Verizon is not really "cutting off access" to anything. They are just no longer providing these groups *on their own servers* which they are completely free to do, and good for them.
The only times I've used usenet in the last few years were to download TV shows. When my ISP decided to drop postings larger than a few megabytes in order to fight piracy, I was slightly inconvenienced, and had to switch to an alternate pay service, but I didn't complain. In fact I didn't understand why they didn't do it sooner. They were, after all, *hosting* the content on their own servers.
Now sure, that probably ended up blocking some valid postings along with the wealth of pirated movies and music that could previously have been found, but what else were they to do?
In this case, the solution isn't so easy though. Do any of you whiners have a better one? And before you suggest cutting of just the obvious child porn groups, you might want to read up on how Usenet works.
Anyway, I don't see this as unfair. The moment they start blocking websites that *might possibly* contain illegal material, they would be crossing a line into censorship territory where they are deciding what you can or can't expose yourself to, but in this case they are just choosing to not make the material availaable themselves.
Would you guys also object if a web host cancelled the account of an unmoderated web forum about cars or star trek or whatever but also let people post child porn to their servers?
The keyboard is not likely to be a problem. All the asian language keyboards I've ever seen still have western characters on them in the common qwerty layout.
The worst case would be that a few keys might be in different places.
And yes, it might be hard to find an English language OS in computer shops, but even that is common for normal use because in poorer countries, it is pretty easy to find english copies of windows in markets where they sell bootleg software and music.
Personally, I would complain about the one that comes with it too, because with the cable coming out like that it will be a lot easier to pull it from the connector by accident.
If the movies are any indication, we will one day be able to carry around a single sheet of transparent(!) material that will be able to display anything and be read by holding it up against a light background.
I can't see how books can stand up against something like that.
I agree, but one thing i don't like is the cluttered keyboard.
My Macbook Pro's keyboard does all that I need in both OS X and Windows, and doesn't have all of the extra keys and extra writing on them that the Thinpads do.
Knowing Apple though, it will be great on OS X (wait, they already have Preview), it will suck on Windows, and it won't be available for other platforms.
What really should happen is that another developer should make a kick ass open source cross-platform PDF viewer (AND editor for annotations, cropping, combining, extracting, converting, etc).
Unfortunately though, there are already those alternatives out there, but they mostly suck worse than Acrobat/Reader.
What bothers me is that they seem to be blaming her for what others do with the song once they get it from her. That's not her problem.
And as for how many times she distributed it, if they can't prove it was a certain number, how can they have a case? It may have been none for all they know.
Something tells me that would be a problem when trying to become a pilot.
Personally, I am terrified when at the edge of a bridge or the roof of a building, but love flying and I have no problem looking straight down when in plane or helicopter. I guess for me it's more of a fear of falling.
I have no interest in Baseball, so maybe I'm wrong here, but many of my friends talk about games that happened long ago. More specifically, things that happened in those games. I can see how being able to watch specific moments might appeal to them even if they would never go back and watch the whole game.
On Windows, most file type associations are done by installers. Occasionally the app itself does them when it's launched (many people object to that unless it's optional though). Either way, they are stored in the registry as a path to the EXE. If you move it, the link breaks. If you copy the app to a new system, the link doesn't exist.
On a Mac, as soon as the system sees the app (regardless of where it is), you can open file types that belong to it with a double click. It's been like that for decades, so yes, in this regard, it is easier on a Mac.
As for the other support files, it's a little more complicated. On Windows, you have DLLs that are sometimes in the app's folder, but are often in the/windows/system32 folder mixed in with hundreds of others with short useless names (or worse yet, in other places). Sometimes, there are things in folders in/Program Files/Common Files (or worse yet, in a "common" folder elsewhere). In many cases, the DLLs have to be registered (again, often done by the installer).
On a Mac, they may be in a few places too, but usually they are pretty obvious. They are often found in appropriately named folders either the Application Support or Preferences folders in either/Library or ~/Library (or at worst/System/Library). If they are things that hook into the system somehow (codecs, fonts, screensavers, etc.) they will be in those folders instead, but that makes sense too, and they truly can be installed for just one user or everyone depending on which Library folder they go in (as opposed to the Windows "install for just me" which only changes who sees the start menu icon). In any case, there is no "registering" of any kind, so as long as you put these things in the right places, OS X will see them. Again, it's been like this for decades (fonts go in the Fonts folder, extensions in the Extensions folder, etc... and they don't need to be registered in any way like on Windows)
So, again, it's a little easier.
On a Mac, you could even rename the/Applications folder to whatever you want, and almost everything would still work*, but try that with/Program Files on Windows. You would lose the ability to double click files to open them, lose custom icons for different file types, start menu shortcuts would break, uninstallers wouldn't work, etc.
