You might be surprised how little it takes to remove an Apple fan from the ranks.
I had an iMac G5 and the logicboard died within two years of buying it. I drank the kool-aid and didn't believe that I would need the expensive extended warranty because it was an AppleOMGzor device.
I miss Garageband and XCode... and iMovie but it is going to be a long time before I buy another Apple product.
There is a similar idea which actually carries some currency, though; put a greenhouse below a house and vent it into the house, then vent the exhaust from the house through a chimney. [...]
I don't really know but it seems to me that if you put a greenhouse underneath another building then not much sunlight would make it into the greenhouse.
That's a drop in the bucket compared to what Sun has contributed to open source. Of course, slashdot appears to be perversely against Sun for some reason I cannot fathom.
Names are very important. The name Sun reminds of that place on the other side of the door where if we go, our skin gets red and burns. Google reminds us of that friendly homepage that would load under 5 seconds on dial-up.
Our population rises exponentially. No matter how green our technology gets we ultimately have 3 choices.
Extinction.
Kill our excess children.
Expand out into the rest of the solar system and beyond
Well that's a false trichotomy if I've ever heard one.
We can also slow our population growth to 0 by using birth control.
Shutters on the sockets are a very recent development in the US, and a probably just being copied from the UK for no other reason than shutter envy. There's no real demand for them, because Americans are somehow able to resist the temptation that apparently so often overcomes their British counterparts to stick things in the socket other than a plug.
When I was a kid I would take apart my radio control cars with little lights, attach the lights to thin little wires and stick the end of the wires into the plug in my room for a cool light show. My parents never knew why the plug in my room was all black. I was never able to resist the temptation to stick things in the plug. I don't know why I'm still alive.
...and now I'm staring at the plug that my computer is plugged into and wondering if I have anything cool to stick into there... Hmm... Cell phone charger? Backwards? How about old headphones... if I cut off the end and stripped the wires... Would any noise come out? I probably wouldn't want to hold it close to my ear to find out. But I already know that it would look cool.
And are you also your own ISP or does your email pass through someone else's routers? Hope you don't mind them recording packets and saving every DNS lookup and every website you visit as part of the "ordinary course of doing business".
Well you could always give them information overload. Make a bot in Ruby that is constantly going to random websites, sending random emails to random addresses and just constantly doing things online. Have the bot run all day and the information the ISP stores of you will become meaningless gibberish because the vast majority of it will be random from your bot.
I finally gave up in digust around the first hundred pages of Winter's Heart. I think the annoying, ridiculously weird Perrin/Faile relationship was the last straw.
So you missed the end of Winter's Heart?! Wow. Go back and read the end if nothing else.
Is it worth picking up again, just to see the conclusion? I can make it through three more books if Stuff Actually Happens.
I say yes, but then I liked Crossroads of Twilight.
Actually we were all at home reading the book. I almost skipped work so that I could sit at home and read but I refrained. And yes, it was awesome. I am now on my reread already.
And because of Slashdot's moderating system, anyone that you may have offended with that can't mod you down because they've already posted. Life is good.
[...] If not, you could try to contact MS support and talk about the problem, whether that is free or not depends.
I'm guessing that you've never tried to navigate their spaghetti-like phone-tree with its loops, spirals, double-backs and yes dead ends where they will hang up on you for following the wrong rabbit trail with no way to go back. That is the most frustrating, useless, upsetting, making me feel like hurting somebody a lot, afternoon that I ever spent. Oh, and the pound key that all phone systems use to go back one level? That works under some menus.
Isn't that anti-slashdot-zeitgeist though? Patenting something simply so someone else can't do it? IMO, that sounds like a "patent troll," just not in the typical usage of the phrase.
Yes, but in this case it is altruistic patent trolling.
And I have a hard time putting so much faith in Apple, which has done plenty to not deserve said faith, that they would not advertise - if nothing else, their own products. Apple is looking for money. Just like Microsoft and Google.
In my opinion, this seems out of character for Apple. When I bought my HP netbook, it came with all kinds of crap including links on the desktop to websites like eBay. So far, this type of Apple has avoided this type of behaviour.
I agree that Apple is here to make money and ever since my iMac G5 died I have held a grudge against them but I will admit that their products are very nice, clean packages. Their current customers are in general people who can afford to pay extra money for an operating system and a hundred bucks off of a $2000 computer isn't significant.
You're ignoring that computers have more RAM available. My 5 year old machine is maxed at 4GB. The machine i'll build for 7 will likely START at 4GB. Did you miss the trend about computers having ever faster CPUs and more RAM and storage? How did that escape your notice as a member of Slashdot?
My head's in the sand dude. I don't hear much down here. Also, I'm a student who lives on old computers. Life's tough.
