right about when they had to make a college class called Business Ethics, because if you have to teach ethics it pretty much points out where we have come to as a society.
who really thinks some 3rd company can block all access to your information? Even if they had access to your credit file, its all in the past, so it would take a month to figure it out, while your credit score gets lowered, then all this company could do is pay to fix/remove it, more like insurance than any sort of blocking; then the "big 3" credit mongrels will sort out the problem after said company contacts them, and after I'm sure you have to call/fax them all this info, signed in triplicate, so in the end you just gave LifeLock money for a false feeling of security, because they have no higher ability to repair your credit file than another one has to destroy it. think about it people. Really?
so a man that thinks the RIAA is honest and right is now a judge in the United States Courts. Somehow the words just can't describe the feelings of failure that have surfaced when I read this post.
You allow your users to run FTP servers on your network? sounds like it's the admin's extreme stupidity, I mean, your the one paid to know this stuff, an end user might have just started the service (which is kind of easy on a mac) but if you blocked it through proxy or firewall (however your network is setup) it would have been a non-issue, but hey why take the blame when management has no idea it was your fault nor any clue that it could have been!
Because when the system fails they have a name (General Lord) to blame and put in the hot seat of a senate hearing. right now the DISA and NSA are so secretive our 'normal' (joe blow senator) government has no name to blame. Most of this will fail because of how the gov. recruits people, the people at the top have squeaky clean records, because there fathers were Generals, or other high ranking member before them, so they never got in trouble, and expect everyone that is hired to be the same way, so (times like now) you have the powerful helping the powerful.. well that would work, except hacking, cracking, is a poor mans game.. I mean, most of the illusive do it not just out of curiosity, but out of need, when you need a crack for softice x.2.2 and no one has made it, but you can download a tutorial on cracking a previous version, well you've just filled your need, and learned. but you cant have programs like softice on military computers, you can't even attempt to do this stuff on the computers, (legally) so this is really a daunting task that will never work out until it goes more secretive, so no one gets in trouble when you do this stuff all day, like the NSA, but then we have just drove in a circle haven't we?
this is like saying America would be better if we put everyone in jail. This guy is a true freedom fighter! I'm glad my governement pays him, his ideas are way better than actually hiring people that know network security. (and implementing their ideas).
how about when I come home all I want to do it play some TF2, maybe browse some iTunes, do my homework, and not reconfigure the machine to do any of these. Karma be damned, Linux is to much - to many options, to many choices, except the one a home user wants - "just work" and leave me alone. Linux doesn't do this now, and won't for a long time. Yes I know 100 posts will follow this saying "All you have to do is get and it does all that for you"; because thats not all I have to do, you get the package manager, the packages it needs to run, then you start pruning forums because somehow, your computer is the only one with , and after a few hours of searching you find a work around, but if you just had XP, you could have just not had the problem. Not to be a Microsoft fan, but XP is a good OS. I hope Linux reaches the level of ease that XP has, and with vista as misdirected as is it, has afforded Linux some catchup time which is always nice. but that's the problem, not affordability. If the product is good the demand will be there, this is typical of our US thinking though, because it's the same reason our domestic car industry is dying, they don't blame their products, it's something else. it has to be. The blame game.
I read somewhere that SC2 will be Dx10 only (and Mac)!- talk about decision time for some people - upgrade a rig because your forced to (because of MS) or buy a Mac.. guess we'll have to see which route people go... interesting though
this is all well and good, but how much press would Power5-6 get if Apple wasnt envolved? probably nil. IBM may have only lost 5% of there chip buying, but how much will this cost them in fan-fare / publicity? I'm betting alot, Apple ALWAYS hypes their products- IBM just lost the only company that sells PC's to "Joe Blow" with their processors, you can make the best processor in the world but if no one cares, it's not worth a dime
think DEC Alpha - look at them now.. and their processors were awesome for the time. I'm betting this time next year, the only press about IBM Power6 will be the fact that they can't supply it , but it will be availble "soon"
I have an iPod, I use it when running and motorcycling, when I'm running it has to be at around 75%-80% volume, just to drown out normal noise, on my bike I always have it at 100% and even then it is just barely loud enough.. I wish it could go louder without distoring the music.. this guy is just stupid.. does he sue the county when they are doing road construction because its loud? that is much louder than an iPod will ever be..
yes, you are unclear, they want *less* government intervention, not zero. they belive the government should help the citizens not block their progress, life and liberties.
i'm not a libertarian, but there http://www.lp.org/website makes for a good read. good ideas.. to bad 'man' has to follow threw with the ideas, and that won't happen with big money being put in there pockets.
see.. thats your own foolishness, *your* keeping around old DLL's... my point was when MS makes a new DLL, your older programs will almost always still work with the new DLL.. i use a ton of programs.. new and old, new games and old games.. never once have i had a problem running it because i needed an *older* dll file in windows.. have you? i doubt it.
