I personally know three people, in the last month, who have finally decided to ditch Windows and go Macintosh.
I have four Macs. I've been supporting two of these three people over the past several years, and I encouraged them to stick with Windows, simply because I knew they'd be frustrated at the software unavailability situation. But over the past three or so months, hacks, spyware, and ads have gotten so bad, that they've been unable to cope with all the downtime. I suggested they get routers and start filtering ports, etc. But they're fed up. They want the effortless experience I'm getting on my Macs. And they're willing to fight the software availability fight.
We've been deluged with complaints about this ad. It was served by a third party advertiser, and we're working to track it down and remove it.
In other words: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." -Clinton "I don't recall (being informed of the illegal activities of John Poindexter and Oliver North)." - Ronald Reagan "This (Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse) is the work of just a few bad apples." - Donald Rumsfeld "I don't make it my business to know all the details of which reporters get passes." - Whitehouse Press Secretary Scott McLellan "I was not aware of the accounting fraud activities of the officers of Enron." - Ken Lay, CEO. "I was only following orders." - Hermann Goerring "I am not a crook." - Richard Nixon "I don't know where [Osama bin Laden] is [and] I am truly not that concerned about him." - GW Bush, Brady briefing room, 2002 Mar 13
she's a nympho, because it's the best way to manipulate men. The cylon has successfully "hacked" Baltar, and tried and failed to hack Adama (maybe it was that prostate surgery a few years ago?).
I think BSG is *great* just for exploring the issue.
The issue isn't whether totalitarianism is a superior form of government. It's a deep exploration of Ye Olde "Security for Liberty" trade-off, and mitigating circumstances, like: Is it okay to violate someone's rights if you're fighting for survival. Or survival of the entire species.
The statement I'm getting is: No matter HOW desperately you're fighting for survival, it's still important for human beings to respect that which defines them as human beings - ie. civilized behavior, rule of law, rights, etc.
As a citizen of the US, engaged in the current national debate over whether the threat of terrorism is, indeed, serious enough of a threat to have to "take off the gloves" - I find that the themes they're exploring on BSG right now, to make it THE MOST relevant piece of entertainment or literature of our time. At least for Americans.
At the very least, it's much more thought-provoking on the matter than shows such as "24" - much much more popular, much wider fanbase, where the "Hero" engages in torture in EVERY EPISODE.
I dunno. I got an Apex AD-600A, have had it for years. NEVER ONCE used the region-free feature.
Now, it's got a bad power supply AND transport. I know there are geeks who fix these things, I'm thinking of doing so myself (if only I had the time). But these units, non-progressive-scan, broken, still go for $50-$100 on ebay. (hacked and upgraded, one recently went for $300).
I was an early adopter. The reason why I opted for my Satelite provider's PVR (DishPlayer) was simple: TiVo's IR-blaster did not work. Not at all. Not a damn bit. I couldn't change channels with my remote. Other than that, I thought TiVo was great.
DishPlayer had a lot of bugs. (so many, there was a successful class action against them). But overall, it had a focus on the bare-minimum UI and functionality. It was much simpler to use than the early TiVos. Despite the fact that because of the bugs, you often had to reboot, and go through a 30-minute download of a fresh channel-guide to get the thing to work. And it had a 30-second skip button.
I've since dumped satelite altogether, because no, I'm not willing to pay $80/month - there's nothing on anymore. (I go to my freind's house to watch his Tivo'd Battlestar Galactica. That's ALL I watch. NOT worth $80/month, or even $40.)
had Bungie *not* been bought by Microsoft, and the source code hijacked from Mac OS X over to DirectX/Xbox - the game probably would have hit the stores about a year earlier. And THEN it would have been revolutionary. But as it was, Halo was just a day late and a dollar short.
On the other hand, they just plain dropped the ball on Halo 2. All Bungie did was to re-introduce neat features that had existed in Marathon 2 but somehow didn't make it into Halo. (ie. dual weappon use).
Next up for Halo 3: grenade-hopping, and air-supply for extended underwater or vacuum levels.
What is evil influence peddling about California's consumer protection and sunshine laws?
