Actually, it's even better if you want to share something, and somebody wants to go looking for where it originated, just because the feds are more interested in where things originated. For example, if the Feds wanted to find where the torrent in my sig originated because it's let's say... "subversive"... all they'd have would be the MAC address of a laptop, and 3 different public wireless access points. In other words, they'd have nothing. It's also good for sharing copyrighted things. And, I gotta admit it, public or unsecured private wireless is a criminal's wet dream.
You gotta love borrowing other people's (or the public's) wirelesss connections, when it comes to stuff like this. All they've got is a MAC address, and a general vicinity (within xxxx feet from this WAP). Excuse me while I fire up some torrents...
Except for Apple, which uses it's excellent marketing to convince people that they need to wait in lines for hours to pay waaaay too much for their particular brand name, I can't believe that portable MP3 players are going to be cash cows for much longer. They're cheap, basic, simple electronic commodities at this point. Upload MP3's to them, press play, you have music. No big deal. Hell, Verisign just sent me a free one for downloading a 2 page white paper!
Note that wmv9 now plays with ffmpeg/mplayer in FC5+livna.
Has anybody mentioned to you that Slashdot is an English-speaking message board? I don't know what you're talking about, but it certainly isn't English.
Can you be prosecuted for clicking that icon without good cause?
That's a scary thought. I certainly wouldn't use any software in which accidentally clicking the wrong button calls the police!
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MySQL is a (low end) database product. SQL is a language. Somehow, I doubt that a book covering a certain product is appropriate for somebody wanting to learn a lanugage.
These silly social networking sites are like bars: there's very little that the owner can do to make it "cool". Whether it's "cool" or not is largely determined by the mob mentality of their customers and inertia. It's unlikely that Friendster will make any kind of significant comeback. MySpace has too much inertia, and if it truly is social, then people want to hang out where their friends already do.
As we all know, "black boxes" used in planes are pretty useless because they often fail at key times, failing to record any useful information. Or, at least, that's what the 9/11 Commission would like you to believe...
The DoD recommending what software to use is like asking a pedofile what a good nursery school is. Most people on the planet would see such an endorsement as a *bad* thing.
I just started seeding a full copy of "Loose Change" a few hours ago. Maybe it's starting to get used to spread information? It may not be all Brittney Spears MP3's yet. Bit Torrent is a bit too complicated to be used by the mouth breathers. It's not really all that mainstream outside of geeks yet. Outside of largely libertarian types. Ya' think?
Not only is the color wonky, but with both plasmas and LCD's (I write this on a laptop), there's a tiny window in which you can look at the picture and see it correctly. Ever have a few people try to look over your shoulder at something on a laptop? It's nearly impossible, unless everybody gets down at the same height, and you adjust the monitor. Right now I'm watching a regular CRT TV from almost sideways, across the room, and I can see it just fine.
I agree with you. I think they both suck, and CRT's are the way to go for a quality picture. LCD and plasmas are both downgrades, in my opinion. Once the gee whiz factor of a thin TV or monitor goes away, you're left quinting.
This is ridiculous. All this is is people finding a way to make money. Nothing new. It just so happens that they're using waste from other businesses. It has been happening in one form or another for as long as any semblance of free markets have existed. There's a niche, and people are filling it. These aren't people out to save the world. These are people out to save a buck, and the way that they do it happens to recycle scrap. Big fucking deal.
I'll probably buy one. iTunes sucks, the iPod is too expensive, the iPod touch scroll thing is a PITA, and MS makes kick ass hardware. Shove your "fanboi" thing up your ass and use your brain. Some people (like me) will like it a hell of a lot better.
I'm glad that it won't have one of those stupid touch wheels. I haven't bought an iPod, partly because that stupid touch sensitive thing is a real pain in the ass to use. I don't know people like those things. Everyone I've known has to squint and try 10 times to select a song because it just doesn't work all that well.
Of all people, students should be the first to learn how to cope with new OSes (or distros) as they arise, to build fundamental computer skills instead of learning through the click here to do this approach.
It's an oldie, but a goodie. He proved to me that applies pure science can be an amazing thing. Got me interested in plant genetics, actually. His work created industries and jobs that didn't exist before he did his work.
