Might be a good idea to clone SP2 CDs and anonymously mail it to them. Given that they probably already install stuff from people they don't know, I can't see this being any different...
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Probably installed by eDonKazaa 3.0 with new uB3R-chat IM and P0rNgatherer Plus which everyone downloads anyway, even though they know it will render their system useless. Actually, that doesn't sound too different than what people do now.
And only a few days after I had posted that, I walked into Blockbuster and they had a person at the door grabbing each person that walked by if they knew about the new No Late Fees deal and whether they understood it.
Considering the size of today's drives, the width of today's pipes, and speed of today's systems, the point is that most home users will not notice this on their 100-300GB drive sucked down overnight using their overpowered webmail terminal. If it's installed without your consent, it's still spyware/adware/malware, just like a rosebush in a tomato garden can still be considered a weed. The point is that there is so much going on with today's systems that the typical user has no idea what's going on.
As a previous poster said, a whole office downloading this would kill the pipes, but you are more likely to see a centralized corporated edition spyware tool ready to handle this. Don't have one at your office? Get one.
Stop reading this and run to the store now! I'll wait...
And here I thought users wanted an operating system that was fast and didn't crash.
If that was the first thing people thought about when using their computer, we would have seen viruses, porno, P2P, and spam disappear a long time ago.
Gee, they only have the information for the new service at the counter. It clearly says in FAQ format that if you keep the movie for 8 days past the due date that you have purchased the movie. If you're too irresponsible to return a movie before 8 days are up, you should get into their Freedom Pass which will be cheaper in the long run than buy every movie you decided to view but didn't have time to actually view.
With enough people in my family watching movies, I only watch a movie once a week, but we are constantly cycling movies in and out of Blockbuster on just the 2-movie pass.
Also, I believe they were talking about the Personal version when they said "free". For a centralized corporate edition, they would most likely charge a fee. I would be very surprised if they didn't.
If it were free for corporate use this would sink Spysweeper and CounterSpy, who both charge a per-seat license for a separate scanning system.
Symantec is talking about adding spyware detection into their existing virus scanning software this March and we'll have to judge how effective the product is vs Microsoft's solution. Since they already offer a virus management solution in the corporate edition, this would allow companies already using it to just get the benefit in a simple upgrade that pushes from a central server to the clients.
I don't see any benefit to an IE7 without the tabbed browsing. It's just such a big part of the browsing experience these days that I couldn't image being without it. In fact, I invite them to take all keystroke commands used by Firefox tabbed browsing just to keep things consistent. There are times when you just have to use IE and for those times they should want to appear as similar to Moz/FF as possible.
According to the article, 24% of the available wave energy. Doesn't sound like a little bit. What about all those people who say that changing the currents in the Atlantic will swing us to global warming? Are they on board for this?
I'm proposing that the generator is somehow tapping into the realm of probabilities. That it is detecting when probabilities are narrowing at certain times, allowing major world-changing events to come together. This kind of links in with participatory/final anthropic principle, and multiple universes (whether they are tied together by string theory's yet unseen dimensions).
From those articles, it seems the existence of our consciousness threatens reality itself in its current form. Then again, this could all be like Kepler's "six planets" theories, or describing the sun as Zeus's son on a sky chariot.
Some time around Thanksgiving 2004 the PA turnpike workers decided to go on strike. They switched to using all machines and jacked up the price of tickets to the ma flat price for that weekend. Why did I have to suffer because some turnpike people were unhappy with their jobs? I say pull a Reagan on them and fire the lot of their asses to show them how R2D2 hands out tickets, but don't make me suffer.
Anyhoo, the practices seem to revolve around making sure that people have jobs, like scratching your car with a pump handle while pumping gas or being surly while handing out tickets at toll booths.
I like Yahoo Maps because it lets you save locations for use later, like if you make the same trip again a year later. I don't see this in Mapquest, MSN/Mapblast, or Google Maps.
In other news, shares of automakers flew through the roof today as speculators pointed to the need for tens of millions of automobiles that will need to be left idling for a week to trigger this. Contruction on the 6-lane highway that the cars will be parked on has begun this week, complete with toll booths and signs for Jersey City exits.
