I have to say, this is probably the smartest thing M$ has done (ethically speaking).
Now, my only question is... Why?
I don't see any gain in it for M$. It will get them good publicity in terms of positive responce but... well maybe that is it... I have to say if they are succesful my hat is off to them.
That has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever wasted my time reading.
Notice, he is a "part-time" tutor. His credentials??? ZERO.
I can't believe/. let this in... "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters?" PLEASE!!! What next?!?!? Some part time wanna-be at a zoo counted the number of banana's a chimp eats per year...
They also did a lot of the same affects and "camera" work in Babylon 5.
From what I understand Babylon 5 pioneered (well maybe that is too strong of a word, but...) actually displaying space ships as space ships and NOT as AIRPLANES in space (like Star Trek and Star Wars). I know that it has been done before (2001), but in a tv series, it was a "leap" that some thought to be cutting edge. Actually, forcing, viewers to see space flight as we understand it to be, not airplanes in space, but vectored thrust.
Pretty cool stuff. I like the focus on displaying the vector jets firing and moving the ships. Also, the camera work in space is really good too.
When one views SciFi there is a certain level of disbelief that one must take to view it.
Like, modern physics have been altered or NEW physics laws have been found that coincide with technology presented...
I bet you're the type that gets bent out of shape with Star Trek (any of them), Babylon 5 (the BEST), Stargate (SG1, Atlantis), etc. They ALL have something that does not "work" with our current understanding of the nature of the universe.
I happen to like this new version of BG, and hope that it works out, in terms of quality. I hope they don't beat us over the head with religion or whatever, like the original series did (Battlestar Galactica a.k.a. Mormons IN SPACE)...
Aside from that either get over it or don't watch.
This is going to sound bad, but I don't care I feel better when I admit err.
I hadn't even thought of her being raped. I was in the "mode" of thinking about the "StarWars" prophecy of Anakin. So, my mind didn't even think of the rape possibility. It is plausible, not necessarily fitting within the storyline, per se, but it could be who knows.
I agree. I actually enjoyed the information portrayed in the prequels. I enjoyed some of the "new" things we learned about the Jedi, the galaxy before the empire, etc. I think the movies were too fast and hopefully the DVD's will have the cut bits that will make the movie even more enjoyable. SideNote: LOTR:ROTK is MUCH, MUCH better in it's extended form. I was bored in the movies watching ROTK with Sam crying all the freaking time. Then, I saw the extended version (Yule gift), boy was that a GREAT movie.
I am not a "fanboy". I don't study all aspects of the movies I watch to find errors with the plot line, story or universe of the story.
It's a movie. Did you enjoy it? I did. I look forward to E3. It will be interesting.
The ONLY things I have to bitch about would be... o The "virgin birth" thing. That just sickened me. Oh and NO, I do not believe Jesus was a virgin birth either. (flame me if you must, I don't give a Sh*&, I won't respond to the christian freaks) o Jar Jar was annoying. o The actor chosen for Anakin was and is TERRIBLE. Brings the whole movie down. The other, more credible actors, keep the movie decent. Ugh! Could you PLEASE choose someone who doesn't act like the standard annoying teen with two emotions? happy and angst. I know that is part of the character but the actor did such a HORRIBLE job.
I was pointing out that this program is not even worth being on/. and isn't even CLOSE to GIMP. Which has been the vein of most of the comments.
SO in my opinion, this was a ploy by those involved, directly or indirectly, to get attention, and what better way then to get your site/.d
As for the comment you focused in on, that was a statement of what _I_ like. I was NOT comparing it to Paint.NET OR MSPaint. I don't know what you were getting at, because no matter how I read it I can't see how you thought I was comparing those apps (Corel, Photo, PaintShop, etc.) to MS Paint...
In addition, I find Paintshop Pro to be very easy to use, the Corel products less, and Photoshop is TERRIBLE to use. I just assume the art/graphical design types LOVE it that way and I simply stick with PaintShop. It's a free country, so far anyway.
