Really. Comcast stinks. Cable internet goes out for about two days a month (I know this isn't your question) and my cable tv reception (analog) consistently gets captioned jibberish along it (maybe 1/5 shows). Further, it's twice the price of satellite with half the channels. Oh yeah, and if I want HDTV, it costs an extra $15 per month + $5 per channel, whereas for satellite it's $12 per month for all channels.
True, you will have to hook up a seperate antenna for network HD, but that is *so* worth it. I'd already be over to satellite if my apt didn't come with free comcast. I'm getting what I pay for, but those poor shmo's putting out $60/month for comcast sure aren't.
I hate going shopping enough already. Now you're going to make me get pictures taken too? Why not just shove a pitchfork into my ass while you're at it?
Amen to that. I have a mac LC that's still running a FMP database for a Pet Store. The amount of dust and other things in there is ridiculous, yet that LC keeps on ticking, 12 hours a day 7 days a week.
I've always thought Apple's hardware was a strong point on quality, if not for speed/gaming.
I have to say, if I were to bet, I would bet it is some ticked off linux fan. Since this virus is really just meant to hurt SCO, it's either someone who wants to discredit the OS movement or some single child-minded linux fan.
I'd bet on the latter, simply because there's not that many "linux-haters" that are individuals and child-ish. A company like MS, as dirty as they can be, I don't believe would engage in this kind of criminal behavior. Basically, virii are written by individuals for the most part, and I don't think an individual has much to gain from attacking OSS.
In all likelihood, it *was* some ticked-off kid. Get ready for more blurring the lines of linux=illegal hacking=evil subculture=virii makers type articles and opinions.
True enough, but you can't blame middle-men for everything. Sure, it's partly their fault and if you have damages from their non-silver grease, sue them along with everyone else in line.
However, i think it's a little vindictive to completely blame them. After all, it's not like it's something you can just pop the hood of and see "aw shucks, they gave us a V6 instead of a V8".
I'm willing to bet if you do something stupid and die in the simulator "game"... you're gonna be pulled out, get your instructor to yell at you until your ears bleed, and then be doing pushups and "helped" pushups until you die.
For those of you that don't know what I'm talking about, one form of "training" has you do pushups til you can't no more, then do pushups with someone helping you up with a towel around your toso.
If you really think they'll have a "click to respawn" feature either a) you're an idiot... or b) you're right and the army is dumber than I thought.. and I'm an idiot too.
I seem to remember the person in charge of developing Internet Explorer for MS saying this *exact* same thing. In fact, he claimed this was the reason MS won the browser war: Netscape lost all their years of work because they decided to re-write their browser, while IE tweaked theirs. I'm sure I read this on/. somewhere, but I can't find the article.
I know a lot of it had to do with MS's business tactics, but Netscape/AOL took like 5 years to put out a new browser after 4.7. And do you guys even remember Netscape 6 Preview? What a god-awful browser that was. My friends starting calling it Nutscrape cuz it was so painful to use:(
"Back in the day, when this dude worked for Apple, they had HCI research going on all the time. Nowadays at Apple, HCI has been replaced by "ego-driven design." I.E. Steve Jobs thinks brushed metal is cool, so it's taking over Quicktime, then iTunes, now the whole OS."
Wow, now isn't that flamebait. I think Jobs has a few more qualifications than you do to run a computer hardware/software company. Ego alone doesn't take you from being "beleagured" and in the red to where Apple is today (one of the few successful computer hardware/operating system companies in the world).
Think iTMS = OS and MP3 Player = Hardware. To do the exact opposite of what they did before, they need to make the iTMS work on ANY mp3 player. This is a half-step. They're letting others make the hardware, but limiting the OS to apple-licensed hardware.
However, I'm not saying that the music download industry exactly paralells the computer hw/sw industry of thepast. We'll see what happens.
Excel is quite possibly the most dominant application ever. Really.
Sure, I hate Windows. But if I needed to I can use it. I dislike Linux, but if I need to I can use it. I'm so/so on Mac OS X, but I use it every day. I use Excel every day, but I think I'd rather run Windows ME 24x7 than use any other spreadsheet program. There's alternatives to all the Adobe apps that are useable, alternative OS's, alternatives to Word, IE, Access, Powerpoint and all the others. There's no alternative to excel.
