From the Article: > "[A]mong U.S. households with members who regularly use the Internet, > 8 percent (six million households) downloaded at least one digital > video file (10MB or larger) from a P2P service for free in the third > quarter of 2006.
> Hey Mike - arrow key until the file you want to rename is hilighted - and push enter. > Wooooooo, scary hard.
In a Finder window, the arrow keys can be used to select a file. I just start typing the name of a particular file to select it or to select a file nearby and then use the up/down arrow keys to fine-tune my selection.
The delay that you have set before keys start repeating is the same length of time you must hold down a return OR enter key to enter a filename edit mode.
Just trying to clarify something that everyone knows already.
Here in Texas, I listen to the local affiliate of the Republic Broadcasting Network. These guys are total yahoo's and are sometimes VERY intertaining.
Even the commercials are funny: One commercial was hawking a remedy to counteract the effects of exposure to contrails.
Anyway, you can spot these guys by their language. Look for these terms to detect a yahoo: "the Truth", "expose" or "exposed", "United Nations", "God fearing".
In a more general way, they can be detected by their goal-oriented scientific statements, by references to the United Nations or the New World Order, or their tendency to name everything. Lots of "-isms".
Maybe the author has good points. If so, too bad that comes off as he does.
--Richard
PS: If possible, try to take in a couple RBN radio shows. I learned, for example, that white settlers didn't kill off the American Indians -- God did. I did not know that before.
> That's good for you, but not what the article is about. The article is about encrypting the full disk, > a feature MacOS will not have any time soon, but Windows Vista will have. Encrypting directories has > been in Windows since at least NT4.
It's actually more economical to ignore hard drive warranties -- go out and purchase a new hard drive if you experience a failure.
When I joined the large engineering company that I currently work for about two years ago, they were replacing four hard drives a week under warranty. When I realized that all of the warranty replacement hard drives were refurbs, I changed that little policy: we started throwing away the bad drives and began purchasing replacements.
Failures have been reduced to fewer than one a week.
So, now we are spending about $80 to buy new hard drives when a warranty replacement would have been free.
HOWEVER, we saving a heck of a lot more than that. Now the sysadmins are fixing other things and our users' downtime has been greatly reduced. We're saving hundreds of dollars per failure by installing new hard drives instead of warranty replacements.
>> * Collateral damage. A shared server with 1000 users and >> 2000 domains might turn up in an RBL because one of those >> users had an inscecure formmail running a night long. And >> even after removal by the sysadmins in the morning, 1499 >> users can't mail you the next 18 hours.
Good point. On the other hand, I don't fucking care. I don't hear anyone knocking on my door, offering to help me filter out my spam. RBL's work GREAT on a tough problem, which is why they haven't gone away.
And the collateral damage? If a user/subscriber abuses a service then the service provider SHOULD be held accountable and those other 1499 users are better off elsewhere.
--Richard
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>> A technology shouldn't be thrown away just because you don't like how some choose to use it.
Well, it's not that he objects to how "some" people use Flash... it's how badly almost every fucking-body uses Flash.
It's not hard to understand. Look around. 99% of the Flash in use is dreadful, dreadful, dreadful. Abusive, even.
Select everything on the home page and look at the bottom. There's a string of characters, which Slashdot does not allow me to post. Anyone know what this is?
Also, at the bottom of the page (visible) is this:
IP: 70.17.160.238 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
That's not my IP number and I'm not using Windows, I'm using a Mac. Got the Firefox part right, though.
Hmm. I know of a company that has 30,000 employees and all of them have admin rights. I also know a company that has 16 employees, all with admin rights.
>> people (and I don't mean technology enthusiasts) will >> continue to purchase Microsoft products simply because >> of the sheer familiarity and comfort levels (BSoD et al)
When Apple started with switch campaign some years back, I thought that one of the things that they needed to include in OS X for Windows users who were switching was a Control Panel that invokes a "Windows-mode".
When enabled, the Mac would do bizarre shit on an unpredictable basis (OS crashing, audio disappearing, etc) and on a regular basis (ie: getting slower as time passes).
This would sooth new users, giving them characteristics of the environment that they were familiar with.
I wonder if there's an open source project for this sort of thing.