I'm sure that Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 1. Consulted their attorneys. 2. Their attorneys told them to ignore him and that 3. If he does file a lawsuit, they'll counter-sure for slander, and the judge will more than likely slap the initial idiot with a charge for filing frivolous lawsuits. Nothing will come of it. There are lots of wackos that file all sorts of wacko lawsuits every day. Most are without merit, and are certainly not news.
You believe there are few or no religious people capable of understanding science? I assure you that is not true, and I suspect you're generalizing because you don't happen to know any.
By definition, any person who understands science cannot also believe in religion, any more than a molecular chemist can possibly believe in alchemy. Religious (faith) is the antithesis of science, since faith is a belief based on no facts, and science, by definition, is the study of facts and observable occurrances. A quantum physicist could be spiritual, because there are things that are unexplainable at that level (quarks have been shown to move seemingly randomly), but there's no factual reason to believe in a "God" as religions define it.
I personally put religious people on the same intellectual level as the guy on the street corner who is speaking to Elvis.
Have you considered that perhaps it's not so much as a mental illness, but perhaps we're seeing an evolutionary split between homo sapiens that do have brains powerful enough to understand basic scientific principles, and cause/effect relationships, and homo sapiens that can't think any further than primitive "gods"? Sure, religions can certainly be defined by mental illness (talking to non-existent people/"gods"/saints/whatever, having firm beliefs in completely illogical and bizarre things, etc.).
There are evolutionary theories regarding brain capacity in primates, so is it really that far fetched to think that we have old humans, and new, more intelligent humans at this point? Sure, we won't see any specization for thousands of years, if ever, but I can definitely see where this is one trait that can and will be emphasized through breeding (I would never consider marrying and breeding a religious person, for example.)
Am I the only one who does this, anyway? I mean laptop batteries are ridiculously useless. If you're doing anything on the computer, especially with the DVD drive, they only last an hour or three at most. Besides, it's not like an electrical outlet is all that hard to find. I hear that they're even including standard 120V outlets in a lot of passenger cars now!
Getting rid of that useless battery saves tons of weight (not that laptops are heavy these days), but they also save a lot of heat on your lap, and potentially, extends the life of the laptop, because they're kept cooler with no battery.
It's completely unenforceable in any way, whatsoever. Bullets beat ANY lawsuit, and the US gov't, especially, has shown that they are more than happy to dispense bullets into the skulls of many, many innocent people.
Let's be honest. "Identity theft" is only about the precious "credit rating". "Credit ratings" are useful, true, but they're waaaay overused, primarily because people tend to live faaar beyond their means. A credit rating can only be held over your head if you insist on living on credit. The simple fact of the matter is that by avoiding using credit you don't really have to worry about "identity theft", one of the Big Three screwing up, and you don't have Big Brother watching your every move. People use credit so much that a person's credit rating has become the equivalent of "be good, or it goes on your PERMANENT RECORD" from grade school. It's been an adjustment, but I'm both personally, and business-wise (I own my own business) completely debt-free, and I intend to stay that way.
In fact, I had a company (BellSouth Advertising) screw up my business listing badly last year. They published my store hours saying that we were closed a day that we're not. I never signed off on that ad. As a result, business is slower that day. Of course, BellSouth Advertising is giving me some bullshit about "you signed off on the previous year, and it says in fine print that if you don't sign off for the next year, that we can still bill you, blah, blah, blah". I told them that I don't pay for anything that I don't agree to, and I certainly won't pay for an ad that hurts my business. They call every few days, and all they can threaten me with is that they'll ding my credit rating. I just smile and say, "that's fine. I'm still not paying."
That's REAL freedom. I'm not beholden to ANYBODY, from a financial standpoint. How many people in the US today can say that they're financially free?
It doesn't matter to me. Online mainstream (non-porn) advertising is still in the Dark Ages with this whole per-click thing. I won't spend a dime on advertising my e-commerce site until advertisers like Google Adwords get their collective heads out of their asses and get rid of this stupid per-click model. It doesn't work. It's a waste of money. The porn industry dumped per-click completely back in (the only ones who do per-click are largely scams now, and the experienced webmasters know this).
