That's logic turned on its head. So you hit a deer with your ABS-equipped car: does it occur to you that, perhaps, without ABS, you'd have hit the deer a lot faster?
My Volvo has less than 3000 dollars in mods, and gets 5.3 on a cold day. High-end tuning indeed.
That's right, those "type-R" stickers, huge tailpipes and big-ass wings sure can turn a Volvo into a Jaguar. I know, I've seen it in Fast and Furious...
If I want to give the car some extra gas through a corner and kick the back end out, don't interfere with me.
It sounds like you're a great driver who knows how to control a car in a skid, so this probably doesn't concern you, but I'm quite sure the thousands of people injured by an encounter with a retard playing Michael Shumaker behind the wheel every year would have loved the car to forcibly keep the driver in check.
Hint to Larry (and IBM, HP, Novell, etc): Work together on a single distribution of Linux if you want to get rid of Microsoft.
Hint to pubjames: Larry, IBM, HP, Novell and all the others would go to bed with Microsoft without any moral qualms if it was profitable for them and if it wasn't a dangerous move in the long run.
I remember when AOL was useful, back in the dialup BBS days.
You have a good memory. I can't remember AOL being useful ever, if you exclude the free diskettes. Back in the days, even Compuserve was a preferable option...
By pulling stunts like this, they clearly demonstrate their motives as benefiting themselves and not the customers.
Because you had doubts? AOL is a for-profit organization, not a charity. Corporations do the most heinous, immoral things if they can get away with it. When they can't get away with it, they don't do it, not because they're afraid to look bad, but because it displeases customers and therefore hurts the bottomline.
they should delay until all the QA testing and debugging are done. Adding features to buggy products leads to Microsoft Windows-like products and no ends of pain for customers/users...
The privacy of our customers' information is something we take really seriously.'
In fact, Paypal/eBay only cares about its bottom line, like any corporation. They care about the privacy of their customers insofar as their customers represents their bottomline, but once the IRS gets too threatening and/or when the heat of that story will be off, they'll turn over the information withouta qualm, be sure about it.
The latest generation is called NarusInsight, capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second.
That's 1192MB/s, not exactly what I'd call enough to monitor the entire innurnet in real time, which means somewhere along the way, AT+T must be doing some filtering, which is even sadder.
On the other hand, that's roughly 2 CD-sized full-length movies a second, so that's about 2 hours worth of pr0n per second, which means that it takes a stadium packed with 7200 naked NSA agents and a truck full of Kleenex tissues to check out all the videos in real-time...
There is an even better method for keeping witty headlines *and* be ranked in top position with google : pr0n. Here are some sample headlines : - UN concerned about Iraq and free hentai - Pope Benedict XVI replaces John Paul II in bondage - France strikers and Natalie Portman arrested
Windows users are prepared for viruses and the reason Linux users do not sweat them much is not because linux viruses do not exist; it is because system design makes their impact minimal.
Actually, you're quite wrong. Linux flaws have existed and are still found today that can be (and have been) taken advantage of. The reason Linux users don't sweat is because flaws are spotted quickly by many people who read the code, and fixed quickly too. That and people who code open-source tend to produce good code, as a matter of pride.
Oh and by the way, Windows has a "safe"(well, safer) operating mode in the form of a user account, but nobody uses it because it's a PITA, so everybody stays in supervisor mode and bad things happen.
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From an orange producer who says he prefers apples. Cynicism is all very well, but make sure there is something to be cynical about first.
There's a part you didn't understand in my post : comparing an old, outdated, text email client to a new shiny web-based one is complete nonsense. Therefore, the guy can prefer pine all he wants, nobody will care about his preferences anyway because nobody wants to run pine, but he still managed to rattle off a list of Gmail features. You'll also notice that his "bad" and "ugly" sections list minor problems, while he appears ecstatic about the features in the "good" list.
Good plugs are those that aren't obvious. I maintain that it smells like a plug though.
Oranges vs. apples, from an orange producer
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So, the guy compares a web-based email client to a text-only standalong email client? That makes no sense, unless of course you suppose that a Google employee *might* be plugging a Google product with a pretense article...
Anti-virus companies, ironically, are very much like a parasite that only lives on a specific host. When the host disappears (pre-Vista versions of Windows), the parasite dies. Either they get lucky and they find a new host in the form of Vista with security problems, or they diversify in a hurry.
For once, you can't blame Microsoft for ruining an industry, and I can't say I'll feel sad if McAfee or Symantec dies...
his opinions might not be better, but his facts are likely to be a lot better, and he probably knows a lot more about the entire legal aspect than you (and most people) do
His opinion has a lot more value than yours or mine, because, like you point out, whatever he based his opinion on doesn't come from his arse.
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(Still don't trust ABS since I hit that deer.)
That's logic turned on its head. So you hit a deer with your ABS-equipped car: does it occur to you that, perhaps, without ABS, you'd have hit the deer a lot faster?
My Volvo has less than 3000 dollars in mods, and gets 5.3 on a cold day. High-end tuning indeed.
That's right, those "type-R" stickers, huge tailpipes and big-ass wings sure can turn a Volvo into a Jaguar. I know, I've seen it in Fast and Furious...
If I want to give the car some extra gas through a corner and kick the back end out, don't interfere with me.
