That's why they provide the upgrade to Service Pack 2 for FREE. Unfortunately, they can't go back to change earlier releases to implement this fix. That kind of violates the idea idea of having software versioning, now doesn't it? I guess the other alternative is for them to AUTOMAGICALLY update everyone's copy of IE. Would you prefer that? I think that them telling everybody that there IS a problem, and offering a fix for it is abot the best that they can do under this circumstance.
What's wrong with patenting new breeds of plants? Creating those seeds costs Monsanto probably millions of dollars in research. Also, Monsanto doesn't hold the patent on 'corn' or 'wheat'. Anybody can grow 'corn' or 'wheat' or whatever. Monsanto isn't stopping them. The deal is that anyone who uses Monsanto's seeds gets the benefit of much higher crop yields. So, why shouldn't they pay Monsanto? It's the same as using anything else to improve your business: you need to pay the owner. If I were to slap the name 'McDonald's on my restaurant, and I were to benefit from the increase in business, don't I owe the real McDonalds for this boost in business that came abuot through them building the name brand for 50+ years? Sure I do. If this farmer has greater yields because he used Monsanto's seeds that they spent millions to develop, doesn't he owe Monsanto? Sure he does! What's wrong with this?
I don't think that this would be very useful. The head/neck wasn't designed for many, rapid, precise movements all day long (say, at work). The hand/wrist/arm was. Besides, I'd much rather have repetitive stress in my write than in my neck.
Offline would only work if you downloaded a massive database of web sites. There IS a lot of desktop searching already, usually though IE plugins (like Yahoo Companion).
Yes, free, independent sites ARE tough to find, even with Slashdot's favorite Google. Eveyr time you search for ANYTHING, the first 1000 hits are always for a commercial site. the thing is, it's because the big commercial sites have most information that most people find most useful. Is there a good way to change this? Not that I can come up with, unless an 'alternative' search engine is created that doesn't accept large corporate sites. But realistically, that WAS Google, but even they couldn't live on 0 revenue.
Advertising will ALWAYS be around. Let me say this again: advertising will ALWAYS be around. Companies need to sell products, and in order to sell products, consumers need to know that they exist. Advertising will ALWAYS exist. And, although some highly paranoid, fussy people do use stuff like Junkbusters, the VAST majority of the public do now, so advertisements will continue to be effective.
As usual, the adult sector of the web has been doing this for years. Instead, their way of doing it is much more user and bandwidth friendly. They just interrupt the flow of HTML pages on their web sites with an occasional page that's entirely an ad. The user can get past it when they want to, and it doesn't use some crazy scheme that only works for high-bandwidth users.
, to simple acts of citizneship, like voting, school board meeting attendance, and volunteerism to name a few
But even that, I should be able to filter out. I don't personally care about any of that crap. I pay my taxes, I have roads to drive on, and that's all that I want to know about my government. If I don't want to participate, I shouldn't have to. The US is about being able to live in the woods if you want to. I don't want to have any kind of democratic bullshit shoved down my throat.
Isn't this article about the exact same topic as last week's? Who does Katz think he is, some kind of freedom fighter for the Net? Does he think he's John Quincy Adams on the Net? Jeez, John, there's nothing to fight. Democracy on the Net never has existed, and probably never will. Deal with it.
What's wrong witha regular, full-featured laptop? You can run a real, OS(W2k/Linux, etc.), and they're really not that much bigger. I'd rather have a laptop with all of the features as my desktop and a normal sized keyboard then some kludgy tablet/pen/palm pilot thing. Is it me, or are geeks getting even too weak to carry around a 5 lb notebook...?
That's different. You're not buying a piece of paper, but an actual share in a company, along with the possiblity of that share growing to many times it's original value. You buy ownership in a company. When you pay $30 for a Magic card, you're paying $30 for a pretty picture on a piece of paper. That's it.
Dude, it's just paper. There's no reason that a mass-produced little cardboard card that costs $0.15 to print should ever be for sale for $30. That's insanity. Instead of buying these cards as an investment, how about buying the company that MAKES the cards? Now THAT is a real investment.
