If you think guns are the only way to abuse power, perhaps you missed a little company called Microsloth. No one came with a gun and forced (almost) everyone to stop using Nutscrape either.
I'm sorry, but using terms like "Microsloth" and "Nutscrape" just invalidated any intelligence your post may have had.
Grow up, and then come back to debate with the rest of us.
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"For what's it worth, I have noticed a slow but steady decline in certain aspects of my congitive ability, especially memory (from near photgraphic to pretty decent), ever since I turned 23, and I'm only 27."
If you're experiencing a noticable decline in your cognitive function, and you're only 27....Might I suggest that there could be some sort of non-natural medical reason. Unless you've been using illegal drugs or drinking heavily, I would think 27 is not considered old.
Heck, i'm 23, and I seem to be just fine...Even sharper than I was when I was younger, I believe.
Combine all this with the fact that Switzerland and Germany are smack-dab in Central-Western Europe, and why, exactly, would I not assume he is European?
Don't insult my intelligence, Mr. AC...Not everyone in the US thinks nothing exists outside our borders, despite what those with anti-American prejudices may like to think:):P
Support is a valid issue, but this will change. Troubleshooting a linux machine remotely will never be the hell that troubleshooting a windows machine is.
I'm guessing you haven't used the Remote Desktop feature that comes with XP Pro...As long as the appropriate port is open (something you'd have to do with Linux as well), I can have complete access to my machine remotely, just as if I was sitting at my desk.
Just today at work, I had gotten some troubleshooting advice on getting Outlook to grab my mail from a new Exchange server- I was able to log on, open Outlook, and fix the problem in 2 or 3 minutes.
While it may be easy to access a Linux box remotely as well, it can be just as easy with Windows....Only if you actually use tools provided to make your life easier, however.
I don't physically have that many CD's, no...I have admittedly downloaded a lot of my collection(i'm a game/anime music freak), but the end result is the same. I'm a packrat who thinks not needing to choose what to take with me would be wonderful:):P
Flame me for that if you want, but i'm fairly comfortable with the idea, since I could rip a lot of it from the original games/DVDs with a little effort, or just listen to it while watching.
As I posted to someone above....Speak for yourself. I personally have 26GB of music, and just as much again with stuff like games, apps, DVD rips, etc.
Space is easy to fill. Why do you think 200GB+ drives are coming into use these days?
At any rate, assuming an average size of 3 megs or so per MP3, one 10-15 song CD takes up around 30-40 megs. So, 50-70 CD's would fill 2 gigs, more or less.
Are you really that picky about your music, or have you just not been buying/burning CD's for very long? Heck, even my middle-aged parents have at least 100 or 200 music discs.
"Nobody needs to carry 20 gigs of music around in their pocket. I don't even have that much music"
Speak for yourself. I have 26+ gigs of music on my system, along with plenty more CD's I haven't yet ripped.
When this technology can support massive storage like current drives, then it should be used in mp3 players. But not before, I think....10-20 gigs (as in the iPod) seems to be the lower limit, certainly not 1 or 5.
You must live in a bad area, or gave your email to the wrong people, or something....I've been using MSN off and on for 3 years now, and i've NEVER gotten pop-up spam like that.
It's not my favorite piece of software, granted, but it's not as bad as all that.
Having gone to college for a long time, at several different schools at different stages (in my 30s and only fully finished two years ago), I can tell you that most professors absolutely abhor the student who flips open the laptop and begins typing away during lectures. You'll be lucky to only get scowled at. You may get flat out kicked until you show up with a spiral notebook. Seen it happen more than once.
Just curious, what college did you atttend(and what program)?
I've been going to RIT for 3 years now, and i've NEVER seen somebody get kicked out of class for using a laptop. Admittedly, this place is Geek Central, but still...Even the professor for my art history course this quarter had one (iBook).
Hell, even at the dinky community college I went to for a year, a few people had laptops- everyone seemed to think it was kinda neat, and as long as they didn't start blatantly gaming or something, nobody really gave a damn.
I've always been told that you're in college because you want to be, and professors aren't there to babysit...Blow off the class, it's your own problem.
Because I was rather bored this morning- decided to try sending a response to this guy....I'm going to die laughing if I actually get something serious back. The beginning is somewhat adapted from one of the other reverse-scams, seemed like a good place to start....The name on the account I sent this from is Anakin Skywalker, as well:)
Greetings Mr. MOHAMMED,
This mail is in regards to a communication you sent a friend of mine on the 31st of May, 2003. Unfortunately, he is not able to take advantage of your wonderful opportunity himself, but he has graciously allowed me to leverage it, and hopes you will be as understanding.
He also apologizes for the slight delay in sending a response, as he returned yesterday from an extended antlion-hunting trip in southern Texas, and needed a short time to recuperate. The trip went well, and several of the murderous beasts were taken, though two of his companions were eaten alive in the process.
As well, he apologizes for any harassing emails you may recieve, as a heathen co-worker of his unlawfully accessed his email, and posted your offer on a large web discussion board.
(Mr. Sparkle reference) Be assured that I am very disrespectful to scum such as that, and you can see that I am very serious about your offer. The aforementioned heathen will be making a trip to the land of wind and ghosts soon, as I have hired several large Italian thugs to break his kneecaps and other such unpleasantries.
In any event, I request that you send me the detailed information promised in your first mail. Please direct any and all future communication to THIS email address(XXXXXX@hotmail.com), and not the previous one - any mails there will NOT be replied to. My apologies if this email address sounds rather unprofessional, I will set up another shortly.
I almost choked on my coffee laughing so hard....It boggles me that those idiots can really be that gullible:)
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Good point, I think Ogg-Vorbis support would be a niche-niche, if there is such a thing, though.