Personally, I don't think OS X outshines Windows in most cases, but these are the kinds of things it does do very well.
*Everything except Apple's own Software Updates, although most people would consider this a bug. Apps and file type associations would still work though.
That may be true in some cases (or maybe none), but looking at the loaded DLLs in a few programs (Steam, Help Viewer, etc.), the version numbers are all 7.00...
Do you use IE 6 now? If not what difference does it make?
I don't use IE as a browser, but I still upgraded to IE 7 on XP because some other apps use IE components, and I understand that 7 should be more secure.
Maybe I missed something, but it seems to me that this is simply an issue about whether the machines should have a printer attached.
Obviously many people think that would be a good idea.
Do others suggest it would be a bad one? Why? What is the reasoning behind that? Or was it just that nobody thought of that when designing the machines?
As long as you make use of all your downloads in the subscription package, emusic still comes out to something like 25-50% (depending on the plan) of the price of Audio Lunchbox or Amazon. All three have a very similar catalog of music.
I don't know about GIMP, but Photoshop splits the image into several tiles, where stored changes and redraws are done only for the tiles that are affected by the current action.
It's a good thing that the flight sim doesn't actually show the planes of all the people using it, otherwise we'd be trying to find a real plane amongst the crashes of all the mouse and keyboard pilots.
No. You'll need to pony up $400 per year for Google Earth Pro.
Google Earth is a very useful tool for architects when used with SketchUp. The $400/year license for the Pro version lets you save higher quality images and gives you the right to use them in presentations and renderings.
Hmm... don't you think the SF Gate should get that credit?
Sure, Slashdot lets us know about the articles, but if you got this link in an email, would you credit the guy who sent it to you with covering the story?!?
Slashdot Mirror
Verizon is not really "cutting off access" to anything. They are just no longer providing these groups *on their own servers* which they are completely free to do, and good for them.
The only times I've used usenet in the last few years were to download TV shows. When my ISP decided to drop postings larger than a few megabytes in order to fight piracy, I was slightly inconvenienced, and had to switch to an alternate pay service, but I didn't complain. In fact I didn't understand why they didn't do it sooner. They were, after all, *hosting* the content on their own servers.
Now sure, that probably ended up blocking some valid postings along with the wealth of pirated movies and music that could previously have been found, but what else were they to do?
In this case, the solution isn't so easy though. Do any of you whiners have a better one? And before you suggest cutting of just the obvious child porn groups, you might want to read up on how Usenet works.
Anyway, I don't see this as unfair. The moment they start blocking websites that *might possibly* contain illegal material, they would be crossing a line into censorship territory where they are deciding what you can or can't expose yourself to, but in this case they are just choosing to not make the material availaable themselves.
Would you guys also object if a web host cancelled the account of an unmoderated web forum about cars or star trek or whatever but also let people post child porn to their servers?
Personally, I'd rather play those adventure games with a gamepad anyway, so it's not really the games that did it.
It's just that a better controller came along.
I do have a joystick for flight sims, but I can't think of anything else I'd want to use it for.
The keyboard is not likely to be a problem. All the asian language keyboards I've ever seen still have western characters on them in the common qwerty layout.
See:
http://www.casemouse.com/kb/mini/japanese-keyboard.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Thai_Keyboard_closeup.jpg/800px-Thai_Keyboard_closeup.jpg
http://sternerson.com/images/new/china/day9/keyboard.jpg
The worst case would be that a few keys might be in different places.
And yes, it might be hard to find an English language OS in computer shops, but even that is common for normal use because in poorer countries, it is pretty easy to find english copies of windows in markets where they sell bootleg software and music.
Personally, I would complain about the one that comes with it too, because with the cable coming out like that it will be a lot easier to pull it from the connector by accident.
If the movies are any indication, we will one day be able to carry around a single sheet of transparent(!) material that will be able to display anything and be read by holding it up against a light background.
I can't see how books can stand up against something like that.
I agree, but one thing i don't like is the cluttered keyboard.
My Macbook Pro's keyboard does all that I need in both OS X and Windows, and doesn't have all of the extra keys and extra writing on them that the Thinpads do.
There are many things that have evolved multiple times without a common origin.
Please read:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/O/octopus_eye.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
Eve Online was ported this way and allowed for both Mac and Linux clients.
See: http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/14269
Neither does Microsoft's Outlook Express, but I don't think that was his point.
Knowing Apple though, it will be great on OS X (wait, they already have Preview), it will suck on Windows, and it won't be available for other platforms.
