bullshit. Jenna Bush, and George Bush for that matter, is no more important than anyone else. Viewing government employees (and thats what the job of President is) as somehow above the average citizen leads to a fucked up society. If Jenna Bush's garbage is offlimits because it might help someone kidnap her, then so is mine.
We use spamassassin at work, which we've just setup recently.. We've been using pegasus email for years and years. Since the machines were ps/2s running dos 3.x. pegasus doesn't cut down on spam, but there is *no* excuse for email clients such as outlook that can infect your computer with such apparent ease. If you use a client like this, or force it on your users, you are an irresponsible net citizen.
If clickthrough licenses are tested in court and found to NOT be binding, it doesn't matter if you click "yes" one time or one million times, it doesn't magically become binding at some point.
Conversly, if they are found to be binding, they're binding. You don't sign your checks a half dozen times "just to be sure".. once is enough.
Top of the page, at the bottom of the section titled data format:
For versions 1.04 and above: You may include a client location on each line. The line is ignored for clients outside that location. Client locations are specified by % lines:
%lo:ipprefix
means that IP addresses starting with ipprefix are in location lo. lo is a sequence of one or two ASCII letters. A client is in only one location; longer prefixes override shorter prefixes. For example,
They won't care that they can't make a copy of it, because the copy will invariably be of worse quality, and that is exactly what the audiophile doesn't want.
They might not want to copy it, but they want to use their fancyhigh-pricedDACs.. which they won't be able to do without digital outputs.
--sean
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If microsoft did "biometric user identification", we'd be screaming bloody 1984.
Instead, it's linux-based. Neat-o.
Firstly, i don't know who this "we" is. But I wouldn't be screaming anything at a microsoft version of this, other than "neat-o". Assuming it was the same thing - a biometric security device. You use your fingerprint instead of a password. If the MS version had you using your fingerprint instead of an implant in the back of your neck that tracked your every move, sure. I'd be screaming bloody 1984. If my implant let me, that is.
Who forced you to buy a DVD player in the first place?
No one forced me to buy a DVD player. I chose to.
I mean, after converting to composite, then converting to RF after being messed about by the video recorder, then playing it on an old TV, you're losing all the picture quality.
I am? When I rent a DVD, it sure looks better than when I rent a VHS to me. And it sounds a HELL of a lot better. -- Besides, this is the same problem. Who the fuck are you (or the industry) to tell me what to buy, or how to use it? (BTW i'm not converting to composite, unless you mean internally in the DVD player. I'm using the VCR to convert from composite to RF.. and the tv isn't that old, its from the 90s i beleive.)
Or is this just for the pirated movies? The fact that it blocks macrovision suggests this may be the case.
I'm glad you have all modern components. My TV has only a coax input. my dvd player has only composite and svideo out. If it weren't for the fact that i can disable macrovision in my dvd player, i would need to buy a new tv. instead, i disable macrovision and use my vcr to convert from composite to coax. why should i have to buy a new tv because the industry doesn't trust me?
IBM just used it ala mouse-input. Microsoft is allowing people to use digital ink as a first class citizen in the computing world. It's a whole new way of looking at computing.
No offense, but why must EVERYTHING be ported to Linux? Logitech is a profitable company, why must they make everything multi-platform? What if they don't have the resources or desire to support (or give away free source) to their products to the Linux community? Does that make them "bad" or "wrong"?
No, not inherently. But it makes the product useless to me. (well, the part where it requires special paper also makes it useless to me..). And I'll continue to feel free to point out that its useless to me, just as you'll countine to feel free to point out that i'm bitching and moaning.
Hi, how's it going?
(ps, I didn't actually bitch and moan about this.)
Email 'em and refer them to the article, ask what their take on it is. And if your bank is a big coorporation that doesn't care about one email from one customer, find a new bank. Or better, a credit union.
So, i have to boot up a windows box and connect to the net to play this cd through my 20 dollar speakers and my 10 dollar sound card?
I can't put it in my cd player and listen to it through real speakers? I can't listen to it in my car?
Ok, well. I dunno what that is, but its not an audio cd, and I don't know how much it costs, but even if its free, its useless to me. Thanks, but no thanks.
However, more fundamentally, there's the development platform which presents an XUL interface for developers to write their own applications. Mozilla the browser is one such application (the reference app, you might say), but so is Galeon. For that matter so are Netscape, Komodo (not a browser, but an IDE!) and at some point, presumably AOL's UI.
Galeon uses the mozilla renderer, but it doesn't use XUL. It's not an XUL application.
Seriously, can off-duty cops accept bribes to pull people over?
Apparently! I hope one from CT responds to this, because i've got 90 bux i'd drop for an hour each of 3 cops fucking with friends of mine on vaious CT highway. Maybe a little extra for a k9 unit.
$150k is small change, if its used for Good. In this case, its not. In this case, its a bunch of taxpayer money, being used to irritate the taxpayers with no measurable social benifits.
The last thing i want on my way to/from work is to be pulled over by a corrupt cop to be questioned by some jackass fumbling with a palm pilot. My responses would certainly be more indicitive of my digust with the process than my thoughts on mass transport.