You're also ignoring that 7 will have more features than XP. Word is bigger than Notepad. Therefore Word is teh b10@3d!!! OMG!1! Bigger doesn't necessarily mean bloated. There might be some bloat, sure. But NEW FEATURES ADD TO THE SIZE OF SOFTWARE.
Thanks for finally saying something that I could hear. Head stuck in sand cuts out most people's voices but yours finally transcended the threshold necessary for me to hear.
RAM starved to say the least. The last time I had 1 GB RAM was in college (I graduated in 2002).[...]
Interesting. I just upgraded from a laptop with 512 MB of RAM (333 no less) to a laptop with a whole Gig of DDR2 RAM. The only computing habit that has changed is that my use of flashblock is a little less liberal.
It's Microsoft, they take a very long time to do anything right (or do anything at all). Just look at Internet Explorer, they have been working on it since 1994. 15 years later, we are still YET to receive a browser from Microsoft that is at least more than 20% web compliant..
Microsoft does have the technical resources to make IE score 100% on the Acid3 test. However, it is not in their best interests to do so. Here is a quote from Bill Gates (taken from wikiquotes) which demonstrates Microsoft's business strategy.
One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
This is the attitude that Microsoft is developing software with. Just look at the number of businesses that are stuck with IE6 because of some legacy ActiveX application. Microsoft's strategy is working very well for them and I don't see them ever changing.
According to TFA (my karma be damned), Web-based admin UI is enabled on these routers, not only for the LAN but for the whole fucking Internet. This must be the dumbest default setting ever.
Although I agree that it is dumb, I think that it is to make technical support easier for the company. If the company can go straight to your router and configure it then it makes their life easier. Of course, it turns out that it makes a lot of people's lives easier including hackers.
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Apple fans are pretty devout.
You might be surprised how little it takes to remove an Apple fan from the ranks.
I had an iMac G5 and the logicboard died within two years of buying it. I drank the kool-aid and didn't believe that I would need the expensive extended warranty because it was an AppleOMGzor device.
I miss Garageband and XCode... and iMovie but it is going to be a long time before I buy another Apple product.
I call BS. There's no way the phone in the video is 5cm thick.
It sounds about as attractive as my laptop battery if it.
"The concentration and distribution of water and other substances requires further analysis..."
Translation: More Explosions.
This time let's make them bigger explosions. Maybe give the man a mustache or make his left eye more pronounced.
Do they just throw that away? What a waste.
That gets piped to /dev/null. The same place I put all my files.
And now that I changed my signature, this conversation doesn't make sense!
There is a similar idea which actually carries some currency, though; put a greenhouse below a house and vent it into the house, then vent the exhaust from the house through a chimney. [...]
I don't really know but it seems to me that if you put a greenhouse underneath another building then not much sunlight would make it into the greenhouse.
That's a drop in the bucket compared to what Sun has contributed to open source. Of course, slashdot appears to be perversely against Sun for some reason I cannot fathom.
Names are very important. The name Sun reminds of that place on the other side of the door where if we go, our skin gets red and burns. Google reminds us of that friendly homepage that would load under 5 seconds on dial-up.
Our population rises exponentially. No matter how green our technology gets we ultimately have 3 choices. Extinction. Kill our excess children. Expand out into the rest of the solar system and beyond
Well that's a false trichotomy if I've ever heard one.
We can also slow our population growth to 0 by using birth control.
Shutters on the sockets are a very recent development in the US, and a probably just being copied from the UK for no other reason than shutter envy. There's no real demand for them, because Americans are somehow able to resist the temptation that apparently so often overcomes their British counterparts to stick things in the socket other than a plug.
When I was a kid I would take apart my radio control cars with little lights, attach the lights to thin little wires and stick the end of the wires into the plug in my room for a cool light show. My parents never knew why the plug in my room was all black. I was never able to resist the temptation to stick things in the plug. I don't know why I'm still alive.
Wouldn't work. The sites you actually go to regularly would start to show as a pattern.
Well, make your bot something a little less than random where it tends toward certain sites too. Like MSN.com or something.
And are you also your own ISP or does your email pass through someone else's routers? Hope you don't mind them recording packets and saving every DNS lookup and every website you visit as part of the "ordinary course of doing business".
Well you could always give them information overload. Make a bot in Ruby that is constantly going to random websites, sending random emails to random addresses and just constantly doing things online. Have the bot run all day and the information the ISP stores of you will become meaningless gibberish because the vast majority of it will be random from your bot.
I finally gave up in digust around the first hundred pages of Winter's Heart. I think the annoying, ridiculously weird Perrin/Faile relationship was the last straw.
