Of course, that is until every little "helpful" toolbar and Internet Speeder-Upper and VIRTUAL TASKBAR SEX BABE and good-old-fashioned spyware subscribes you to them via some wide-open API that Microsoft has decided in their eminent wisdom to include. Share and Enjoy!
Tose darn cell-snipers, perched on the ridge and catching unwary passers-by with expensive phone calls. They're a menace. I've half a mind to take out those ruffians, once and for all!
While this is true in many respects, you'll find that many websites have a space which is fed dynamic content by the ad server. I recall a rant recently on reallifecomics.com where he went off on the ad provider he was using when it started putting ads up that he specifically requested NOT to see on his site. I can't get to the site right now (possibly being updated), but I'll paste it here when I find it.
You know, what is it about local car dealerships and advertising? Are they required by law to have television advertisements that are so horribly bad that viewers cringe when they come on? Detroit can't be the only place like this; is it the same everywhere?
If you advertisers hadn't infested the Internet with pop-up, flashing, animated advertisements that dwarfed the actual content, you'd not be in this position. Newspaper ads are given no priority over the content; that's the difference. You can look at one or the other, just as easily. Not so with the crap you put on the Internet.
I have no sympathy at all; you abused your customers, and now they have a "negative vibe." Deal with it.
See, but Google indeed doesn't do those sort of things. If the story were about Gmail, then the great idea would probably not be "let's unilaterally enforce an obscure standard." Most likely, it'd be something that makes most of us scratch our heads and think, "Wow, neat. Never really thought about that before." Geeks will prefer the latter 99 times out of 100. It's just the way we are, here. If you're looking for people who want some company with a shady reputation to police teh intarweb with fuzzy bunnies and daffodils--whether or not they were asked to--this is not the place to be.
Obtaining and/or making available the disc images shouldn't in any way be dependent on the breaking of the protection mechanisms. I imagine the discs will be available "long" before the protection scheme is unraveled (for very small values of "long", most likely).
In fact, the widespread understanding of the protection scheme will follow as a RESULT of the OS being leaked, not the other way around. Seems to be a common misconception that people expect to be looking for a "Generic-Intel.OSX.RAW.ISO.XXX.WTF.[<><><><><(aNnI HiL8r)><><><><>].torrent"; what you'll see first are the crippled ones with no way to install them, and the method to circumvent them following on later.
Richard Stallman launched the GNU operating system (www.gnu.org) in 1984 and founded the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org) in 1985. Gérald Sédrati-Dinet devised the examples in this article
That's because we spend all day vandalizing Slashdot, itself! They should thank slashdot.org for giving us mischievious tech-savvy people someplace to flame other than their sites.
I'd like to chime in with a hearty "me, too!" in this case. The Micro Center near Detroit (Madison Heights, I think) is my very first place to go for all things computery. Definitely worth trying to find one in your area. Great to see this from them. Much better than Comcast's "you have a Linux box on the network? You're on your own, buddy," regardless of whether the problem has anything to do with the OS or the internal network, which seems to be par for the course w.r.t. tech support.
If they really wanted to be a truly positive influence on the computer world, they'd dump the operating system stuff, too, and stick with the one thing they're actually good at: office productivity software.
In today's modern galaxy there is of course very little still held to be unspeakable. Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that were they to be merely breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme case shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech is seen as evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed, and totally un****ed up personality.
So for instance, when in a recent national speech the Financial Minister of the Royal World Estate of Quarlvista actually dared to say that due to one thing and another and the fact that no one had made any food for a while and the king seemed to have died and that most of the population had been on holiday now for over three years, the economy was now in what he called "one whole joojooflop situation," everyone was so pleased he felt able to come out and say it they quite failed to notice that their five thousand year-old civilization had just collapsed overnight.
But though even words like joojooflop, swut, and turlingdrome are now perfectly acceptable in common usage there is one word that is still beyond the pale. The concept it embodies is so revolting that the publication or broadcast of the word is utterly forbidden in all parts of the galaxy except one where they don't know what it means. That word is 'belgium' and it is only ever used by loose-tongued people like Zaphod Beeblebrox in situations of dire provocation.
