Agreed, especially with the need for CD quality. On reason I'm happy to shop (occassionally) at livephish.com is that they give me the option of buying flac and doing whatever I want with the files.
Btw, if you (I'm not sure whom exactly I'm addressing here) haven't checked out the "film-maker's commentary" track (not the actors' commentary) on the Gremlins dvd, you really should. It's worth renting the movie just for that. At the start of every scene that uses puppets (which is most scenes in the movie), you can here genuine anguish in their voices as they recall filming the scene. The commentary is the always the same and gets funnier every time: Oh no, remember this scene? This was a nightmare to film! It took us nine weeks to film this. [The scene is about about twelve seconds long.] This entire rooms is on top of a platform with a trap door. Below we had eighty-three pupeteers in an eight cubic foot box. They were allowed no food or water until be finished shooting the scene.
The only exceptions are when they stop to celebrate because the current scene involves no puppets (they do this about five times) and when they point out that the dog is by far the best actor in the movie (they do this about three times) because other than Corey Feldman he was the only one who thought the puppets as were real and reacted to them as such.
Thanks. In that case, OP's claim that "I see PDF files as the defacto standard for communication" seems even sillier since at least basic editability is a requirement for plenty of people who pass documents around.
PDF is the only file format that guarentees that anyone you send it to can read it.
Well that's just silly. If someone has a pdf viewer installed, they'll be able to read it. If not, they won't. There is no "guarantee" here. Perhaps more people with whom you interact have a pdf viewer than a word viewer, but that's not a "guarantee" for anyone else. And "the only format"? It's really more universally readable than say a.txt file?
Also, lots of companies love the ability to "track changes" that different people make to a word.doc. As far as I know,.pdf doesn't provide a similar capability, although I don't use it much so I may be wrong (I actually don't use word much either, other than in the sense that I have it set up to compose mails in outlook).
Isn't it basically unconscionable that the actual process of elections be a for-profit venture?
This is already the case today. Do you think the current voting booths or the printed ballots are manufactured by the Salvation Army? Why should it be a surprise that when the government moves from lower to higher tech forms of voting it continues to buy from private industries? I agree that buying from a corrupt and/ or incompetent company is reprehensible. I also agree that everything should be accountable to the voters and the software, security mechanisms, etc., should not be kept secret. But I don't like the idea that the government should be unable to give a contract to any private company to manufacture any of the tools used to run the election. That is neither workable nor desirable.
You post as AC because you don't want to track your posts and "see how they do", but there's a reply to one of your posts and you've replied to it within four minutes. Hmmm.
Some may say that same sex relationships are "ungodly" because they don't produce children
And if these people aren't willing to say that we also need a Constitutional ammendment to stop impotent men, post-menopausal women and people who just don't want to have children from marrying, then I will just ignore them.
That's just not true. It clearly says that XP pro is supported until the end of 2011. What is that ten years after it was released? Is ten years really an unresaonable amount of time to offer security patches for?
He is the son of the original President Bush. A shrub is a small bush. It's "more pejorative than 'Bush'" because it is calling him a minitature version of his dad (which just calling him by his last name wouldn't really do, except maybe implicitly) so is somewhat diminutive.
...is the very concept of allowing HTML code: clickable links and active crap to be put into the main body of SMTP emails at all.
Can you clarify what mail prgoram you are referring to with the "active crap" comment? I've used pine, outlook and some of the web-based mail client (hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail) and none allow "active crap" in mail (disregarding very old versions of outlook, I think).
I played Halo right through and it was just so damn repetitive I almost went insane.
Um, it's a multiplayer game. It's pretty unfair to play it as one player and then conclude that it's repetitive. That's like saying that you played Street Fighter 2 or Madden against the computer a few times and found it boring. It may be true, but it's not really a fair judgment of the game.
Both Unix and MS share equal blame in propagating this horribly flawed system.
Historically, this was true. However, currently Microsoft is moving towards.Net "managed" code, and one of the reasons is to protect against buffer overruns, just as with Java and other higher-level languages you describe. OTOH, it seems that Unix will stay with C and its potential security problems forever.