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Actually, it's even better if you want to share something, and somebody wants to go looking for where it originated, just because the feds are more interested in where things originated. For example, if the Feds wanted to find where the torrent in my sig originated because it's let's say... "subversive" ... all they'd have would be the MAC address of a laptop, and 3 different public wireless access points. In other words, they'd have nothing. It's also good for sharing copyrighted things. And, I gotta admit it, public or unsecured private wireless is a criminal's wet dream.
You gotta love borrowing other people's (or the public's) wirelesss connections, when it comes to stuff like this. All they've got is a MAC address, and a general vicinity (within xxxx feet from this WAP). Excuse me while I fire up some torrents...
Except for Apple, which uses it's excellent marketing to convince people that they need to wait in lines for hours to pay waaaay too much for their particular brand name, I can't believe that portable MP3 players are going to be cash cows for much longer. They're cheap, basic, simple electronic commodities at this point. Upload MP3's to them, press play, you have music. No big deal. Hell, Verisign just sent me a free one for downloading a 2 page white paper!
The excitement is already dying down.
Note that wmv9 now plays with ffmpeg/mplayer in FC5+livna.
Has anybody mentioned to you that Slashdot is an English-speaking message board? I don't know what you're talking about, but it certainly isn't English.
Can you be prosecuted for clicking that icon without good cause?
That's a scary thought. I certainly wouldn't use any software in which accidentally clicking the wrong button calls the police!
MySQL is a (low end) database product. SQL is a language. Somehow, I doubt that a book covering a certain product is appropriate for somebody wanting to learn a lanugage.
Wow. I guess that not every Linux user in Croatia is a shrill, unrealistic, idealistic, zealot!
These silly social networking sites are like bars: there's very little that the owner can do to make it "cool". Whether it's "cool" or not is largely determined by the mob mentality of their customers and inertia. It's unlikely that Friendster will make any kind of significant comeback. MySpace has too much inertia, and if it truly is social, then people want to hang out where their friends already do.
As we all know, "black boxes" used in planes are pretty useless because they often fail at key times, failing to record any useful information. Or, at least, that's what the 9/11 Commission would like you to believe...
The DoD recommending what software to use is like asking a pedofile what a good nursery school is. Most people on the planet would see such an endorsement as a *bad* thing.
I just started seeding a full copy of "Loose Change" a few hours ago. Maybe it's starting to get used to spread information? It may not be all Brittney Spears MP3's yet. Bit Torrent is a bit too complicated to be used by the mouth breathers. It's not really all that mainstream outside of geeks yet. Outside of largely libertarian types. Ya' think?
Not only is the color wonky, but with both plasmas and LCD's (I write this on a laptop), there's a tiny window in which you can look at the picture and see it correctly. Ever have a few people try to look over your shoulder at something on a laptop? It's nearly impossible, unless everybody gets down at the same height, and you adjust the monitor. Right now I'm watching a regular CRT TV from almost sideways, across the room, and I can see it just fine.
I agree with you. I think they both suck, and CRT's are the way to go for a quality picture. LCD and plasmas are both downgrades, in my opinion. Once the gee whiz factor of a thin TV or monitor goes away, you're left quinting.
This is ridiculous. All this is is people finding a way to make money. Nothing new. It just so happens that they're using waste from other businesses. It has been happening in one form or another for as long as any semblance of free markets have existed. There's a niche, and people are filling it. These aren't people out to save the world. These are people out to save a buck, and the way that they do it happens to recycle scrap. Big fucking deal.
I'll probably buy one. iTunes sucks, the iPod is too expensive, the iPod touch scroll thing is a PITA, and MS makes kick ass hardware. Shove your "fanboi" thing up your ass and use your brain. Some people (like me) will like it a hell of a lot better.
I'm glad that it won't have one of those stupid touch wheels. I haven't bought an iPod, partly because that stupid touch sensitive thing is a real pain in the ass to use. I don't know people like those things. Everyone I've known has to squint and try 10 times to select a song because it just doesn't work all that well.
Of all people, students should be the first to learn how to cope with new OSes (or distros) as they arise, to build fundamental computer skills instead of learning through the click here to do this approach.
Why? What purpose does that serve?
It's an oldie, but a goodie. He proved to me that applies pure science can be an amazing thing. Got me interested in plant genetics, actually. His work created industries and jobs that didn't exist before he did his work.
