more or less gives them a license to discipline (oh, but only after some undisclosable anonymous source expresses 'concern', of course)
I know how this feels first hand. In the 6th grade my parents sent me and my two younger sisters to a private school. The Dean was pretty strict, but we were getting a good education, a lot of individual teacher attention and really exceeding in our studies. The second year the Dean decided that we (the students, not just me and my siblings) were rebels that needed to be controlled, which he thought he could do through a strict dress code. The kicker was that it was to be enforced even when we weren't at school. We (supposedly) were not allowed to wear jeans (ever) and the girls had to wear skirts or knee length shorts, always. Even on Saturday. That, and no "excessive jewelry".
We didn't stay much longer. These poor kids in the article though.. I don't imagine they have that luxury.
I did pretty much the same thing. Grabbed a copy when it first came out, downloaded a heckuva lot of widgets, opened em all up and drooled at the eye candy. Then I noticed my system was dogging and I didn't really find them all useful.
But instead of blaming the software, I thought about it and maybe it was the way I was using it that was causing the problem. Two things have happened that make Konfab my 2nd most needed app (second only to Adium, www.adiumx.com).
#1: Arlo and Perry released Konfab 2.0. MUCH speedier and lighter weight on resources. Night and day difference from the first release. I used to run 5 or 6 widgets on my old ibook 600mhz without any sluggishness.
#2 I learned to use it the way it was designed to be used. I'm not saying you can't run 100 widgets, but I don't think Arlo meant for that to be the default case when he designed Konfab.
I run 4 widgets all the time, and various others when I need them. Widgets in use all the time:
miniWeather: A small footprint version of The Weather. Has a small graphic of current conditions and the temp.
DateTime: A widget that I wrote that shows the date and time like: Friday April 15, 2005 10:56am It sits right above my dock.
DropImage: Another widget that I wrote that will take a drag-n-dropped image or pdf and convert it to a preset (usually png or jpeg) format using the 'sips' tool. Very handy for dropping PDF screenshots.
CleanCopy: YAW (yet another widget) I wrote. Cleans out all of the formatting you get from gay Safari copy of formatted text.
They all sit in a little row off to the far right bottom of my screen. They are all smaller than the Dock and are thus never overlapped by windows. When I'm running dual monitors at work I also have a widget I wrote that searches the company intranet list to look up a person's company phone extension, and I run a few stock tickers as well.
All of that being said, Dashboard is useless to me. Widgets are toys. Little bits of software that make one certain task quick and easy. Having Dashboard hidden is useless for this! If I want to go to a different window to get access to easy information, I'll just go to my Safari window and click a bookmark. Sure, being able to tie into Cocoa is a bonus, but looking at the first documents released about integrating cocoa bundles into a Dashboard widget reveals some problems. The only recommended cocoa objects to be used in a widget are the objects in the NSText family. All of the Save, Open File, and other dialogs display at a window level below that of dashboard and are therefore unusable by the widgets. At least according to the preliminary documents I've read. Apple might have changed it in one of the latest seeds, but I doubt it.
All in all, I think Konfab is still going to be better for certain tasks. Mainly the task of providing continuous access to small amounts of information or small little tasks.
Maybe for the time being. Right now, Firefox largely is a geek browser. However, recent news shows that it is becoming more popular and mainstream.
This really hit home with me over the Christmas holidays. I was down in Arkansas visiting relatives (I'm out of Chicago now), and I overheard two of my uncles talking about "Fox Fire, or something like that". Turns out that one of my uncles had already switched to Firefox AND Thunderbird. He had never heard of tabbed browsing, he was just tired of the "crap from Explorer all the time". These guys are farmers and factory workers, not even remotely 'geeky'. Since getting back home two of the other uncles involved in the coversation have emailled me to ask about switching to Firefox as well. Simply amazing to me. How our little foxy has grown.
Can someone with clue explain to us lay-people how what the article describes is different from what this kid did 'in a couple of late nights'? His software scans the record in using a standard flatbed scanner. Is the new version being goverment funded supposed to able to 'rip' at a better quality, or what exactly is the deal with the government funding on this?
He is setting there, no doubt. But how he is setting there is the whole point. I used to drive a 1988 Ford F-150 Pickup, no A/C, only a radio (not even a tape deck, much less CD player) and a manual transmission. It had been paid for some 4+ years ago. Insurance was next to nothing. It never had mechanical problems.. thing was like a tank.
