ROFLMAO - Has Microsoft engineered a backdoor into all *nix machines, then? Assuming that all the stories about MS's backdoors really are true, assuming that the stories about the NSA's backdoors are true - that doesn't address breaking into a *nix machine. Yeah, I'm sure that either MS or NSA could get into my machine, if they really wanted to. *nix is secure, but I may or may not have configured the thing perfectly. Maybe they can get in. They have the resources to hire good crackers, if they want to. But, it will cost them.
It would make more sense for them to send a couple of cops out to my house with warrants to confiscate my machines. If that happened, THEN it would become a game of "who is more clever". Is my stuff really hidden, or can they get to it? You can damn sure bet that I'm not going to just GIVE it all to them.;-)
"people only pay for MS licensing if it makes business sense"
*cough* And, investors only invest where their money will grow - it only makes business sense. *cough*
Perhaps you have noticed something they are calling an "economic meltdown"? All those kids we sent to college to learn how to run things aren't all that smart after all, are they?
Allow me to assert quite plainly here - IT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL. If all of my neighbors agree that the earth is flat, the earth doesn't become flat because of their belief. Paying tens of thousands of dollars for licenses to use some software in accordance with MS (or anyone else's) wishes makes no cents at all. Idiocy, no matter how many degrees on holds.
Grandparent is clueless? I don't think so. PEOPLE pay for Enterprise. All those costs are passed on to consumers. ALL of them. Those corporations that don't market to consumers pass THEIR costs on to other businesses and/or governments, who in turn, pass those very same costs on to consumers/taxpayers.
So - who is clueless here? It costs ME, and it costs YOU when the idiot managers around the globe to decide that one stupid workstation is worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Sorry, it is certainly unreasonable if 3rd parties have access to my data. Suppose that all in one afternoon, I do Grandma's tax return, do a medicare application for Aunt Helga, make a resume for my son, etc, etc, etc, you're saying that ALL of that data should be accessible by unknown 3rd parties? Every application hosted in the web should supply my data to anyone, and everyone, around the globe?
Totally unreasonable.
This is why I am not entirely thrilled about the web. Notice, I'm not just picking on Microsoft here - the same applies to Google and any other company that might supply applications in the future.
"allow a developer of an App to determine what information from a user's profile they actually need"
This sidesteps the issue under discussion. The issue is, some developers might be data mining, and some people don't desire all their data to be mined. Whether or not I am developing a legitimate app or not, I can claim to need personal data, right down to the size of a member's panties and bra. Or, maybe my app is just a front for a personnel screening service. While I claim to be developing the app, I'm mailing information to General Electric about every person who has applied for a position there. Or, more sinister, I live in Iran, and I'm mining accounts for details on protestors. As I find them, they are put on a list for the morality police to visit, and re-educate.
Developers don't need diddly squat. They can create their app, and put it up for use and/or sale. If it's any good, people will use/buy it. If it's no good, they can start over, or get out of the development business. They don't even need to know if I'm male or female, old or young, rich or poor.
I'm not sure that privacy laws were written to protect the ignorant, so much as to protect the more savvy individual.
The guy who runs around bragging that he makes $200,000 a year deserves the parasites who hover around him. They KNOW he has money, because he told everyone. The guy who makes $80,000, and keeps it secret, can legitimately tell hopeful parasites to screw off, his money is none of their business.
Want to get more "personal"? The person who posts, "I'm a nubile teenage female, and I WANT TO GET LAID!" will have earned a lot of attention, and that is just what she will get. When she posts her real name, address, telephone number, etc - she can expect suitors, stalkers, worshipers - the entire range of people with varying responses to her announcement. Protect her? Why? She is getting what she wants.
Privacy laws are meant to protect those of us who wish to BE private, in my opinion.
While a lot of good points are made in this discussion, the central point is mostly missed. Reading headlines in the past few days, I've seen that manufacturing is down, sales are down, homes are being repossessed, people are out of work, hell, I am out of work. I've been working reduced hours since the new year, they finally laid be off 3 weeks ago, and no one knows when things are going back to normal. The wife has been working reduced hours since last thanksgiving. Money is tight, in my house, and in every house that I know of.
I'm quite certain that a lot of slashdotters have pretty secure jobs, and they can continue to purchase such trivial things as games. But, the economy really does suck.