I'm sure that Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 1. Consulted their attorneys. 2. Their attorneys told them to ignore him and that 3. If he does file a lawsuit, they'll counter-sure for slander, and the judge will more than likely slap the initial idiot with a charge for filing frivolous lawsuits. Nothing will come of it. There are lots of wackos that file all sorts of wacko lawsuits every day. Most are without merit, and are certainly not news.
Now, how about a good review of the game...?
You believe there are few or no religious people capable of understanding science? I assure you that is not true, and I suspect you're generalizing because you don't happen to know any.
By definition, any person who understands science cannot also believe in religion, any more than a molecular chemist can possibly believe in alchemy. Religious (faith) is the antithesis of science, since faith is a belief based on no facts, and science, by definition, is the study of facts and observable occurrances. A quantum physicist could be spiritual, because there are things that are unexplainable at that level (quarks have been shown to move seemingly randomly), but there's no factual reason to believe in a "God" as religions define it.
I personally put religious people on the same intellectual level as the guy on the street corner who is speaking to Elvis.
Have you considered that perhaps it's not so much as a mental illness, but perhaps we're seeing an evolutionary split between homo sapiens that do have brains powerful enough to understand basic scientific principles, and cause/effect relationships, and homo sapiens that can't think any further than primitive "gods"? Sure, religions can certainly be defined by mental illness (talking to non-existent people/"gods"/saints/whatever, having firm beliefs in completely illogical and bizarre things, etc.).
There are evolutionary theories regarding brain capacity in primates, so is it really that far fetched to think that we have old humans, and new, more intelligent humans at this point? Sure, we won't see any specization for thousands of years, if ever, but I can definitely see where this is one trait that can and will be emphasized through breeding (I would never consider marrying and breeding a religious person, for example.)
Am I the only one who does this, anyway? I mean laptop batteries are ridiculously useless. If you're doing anything on the computer, especially with the DVD drive, they only last an hour or three at most. Besides, it's not like an electrical outlet is all that hard to find. I hear that they're even including standard 120V outlets in a lot of passenger cars now!
Getting rid of that useless battery saves tons of weight (not that laptops are heavy these days), but they also save a lot of heat on your lap, and potentially, extends the life of the laptop, because they're kept cooler with no battery.
It's completely unenforceable in any way, whatsoever. Bullets beat ANY lawsuit, and the US gov't, especially, has shown that they are more than happy to dispense bullets into the skulls of many, many innocent people.
Let's be honest. "Identity theft" is only about the precious "credit rating". "Credit ratings" are useful, true, but they're waaaay overused, primarily because people tend to live faaar beyond their means. A credit rating can only be held over your head if you insist on living on credit. The simple fact of the matter is that by avoiding using credit you don't really have to worry about "identity theft", one of the Big Three screwing up, and you don't have Big Brother watching your every move. People use credit so much that a person's credit rating has become the equivalent of "be good, or it goes on your PERMANENT RECORD" from grade school. It's been an adjustment, but I'm both personally, and business-wise (I own my own business) completely debt-free, and I intend to stay that way.
In fact, I had a company (BellSouth Advertising) screw up my business listing badly last year. They published my store hours saying that we were closed a day that we're not. I never signed off on that ad. As a result, business is slower that day. Of course, BellSouth Advertising is giving me some bullshit about "you signed off on the previous year, and it says in fine print that if you don't sign off for the next year, that we can still bill you, blah, blah, blah". I told them that I don't pay for anything that I don't agree to, and I certainly won't pay for an ad that hurts my business. They call every few days, and all they can threaten me with is that they'll ding my credit rating. I just smile and say, "that's fine. I'm still not paying."
That's REAL freedom. I'm not beholden to ANYBODY, from a financial standpoint. How many people in the US today can say that they're financially free?
Napster had a web site? Honestly, I used Napster heavily for years, and never even thought to go to napster.com for anything...
It doesn't matter to me. Online mainstream (non-porn) advertising is still in the Dark Ages with this whole per-click thing. I won't spend a dime on advertising my e-commerce site until advertisers like Google Adwords get their collective heads out of their asses and get rid of this stupid per-click model. It doesn't work. It's a waste of money. The porn industry dumped per-click completely back in (the only ones who do per-click are largely scams now, and the experienced webmasters know this).