The loopholes and exceptions, traded political influence for campaign donations, etc. Often, such loopholes end up constraining all but a favored few, in the end, having the effect of concentrating power, and encouraging the behavior that the original law was intended to discourage. (ie. CAN SPAM act, etc.)
These jackasses were in charge of verification at a local retailer, and refused to verify my plastic card that spends from my home-equity line of credit. They wanted me to "register" with them, before the retailer would accept the card.
I told their service, and the retailer to STUFF it, apparently they didn't need my business.
I'm now GLAD I didn't play ball with these jackasses.
However, why would terrorists want to even try this?
I wouldn't say that Terrorists, in general, would want to try this.
But Al Qaeda, in particular, has a lot of EGO involved in the methodology of their activities. Some of it racial, some of it cultural/religious. But it's all about cultural PENIS LENGTH with them. Which is why the WTC destruction was a symbolic castration of the West (They still have their Petronas towers). (and why our response has been to invade their countries, and sexually humilliate detainees).
Acquisition and deployment of a nuclear device in a terror attack would be the ultimate in machisimo for these guys. Hell, they probably had wet dreams fantasizing about the SCUD attacks on Israel during the first Gulf War.
You know, the terrorist leaders are all wealthy men. Arafat was a billionaire, ditto bin Laden. Why aren't people like you demanding they share THEIR wealth and improve the condition of THEIR people?
Because Terrorists aren't socially Liberal.
They are a Theocratic Authoritarian movement. Similar to the Republican Party in the US.
I want a close and strong European Union -- I just don't want this European Union
Worry not. Soon, Dubya will make allegations of the EU's hidden WMD programs, and Airbus' corrupt "Planes for Food" scandal, and things will work out from there. . .
This applies to mainly a few Systems Integrators, who are designing servers. They'll typically pick Linux or Windows based on security, but also weighed against performance, or application compatability or other criteria. A competent Systems Integrator knows how to secure Windows servers. Inherent security isn't really that big of an issue.
The vast majority of people out there aren't concerned really with how secure servers are.
They're concerned with how secure their DESKTOP systems are.
With all the spyware problems I've had to fix on freinds' systems lately, I don't think we need a study to know the answer to this one.
Now plans for using the Genesis Device on Mars are out... unless this is just a particle of preanimate matter caught in the matrix.
I don't think that the preponderance of evidence suggests that any present life on Mars has any chance at all of evolving into an intelligent species. Given the current environmental conditions, and the planet's very stable geology, there's no likelyhood of a climate shift favoring such developments.
The removal is not because of bribes, but because apparently WhenU no longer meets their threat threshold to be included in the spyware definitions database.
It gets me wondering why consumer is willing to pay $4999 for a Plasma TV that has a specific (say 20,000 hours) lifespan, but can't stand paying a $49 software that has an expiry date.
Because they instrinsically *know* that the Plasma Screen they unpacked from the box is made of concrete materials that cost money to produce and acquire, and cost labor for chinese kids to assemble. And when you plug it in, and press the power button - it just works. You don't need a support staff.
The software cost the producer the R&D cost, yes, but that's recouped pretty quickly. The end-product, the CD, was copied for virtually no money, yet the user's being charged $49. And then the user's expected to put effort into maintenance, or hire a "geek" to keep it running.
This did not change with Open Source software. There was a time, before Open Source software, when people fought tooth-and-nail, against expensive software, or copy-protection that prevented piracy.
There's a perceived intrinsic value to "hard" goods. Not so for software, in most cases.
Think of what people will pay for a TiVo. They're paying for the box.
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I personally know three people, in the last month, who have finally decided to ditch Windows and go Macintosh.
I have four Macs. I've been supporting two of these three people over the past several years, and I encouraged them to stick with Windows, simply because I knew they'd be frustrated at the software unavailability situation. But over the past three or so months, hacks, spyware, and ads have gotten so bad, that they've been unable to cope with all the downtime. I suggested they get routers and start filtering ports, etc. But they're fed up. They want the effortless experience I'm getting on my Macs. And they're willing to fight the software availability fight.
We've been deluged with complaints about this ad. It was served by a third party advertiser, and we're working to track it down and remove it.