Scientists are positive that the past 100 years of atmospheric modeling on US roads has produced the most effective greenhouse booster possible.
Spray on suits?!?! We are just begging for horrible things to happen to these people by pressing clothes to the limits of physics. "How about I stay really really safe and wear the Apollo era suit, and you guys spray that stuff on yourselves and make sure you cover every freakin micrometer of exposed skin."
Mine has been working fine for years. Not only do I use it, but my wife and two of our three kids use it. My third child is only 1-1/2 YO so he's still getting the hang of the non-electric version, but that Braun will work just fine for him. Our original brush cost US$50, and I've seen them in the store for US$20 that now have a two-minute timer. You probably throw away $20 on a weekly basis, so what is $20 annually even if you were to somehow mess up the new one in a year's time?
What's wrong with a little competition? I thought that's what the whole open source thing was about...providing alternatives. What works for you might not work for me...etc, etc.
Wow, because mega-corporations make much better decisions than countries about treating employees/citizens! The pace of progress will increase on the backs of whatever population can be yoked to pull the Titan/Shenzhou/Soyuz to the launch pad. Will WalLockMart or VirginAmazon care about salaries or rights once they have militarized space? It is inevitable that once someone has a resource somewhere (space hardware in this case) that they will set up infrastructure to protect it from others. You are so blind to think that the very mistrust that motivated you to make your statement is not alive in others. It is human nature, and once these companies get their fingers in the pie they will behave no differently in their projects than the pharohs did in theirs.
The only question: Will we be able to push to the stars and advance humanity with the resulting tech in all this, or will we stagnate in our LEO playground?
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What about Mozilla 1.7.5? It's close enough to Firefox, yet it's not that billboard platform called Netscape nor is it IE.
Might be a good idea to clone SP2 CDs and anonymously mail it to them. Given that they probably already install stuff from people they don't know, I can't see this being any different...
FrUm MycrewSauft
Pleez Instawl Dis CD
Thx, Luv bIlL
Probably installed by eDonKazaa 3.0 with new uB3R-chat IM and P0rNgatherer Plus which everyone downloads anyway, even though they know it will render their system useless. Actually, that doesn't sound too different than what people do now.
And only a few days after I had posted that, I walked into Blockbuster and they had a person at the door grabbing each person that walked by if they knew about the new No Late Fees deal and whether they understood it.
Considering the size of today's drives, the width of today's pipes, and speed of today's systems, the point is that most home users will not notice this on their 100-300GB drive sucked down overnight using their overpowered webmail terminal. If it's installed without your consent, it's still spyware/adware/malware, just like a rosebush in a tomato garden can still be considered a weed. The point is that there is so much going on with today's systems that the typical user has no idea what's going on.
As a previous poster said, a whole office downloading this would kill the pipes, but you are more likely to see a centralized corporated edition spyware tool ready to handle this. Don't have one at your office? Get one.
Stop reading this and run to the store now! I'll wait...
Wow! Almost looks like it wasn't taken from Acroread's splash screen. Almost.
And here I thought users wanted an operating system that was fast and didn't crash.
If that was the first thing people thought about when using their computer, we would have seen viruses, porno, P2P, and spam disappear a long time ago.
What makes you think general users even know it is out? They are the type of poeple that don't find out about these updates for at least a year.
Gee, they only have the information for the new service at the counter. It clearly says in FAQ format that if you keep the movie for 8 days past the due date that you have purchased the movie. If you're too irresponsible to return a movie before 8 days are up, you should get into their Freedom Pass which will be cheaper in the long run than buy every movie you decided to view but didn't have time to actually view.
With enough people in my family watching movies, I only watch a movie once a week, but we are constantly cycling movies in and out of Blockbuster on just the 2-movie pass.
Also, I believe they were talking about the Personal version when they said "free". For a centralized corporate edition, they would most likely charge a fee. I would be very surprised if they didn't.
If it were free for corporate use this would sink Spysweeper and CounterSpy, who both charge a per-seat license for a separate scanning system.