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You know you are behind-the-times when a "Dr. Square" tells you that you are outdated.
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Perhaps we should shoot the moderators, too. That was funny!
I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Grammar Nazis cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Or don't plan on needing their OS rebooted 5 times a day.
Of course, that is until every little "helpful" toolbar and Internet Speeder-Upper and VIRTUAL TASKBAR SEX BABE and good-old-fashioned spyware subscribes you to them via some wide-open API that Microsoft has decided in their eminent wisdom to include. Share and Enjoy!
Ha! I was just heading over to the site to dig it up. Thanks for saving me the effort! >8)
Tose darn cell-snipers, perched on the ridge and catching unwary passers-by with expensive phone calls. They're a menace. I've half a mind to take out those ruffians, once and for all!
Bring forth my Sup-r-Tonez Mega-Phone, squire!
While this is true in many respects, you'll find that many websites have a space which is fed dynamic content by the ad server. I recall a rant recently on reallifecomics.com where he went off on the ad provider he was using when it started putting ads up that he specifically requested NOT to see on his site. I can't get to the site right now (possibly being updated), but I'll paste it here when I find it.
If you don't use the webarchive.org version, the guy's site is current. The hosts file there was updated as recently as today.
Not sure why he linked an old copy, when the current site is perfectly functional.
You know, what is it about local car dealerships and advertising? Are they required by law to have television advertisements that are so horribly bad that viewers cringe when they come on? Detroit can't be the only place like this; is it the same everywhere?
Ah yes, the tiny, insignificant Slashdot site. Little do they know...
If you advertisers hadn't infested the Internet with pop-up, flashing, animated advertisements that dwarfed the actual content, you'd not be in this position. Newspaper ads are given no priority over the content; that's the difference. You can look at one or the other, just as easily. Not so with the crap you put on the Internet.
I have no sympathy at all; you abused your customers, and now they have a "negative vibe." Deal with it.
See, but Google indeed doesn't do those sort of things. If the story were about Gmail, then the great idea would probably not be "let's unilaterally enforce an obscure standard." Most likely, it'd be something that makes most of us scratch our heads and think, "Wow, neat. Never really thought about that before." Geeks will prefer the latter 99 times out of 100. It's just the way we are, here. If you're looking for people who want some company with a shady reputation to police teh intarweb with fuzzy bunnies and daffodils--whether or not they were asked to--this is not the place to be.
Obtaining and/or making available the disc images shouldn't in any way be dependent on the breaking of the protection mechanisms. I imagine the discs will be available "long" before the protection scheme is unraveled (for very small values of "long", most likely).
I HiL8r)><><><><>].torrent"; what you'll see first are the crippled ones with no way to install them, and the method to circumvent them following on later.
In fact, the widespread understanding of the protection scheme will follow as a RESULT of the OS being leaked, not the other way around. Seems to be a common misconception that people expect to be looking for a "Generic-Intel.OSX.RAW.ISO.XXX.WTF.[<><><><><(aNn
Not to mention the non-existence of the program which nobody is rushing to a shop to buy.
That's because we spend all day vandalizing Slashdot, itself! They should thank slashdot.org for giving us mischievious tech-savvy people someplace to flame other than their sites.
My favorite was always getting brained by a brick from my collapsing house while having a drink in the pub.
One in my house, too. Five.
In case anyone was wondering, that's the sister store to Best Buy.
Is she cute?
I'd like to chime in with a hearty "me, too!" in this case. The Micro Center near Detroit (Madison Heights, I think) is my very first place to go for all things computery. Definitely worth trying to find one in your area. Great to see this from them. Much better than Comcast's "you have a Linux box on the network? You're on your own, buddy," regardless of whether the problem has anything to do with the OS or the internal network, which seems to be par for the course w.r.t. tech support.
>8D No, thought it up myself independently. I thought it was rather witty and original!
Guess I'll have to settle for witty and semi-original.
The "Grammar Nazi".
If they really wanted to be a truly positive influence on the computer world, they'd dump the operating system stuff, too, and stick with the one thing they're actually good at: office productivity software.