It's a solution in search of a problem. It's not very technologically advanced...wow...XML-ize a list of titles and links associated with those titles. Wow. It's just hype, and the hype is wearing off...and everybody knows it. Soon it will be supplanted by a more comprehensive system not based on and limited by 'blog' gayity.
What the hell? Is all the negativity toward some marketing asshole making you sad? Did you really forget how Slashdot despises turds who lie and misrepresent their wares? Like this kid did. You know he did...how else did he sell the first few dots!? Whatever.
I mean, it isn't ALL about performance. Maintainability is probably the #1 coding related issue I hear about. Performance always matters. It just isn't always the primary concern. As a developer in internal and B2B IT systems to 8 years, performance is usually far down on the list. The hired help can wait an extra second for a system response to save development and maintenance costs.
'Macroevolution'.. 'Microevolution'? These words make no sense to me. LIterally they seem completely ludicrous. Perhaps they have some tie-in with your personal mythology about the creation of the universe? I mean, don't you know that the same little steps that allow species to develop better camo (see moths) are the same little steps that lead to whole-sale changes in structure over 100s of millions of years.
The problem is, nobody lives long enough to watch it happen...and creationists seem only to believe things that happen infront of their own stupid faces. But they have no problem believing in an invisble man who created the entire universe and dallies in the lives of humans??!!
RSS is lame anyway, wow a real technical achievment there. CSS is much more important to the average user's experience and for giving developers more time to spend on things other than handeling browser quirks.
"The customer should be have more personal responsibility!", they'll say. "If a customer has their account compromised, we will charge them for the clean-up cost."
Because in the USA today...you don't count if you ain't a corp or a blathering religious retard.
I mean, how else? I have used BBS, then Internet since 1984. I've never gotten stung. It's simple really. Perhaps I miss out on some 'cool' screensaver or app but I like my system.
Software Firewalls are useless! I can configure my cheap-ass 5 year old netgear router/hub to deny outgoing connections on specific ports just as I can control incomming.
If your PC is compromised enough that you have un-wanted programs sending data to third parties...you've got much bigger problems. If that malicious code is already running on your machine, your 'software firewall' is just as vulnerable as any other program.
Um...not sure what's going on here...but I think software firewalls have to be one of the silliest 'security products' out there. I still can't believe cable companies don't distribute modem/routers to users and remotely configure them to block the commonly exploited ports and protocols.
My conspiracy theory is that they have big investments in the software firewall companies...and in existing non-router cablemodems.
That it is run by Google? Using their special 'searching algorithms'? It's Yet Another Web-Based Mail System. Nothing there that hasn't been done many times before.
They do it because it's COOL. You just built your own custom setup that works seemlessly with your existing hardware! DIY is huge.
I doubt anyone with this project in their heart would follow the instructions exactly...customization is half the fun! They post the exact instructions because they are geeks and we are geeks and we all like to know how things work.
You know, those tools you might work or live with who think that kmowing about and running the 'latest' software is some kind of life goal. Gleefully runnig bug-laden betas crashing their systems and reducing productivity.
I must be some kind of throw-back geek. I won't touch it until it ships. I don't do bug-testing for free...and no...none of these 'betas' are really that interesting anyway.
Remember, you retard, that it's still orders of magnitude more likely that you will die in a traffic accident causeed by a fellow citizen than die at the hands of international terrorist action.
But where is the $300 Billion campaign to wipe out traffic fatalities?
If I want something, I want it now. I am willing to pay a fair price. I don't care to wait 4 days only to findout that some douchebag snipped me at the last second. Maybe if you are poor, or your time is worthless, eBay is a valid place to acquire goods. For me, it's a waste of time.
Define "The Church"? I assume you don't mean the Catholic Church because most of this bull is coming from Protestants and Baptists. These groups don't really have an over-reaching power like the Vatican. So does "The Church" mean any congregation at all? Does this term representing the 'bad aspect' of christianity only hold sway when the group of people is of a certain size?
Science owes nothing to Christianity. Christianity spent hundreds of its formitive years suppressing science. Christianity owes everything to science! Science was good enough to show up on the scene, show where religion was wrong, and let religion stick arround!
I read your post and got the "They took er joerbs" vibe from it. I am a big proponant of the 'invsible hand' but see your point, and I suppose there is no sure answer as to what influences the situation to what degree. Considering recent events (http://www.cnn.com/money/2005/10/27/news/economy/ pension_worries/index.htm?cnn=yes) it appears that the current gov't is still working to screw their bosses.
In light of this new trend, I guess I would have to agree with you. The invisble hand isn't good for the people when their own leaders have their finger on the balance and are tipping it away from their citizens.
Even NAFTA, widly regarded as bad for America isn't good enough for these guys...it's too...well...protectionist I would guess given the attitude towards cannada and the lumber tarrif dispute.
Even though you bought the game, the simple act of circumventing this 'copy protection' makes one a criminal. Regardless of whether or not you let friends copy it. It ain't right but there it is.
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It's a solution in search of a problem. It's not very technologically advanced...wow...XML-ize a list of titles and links associated with those titles. Wow. It's just hype, and the hype is wearing off...and everybody knows it. Soon it will be supplanted by a more comprehensive system not based on and limited by 'blog' gayity.
If cybercrime got the money and attention some pot did, geeks would be in Abu Graib getting tortured by manish-looking women.