You can have my powerbook and excel when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
You're thinking like a linux user, and not the average user.
Honestly, you *must* have had some time in your life you're trying to find out something on the web and Google hasn't been able to easily find it. Another post used the example of the "red haired singer" which is a good one. If a search engine sorted all the websites into "CD Sales" "Performances" and "Tom Malone the Construction Worker" for that person, it'd certainly point them in the right direction.
Your response doesn't apply to most people. People don't want to learn how to work technology, they want technology to "just work" for them.
That's a terrible analogy. Your wife uses "fat" with a bad connotation, something she doesn't want to be. Further, most of the time she says she's fat, she wants you to say "no you're not."
On the other hand, "nigger", when used by blacks to describe themselves, sometimes doesn't have a bad connotation, and sometimes it does. Also, when blacks use that term to describe themselves, they usually aren't looking for the response "no you're not."
Personally, if the world were perfect and without racism, I don't think anyone would have a problem with anyone else using the term because it would no longer have much impact. But racism remains in this world, so it's important, IMO, to still remain sensitive to people who have to deal with it.
isn't the record companies, although that *is* a large part of it. They could actually make quite a profit IMO if they can eliminate people buying only one or two MP3's and getting hit hard with the transaction costs.
If you see a lot more people buying iTunes Gift Cards and entire albums at once, you'll see the iTunes store making money.
With the $99 price point, replacing the battery is no longer necessary. Just buy a new one when your old one dies.
So you've got:
People buying iPods and exposure to 'Mac Life' People buying Music to go with their iPods People re-buying iPods to match their music when their iPod dies.
Is Steve finally giving apple a smart business plan to go along with smart products?
Parts of the game are worthless. There are ways to do the opposite of what you're supposed to and benefit from it. If the game includes secrets, there need to be tools to encourage players to keep them. The game shouldn't "elminate" players slowly. Yes, I know monopoly does this, but those that are eliminated usually leave/sleep/watch tv and I think that's why games like Pictionary, Scattegories, or Trivial Pursuit are more popular. Different, but not revolutionary. Just like most video games, you're better off doing a variation of something most people are familiar with than something new and/or complex. You need to be able to sit down, read the rules, and understand the game in under 5 minutes.
Well, Sporting Events are one thing I like to watch Live, and the only thing I have zero interest in watching a recording of (except Classics). What if we saw the following changes in the industry?
Free Channels: Sporting Events Channels Home & Garden Channels using Sponsors Products Live News Channels
There's only three ways for stations to make money. Ads, In-Show Ads, and Subscription Fees. Unfortunately, it's my understanding that in-show ads are currently not allowed. See, everyone here complains about commercials, but a long time ago people felt that was better than having their favorite show butchered by an in-show ad. How would you like it if Kiefer Sutherland suddenly started talking about how much he likes his new Colgate Toothpaste?
I think the bigger issue is: How will this affect channel lineups? Will we see Sporting Events shifted toward networks-only and most network contect shifted towards a subscription based model?
Rules need to change. Everything needs to change. As with most technology, let's just shut our eyes to its impact and hope it works out. That's what I'll be doing with my Tivo.
I've been to many places across the US and never understood the anti-police sentiment. Then I moved to LA for college, and after that I can completely understand all the hatred towards police.
Oh please. No one's ever allowed to take Apple's side on things. This is practically a troll.
Apple enforcing contracts with their employees who create add-ons (which you can consider software) for an Operating System and Applications their currently producing, Apple is not doing anything illegal, immoral, or unethical.
MS using monopolistic powers to force more sales and less competition on other companies, that is illegal, immoral, and unethical.
Let's not compare the two like they're the same situation. If every time someone defends Apple or Attacks MS someone says "that's just because they're company X", I guess MS should always be innocent and apple always guilty.
How do you extort someone and harrass someone without contacting them? Sounds like he found these security holes and asked for $$$ to tell them where they were and how to fix them?
Whatever. It's funny how any one person claiming that someone slapped them with a DCMA threat can make/.
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IANAL, but I believe they'd also have to initial them for them to be acceptable.
It's been a while since High School Chem, but doesn't calcium nitrate go boom? Heh.. yeah, that's all I enjoyed about chemistry. Booms.