Sad thing is it got the attention of/. which gives it noteriety.
As I said before, just sounds like trying to get free advertisement by getting it up on slashdot.
I know the slowness and the file handling can be fixed and The Gimp UI isn't that great. It (college project) is not even close to the capabilities and maturity of The Gimp.
Personally, for the price, I really like Corel Draw, Corel Paint, and most importantly I really like PaintShop Pro.
The problem is that my disgust and disappointment with the election have caused me to be very angry.
My _fear_ is that now that the republicans have the majority in the house, senate and presidency the Patriot Act WILL get revitalized.
Traitor in the white house??? Let me think... A President that LIE's to get us into a WAR is FAR more of a problem then lying about a blow job.
A president that flaunts morality but then turns around and lies to get us into a war that KILLS Americans and non-terrorist Iraqi's, lacks FAR more integrity then a person who THINKS about where he was (Vietnam) and what he was doing, then, DECIDES to change his mind. THAT shows intellect, compassion and wisdom. Which are three of the qualities of a REAL leader.
"We can't allow terrorists to hide behind our Constitution, it isn't a suicide pack after all!"
The POINT I was making is this.
Yes the Patriot Act is useful to root out terrorists... BUT It is human nature for people in power to take advantage of their position USE this against citizens, non-terrorists and politcal groups that speak out against the government as well (i.e. J. Edgar Hoover or for that matter, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, etc.).
My concern is that it WILL be revitalized and WILL be used in TIME to slowly change America in Orwellian Fashion. It is obvious that MOST would NOT notice.
"Once the avalanche has started it is too late for the pebbles to vote" "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
Look to the future when all the "hub-bub" has died down and people aren't paying attention, people in power will USE the power that is in there and start taking advantage of it.
Oh and I can hear people saying... The American people won't put up with that...
To those people I say BULL FREAKING SHIT!!! Look at this election. It is obvious that 51% percent of the people in this country don't care about the FACTs enough to vote for this ASSHOLE (George Duhbya Bush) again...
Those people... Those "(D)Uhmerkans", 51% percent, are like the SHEEP in Orwell's Animal Farm. You just keep listening to those pigs. Let them keep subtly changing the rules and you just keep rolling over and taking like good little sheep. You probably let them wipe off on your fur and thank them.
Do I think it would be different with Kerry in office? YES!!!! He would at least bring us back from hells gate. Our position in the world wouldn't be one of bully. Our economy would turn around because people wouldn't be freaking out everytime the Homeland Security Office get poked by the Bush Admin to change the level.
But then this is TYPICAL for America. We always chose CRAP over QUALITY! This is the classic Beta versus VHS. Bush is VHS, Kerry Beta. Beta didn't do their marketing right and VHS lied and convinced more people.
Oh well, nobody really cares. Those that do didn't win.
Bush is to Microsoft as... well, I can't in good conscience say "Kerry is too Linux..." Oh wait, this will work... Bush is to Microsoft as Kerry is to Sun and Nader is to Linux.:)
Everyone knows that Nader would be good for the country but not enough people are willing to really switch over.
Times are a changin but slowly. The sad thing is that Nader has looked PRETTY haggard the past couple years... He is still feisty as ever, just looking much older of late.
~G
PS. Oh this is GREAT... AND Chenny is to SCO!:) LOL! Well, it cracked me up anyway.
Under the current system it is cheating, plain and simple, and I am pretty sure it is illegal as well. Free will allows people to do what they want but you live within a structure. You cheat, it's wrong. As I said doesn't stop people and I am not about to police anyone, but I am entitiled to my opinion.
Personally, I don't think the electoral college should exist anymore. The people are smart enough to vote for themselves (well maybe:). But, the electoral college still allows for the problem we saw in 2004. The electoral college was in place back when it was needed, that need is no longer, it should therefore, be removed.
I believe we are all entitled to our opinions unless the right wing has taken that away... (sorry, not even remotely going to justify that. That was a pot shot. Been reading Orwell too much lately)
First let me say, the ":)" is intended to indicate levity...