The point isn't that the current president is a Christian. Every president we've had (as far as I know) has been a Christian. The point is that government policy should not be made in the interest of pushing or assisting a particular reason. This is not the letter of the Constitution (it simply guarantees that there will no official state religion), but is the spirit of it in many people's opinion. And recently, the government had done a decent job of it. But now, that is rapidly not the case. As a few examples, tax dollars are now being taken away from (asecular) public schools and given to parochial ("charter") schools, and the US governemnt tends to support the Isrealis rather than Palestinians because the Christian bible somewhat recognizes Isreal as belonging to the Jews (ok, that's been the case since for a while).
The fact that we get to vote is irrelevant. A tyranny of the majority where a large portion of the country who are all of the same religion used their numbers to elect a leader who would create a government with their religion as the official one (hypothetically) would not be acceptable, even though the people of that religion were able to get their leader accepted in an election. You need to protect the rights of everyone, even minority groups.
Synergy can actually be a useful word. It conveys an idea for which we don't really have a simler word (that I can think of), so at least it serves a purpose.
Worse is that I once had a boss (at an IT job) who seemed completely incapable of using the word "do". The only verb she knew for performing an action was "expedite" and she used it in every sentence ("can you expedite this by friday?"). It was painful.
Show me an OSS vulnerability of similar criticality where it has taken that long.
This isn't even challending. Let's start with the shell: vulnerability in mozilla (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16747 5 ; no link b/c it doesn't like/. as referrer), which was filed in 2002 and fixed this year. I particularly like this one because when it got posted to slashdot, people here actually tried to rationalize it as being okay (and, predictably, some tried to blame microsoft, the source of all bugs in all software), saying "but passing untrusted content from the internet to the OS to execute seemed so safe; certainly it's not our fault if the content turns out to be malicious and the OS executes it as we asked it to" (I think shell: has more recently been removed from the OS to prevent idiocy like this, which actually also happened in MS Office, among other programs).
Despite its installed base, which is overwhelmingly greater than Microsoft's, it is the Microsoft web servers which frequently suffer from all the worms and viruses.
Over the past year, there have been zero vulnerabilities in IIS 6 (the current version of Microsoft's web server). Are you saying that Apache has had less than this? Or are you just saying that people try to attack IIS more than they try to attack Apache? If it's the latter, that's related to people hating Microsoft and has nothing to do with market share or open source vs. closed.
Disagree. In my experience, the Microsoft KB articles that document known bugs and how to work around them are much more thorough and up-to-date than the known bugs listed in manpages for unix programs.
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Agreed, especially with the need for CD quality. On reason I'm happy to shop (occassionally) at livephish.com is that they give me the option of buying flac and doing whatever I want with the files.
In Catherine the Great's Russia, mare has sex with YOU!
Btw, if you (I'm not sure whom exactly I'm addressing here) haven't checked out the "film-maker's commentary" track (not the actors' commentary) on the Gremlins dvd, you really should. It's worth renting the movie just for that. At the start of every scene that uses puppets (which is most scenes in the movie), you can here genuine anguish in their voices as they recall filming the scene. The commentary is the always the same and gets funnier every time:
Oh no, remember this scene?
This was a nightmare to film!
It took us nine weeks to film this. [The scene is about about twelve seconds long.]
This entire rooms is on top of a platform with a trap door. Below we had eighty-three pupeteers in an eight cubic foot box. They were allowed no food or water until be finished shooting the scene.
The only exceptions are when they stop to celebrate because the current scene involves no puppets (they do this about five times) and when they point out that the dog is by far the best actor in the movie (they do this about three times) because other than Corey Feldman he was the only one who thought the puppets as were real and reacted to them as such.
Thanks. In that case, OP's claim that
"I see PDF files as the defacto standard for communication" seems even sillier since at least basic editability is a requirement for plenty of people who pass documents around.
Well that's just silly. If someone has a pdf viewer installed, they'll be able to read it. If not, they won't. There is no "guarantee" here. Perhaps more people with whom you interact have a pdf viewer than a word viewer, but that's not a "guarantee" for anyone else. And "the only format"? It's really more universally readable than say a
Also, lots of companies love the ability to "track changes" that different people make to a word
They neglected to mention that it also has problems if you expose it to bright light and will unexpectedly fork(2) if you get it wet.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/15/175 8239&tid=172&tid=128&tid=154&tid=2 18?
