Bennie Smith, the online advertising network's privacy chief, said the popularity of tools like Adblock -- an extension to the Mozilla Firefox browser -- which makes blocking online ads simple was tied to 'a negative vibe against advertising in general'."
Leave it to an advertising exec to take that long to figure it out. The only people who lke advertising are people who work in advertising.
Coward, after 7 years of working at a Linux and/or BSD box daily as a developer and a hardware engineering end-user, I've never seen 1 application interfere with another in such a manner. Not even once. I've broken libraries before by installing incorrect versions, but this never actually broke the install of another application. Not even once. Never. Maybe I'm just lucky, dunno.
[Gates] says. His promise: Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, will make malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge 'a thing of the past'."
Too funny. Thanks Bill, I needed a laugh. even people who work on reasonably secure systems wouldn't float so much hubris. My niece's little plastic swimming pool is deeper than this man's knowledge of computer security...Well, as vaporware Longhorn is certainly secure.
It will sell, sure, but it's kinda "boutique" by Dell's Bic lighter standards. The price will hafta be high to cover the low number of units sold. Also, apropos to the automotive battery crack, how long will a battery last on this thing. It will look pretty on a desktop, I'm sure.
Dell doesn't do design work, they do integration work. This pretty much proves it, though I'm sure the 5 or so that will be sold (all to CEOs and CIOs) will make excellent conversation pieces.:-)
Actually, it's neither the size nor the composition, but the disposable nature of the postulated devices. It's just plain wasteful and inefficient, that's all. Also, I got the phrase "consumer thing" from Zappa's "The Yellow Shark" - I'm not sure he was an "enviro-conservo-nut-job", although to the great unwashed I certainly am.
heh. My nieces and nephews do similar things all the time. Just think about when they can get the most recent pile of pablum from Disney on a tiny, inexpensive, hand-held device to watch say 5 times and then smash/lose/etc...
Wow, that's pretty snobbish. I know a lot of brilliant domestic (US) engineers who are out of work due simply to a lack of work. I work for a company with a broad, international employee base and the Americans seem to be as good if not better than their non-domestic counterparts, even those pushed out due to resource actions. MOst often people aren't pushed out due to ability, but due thinning procedures in their geographical region.
"I'm wondering if raising wages might attract the "needed" workers from domestic sources"
Some work to do (and hence some jobs) would attract many of the out-of-work engineers in the US. If Gates wants to lift restrictions on non-immigrant workers, they must be cheaper than all those domestic engineers out of work?
Mostly packaging and dependency problems. Most of the "blessed" apps we have to work with are RPMs and tied to specific Red Hat kernels. Can be a beotch to get going on e.g. a Slackware box. Also, 3rd party vendor support is a problem. If you want Cadence to support an issue, do *not* tell them you're running NC-Sim on Slackware or Gentoo....:-)
Yeah, I agree about printing. Printing is a clusterf*ck in the Linux world. CUPS was supposed to fix that but just made it messier IMHO. In the last 2 years I've been repeatedly able to plug devices like cameras and usb dongles and controllers into my LInux box and my OSX box w/o any issues or having to download anything. With my sister's XP box, we always have to go download something or other to get it to work.
It hasn't always been this way, certainly, but it's much better currently. At least Windows sucks consistently throughout the years:-)
... so you're all ripping them off. Well, actually, Michael Jackson bought the rights to all their stuff, so you're ripping him off. But really, in the end, who gives a damn?
"In a statement responding to Clarke's comments, Microsoft said it has formalized its internal security efforts by adopting an official life cycle that it uses to develop secure software,[...]"
Good grief - simmer down, I was being ebullient, there's a sense of gratification for us here. This isn't murder, it's not even violent. It's at worst "legally gray". If spammers are allowed to use the people's PCs to send spam, then the people have the right to fight back. People all over are running this thing, to say nothing of the news site traffic. The people have spoken. I think it's a riot.
Serves 'em right, no pity here. And you need to go decaf for a while.
Bull - clobber those slimebags out of existence. Who is gonna take the time to arrest every person on the planet running that screensaver? It's a great idea - I wonder if Lycos is culpable.
Erector Sets with the little DC motor, and a chemistry set so you can mix all the "do not mix these together" chemicals together and see if you survive....
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Bennie Smith, the online advertising network's privacy chief, said the popularity of tools like Adblock -- an extension to the Mozilla Firefox browser -- which makes blocking online ads simple was tied to 'a negative vibe against advertising in general'."
Leave it to an advertising exec to take that long to figure it out. The only people who lke advertising are people who work in advertising.
Coward, after 7 years of working at a Linux and/or BSD box daily as a developer and a hardware engineering end-user, I've never seen 1 application interfere with another in such a manner. Not even once. I've broken libraries before by installing incorrect versions, but this never actually broke the install of another application. Not even once. Never. Maybe I'm just lucky, dunno.
"However, tens of ini-configuration files are Bad (TM), because they are too complicated. "
:-)
"The Registry is a solution to this."