Second, I think the very idea of "trading votes" is wrong. WRONG in the way that cheating on your spouse is wrong, or shoplifting for whatever you want is wrong, or keying someone's car because you don't like them, their car, or their bumper stickers is wrong. It's just not right, nor is it ever justifiable.
It doesn't stop people from doing it, it's stupid, and there isn't much one can do about it... Unless you catch them at it, but even then it is tough (and expensive) to prove it in court.
I just thought it funny:P. Ha HA!:)
Besides, facts are facts, opinion is spin and they are NOT the same. Even though MOST media outlets, at least in America, put their own spin on things just to increase ratings. The idea of factual unbiased news telling went the way of the Dodo MANY years ago. (probably about 20-25 years ago, IMO):)
Some people on/. pissing on this story like big deal.
I think the really cool thing here is a bunch of high school students with a teach have created a semi-self sufficient truck. All of this for less then $10K. What is not to like OR applaud?
I'd love to see the one's flaming this do anything this cool.
In and age when it is tough to get high school students to do non-destructive activities, this is awesome.
Wait a minute... Isn't OpenOffice's file format nothing more then zipped up XML and XSL?
How diff in concept, is THAT from what M$ is doing in the new file format they are cooking up?
Wait... They will probably patent it like they have been just about everything else lately. The US patent office is filled with people that are not technically savy enough so they don't bother to research the prior art... OR they get money from M$ so they don't do the research. This leads to the Open Source community having to fight all these little battles to prove that M$ does NOT have the patent via prior art.
I know that is was again over the top (last paragraph) just busy and annoyed by this latest round of M$ BS...
A better one would be when they discovered that there was a problem with the Ford Exploder( sorry Explorer) that people shouldn't use or drive Ford Explorer's. Then Ford could go after them.
Personally I think you should call a spade a spade and be able to do it without a company coming after you with the DMCA waving in their hands.
I think slander is fine as long as the one being sladered is given the same amount of space at the same location to defend themselves.
It forces people to rethink/change/grow.
Oh well. Anyone notice Ford Explorer, and Internet Explorer... Wow freaky...
Not really just goofing off.. It's FRIDAY!!!!
AND it's FREAKING NICE up here in NYS!!! FINALLY!!!!
Bummer about you Dad, truly sorry to hear that, and YES it does give people recourse.
BUT
Most of this shit comes from outside the country. Love to see you try and bring them to "justice".
As for the attack on my persona... "I suppose you're against all the legislation for spam as well? Did you also not like the do-not-call list?"
You obviously are STILL upset about your father's incident.
I see most legistlation these days (defined as the past two decades) as MOSTLY tripe and "knee-jerk" reaction to situations. Here in Uhmerika we don't try to fix the problem just paint over it. SPAM legistlation will not solve the problem. The problem is people send SPAM, others read it and "buy" into it. It is the same with all that glossy stuff one gets in snail mail. It is the same as drugs, cigarettes, etc. It's all capitalism baby...;)
The do-not-call-list was a major back fire. I signed up for it and got MORE Calls, told them I was on the DNCL and got the "ok thankyou" and got a call the next day... Maybe not from the same one but who knows. The only way _I_ found out of it was changing my number. THAT worked great...
Just like all the censorship in the past two decades. Lets all take some responsibility for ourselves. You don't like it CHANGE THE F--ING CHANNEL ( that goes for Radio, TV, etc.) This also applies for web sites that "trap" you... Pop ups and what not that through tons of browsers on you page... There are SOOO many examples of DUHmerikans not taking responsibility that it could be a web site dedicated to it...
Your friends M$ don't help you their (taking responsibility) EITHER... No popup block built in... No way to prevent those things from happening.
I have been using Opera (mostly), Mozilla, Netscape and FireFox/Phoenix/what-ever-they-name-it... I don't have those problems anymore.
Yes, when more people use these browsers the nasty people will find a why to make them crap too... BUT the people that develope these great browsers will, I'm sure, find a way to stop it. Hurray for FSF and OSS.
