Me: Yea umm you seem to have a lot of spyware on your computer. Lots of porn dialers and other garbage.
Client: Hmmm. I think my nephew was over last weekend and was fussing around on the PC. Yea, that's it.
Of course in that case I never use the possessive term "your porn dialer", its always "the porn dialer" wants to connect to Russia with your credit card information.
"I will probably keep on doing GPL work for now. It is not an easy life, I am $200k or more in debt and drive a 1989 CRX Si"
$200,000 in debt? I hope that's in pesos. That or he's just counting a mortgage as debt or something. Otherwise he has some serious budgeting problems.
Dear Intel, please don't take away the free version. And please for the love of God don't add a billion useless features to it. Just let the group that puts out the free version do its thing. AVG works well, updates often, and is light on resources. Losing that would suck especially for home users who among other things do NOT need yet another subscription fee tacked onto their monthly bills!
"MySQL is one of the few open source companies that seems to be making the headlines doing business in the real world"
Ever hear of Red Hat or Novell? Guess not.
And no, not good for them. SCO is scum and any OSS company that would get into bed with them after what they have done needs to seek counseling. Not only because they are a threat to OSS in general but because they can't be trusted in the slightest. 5 years from now MySQL will be probably end up being sued by SCO.
I swear, I wonder what reality some people live in sometimes.
How useful is it when only pages 1,3,and 6 come up in an 8 page article? The rest come up Error: 500 Internal Server Error.And that's when Coral cache it working well. I loath it for/. articles because it never works. I know your trying to be helpful but it end up being annoying for the person trying to follow your link.
Btw holy fucking paid advertisement batman. Every page is about 15% content and 85% ads. What a shitty shitty website. I'll never go there ever again.
"but people's hard work and creativity should be rewarded. "
Ah yes, especially the hard work of someone who is stealing and copying from the creators of burgertime.
"while he was left with the bandwidth expenses."
And somehow his hotlinking to the slaughterhouse images from another host who now has to foot the bill is somehow ok?
Weird sense of morality you have. Fudruckers should not have hotlinked to his site. But face it, by any measure this guy is a total asshole for trying to shock and offend people. There is an appropriate adult action to take in that situation by anyone with even the slightest bit of maturity. He decided to act like a pissed off 14 year old. What a complete douchebag.
"Because you don't need to: 1. Find the drivers. 2. Download them. 3. Use the command line to use them. 4. Exit X and use some complicated program to install them. 5. It JFW."
Ever used Ubuntu and Synaptic?
"if you're not a technical genius, you want something that just fucking works, so you can concentrate on important stuff, like actually using your computer."
Riggghhtt. That's why you'd want to buy an OS that 1% of desktop users use and has no support for almost anything that just came out in the stores either hardware or software wise.
Lindows is only useful if your on their "pay us 10x's the cost of windows every year to use our software repository". $49 a year for unlimited access to software that is overwhelmingly already Free. And don't worry, if you forget Linspire will automagically charge your credit card year after year after year. Wow your right, "thinking" as I like to call it and using the package manager of a Free distro just isn't worth it. What a good son you are to stick your "I know nothing about computers" Mom with Linspire.
Face it, if your going to go out and buy a proprietary nix that has ease of use and industry support Lindows is a shitty choice. Buy a fucking mac mini and be done with it. As anyone here will tell you I give Apple shit constantly. But compared to proprietary linux they are better by a fucking billion miles.
Otherwise save some money, use Ubuntu or fedora and take 5 minutes to read any of the many guides to adding software to your system. There aren't many things worse then dealing with desktop linux when you are new to OSS. It fucking sucks. Over the long term though Lindows is the exception to that rule.
Context though. If that coach said "let's kill em!" then that's fine. If he says "let's kill em! by chop blocking and hitting them when they are not looking" then you have a problem. I think Intel has a problem.
Apple just as bad as the rest. You reap what you sow I guess. Too bad its not just Apple and Creative but every fucking company in the world paticipating in an "arms" race with regard to patents.
Think some day it will get so bad that they will HAVE to reform our system? Don't make me laugh. And always the consumers will be the ones picking up the tabs for the "cost of doing business".
You mean like when Apple decides to rip out functionality in it's product and reduce consumers right with every version of Itunes that comes out?
Coming soon Itunes 8.0. 1 cd burn, no streaming, and no burning of paid music to cd.
If anything Apple is the posterboy of DRM run amok and a preview of the future where companies reduce your right with every "needed" upgrade. But fine, everyone should just keep posting how its great that Apple implements "consumer friendly" DRM.
You know what? I completely agree. Jokes about it may be in poor taste, but hey its the internet and people(immature teens mostly) do sometimes joke to cope.
