Ad hominem attacks, while popular on slashdot, are not a good way to start a post if you want to be taken seriously by anyone.
But why would I spend $220 on that 512 MB flash based player when the 4GB ipod mini is only $30 more?
Beats me. Of course, the original poster mentioned that he was in the market for a sub-$100 player -- 64 or 128 meg players can be had at that price -- and even 64MB is plenty for a 50min jog. Your needs may be different than his, but it doesn't make him wrong.
The point of iTMS is to get people to buy the iPod, not the other way around.
That might be true, although I've never seen it stated officially (and as iTMS pulls a profit by itself, I can't see that being the sole reason.)
As many have pointed out, Microsoft has nothing to do with this. (Please remove foil hats before moderating, people -- they may block government mind scanners, but they also seem to prevent intelligent thought.) In Opera, it becomes http://www.http.com/www.ebay.com, which seems to be owned by SearchMachine.com (it's one of those stupid advertising sites masquerading as a portal or search engine.)
Every time someone complains about the lack of big companies offering Linux desktops, somebody quickly claims that Microsoft does all sorts of illegal manipulations to make it impossible -- and, of course, promptly gets moderated up to +5 Insightful. Would they care to explain this?
For a one-time thing, this would work. However, it sounds to me like he's going to need to do this every month (although it's admittedly not terribly clear what he needs) -- I sure wouldn't want to be storing my data on a set of fifty discount drives in a semi-homebrew setup.
If this guy is really storing 1TB of data every month, and is going to be doing it for any length of time, he'd be better off going for a commercial solution. No, it's not cheap, but it would be worth it in the long run.
Nonsense. The hundreds of viagra, mortgage, and porn messages posted to usenet and message boards most certainly are spam, even if they're not e-mail (Usenet spam is older than e-mail spam, in fact.) Noncommercial messages can be spam also. You might be able to defend "bulk" as part of the definition, but even if the mailer targetted only me with his penis enlargement ads, I'd still classify it as spam and I think most others would as well.
A specialty channel that re-runs their best hour of television all week would be just fine with me.
Only if you happen to agree with them on what qualifies as "best hour of television." The good thing about having unique programming all day is that it increases the chance of there being something worthwhile on the TV sometime during the day.
It's not clear that E-voting should ever be trusted under any circumstance... The potential for tampering on the part of whoever tallies the vote is too high.
It's not clear that any voting method should ever be trusted, for exactly the same reason. Any system can be tampered with.
The Drake equation doesn't exactly predict the number of planets capable of supporting life (though it's related to some of the factors involved: R*, Fp, and Np in the formulation given.) N, the "result" of the Drake equation, is actually the number of technological civilizations in the galaxy.
Although it's certainly an interesting equation to think about, its main problem is that we don't really know what most of the factors are. You can support guesses that result in anything from hundreds of thousands of civilizations in the galaxy, down to it being suprising that there's even one.
Rather than predicting the number of these planets that have life, the observations are more likely to help us get a better idea of what some of those factors are. Actually, though I didn't RTFA, my understanding is that most or all of the planets they discover are gas giants, often bigger than Jupiter. So, it's unlikely that any of them have life on them -- at least, life as we expect to find it. However, it will give us a better idea of how many stars have planetary systems, and studying their atmospheres might give us some clues as to whether the system would contain planets suitable for life.
Not to nitpick or anything -- but no. IPv4 allows for 4 billion (and change) possible addresses: 2^32, minus a bit for addresses which aren't usable for various reasons. "Digit" is not a synonym for a possible address.
OK, yeah, that was nitpicking, but since I've seen at least two people make the same mistake in this thread, I wanted to point it out:)
Other people using these things in their own home is none of your business, and if you make it your business, you're the one violating people's rights.
Posters on slashdot regularly argue this point (as you should know, with a uid of 20,000) -- usually by claiming that the only reason why you would want to filter internet access is because you're a crazy, gun-toting, bush-supporting, anti-environmentalist fundamentalist christian. Of course, I rather suspect that it's mostly because of the large contingent of 14-year-old boys who are posting from Mom's computer.
Because despite all the screaming on Slashdot, most people really don't care that much. I don't encrypt my e-mail because it makes no difference to me if someone reads it or not. (My comment was simply that if I did care, I'd take responsibility for it myself rather than asking the government to [ineffectively] protect me from the big bad ISP.)
Like you said, it took forever for ssh to replace telnet, and that's a problem which system administrators thought was pressing. Nobody considers email, web surfing, IM, or whatnot to really be all that important, and so nobody's going to go to the trouble to secure it.
how about this: phone company starts listening to high executives phone lines and uses the same bullshit reasoning that they weren't listening to the actual call but a STORED version of the call(like it made any difference) - they then use gained information in mayhem on the stock market.
Strangely enough, this would be illegal for reasons that have nothing to do with privacy.
or, using an installed version of a program they push to normal users they read the STORED email on the customers machine after the encryption(through whatever billyboo means). should they be able to try that? should they?
Shockingly, this would too.
and I suppose you don't mind your neighbour trying to break into your mailbox either, because it is your fault after all if he succeeds, right?
Guess what? This too! You're zero for three, my friend.
And this is all ignoring that telephone and US mail have specific privacy laws attached to them, due to their being government-sponsored monopolies, and thus come with an expectation of privacy. E-mail, on the other hand, is not covered by the same laws, is not a government-sponsored monopoly, and thus there should be no expectation of privacy.
Maybe you want the government to be your babysitter, but I'll take my freedom like a big boy, thanks.
Believe it or not, privacy laws which apply to US mail do not neccessarily apply to electronic impulses sent along a private network. Besides, this may come as a shock to you, but snail mail isn't all that private either.