SO I will just keep moving with the times. Use what works.
Maybe if your father was using ClamAV (clamav.net) for his antivirus program he wouldn't have caught that virus. Maybe if your dad was using Netscape or some other browser MOST of the time and IE ONLY when he had to he could have stopped spyware (which in my mind leads to openings for viruses). I only mention these because they are free as are the updates. McAfee and Norton cost money (which is fine) but I had TONS of problems with the last to versions of McAfee and Norton that I bought. They would CONSTANLY bitch (throw up windows). Then after I uninstalled it.(either of them) It would STILL pop up a message box telling me I had to update my software even though I unistalled it. THAT is a virus in my book. So, I switched to ClamAV. Good stuff. Not perfect but good enough for me.
Just open your mind/eyes (you sounded young, sorry) and look at the other tools around you. NO they are NOT perfect but NEITHER is IE. It is OBVIOUSLY not perfect either... Yes it is the most used currently but exercise your choice as an AMERICAN (and anyone else on the iNet) and choose something different. Instead of bitching about what other products can't do take solace in what they can do.
And at the moment that is protect you BETTER then the almighty M$....
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I have to say, this is probably the smartest thing M$ has done (ethically speaking).
... Why?
... well maybe that is it... I have to say if they are succesful my hat is off to them.
Now, my only question is
I don't see any gain in it for M$. It will get them good publicity in terms of positive responce but
~G
That has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever wasted my time reading.
/. let this in... "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters?" PLEASE!!! What next?!?!? Some part time wanna-be at a zoo counted the number of banana's a chimp eats per year...
Notice, he is a "part-time" tutor. His credentials??? ZERO.
I can't believe
Someone is asleep at the wheel.
They also did a lot of the same affects and "camera" work in Babylon 5.
From what I understand Babylon 5 pioneered (well maybe that is too strong of a word, but...) actually displaying space ships as space ships and NOT as AIRPLANES in space (like Star Trek and Star Wars). I know that it has been done before (2001), but in a tv series, it was a "leap" that some thought to be cutting edge. Actually, forcing, viewers to see space flight as we understand it to be, not airplanes in space, but vectored thrust.
Pretty cool stuff. I like the focus on displaying the vector jets firing and moving the ships. Also, the camera work in space is really good too.
2 cents.
SciFi - what does THAT mean to you?
When one views SciFi there is a certain level of disbelief that one must take to view it.
Like, modern physics have been altered or NEW physics laws have been found that coincide with technology presented...
I bet you're the type that gets bent out of shape with Star Trek (any of them), Babylon 5 (the BEST), Stargate (SG1, Atlantis), etc. They ALL have something that does not "work" with our current understanding of the nature of the universe.
I happen to like this new version of BG, and hope that it works out, in terms of quality. I hope they don't beat us over the head with religion or whatever, like the original series did (Battlestar Galactica a.k.a. Mormons IN SPACE)...
Aside from that either get over it or don't watch.
Geesh!!!
~G
Thank you.
This is going to sound bad, but I don't care I feel better when I admit err.
I hadn't even thought of her being raped. I was in the "mode" of thinking about the "StarWars" prophecy of Anakin. So, my mind didn't even think of the rape possibility. It is plausible, not necessarily fitting within the storyline, per se, but it could be who knows.
In any event, thank you for that thought.
~G
I agree. I actually enjoyed the information portrayed in the prequels. I enjoyed some of the "new" things we learned about the Jedi, the galaxy before the empire, etc. I think the movies were too fast and hopefully the DVD's will have the cut bits that will make the movie even more enjoyable. SideNote: LOTR:ROTK is MUCH, MUCH better in it's extended form. I was bored in the movies watching ROTK with Sam crying all the freaking time. Then, I saw the extended version (Yule gift), boy was that a GREAT movie.
:)
I am not a "fanboy". I don't study all aspects of the movies I watch to find errors with the plot line, story or universe of the story.