There will be an article coming out in a few months, revisiting this same subject, but it will be "Game sales are down for the second half of 2009". Many of these same posts will be made, "Well, they haven't RELEASED anything in the last half year that's worth PLAYING!" But, a more people are going to put two and two together to make at least one (probably correct) conclusion: "The gaming industry has also been hit by the recession, they've had layoffs, fewer people are investing money in gaming, overpaid executives have been let go - people don't have the time or money to waste on gaming."
Those of you who haven't felt the recession in your wallet yet just MIGHT consider investing money in the economy, rather than wasting your money on some new game. Of course, it's your money - do with it as you please. But, when YOUR job is outsourced to China or India, you may wish that you had spent more wisely.
My two cents, anyway.
Me? I'm not dangling at the bottom of the food chain, yet. But, I seem to be slipping downward right along with most of America.
So - who got brave, and installed FF 3.6? Am I that brave, or am I not? Hmmmm........
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If you need build instructions, and you don't know how to search for them, then you shouldn't be building anything, stupid. Just download the binary and RUN IT. If you can't do that, then your Mama is probably gonna spank you for messing with her computer anyway. Walk away from the machine NOW, before you are caught.
"I would argue that our society would be a better place if we had maintained the same zeal for space exploration"
Agreed, wholeheartedly!!
"you seem to be falsely assuming that correlation implies causation, space exploration would certainly not have continued the Cold War."
I'm not so sure of that. As we have learned in the past few months, America's tremendous wealth was largely a matter of perception. One day, people woke up (en masse, individuals already understood the facts) and realized that houses really aren't worth a zillion dollars, and our economy started collapsing around us.
The important thing is, wealth is a matter of perception. And, so is security. Given enough fear, given enough scientific breakthroughs, given a series of attainable goals - yes, both Russia and the US could be on the moon today, still locked in the Cold War. Not to mention, we could both be looking around, wondering how the hell those Arabs, Chinese, and Indians got up there with us. (We would probably blame it on security and technology leaks through NATO - those Euros are some sneaky people, LMAO)
While you have a good point - the US seems to be oblivious to the fact that another communist nation is actively working against us, economically. Asassin's Mace.
China determined to surpass the United States economically, politically, and militarily some years ago. They aspire to surpass us in the sciences, but they aren't making much headway there, although the US' science and engineering is slippping.
Asymetrical warfare. It's working, if not as quickly as the Chinese might hope.
Besides which, the US abandoned it's capitalistic manufacturing base about 35 years ago. Capitalism has been running on credit for a decade or so, and the credit is being called in now. It isn't terribly clear that capitalism is going to survive in any form that our fathers would recognize.
sarcasm mode Thank God we have entered the information age, where the US can feed itself with technology and electrons!! Hooray for the "service industries"!/sarcasm mode
"When I used vista, I have absolute no problem with it"
Obviously, you ran Vista on a recent high powered machine, with super graphics. Unfortunately, as part of the marketing hype, Vista was sold on new machines that were seriously underpowered, with crumby onboard graphics. So, even on expensive new machines, businesses and consumers found that Vista sucked. Win7, however, rocks along nicely on almost any machine with a CPU over 1 Ghz. You may or may not be able to use the Aero features, but it runs stable, and performance is decent.
I have found that Vista sucked even harder in virtual machines - but Win7 is perfectly happy inside a virtual machine.
I just don't know how else to spell it out. Vista was a terribly expensive mistake, and in today's economy, few people or businesses can afford expensive mistakes.
"Vista isn't horrible. It has some issue that can be solved by turing off some features. "
And yet, so many Microsoft trolls rag continuously on Linux for that sort of thing. The business with DOS prompts and CLI has been pretty much overcome, both in the Windows world and in the Linux world. It is entirely possible to run either one without ever typing a single command. But, still, Linux is ragged on because people need to configure things.
So, for those who bitch and moan about Linux, it seems that Vista was a HUGE step backward. Remember, neither Vista nor Win7 are targeted specifically at the IT community. They are meant for Donny and Bertha Dumbass and their 12 idiot children as well.
Somehow, this hardly seems like news. Windows 7 is a much better planned and engineered system than Vista ever was. Vista was shoved down our throats, while 7 takes into consideration what people need and want. I run 7 on machines that Vista just barfed at, meaning I don't need to spend 600 bucks on hardware to please Microsoft.
