The typical Virus writer is not the typical malicious hacker.
Viirus writers let us say dumbasses when the Half Life 2 source code was stolen, and also let Valve have fair warning that they were being retards and should use a more secure system.
Virus writers let me know to avoid outlook like the plague and protect myself from someone malicious who may want to install a keystroke recorder on my computer to steal my credit card and social security number.
Crime for proffit will exist even if the crime for fun group did not. I am not defending virus writers though. We new about email worms for a while, we don't need to be pelted by them. Social engineering viruses are old hat too.
But the people who write the first widly propogating virus to exploit a particular thing to alert a lot of people to it that just would not care otherwise. And it probably does protect a lot of bad administrators from far worse.
Except more and more jobs are being outsourced because schools have churned out commodity programmers and business's can get them anywhere.
What we need if we want to stay the forefront is for there to be fewer programmers of a higher quality. For the past decade we have had too many people not gettin turned off by CS. So they enter the workforce as commodity disposable workers, and they tarnish the reputation of you uys who are good too. Now our jobs go to India and either they have better or equal workers and thins will never come back or they suck and we can keep churnin out assembly line (not assembly) programmers.
Or we can start teaching people to be great programmers and start another tech revolution with actual American (European/wherever you are the is a victim of outsourcing) workers.
And that is the most cost effective way to move mail around, so that is not to shocking.
Also sub-urban sprawl increases the cost of mail delivery too. Again, and people get further apart I expect the cost of mail to increase.
Lastly and likly not true, but possible the increase in databases could mean that bulk mailers are sending less more targetted mail. Which would mean that if my original premise was correct the cost of mail would increase.
I don't know if my last premise is true or not. All I know is that the marketing department of Heidlberg (big printing company) claims it is true when they sell their machine designed to handle cusomized printing. But the source is not too reliable under the circumstances.
I don't know what DVR he is talking about but Tivo avoids this.
You give it a show and a channel and a max number of eppisodes to record. It also has a record every episode, record every episode no duplicates, and a record only new episodes options.
The grand parent was talking about whatever came with Adelphia cable, not Tivo, so I don't know if it has Linux internals even.
It may distinguish between timeslots too (like simpson's Sunday vs weekdays) but if it does I am an idiot and using it wrong.
PS I have had Tivo for like 2 weeks and love it and would call myself a Tivo fanboy now so take my post with a grain of salt.
My campus (the University of Delaware) had this really huge fucking bilding. I think thay called it a library.
In it it had a special section where you could go and check out a text book for a few hours. And for $0.15/page you could make copies of it. Or if you were really poor, walk a few blocks with it and make those copies for 5 cents.
When I went to school I spent all my money on tuition and food. But I still had all the reading I needed.
If a text book cost more then 15 cents a page copy it. You can shrink down 2 pages onto a sheet and save yourself at least 15 dollors and hour of work. If the money isnb't that important don't bitch.
If your school does not provide text books for free reading get together with a few people, once you have the first copy it is real easy to make extras. I think part of teh ridiculous cost of library copiers is that fact that they include royalties even (but that is speculation).
My Nokia 63 something or other. I think 6361 is fairly rugged.
I wouldn't through it down 3 flights of cement stairs, but I deffinatly don't sweat dropping it onto the sidewalk.
It's got all sorts of different signals it can receive too.
I do have the leather sleave for it (that I can use without removing) which at least makes me think it will hold togeather better.
My wishlist for phones is leather sleave without the big plastic bottun to attach to a beltclip. I end up having to cut out the bottun and then the sleave is spandex instead of leatehr in the back.
For the cost thing. This is Japan, a fitting room is a lot of good realestate.
They have hotelish things that are like a morge to save space.
If a store can use it to have just an extra room or two available because such and such looks terrible with their hairstyle or something and they need to try on less it may be a very worthwhile tool.
In areas where space is cheap you are probably right though.
The biggest one was they could not adapdt to not being the cheap outsourcing center of the world, and we Americans went elsewhere when they started to need more money.
With the Republican's currently in control the only ant-globilization efforts I have seen taken directly are tarrifs on Dutch steel.
Somehow if we can't compete with the Dutch plus shipping costs I don't think we should be in that market.
At the same time an enemy (or at least good ally of the Axis of Evil) that has no standards for work and environment, and happily butchers it's citizens for protesting (not for a while though) and imprisons our students as spys is a good ally in the global economy.