Both of those are opinions. Having dealt with both I prefer the rc file concept anytime. Anytime. However, that's an opinion also
Always humorous how one app can destroy another with impunity in the Win32 world. How do people deal with it?? Blech.
[Gates] says. His promise: Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, will make malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge 'a thing of the past'."
Too funny. Thanks Bill, I needed a laugh. even people who work on reasonably secure systems wouldn't float so much hubris. My niece's little plastic swimming pool is deeper than this man's knowledge of computer security...Well, as vaporware Longhorn is certainly secure.
It will sell, sure, but it's kinda "boutique" by Dell's Bic lighter standards. The price will hafta be high to cover the low number of units sold. Also, apropos to the automotive battery crack, how long will a battery last on this thing. It will look pretty on a desktop, I'm sure.
Dell doesn't do design work, they do integration work. This pretty much proves it, though I'm sure the 5 or so that will be sold (all to CEOs and CIOs) will make excellent conversation pieces. :-)
Actually, it's neither the size nor the composition, but the disposable nature of the postulated devices. It's just plain wasteful and inefficient, that's all. Also, I got the phrase "consumer thing" from Zappa's "The Yellow Shark" - I'm not sure he was an "enviro-conservo-nut-job", although to the great unwashed I certainly am.
heh. My nieces and nephews do similar things all the time. Just think about when they can get the most recent pile of pablum from Disney on a tiny, inexpensive, hand-held device to watch say 5 times and then smash/lose/etc...
One 8Gb ROM chip would have sufficient storage capacity to store the contents of an entire movie using H.264 encoding.
Great, more disposable consumer things. There are many great uses for such a memory config, but the world does not need more disposable devices...
Wow, that's pretty snobbish. I know a lot of brilliant domestic (US) engineers who are out of work due simply to a lack of work. I work for a company with a broad, international employee base and the Americans seem to be as good if not better than their non-domestic counterparts, even those pushed out due to resource actions. MOst often people aren't pushed out due to ability, but due thinning procedures in their geographical region.
I'm not crying foul, just raising a question. Oh, and I'm already employed, thanks. I wouldn't hire an asshole no matter how free his/her labor was.
"I'm wondering if raising wages might attract the "needed" workers from domestic sources"
Some work to do (and hence some jobs) would attract many of the out-of-work engineers in the US. If Gates wants to lift restrictions on non-immigrant workers, they must be cheaper than all those domestic engineers out of work?
Mostly packaging and dependency problems. Most of the "blessed" apps we have to work with are RPMs and tied to specific Red Hat kernels. Can be a beotch to get going on e.g. a Slackware box. Also, 3rd party vendor support is a problem. If you want Cadence to support an issue, do *not* tell them you're running NC-Sim on Slackware or Gentoo.... :-)
Forking - the best way to kill a community project. Just ask anyone working in a multi-distro Linux environment...
Turn off your television, read a book. TV is for schmoes. ;-)
Yeah, I agree about printing. Printing is a clusterf*ck in the Linux world. CUPS was supposed to fix that but just made it messier IMHO. In the last 2 years I've been repeatedly able to plug devices like cameras and usb dongles and controllers into my LInux box and my OSX box w/o any issues or having to download anything. With my sister's XP box, we always have to go download something or other to get it to work.
:-)
It hasn't always been this way, certainly, but it's much better currently. At least Windows sucks consistently throughout the years
"Today's user wants to grab just about anything and not worry about installing it and making it work."
Funny how it only really works that way on Linux and OSX, in my experience. Dvorak's facts clash with reality, as usual...
... so you're all ripping them off. Well, actually, Michael Jackson bought the rights to all their stuff, so you're ripping him off. But really, in the end, who gives a damn?
"In a statement responding to Clarke's comments, Microsoft said it has formalized its internal security efforts by adopting an official life cycle that it uses to develop secure software,[...]"
Just what the hell is that supposed to mean?
In how many languages can we say "rushed out the door just in time for Xmas" ???
Good grief - simmer down, I was being ebullient, there's a sense of gratification for us here. This isn't murder, it's not even violent. It's at worst "legally gray". If spammers are allowed to use the people's PCs to send spam, then the people have the right to fight back. People all over are running this thing, to say nothing of the news site traffic. The people have spoken. I think it's a riot.
Serves 'em right, no pity here. And you need to go decaf for a while.
"it would seem it's being a bit overzealous."
Bull - clobber those slimebags out of existence. Who is gonna take the time to arrest every person on the planet running that screensaver? It's a great idea - I wonder if Lycos is culpable.
Erector Sets with the little DC motor, and a chemistry set so you can mix all the "do not mix these together" chemicals together and see if you survive....
... get an airport:
S tore.woa/71705/wo/pf1PRfYU8qTX2sApRg82VXbDCt5/0.0. 11.1.0.6.21.1.9.1.0.0.0.1.0
http://store.apple.com/AppleStore/WebObjects/BEPP
works great.
(stupid apple URLs)