Yes, of course Win7 outsells Vista immediately. The humorous news will be coming out in the months ahead, when organizations that adopted Vista, like the US Army, find that they are unable to do things that Win7 users can do. Right now, I have almost no idea what those things might be - but most likely it will be driver related. No one is going to develop for Vista!!
Ships guns already run on electricity. Electro hydraulic, to be precise. USS Richard E. Byrd had auxiliary diesel power. (a grown man can stand inside one of the cylinders) The boilers could be total wrecks from a torpedo or missile hit, but if the ship stayed afloat, that diesel could power EVERYTHING aboard ship except the screws. Some people might be surprised to learn that the primers in the powder cartridges are electric - there's no "firing pin" in a big gun.
In fact, it would be quite an engineering feat to load, traverse, and elevate those guns in half a heartbeat, almost silently, using mechanical means. I don't expect that eliminating the hydraulic portions of the gun mount will make the guns any faster, any quieter, any more reliable, or any more accurate.
Yes, you hear propellers below cavitation speed. Thirty tons of brass doesn't move hundreds of tons of water "quietly". Another sonar operator can hear it from miles away. Standing in after steering, the propellers are quite loud all the time, and very loud any time they make a change in speed. I spent many an hour standing watch in that smelly little room. (and after all that time, I never figured out why it was always so freaking SMELLY!)
So far, I've not seen anyone mention one of the biggest benefits of electric power. Torque. When you flip the switch and/or turn the rheostat, you have power NOW! Gas and diesel are quite slow to build up torque, even in the turbine engines that the Navy uses. Boilers are somewhat better - depending on whether you've already built up a head of steam or not. If not, you're still dependent on turbines spinning up to bring oxygen to the fire. With electrons, there is no perceptible delay.
The result? Sonar hears a torpedo coming in, the port screw is put into full reverse, starboard screw is full forward, and the ship spins (not turns, but spins in place) in about a minute, instead of 4, 5, or 6 minutes.
Alright, today's enemies aren't likely to have torpedos, but the maneuverability can be just as valuable in many other situations - including entering and leaving port when some idiot on a ski boat ignores the rules of the road.
Municipal water (at least here, in the US) means "chlorinated water". Chlorine does terrible things to pipes, coolers, pumps - everything. Having your own water treatment system means the chlorine never gets in, saving bundles in maintenance. To get an idea, find two similar water cooled vehicles - one which has had chlorinated water added to the radiator routinely, and another whose owner has been more choosy. Look down into those radiators. I've actually seen copper radiators corroded out in states that use salt on their roads. (for the sake of argument, read "sodium CHLORIDE" although other salts are used on the roads)
While chlorine would be the primary reason not to use municipal water, there are other contaminants in their water supplies as well. No boiler technician would willingly use city water, with or without chlorine, in his boiler if he can avoid it. Navy boilers run on distilled water, with desired preservative chemicals added, which translates into very long service lives.
"people are less likely to get abused by the legal system"
Somehow, the point fails to be made. Isn't Sarkozy backing yet another attempt to pass censorship and 3-strikes laws, AFTER being defeated the last time around? Oh - wait, maybe you DO make a good point. People are being more directly abused by the legislative branch, and the judicial branch is being cut out of the loop. Hmmmm.
Does anyone really care if corporate America is left in the dark ages? Let's face it - corporations are there to serve the public. When they fail to serve, they are forgotten and left behind. They will either adapt to what the consumers demand from the web, or they can abandon the web, and become part of history. No problem.
Of course, most people are clueless, so a clue does them no good. The entire attack could have been coordinated by some pimple faced kid in downtown Wichita, Ks.
"YO, Dawg!! Look what I can do with all those scripts you told me were just STOOOPED SHITZ!! I R H4X0rZ 133Tz!"
My apologies, then sir. I see similar expressions used in advertising all the time. It really is a form of advertiser speech, and it bugs the hell out of me. But, in this case, I am at fault for assuming you are a native English speaker.
Thanks for reposting - it makes perfect sense now.:-)
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ROFLMAO - Has Microsoft engineered a backdoor into all *nix machines, then? Assuming that all the stories about MS's backdoors really are true, assuming that the stories about the NSA's backdoors are true - that doesn't address breaking into a *nix machine. Yeah, I'm sure that either MS or NSA could get into my machine, if they really wanted to. *nix is secure, but I may or may not have configured the thing perfectly. Maybe they can get in. They have the resources to hire good crackers, if they want to. But, it will cost them.