A little over a year ago I sold it, for a whoping $800 and purchased a one year old 2001 Lincoln LS, seen on my site, here. I pay right around $500 a month for it, including insurance.
I sit in the same traffic, right next to people in their own version of my F-150. I couldn't be happier! They sit, sweating, getting by with public radio. I sit in dual climate controlled personal space with a 6 disc in-dash cd changer. They listen to their car rattle and clank, and I hear nothing but the highs and lows of Bach coming through my Alpine.
Just like with cars, paying "out the nose" for something might be very strange to some people.. but to others it might be worth twice the price. We are all different, welcome to Earth.
I, on the other hand, had the exact opposite happen. Well, mostly opposite (is that even possible?) Anyway..
I was going to order from macmall.com simply because I have dealt with them several times before, including my iBook purchase. They were even a couple of bucks cheaper for my PowerMate and the iMic (rca, line input to usb for audio in for computers with no audio in) so I figured I'd save a couple of bucks. Turns out, that macmall charges twice what Griffon charges for shipping. Both use Airborne Two Day. So I ordered directly from Griffon, saved a few bucks in shipping charges and the products arrived two days later, tightly packaged and in 100% working condition. Can't wait to snag this new product from them as soon as it's released. Finally can catch up on my UK Radio1 broadcasts.
Being the President is not much different than being the CEO of a REALLY big company. In the company, the share holders are the ultimate boss (more or less).
Do you think GWB read every email from Joe Schmoe Shareholder when he was CEO of Whatever Oil Company a few years ago? or every passing Astros fan when he owned the team? Not very likely. That doesn't mean he isn't listening to the "voice of the public" (quote mine).
Slashdot isn't your every day news site. Some might even say it isn't a news site at all. If you want CNN, go read CNN. Slashdot editors are just regular people. I have been thinking about getting my first iPod, and this seriously makes me reconsider. What is wrong with asking? Maybe there is someone reading that might have an answer to this problem that reassures me to buy one, or to not buy one.
Then again.. maybe you just needed to vent a little. I need to do that on occasion myself.
Most slashdot readers are about not going with the flow.. about standing up for what we believe in regardless of what 'the crowd' is doing (DMCA, etc) yet ripping on the editors is now 'the cool thing to do' so everyone does it.
I think the whole selling point of this app is the Rendezvous support. So your review is like someone revewing a flying car and comparing its ground-driving to that of a Lincoln town car. Of course the town car is going to be better on the ground, but town cars can't fly.. and neither can iTunes. I am not flaming.. just, uh, providing a counter-viewpoint:)
Posting this from a 650 iBook, I can say that if it will play the same tunes, and save 30% of resources over iTunes, I might actually go download this. I run iTunes hidden almost always, so looks aren't important. Free the resources, skip the GUI. MHO.
I agree that this will never replace Apache. However, from what I have read about it so far, it was never meant to.
I disagree on the part that this is "dead". Just like Linux, web servers are going in two different directions. The first, and most common is serving web pages for web sites as we think of them today. Public sites either giving information or selling a product.
There is a new market emerging though, that Boa will be well suited for. The advanced-embedded market. I am not talking PIC processors or having a web server in a lightbult, but the more advanced devices that need a slightly more advanced webserver, without needing things like virtual hosting. This type of web server should do very well on home routers and firewalls and such devices.
Other than the fact this is being developed by Microsoft, there is something else that doesn't quite make sense to me. The article talks a lot about storing video and audio of every day events so that you can "remember" them later. That's all well and good, but how exactly are you getting this data into the digital world to start with? Am I supposed to be carrying a video camera, digital camera and audio recording device around with me all the time? Yeah.. that's handy. Thanks Microsoft.
Lobbying againt the right wing republicans and ashcroft is a good thing
That is your opinion, and you have every right to it. It just really bothers me when people say their opinions as facts that everyone else should acknowledge. Personally, I signed a petition showing my support for Ashcroft, which I would sign it again today if it was needed. He agrees with a lot of the things that I agree with. And, Yes, that is my opinion. The ACLU fights for the rights they believe in. Granted, not ever group can defend all of our rights. That is why you should support the group that most aligns with your own ideals. In my case, it would be the EFF, and Ashcroft. The two are made up of- and are people just like you and I. Just as we don't agree, in some cases, they don't either. Such is life.
