Countertroll: Don't worry, the Christian Taliban can now engage Armageddon without their madness being outlived by any rational-minded "folks" on other planets.
All eggs in one handbasket; destination sulfurous.
1) When dumb terminals were going to kill the pc. 2) When smart phones were going to kill the pc. 3) When cloud computing was going to kill the pc. 4) Insert your favorite vapor/fluffware here.
And I'll see your sarcastic reminiscing and raise you an "I remember, many moons ago, when PC first beat Mac on Photoshop benchmarks." The natives were restless that night...
Also, I think an (old?) geek is one of the most conservative, unimaginative and entrenched personalities in our culture (vi/gcc/gdb chain kinda proves it).
There is one most efficient way to perform a task, and your novel idea is probably a skyhook. On the other hand, if you have a genuine improvement to the software you mention, you're able to implement it and compile it for your own use- which is more than you can say for most Apple software.
Strangely, Nintendo disabled SDHC support, which can be re-enabled via hacked firmware. They might have fixed this via their official firmware update at somepoint.
1) A specialized viewer for an open format/protocol.
2) A specialized viewer for a closed format/protocol.
Compare pdf before and after the specs were opened if you would like a demonstration:
Before: The specialized viewer is a bloated piece of shit.
After: The official specialized viewer is still a bloated piece of shit, but has fallen into disuse, thanks to independent viewers that don't use more disc/RAM than some operating systems.
I stopped paying valve when they started to require Steam to run any of their games. Their authentication made it much more difficult to mod the games, since instead of everything being sanely arranged by directory, Steam keeps everything in a big blob (the better to hash?) which has to be babysat. Also, users now have to know how to do this in order to install smaller mods, that is, those that don't get the Steam spotlight.
I refuse to run Itunes to get an mp3 player to work, and also I refuse to run an AOL client to connect to the internet. Also, I manage to wipe my ass even after disabling the official wipervisor. Still working on tying my shoes while chewing gum, it's harder than I thought without the gumshoe wizard.
I wish everyone would quit stapling extraneous shit to things just so they can chisel an extra penny out of people who don't know better. Punch the monkey and win FREE AD BLOCKING SOFTWARE.
Was looking for utilities to scrape the branded scumware off a flip phone.
Found a utility that would let you flash in spite of AT&T's best attempts to prevent it.
Was astonished to find that the utility's makers expected people to pay them for their utility, which was itself intended to subvert profitwhores. The utility enforced this via USB dongle, available by mail order. Ridiculous.
Fortunately, a fourth party had created an emulator for the dongle that allowed the utility to function properly and restore the functionality of the phone that was crippled by AT&T.
Now I can run code and access the hardware as I please, which means that all the attempts to prevent that were... wasted money. Only that and nothing more. Any suit types reading this, pass the word to upwards in your pyramid cult, since we all know that wasting money is worse than eating children on the sabbath or sex with pork.
I've always wondered how they get away with advertising each version of Windows as "the fastest version EVER!"... while steadily increasing the minimum hardware requirements on the box.
You mean it runs faster on a faster computer? Gosh, bowl me over.
I've always thought that people who insisted on left-handed mouse configs were pansies, and in fact, every one I've heard complain about it turned out to suffer chronic Munchhausen's syndrome, with many other symptoms.
I am left-handed. The QWERTY layout is one of the few tools that is specifically biased in southpaws' favor. The keyboard is by most measures a more complex object than the mouse, the latter of which can be flailed about until it works.
It's far easier to learn to use a mouse using your right hand than learn to type using the crappy half of the alphabet.
Why would you ever want to take your smart hand off the good half of the keyboard? It's like ignoring a natural 20.
Also Money = Speech goes right out the window the second you talk about illegal activity, so I suspect the courts would probably support Mastercard in this.
Let's step through this:
1) My speech is protected. 2) My neighbor's speech, which I agree with, is protected. 3) Giving my neighbor money for a bullhorn to amplify his speech is illegal?
This seems like a pathetic attempt at damage control by muddying the waters in an attempt to associate Wikileaks with "pirates". It will work about as well as crying rape did last week.
I'm anxious to see some real dirty laundry aired. I think everyone knows that the multinationals (esp. usurers) are as crooked as Cheney's penis.
We already have every major news outlet to filter the news and predetermine what's important. No need for wikileaks to reinvent the wheel.
If Assange's credit card numbers have been leaked, then they are effectively already public knowledge. He would probably welcome the notice to cancel his card.
My correction of your comment was intended to point out that "drive-by" infections are far from impossible on Linux, BSD, or Mac, but rather, no one bothers to find such exploits because the market segment is minuscule compared to the low-hanging fruit that are machines running Windows.
Just because the neighbors leave their front door wide open doesn't mean your burglar-repelling underwear are functional, to make 3 AM analogy.
I have had fine results from ClamAV for windows. The underlying engine is GPL and cross-platform, and it uses a peer-to-peer network to share virus signatures between users, so your virus definitions are always up-to-date. This requires negligible bandwidth.