No, it's deep. I think that your reasoning is idiotic.
I stand by what I wrote. People (like you, apparently) have become accustomed to getting great stuff for almost free -- in fact, EXPECTING it to be almost free.
You have become confused and believe that because something is common that is then somehow good or right.
I do believe you are correct when you say, "Value isn't some absolute..." but I think you don't really understand what you mean. You just stumbled across that truism without understanding it.
It appears that you are a new user here. I recommend that you do some searches on Slashdot before spouting.
Mac OS X is generally held in high regard here. The consensus, with un-noteable exceptions, is that while OS X has "bling" it also delivers the goods in excellent fashion.
Two years ago I had to replace the headlight in my sedan. I eventually bought it from an Internet-based vendor but not before I realized that most of the sites I investigated were being run by a much smaller number of actual businesses.
I have no idea how many companies are doing business selling car parts on the Internet but I'm sure that it's a small fraction of the "front-ends" that appear to be doing business.
--Richard
I paid $100 for a headlight for which the dealer quoted me $240.
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>> Tell me again why the Mac is a better platform is the apps lag by years?
The main virtue of the Mac platform is that it pisses guys like you off.
A couple anecdotes and an analyst who uses the technical term "blew up" are a pretty week foundation for a news story.
I have drawn these conclusions:
1. The iTunes service has operated just fine
2. It's a very, very slow news day
--Richard
From the Article:
> "[A]mong U.S. households with members who regularly use the Internet,
> 8 percent (six million households) downloaded at least one digital
> video file (10MB or larger) from a P2P service for free in the third
> quarter of 2006.
Bullshit.
Done.
> Hey Mike - arrow key until the file you want to rename is hilighted - and push enter.
> Wooooooo, scary hard.
In a Finder window, the arrow keys can be used to select a file. I just start typing the name of a particular file to select it or to select a file nearby and then use the up/down arrow keys to fine-tune my selection.
The delay that you have set before keys start repeating is the same length of time you must hold down a return OR enter key to enter a filename edit mode.
Just trying to clarify something that everyone knows already.
--Richard
What most Americans now refer to as "walkie-talkies" were referred to as "handy-talkies" back in WWII.
I can see how the Germans might come to refer to a cell phone as a "handy."
--Richard
> ...that voice is the least-used?
Ouch. Yeah, creditbility hit there.
Here in Texas, I listen to the local affiliate of the Republic Broadcasting Network. These guys are total yahoo's and are sometimes VERY intertaining.
Even the commercials are funny: One commercial was hawking a remedy to counteract the effects of exposure to contrails.
Anyway, you can spot these guys by their language. Look for these terms to detect a yahoo: "the Truth", "expose" or "exposed", "United Nations", "God fearing".
In a more general way, they can be detected by their goal-oriented scientific statements, by references to the United Nations or the New World Order, or their tendency to name everything. Lots of "-isms".
Maybe the author has good points. If so, too bad that comes off as he does.
--Richard
PS: If possible, try to take in a couple RBN
radio shows. I learned, for example, that
white settlers didn't kill off the American
Indians -- God did. I did not know that before.
> That's good for you, but not what the article is about. The article is about encrypting the full disk,
> a feature MacOS will not have any time soon, but Windows Vista will have. Encrypting directories has
> been in Windows since at least NT4.
An accurate observation but kind of irrelavent.
It's actually more economical to ignore hard drive warranties -- go out and purchase a new hard drive if you experience a failure.
When I joined the large engineering company that I currently work for about two years ago, they were replacing four hard drives a week under warranty. When I realized that all of the warranty replacement hard drives were refurbs, I changed that little policy: we started throwing away the bad drives and began purchasing replacements.
Failures have been reduced to fewer than one a week.
So, now we are spending about $80 to buy new hard drives when a warranty replacement would have been free.
HOWEVER, we saving a heck of a lot more than that. Now the sysadmins are fixing other things and our users' downtime has been greatly reduced. We're saving hundreds of dollars per failure by installing new hard drives instead of warranty replacements.
Money is a truthsayer.
Another way to look at this news... Vista is going to create and additional 50,000 jobs' worth of additional expenses.
This is a good example of spin.