Come on people, have a sense of humor here. This case doesn't need an apostrophe because it's a possesive pronoun. If it were a noun, then Yes, it would need an apostrophe. So it's in this case is incorrect because that rule doesn't apply to pronouns. If, "it" in this case were a proper name (like Steven King's book title, It), then it _would_ need an apostrophe, to show possession.
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What's even scarier is that there are this many comments telling a person that he is wrong when he so isn't. I mean, come on guys, even the Flowers know the real way to use the apostrophe: http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
What if you had no money, and your family and kids were starving to death?
I don't think this is what they were talking about. Killing for money is one thing, killing for survival is completely different. Personally, I do have morals, and I do have a nice job that ensures (at least temporarily) that I won't be facing the underside of a dumpster lid for my next meal. No.. there isn't a monetary price for a person's life. Yet, to quote a movie:
I am not really an Alpha Geek, more of a Beta Geek really. I am in software development, and use a Solaris workstatation with emacs, Perl, and MySQL, so I am all about OpenSource.
I do not hate Microsoft, nor do I worship Apple. I think MS could be a little more friendly, but business is business, as long as it's legal of course.
So, having said that, when I was in the market for a new laptop a few months back, I compared all of reasonable laptops on the market, regardless of who made it and what OS it ran.
I finally went with the 14.1 LCD'ed iBook for several reasons, and I can honestly say that I have not been unhappy with any feature, whether hardward or software, and that is saying something.
OS X is the best OS I have ever used. It has the darwin core so I can program while out of the office (I have apache, mysql, php, perl, and emacs, it's more of a server-top really). Plus you get the beautiful GUI front-end and excellent gaming support for when you need to relax.
The coolest case is always going to be the one you make yourself. At least I think so. It may not be the coolest to others, but if you take your time, it will be worth the effort. I have done several myself, but the best gallery around to gather ideas from is the Cool Case Gallery run by the folks at VH
Yeah, that's what I mean. Since we now have some tools (ie: the one this article is about) to get embeded Perl into our ObjC projects, you'd think that Apple would let write the Perl in ProjectBuilder as well. Granted, Apple isn't writing this embedded Perl funcationality, but I think it would be handy.
I like to see people out there using Perl. I guess it's mainly because it's the language I use almost exclusively. I just bought a new iBook (14.1lcd, 600mhz, combo drive model), and I can say the main selling point for me was the Darwin base. To be able to have a Perl compiler with me wherever I go is _very_ handy.
Is it just my lack of googling skills, or are there +no+ Perl development tools for OS X? I mean, Apple designed a beautiful and wonderfully easy to use application development suite with ProjectBuilder and InterfaceBuilder that even I can use, and have written a few applescript apps for fun with it.
Why would Apple not include a Perl framework for ProjectBuilder? They include one for java, and even applescript, but not for Perl.
Anyone know of any good Perl development suites out there?
For it to work with people you would either need some kind of facial recognition system built-in or the person would have to be willingly broadcasting a location AND identity signal to be used by such a system.
That makes a lot of sense though, when you think about it. A short range broadcast would be a great idea. IF, and only IF, it could be turned off. If you are among friends, or in a single's bar, you switch it on, and vilo.. if you are out on the street, you switch it off, and no one is the wiser.
We believe that OpenGL 2.0 needs more industry support
I would +love+ to see this happen, especially in the gaming area. I know we (the/. readers and karma whores like myself) all talk about how great Linux is, and for the most part, I agree. I would not replace my Slackware server for any version of Windows, ever. But I still run a Windows desktop, purely for gaming. That is really all I do on my home desktop, is play games. I would love to be able to play those same games on a *nix machine.
Then maybe I wouldn't feel slightly guilty for pirating windows.. naaah.. I don't feel guilty.
I realize that this article was covering far more than just games.. but I know games are what we are all thinking when we hear the terms 'OpenGL' and '3D'.
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Lower spam ratio is the best reason to buy a domain...
Not just that, but you can tell who it is coming from, and warn others about it as well. For example, I have my own domain (several actually) and if I have to enter my email address online when I am buying something I always use company@[mydomain]. That way, if they sell my address, I know exactly who sold it, and can raise hell with them about it. Also, I can just put a deny in my mail server for that address and not worry about losing real mail.