In other words:
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman." -Clinton
"I don't recall (being informed of the illegal activities of John Poindexter and Oliver North)." - Ronald Reagan
"This (Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse) is the work of just a few bad apples." - Donald Rumsfeld
"I don't make it my business to know all the details of which reporters get passes." - Whitehouse Press Secretary Scott McLellan
"I was not aware of the accounting fraud activities of the officers of Enron." - Ken Lay, CEO.
"I was only following orders." - Hermann Goerring
"I am not a crook." - Richard Nixon
"I don't know where [Osama bin Laden] is [and] I am truly not that concerned about him." - GW Bush, Brady briefing room, 2002 Mar 13
. . . a man whose entire carreer is based off of being "the guy who misses the point".
she's a nympho, because it's the best way to manipulate men. The cylon has successfully "hacked" Baltar, and tried and failed to hack Adama (maybe it was that prostate surgery a few years ago?).
I think BSG is *great* just for exploring the issue.
The issue isn't whether totalitarianism is a superior form of government. It's a deep exploration of Ye Olde "Security for Liberty" trade-off, and mitigating circumstances, like: Is it okay to violate someone's rights if you're fighting for survival. Or survival of the entire species.
The statement I'm getting is: No matter HOW desperately you're fighting for survival, it's still important for human beings to respect that which defines them as human beings - ie. civilized behavior, rule of law, rights, etc.
As a citizen of the US, engaged in the current national debate over whether the threat of terrorism is, indeed, serious enough of a threat to have to "take off the gloves" - I find that the themes they're exploring on BSG right now, to make it THE MOST relevant piece of entertainment or literature of our time. At least for Americans.
At the very least, it's much more thought-provoking on the matter than shows such as "24" - much much more popular, much wider fanbase, where the "Hero" engages in torture in EVERY EPISODE.
I dunno.
I got an Apex AD-600A, have had it for years. NEVER ONCE used the region-free feature.
Now, it's got a bad power supply AND transport. I know there are geeks who fix these things, I'm thinking of doing so myself (if only I had the time). But these units, non-progressive-scan, broken, still go for $50-$100 on ebay. (hacked and upgraded, one recently went for $300).
I hate to post an AOLamer "Me too" - but hell yeah, me too.
Windows would be absolutely useless and unmanagable without Sysinternals' tools. IMO.
I was an early adopter.
The reason why I opted for my Satelite provider's PVR (DishPlayer) was simple:
TiVo's IR-blaster did not work. Not at all. Not a damn bit. I couldn't change channels with my remote. Other than that, I thought TiVo was great.
DishPlayer had a lot of bugs. (so many, there was a successful class action against them). But overall, it had a focus on the bare-minimum UI and functionality. It was much simpler to use than the early TiVos. Despite the fact that because of the bugs, you often had to reboot, and go through a 30-minute download of a fresh channel-guide to get the thing to work. And it had a 30-second skip button.
I've since dumped satelite altogether, because no, I'm not willing to pay $80/month - there's nothing on anymore. (I go to my freind's house to watch his Tivo'd Battlestar Galactica. That's ALL I watch. NOT worth $80/month, or even $40.)
FREEDOM Is On The March!
(note to the sarcasm-impaired: get a clue).
Play on Legendary. You have less life than your marine buddies and the enemies fire much more rapidly and more accurately.
bah. Legendary just makes your utterly ineffective weapons even LESS effective.
Revolutionary, yes. . .
had Bungie *not* been bought by Microsoft, and the source code hijacked from Mac OS X over to DirectX/Xbox - the game probably would have hit the stores about a year earlier. And THEN it would have been revolutionary. But as it was, Halo was just a day late and a dollar short.
On the other hand, they just plain dropped the ball on Halo 2. All Bungie did was to re-introduce neat features that had existed in Marathon 2 but somehow didn't make it into Halo. (ie. dual weappon use).
Next up for Halo 3: grenade-hopping, and air-supply for extended underwater or vacuum levels.
What is evil influence peddling about California's consumer protection and sunshine laws?
The loopholes and exceptions, traded political influence for campaign donations, etc. Often, such loopholes end up constraining all but a favored few, in the end, having the effect of concentrating power, and encouraging the behavior that the original law was intended to discourage. (ie. CAN SPAM act, etc.)