It would make more sense for them to send a couple of cops out to my house with warrants to confiscate my machines. If that happened, THEN it would become a game of "who is more clever". Is my stuff really hidden, or can they get to it? You can damn sure bet that I'm not going to just GIVE it all to them. ;-)
"people only pay for MS licensing if it makes business sense"
*cough* And, investors only invest where their money will grow - it only makes business sense. *cough*
Perhaps you have noticed something they are calling an "economic meltdown"? All those kids we sent to college to learn how to run things aren't all that smart after all, are they?
Allow me to assert quite plainly here - IT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL. If all of my neighbors agree that the earth is flat, the earth doesn't become flat because of their belief. Paying tens of thousands of dollars for licenses to use some software in accordance with MS (or anyone else's) wishes makes no cents at all. Idiocy, no matter how many degrees on holds.
Sorry, fingers got ahead of the brain there. I meant "cloud", not "web". ;-)
Grandparent is clueless? I don't think so. PEOPLE pay for Enterprise. All those costs are passed on to consumers. ALL of them. Those corporations that don't market to consumers pass THEIR costs on to other businesses and/or governments, who in turn, pass those very same costs on to consumers/taxpayers.
So - who is clueless here? It costs ME, and it costs YOU when the idiot managers around the globe to decide that one stupid workstation is worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Sorry, it is certainly unreasonable if 3rd parties have access to my data. Suppose that all in one afternoon, I do Grandma's tax return, do a medicare application for Aunt Helga, make a resume for my son, etc, etc, etc, you're saying that ALL of that data should be accessible by unknown 3rd parties? Every application hosted in the web should supply my data to anyone, and everyone, around the globe?
Totally unreasonable.
This is why I am not entirely thrilled about the web. Notice, I'm not just picking on Microsoft here - the same applies to Google and any other company that might supply applications in the future.
"allow a developer of an App to determine what information from a user's profile they actually need"
This sidesteps the issue under discussion. The issue is, some developers might be data mining, and some people don't desire all their data to be mined. Whether or not I am developing a legitimate app or not, I can claim to need personal data, right down to the size of a member's panties and bra. Or, maybe my app is just a front for a personnel screening service. While I claim to be developing the app, I'm mailing information to General Electric about every person who has applied for a position there. Or, more sinister, I live in Iran, and I'm mining accounts for details on protestors. As I find them, they are put on a list for the morality police to visit, and re-educate.
Developers don't need diddly squat. They can create their app, and put it up for use and/or sale. If it's any good, people will use/buy it. If it's no good, they can start over, or get out of the development business. They don't even need to know if I'm male or female, old or young, rich or poor.
I'm not sure that privacy laws were written to protect the ignorant, so much as to protect the more savvy individual.
The guy who runs around bragging that he makes $200,000 a year deserves the parasites who hover around him. They KNOW he has money, because he told everyone. The guy who makes $80,000, and keeps it secret, can legitimately tell hopeful parasites to screw off, his money is none of their business.
Want to get more "personal"? The person who posts, "I'm a nubile teenage female, and I WANT TO GET LAID!" will have earned a lot of attention, and that is just what she will get. When she posts her real name, address, telephone number, etc - she can expect suitors, stalkers, worshipers - the entire range of people with varying responses to her announcement. Protect her? Why? She is getting what she wants.
Privacy laws are meant to protect those of us who wish to BE private, in my opinion.
While a lot of good points are made in this discussion, the central point is mostly missed. Reading headlines in the past few days, I've seen that manufacturing is down, sales are down, homes are being repossessed, people are out of work, hell, I am out of work. I've been working reduced hours since the new year, they finally laid be off 3 weeks ago, and no one knows when things are going back to normal. The wife has been working reduced hours since last thanksgiving. Money is tight, in my house, and in every house that I know of.
I'm quite certain that a lot of slashdotters have pretty secure jobs, and they can continue to purchase such trivial things as games. But, the economy really does suck.
