OK, you can start the ball rolling. Send an invoice to AOL each month for the emails you have received from their servers. Maybe others will join your protest. "The world" isn't a single commercial entity such as AOL.
Actually, the UK is negotiating a date to hand it over- and the IRA already got an election out of the deal.
Where do you figure that from? Maybe I'm missing something, but this is news to me. Devolution means more local government. It doesn't mean complete independence from the UK and it doesn't mean reunification of Ireland. I'm not saying that will never happen, but I don't think it's gonna happen anytime soon. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the situation, the majority of people in NI are 'loyalists' and want to remain in the UK... that probably isn't going to change anytime soon, and like it or not there would probably be a whole other lot of terrorists bombing Dublin if Ireland were united.
It isn't just that the students can each lock their rooms, it is that they also have TVs in their lockable rooms. Plenty of accommodation technically requires a TV licence for every bedroom, but if you only have a TV in the living room you just buy a TV licence for the shared part of the house and only pay once.
The parent didn't say anything about where Big Brother originally came from... but assuming we are still talking about the TV show, it started in the Netherlands
I agree that Winamp 2 used to be great and Winamp 3 was horribly bloated. But what you really want to do is run the latest Winamp 5 with either the tiny Lite version, or the full version without modern skins. It has the same small memory footprint as Winamp 2... The only advantage of using Winamp 5 is that some of the recently discovered security holes have probably actually been in there the whole time and you might be putting yourself at risk if you run a really old version.
Exactly right, thank you for explaining it so well for everyone.
If SEO experts want to play dubious games and try to improve their search ranking they are welcome to try. If Google doesn't like their tactics they are welcome to give those sites zero pagerank. Not everything Google does is perfect, but if they can encourage web designers to meet a higher standard that is unquestionably a Good Thing.
Kryten: RFC Directive 2965 'No officer above the rank of mess sergeant is permitted to go into combat with pierced nipples'. Sorry sir, I fail to see the relevance
But where do you draw the line? Once people try an illegal drug and realise that most of what they were taught about drugs in school is bullshit, maybe they will want to try more but aren't sure what to believe anymore. You say weed and psychedelics are OK but H and C are bad. But plenty of people have taken cocaine and would draw the line somewhere else. I'm sure the same is true of heroin. Undoubtedly getting addicted to a drug (or almost anything) isn't good, but plenty of people react to things differently - it seems crazy to dispell the "drugs are bad M'kay?" myth for some drugs, but not others.
Well, there is one problem here that everyone is not putting into the equation...STOCKS. No matter how much money MS looses on each XBOX, if they sell 200 billion systems, even without games, the stock is going to go through the roof, thus giving MS profit.
Huh? You mean stock in Microsoft? Why would their share price go up if they were losing a fortune? If people were buying XBoxes and constructing a dam out of them, there's no hope for MS to recoup the losses. The stock market is pretty crazy sometimes, but not that crazy. Anyway, even if MS stock did go through the roof for some bizarre reason, that just means all the shareholders are temporarily very rich, it doesn't make the company profitable, it doesn't stop it going into liquidation.
Unless I misunderstood you, it appears you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
BTW *never* click on the corner X, that's not safe since a popup's corner X is sometimes a disguised "OK" button for installing something Nasty. Instead, use ALT-F4 (or whatever keystroke your OS uses) to close the popup window. So far, that cannot be spoofed (far as I know, anyway).
That's complete BS isn't it? Maybe javascript provides a mechanism to alter the functionality of the window buttons, but I'm certainly not aware of one. Even if it did, it wouldn't "install software" just like that. Even in IE you can't accidentally run an executable or (shudder) ActiveX control without hitting a pretty big warning message (sure, there are IE bug exploits, but not unpatched and in the wild at the moment). I don't suppose you have a URL to a site that would demonstrate any of this?
When it comes to mobile phone downloads, $2.50 is surely a bargain. Contrast this with the prices some people (enough people) are prepared to pay for a 30 second clip of music as a ringtone or a postage stamp size image of their favourite sports star. As if that wasn't bad enough, think of all the people paying 0.50 a pop to enjoy quality content in the form of up to 160 bytes of text.
My position is that weapons are necessary, until and unless all threats to peace are neutralized (which isn't going to happen.) I would have no problem at all working on a weapon, as long as it wasn't a waste of tax money, as many weapons projects are
It's true that weapons are necessary for defence, and there are certainly bad people out there that we need protection from. But a company is by definition "in it for the money", and governments have a nasty habit of allowing arms to be sold to the wrong people. Even if your super-new-weapon-software might save some lives in the right hands, you don't really know who might be operating it in a few years time.