Mine was running under Virtual PC, behind both my Mac's OSX "firewall" and the port-blocking features of my linksys router.
Took 15 minutes. But I got SP2 and Spybot S&D installed, from exe's I had on my Mac drive, and was able to clean it all off. (I hope).
These jackasses were in charge of verification at a local retailer, and refused to verify my plastic card that spends from my home-equity line of credit. They wanted me to "register" with them, before the retailer would accept the card.
I told their service, and the retailer to STUFF it, apparently they didn't need my business.
I'm now GLAD I didn't play ball with these jackasses.
However, why would terrorists want to even try this?
I wouldn't say that Terrorists, in general, would want to try this.
But Al Qaeda, in particular, has a lot of EGO involved in the methodology of their activities. Some of it racial, some of it cultural/religious. But it's all about cultural PENIS LENGTH with them. Which is why the WTC destruction was a symbolic castration of the West (They still have their Petronas towers). (and why our response has been to invade their countries, and sexually humilliate detainees).
Acquisition and deployment of a nuclear device in a terror attack would be the ultimate in machisimo for these guys. Hell, they probably had wet dreams fantasizing about the SCUD attacks on Israel during the first Gulf War.
You know, the terrorist leaders are all wealthy men. Arafat was a billionaire, ditto bin Laden. Why aren't people like you demanding they share THEIR wealth and improve the condition of THEIR people?
Because Terrorists aren't socially Liberal.
They are a Theocratic Authoritarian movement. Similar to the Republican Party in the US.
I want a close and strong European Union -- I just don't want this European Union
Worry not.
Soon, Dubya will make allegations of the EU's hidden WMD programs, and Airbus' corrupt "Planes for Food" scandal, and things will work out from there. . .
This applies to mainly a few Systems Integrators, who are designing servers. They'll typically pick Linux or Windows based on security, but also weighed against performance, or application compatability or other criteria. A competent Systems Integrator knows how to secure Windows servers. Inherent security isn't really that big of an issue.
The vast majority of people out there aren't concerned really with how secure servers are.
They're concerned with how secure their DESKTOP systems are.
With all the spyware problems I've had to fix on freinds' systems lately, I don't think we need a study to know the answer to this one.
This is nothing more than a pretty rear-projection TV.
Now plans for using the Genesis Device on Mars are out ... unless this is just a particle of preanimate matter caught in the matrix.
I don't think that the preponderance of evidence suggests that any present life on Mars has any chance at all of evolving into an intelligent species. Given the current environmental conditions, and the planet's very stable geology, there's no likelyhood of a climate shift favoring such developments.
Unless we terraform the bitch.
The removal is not because of bribes, but because apparently WhenU no longer meets their threat threshold to be included in the spyware definitions database.
. . . . because of a bribe. . .
It gets me wondering why consumer is willing to pay $4999 for a Plasma TV that has a specific (say 20,000 hours) lifespan, but can't stand paying a $49 software that has an expiry date.
Because they instrinsically *know* that the Plasma Screen they unpacked from the box is made of concrete materials that cost money to produce and acquire, and cost labor for chinese kids to assemble. And when you plug it in, and press the power button - it just works. You don't need a support staff.
The software cost the producer the R&D cost, yes, but that's recouped pretty quickly. The end-product, the CD, was copied for virtually no money, yet the user's being charged $49. And then the user's expected to put effort into maintenance, or hire a "geek" to keep it running.
This did not change with Open Source software. There was a time, before Open Source software, when people fought tooth-and-nail, against expensive software, or copy-protection that prevented piracy.
There's a perceived intrinsic value to "hard" goods. Not so for software, in most cases.
Think of what people will pay for a TiVo. They're paying for the box.
Hear hear!
Now if only Americans will start judging Condoleeza Rice's absolutely incompetent NSA performance on the same honest basis. . .
When HP made that brain-dead move, I was ridiculed on slashdot for saying that HP was going to be the next Packard-Bell.
Or, since the HP iPod worked so well for them, maybe they should work a deal with Steve Jobs, and rebrand some Power Macs and iServes as well?
(just joking. Frankly, I think they should split up all their divisions, and sell everything off except their printer business).