Symantec is talking about adding spyware detection into their existing virus scanning software this March and we'll have to judge how effective the product is vs Microsoft's solution. Since they already offer a virus management solution in the corporate edition, this would allow companies already using it to just get the benefit in a simple upgrade that pushes from a central server to the clients.
I don't see any benefit to an IE7 without the tabbed browsing. It's just such a big part of the browsing experience these days that I couldn't image being without it. In fact, I invite them to take all keystroke commands used by Firefox tabbed browsing just to keep things consistent. There are times when you just have to use IE and for those times they should want to appear as similar to Moz/FF as possible.
According to the article, 24% of the available wave energy. Doesn't sound like a little bit. What about all those people who say that changing the currents in the Atlantic will swing us to global warming? Are they on board for this?
I'm proposing that the generator is somehow tapping into the realm of probabilities. That it is detecting when probabilities are narrowing at certain times, allowing major world-changing events to come together. This kind of links in with participatory/final anthropic principle, and multiple universes (whether they are tied together by string theory's yet unseen dimensions).
From those articles, it seems the existence of our consciousness threatens reality itself in its current form. Then again, this could all be like Kepler's "six planets" theories, or describing the sun as Zeus's son on a sky chariot.
Some time around Thanksgiving 2004 the PA turnpike workers decided to go on strike. They switched to using all machines and jacked up the price of tickets to the ma flat price for that weekend. Why did I have to suffer because some turnpike people were unhappy with their jobs? I say pull a Reagan on them and fire the lot of their asses to show them how R2D2 hands out tickets, but don't make me suffer.
Anyhoo, the practices seem to revolve around making sure that people have jobs, like scratching your car with a pump handle while pumping gas or being surly while handing out tickets at toll booths.
Bleh. No account means no access across multiple systems.
The evil cause is called UNIONS. Welcome to Soviet New Jersey, where we also can't pump our own gas.
I like Yahoo Maps because it lets you save locations for use later, like if you make the same trip again a year later. I don't see this in Mapquest, MSN/Mapblast, or Google Maps.
In other news, shares of automakers flew through the roof today as speculators pointed to the need for tens of millions of automobiles that will need to be left idling for a week to trigger this. Contruction on the 6-lane highway that the cars will be parked on has begun this week, complete with toll booths and signs for Jersey City exits.
Scientists are positive that the past 100 years of atmospheric modeling on US roads has produced the most effective greenhouse booster possible.
Certain people also get confused by quantum physics. Are we to abandon that now? Let's stop catering to infant minds.
Business as usual on planet earth.
Spray on suits?!?! We are just begging for horrible things to happen to these people by pressing clothes to the limits of physics. "How about I stay really really safe and wear the Apollo era suit, and you guys spray that stuff on yourselves and make sure you cover every freakin micrometer of exposed skin."
I still can't see the ANY key!
Mine has been working fine for years. Not only do I use it, but my wife and two of our three kids use it. My third child is only 1-1/2 YO so he's still getting the hang of the non-electric version, but that Braun will work just fine for him. Our original brush cost US$50, and I've seen them in the store for US$20 that now have a two-minute timer. You probably throw away $20 on a weekly basis, so what is $20 annually even if you were to somehow mess up the new one in a year's time?
What's wrong with a little competition? I thought that's what the whole open source thing was about...providing alternatives. What works for you might not work for me...etc, etc.
Wow, because mega-corporations make much better decisions than countries about treating employees/citizens! The pace of progress will increase on the backs of whatever population can be yoked to pull the Titan/Shenzhou/Soyuz to the launch pad. Will WalLockMart or VirginAmazon care about salaries or rights once they have militarized space? It is inevitable that once someone has a resource somewhere (space hardware in this case) that they will set up infrastructure to protect it from others. You are so blind to think that the very mistrust that motivated you to make your statement is not alive in others. It is human nature, and once these companies get their fingers in the pie they will behave no differently in their projects than the pharohs did in theirs.
The only question:
Will we be able to push to the stars and advance humanity with the resulting tech in all this, or will we stagnate in our LEO playground?