What gets my fucking goat is all the assholes who are saying "oh well, what did you fucking expect based on where you live? Fuck em". They aren't joking, they aren't using "coping mechanisms". They are just cold-hearted fucktards who could give a crap about anything in life that doesn't directly affect them. Douchebags.
Oh btw A big fuck you to the people with mod points today.
I've had good success with the latest AVG and having it installed for clients. Not outbreaks to speak of and its free to boot. AVG also passed the latest https://www.virusbtn.com/ test with 100% detection.
I used to use Avast but IMHO just gotten to the point where its too bloated. Scan every file accessed or downloaded and my email. Don't hook into every nook and cranny of my OS. Avast IMHO does a good job, its just way heavy on resources.
Either way both Avast and AVG are still better than norton which unfortunately can be found everywhere with of course a virus subscription that expired in June 2004. Sigh.
Umm you do realize that MAC filtering does absolutely NOTHING for wireless security right? In fact after A) an open wireless point and B) 64bit wep c) MAC filtering is the least secure solution avaiable. Seriously, I hope you come back and see my post and then do your own research on the subject. There are much better methods.
Its bad idea for several reasons
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Chiefly among them is sometimes you can't tell what the fucking words are. Within the last few months on more than one occasion I simply could not read the letters because they were so distorted and the lines overlapped the letters too much. No fun redoing a web form over and over because you can't figure out what the hell the verification box says.
I can't imagine how people with difficulties cope with this.
95 was NOT stable. In fact it was legendary for having to be rebooted daily because of the resource leaks. That and the constand blue screens. It was without a doubt the OS that started the practice of having to be reinstalled every 6 months.
I still see basic simple 3.1 installs that function fine. I rarely see 95 anymore, and when I do its as fragile as can be.
95 was a still a leap forward in some ways though. And from the surface it seemed to offer more for the user than 3.1. Hell at least you weren't installing trumpet anymore. But again, all of that extra cruft and code made it unstable. How stable can a bad hack like that be?
"When you first snap the ball, you'll be locked on to a primary receiver. But by moving the right control stick around, you can move your view to another receiver, should you need to"
"The whole song and dance you have to go through to get the cone to switch to a receiver post-snap lends itself to you taking a whole lot more sacks than you might be used to, and even just trying to move the stick around manually is a clunky affair in the early goings. "
Gee, great job morons. Way to fumble on trying to improve the passing game. What's next? You have to remember to wipe you hands on your towel with a series of movements on your right analog or the ball will get sweaty and you'll lose accuracy?
No shit. It would be trivial to lotto out 1,000 of them to low income families. Doing what they did, ie letting people push each other over to get to them is garish and embarassing.
I'm sorry but that's just a retarded thing to say. Or more precisely that's an unrealistic look at how people compare products. You see that's not the way the world works. You see what your firm ACTUALLY needs and then buy based on that. You don't say well since it doesn't have EVERY SINGLE feature the other product has its not viable. You say, well we need X features and can spend X amount. If a competing product has the features you use that it IS a viable alternative.
99% of the desktop users have access to Itunes already. And even desktop linux users can run it via crossover. There has to be more to this story then just an online version of itunes.
" The ONLY people who would hack OS X and get it installed on non-Apple hardware are the same people who don't want to shell out money for Apple hardware/software."
"This is not an ingenius plan by Apple to subversively take over the market. Rather it is harmful to their business "
How is is harmful then? As you just stated these people wouldn't be buying Macs in the first place. It may be illegal but as your correctly said Apple has zero chance of seeing dollar from these people. So while it may bother you personally it really isn't harmful to Apple in any financial sense.
"You can bet that things like this will only act as mobilizing forces for companies to embrace DRMs and trusted computing - because assholes break licensing agreements and steal software. "
Now your just over the edge. As its been proven over and over and over. DRM et al does Nothing to stop the pirates and only harms innocent consumers. If you want to blame someone for DRM and trusted computing blame the companies. They are the ones implementing it.
They got around the sse3 requirement but obviously that means you can't run some apps right now.
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether the AMD A64 with sse3 would qualify as a "real" sse3 capable cpu in OSX X86's eyes? Ie is the A64's sse3 exactly equivalant to Intel's sse3 in the view of Apple and OSX X86? Thanks.
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Does anyone else find that annoying that links are no longer real links for Google?
Gotta get them to update the CustomizeGoogle plugin for Firefox to remove this crap.
Coming soon, user clicks search result, "please wait for this ad to finish loading before your directed to your search result".
Me: Yea umm you seem to have a lot of spyware on your computer. Lots of porn dialers and other garbage.
Client: Hmmm. I think my nephew was over last weekend and was fussing around on the PC. Yea, that's it.