Of course, this means you either control your own mail server, or have a pretty good relationship with your ISP for them to set this up. It's worth it though.
I think a lot of people still believe in the old saying You get what you pay for. While the/. crowd knows this doesn't always apply, the average user is what any *nix desktop OS has yet to convince is worth the trouble of upgrading.
Linux will appeal to anyone that is well versed in computer OSes for many different reasons.. but then again, they aren't the ones that need Linux -sold- to them.
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I know how this feels first hand. In the 6th grade my parents sent me and my two younger sisters to a private school. The Dean was pretty strict, but we were getting a good education, a lot of individual teacher attention and really exceeding in our studies. The second year the Dean decided that we (the students, not just me and my siblings) were rebels that needed to be controlled, which he thought he could do through a strict dress code. The kicker was that it was to be enforced even when we weren't at school. We (supposedly) were not allowed to wear jeans (ever) and the girls had to wear skirts or knee length shorts, always. Even on Saturday. That, and no "excessive jewelry".
We didn't stay much longer. These poor kids in the article though.. I don't imagine they have that luxury.
Dashboard looks to be more so
I did pretty much the same thing. Grabbed a copy when it first came out, downloaded a heckuva lot of widgets, opened em all up and drooled at the eye candy. Then I noticed my system was dogging and I didn't really find them all useful.
But instead of blaming the software, I thought about it and maybe it was the way I was using it that was causing the problem. Two things have happened that make Konfab my 2nd most needed app (second only to Adium, www.adiumx.com).
#1: Arlo and Perry released Konfab 2.0. MUCH speedier and lighter weight on resources. Night and day difference from the first release. I used to run 5 or 6 widgets on my old ibook 600mhz without any sluggishness.
#2 I learned to use it the way it was designed to be used. I'm not saying you can't run 100 widgets, but I don't think Arlo meant for that to be the default case when he designed Konfab.
I run 4 widgets all the time, and various others when I need them. Widgets in use all the time:
miniWeather: A small footprint version of The Weather. Has a small graphic of current conditions and the temp.
DateTime: A widget that I wrote that shows the date and time like: Friday April 15, 2005 10:56am It sits right above my dock.
DropImage: Another widget that I wrote that will take a drag-n-dropped image or pdf and convert it to a preset (usually png or jpeg) format using the 'sips' tool. Very handy for dropping PDF screenshots.
CleanCopy: YAW (yet another widget) I wrote. Cleans out all of the formatting you get from gay Safari copy of formatted text.
They all sit in a little row off to the far right bottom of my screen. They are all smaller than the Dock and are thus never overlapped by windows. When I'm running dual monitors at work I also have a widget I wrote that searches the company intranet list to look up a person's company phone extension, and I run a few stock tickers as well.
All of that being said, Dashboard is useless to me. Widgets are toys. Little bits of software that make one certain task quick and easy. Having Dashboard hidden is useless for this! If I want to go to a different window to get access to easy information, I'll just go to my Safari window and click a bookmark. Sure, being able to tie into Cocoa is a bonus, but looking at the first documents released about integrating cocoa bundles into a Dashboard widget reveals some problems. The only recommended cocoa objects to be used in a widget are the objects in the NSText family. All of the Save, Open File, and other dialogs display at a window level below that of dashboard and are therefore unusable by the widgets. At least according to the preliminary documents I've read. Apple might have changed it in one of the latest seeds, but I doubt it.
All in all, I think Konfab is still going to be better for certain tasks. Mainly the task of providing continuous access to small amounts of information or small little tasks.
This really hit home with me over the Christmas holidays. I was down in Arkansas visiting relatives (I'm out of Chicago now), and I overheard two of my uncles talking about "Fox Fire, or something like that". Turns out that one of my uncles had already switched to Firefox AND Thunderbird. He had never heard of tabbed browsing, he was just tired of the "crap from Explorer all the time". These guys are farmers and factory workers, not even remotely 'geeky'. Since getting back home two of the other uncles involved in the coversation have emailled me to ask about switching to Firefox as well. Simply amazing to me. How our little foxy has grown.
Can someone with clue explain to us lay-people how what the article describes is different from what this kid did 'in a couple of late nights'? His software scans the record in using a standard flatbed scanner. Is the new version being goverment funded supposed to able to 'rip' at a better quality, or what exactly is the deal with the government funding on this?
