Somehow I imagine that the folks at securityfocus.com would check pretty carefully for that. If there were serious danger involved, they'd either give MS some time to fix it before this release, or they would have told us the whole story.
So hold your chickens before they jump the conclusion.
I think KeyKos used to claim that they had the longest running process. Of course, this isn't fair, because their processes can outlive power and equipment failures. Still, interesting and relevant.
Better yet, give the 50 iPods to an embedded systems class at MIT, and say, "See how many different ways you can violate the DMCA. We'll pick up your legal bill, but you'll be the ones serving time. Hooa."
No, it's older than that. Perhaps from their second or third year.
The best part was they had a future "United Colors of Benetton" ad. It featured eight people in identical hazmat suits in front of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Due to the hazmat suits, there was no way to detect what race the models were. That idea had me giggling for weeks.
The real way it hurts the bottom line is elsewhere, though. If you had access to every old movie/song/game/etc. for free, you might buy less new shit.
That's why you can't share Kirby the Wonder Bug movies via P2P any more than you can share Matrix:Reloaded. That's why they don't want crap coming out of copyright for 90 years. It's not like Casablanca is that essential to their bottom line.
When they announced the subscription service, they said they got about the same amount of money for subscriptions vs ads, but the amount they got paid for ads was going down all the time. I'm sure that now the subscription is much better for them than the ads.
Someone should tune some kind of encoder so that it tries to "lose" the same information that was lost the last time a file was encoded. I guess that's what transcoders are.
But all the xbox fans seem to think Halo is better than Jesus. It's definitely prettier than CS, but I don't understand how people can take it seriously. Mostly because I can't get anywhere near the precision control on an xbox controller than I can with mouselook. But that's just me.
Unless you have a LAPTOP and want it to have more than one button. Your suggestion isn't really a viable option on a plane, train, bus, or a lot of the many of places people buy laptops so they can use them in.
I've used a few PC laptops, and I've yet to find one that has a right-click button that was comfortable to use. With touchpad tapping and dragging turned on, I find the ctrl-click solution to not only be more comfortable, but much more effective. With the PCs, I have to contort my mouse hand to hit the second button, and it becomes very difficult to aim the pointer precisely.
Since the right-click keyboard button on PCs doesn't let you right-click-drag, it doesn't really solve my problem. The single button trackpad is better for me, a power user.
I've never been in an Apple store either. Your points are wrong anyway.
"If you don't beleive in evolution you don't beleive in conventional medicine and it would be unethical for you to make recommendations to patients based on something you beleived to be untrue."
I'd say that the distinction between micro and macro evolution is just as exotic as your flat-earth example, no matter how oft repeated it is. I didn't say that they were morons; I just said they were religious fanatics with a poor grasp on reality. If I were a professor giving out recommendations to medical school, that is not the type of person I could recommend.
I understand your general point. Treat the candidate as a black box. If the black box does good things (actions), recommend it. If it does bad things (actions), do not. Don't descriminate based on what is in the box(beliefs).
However, based on my personal experience (and perhaps that of the professor in question), an espoused belief in creationism is very firm evidence that they will perform poorly as doctors. Witness GW's recent FDA appointments.
I have no idea what their immigration policies are, but I've been shopping around for a better nation of residence.
I'm not dying to move anytime soon, but someplace with a desireable culture and a sane legal environment would draw my attention. Serious Nationalism doesn't indicate "a desireable culture" in my book. It's part of the reason I'm thinking of leaving the US.
I haven't looked into Taiwan. Maybe I should check out Taiwan...
Iceland has stated that it's going to go to all hydrogen, and sell polution credits under the Kyoto treaty. Between that and their incredibly profitable gene pool, they'll be per-capita, the wealthiest nation in the world soon enough.
Too bad they seem to be turning into nationalists. So much for emmigration.
Someone who doesn't believe in evolution, for example, might not be as vigilant about making their patients finish antibiotics. The reason for always finishing your antibiotics is so that you will be less likely to allow bacteria with a slight resistance the ability to propagate. Were there no such thing as evolution, this would not be an issue whatsoever.
This example popped into mind after thinking about the problem for about five seconds. I'm sure there are other items that might only occur to me if I were a doctor. Perhaps "prescribing pills" was just a poor example for you to pick, iduno.
Dismissing evolution is more than just a big damn conclusion to reach. It's on the same order as insisting that the Earth is flat. If you've honestly looked at the evidence, and decided that the Earth was flat, and your religious beliefs also happen to insist that the earth is flat, I would submit that you are a religious fanatic with a poor grasp on reality. I wouldn't want flat-earthers in NASA either.
Soulseek is full of people that take care of their music. It has a great gtk client. I think it's at http://www.slsk.org but I don't want to check at work.
Slashdot Mirror
Somehow I imagine that the folks at securityfocus.com would check pretty carefully for that. If there were serious danger involved, they'd either give MS some time to fix it before this release, or they would have told us the whole story.
So hold your chickens before they jump the conclusion.
I think KeyKos used to claim that they had the longest running process. Of course, this isn't fair, because their processes can outlive power and equipment failures. Still, interesting and relevant.
Reread my post. Note that I was refering to an april fools story.
Reread again.
(Unless you're kidding and trolling the moderators. In which case, well done.)
Way back in the day (1999?), slashdot ran one of its most successful april fools stories. It was an ask slashdot:
/. was biased, blah blah blah.
/.'s find feature and google to no avail.
Since MS Windows is closed source, isn't it possible that there's GPL code in there that they're using illegally? What should we do about this?