What really should happen is that another developer should make a kick ass open source cross-platform PDF viewer (AND editor for annotations, cropping, combining, extracting, converting, etc).
Unfortunately though, there are already those alternatives out there, but they mostly suck worse than Acrobat/Reader.
What bothers me is that they seem to be blaming her for what others do with the song once they get it from her. That's not her problem.
And as for how many times she distributed it, if they can't prove it was a certain number, how can they have a case? It may have been none for all they know.
Something tells me that would be a problem when trying to become a pilot.
Personally, I am terrified when at the edge of a bridge or the roof of a building, but love flying and I have no problem looking straight down when in plane or helicopter. I guess for me it's more of a fear of falling.
It really wouldn't be that terrible.
Less commas. More periods.
I have no interest in Baseball, so maybe I'm wrong here, but many of my friends talk about games that happened long ago. More specifically, things that happened in those games. I can see how being able to watch specific moments might appeal to them even if they would never go back and watch the whole game.
True. Nobody likes the original. Most people like the closed-source uTorrent, though.
If you haven't heard, Bit Torrent now owns uTorrent.
But you're wrong.
/windows/system32 folder mixed in with hundreds of others with short useless names (or worse yet, in other places). Sometimes, there are things in folders in /Program Files/Common Files (or worse yet, in a "common" folder elsewhere). In many cases, the DLLs have to be registered (again, often done by the installer).
/Library or ~/Library (or at worst /System/Library). If they are things that hook into the system somehow (codecs, fonts, screensavers, etc.) they will be in those folders instead, but that makes sense too, and they truly can be installed for just one user or everyone depending on which Library folder they go in (as opposed to the Windows "install for just me" which only changes who sees the start menu icon). In any case, there is no "registering" of any kind, so as long as you put these things in the right places, OS X will see them. Again, it's been like this for decades (fonts go in the Fonts folder, extensions in the Extensions folder, etc... and they don't need to be registered in any way like on Windows)
/Applications folder to whatever you want, and almost everything would still work*, but try that with /Program Files on Windows. You would lose the ability to double click files to open them, lose custom icons for different file types, start menu shortcuts would break, uninstallers wouldn't work, etc.
On Windows, most file type associations are done by installers. Occasionally the app itself does them when it's launched (many people object to that unless it's optional though). Either way, they are stored in the registry as a path to the EXE. If you move it, the link breaks. If you copy the app to a new system, the link doesn't exist.
On a Mac, as soon as the system sees the app (regardless of where it is), you can open file types that belong to it with a double click. It's been like that for decades, so yes, in this regard, it is easier on a Mac.
As for the other support files, it's a little more complicated. On Windows, you have DLLs that are sometimes in the app's folder, but are often in the
On a Mac, they may be in a few places too, but usually they are pretty obvious. They are often found in appropriately named folders either the Application Support or Preferences folders in either
So, again, it's a little easier.
On a Mac, you could even rename the
Personally, I don't think OS X outshines Windows in most cases, but these are the kinds of things it does do very well.
*Everything except Apple's own Software Updates, although most people would consider this a bug. Apps and file type associations would still work though.
That may be true in some cases (or maybe none), but looking at the loaded DLLs in a few programs (Steam, Help Viewer, etc.), the version numbers are all 7.00...
Do you use IE 6 now? If not what difference does it make?
I don't use IE as a browser, but I still upgraded to IE 7 on XP because some other apps use IE components, and I understand that 7 should be more secure.
Maybe I missed something, but it seems to me that this is simply an issue about whether the machines should have a printer attached.
Obviously many people think that would be a good idea.
Do others suggest it would be a bad one? Why? What is the reasoning behind that? Or was it just that nobody thought of that when designing the machines?
Why hasn't this been fixed already?
As long as you make use of all your downloads in the subscription package, emusic still comes out to something like 25-50% (depending on the plan) of the price of Audio Lunchbox or Amazon. All three have a very similar catalog of music.
I don't know about GIMP, but Photoshop splits the image into several tiles, where stored changes and redraws are done only for the tiles that are affected by the current action.
There's some info on this at:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=320005
It's a good thing that the flight sim doesn't actually show the planes of all the people using it, otherwise we'd be trying to find a real plane amongst the crashes of all the mouse and keyboard pilots.
No. You'll need to pony up $400 per year for Google Earth Pro.
Google Earth is a very useful tool for architects when used with SketchUp. The $400/year license for the Pro version lets you save higher quality images and gives you the right to use them in presentations and renderings.
Hmm... don't you think the SF Gate should get that credit?
Sure, Slashdot lets us know about the articles, but if you got this link in an email, would you credit the guy who sent it to you with covering the story?!?