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/
A little over a year ago I sold it, for a whoping $800 and purchased a one year old 2001 Lincoln LS, seen on my site, here. I pay right around $500 a month for it, including insurance.
I sit in the same traffic, right next to people in their own version of my F-150. I couldn't be happier! They sit, sweating, getting by with public radio. I sit in dual climate controlled personal space with a 6 disc in-dash cd changer. They listen to their car rattle and clank, and I hear nothing but the highs and lows of Bach coming through my Alpine.
Just like with cars, paying "out the nose" for something might be very strange to some people.. but to others it might be worth twice the price. We are all different, welcome to Earth.
I, on the other hand, had the exact opposite happen. Well, mostly opposite (is that even possible?) Anyway..
I was going to order from macmall.com simply because I have dealt with them several times before, including my iBook purchase. They were even a couple of bucks cheaper for my PowerMate and the iMic (rca, line input to usb for audio in for computers with no audio in) so I figured I'd save a couple of bucks. Turns out, that macmall charges twice what Griffon charges for shipping. Both use Airborne Two Day. So I ordered directly from Griffon, saved a few bucks in shipping charges and the products arrived two days later, tightly packaged and in 100% working condition. Can't wait to snag this new product from them as soon as it's released. Finally can catch up on my UK Radio1 broadcasts.
Do you think GWB read every email from Joe Schmoe Shareholder when he was CEO of Whatever Oil Company a few years ago? or every passing Astros fan when he owned the team? Not very likely. That doesn't mean he isn't listening to the "voice of the public" (quote mine).
That brings a whole new meaning to phrase "Voice over I Pee".
I disagree, and agree with Pudge.
Slashdot isn't your every day news site. Some might even say it isn't a news site at all. If you want CNN, go read CNN. Slashdot editors are just regular people. I have been thinking about getting my first iPod, and this seriously makes me reconsider. What is wrong with asking? Maybe there is someone reading that might have an answer to this problem that reassures me to buy one, or to not buy one.
Then again.. maybe you just needed to vent a little. I need to do that on occasion myself.
Most slashdot readers are about not going with the flow.. about standing up for what we believe in regardless of what 'the crowd' is doing (DMCA, etc) yet ripping on the editors is now 'the cool thing to do' so everyone does it.
I say cut the guys some slack.
I think the whole selling point of this app is the Rendezvous support. So your review is like someone revewing a flying car and comparing its ground-driving to that of a Lincoln town car. Of course the town car is going to be better on the ground, but town cars can't fly.. and neither can iTunes. I am not flaming.. just, uh, providing a counter-viewpoint :)
Posting this from a 650 iBook, I can say that if it will play the same tunes, and save 30% of resources over iTunes, I might actually go download this. I run iTunes hidden almost always, so looks aren't important. Free the resources, skip the GUI. MHO.
I agree that this will never replace Apache. However, from what I have read about it so far, it was never meant to.
I disagree on the part that this is "dead". Just like Linux, web servers are going in two different directions. The first, and most common is serving web pages for web sites as we think of them today. Public sites either giving information or selling a product.
There is a new market emerging though, that Boa will be well suited for. The advanced-embedded market. I am not talking PIC processors or having a web server in a lightbult, but the more advanced devices that need a slightly more advanced webserver, without needing things like virtual hosting. This type of web server should do very well on home routers and firewalls and such devices.
Other than the fact this is being developed by Microsoft, there is something else that doesn't quite make sense to me. The article talks a lot about storing video and audio of every day events so that you can "remember" them later. That's all well and good, but how exactly are you getting this data into the digital world to start with? Am I supposed to be carrying a video camera, digital camera and audio recording device around with me all the time? Yeah.. that's handy. Thanks Microsoft.
Lobbying againt the right wing republicans and ashcroft is a good thing
That is your opinion, and you have every right to it. It just really bothers me when people say their opinions as facts that everyone else should acknowledge. Personally, I signed a petition showing my support for Ashcroft, which I would sign it again today if it was needed. He agrees with a lot of the things that I agree with. And, Yes, that is my opinion. The ACLU fights for the rights they believe in. Granted, not ever group can defend all of our rights. That is why you should support the group that most aligns with your own ideals. In my case, it would be the EFF, and Ashcroft. The two are made up of- and are people just like you and I. Just as we don't agree, in some cases, they don't either. Such is life.
