print many messages without first double-clicking them and opening them up in their own windows, and printing from these.
FYI (and I just double-checked this on.99), you can right-click inside the message and choose print to print the email. Not a perfect solution, but it is much more workable than opening every single email in its own window.
Other than that, I honestly have not had too many problems with Mozilla Mail. Starting with.98, most of the major problems I was having ceased, and.99 fixed the ones that were bugging me in.98.
You're right, it does have a long way to go, but the entire suite of apps is moving along very nicely, and I'll keep using it for as long as they keep releasing it.
Point out the fact that if American made computers need this stuff, that lots of people will start importing from Canada.
The DMCA makes that activity illegal. Customs would seize foreign shipments in the name of the DMCA, as they are already doing with some things (see the/. article on the Nintendo GBA Rom Drives).
Slashdot Mirror
Whats really going to rock in SP1 for XP is the new Mira technology stuff. If you dont know what that is - I suggest you cruise on over to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/mira_preview. asp and take a long hard look at some of the cool shit MS is doing.
OT, but here we go:
I frankly don't see the big deal about Mira's technology. It's really not much different from having a laptop with a 802.11 card in it; if you need to mirror your desktop's screen, open a VNC session, etc. A little lighter and fewer moving parts, but certainly not much cheaper; 15" Mira displays will be over $1000! Plus they are way too heavy to be user friendly right now.
It is certainly not technology I want either. I don't want to lug out a screen to show off pictures like a frame, which is how they envision these devices being used. And honestly, I'm tired of wireless devices; the more wireless devices you have, the harder it is to get away from them. How long before your office makes you carry a Mira screen with you at all times?? I don't want or need to answer emails in my kitchen, and I sure as hell don't want to bring Microsoft onto my computer, let alone into my living room.
Great. And then most of the bands you love you would never have even heard of.
Apparently you're under the assumption that all of us need the labels to hear about new music we are interested in!
For me personally, not a single band that I listen to gets radio play around here (or in general!), and yet they have quite a fanbase, and several CDs. I find out about bands by going to concerts/shows and by borrowing CDs from friends. Labels are totally unnecessary in this equation; at least one quarter of the bands I listen to are self-produced and unsigned anyway.
I really hope that one day we will see the figure for "Box Office" in terms of HOW MANY PEOPLE PURCHASING THE TICKETS, instead of HOW MUCH $$$$.
Kindly turn off your caps lock, then point your browser at http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted/. It shows the adjusted all-time figures for ticket sales vs. prices at that time.
I bet there was no one amongst this crowd who ever thought Spider-Man would out perform -ANY- episode of Star Wars at the box office. Ever.
;)
Actually, I saw it coming, and I couldn't be happier!! A friend of mine didn't believe me when I said that Spidey would beat Episode II, and so we placed a nice $50 bet on it.
I just called him up, and he answered the phone with "Fine, you fucker, you win!". I guess he just loaded slashdot too!
The Librarian of Congress can do three things. He could approve the decision, which nobody seems to like.
You know, I'm glad someone said it...
The best thing the Librarian of Congress could do would be to reject the proprosal, and then deal with the inevitable appeals in Federal Court from the RIAA. Let's all keep our fingers crossed. (when they aren't busy dialing our Congressmen!)
I agree. We tested the Netscape/Mozilla vulnerability and it work on Linux systems also. I submitted the link to Slashdot and the story was REJECTED.
;-)
(Guess how this post will be mod'd
It will most likely be modded down, and probably for good reason. Your submission was rejected because Slashdot covered the hole in NS/Mozilla in this Slashback.
Just because your submission was rejected does not mean the story didn't make it on the site.
Please, if you are going to post something negative, at least get your facts straight first. Also, FYI, the Mozilla vulnerability was fixed within 24 hours, and does not affect 1.0RC2+.
If every musicians in the world went broke from napster, I would still think it was great.
Can you name me one musician who ever went broke from Napster??
The fact of the matter is that the only people in the music business that napster hurt were the middlemen. Not the artists themselves, but the middlemen who take all the money for the artists respective work.
Under the current system, almost all artists make their money from concerts, not from CD sales. Therefore, even if people downloaded music without paying for the CD, it really didn't hurt the artist all that much. Instead, it offered free advertising for how good that artist's music was.
