I've no idea why this is modded 'flamebait'. It's a perfectly reasonable question. If it was the comparison machine, then it wasn't a true comparison, as the 'DVD quality' video would have been compressed (even further) using god-knows-what settings.
If you've ever owned a Dell laptop before you'd know there is the world of difference between them. The additional 2" thickness of cheap badly moulded plastic is only the start.
Scalable interfaces have been on Apple's agenda for some time now. I think the rumours before Tiger was released suggested that it wouldn't be fully implemented in 10.4 but would probably be done for 10.5.
I think that's actually a really sensible idea. In fact I think I'd go as far as saying that the best idea for combating phishing that I've ever heard.
The big problem is - of course - convincing the banks to promote the idea in a consistent way.
However, I wouldn't want to be getting email from my credit card company or bank, and I certainly don't want to encourage them to start sending important info by email.
Besides the obvious problem of everything being intercepted by NSA+AT&T in the first place, it will only make it more difficult to tell phishing from the real thing, mainly because you'll be expecting it to be trustworthy. Old phishing techniques may have used mass mailings which could be blocked by spam filters, but that's not necessarily the case any more.
We export countless manufacturing jobs and import enough to make the [United States] one of the top five largest and richest economies, and this is how they treat [Australia]? I'm not even mentioning the devaluing of their currency and impact that has on our economy (actually I guess I just did). I think our government [(Australia)] needs to take a hard look at the [US's] obvious anti-competitive, and one sided global trade policies.
Twisting things that may be quite innocent into your own fantasy conspiracy does not qualify as a valid discussion. It is rightly - and should be - flamebait. Even your sig shows how little you either understand or care about the real story.
You can't surf the internet without a web browser. You can pull music off your iPod without one of a hundred "pull music off iPod" programs available. And let's face it - there are very very few time that you'd need to do this for legitimate reasons - it's all about swapping enormous amounts of music. You know this, and Apple knows this.
Apple could have gone out of their way to make it next to impossible to do. Instead they've made it difficult only if you know *nothing* about computers. I really don't see what the issue is.
Yes, and if you'd ever actually even looked at an iPod you'd know you can do this with them too. iPods mount as an external drive and can be used in disk-mode. The simply store >only
If you really need to get music out of the iPod music directories, and you can't handle using the command line to do this, then simply keep one of the many programs that simplifies this for you ON YOUR IPOD! Install it on the PC you're plugging into, and now you've got access to 'your' music.
This is trivial. This is a no-brainer. But here we are, on a site for NERDS, and people can't grasp this basic idea.
I don't know what type of stereo you were looking at, but the past few times I've shopped around for one, Sony has been far from the best...or even best at a certain price. I'm not trying to be rude, but I think you've demonstrated why Sony has such a 'good reputation' - it's all brand recognition.
It's likely to be far more interesting too. Can you imagine - as soon as the show's website is set up, there will be every hacker and his dog pounding on the firewall. The only challenge the show would have to set is "make the webserver last the night".
Hey - maybe that's even good naming material. Dusk to Pw0nd!
Slashcode inserts spaces in long words to prevent page widening trolls. That's why it's always good to use 'a' tags and 'href=', rather than relying on Slashdot to autolink.
That's interesting actually - I wonder how much this security patch I've written for a server program that just happens to run...ohhh...60% of the web is worth =)
I wonder is the IRS views unpaid open-source web development as a type of barter?
What are you jabbering about?!!
For your information - region encoding is blatantly not about copy protection, it is about profit protection. At the moment movie releases are delayed by upto a year in some zones (if they are indeed ever released). Prices are also structured differently in each zone (which is what the ACCC's beef is about - and trust me, they know about shit like this). And despite all this, zoning makes it essentially impossible to get *decent* foriegn films (i realise that this wouldn't intrest a dipstick like you) and artifically extends the american film industry's stranglehold over world markets (by restricting all other films to their own zones).
And besides, you might not be a global traveller, but those of us that move around every few years don't want to re-buy all our fucking films each time.
They could quite possibly do this...though it would be a show down I would love to see:)~
See my post above somewhere - the ACCC does actually have pretty huge powers.
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I've no idea why this is modded 'flamebait'. It's a perfectly reasonable question. If it was the comparison machine, then it wasn't a true comparison, as the 'DVD quality' video would have been compressed (even further) using god-knows-what settings.
If you've ever owned a Dell laptop before you'd know there is the world of difference between them. The additional 2" thickness of cheap badly moulded plastic is only the start.
That's even better than turning fans on reverse to keep warm!
Scalable interfaces have been on Apple's agenda for some time now. I think the rumours before Tiger was released suggested that it wouldn't be fully implemented in 10.4 but would probably be done for 10.5.
The big problem is - of course - convincing the banks to promote the idea in a consistent way.
Besides the obvious problem of everything being intercepted by NSA+AT&T in the first place, it will only make it more difficult to tell phishing from the real thing, mainly because you'll be expecting it to be trustworthy. Old phishing techniques may have used mass mailings which could be blocked by spam filters, but that's not necessarily the case any more.
What goes around, comes around.
Twisting things that may be quite innocent into your own fantasy conspiracy does not qualify as a valid discussion. It is rightly - and should be - flamebait. Even your sig shows how little you either understand or care about the real story.
You be quiet before I convex your arse ;)
You can't surf the internet without a web browser. You can pull music off your iPod without one of a hundred "pull music off iPod" programs available. And let's face it - there are very very few time that you'd need to do this for legitimate reasons - it's all about swapping enormous amounts of music. You know this, and Apple knows this.
Apple could have gone out of their way to make it next to impossible to do. Instead they've made it difficult only if you know *nothing* about computers. I really don't see what the issue is.
You get the gist though.
This is trivial. This is a no-brainer. But here we are, on a site for NERDS, and people can't grasp this basic idea.
I don't know what type of stereo you were looking at, but the past few times I've shopped around for one, Sony has been far from the best...or even best at a certain price. I'm not trying to be rude, but I think you've demonstrated why Sony has such a 'good reputation' - it's all brand recognition.
Shut up and eat your grits, grandpa!
Sounds like you think the real fun is whipping out your dick, attracting all the gay-boys, then running back to your mama.
a season, like summer or
winter. You dumb-arse.
I don't believe it. It's (almost) a haiku.
You forgot to name a season, like summer or winter. Dumb-arse.
*shiver*
Looks like OS X 10.5 Leopard will be released before Vista then - due towards the end of this year. Previews are expected at WWDC in...er...August this year (damn Apple keeps changing it).
Boobies do yar say?! Yarrr, I've plundered a lot of thems too!
Hey - maybe that's even good naming material. Dusk to Pw0nd!
Slashcode inserts spaces in long words to prevent page widening trolls. That's why it's always good to use 'a' tags and 'href=', rather than relying on Slashdot to autolink.
I wonder is the IRS views unpaid open-source web development as a type of barter?
What are you jabbering about?!! For your information - region encoding is blatantly not about copy protection, it is about profit protection. At the moment movie releases are delayed by upto a year in some zones (if they are indeed ever released). Prices are also structured differently in each zone (which is what the ACCC's beef is about - and trust me, they know about shit like this). And despite all this, zoning makes it essentially impossible to get *decent* foriegn films (i realise that this wouldn't intrest a dipstick like you) and artifically extends the american film industry's stranglehold over world markets (by restricting all other films to their own zones). And besides, you might not be a global traveller, but those of us that move around every few years don't want to re-buy all our fucking films each time.
They could quite possibly do this...though it would be a show down I would love to see :)~
See my post above somewhere - the ACCC does actually have pretty huge powers.