I'm uncertain how it avoids corrupt data being shared, but it seems to work well- I've ran several suspicious executables on virtual machines to test it, and it quarantined each of them. Strangely, it also gives the standard AV false alarm on many key generators.
That shouldn't be a problem here, since we all only run properly licensed software, right?;)
"It doesn't matter that Comcast customers are requesting it. They're only requesting the service because Level 3 is offering it. You can't expect to just start up any service you want and shit high volumes of traffic to other networks for free."
Yes, good thing there's not a group of people who have already paid Comcast to receive high volumes, perhaps even "unlimited" volumes of traffic from Netflix.
Because that would mean that Comcast's business model is fundamentally flawed, and we might see them begin to flail litigiously.
1) It's not as simple as saying, "Commies are atheists, so all the bad stuff communists did was because of atheism." History shows that Soviet authorities used religion as necessary to keep power. There is also evidence of government officials baptizing their children in spite of their government's lip service to atheism.
2) If Christians are not to be held accountable for the use of their beliefs to justify crimes against humanity (children's crusade, quoting the bible to justify slavery, a million others), why are atheists responsible for actions committed in the name of atheism?
Almost nobody denies the existence, to a greater or lesser extent, of "global warming." The argument is now whether the observable changes are predominantly attributable to man's impact on the environment, or to the natural climatic lifecycle of the Earth.
Fox News Headlines 2001: Global warming: Fact or Fiction? 2006: Global warming: Are WE Causing It? 2011: Global warming: Is it too late to do anything? 2016: This Summer's New Line of Coolsuits 2021: Rupert Murdoch purchases last remaining acre of shade.
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Countertroll: Don't worry, the Christian Taliban can now engage Armageddon without their madness being outlived by any rational-minded "folks" on other planets.
All eggs in one handbasket; destination sulfurous.
I do know that, in the U.S.A, enough people to win an election are apparently not enough people to win an election.
Unsure how that impacts the number of people necessary to form a revolt, but it does cast doubt on the usefulness of the electoral system.
I remember geeks' denials:
1) When dumb terminals were going to kill the pc.
2) When smart phones were going to kill the pc.
3) When cloud computing was going to kill the pc.
4) Insert your favorite vapor/fluffware here.
And I'll see your sarcastic reminiscing and raise you an "I remember, many moons ago, when PC first beat Mac on Photoshop benchmarks." The natives were restless that night...
Also, I think an (old?) geek is one of the most conservative, unimaginative and entrenched personalities in our culture (vi/gcc/gdb chain kinda proves it).
There is one most efficient way to perform a task, and your novel idea is probably a skyhook. On the other hand, if you have a genuine improvement to the software you mention, you're able to implement it and compile it for your own use- which is more than you can say for most Apple software.
Don't think the Wii can really use external storage at all. Maybe for GameCube games.
Wii uses SD and USB just fine. You can even boot game backups off a USB drive, if your wii is modded.
Strangely, Nintendo disabled SDHC support, which can be re-enabled via hacked firmware. They might have fixed this via their official firmware update at somepoint.
There is a distinction to be made between:
1) A specialized viewer for an open format/protocol.
2) A specialized viewer for a closed format/protocol.
Compare pdf before and after the specs were opened if you would like a demonstration:
Before: The specialized viewer is a bloated piece of shit.
After: The official specialized viewer is still a bloated piece of shit, but has fallen into disuse, thanks to independent viewers that don't use more disc/RAM than some operating systems.
I stopped paying valve when they started to require Steam to run any of their games. Their authentication made it much more difficult to mod the games, since instead of everything being sanely arranged by directory, Steam keeps everything in a big blob (the better to hash?) which has to be babysat. Also, users now have to know how to do this in order to install smaller mods, that is, those that don't get the Steam spotlight.
I refuse to run Itunes to get an mp3 player to work, and also I refuse to run an AOL client to connect to the internet. Also, I manage to wipe my ass even after disabling the official wipervisor. Still working on tying my shoes while chewing gum, it's harder than I thought without the gumshoe wizard.
I wish everyone would quit stapling extraneous shit to things just so they can chisel an extra penny out of people who don't know better. Punch the monkey and win FREE AD BLOCKING SOFTWARE.
True story, happened last week:
Was looking for utilities to scrape the branded scumware off a flip phone.
Found a utility that would let you flash in spite of AT&T's best attempts to prevent it.
Was astonished to find that the utility's makers expected people to pay them for their utility, which was itself intended to subvert profitwhores. The utility enforced this via USB dongle, available by mail order. Ridiculous.
Fortunately, a fourth party had created an emulator for the dongle that allowed the utility to function properly and restore the functionality of the phone that was crippled by AT&T.
Now I can run code and access the hardware as I please, which means that all the attempts to prevent that were... wasted money. Only that and nothing more. Any suit types reading this, pass the word to upwards in your pyramid cult, since we all know that wasting money is worse than eating children on the sabbath or sex with pork.