<conspiracy> Or, it could be the Man pushing the "current" edge, so that next time the edge is a little bit further. John Q. Public doesn't notice the slow change. <conspiracy>
"Off-duty troopers, hired at $30 an hour, picked motorists at random and directed them to pull off the interstate into a rest stop, where Palm Pilot- toting interviewers waited. "
That's how florida's high-speed rail authority recently choose to gauge public interest in riding the high speed train.
The major detractor was the user interface, since it didn't feel like a Windows application. This was probably due to a poor understanding by the authors of XUL.
No it isn't. Understanding XUL doesn't make the application feel any more like a Win app. They hit the nail on the head- the engine is great, but whats up with that wacky UI? I love moz, but clearly the beast is as much a technology demo as it is an end-user application.
A non-sarcastic, real question:
Does anyone using linux/bsd/whatever prefer the mozilla UI to galeon or skipstone?
Because its a timeline of the history of Linux not the GPL.
Does anyone really beleive that Linux would have been a success story without humans? No, probably not, but the history of humanity isn't covered because its not the point.
Instead of pumping millions of dollars into finding new and exciting ways of delivering advertising, advertisers should concentrate on producing ads that hold the viewers interest.
I have a tivo. I fast forward past the majority of ads. But some, i rewind and watch again. Recently, the "power ade" ads, which feature CG scenes of what would otherwise be amazing physical feets. A jogger jumps accross an open draw bridge, a football player throws the ball nearly out of the stadium. These are interesting enough to make me want to see that again. Most ads aren't even good enough to watch the first time, so i don't. If they're forced upon me DURING THE SHOW, they are obviously going to be annoying. If i don't change the channel or turn off the TV, they're at the least going to leave a bad taste in my mouth. I'll look for products that don't remind me of being pissed off.
Just like those DVDs that FORCE you to watch the ads. If i wore a watch it wouldn't be a timex, because the forced ads are so damned annoying.
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bullshit. Jenna Bush, and George Bush for that matter, is no more important than anyone else. Viewing government employees (and thats what the job of President is) as somehow above the average citizen leads to a fucked up society. If Jenna Bush's garbage is offlimits because it might help someone kidnap her, then so is mine.
We use spamassassin at work, which we've just setup recently.. We've been using pegasus email for years and years. Since the machines were ps/2s running dos 3.x. pegasus doesn't cut down on spam, but there is *no* excuse for email clients such as outlook that can infect your computer with such apparent ease. If you use a client like this, or force it on your users, you are an irresponsible net citizen.
If clickthrough licenses are tested in court and found to NOT be binding, it doesn't matter if you click "yes" one time or one million times, it doesn't magically become binding at some point.
.. once is enough.
Conversly, if they are found to be binding, they're binding. You don't sign your checks a half dozen times "just to be sure"
in preferences, set the 'funny' modifier to -2, set the 'foe' modifier to -2, 'friend' to +1, mark folks that annoy you as foes.
first line of the article:
Cost savings of open source software in the server room
Top of the page, at the bottom of the section titled data format:
For versions 1.04 and above: You may include a client location on each line. The line is ignored for clients outside that location. Client locations are specified by % lines:
%lo:ipprefix
means that IP addresses starting with ipprefix are in location lo. lo is a sequence of one or two ASCII letters. A client is in only one location; longer prefixes override shorter prefixes. For example,
%in:192.168
%ex
+jupiter.heaven.af.mil:192.168.1.2:::in
+jupiter.heaven.af.mil:1.2.3.4:::ex
specifies that jupiter.heaven.af.mil has address 192.168.1.2 for clients in the 192.168.* network and address 1.2.3.4 for everyone else.
They won't care that they can't make a copy of it, because the copy will invariably be of worse quality, and that is exactly what the audiophile doesn't want.
They might not want to copy it, but they want to use their fancy high-priced DACs.. which they won't be able to do without digital outputs.
--sean
If microsoft did "biometric user identification", we'd be screaming bloody 1984.
Instead, it's linux-based. Neat-o.
Firstly, i don't know who this "we" is. But I wouldn't be screaming anything at a microsoft version of this, other than "neat-o". Assuming it was the same thing - a biometric security device. You use your fingerprint instead of a password. If the MS version had you using your fingerprint instead of an implant in the back of your neck that tracked your every move, sure. I'd be screaming bloody 1984. If my implant let me, that is.
Who forced you to buy a DVD player in the first place?
No one forced me to buy a DVD player. I chose to.
I mean, after converting to composite, then converting to RF after being messed about by the video recorder, then playing it on an old TV, you're losing all the picture quality.
I am? When I rent a DVD, it sure looks better than when I rent a VHS to me. And it sounds a HELL of a lot better. -- Besides, this is the same problem. Who the fuck are you (or the industry) to tell me what to buy, or how to use it? (BTW i'm not converting to composite, unless you mean internally in the DVD player. I'm using the VCR to convert from composite to RF.. and the tv isn't that old, its from the 90s i beleive.)
Or is this just for the pirated movies? The fact that it blocks macrovision suggests this may be the case.