Or is that an unrelated (but similar) vulnerability?
This is already the case today. Do you think the current voting booths or the printed ballots are manufactured by the Salvation Army? Why should it be a surprise that when the government moves from lower to higher tech forms of voting it continues to buy from private industries? I agree that buying from a corrupt and/ or incompetent company is reprehensible. I also agree that everything should be accountable to the voters and the software, security mechanisms, etc., should not be kept secret. But I don't like the idea that the government should be unable to give a contract to any private company to manufacture any of the tools used to run the election. That is neither workable nor desirable.
You post as AC because you don't want to track your posts and "see how they do", but there's a reply to one of your posts and you've replied to it within four minutes. Hmmm.
And if these people aren't willing to say that we also need a Constitutional ammendment to stop impotent men, post-menopausal women and people who just don't want to have children from marrying, then I will just ignore them.
Well, you could go look it up yourself:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh
So Windows 2000 (for example) is supported until mid 2010. And your comment about them soon only supported XP and 2k3 looks ridiculous.
That's just not true. It clearly says that XP pro is supported until the end of 2011. What is that ten years after it was released? Is ten years really an unresaonable amount of time to offer security patches for?
This isn't a guy who built the railroads here. This is a guy who unleashed a worm on our valued internet.
He is the son of the original President Bush. A shrub is a small bush. It's "more pejorative than 'Bush'" because it is calling him a minitature version of his dad (which just calling him by his last name wouldn't really do, except maybe implicitly) so is somewhat diminutive.
Can you clarify what mail prgoram you are referring to with the "active crap" comment? I've used pine, outlook and some of the web-based mail client (hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail) and none allow "active crap" in mail (disregarding very old versions of outlook, I think).
Um, it's a multiplayer game. It's pretty unfair to play it as one player and then conclude that it's repetitive. That's like saying that you played Street Fighter 2 or Madden against the computer a few times and found it boring. It may be true, but it's not really a fair judgment of the game.
s/reason/religion
Sorry
Strictly speaking, if the space contains a telescope, then by definition it isn't "empty".
Historically, this was true. However, currently Microsoft is moving towards
The point isn't that the current president is a Christian. Every president we've had (as far as I know) has been a Christian. The point is that government policy should not be made in the interest of pushing or assisting a particular reason. This is not the letter of the Constitution (it simply guarantees that there will no official state religion), but is the spirit of it in many people's opinion. And recently, the government had done a decent job of it. But now, that is rapidly not the case. As a few examples, tax dollars are now being taken away from (asecular) public schools and given to parochial ("charter") schools, and the US governemnt tends to support the Isrealis rather than Palestinians because the Christian bible somewhat recognizes Isreal as belonging to the Jews (ok, that's been the case since for a while).
The fact that we get to vote is irrelevant. A tyranny of the majority where a large portion of the country who are all of the same religion used their numbers to elect a leader who would create a government with their religion as the official one (hypothetically) would not be acceptable, even though the people of that religion were able to get their leader accepted in an election. You need to protect the rights of everyone, even minority groups.
Synergy can actually be a useful word. It conveys an idea for which we don't really have a simler word (that I can think of), so at least it serves a purpose.
Worse is that I once had a boss (at an IT job) who seemed completely incapable of using the word "do". The only verb she knew for performing an action was "expedite" and she used it in every sentence ("can you expedite this by friday?"). It was painful.
This isn't even challending. Let's start with the shell: vulnerability in mozilla (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1674
Over the past year, there have been zero vulnerabilities in IIS 6 (the current version of Microsoft's web server). Are you saying that Apache has had less than this? Or are you just saying that people try to attack IIS more than they try to attack Apache? If it's the latter, that's related to people hating Microsoft and has nothing to do with market share or open source vs. closed.
Disagree. In my experience, the Microsoft KB articles that document known bugs and how to work around them are much more thorough and up-to-date than the known bugs listed in manpages for unix programs.
Huh? That's not why I use it. Maybe you should speak for yourself rather than telling me why I use something.