I can distinctly remember going to see a band that I liked before Napster really started getting popular. I saw them at a club, and no more than 200 people were there. A friend of mine put their stuff up on Napster (yes, this was illegal). 3 months later, they were playing a larger venue, and the show was sold out. Over 900 people were in attendance. Personally, I think a lot of this was due to Napster. People who had never heard of them could now listen to all their music.
Honestly, what's better for the artist? 200 people buying their CDs at $15 a pop, of which they might see $.50 to $1 per disc, or 900 people paying $20 a pop to see them play live??
Verisign Plays Dirty!
If you have a domain with them, look into moving it elsewhere, these people do not deserve our business.
Any recommendations?
;)
For you, I have one word: stripes! Preferrably fat, double-yellow ones.
Seriously, they make everything go fast!! Your drive will be screaming.
Say, aren't we supposed to boycott Sony for screwing up our iMacs?
;)
I guess you didn't get the new revised itinerary...sorry!!
Anyway, the new schedule is:
Monday: Boycott Sony/MPAA
Tuesday: Relax, check out new tech products and video games.
Wednesday: Boycott RIAA, Call congresscritters over latest atrocious bill.
Thursday: Relax, check out the latest CDs coming on the market.
Friday: Boycott the MPAA in the daytime, go see a movie at night.
Saturday & Sunday: Pretend we have lives outside of work and don't post on Slashdot.
You're describing a Photon Light. You can buy them at ThinkGeek!
I love them. I keep 2 on my keychain at all times. You just never know when you might need one. The last CAT5 drop I was doing, the power went out (I was working in a thunderstorm). Thanks to my Photon Light, I was able to finish the drop with no problem at all. 2 White LEDs and I had more than enough light to keep working for over an hour straight.
All this means for me, and probably most of the people here on /., is more Spam. I already get a ton for .BIZ, .INFO, etc., now I'll be getting .PRO spam too. Great.
If Microsoft had done their past few weeks of security audits properly then there is no way that this vulnerability would remain unpatched.
More importantly, if Microsoft had done their job properly in the first place, Outlook would have never been released with so many gaping security holes.
Seriously, there is no excuse for releasing a product that auto-executes code/macros in email upon retrieval, EVER.
From the Softfield website:
We accept PayPal and Money Order payments for all our products, parts and services. Please contact vr3@softfield.com with the items you wish to purchase.
Does that seem very shady to anyone else? Maybe I'm just overly paranoid, but whenever a company only accepts money orders and/or paypal, it makes me a little wary. Plus there is not one mention of an "ST VR3" on their site, just a picture of a VR3 "H2O" model.
Personally, I think I'll pass and see if anyone else is brave enough to order and actually gets their PDA. Something about the combination of Paypal and the low low price tag make me cautious.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants an Agenda VR3 and wants to be assured that they will receive it, Agenda Germany is still taking orders! Check out their site here (http://www.agendacomputing.de)
Like I said in one of my previous posts on the subject (that I cannot find now for the life of me!), the company that I work for is already very wary of it's data and the "toys" people bring into the office. And now thanks to those keychain-sized USB drives, every guest has his keychain checked before he enters, and has to empty his pockets. Of course, you could still sneak one in, anything is possible as we aren't going to be implementing strip searches anytime soon. ;)
In the mean time, we keep all the sensitive data as locked down as possible, and hope for the best. I suppose in the end it is just part of human nature; even the most honest, trustworthy of people will steal from you if given the right motivation. Caring managers and a good working environment go a long way to prevent theft (and general unhappiness/turnover!), perhaps even moreso than good security personnel.
You can read the complaints that the lawyers for the church of scientology made to Google here:
1) Complaint #2 -- April 9
2) Complaint #3 -- April 10
And more importantly, go Google for publicizing the links! Yet another reason why Google is the best search engine around.
I mirrored a few, here you go (be gentle!):
:P
1) Overhead of the Church
2) The Altar
3) Lego Priest giving a sermon
4) Lego Organ Pipes
5) Her cat, Precious, inside the church (you'd think laying on legos would be uncomfortable!)
Should I be amazed or afraid?!
Since it is already slashdotted, here is the main page. I managed to grab one overhead of the church, you can see it here
"This project is dedicated to my cat, Precious, who passed away January 8, 2002, the same day construction was completed. May this church, of such amusement to My Little Chirper, express some of the joy she brought me.