Really. Comcast stinks. Cable internet goes out for about two days a month (I know this isn't your question) and my cable tv reception (analog) consistently gets captioned jibberish along it (maybe 1/5 shows). Further, it's twice the price of satellite with half the channels. Oh yeah, and if I want HDTV, it costs an extra $15 per month + $5 per channel, whereas for satellite it's $12 per month for all channels.
True, you will have to hook up a seperate antenna for network HD, but that is *so* worth it. I'd already be over to satellite if my apt didn't come with free comcast. I'm getting what I pay for, but those poor shmo's putting out $60/month for comcast sure aren't.
I hate going shopping enough already. Now you're going to make me get pictures taken too? Why not just shove a pitchfork into my ass while you're at it?
Amen to that. I have a mac LC that's still running a FMP database for a Pet Store. The amount of dust and other things in there is ridiculous, yet that LC keeps on ticking, 12 hours a day 7 days a week.
I've always thought Apple's hardware was a strong point on quality, if not for speed/gaming.
I have to say, if I were to bet, I would bet it is some ticked off linux fan. Since this virus is really just meant to hurt SCO, it's either someone who wants to discredit the OS movement or some single child-minded linux fan.
I'd bet on the latter, simply because there's not that many "linux-haters" that are individuals and child-ish. A company like MS, as dirty as they can be, I don't believe would engage in this kind of criminal behavior. Basically, virii are written by individuals for the most part, and I don't think an individual has much to gain from attacking OSS.
In all likelihood, it *was* some ticked-off kid. Get ready for more blurring the lines of linux=illegal hacking=evil subculture=virii makers type articles and opinions.
True enough, but you can't blame middle-men for everything. Sure, it's partly their fault and if you have damages from their non-silver grease, sue them along with everyone else in line.
However, i think it's a little vindictive to completely blame them. After all, it's not like it's something you can just pop the hood of and see "aw shucks, they gave us a V6 instead of a V8".
I'm willing to bet if you do something stupid and die in the simulator "game"... you're gonna be pulled out, get your instructor to yell at you until your ears bleed, and then be doing pushups and "helped" pushups until you die.
For those of you that don't know what I'm talking about, one form of "training" has you do pushups til you can't no more, then do pushups with someone helping you up with a towel around your toso.
If you really think they'll have a "click to respawn" feature either a) you're an idiot... or b) you're right and the army is dumber than I thought.. and I'm an idiot too.
I seem to remember the person in charge of developing Internet Explorer for MS saying this *exact* same thing. In fact, he claimed this was the reason MS won the browser war: Netscape lost all their years of work because they decided to re-write their browser, while IE tweaked theirs. I'm sure I read this on /. somewhere, but I can't find the article.
:(
I know a lot of it had to do with MS's business tactics, but Netscape/AOL took like 5 years to put out a new browser after 4.7. And do you guys even remember Netscape 6 Preview? What a god-awful browser that was. My friends starting calling it Nutscrape cuz it was so painful to use
"Back in the day, when this dude worked for Apple, they had HCI research going on all the time. Nowadays at Apple, HCI has been replaced by "ego-driven design." I.E. Steve Jobs thinks brushed metal is cool, so it's taking over Quicktime, then iTunes, now the whole OS."
Wow, now isn't that flamebait. I think Jobs has a few more qualifications than you do to run a computer hardware/software company. Ego alone doesn't take you from being "beleagured" and in the red to where Apple is today (one of the few successful computer hardware/operating system companies in the world).
I don't follow this stuff too closely, but isn't this like the 9th time we've "almost" found water on Mars?
Think iTMS = OS and MP3 Player = Hardware.
To do the exact opposite of what they did before, they need to make the iTMS work on ANY mp3 player. This is a half-step. They're letting others make the hardware, but limiting the OS to apple-licensed hardware.
However, I'm not saying that the music download industry exactly paralells the computer hw/sw industry of thepast. We'll see what happens.
Excel is quite possibly the most dominant application ever. Really.
Sure, I hate Windows. But if I needed to I can use it. I dislike Linux, but if I need to I can use it. I'm so/so on Mac OS X, but I use it every day. I use Excel every day, but I think I'd rather run Windows ME 24x7 than use any other spreadsheet program. There's alternatives to all the Adobe apps that are useable, alternative OS's, alternatives to Word, IE, Access, Powerpoint and all the others. There's no alternative to excel.
You can have my powerbook and excel when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
And if that "anyone" be SCO?