It's a movie. Did you enjoy it? I did. I look forward to E3. It will be interesting.
The ONLY things I have to bitch about would be...
o The "virgin birth" thing. That just sickened me. Oh and NO, I do not believe Jesus was a virgin birth either. (flame me if you must, I don't give a Sh*&, I won't respond to the christian freaks)
o Jar Jar was annoying.
o The actor chosen for Anakin was and is TERRIBLE. Brings the whole movie down. The other, more credible actors, keep the movie decent. Ugh! Could you PLEASE choose someone who doesn't act like the standard annoying teen with two emotions? happy and angst. I know that is part of the character but the actor did such a HORRIBLE job.
My 3 cents.
That's why "compassionate conservative" is an oxymoron.
~G
I was pointing out that this program is not even worth being on /. and isn't even CLOSE to GIMP. Which has been the vein of most of the comments.
/.d
SO in my opinion, this was a ploy by those involved, directly or indirectly, to get attention, and what better way then to get your site
As for the comment you focused in on, that was a statement of what _I_ like. I was NOT comparing it to Paint.NET OR MSPaint. I don't know what you were getting at, because no matter how I read it I can't see how you thought I was comparing those apps (Corel, Photo, PaintShop, etc.) to MS Paint...
In addition, I find Paintshop Pro to be very easy to use, the Corel products less, and Photoshop is TERRIBLE to use. I just assume the art/graphical design types LOVE it that way and I simply stick with PaintShop. It's a free country, so far anyway.
Geesh!
~G
Sad thing is it got the attention of /. which gives it noteriety.
As I said before, just sounds like trying to get free advertisement by getting it up on slashdot.
I know the slowness and the file handling can be fixed and The Gimp UI isn't that great. It (college project) is not even close to the capabilities and maturity of The Gimp.
Personally, for the price, I really like Corel Draw, Corel Paint, and most importantly I really like PaintShop Pro.
~G
This...
...p
/.
http://www.xdp.it/cximage.htm
Not that piece of crap, it is an MS-Paint knock off.
The CxImage demo has been around for 3 years now. It is open source, originally appeared on
http://www.codeproject.com/bitmap/cximage.as
Davide Pizzolato is the author and a damn good coder. Not some college student.
Please, when you put a title on something think about it a bit.
This sounds like a bunch of his friends got together to up their rating and get this foolishness on
Blah - Humbug.
~G
Go Chimpy McFlightsuit!!!
Good Job.
Moron.
I have written my congress men and women.
I have written my senators.
The problem is that my disgust and disappointment with the election have caused me to be very angry.
My _fear_ is that now that the republicans have the majority in the house, senate and presidency the Patriot Act WILL get revitalized.
Traitor in the white house???
Let me think... A President that LIE's to get us into a WAR is FAR more of a problem then lying about a blow job.
A president that flaunts morality but then turns around and lies to get us into a war that KILLS Americans and non-terrorist Iraqi's, lacks FAR more integrity then a person who THINKS about where he was (Vietnam) and what he was doing, then, DECIDES to change his mind. THAT shows intellect, compassion and wisdom. Which are three of the qualities of a REAL leader.
"We can't allow terrorists to hide behind our Constitution, it isn't a suicide pack after all!"
The POINT I was making is this.
Yes the Patriot Act is useful to root out terrorists...
BUT
It is human nature for people in power to take advantage of their position USE this against citizens, non-terrorists and politcal groups that speak out against the government as well (i.e. J. Edgar Hoover or for that matter, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, etc.).
My concern is that it WILL be revitalized and WILL be used in TIME to slowly change America in Orwellian Fashion. It is obvious that MOST would NOT notice.
"Once the avalanche has started it is too late for the pebbles to vote"
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
Good Day!
Look to the future when all the "hub-bub" has died down and people aren't paying attention, people in power will USE the power that is in there and start taking advantage of it.
Oh and I can hear people saying... The American people won't put up with that...
To those people I say BULL FREAKING SHIT!!! Look at this election. It is obvious that 51% percent of the people in this country don't care about the FACTs enough to vote for this ASSHOLE (George Duhbya Bush) again...