Since China is such a nice friend we let their sweatshop/river destroying teextile industry slide on the tarrif thing, and cost ourselves and better allies (Latin America) jobs. I am not trying to say this is only a Republican thing, but don't pin it on the Democrats. Remember we want to destroy the free market not encourage it. At least thats what the talk show hosts say that we are doing.
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I was hoping it would be like Marvel vs NFL or some such.
That would be a lot of fun.
I agree.
I subscribed to wired with auto renewal.
I then had my credit (debit really) card expire and got a new one.
well stupid me thoguht that if they didn't get their money they would not renew the subscription, but instead they sent me the 13th issue.
Then decided to send my ten dollor renewal fee to a collections agency.
They wouldn't send me the magazine the first time if I used an expired card, what right do they have to do it a second one?
These people?
The typical Virus writer is not the typical malicious hacker.
Viirus writers let us say dumbasses when the Half Life 2 source code was stolen, and also let Valve have fair warning that they were being retards and should use a more secure system.
Virus writers let me know to avoid outlook like the plague and protect myself from someone malicious who may want to install a keystroke recorder on my computer to steal my credit card and social security number.
Crime for proffit will exist even if the crime for fun group did not. I am not defending virus writers though. We new about email worms for a while, we don't need to be pelted by them. Social engineering viruses are old hat too.
But the people who write the first widly propogating virus to exploit a particular thing to alert a lot of people to it that just would not care otherwise. And it probably does protect a lot of bad administrators from far worse.
Tmors more probable.
No, I didn't RTFA
and even if they said it is safe I probably wouldn't trust them.
Depleated Uranium is also bad, but claimed to be healthy.
read the grandparent.
he said redirect google to search.msn.com
and it does.
I know how it works, I use Linux at home though. And on any computer I can I use Firebird.
But many people type in google, go to a seach page and search. They don't know it's not google (well it is now but).
Except more and more jobs are being outsourced because schools have churned out commodity programmers and business's can get them anywhere.
What we need if we want to stay the forefront is for there to be fewer programmers of a higher quality. For the past decade we have had too many people not gettin turned off by CS. So they enter the workforce as commodity disposable workers, and they tarnish the reputation of you uys who are good too. Now our jobs go to India and either they have better or equal workers and thins will never come back or they suck and we can keep churnin out assembly line (not assembly) programmers.
Or we can start teaching people to be great programmers and start another tech revolution with actual American (European/wherever you are the is a victim of outsourcing) workers.
I just typed "google" in my address bar and got the results for "google" on search.msn.com
Also on the default homepage for IE has an MSN search bar.
I believe the grandparent was being facetious. Because pretty much what he describes as MS's plan is already implemented.
Next time you are stuck at a Windows machine try it.
The reason this was such a big deal is that google was doing something they don't normally do.
If this were to happen regularly and be adds none the less it would be totally ignored.
Going back not as far...
I am pretty sure the original Dues Ex was on the mac.
Maybe the sequel too.
I never played either and don't own a mac, but I had a friend at work who had a mac and would go on and on about how good it was.
No reputable orginization that uses MS products you mean.
The U in EULA is for User.
There has to be some community site that can do it.
Or even a site run by people in an area where the EULA is un-enforcable.
I guess someone need to run a benchmark on a bootlegged copy of windows and then give the results to someone who used not MS apps.
Or even use a clean copy and tell soemone (who uses no MS apps) about it in an informal setting.
They can't possibly have the grounds to gag order you entirly. Bench marks arn't trade secrets.
I also believe that Windows exists in areas that EULA's are not valid. There has to be someone willing to do it.
Well gas seems to rise in price anually too.
And that is the most cost effective way to move mail around, so that is not to shocking.
Also sub-urban sprawl increases the cost of mail delivery too. Again, and people get further apart I expect the cost of mail to increase.
Lastly and likly not true, but possible the increase in databases could mean that bulk mailers are sending less more targetted mail. Which would mean that if my original premise was correct the cost of mail would increase.
I don't know if my last premise is true or not. All I know is that the marketing department of Heidlberg (big printing company) claims it is true when they sell their machine designed to handle cusomized printing. But the source is not too reliable under the circumstances.
I don't know what DVR he is talking about but Tivo avoids this.