What the hell? Is all the negativity toward some marketing asshole making you sad? Did you really forget how Slashdot despises turds who lie and misrepresent their wares? Like this kid did. You know he did...how else did he sell the first few dots!? Whatever.
I mean, it isn't ALL about performance. Maintainability is probably the #1 coding related issue I hear about. Performance always matters. It just isn't always the primary concern. As a developer in internal and B2B IT systems to 8 years, performance is usually far down on the list. The hired help can wait an extra second for a system response to save development and maintenance costs.
But truely...when the people can be so easily manipulated as we witnessed in the 2004 election...there is no hope.
What with the great digital HD TV coming, and the ability to buy things without leaving my bedroom...life is great!
'Macroevolution'.. 'Microevolution'? These words make no sense to me. LIterally they seem completely ludicrous. Perhaps they have some tie-in with your personal mythology about the creation of the universe? I mean, don't you know that the same little steps that allow species to develop better camo (see moths) are the same little steps that lead to whole-sale changes in structure over 100s of millions of years.
The problem is, nobody lives long enough to watch it happen...and creationists seem only to believe things that happen infront of their own stupid faces. But they have no problem believing in an invisble man who created the entire universe and dallies in the lives of humans??!!
One is an extrapolation, the other a fabrication.
If I recall correctly, the original Prince of Persia looked quite smoothly animated and drawn.
Sorry, XML just holds data. SOAP doesn't mean what you think it means.
RSS is lame anyway, wow a real technical achievment there. CSS is much more important to the average user's experience and for giving developers more time to spend on things other than handeling browser quirks.
Does that mean that I am forever limited to rights that my parents afford me?
You know, so it could be worn to dress-up parties and what-not and not be anachronistic.
"The customer should be have more personal responsibility!", they'll say. "If a customer has their account compromised, we will charge them for the clean-up cost."
Because in the USA today...you don't count if you ain't a corp or a blathering religious retard.
I mean, how else? I have used BBS, then Internet since 1984. I've never gotten stung. It's simple really. Perhaps I miss out on some 'cool' screensaver or app but I like my system.
Software Firewalls are useless! I can configure my cheap-ass 5 year old netgear router/hub to deny outgoing connections on specific ports just as I can control incomming.
If your PC is compromised enough that you have un-wanted programs sending data to third parties...you've got much bigger problems. If that malicious code is already running on your machine, your 'software firewall' is just as vulnerable as any other program.
Um...not sure what's going on here...but I think software firewalls have to be one of the silliest 'security products' out there. I still can't believe cable companies don't distribute modem/routers to users and remotely configure them to block the commonly exploited ports and protocols.
My conspiracy theory is that they have big investments in the software firewall companies...and in existing non-router cablemodems.
SO we suffer.
That it is run by Google? Using their special 'searching algorithms'? It's Yet Another Web-Based Mail System. Nothing there that hasn't been done many times before.
They do it because it's COOL. You just built your own custom setup that works seemlessly with your existing hardware! DIY is huge.
I doubt anyone with this project in their heart would follow the instructions exactly...customization is half the fun! They post the exact instructions because they are geeks and we are geeks and we all like to know how things work.
You know, those tools you might work or live with who think that kmowing about and running the 'latest' software is some kind of life goal. Gleefully runnig bug-laden betas crashing their systems and reducing productivity.
I must be some kind of throw-back geek. I won't touch it until it ships. I don't do bug-testing for free...and no...none of these 'betas' are really that interesting anyway.
Remember, you retard, that it's still orders of magnitude more likely that you will die in a traffic accident causeed by a fellow citizen than die at the hands of international terrorist action.
But where is the $300 Billion campaign to wipe out traffic fatalities?
If I want something, I want it now. I am willing to pay a fair price. I don't care to wait 4 days only to findout that some douchebag snipped me at the last second. Maybe if you are poor, or your time is worthless, eBay is a valid place to acquire goods. For me, it's a waste of time.
Define "The Church"? I assume you don't mean the Catholic Church because most of this bull is coming from Protestants and Baptists. These groups don't really have an over-reaching power like the Vatican. So does "The Church" mean any congregation at all? Does this term representing the 'bad aspect' of christianity only hold sway when the group of people is of a certain size?
Science owes nothing to Christianity. Christianity spent hundreds of its formitive years suppressing science. Christianity owes everything to science! Science was good enough to show up on the scene, show where religion was wrong, and let religion stick arround!
So you are dismissing Evolution as a theory because it does not predict what will happen? Goodness.
Consider the vast scope of evolution: everything that ever did and ever will exist on Earth!
And you wonder why there is no predicitivty to it. Shit man, they can't predict the weather either.
I read your post and got the "They took er joerbs" vibe from it. I am a big proponant of the 'invsible hand' but see your point, and I suppose there is no sure answer as to what influences the situation to what degree. Considering recent events (http://www.cnn.com/money/2005/10/27/news/economy/ pension_worries/index.htm?cnn=yes) it appears that the current gov't is still working to screw their bosses.
In light of this new trend, I guess I would have to agree with you. The invisble hand isn't good for the people when their own leaders have their finger on the balance and are tipping it away from their citizens.
Even NAFTA, widly regarded as bad for America isn't good enough for these guys...it's too...well...protectionist I would guess given the attitude towards cannada and the lumber tarrif dispute.
Even though you bought the game, the simple act of circumventing this 'copy protection' makes one a criminal. Regardless of whether or not you let friends copy it. It ain't right but there it is.