Reference: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_
Make any sense?
What's even scarier is that there are this many comments telling a person that he is wrong when he so isn't. I mean, come on guys, even the Flowers know the real way to use the apostrophe: http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
I don't think this is what they were talking about. Killing for money is one thing, killing for survival is completely different. Personally, I do have morals, and I do have a nice job that ensures (at least temporarily) that I won't be facing the underside of a dumpster lid for my next meal. No.. there isn't a monetary price for a person's life. Yet, to quote a movie:
If it comes down to you or him.. send flowers.
I do not hate Microsoft, nor do I worship Apple. I think MS could be a little more friendly, but business is business, as long as it's legal of course.
So, having said that, when I was in the market for a new laptop a few months back, I compared all of reasonable laptops on the market, regardless of who made it and what OS it ran.
I finally went with the 14.1 LCD'ed iBook for several reasons, and I can honestly say that I have not been unhappy with any feature, whether hardward or software, and that is saying something.
OS X is the best OS I have ever used. It has the darwin core so I can program while out of the office (I have apache, mysql, php, perl, and emacs, it's more of a server-top really). Plus you get the beautiful GUI front-end and excellent gaming support for when you need to relax.
All in all, the best OS I have ever used.
The coolest case is always going to be the one you make yourself. At least I think so. It may not be the coolest to others, but if you take your time, it will be worth the effort. I have done several myself, but the best gallery around to gather ideas from is the Cool Case Gallery run by the folks at VH
Yeah, that's what I mean. Since we now have some tools (ie: the one this article is about) to get embeded Perl into our ObjC projects, you'd think that Apple would let write the Perl in ProjectBuilder as well. Granted, Apple isn't writing this embedded Perl funcationality, but I think it would be handy.
I like to see people out there using Perl. I guess it's mainly because it's the language I use almost exclusively. I just bought a new iBook (14.1lcd, 600mhz, combo drive model), and I can say the main selling point for me was the Darwin base. To be able to have a Perl compiler with me wherever I go is _very_ handy.
Is it just my lack of googling skills, or are there +no+ Perl development tools for OS X? I mean, Apple designed a beautiful and wonderfully easy to use application development suite with ProjectBuilder and InterfaceBuilder that even I can use, and have written a few applescript apps for fun with it.
Why would Apple not include a Perl framework for ProjectBuilder? They include one for java, and even applescript, but not for Perl.
Anyone know of any good Perl development suites out there?
For it to work with people you would either need some kind of facial recognition system built-in or the person would have to be willingly broadcasting a location AND identity signal to be used by such a system.
That makes a lot of sense though, when you think about it. A short range broadcast would be a great idea. IF, and only IF, it could be turned off. If you are among friends, or in a single's bar, you switch it on, and vilo.. if you are out on the street, you switch it off, and no one is the wiser.
We believe that OpenGL 2.0 needs more industry support
/. readers and karma whores like myself) all talk about how great Linux is, and for the most part, I agree. I would not replace my Slackware server for any version of Windows, ever. But I still run a Windows desktop, purely for gaming. That is really all I do on my home desktop, is play games. I would love to be able to play those same games on a *nix machine.
I would +love+ to see this happen, especially in the gaming area. I know we (the
Then maybe I wouldn't feel slightly guilty for pirating windows.. naaah.. I don't feel guilty.
I realize that this article was covering far more than just games.. but I know games are what we are all thinking when we hear the terms 'OpenGL' and '3D'.
Not just that, but you can tell who it is coming from, and warn others about it as well. For example, I have my own domain (several actually) and if I have to enter my email address online when I am buying something I always use company@[mydomain]. That way, if they sell my address, I know exactly who sold it, and can raise hell with them about it. Also, I can just put a deny in my mail server for that address and not worry about losing real mail.
Of course, this means you either control your own mail server, or have a pretty good relationship with your ISP for them to set this up. It's worth it though.
I think a lot of people still believe in the old saying You get what you pay for. While the /. crowd knows this doesn't always apply, the average user is what any *nix desktop OS has yet to convince is worth the trouble of upgrading.
Linux will appeal to anyone that is well versed in computer OSes for many different reasons.. but then again, they aren't the ones that need Linux -sold- to them.
Let's just call it an accidental feature. --Larry Wall
My motto in life, well, at least my programming