In the US, only a few thousand boxes have this. They're called Neilsen boxes, and they're used for, what else... Neilsen Ratings. They just use statistics to sample and extrapolate the total number of viewers. Unless there's a nearby FBI van using some really high-tech sniffer, viewing habits with rabbit ears in the US are pretty anonymous.
You think that your cable & satellite companies don't do the same thing? I'd be willing to wager that they do. Some paranoia is justified, but put it in perspective. The same thing has been happening to years, and most geeks I know still use cable/satellite TV. Me, I opt for good ol' rabbit ears (but not because of privacy concerns).
Average Joe Consumer doesn't know and doesn't care what Bluetooth is. The big manufacturers will still sell those devices. As usualy, whoever gets the market share first will win out and become the defacto standard.
It's not confusing. If someone is pulling out the info into frames, then it's easy to jsut write Javascript to break out of them. Otherwise, check the referrer. Generally, the more links to your website from anywhere, the better off you are. Generally, the whole idea behind being on the web is providing as much info to as many people as possible.
That's simple. It's marketing. Brand recognition. You see a desktop, and you INSTANTLY know that it's Microsoft Windows. On top of that, users don't get confused. Any grandma can sit down in front of a Windows box and know what to do. There's no confusion in different looking desktops.
Well, there would be no good proof. MIR came in at 17,000 MPH +, so it's not like if it hit that floating piece of shit in the ocean, anything would be left. It would've disintegrated instantly. What I want is a good video shot of the water splash. It probably went 1/2 mile into the air.
Choice has been there all along. Apple has always been there. Solaris for x86 has been around for a while. There have always been choices. Maybe did you mean to say 'free' choices...?
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That's why they provide the upgrade to Service Pack 2 for FREE. Unfortunately, they can't go back to change earlier releases to implement this fix. That kind of violates the idea idea of having software versioning, now doesn't it? I guess the other alternative is for them to AUTOMAGICALLY update everyone's copy of IE. Would you prefer that? I think that them telling everybody that there IS a problem, and offering a fix for it is abot the best that they can do under this circumstance.
What's wrong with patenting new breeds of plants? Creating those seeds costs Monsanto probably millions of dollars in research. Also, Monsanto doesn't hold the patent on 'corn' or 'wheat'. Anybody can grow 'corn' or 'wheat' or whatever. Monsanto isn't stopping them. The deal is that anyone who uses Monsanto's seeds gets the benefit of much higher crop yields. So, why shouldn't they pay Monsanto? It's the same as using anything else to improve your business: you need to pay the owner. If I were to slap the name 'McDonald's on my restaurant, and I were to benefit from the increase in business, don't I owe the real McDonalds for this boost in business that came abuot through them building the name brand for 50+ years? Sure I do. If this farmer has greater yields because he used Monsanto's seeds that they spent millions to develop, doesn't he owe Monsanto? Sure he does! What's wrong with this?
I agree. That would definately be useful, and cause no added stress whatsoever, since our eyes already track everything we do on a monitor.
I don't think that this would be very useful. The head/neck wasn't designed for many, rapid, precise movements all day long (say, at work). The hand/wrist/arm was. Besides, I'd much rather have repetitive stress in my write than in my neck.
Offline would only work if you downloaded a massive database of web sites. There IS a lot of desktop searching already, usually though IE plugins (like Yahoo Companion).
Yes, free, independent sites ARE tough to find, even with Slashdot's favorite Google. Eveyr time you search for ANYTHING, the first 1000 hits are always for a commercial site. the thing is, it's because the big commercial sites have most information that most people find most useful. Is there a good way to change this? Not that I can come up with, unless an 'alternative' search engine is created that doesn't accept large corporate sites. But realistically, that WAS Google, but even they couldn't live on 0 revenue.