Those people... Those "(D)Uhmerkans", 51% percent, are like the SHEEP in Orwell's Animal Farm. You just keep listening to those pigs. Let them keep subtly changing the rules and you just keep rolling over and taking like good little sheep. You probably let them wipe off on your fur and thank them.
Do I think it would be different with Kerry in office? YES!!!! He would at least bring us back from hells gate. Our position in the world wouldn't be one of bully. Our economy would turn around because people wouldn't be freaking out everytime the Homeland Security Office get poked by the Bush Admin to change the level.
But then this is TYPICAL for America. We always chose CRAP over QUALITY! This is the classic Beta versus VHS. Bush is VHS, Kerry Beta. Beta didn't do their marketing right and VHS lied and convinced more people.
Oh well, nobody really cares. Those that do didn't win.
~G
Bush is to Microsoft :)
... :)
as...
well, I can't in good conscience say "Kerry is too Linux..."
Oh wait, this will work...
Bush is to Microsoft
as
Kerry is to Sun
and
Nader is to Linux.
Everyone knows that Nader would be good for the country but not enough people are willing to really switch over.
Times are a changin but slowly. The sad thing is that Nader has looked PRETTY haggard the past couple years... He is still feisty as ever, just looking much older of late.
~G
PS. Oh this is GREAT
AND
Chenny is to SCO!
LOL! Well, it cracked me up anyway.
Under the current system it is cheating, plain and simple, and I am pretty sure it is illegal as well. Free will allows people to do what they want but you live within a structure. You cheat, it's wrong. As I said doesn't stop people and I am not about to police anyone, but I am entitiled to my opinion.
:). But, the electoral college still allows for the problem we saw in 2004. The electoral college was in place back when it was needed, that need is no longer, it should therefore, be removed.
Personally, I don't think the electoral college should exist anymore. The people are smart enough to vote for themselves (well maybe
I believe we are all entitled to our opinions unless the right wing has taken that away... (sorry, not even remotely going to justify that. That was a pot shot. Been reading Orwell too much lately)
First let me say, the ":)" is intended to indicate levity...
:P. Ha HA! :)
:)
Second, I think the very idea of "trading votes" is wrong. WRONG in the way that cheating on your spouse is wrong, or shoplifting for whatever you want is wrong, or keying someone's car because you don't like them, their car, or their bumper stickers is wrong. It's just not right, nor is it ever justifiable.
It doesn't stop people from doing it, it's stupid, and there isn't much one can do about it... Unless you catch them at it, but even then it is tough (and expensive) to prove it in court.
I just thought it funny
Besides, facts are facts, opinion is spin and they are NOT the same. Even though MOST media outlets, at least in America, put their own spin on things just to increase ratings. The idea of factual unbiased news telling went the way of the Dodo MANY years ago. (probably about 20-25 years ago, IMO)
Where, it's not over till your brother counts the votes, your cousin announces it on national FOX news. :)
Does this mean that the software that the FBI uses to track email in an effort "to fight terrorism" falls under the "spyware" law?
~G
Some people on /. pissing on this story like big deal.
:P G
I think the really cool thing here is a bunch of high school students with a teach have created a semi-self sufficient truck. All of this for less then $10K. What is not to like OR applaud?
I'd love to see the one's flaming this do anything this cool.
In and age when it is tough to get high school students to do non-destructive activities, this is awesome.
Congrats on the good work.
Wait a minute... Isn't OpenOffice's file format nothing more then zipped up XML and XSL?
How diff in concept, is THAT from what M$ is doing in the new file format they are cooking up?
Wait... They will probably patent it like they have been just about everything else lately. The US patent office is filled with people that are not technically savy enough so they don't bother to research the prior art... OR they get money from M$ so they don't do the research. This leads to the Open Source community having to fight all these little battles to prove that M$ does NOT have the patent via prior art.
I know that is was again over the top (last paragraph) just busy and annoyed by this latest round of M$ BS...