Of course in that case I never use the possessive term "your porn dialer", its always "the porn dialer" wants to connect to Russia with your credit card information.
Did nobody else read this quote?
"I will probably keep on doing GPL work for now. It is not an easy life, I am $200k or more in debt and drive a 1989 CRX Si"
$200,000 in debt? I hope that's in pesos. That or he's just counting a mortgage as debt or something. Otherwise he has some serious budgeting problems.
That's coming in 1.5. See the release notes here.
1 .5beta1.html
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/
Note that future updates to Firefox "may now be half a megabyte or smaller."
Dear Intel, please don't take away the free version. And please for the love of God don't add a billion useless features to it. Just let the group that puts out the free version do its thing. AVG works well, updates often, and is light on resources. Losing that would suck especially for home users who among other things do NOT need yet another subscription fee tacked onto their monthly bills!
"MySQL is one of the few open source companies that seems to be making the headlines doing business in the real world"
Ever hear of Red Hat or Novell? Guess not.
And no, not good for them. SCO is scum and any OSS company that would get into bed with them after what they have done needs to seek counseling. Not only because they are a threat to OSS in general but because they can't be trusted in the slightest. 5 years from now MySQL will be probably end up being sued by SCO.
I swear, I wonder what reality some people live in sometimes.
How useful is it when only pages 1,3,and 6 come up in an 8 page article? The rest come up Error: 500 Internal Server Error .And that's when Coral cache it working well. I loath it for /. articles because it never works. I know your trying to be helpful but it end up being annoying for the person trying to follow your link.
Btw holy fucking paid advertisement batman. Every page is about 15% content and 85% ads. What a shitty shitty website. I'll never go there ever again.
"but people's hard work and creativity should be rewarded. "
Ah yes, especially the hard work of someone who is stealing and copying from the creators of burgertime.
"while he was left with the bandwidth expenses."
And somehow his hotlinking to the slaughterhouse images from another host who now has to foot the bill is somehow ok?
Weird sense of morality you have. Fudruckers should not have hotlinked to his site. But face it, by any measure this guy is a total asshole for trying to shock and offend people. There is an appropriate adult action to take in that situation by anyone with even the slightest bit of maturity. He decided to act like a pissed off 14 year old. What a complete douchebag.
"Because you don't need to:
1. Find the drivers.
2. Download them.
3. Use the command line to use them.
4. Exit X and use some complicated program to install them.
5. It JFW."
Ever used Ubuntu and Synaptic?
"if you're not a technical genius, you want something that just fucking works, so you can concentrate on important stuff, like actually using your computer."
Riggghhtt. That's why you'd want to buy an OS that 1% of desktop users use and has no support for almost anything that just came out in the stores either hardware or software wise.
Lindows is only useful if your on their "pay us 10x's the cost of windows every year to use our software repository". $49 a year for unlimited access to software that is overwhelmingly already Free. And don't worry, if you forget Linspire will automagically charge your credit card year after year after year. Wow your right, "thinking" as I like to call it and using the package manager of a Free distro just isn't worth it. What a good son you are to stick your "I know nothing about computers" Mom with Linspire.
Face it, if your going to go out and buy a proprietary nix that has ease of use and industry support Lindows is a shitty choice. Buy a fucking mac mini and be done with it. As anyone here will tell you I give Apple shit constantly. But compared to proprietary linux they are better by a fucking billion miles.
Otherwise save some money, use Ubuntu or fedora and take 5 minutes to read any of the many guides to adding software to your system. There aren't many things worse then dealing with desktop linux when you are new to OSS. It fucking sucks. Over the long term though Lindows is the exception to that rule.
Context though. If that coach said "let's kill em!" then that's fine. If he says "let's kill em! by chop blocking and hitting them when they are not looking" then you have a problem. I think Intel has a problem.
What Apple is really thinking.
"dam, why didn't we patent that first?"
Apple just as bad as the rest. You reap what you sow I guess. Too bad its not just Apple and Creative but every fucking company in the world paticipating in an "arms" race with regard to patents.
Think some day it will get so bad that they will HAVE to reform our system? Don't make me laugh. And always the consumers will be the ones picking up the tabs for the "cost of doing business".
Let me guess? You haven't read the article or any of the informative posts here and you think this is about piracy?
"Don't steal software and you won't see a problem"
I have nothing to hide so why would I care if they do X.
You mean like when Apple decides to rip out functionality in it's product and reduce consumers right with every version of Itunes that comes out?
Coming soon Itunes 8.0. 1 cd burn, no streaming, and no burning of paid music to cd.
If anything Apple is the posterboy of DRM run amok and a preview of the future where companies reduce your right with every "needed" upgrade. But fine, everyone should just keep posting how its great that Apple implements "consumer friendly" DRM.