Advertising will ALWAYS be around. Let me say this again: advertising will ALWAYS be around. Companies need to sell products, and in order to sell products, consumers need to know that they exist. Advertising will ALWAYS exist. And, although some highly paranoid, fussy people do use stuff like Junkbusters, the VAST majority of the public do now, so advertisements will continue to be effective.
As usual, the adult sector of the web has been doing this for years. Instead, their way of doing it is much more user and bandwidth friendly. They just interrupt the flow of HTML pages on their web sites with an occasional page that's entirely an ad. The user can get past it when they want to, and it doesn't use some crazy scheme that only works for high-bandwidth users.
, to simple acts of citizneship, like voting, school board meeting attendance, and volunteerism to name a few
But even that, I should be able to filter out. I don't personally care about any of that crap. I pay my taxes, I have roads to drive on, and that's all that I want to know about my government. If I don't want to participate, I shouldn't have to. The US is about being able to live in the woods if you want to. I don't want to have any kind of democratic bullshit shoved down my throat.
Isn't this article about the exact same topic as last week's? Who does Katz think he is, some kind of freedom fighter for the Net? Does he think he's John Quincy Adams on the Net? Jeez, John, there's nothing to fight. Democracy on the Net never has existed, and probably never will. Deal with it.
What's wrong witha regular, full-featured laptop? You can run a real, OS(W2k/Linux, etc.), and they're really not that much bigger. I'd rather have a laptop with all of the features as my desktop and a normal sized keyboard then some kludgy tablet/pen/palm pilot thing. Is it me, or are geeks getting even too weak to carry around a 5 lb notebook...?
That's different. You're not buying a piece of paper, but an actual share in a company, along with the possiblity of that share growing to many times it's original value. You buy ownership in a company. When you pay $30 for a Magic card, you're paying $30 for a pretty picture on a piece of paper. That's it.
Dude, it's just paper. There's no reason that a mass-produced little cardboard card that costs $0.15 to print should ever be for sale for $30. That's insanity. Instead of buying these cards as an investment, how about buying the company that MAKES the cards? Now THAT is a real investment.
That's not too bad if you're a stockholder.
In the US, only a few thousand boxes have this. They're called Neilsen boxes, and they're used for, what else... Neilsen Ratings. They just use statistics to sample and extrapolate the total number of viewers. Unless there's a nearby FBI van using some really high-tech sniffer, viewing habits with rabbit ears in the US are pretty anonymous.
You think that your cable & satellite companies don't do the same thing? I'd be willing to wager that they do. Some paranoia is justified, but put it in perspective. The same thing has been happening to years, and most geeks I know still use cable/satellite TV. Me, I opt for good ol' rabbit ears (but not because of privacy concerns).
Average Joe Consumer doesn't know and doesn't care what Bluetooth is. The big manufacturers will still sell those devices. As usualy, whoever gets the market share first will win out and become the defacto standard.
It's not confusing. If someone is pulling out the info into frames, then it's easy to jsut write Javascript to break out of them. Otherwise, check the referrer. Generally, the more links to your website from anywhere, the better off you are. Generally, the whole idea behind being on the web is providing as much info to as many people as possible.
That's simple. It's marketing. Brand recognition. You see a desktop, and you INSTANTLY know that it's Microsoft Windows. On top of that, users don't get confused. Any grandma can sit down in front of a Windows box and know what to do. There's no confusion in different looking desktops.
It just used the MSN password. It's the same thing as every other web site. Last I checked, I'm logged in to Slashdot every time I visit...
That's standard for Microsoft non-server OSes. It's always been like this. It's for ease of use. NT Server/W2K Server don't do this.
I just installed the first CD of RedHat last night, and the install was '999 MB'. That seemed a bit big to me...
Well, there would be no good proof. MIR came in at 17,000 MPH +, so it's not like if it hit that floating piece of shit in the ocean, anything would be left. It would've disintegrated instantly. What I want is a good video shot of the water splash. It probably went 1/2 mile into the air.
Choice has been there all along. Apple has always been there. Solaris for x86 has been around for a while. There have always been choices. Maybe did you mean to say 'free' choices...?
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