"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you" Philippians 1:3
About this project
I got back into LEGO building after a twenty-year "dark ages" as a means of dealing with grief after my first cat, Murray, passed away in June, 2000. I also adopted Precious, my third cat, at that time. She loved to be amidst my building from the start. She didn't disturb partially assembled LEGO objects, or even piles of bricks, so I only had to concern myself with cleaning up loose pieces when I was done working, and I could leave her to play around my assembled work without too much fear of damage.
My first project was to be a large house, about 4 feet by 2 feet in size. I drew floor plans, and then built much of the front wall as a test of concept. Then I set about creating a pattern for the floor that was to become the living room. I quickly came up with a double row of crosses that reminded me of the center aisle of a church, and building a church suddenly seemed like a more interesting project.
And so the Abston Church of Christ was conceived as my first LEGO project in twenty years. As the picture above shows, Precious continued to enjoy my building, and as you'll see in the Cats in Church pictures, she and her sister, Anya, made this project quite a lot of fun. Read about it in the construction log.
As chance would have it, I only had a few hours of work to complete after Precious passed away, so in her honor I wrapped it up that same day. I didn't have a chance to do some small revisions or to build a piano for the church because I wanted to leave it as it was on that day.
I hope you enjoy this church, because that's how I get to share the memory of My Little Chirper with you. I like to think of this as Precious's Church. "
Honestly, this is an amazing project, but the site gives me the creeps for some reason.
Titanium has seen more and more use over the past decade in body piercing as well. While it is just as strong as 316LVM (Implant Grade) Steel, it does not contain nickel either. People who have numerous and/or severe nickel allergies can be safely pierced thanks largely in part to Titanium (and Niobium as well).
The lighter weight of titanium is another highly-touted feature of the metal in body piercing. Once the piercing goes past a certain point in terms of size, called gauges, weight can become extremely prohibitive for successful healing. Titanium solves a lot of those problems, and allows people to easily start piercings at sizes like 2 gauge (1/4") without having the weight be problematic. I know several men and women who both swear by titanium in their bodies, and will never go back to another metal.
I know you are trolling, but I'll bite. If you reread my post, I never said anything about the music I listen to being more indie or in any way better than other music, nor was I implying it. My point was only that one of the main, often-cited reasons why people go online to try to find music is that they simply cannot find music they like elsewhere!
Radio in the US is very limited & homogenized, thanks to large corporations being very controlling with the playlists that they send out to their hundreds of stations. So where is the diversity? Online, that's where! The RIAA created that situation themselves by not promoting smaller acts, using payola situations to ensure that certain bands get played around-the-clock on stations all across the country, etc. If the RIAA would diversify the types of music that they actively promote, maybe so many people wouldn't feel the need to go searching online.
"If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading ... but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it," said Hilary Rosen
<sarcasm>Yes, because all CD burners are sold to make discs full of illegally downloaded music!</sarcasm>
Maybe if the RIAA would price their CDs more reasonably, actually give money to their artists, and stop the overwhelming and unnecessary homogenization of the music which they promote to (read: push on) the public, people wouldn't be so inclined to download music.
These boxes were selling for just over $1500.00, and now they are down to $600? Is this decrease due to getting cheaper bulk goods, or is this an unofficial liquidation??
Even at $600, it's a little pricey, but it definitely looks a lot better than throwing a PC in your entertainment center. I honestly might buy one of these now for a music server with screen overlay project I've been cooking up.
you cannot print many messages without first double-clicking them and opening them up in their own windows, and printing from these.
.99), you can right-click inside the message and choose print to print the email. Not a perfect solution, but it is much more workable than opening every single email in its own window.
.98, most of the major problems I was having ceased, and .99 fixed the ones that were bugging me in .98.
FYI (and I just double-checked this on
Other than that, I honestly have not had too many problems with Mozilla Mail. Starting with
You're right, it does have a long way to go, but the entire suite of apps is moving along very nicely, and I'll keep using it for as long as they keep releasing it.
Point out the fact that if American made computers need this stuff, that lots of people will start importing from Canada.
/. article on the Nintendo GBA Rom Drives).
The DMCA makes that activity illegal. Customs would seize foreign shipments in the name of the DMCA, as they are already doing with some things (see the
Whoops, that should be WELL summed up. Oops :)