~G
Actually it was a good comparison..
A better one would be when they discovered that there was a problem with the Ford Exploder( sorry Explorer) that people shouldn't use or drive Ford Explorer's. Then Ford could go after them.
Personally I think you should call a spade a spade and be able to do it without a company coming after you with the DMCA waving in their hands.
I think slander is fine as long as the one being sladered is given the same amount of space at the same location to defend themselves.
It forces people to rethink/change/grow.
Oh well. Anyone notice Ford Explorer, and Internet Explorer... Wow freaky...
Not really just goofing off.. It's FRIDAY!!!!
AND it's FREAKING NICE up here in NYS!!! FINALLY!!!!
Happy Forth!!!!
Hate to agree with you but when you are right ...
you are right...
Bummer about you Dad, truly sorry to hear that, and YES it does give people recourse.
;)
BUT
Most of this shit comes from outside the country. Love to see you try and bring them to "justice".
As for the attack on my persona...
"I suppose you're against all the legislation for spam as well? Did you also not like the do-not-call list?"
You obviously are STILL upset about your father's incident.
I see most legistlation these days (defined as the past two decades) as MOSTLY tripe and "knee-jerk" reaction to situations. Here in Uhmerika we don't try to fix the problem just paint over it. SPAM legistlation will not solve the problem. The problem is people send SPAM, others read it and "buy" into it. It is the same with all that glossy stuff one gets in snail mail. It is the same as drugs, cigarettes, etc. It's all capitalism baby...
The do-not-call-list was a major back fire. I signed up for it and got MORE Calls, told them I was on the DNCL and got the "ok thankyou" and got a call the next day... Maybe not from the same one but who knows. The only way _I_ found out of it was changing my number. THAT worked great...
Just like all the censorship in the past two decades. Lets all take some responsibility for ourselves. You don't like it CHANGE THE F--ING CHANNEL ( that goes for Radio, TV, etc.) This also applies for web sites that "trap" you... Pop ups and what not that through tons of browsers on you page... There are SOOO many examples of DUHmerikans not taking responsibility that it could be a web site dedicated to it...
Your friends M$ don't help you their (taking responsibility) EITHER...
No popup block built in... No way to prevent those things from happening.
I have been using Opera (mostly), Mozilla, Netscape and FireFox/Phoenix/what-ever-they-name-it... I don't have those problems anymore.
Yes, when more people use these browsers the nasty people will find a why to make them crap too... BUT the people that develope these great browsers will, I'm sure, find a way to stop it. Hurray for FSF and OSS.
SO I will just keep moving with the times. Use what works.
Maybe if your father was using ClamAV (clamav.net) for his antivirus program he wouldn't have caught that virus. Maybe if your dad was using Netscape or some other browser MOST of the time and IE ONLY when he had to he could have stopped spyware (which in my mind leads to openings for viruses). I only mention these because they are free as are the updates. McAfee and Norton cost money (which is fine) but I had TONS of problems with the last to versions of McAfee and Norton that I bought. They would CONSTANLY bitch (throw up windows). Then after I uninstalled it.(either of them) It would STILL pop up a message box telling me I had to update my software even though I unistalled it. THAT is a virus in my book. So, I switched to ClamAV. Good stuff. Not perfect but good enough for me.
Just open your mind/eyes (you sounded young, sorry) and look at the other tools around you. NO they are NOT perfect but NEITHER is IE. It is OBVIOUSLY not perfect either... Yes it is the most used currently but exercise your choice as an AMERICAN (and anyone else on the iNet) and choose something different. Instead of bitching about what other products can't do take solace in what they can do.
And at the moment that is protect you BETTER then the almighty M$....
GO
Making it "ILLEGAL" does NOTHING...
Thank you. I feel I have wasted moment of my life reading that stupid article.
High School Physics teaches us that light is a wave and a particle.
AND the interference pattern would have been different if they moved the whole assembly closer or father away from the wall.
I believe in parallel universes, but this was just incredibly useless.