There will be an article coming out in a few months, revisiting this same subject, but it will be "Game sales are down for the second half of 2009". Many of these same posts will be made, "Well, they haven't RELEASED anything in the last half year that's worth PLAYING!" But, a more people are going to put two and two together to make at least one (probably correct) conclusion: "The gaming industry has also been hit by the recession, they've had layoffs, fewer people are investing money in gaming, overpaid executives have been let go - people don't have the time or money to waste on gaming."
Those of you who haven't felt the recession in your wallet yet just MIGHT consider investing money in the economy, rather than wasting your money on some new game. Of course, it's your money - do with it as you please. But, when YOUR job is outsourced to China or India, you may wish that you had spent more wisely.
My two cents, anyway.
Me? I'm not dangling at the bottom of the food chain, yet. But, I seem to be slipping downward right along with most of America.
So - who got brave, and installed FF 3.6? Am I that brave, or am I not? Hmmmm........
If you need build instructions, and you don't know how to search for them, then you shouldn't be building anything, stupid. Just download the binary and RUN IT. If you can't do that, then your Mama is probably gonna spank you for messing with her computer anyway. Walk away from the machine NOW, before you are caught.
"I would argue that our society would be a better place if we had maintained the same zeal for space exploration"
Agreed, wholeheartedly!!
"you seem to be falsely assuming that correlation implies causation, space exploration would certainly not have continued the Cold War."
I'm not so sure of that. As we have learned in the past few months, America's tremendous wealth was largely a matter of perception. One day, people woke up (en masse, individuals already understood the facts) and realized that houses really aren't worth a zillion dollars, and our economy started collapsing around us.
The important thing is, wealth is a matter of perception. And, so is security. Given enough fear, given enough scientific breakthroughs, given a series of attainable goals - yes, both Russia and the US could be on the moon today, still locked in the Cold War. Not to mention, we could both be looking around, wondering how the hell those Arabs, Chinese, and Indians got up there with us. (We would probably blame it on security and technology leaks through NATO - those Euros are some sneaky people, LMAO)
While you have a good point - the US seems to be oblivious to the fact that another communist nation is actively working against us, economically. Asassin's Mace.
China determined to surpass the United States economically, politically, and militarily some years ago. They aspire to surpass us in the sciences, but they aren't making much headway there, although the US' science and engineering is slippping.
Asymetrical warfare. It's working, if not as quickly as the Chinese might hope.
Besides which, the US abandoned it's capitalistic manufacturing base about 35 years ago. Capitalism has been running on credit for a decade or so, and the credit is being called in now. It isn't terribly clear that capitalism is going to survive in any form that our fathers would recognize.
sarcasm mode Thank God we have entered the information age, where the US can feed itself with technology and electrons!! Hooray for the "service industries"! /sarcasm mode
Where's the "+10 entertaining" mod button? ROFLMAO
"When I used vista, I have absolute no problem with it"
Obviously, you ran Vista on a recent high powered machine, with super graphics. Unfortunately, as part of the marketing hype, Vista was sold on new machines that were seriously underpowered, with crumby onboard graphics. So, even on expensive new machines, businesses and consumers found that Vista sucked. Win7, however, rocks along nicely on almost any machine with a CPU over 1 Ghz. You may or may not be able to use the Aero features, but it runs stable, and performance is decent.
I have found that Vista sucked even harder in virtual machines - but Win7 is perfectly happy inside a virtual machine.
I just don't know how else to spell it out. Vista was a terribly expensive mistake, and in today's economy, few people or businesses can afford expensive mistakes.
"Vista isn't horrible. It has some issue that can be solved by turing off some features. "
And yet, so many Microsoft trolls rag continuously on Linux for that sort of thing. The business with DOS prompts and CLI has been pretty much overcome, both in the Windows world and in the Linux world. It is entirely possible to run either one without ever typing a single command. But, still, Linux is ragged on because people need to configure things.
So, for those who bitch and moan about Linux, it seems that Vista was a HUGE step backward. Remember, neither Vista nor Win7 are targeted specifically at the IT community. They are meant for Donny and Bertha Dumbass and their 12 idiot children as well.
Somehow, this hardly seems like news. Windows 7 is a much better planned and engineered system than Vista ever was. Vista was shoved down our throats, while 7 takes into consideration what people need and want. I run 7 on machines that Vista just barfed at, meaning I don't need to spend 600 bucks on hardware to please Microsoft.