Frosty
if you have to reinstall quicktime and directx, your windows install is a) fucked up or b) has a virus.. directx never reverts to an older version, hell if you can find a way to use an older version your damn lucky, all you can do is update it, and 9.99999 times out of 10 all your older dx games will work with the newest directx..
boy this whole string of messages is a crock, cept the ones that say win9x nt compat are more easier.. true linux has "versioning" and what not, but if any of you would open your eyes wide enough past the "open source is live BS" you'd see that really this is linux's eniter problem.. 17 versions exists of a library, and the only thing you want to do is run one program made for "*nix* and you cant because you have to change 10 files, recompile the kernel, setup 15 other files, and then compile half of the original program you wanted to run.. MS, even though i dont care for windows, or really any bugged to hell OS, they choose to only have one "DLL" per system, you cant have 10 diff versions of user32.dll, only one. now you can argue this "and they outdate the old hardware, etc" but thats more bullcrap, compair windows upgrades to linux upgrades, when MS puts out a new windows (95 to 98) i'd say 99% of the hardware and software still works (and i'd guess 20% even ran better).. when linux versions come out.. they say use glib xx.x if you have this hardware, and use the whole versioning system deal to use this other piece of hardware , so you use glib xxx.xx for that, it just gets to be crap after a while..
Frosty.
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right about when they had to make a college class called Business Ethics, because if you have to teach ethics it pretty much points out where we have come to as a society.
who really thinks some 3rd company can block all access to your information? Even if they had access to your credit file, its all in the past, so it would take a month to figure it out, while your credit score gets lowered, then all this company could do is pay to fix/remove it, more like insurance than any sort of blocking; then the "big 3" credit mongrels will sort out the problem after said company contacts them, and after I'm sure you have to call/fax them all this info, signed in triplicate, so in the end you just gave LifeLock money for a false feeling of security, because they have no higher ability to repair your credit file than another one has to destroy it. think about it people. Really?
so a man that thinks the RIAA is honest and right is now a judge in the United States Courts. Somehow the words just can't describe the feelings of failure that have surfaced when I read this post.
You allow your users to run FTP servers on your network? sounds like it's the admin's extreme stupidity, I mean, your the one paid to know this stuff, an end user might have just started the service (which is kind of easy on a mac) but if you blocked it through proxy or firewall (however your network is setup) it would have been a non-issue, but hey why take the blame when management has no idea it was your fault nor any clue that it could have been!
woot. just woot,
Because when the system fails they have a name (General Lord) to blame and put in the hot seat of a senate hearing. right now the DISA and NSA are so secretive our 'normal' (joe blow senator) government has no name to blame. Most of this will fail because of how the gov. recruits people, the people at the top have squeaky clean records, because there fathers were Generals, or other high ranking member before them, so they never got in trouble, and expect everyone that is hired to be the same way, so (times like now) you have the powerful helping the powerful.. well that would work, except hacking, cracking, is a poor mans game.. I mean, most of the illusive do it not just out of curiosity, but out of need, when you need a crack for softice x.2.2 and no one has made it, but you can download a tutorial on cracking a previous version, well you've just filled your need, and learned. but you cant have programs like softice on military computers, you can't even attempt to do this stuff on the computers, (legally) so this is really a daunting task that will never work out until it goes more secretive, so no one gets in trouble when you do this stuff all day, like the NSA, but then we have just drove in a circle haven't we?
this is like saying America would be better if we put everyone in jail. This guy is a true freedom fighter! I'm glad my governement pays him, his ideas are way better than actually hiring people that know network security. (and implementing their ideas).