You give it a show and a channel and a max number of eppisodes to record. It also has a record every episode, record every episode no duplicates, and a record only new episodes options.
The grand parent was talking about whatever came with Adelphia cable, not Tivo, so I don't know if it has Linux internals even.
It may distinguish between timeslots too (like simpson's Sunday vs weekdays) but if it does I am an idiot and using it wrong.
PS I have had Tivo for like 2 weeks and love it and would call myself a Tivo fanboy now so take my post with a grain of salt.
email account:
5 spams, 2 mails I want.
Snail mail
1 bill
1 magazine
1 letter
1 credit card applications from a non fraudulent company.
so I got one mail I want (the maazine) and 2 that would not be spam to one spam mail. And one spam that is at least quarter way reputable.
so yes, postage is cleanin my real life inbox.
Also, unlike e-spam, postale spam makes it so I can send a letter for less money, much like TV spam gives me free tv.
No, they are explicitly temporary workers.
not permanent residence.
My campus (the University of Delaware) had this really huge fucking bilding. I think thay called it a library.
In it it had a special section where you could go and check out a text book for a few hours. And for $0.15/page you could make copies of it. Or if you were really poor, walk a few blocks with it and make those copies for 5 cents.
When I went to school I spent all my money on tuition and food. But I still had all the reading I needed.
If a text book cost more then 15 cents a page copy it. You can shrink down 2 pages onto a sheet and save yourself at least 15 dollors and hour of work. If the money isnb't that important don't bitch.
If your school does not provide text books for free reading get together with a few people, once you have the first copy it is real easy to make extras. I think part of teh ridiculous cost of library copiers is that fact that they include royalties even (but that is speculation).
Free speach does not have limitations against commercial circulation.
And most of the game code is not even open as in, see it and get tainted.
The code is not free as in beer either. The code for the actual game is really expensive.
My Nokia 63 something or other. I think 6361 is fairly rugged.
I wouldn't through it down 3 flights of cement stairs, but I deffinatly don't sweat dropping it onto the sidewalk.
It's got all sorts of different signals it can receive too.
I do have the leather sleave for it (that I can use without removing) which at least makes me think it will hold togeather better.
My wishlist for phones is leather sleave without the big plastic bottun to attach to a beltclip. I end up having to cut out the bottun and then the sleave is spandex instead of leatehr in the back.
For the cost thing. This is Japan, a fitting room is a lot of good realestate.
They have hotelish things that are like a morge to save space.
If a store can use it to have just an extra room or two available because such and such looks terrible with their hairstyle or something and they need to try on less it may be a very worthwhile tool.
In areas where space is cheap you are probably right though.
A lot of Universities have people telnet to Pine.
And setting up outlook is too hard for them.
by a lot I mean 100% of my sample group of one University.
and about 50% of the halof dozen or so students I have seen check their email.
I would absolutly consider mods as a different project.
Natural Selection can hardly be called the same project as half life. Or am I wrong here?
Thank you for filling in some blanks for me, I actually do not remember much of the late 80's as I was well under 10 at that point.
From what I have read it was not soley protectionism effecting the Japanese auto makers, but also issues of dumping (as in below cost products).
I guess I meant outsourcing in a more general sense. As in outsourcing the manufacturing, sloppy schools not teaching me any better and all.
Have you heard?
Japan is in an over a decade long ressession.
They too have their problems.
The biggest one was they could not adapdt to not being the cheap outsourcing center of the world, and we Americans went elsewhere when they started to need more money.
With the Republican's currently in control the only ant-globilization efforts I have seen taken directly are tarrifs on Dutch steel.
Somehow if we can't compete with the Dutch plus shipping costs I don't think we should be in that market.
At the same time an enemy (or at least good ally of the Axis of Evil) that has no standards for work and environment, and happily butchers it's citizens for protesting (not for a while though) and imprisons our students as spys is a good ally in the global economy.
Since China is such a nice friend we let their sweatshop/river destroying teextile industry slide on the tarrif thing, and cost ourselves and better allies (Latin America) jobs. I am not trying to say this is only a Republican thing, but don't pin it on the Democrats. Remember we want to destroy the free market not encourage it. At least thats what the talk show hosts say that we are doing.
I noticed a considerable increase in X response time with it.
I noticed the exact opposite.
times were signifigantly decreased.