>> * Collateral damage. A shared server with 1000 users and
>> 2000 domains might turn up in an RBL because one of those
>> users had an inscecure formmail running a night long. And
>> even after removal by the sysadmins in the morning, 1499
>> users can't mail you the next 18 hours.
Good point. On the other hand, I don't fucking care. I don't hear anyone knocking on my door, offering to help me filter out my spam. RBL's work GREAT on a tough problem, which is why they haven't gone away.
And the collateral damage? If a user/subscriber abuses a service then the service provider SHOULD be held accountable and those other 1499 users are better off elsewhere.
--Richard
>> A technology shouldn't be thrown away just because you don't like how some choose to use it.
Well, it's not that he objects to how "some" people use Flash... it's how badly almost every fucking-body uses Flash.
It's not hard to understand. Look around. 99% of the Flash in use is dreadful, dreadful, dreadful. Abusive, even.
We're not splitting hairs, here.
Select everything on the home page and look at the bottom. There's a string of characters, which Slashdot does not allow me to post. Anyone know what this is?
Also, at the bottom of the page (visible) is this:
IP: 70.17.160.238 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
That's not my IP number and I'm not using Windows, I'm using a Mac. Got the Firefox part right, though.
This _IS_ mysterious... excessively so.
--Richard
Maybe I'm just cranky this morning but isn't this just the dumbest article that has been posted recently?
Forget the methodology -- the question is, "So what?"
It's gaming. This is like evaluating the nutritional differences between chocolate ice cream and cheesecake. It's a fucking desert. Who cares?
Want to talk about wasted energy? How about all the energy that they wasted writing this article?
Where's the comparison with turning this consoles off and going out and throwing a baseball around or kicking a soccer ball?
Hmm. I know of a company that has 30,000 employees and all of them have admin rights. I also know a company that has 16 employees, all with admin rights.
>> people (and I don't mean technology enthusiasts) will
>> continue to purchase Microsoft products simply because
>> of the sheer familiarity and comfort levels (BSoD et al)
When Apple started with switch campaign some years back, I thought that one of the things that they needed to include in OS X for Windows users who were switching was a Control Panel that invokes a "Windows-mode".
When enabled, the Mac would do bizarre shit on an unpredictable basis (OS crashing, audio disappearing, etc) and on a regular basis (ie: getting slower as time passes).
This would sooth new users, giving them characteristics of the environment that they were familiar with.
I wonder if there's an open source project for this sort of thing.
--Richard
I get you point... Choice sucks.
So your computer is broken. Get it fixed, already.
>> Ho ho ho. "State sponsored piracy!"
Great. We already have state sponsored gambling. I think that leaves state sponsored whoring. Maybe the more politically savvy can update us on that.
--Richard
>> "Mark it on your calendars."
Wow. That a classic example of manager-spreak. Lord, help them, they're being managed. You can bet the farm on that.
>> "That's a pretty idiotic comment."
No, it's deep. I think that your reasoning is idiotic.
I stand by what I wrote. People (like you, apparently) have become accustomed to getting great stuff for almost free -- in fact, EXPECTING it to be almost free.
You have become confused and believe that because something is common that is then somehow good or right.
I do believe you are correct when you say, "Value isn't some absolute..." but I think you don't really understand what you mean. You just stumbled across that truism without understanding it.
You are young, grasshopper.
>> "It doesn't come cheap, ringing in at close to $150..."
Wow. Those $200 WalMart PC's have got everyone's value systems really fucked up.
God bless you and your link.
--Richard
>> MacOS concentrates on bling only...
It appears that you are a new user here. I recommend that you do some searches on Slashdot before spouting.
Mac OS X is generally held in high regard here. The consensus, with un-noteable exceptions, is that while OS X has "bling" it also delivers the goods in excellent fashion.
Sincerely,
Richard
Windows System Administrator
Two years ago I had to replace the headlight in my sedan. I eventually bought it from an Internet-based vendor but not before I realized that most of the sites I investigated were being run by a much smaller number of actual businesses.
I have no idea how many companies are doing business selling car parts on the Internet but I'm sure that it's a small fraction of the "front-ends" that appear to be doing business.
--Richard
I paid $100 for a headlight for
which the dealer quoted me $240.