It sounds like you're a great driver who knows how to control a car in a skid, so this probably doesn't concern you, but I'm quite sure the thousands of people injured by an encounter with a retard playing Michael Shumaker behind the wheel every year would have loved the car to forcibly keep the driver in check.
Hint to Larry (and IBM, HP, Novell, etc): Work together on a single distribution of Linux if you want to get rid of Microsoft.
Hint to pubjames: Larry, IBM, HP, Novell and all the others would go to bed with Microsoft without any moral qualms if it was profitable for them and if it wasn't a dangerous move in the long run.
Schweet, I can't wait...
I remember when AOL was useful, back in the dialup BBS days.
You have a good memory. I can't remember AOL being useful ever, if you exclude the free diskettes. Back in the days, even Compuserve was a preferable option...
By pulling stunts like this, they clearly demonstrate their motives as benefiting themselves and not the customers.
Because you had doubts? AOL is a for-profit organization, not a charity. Corporations do the most heinous, immoral things if they can get away with it. When they can't get away with it, they don't do it, not because they're afraid to look bad, but because it displeases customers and therefore hurts the bottomline.
In short: it's all about money.
they should delay until all the QA testing and debugging are done. Adding features to buggy products leads to Microsoft Windows-like products and no ends of pain for customers/users...
Fuck eBay... fuck PayPal... fuck gOogle... long live /.
Yeees, I'm sure Slashdot would withhold your personal information and defend your right to privacy to the death if the feds asked for it...
The privacy of our customers' information is something we take really seriously.'
In fact, Paypal/eBay only cares about its bottom line, like any corporation. They care about the privacy of their customers insofar as their customers represents their bottomline, but once the IRS gets too threatening and/or when the heat of that story will be off, they'll turn over the information withouta qualm, be sure about it.
It sounds like something a college kid would make up as a prank and try to sell.
Hmm, I think the kid would have called it Dingleberry...
Despite the inevitable job-cutting that typically follows mergers, the job market picture for the nation's tech workers is definitely improving.
After the rain comes sunshine. News at 11...
a device that electrocutes the guitarist as soon as it detects the first notes of Smoke On The Water...
Jim Gettys complaining about bloated software, I must be dreaming :)
Both software and hardware grow. Software grows in terms of functionality,
Bullshit. Linux programmers have mainly gotten lazy with the amount of RAM and disk you can get for dirt cheap these days.
Want an example? strace konsole and see how many bloody files it opens : nearly 200. TWO FRIGGIN' HUNDRED FILES simply to open an xterm!
The latest generation is called NarusInsight, capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second.
That's 1192MB/s, not exactly what I'd call enough to monitor the entire innurnet in real time, which means somewhere along the way, AT+T must be doing some filtering, which is even sadder.
On the other hand, that's roughly 2 CD-sized full-length movies a second, so that's about 2 hours worth of pr0n per second, which means that it takes a stadium packed with 7200 naked NSA agents and a truck full of Kleenex tissues to check out all the videos in real-time...
There is an even better method for keeping witty headlines *and* be ranked in top position with google : pr0n. Here are some sample headlines :
- UN concerned about Iraq and free hentai
- Pope Benedict XVI replaces John Paul II in bondage
- France strikers and Natalie Portman arrested
Actually, you misspelled the URL.
Windows users are prepared for viruses and the reason Linux users do not sweat them much is not because linux viruses do not exist; it is because system design makes their impact minimal.
Actually, you're quite wrong. Linux flaws have existed and are still found today that can be (and have been) taken advantage of. The reason Linux users don't sweat is because flaws are spotted quickly by many people who read the code, and fixed quickly too. That and people who code open-source tend to produce good code, as a matter of pride.
Oh and by the way, Windows has a "safe"(well, safer) operating mode in the form of a user account, but nobody uses it because it's a PITA, so everybody stays in supervisor mode and bad things happen.
Let's just go back to a.out...
From an orange producer who says he prefers apples. Cynicism is all very well, but make sure there is something to be cynical about first.
There's a part you didn't understand in my post : comparing an old, outdated, text email client to a new shiny web-based one is complete nonsense. Therefore, the guy can prefer pine all he wants, nobody will care about his preferences anyway because nobody wants to run pine, but he still managed to rattle off a list of Gmail features. You'll also notice that his "bad" and "ugly" sections list minor problems, while he appears ecstatic about the features in the "good" list.
Good plugs are those that aren't obvious. I maintain that it smells like a plug though.
So, the guy compares a web-based email client to a text-only standalong email client? That makes no sense, unless of course you suppose that a Google employee *might* be plugging a Google product with a pretense article...
Anti-virus companies, ironically, are very much like a parasite that only lives on a specific host. When the host disappears (pre-Vista versions of Windows), the parasite dies. Either they get lucky and they find a new host in the form of Vista with security problems, or they diversify in a hurry.
For once, you can't blame Microsoft for ruining an industry, and I can't say I'll feel sad if McAfee or Symantec dies...
their phones look and act as if it was the 90's
So? some people like new tech in old packages.
his opinions might not be better, but his facts are likely to be a lot better, and he probably knows a lot more about the entire legal aspect than you (and most people) do
His opinion has a lot more value than yours or mine, because, like you point out, whatever he based his opinion on doesn't come from his arse.