So you missed the end of Winter's Heart?! Wow. Go back and read the end if nothing else.
Is it worth picking up again, just to see the conclusion? I can make it through three more books if Stuff Actually Happens.
I say yes, but then I liked Crossroads of Twilight.
Rand gets out of his emo whiny thing.
And dips into serious narcissism that is no longer just self-destructive, is everyone around him destructive.
And Nynaeve continues the awesomeness that she started in KoD.
And there are a couple of very, very big shockers. I definitely can't wait for the next two books.
Oh yeah. I am still reeling.
New WoT book released; nobody notices for 3 days.
Actually we were all at home reading the book. I almost skipped work so that I could sit at home and read but I refrained. And yes, it was awesome. I am now on my reread already.
Thank-you. You deserve a +6.
And because of Slashdot's moderating system, anyone that you may have offended with that can't mod you down because they've already posted. Life is good.
Except in my case I was in the middle of a Windoze install and I only have one computer. I would like to see a hotfix for that.
"Karmic Koala" is great, but I would like to believe that "All-knowing Frog" was a close second.
*sigh* Again, stop with the self-reference!
[...] If not, you could try to contact MS support and talk about the problem, whether that is free or not depends.
I'm guessing that you've never tried to navigate their spaghetti-like phone-tree with its loops, spirals, double-backs and yes dead ends where they will hang up on you for following the wrong rabbit trail with no way to go back. That is the most frustrating, useless, upsetting, making me feel like hurting somebody a lot, afternoon that I ever spent. Oh, and the pound key that all phone systems use to go back one level? That works under some menus.
Isn't that anti-slashdot-zeitgeist though? Patenting something simply so someone else can't do it? IMO, that sounds like a "patent troll," just not in the typical usage of the phrase.
Yes, but in this case it is altruistic patent trolling.
And I have a hard time putting so much faith in Apple, which has done plenty to not deserve said faith, that they would not advertise - if nothing else, their own products. Apple is looking for money. Just like Microsoft and Google.
In my opinion, this seems out of character for Apple. When I bought my HP netbook, it came with all kinds of crap including links on the desktop to websites like eBay. So far, this type of Apple has avoided this type of behaviour.
I agree that Apple is here to make money and ever since my iMac G5 died I have held a grudge against them but I will admit that their products are very nice, clean packages. Their current customers are in general people who can afford to pay extra money for an operating system and a hundred bucks off of a $2000 computer isn't significant.
What a moronic and ludicrous world IP law has created.
IP law didn't create the world you're describing, you did.
In fact, you own it! And now if I wanted to create a similar story you could sue me. Wow, this is cool!
You're ignoring that computers have more RAM available. My 5 year old machine is maxed at 4GB. The machine i'll build for 7 will likely START at 4GB. Did you miss the trend about computers having ever faster CPUs and more RAM and storage? How did that escape your notice as a member of Slashdot?
My head's in the sand dude. I don't hear much down here. Also, I'm a student who lives on old computers. Life's tough.
You're also ignoring that 7 will have more features than XP. Word is bigger than Notepad. Therefore Word is teh b10@3d!!! OMG!1! Bigger doesn't necessarily mean bloated. There might be some bloat, sure. But NEW FEATURES ADD TO THE SIZE OF SOFTWARE.
Thanks for finally saying something that I could hear. Head stuck in sand cuts out most people's voices but yours finally transcended the threshold necessary for me to hear.
RAM starved to say the least. The last time I had 1 GB RAM was in college (I graduated in 2002).[...]
Interesting. I just upgraded from a laptop with 512 MB of RAM (333 no less) to a laptop with a whole Gig of DDR2 RAM. The only computing habit that has changed is that my use of flashblock is a little less liberal.
It's Microsoft, they take a very long time to do anything right (or do anything at all). Just look at Internet Explorer, they have been working on it since 1994. 15 years later, we are still YET to receive a browser from Microsoft that is at least more than 20% web compliant..
Microsoft does have the technical resources to make IE score 100% on the Acid3 test. However, it is not in their best interests to do so. Here is a quote from Bill Gates (taken from wikiquotes) which demonstrates Microsoft's business strategy.
One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
This is the attitude that Microsoft is developing software with. Just look at the number of businesses that are stuck with IE6 because of some legacy ActiveX application. Microsoft's strategy is working very well for them and I don't see them ever changing.
According to TFA (my karma be damned), Web-based admin UI is enabled on these routers, not only for the LAN but for the whole fucking Internet. This must be the dumbest default setting ever.
Although I agree that it is dumb, I think that it is to make technical support easier for the company. If the company can go straight to your router and configure it then it makes their life easier. Of course, it turns out that it makes a lot of people's lives easier including hackers.