how about when I come home all I want to do it play some TF2, maybe browse some iTunes, do my homework, and not reconfigure the machine to do any of these. Karma be damned, Linux is to much - to many options, to many choices, except the one a home user wants - "just work" and leave me alone. Linux doesn't do this now, and won't for a long time. Yes I know 100 posts will follow this saying "All you have to do is get and it does all that for you"; because thats not all I have to do, you get the package manager, the packages it needs to run, then you start pruning forums because somehow, your computer is the only one with , and after a few hours of searching you find a work around, but if you just had XP, you could have just not had the problem. Not to be a Microsoft fan, but XP is a good OS. I hope Linux reaches the level of ease that XP has, and with vista as misdirected as is it, has afforded Linux some catchup time which is always nice. but that's the problem, not affordability. If the product is good the demand will be there, this is typical of our US thinking though, because it's the same reason our domestic car industry is dying, they don't blame their products, it's something else. it has to be. The blame game.
I for one love less choice!
I read somewhere that SC2 will be Dx10 only (and Mac)!- talk about decision time for some people - upgrade a rig because your forced to (because of MS) or buy a Mac.. guess we'll have to see which route people go... interesting though
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this is all well and good, but how much press would Power5-6 get if Apple wasnt envolved? probably nil. IBM may have only lost 5% of there chip buying, but how much will this cost them in fan-fare / publicity? I'm betting alot, Apple ALWAYS hypes their products- IBM just lost the only company that sells PC's to "Joe Blow" with their processors, you can make the best processor in the world but if no one cares, it's not worth a dime
think DEC Alpha - look at them now.. and their processors were awesome for the time. I'm betting this time next year, the only press about IBM Power6 will be the fact that they can't supply it , but it will be availble "soon"
I have an iPod, I use it when running and motorcycling, when I'm running it has to be at around 75%-80% volume, just to drown out normal noise, on my bike I always have it at 100% and even then it is just barely loud enough.. I wish it could go louder without distoring the music .. this guy is just stupid.. does he sue the county when they are doing road construction because its loud? that is much louder than an iPod will ever be..
Post-It notes, the only way.
the scroll-wheel-click finally opens links in a new tab on OSX! yay
So long, and thanks for the fish!
okay I know I've seen this somewhere.. and it didn't turn out good then either. swarms eat people.
oh well..
2005's slogan of the century: Why Worry Now? (tm)
true, but there is an old quote I always loved from the automotive world, that pretty much fits anywhere
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You have to bend the metal anyways, you might as well bend it to look good.
I'm not sure why anyone would make a bad design on purpose, but it's done everyday.
yes, you are unclear, they want *less* government intervention, not zero. they belive the government should help the citizens not block their progress, life and liberties.
i'm not a libertarian, but there http://www.lp.org/website makes for a good read. good ideas.. to bad 'man' has to follow threw with the ideas, and that won't happen with big money being put in there pockets.
see.. thats your own foolishness, *your* keeping around old DLL's... my point was when MS makes a new DLL, your older programs will almost always still work with the new DLL.. i use a ton of programs.. new and old, new games and old games.. never once have i had a problem running it because i needed an *older* dll file in windows.. have you? i doubt it. Frosty
if you have to reinstall quicktime and directx, your windows install is a) fucked up or b) has a virus.. directx never reverts to an older version, hell if you can find a way to use an older version your damn lucky, all you can do is update it, and 9.99999 times out of 10 all your older dx games will work with the newest directx..
boy this whole string of messages is a crock, cept the ones that say win9x nt compat are more easier.. true linux has "versioning" and what not, but if any of you would open your eyes wide enough past the "open source is live BS" you'd see that really this is linux's eniter problem.. 17 versions exists of a library, and the only thing you want to do is run one program made for "*nix* and you cant because you have to change 10 files, recompile the kernel, setup 15 other files, and then compile half of the original program you wanted to run.. MS, even though i dont care for windows, or really any bugged to hell OS, they choose to only have one "DLL" per system, you cant have 10 diff versions of user32.dll, only one. now you can argue this "and they outdate the old hardware, etc" but thats more bullcrap, compair windows upgrades to linux upgrades, when MS puts out a new windows (95 to 98) i'd say 99% of the hardware and software still works (and i'd guess 20% even ran better) .. when linux versions come out.. they say use glib xx.x if you have this hardware, and use the whole versioning system deal to use this other piece of hardware , so you use glib xxx.xx for that, it just gets to be crap after a while..
Frosty.