I've always wondered how they get away with advertising each version of Windows as "the fastest version EVER!"... while steadily increasing the minimum hardware requirements on the box.
You mean it runs faster on a faster computer? Gosh, bowl me over.
I've always thought that people who insisted on left-handed mouse configs were pansies, and in fact, every one I've heard complain about it turned out to suffer chronic Munchhausen's syndrome, with many other symptoms.
I am left-handed. The QWERTY layout is one of the few tools that is specifically biased in southpaws' favor. The keyboard is by most measures a more complex object than the mouse, the latter of which can be flailed about until it works.
It's far easier to learn to use a mouse using your right hand than learn to type using the crappy half of the alphabet.
Why would you ever want to take your smart hand off the good half of the keyboard? It's like ignoring a natural 20.
Not true. Using iodised salt prevents iodine deficiency, as anyone who's read Alas, Babylon, knows.
Also Money = Speech goes right out the window the second you talk about illegal activity, so I suspect the courts would probably support Mastercard in this.
Let's step through this:
1) My speech is protected.
2) My neighbor's speech, which I agree with, is protected.
3) Giving my neighbor money for a bullhorn to amplify his speech is illegal?
This seems like a pathetic attempt at damage control by muddying the waters in an attempt to associate Wikileaks with "pirates". It will work about as well as crying rape did last week.
I'm anxious to see some real dirty laundry aired. I think everyone knows that the multinationals (esp. usurers) are as crooked as Cheney's penis.
Raising the question of which company shits on its customers more consistently, MasterCard or Blizzard?
We already have every major news outlet to filter the news and predetermine what's important. No need for wikileaks to reinvent the wheel.
If Assange's credit card numbers have been leaked, then they are effectively already public knowledge. He would probably welcome the notice to cancel his card.
I would say that our Congressman's salary should be the first item on YouCut.
Perhaps the Republicans would like to man up and be the first to go? ;)
One might wonder about the literacy rates prior to public education.
Perhaps you misunderstood?
My correction of your comment was intended to point out that "drive-by" infections are far from impossible on Linux, BSD, or Mac, but rather, no one bothers to find such exploits because the market segment is minuscule compared to the low-hanging fruit that are machines running Windows.
Just because the neighbors leave their front door wide open doesn't mean your burglar-repelling underwear are functional, to make 3 AM analogy.
"Drive-by" infections of Linux, Mac, BSD, etc are virtually unprofitable.
FTFY.
I have had fine results from ClamAV for windows. The underlying engine is GPL and cross-platform, and it uses a peer-to-peer network to share virus signatures between users, so your virus definitions are always up-to-date. This requires negligible bandwidth.
I'm uncertain how it avoids corrupt data being shared, but it seems to work well- I've ran several suspicious executables on virtual machines to test it, and it quarantined each of them. Strangely, it also gives the standard AV false alarm on many key generators.
That shouldn't be a problem here, since we all only run properly licensed software, right? ;)
"It doesn't matter that Comcast customers are requesting it. They're only requesting the service because Level 3 is offering it. You can't expect to just start up any service you want and shit high volumes of traffic to other networks for free."
Yes, good thing there's not a group of people who have already paid Comcast to receive high volumes, perhaps even "unlimited" volumes of traffic from Netflix.
Because that would mean that Comcast's business model is fundamentally flawed, and we might see them begin to flail litigiously.
Two caveats:
1) It's not as simple as saying, "Commies are atheists, so all the bad stuff communists did was because of atheism." History shows that Soviet authorities used religion as necessary to keep power. There is also evidence of government officials baptizing their children in spite of their government's lip service to atheism.
2) If Christians are not to be held accountable for the use of their beliefs to justify crimes against humanity (children's crusade, quoting the bible to justify slavery, a million others), why are atheists responsible for actions committed in the name of atheism?
Many versions of Windows have a "disable file extensions for known filetypes" option enabled by default.
That means that:
Super cool video.mpg.exe
Hot naked girls.jpg.exe
Are not obviously executable when viewed in explorer. Typically the icon is changed to match Windows' default, to further the deception.
It's not all the stupid user's fault. Windows is helping, too.
Ah, but if we give them condoms, we are encouraging fornication.
This seems like a textbook example of why churches are not the best agent for philanthropic missions.
Note to self: Use this as a talking point to republicans to demonstrate why tax breaks to churches are no substitute for actual social programs.
You are obviously just taking it on faith that something can't be true and false at the same time. ;)
Almost nobody denies the existence, to a greater or lesser extent, of "global warming." The argument is now whether the observable changes are predominantly attributable to man's impact on the environment, or to the natural climatic lifecycle of the Earth.
Fox News Headlines
2001: Global warming: Fact or Fiction?
2006: Global warming: Are WE Causing It?
2011: Global warming: Is it too late to do anything?
2016: This Summer's New Line of Coolsuits
2021: Rupert Murdoch purchases last remaining acre of shade.
Yeah, let Muslims have their dark age. It's their turn, and every world religion gets the first one free.