You're thinking like a linux user, and not the average user.
Honestly, you *must* have had some time in your life you're trying to find out something on the web and Google hasn't been able to easily find it. Another post used the example of the "red haired singer" which is a good one. If a search engine sorted all the websites into "CD Sales" "Performances" and "Tom Malone the Construction Worker" for that person, it'd certainly point them in the right direction.
Your response doesn't apply to most people. People don't want to learn how to work technology, they want technology to "just work" for them.
That's a terrible analogy. Your wife uses "fat" with a bad connotation, something she doesn't want to be. Further, most of the time she says she's fat, she wants you to say "no you're not."
On the other hand, "nigger", when used by blacks to describe themselves, sometimes doesn't have a bad connotation, and sometimes it does. Also, when blacks use that term to describe themselves, they usually aren't looking for the response "no you're not."
Personally, if the world were perfect and without racism, I don't think anyone would have a problem with anyone else using the term because it would no longer have much impact. But racism remains in this world, so it's important, IMO, to still remain sensitive to people who have to deal with it.
isn't the record companies, although that *is* a large part of it. They could actually make quite a profit IMO if they can eliminate people buying only one or two MP3's and getting hit hard with the transaction costs.
If you see a lot more people buying iTunes Gift Cards and entire albums at once, you'll see the iTunes store making money.
With the $99 price point, replacing the battery is no longer necessary. Just buy a new one when your old one dies.
So you've got:
People buying iPods and exposure to 'Mac Life'
People buying Music to go with their iPods
People re-buying iPods to match their music when their iPod dies.
Is Steve finally giving apple a smart business plan to go along with smart products?
Watch for the following pitfalls:
Parts of the game are worthless.
There are ways to do the opposite of what you're supposed to and benefit from it.
If the game includes secrets, there need to be tools to encourage players to keep them.
The game shouldn't "elminate" players slowly. Yes, I know monopoly does this, but those that are eliminated usually leave/sleep/watch tv and I think that's why games like Pictionary, Scattegories, or Trivial Pursuit are more popular.
Different, but not revolutionary. Just like most video games, you're better off doing a variation of something most people are familiar with than something new and/or complex.
You need to be able to sit down, read the rules, and understand the game in under 5 minutes.
Good luck.
Because that would be better. Somehow. An engineer who can't get an engineering job will be able to accurately proofread MSNBC fluff articles.
If jobs getting a 75million dollar jet makes him poor, I'd like that job.
Well, Sporting Events are one thing I like to watch Live, and the only thing I have zero interest in watching a recording of (except Classics). What if we saw the following changes in the industry?
Free Channels:
Sporting Events Channels
Home & Garden Channels using Sponsors Products
Live News Channels
Subscription:
Everything Else
Debate News Channels
There's only three ways for stations to make money. Ads, In-Show Ads, and Subscription Fees. Unfortunately, it's my understanding that in-show ads are currently not allowed. See, everyone here complains about commercials, but a long time ago people felt that was better than having their favorite show butchered by an in-show ad. How would you like it if Kiefer Sutherland suddenly started talking about how much he likes his new Colgate Toothpaste?
I think the bigger issue is: How will this affect channel lineups? Will we see Sporting Events shifted toward networks-only and most network contect shifted towards a subscription based model?
Rules need to change. Everything needs to change. As with most technology, let's just shut our eyes to its impact and hope it works out. That's what I'll be doing with my Tivo.
I've been to many places across the US and never understood the anti-police sentiment. Then I moved to LA for college, and after that I can completely understand all the hatred towards police.
Police = Good
LAPD = Bad.
Oh please. No one's ever allowed to take Apple's side on things. This is practically a troll.
Apple enforcing contracts with their employees who create add-ons (which you can consider software) for an Operating System and Applications their currently producing, Apple is not doing anything illegal, immoral, or unethical.
MS using monopolistic powers to force more sales and less competition on other companies, that is illegal, immoral, and unethical.
Let's not compare the two like they're the same situation. If every time someone defends Apple or Attacks MS someone says "that's just because they're company X", I guess MS should always be innocent and apple always guilty.
end rant.
How do you extort someone and harrass someone without contacting them? Sounds like he found these security holes and asked for $$$ to tell them where they were and how to fix them?
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Whatever. It's funny how any one person claiming that someone slapped them with a DCMA threat can make