Microsoft Windows is a trademark, this guy infringed on it, he signed away his rights to his name, and now he's shocked that Microsoft decided to use it? Why? He's shocked that Microsoft would leverage a resource they legally obtained from him?
This argument is misleading people slightly because I don't think anyone is suprised or upset that Microsoft is protecting its trademarks. The real scandal is that Microsoft have any legal right to the word “Windows” at all. Windows is a generic term and was used in other products by other companies before Microsoft were ever granted a trademark on “Microsoft Windows”
As a non-Jew, the issue of whether Moses wrote them or not matters about as much to me as the instructions to never eat shellfish, never cut my earlocks, and always wear tassles on the corners of my cloak.
Yes, those beliefs certainly sound ludicrous. You'd best stick to the teachings of this more sensible book you speak of.
A preacher I know once told me that the Bible doesn't have to be literally true for us to have faith in God. He believed that those who hinge everything on the absolute truth of every word of Scripture are those who really lacked faith. They need something outside themselves to justify what they believe.
This just doesn't make sense to me. Surely your faith is effectively a belief of what is written in the Bible? If not the Bible, then where are you getting it from? From other people who got it from the Bible. To then brush over all the gaps and contradictions, make allowances and pick and choose the parts which are still 'relevant today'... just what is it that people are believing? At what point is there an argument for calling this disregard for rational thought a psychosis?
Sounds like a decent enough business, but it's awfully hard work compared to the licence to print money that is Google Ads. The online advertisers and the publishers do all the hard work optimising ad positioning, wording, demographics, keywords, etc. Google sit back and take a nice percentage
How can they already have the signature for a virus before the virus actually exists? They obviously managed to detect the virus by some general heuristics for spotting suspicious behaviour.... unless you are suggesting the AV companies were the virus authors?:-)
As one blogger pointed out this morning...the release of Google Desktop 2.0 is beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated
I haven't tried it yet, but presumably GDS2 just uses the IE engine in the same way all these other Windows apps with a built in browser do?
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And somebody with mod points found that interesting! Why do we read slashdot? I can feel my brain shrivelling up as I type this
OK, you can start the ball rolling. Send an invoice to AOL each month for the emails you have received from their servers. Maybe others will join your protest. "The world" isn't a single commercial entity such as AOL.
Actually, the UK is negotiating a date to hand it over- and the IRA already got an election out of the deal.
Where do you figure that from? Maybe I'm missing something, but this is news to me. Devolution means more local government. It doesn't mean complete independence from the UK and it doesn't mean reunification of Ireland. I'm not saying that will never happen, but I don't think it's gonna happen anytime soon. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the situation, the majority of people in NI are 'loyalists' and want to remain in the UK... that probably isn't going to change anytime soon, and like it or not there would probably be a whole other lot of terrorists bombing Dublin if Ireland were united.
It isn't just that the students can each lock their rooms, it is that they also have TVs in their lockable rooms. Plenty of accommodation technically requires a TV licence for every bedroom, but if you only have a TV in the living room you just buy a TV licence for the shared part of the house and only pay once.
The parent didn't say anything about where Big Brother originally came from... but assuming we are still talking about the TV show, it started in the Netherlands
I agree that Winamp 2 used to be great and Winamp 3 was horribly bloated. But what you really want to do is run the latest Winamp 5 with either the tiny Lite version, or the full version without modern skins. It has the same small memory footprint as Winamp 2... The only advantage of using Winamp 5 is that some of the recently discovered security holes have probably actually been in there the whole time and you might be putting yourself at risk if you run a really old version.
Exactly right, thank you for explaining it so well for everyone.
If SEO experts want to play dubious games and try to improve their search ranking they are welcome to try. If Google doesn't like their tactics they are welcome to give those sites zero pagerank. Not everything Google does is perfect, but if they can encourage web designers to meet a higher standard that is unquestionably a Good Thing.
Kryten: RFC Directive 2965 'No officer above the rank of mess sergeant is permitted to go into combat with pierced nipples'. Sorry sir, I fail to see the relevance
When there was a vulnerability in PHP, I killed everybody because I wasen't sure
Isn't that a bit drastic?
...it happens that the people I know draw the line as I said. You may draw it in a different place, which should be your privilege as an adult.