You know what? I completely agree. Jokes about it may be in poor taste, but hey its the internet and people(immature teens mostly) do sometimes joke to cope.
What gets my fucking goat is all the assholes who are saying "oh well, what did you fucking expect based on where you live? Fuck em". They aren't joking, they aren't using "coping mechanisms". They are just cold-hearted fucktards who could give a crap about anything in life that doesn't directly affect them. Douchebags.
Oh btw A big fuck you to the people with mod points today.
I've had good success with the latest AVG and having it installed for clients. Not outbreaks to speak of and its free to boot. AVG also passed the latest https://www.virusbtn.com/ test with 100% detection.
I used to use Avast but IMHO just gotten to the point where its too bloated. Scan every file accessed or downloaded and my email. Don't hook into every nook and cranny of my OS. Avast IMHO does a good job, its just way heavy on resources.
Either way both Avast and AVG are still better than norton which unfortunately can be found everywhere with of course a virus subscription that expired in June 2004. Sigh.
Umm you do realize that MAC filtering does absolutely NOTHING for wireless security right? In fact after A) an open wireless point and B) 64bit wep c) MAC filtering is the least secure solution avaiable. Seriously, I hope you come back and see my post and then do your own research on the subject. There are much better methods.
Chiefly among them is sometimes you can't tell what the fucking words are. Within the last few months on more than one occasion I simply could not read the letters because they were so distorted and the lines overlapped the letters too much. No fun redoing a web form over and over because you can't figure out what the hell the verification box says.
I can't imagine how people with difficulties cope with this.
Mod up that extra point. He's right.
95 was NOT stable. In fact it was legendary for having to be rebooted daily because of the resource leaks. That and the constand blue screens. It was without a doubt the OS that started the practice of having to be reinstalled every 6 months.
I still see basic simple 3.1 installs that function fine. I rarely see 95 anymore, and when I do its as fragile as can be.
95 was a still a leap forward in some ways though. And from the surface it seemed to offer more for the user than 3.1. Hell at least you weren't installing trumpet anymore. But again, all of that extra cruft and code made it unstable. How stable can a bad hack like that be?
The military is going to love this.
Expect Cortex's IP to be bought the us mil any second now.
Of course the real fun will be when they discover that taking this for months and sleeping 1 hour a night, you go insane and think your a humming bee.
"When you first snap the ball, you'll be locked on to a primary receiver. But by moving the right control stick around, you can move your view to another receiver, should you need to"
"The whole song and dance you have to go through to get the cone to switch to a receiver post-snap lends itself to you taking a whole lot more sacks than you might be used to, and even just trying to move the stick around manually is a clunky affair in the early goings. "
Gee, great job morons. Way to fumble on trying to improve the passing game. What's next? You have to remember to wipe you hands on your towel with a series of movements on your right analog or the ball will get sweaty and you'll lose accuracy?
No shit. It would be trivial to lotto out 1,000 of them to low income families. Doing what they did, ie letting people push each other over to get to them is garish and embarassing.
I'm sorry but that's just a retarded thing to say. Or more precisely that's an unrealistic look at how people compare products. You see that's not the way the world works. You see what your firm ACTUALLY needs and then buy based on that. You don't say well since it doesn't have EVERY SINGLE feature the other product has its not viable. You say, well we need X features and can spend X amount. If a competing product has the features you use that it IS a viable alternative.
99% of the desktop users have access to Itunes already. And even desktop linux users can run it via crossover. There has to be more to this story then just an online version of itunes.
" The ONLY people who would hack OS X and get it installed on non-Apple hardware are the same people who don't want to shell out money for Apple hardware/software."
"This is not an ingenius plan by Apple to subversively take over the market. Rather it is harmful to their business "
How is is harmful then? As you just stated these people wouldn't be buying Macs in the first place. It may be illegal but as your correctly said Apple has zero chance of seeing dollar from these people. So while it may bother you personally it really isn't harmful to Apple in any financial sense.
"You can bet that things like this will only act as mobilizing forces for companies to embrace DRMs and trusted computing - because assholes break licensing agreements and steal software. "
Now your just over the edge. As its been proven over and over and over. DRM et al does Nothing to stop the pirates and only harms innocent consumers. If you want to blame someone for DRM and trusted computing blame the companies. They are the ones implementing it.
They got around the sse3 requirement but obviously that means you can't run some apps right now.
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether the AMD A64 with sse3 would qualify as a "real" sse3 capable cpu in OSX X86's eyes? Ie is the A64's sse3 exactly equivalant to Intel's sse3 in the view of Apple and OSX X86? Thanks.