I'm glad you have all modern components. My TV has only a coax input. my dvd player has only composite and svideo out. If it weren't for the fact that i can disable macrovision in my dvd player, i would need to buy a new tv. instead, i disable macrovision and use my vcr to convert from composite to coax. why should i have to buy a new tv because the industry doesn't trust me?
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Give it up for the likeness of my head carved into a pumpkin!!!!!!
IBM just used it ala mouse-input. Microsoft is allowing people to use digital ink as a first class citizen in the computing world. It's a whole new way of looking at computing.
What your pet dog, named 'Ink' hears:
blah blah blah blah blah blah-blah. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah INK! blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Sigh. Not much I can do about it anymore
You could find another bank.. they do exist.
--Sean
No offense, but why must EVERYTHING be ported to Linux? Logitech is a profitable company, why must they make everything multi-platform? What if they don't have the resources or desire to support (or give away free source) to their products to the Linux community? Does that make them "bad" or "wrong"?
No, not inherently. But it makes the product useless to me. (well, the part where it requires special paper also makes it useless to me..). And I'll continue to feel free to point out that its useless to me, just as you'll countine to feel free to point out that i'm bitching and moaning.
Hi, how's it going?
(ps, I didn't actually bitch and moan about this.)
Email 'em and refer them to the article, ask what their take on it is.
And if your bank is a big coorporation that doesn't care about one email from one customer, find a new bank. Or better, a credit union.
--Sean
I haven't read the page yet, as the site isn't responding but...
These guys evidently think you can make a perfect society with less than perfect human beings.
It needn't be perfect, just better. Or even just different.
So, i have to boot up a windows box and connect to the net to play this cd through my 20 dollar speakers and my 10 dollar sound card?
I can't put it in my cd player and listen to it through real speakers? I can't listen to it in my car?
Ok, well. I dunno what that is, but its not an audio cd, and I don't know how much it costs, but even if its free, its useless to me. Thanks, but no thanks.
--sean
However, more fundamentally, there's the development platform which presents an XUL interface for developers to write their own applications. Mozilla the browser is one such application (the reference app, you might say), but so is Galeon. For that matter so are Netscape, Komodo (not a browser, but an IDE!) and at some point, presumably AOL's UI.
Galeon uses the mozilla renderer, but it doesn't use XUL. It's not an XUL application.
ding ding ding!
Seriously, can off-duty cops accept bribes to pull people over?
Apparently! I hope one from CT responds to this, because i've got 90 bux i'd drop for an hour each of 3 cops fucking with friends of mine on vaious CT highway. Maybe a little extra for a k9 unit.
Weird ethics, this.
$150,000 is small change
$150k is small change, if its used for Good. In this case, its not. In this case, its a bunch of taxpayer money, being used to irritate the taxpayers with no measurable social benifits.
The last thing i want on my way to/from work is to be pulled over by a corrupt cop to be questioned by some jackass fumbling with a palm pilot. My responses would certainly be more indicitive of my digust with the process than my thoughts on mass transport.
<conspiracy>
Or, it could be the Man pushing the "current" edge, so that next time the edge is a little bit further. John Q. Public doesn't notice the slow change.
<conspiracy>
"Off-duty troopers, hired at $30 an hour, picked motorists at random and directed them to pull off the interstate into a rest stop, where Palm Pilot- toting interviewers waited. "
That's how florida's high-speed rail authority recently choose to gauge public interest in riding the high speed train.
The major detractor was the user interface, since it didn't feel like a Windows application. This was probably due to a poor understanding by the authors of XUL.
No it isn't. Understanding XUL doesn't make the application feel any more like a Win app. They hit the nail on the head- the engine is great, but whats up with that wacky UI? I love moz, but clearly the beast is as much a technology demo as it is an end-user application.
A non-sarcastic, real question:
Does anyone using linux/bsd/whatever prefer the mozilla UI to galeon or skipstone?
I myself use galeon for 100% of my web browsing.
--sean
Because its a timeline of the history of Linux not the GPL.
Does anyone really beleive that Linux would have been a success story without humans? No, probably not, but the history of humanity isn't covered because its not the point.
--sean
This has been posted before, but here's a nifty history-of-unix timeline
Also the book 'a quarter century of unix' is a great read, if a bit dated.
--sean
Instead of pumping millions of dollars into finding new and exciting ways of delivering advertising, advertisers should concentrate on producing ads that hold the viewers interest.
I have a tivo. I fast forward past the majority of ads. But some, i rewind and watch again. Recently, the "power ade" ads, which feature CG scenes of what would otherwise be amazing physical feets. A jogger jumps accross an open draw bridge, a football player throws the ball nearly out of the stadium. These are interesting enough to make me want to see that again. Most ads aren't even good enough to watch the first time, so i don't. If they're forced upon me DURING THE SHOW, they are obviously going to be annoying. If i don't change the channel or turn off the TV, they're at the least going to leave a bad taste in my mouth. I'll look for products that don't remind me of being pissed off.
Just like those DVDs that FORCE you to watch the ads. If i wore a watch it wouldn't be a timex, because the forced ads are so damned annoying.