Yes, of course Win7 outsells Vista immediately. The humorous news will be coming out in the months ahead, when organizations that adopted Vista, like the US Army, find that they are unable to do things that Win7 users can do. Right now, I have almost no idea what those things might be - but most likely it will be driver related. No one is going to develop for Vista!!
Just wait for it.......
Ships guns already run on electricity. Electro hydraulic, to be precise. USS Richard E. Byrd had auxiliary diesel power. (a grown man can stand inside one of the cylinders) The boilers could be total wrecks from a torpedo or missile hit, but if the ship stayed afloat, that diesel could power EVERYTHING aboard ship except the screws. Some people might be surprised to learn that the primers in the powder cartridges are electric - there's no "firing pin" in a big gun.
http://ussbadger-1071.org/menus/weapons/5_inch_gun/mk42.htm
In fact, it would be quite an engineering feat to load, traverse, and elevate those guns in half a heartbeat, almost silently, using mechanical means. I don't expect that eliminating the hydraulic portions of the gun mount will make the guns any faster, any quieter, any more reliable, or any more accurate.
Yes, you hear propellers below cavitation speed. Thirty tons of brass doesn't move hundreds of tons of water "quietly". Another sonar operator can hear it from miles away. Standing in after steering, the propellers are quite loud all the time, and very loud any time they make a change in speed. I spent many an hour standing watch in that smelly little room. (and after all that time, I never figured out why it was always so freaking SMELLY!)
So far, I've not seen anyone mention one of the biggest benefits of electric power. Torque. When you flip the switch and/or turn the rheostat, you have power NOW! Gas and diesel are quite slow to build up torque, even in the turbine engines that the Navy uses. Boilers are somewhat better - depending on whether you've already built up a head of steam or not. If not, you're still dependent on turbines spinning up to bring oxygen to the fire. With electrons, there is no perceptible delay.
The result? Sonar hears a torpedo coming in, the port screw is put into full reverse, starboard screw is full forward, and the ship spins (not turns, but spins in place) in about a minute, instead of 4, 5, or 6 minutes.
Alright, today's enemies aren't likely to have torpedos, but the maneuverability can be just as valuable in many other situations - including entering and leaving port when some idiot on a ski boat ignores the rules of the road.
Municipal water (at least here, in the US) means "chlorinated water". Chlorine does terrible things to pipes, coolers, pumps - everything. Having your own water treatment system means the chlorine never gets in, saving bundles in maintenance. To get an idea, find two similar water cooled vehicles - one which has had chlorinated water added to the radiator routinely, and another whose owner has been more choosy. Look down into those radiators. I've actually seen copper radiators corroded out in states that use salt on their roads. (for the sake of argument, read "sodium CHLORIDE" although other salts are used on the roads)
While chlorine would be the primary reason not to use municipal water, there are other contaminants in their water supplies as well. No boiler technician would willingly use city water, with or without chlorine, in his boiler if he can avoid it. Navy boilers run on distilled water, with desired preservative chemicals added, which translates into very long service lives.
"people are less likely to get abused by the legal system"
Somehow, the point fails to be made. Isn't Sarkozy backing yet another attempt to pass censorship and 3-strikes laws, AFTER being defeated the last time around? Oh - wait, maybe you DO make a good point. People are being more directly abused by the legislative branch, and the judicial branch is being cut out of the loop. Hmmmm.
"Firefox users can't be too complacent;"
Complacency is the mother of mothers.......
Does anyone really care if corporate America is left in the dark ages? Let's face it - corporations are there to serve the public. When they fail to serve, they are forgotten and left behind. They will either adapt to what the consumers demand from the web, or they can abandon the web, and become part of history. No problem.
Developers are like (ab)normal people. They can be retards, just like anyone else.
Of course, most people are clueless, so a clue does them no good. The entire attack could have been coordinated by some pimple faced kid in downtown Wichita, Ks.
"YO, Dawg!! Look what I can do with all those scripts you told me were just STOOOPED SHITZ!! I R H4X0rZ 133Tz!"
"English is not my native language"
My apologies, then sir. I see similar expressions used in advertising all the time. It really is a form of advertiser speech, and it bugs the hell out of me. But, in this case, I am at fault for assuming you are a native English speaker.
Thanks for reposting - it makes perfect sense now. :-)