Backup method 3:
Lots of data, the whole of the aforementioned 40 gig disk burned to a single Blu-ray disc. Backup takes a couple hours, but no big deal, as you kick it off before you go to bed. Price: $30 after rebate from Office Max for the cheap no-name burner, plus a couple bucks a disc. At pennies per gigabyte, you can make a hundred copies of your data and never worry about what happens if your dog sparky manages to chew on them. Time until this is feasible: about a year after the next-generation storage technology is released.
Ulch - that meat was tainted! You feel deathly sick.
#pray The voice of Ishtar thunders: "Thou durst call upon me? Then die, mortal!"
but become a killer app on its niche, yes, glabels can do that.
Heck, I don't dispute that. (I can't confirm it, as I've never used it, but I won't dispute it.) But being the killer label app hardly the same as being "one of the most popular native Linux apps," don't you think?:)
The comment was it would be "one of the most popular native Linux apps" and has to be taken in context; that gLabels will become the de facto standard for things like label, card, CD-art, and flier design, and maybe even DTP too if it gets extended a little.
That's not taking it in context; that's attributing a completely different meaning to it than what was said.
And if saying that makes me an asshole, so be it, but I think that you're flipping out over a rather innocuous comment.
Being on the do-not-call list has improved things, but I still get two or three calls a night, mostly from local companies. In fact, I find it even worse, now that they prefix their sales pitch with "this is not a sales call." If they're going to call me against my wishes, the least they could do is not insult my intelligence by pretending that they're not selling anything.
I've just figured that low-volume telemarketing gets in under the radar, and hoped that some day the list might actually be enforced. Although if it's working for other people, maybe it's just the location where I am.
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As many have pointed out, Microsoft has nothing to do with this. (Please remove foil hats before moderating, people -- they may block government mind scanners, but they also seem to prevent intelligent thought.) In Opera, it becomes http://www.http.com/www.ebay.com, which seems to be owned by SearchMachine.com (it's one of those stupid advertising sites masquerading as a portal or search engine.)
Every time someone complains about the lack of big companies offering Linux desktops, somebody quickly claims that Microsoft does all sorts of illegal manipulations to make it impossible -- and, of course, promptly gets moderated up to +5 Insightful. Would they care to explain this?
If this guy is really storing 1TB of data every month, and is going to be doing it for any length of time, he'd be better off going for a commercial solution. No, it's not cheap, but it would be worth it in the long run.
Nonsense. The hundreds of viagra, mortgage, and porn messages posted to usenet and message boards most certainly are spam, even if they're not e-mail (Usenet spam is older than e-mail spam, in fact.) Noncommercial messages can be spam also. You might be able to defend "bulk" as part of the definition, but even if the mailer targetted only me with his penis enlargement ads, I'd still classify it as spam and I think most others would as well.
Yeah, 'cause
It's not clear that any voting method should ever be trusted, for exactly the same reason. Any system can be tampered with.
Although it's certainly an interesting equation to think about, its main problem is that we don't really know what most of the factors are. You can support guesses that result in anything from hundreds of thousands of civilizations in the galaxy, down to it being suprising that there's even one.
Rather than predicting the number of these planets that have life, the observations are more likely to help us get a better idea of what some of those factors are. Actually, though I didn't RTFA, my understanding is that most or all of the planets they discover are gas giants, often bigger than Jupiter. So, it's unlikely that any of them have life on them -- at least, life as we expect to find it. However, it will give us a better idea of how many stars have planetary systems, and studying their atmospheres might give us some clues as to whether the system would contain planets suitable for life.
Not to nitpick or anything -- but no. IPv4 allows for 4 billion (and change) possible addresses: 2^32, minus a bit for addresses which aren't usable for various reasons. "Digit" is not a synonym for a possible address.
OK, yeah, that was nitpicking, but since I've seen at least two people make the same mistake in this thread, I wanted to point it out
Yes. It's called "proof by assertion."
Like you said, it took forever for ssh to replace telnet, and that's a problem which system administrators thought was pressing. Nobody considers email, web surfing, IM, or whatnot to really be all that important, and so nobody's going to go to the trouble to secure it.
And this is all ignoring that telephone and US mail have specific privacy laws attached to them, due to their being government-sponsored monopolies, and thus come with an expectation of privacy. E-mail, on the other hand, is not covered by the same laws, is not a government-sponsored monopoly, and thus there should be no expectation of privacy.
Maybe you want the government to be your babysitter, but I'll take my freedom like a big boy, thanks.
Believe it or not, privacy laws which apply to US mail do not neccessarily apply to electronic impulses sent along a private network. Besides, this may come as a shock to you, but snail mail isn't all that private either.
Why? It seems much smarter to start encrypting your email than to simply trust a private company to not watch what is done with their equipment.
Backup method 3:
Lots of data, the whole of the aforementioned 40 gig disk burned to a single Blu-ray disc. Backup takes a couple hours, but no big deal, as you kick it off before you go to bed. Price: $30 after rebate from Office Max for the cheap no-name burner, plus a couple bucks a disc. At pennies per gigabyte, you can make a hundred copies of your data and never worry about what happens if your dog sparky manages to chew on them. Time until this is feasible: about a year after the next-generation storage technology is released.
#pray
The voice of Ishtar thunders: "Thou durst call upon me? Then die, mortal!" Heck, I don't dispute that. (I can't confirm it, as I've never used it, but I won't dispute it.) But being the killer label app hardly the same as being "one of the most popular native Linux apps," don't you think?
And if saying that makes me an asshole, so be it, but I think that you're flipping out over a rather innocuous comment.
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I've just figured that low-volume telemarketing gets in under the radar, and hoped that some day the list might actually be enforced. Although if it's working for other people, maybe it's just the location where I am.