Of course, everyone responded that the questioner was an idiot,
Maybe SCO didn't get the joke either. Can anyone find a link to that article? I tried
Better yet, give the 50 iPods to an embedded systems class at MIT, and say, "See how many different ways you can violate the DMCA. We'll pick up your legal bill, but you'll be the ones serving time. Hooa."
I do not appreciate this flip tone while discussing such a serious problem.
I live in Toronto, and I died of SARS. Have some fucking respect.
No, it's older than that. Perhaps from their second or third year.
The best part was they had a future "United Colors of Benetton" ad. It featured eight people in identical hazmat suits in front of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Due to the hazmat suits, there was no way to detect what race the models were. That idea had me giggling for weeks.
Those of us who don't read SF just because it's SF feel that his novels have only improved.
And if you think Virtual Light ripped off Snow Crash, go check the publication dates again.
The real way it hurts the bottom line is elsewhere, though. If you had access to every old movie/song/game/etc. for free, you might buy less new shit.
That's why you can't share Kirby the Wonder Bug movies via P2P any more than you can share Matrix:Reloaded. That's why they don't want crap coming out of copyright for 90 years. It's not like Casablanca is that essential to their bottom line.
Exactly. That's why Freunhoffer (sp?) goes after the people that use the codec (players and encoders), not the people with MP3 files.
Um, goldeneye kindof owns that title.
When they announced the subscription service, they said they got about the same amount of money for subscriptions vs ads, but the amount they got paid for ads was going down all the time. I'm sure that now the subscription is much better for them than the ads.
Since it's lossy, blah blah blah...
Someone should tune some kind of encoder so that it tries to "lose" the same information that was lost the last time a file was encoded. I guess that's what transcoders are.
The browser is embedded in iTunes, iirc. The SSL status might not be apparent.
But all the xbox fans seem to think Halo is better than Jesus. It's definitely prettier than CS, but I don't understand how people can take it seriously. Mostly because I can't get anywhere near the precision control on an xbox controller than I can with mouselook. But that's just me.
Ditch the nag dialogs, and eliminate qttask.exe. That piece of shit is half the reason that Windows users hate Apple.
If Apple released OSX on x86, then I would be a happy happy man :)
You assume that your life wouldn't be otherwise impacted by all the flying pigs and demons/devils/etc in Florida for the winter.
BTW, I can pay an average of a buck a song at Best Buy and not be saddled with a crippled and lesser quality copy.
Yeah, but then you have to go to a Best Buy.
Unless you have a LAPTOP and want it to have more than one button. Your suggestion isn't really a viable option on a plane, train, bus, or a lot of the many of places people buy laptops so they can use them in.
I've used a few PC laptops, and I've yet to find one that has a right-click button that was comfortable to use. With touchpad tapping and dragging turned on, I find the ctrl-click solution to not only be more comfortable, but much more effective. With the PCs, I have to contort my mouse hand to hit the second button, and it becomes very difficult to aim the pointer precisely.
Since the right-click keyboard button on PCs doesn't let you right-click-drag, it doesn't really solve my problem. The single button trackpad is better for me, a power user.
I've never been in an Apple store either. Your points are wrong anyway.
I think about Canada more than any other potential destination. This is partially due to all my favorite books ending with:
/. sig, you'll know what happened.
"Vancouver, BC"
If that ever becomes my
As an AC pointed out elsewhere:
"If you don't beleive in evolution you don't beleive in conventional medicine and it would be unethical for you to make recommendations to patients based on something you beleived to be untrue."
I'd say that the distinction between micro and macro evolution is just as exotic as your flat-earth example, no matter how oft repeated it is. I didn't say that they were morons; I just said they were religious fanatics with a poor grasp on reality. If I were a professor giving out recommendations to medical school, that is not the type of person I could recommend.
I understand your general point. Treat the candidate as a black box. If the black box does good things (actions), recommend it. If it does bad things (actions), do not. Don't descriminate based on what is in the box(beliefs).
However, based on my personal experience (and perhaps that of the professor in question), an espoused belief in creationism is very firm evidence that they will perform poorly as doctors. Witness GW's recent FDA appointments.
I have no idea what their immigration policies are, but I've been shopping around for a better nation of residence.
I'm not dying to move anytime soon, but someplace with a desireable culture and a sane legal environment would draw my attention. Serious Nationalism doesn't indicate "a desireable culture" in my book. It's part of the reason I'm thinking of leaving the US.
I haven't looked into Taiwan. Maybe I should check out Taiwan...
Iceland has stated that it's going to go to all hydrogen, and sell polution credits under the Kyoto treaty. Between that and their incredibly profitable gene pool, they'll be per-capita, the wealthiest nation in the world soon enough.
Too bad they seem to be turning into nationalists. So much for emmigration.
Someone who doesn't believe in evolution, for example, might not be as vigilant about making their patients finish antibiotics. The reason for always finishing your antibiotics is so that you will be less likely to allow bacteria with a slight resistance the ability to propagate. Were there no such thing as evolution, this would not be an issue whatsoever.
This example popped into mind after thinking about the problem for about five seconds. I'm sure there are other items that might only occur to me if I were a doctor. Perhaps "prescribing pills" was just a poor example for you to pick, iduno.
Dismissing evolution is more than just a big damn conclusion to reach. It's on the same order as insisting that the Earth is flat. If you've honestly looked at the evidence, and decided that the Earth was flat, and your religious beliefs also happen to insist that the earth is flat, I would submit that you are a religious fanatic with a poor grasp on reality. I wouldn't want flat-earthers in NASA either.
Soulseek is full of people that take care of their music. It has a great gtk client. I think it's at http://www.slsk.org but I don't want to check at work.