:-)
Indeed it should be. Glad we are in agreement
But where do you draw the line? Once people try an illegal drug and realise that most of what they were taught about drugs in school is bullshit, maybe they will want to try more but aren't sure what to believe anymore. You say weed and psychedelics are OK but H and C are bad. But plenty of people have taken cocaine and would draw the line somewhere else. I'm sure the same is true of heroin. Undoubtedly getting addicted to a drug (or almost anything) isn't good, but plenty of people react to things differently - it seems crazy to dispell the "drugs are bad M'kay?" myth for some drugs, but not others.
Well, there is one problem here that everyone is not putting into the equation...STOCKS. No matter how much money MS looses on each XBOX, if they sell 200 billion systems, even without games, the stock is going to go through the roof, thus giving MS profit.
Huh? You mean stock in Microsoft? Why would their share price go up if they were losing a fortune? If people were buying XBoxes and constructing a dam out of them, there's no hope for MS to recoup the losses. The stock market is pretty crazy sometimes, but not that crazy. Anyway, even if MS stock did go through the roof for some bizarre reason, that just means all the shareholders are temporarily very rich, it doesn't make the company profitable, it doesn't stop it going into liquidation.
Unless I misunderstood you, it appears you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
BTW *never* click on the corner X, that's not safe since a popup's corner X is sometimes a disguised "OK" button for installing something Nasty. Instead, use ALT-F4 (or whatever keystroke your OS uses) to close the popup window. So far, that cannot be spoofed (far as I know, anyway).
That's complete BS isn't it? Maybe javascript provides a mechanism to alter the functionality of the window buttons, but I'm certainly not aware of one. Even if it did, it wouldn't "install software" just like that. Even in IE you can't accidentally run an executable or (shudder) ActiveX control without hitting a pretty big warning message (sure, there are IE bug exploits, but not unpatched and in the wild at the moment). I don't suppose you have a URL to a site that would demonstrate any of this?
When it comes to mobile phone downloads, $2.50 is surely a bargain. Contrast this with the prices some people (enough people) are prepared to pay for a 30 second clip of music as a ringtone or a postage stamp size image of their favourite sports star. As if that wasn't bad enough, think of all the people paying 0.50 a pop to enjoy quality content in the form of up to 160 bytes of text.
My position is that weapons are necessary, until and unless all threats to peace are neutralized (which isn't going to happen.) I would have no problem at all working on a weapon, as long as it wasn't a waste of tax money, as many weapons projects are
It's true that weapons are necessary for defence, and there are certainly bad people out there that we need protection from. But a company is by definition "in it for the money", and governments have a nasty habit of allowing arms to be sold to the wrong people. Even if your super-new-weapon-software might save some lives in the right hands, you don't really know who might be operating it in a few years time.
Hey, thanks to the Internet everyone lives in this weird Radio Paradise area.
This argument is misleading people slightly because I don't think anyone is suprised or upset that Microsoft is protecting its trademarks. The real scandal is that Microsoft have any legal right to the word “Windows” at all. Windows is a generic term and was used in other products by other companies before Microsoft were ever granted a trademark on “Microsoft Windows”
As a non-Jew, the issue of whether Moses wrote them or not matters about as much to me as the instructions to never eat shellfish, never cut my earlocks, and always wear tassles on the corners of my cloak.
Yes, those beliefs certainly sound ludicrous. You'd best stick to the teachings of this more sensible book you speak of.
A preacher I know once told me that the Bible doesn't have to be literally true for us to have faith in God. He believed that those who hinge everything on the absolute truth of every word of Scripture are those who really lacked faith. They need something outside themselves to justify what they believe.
This just doesn't make sense to me. Surely your faith is effectively a belief of what is written in the Bible? If not the Bible, then where are you getting it from? From other people who got it from the Bible. To then brush over all the gaps and contradictions, make allowances and pick and choose the parts which are still 'relevant today'... just what is it that people are believing? At what point is there an argument for calling this disregard for rational thought a psychosis?
No, that's simply nonsense. Which sub-atomic particles are converted from mass to energy in a *chemical* reaction?
This makes me question if we are going to reach the 22nd century!
Sounds like a decent enough business, but it's awfully hard work compared to the licence to print money that is Google Ads. The online advertisers and the publishers do all the hard work optimising ad positioning, wording, demographics, keywords, etc. Google sit back and take a nice percentage
How can they already have the signature for a virus before the virus actually exists? They obviously managed to detect the virus by some general heuristics for spotting suspicious behaviour. ... unless you are suggesting the AV companies were the virus authors? :-)
As one blogger pointed out this morning...the release of Google Desktop 2.0 is beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated
I haven't tried it yet, but presumably GDS2 just uses the IE engine in the same way all these other Windows apps with a built in browser do?