Consider...It would be an area in which the consumer:
A) Knows that portable music players besides CD players and Walkmans exist in the first place, and wants one.
B) Is interested and knowledgeable enough to go after an (expensive) Apple product in the first place.
C) Knows that Ogg-Vorbis even exists in the first place.
D) Cares enough about format differences to have a need to play Ogg-Vorbis files.
Again, that just doesn't seem like a big enough market for Apple to care. Please feel free to correct me with actual statistics if you have them, though.
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Let them know your future business depends on it!
Not to try and flame you, but isn't that a bit of an empty threat at the moment, considering ogg-vorbis mindshare in the general public?
It'd be a nice "geek" feature, i'm sure, but I don't think it's really at the level where Apple will take lost business because of it very seriously.
It's a lot easier to say that when you're not the one that has to deal with hordes of angry paying customers, isn't it?
I'm not sure what you would find a valid reason to prosecute someone, but the fact is that the law doesn't really give a damn what the servers were running- they were privately owned by a business, and were illegaly accessed and altered, and that's really all that matters:)
Tough luck for the kid if he though he was gonna be ignored because it's "just a game".
Yeah, fraudrogic, i'd tend to agree. It seemed to me that not even the lower-level courses used it either, as well....If you'd gotten through courses up to trig in high school, and maybe done some basic work with pure logic, you weren't going to be in any trouble with that math stuff.
As I said above, I switched majors to IT from CS...I have to wonder how I would have done in the CS curriculum without, at the same time, having to struggle through the math classes I never used, though.
Sigh Again...there are alternatives. That program isn't the only one out there. There are other ways to get a CS education.
Did I say there weren't? To further clarify, I gave an example of my school's current policy, and surmised that it's probably almost the same at other large technical schools. Don't put words in my mouth, please:)
3 Calculus courses, 2 Discrete Math courses, and a Statistics course, just for a BS in Computer Science. Among other things, that's why I switched degrees from CS...I could handle some of it, but I didn't want to practically get a minor in Math.
I'm willing to bet most other CS programs at large technical schools are close to the same.
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If you think guns are the only way to abuse power, perhaps you missed a little company called Microsloth. No one came with a gun and forced (almost) everyone to stop using Nutscrape either.
I'm sorry, but using terms like "Microsloth" and "Nutscrape" just invalidated any intelligence your post may have had.
Grow up, and then come back to debate with the rest of us.
"For what's it worth, I have noticed a slow but steady decline in certain aspects of my congitive ability, especially memory (from near photgraphic to pretty decent), ever since I turned 23, and I'm only 27."
If you're experiencing a noticable decline in your cognitive function, and you're only 27....Might I suggest that there could be some sort of non-natural medical reason. Unless you've been using illegal drugs or drinking heavily, I would think 27 is not considered old.
Heck, i'm 23, and I seem to be just fine...Even sharper than I was when I was younger, I believe.
Expect vengeful turtles in ninja garb to show up later tonight, and teach you the folly of mocking Logo :):P
Insightful? Please....
:)
And you post that on Slashdot, of all places...Calling the kettle just a bit black, aren't you, Mr. Anonymous?
Do you want a cookie or something?
Microsoft may be evil and all, but don't blame them if you lost your original install discs.
Well, gee, as he says below, the .ch TLD is assigned to Switzerland, and:
:):P
A) The gmx.ch domain is registered to a company in Germany.
B) The last hop I can resolve on a traceroute is yet another German-owned domain.
C) Hmm...Maybe this might be a clue?
Combine all this with the fact that Switzerland and Germany are smack-dab in Central-Western Europe, and why, exactly, would I not assume he is European?
Don't insult my intelligence, Mr. AC...Not everyone in the US thinks nothing exists outside our borders, despite what those with anti-American prejudices may like to think
I think you just made my original point nicely...I rest my case :):P
And some Europeans believe they're superior to everyone else...So we're even :):P
Support is a valid issue, but this will change. Troubleshooting a linux machine remotely will never be the hell that troubleshooting a windows machine is.
I'm guessing you haven't used the Remote Desktop feature that comes with XP Pro...As long as the appropriate port is open (something you'd have to do with Linux as well), I can have complete access to my machine remotely, just as if I was sitting at my desk.
Just today at work, I had gotten some troubleshooting advice on getting Outlook to grab my mail from a new Exchange server- I was able to log on, open Outlook, and fix the problem in 2 or 3 minutes.
While it may be easy to access a Linux box remotely as well, it can be just as easy with Windows....Only if you actually use tools provided to make your life easier, however.
I don't physically have that many CD's, no...I have admittedly downloaded a lot of my collection(i'm a game/anime music freak), but the end result is the same. I'm a packrat who thinks not needing to choose what to take with me would be wonderful :):P
Flame me for that if you want, but i'm fairly comfortable with the idea, since I could rip a lot of it from the original games/DVDs with a little effort, or just listen to it while watching.
As I posted to someone above....Speak for yourself. I personally have 26GB of music, and just as much again with stuff like games, apps, DVD rips, etc.
Space is easy to fill. Why do you think 200GB+ drives are coming into use these days?
At any rate, assuming an average size of 3 megs or so per MP3, one 10-15 song CD takes up around 30-40 megs. So, 50-70 CD's would fill 2 gigs, more or less.
Are you really that picky about your music, or have you just not been buying/burning CD's for very long? Heck, even my middle-aged parents have at least 100 or 200 music discs.
"Nobody needs to carry 20 gigs of music around in their pocket. I don't even have that much music"
Speak for yourself. I have 26+ gigs of music on my system, along with plenty more CD's I haven't yet ripped.
When this technology can support massive storage like current drives, then it should be used in mp3 players. But not before, I think....10-20 gigs (as in the iPod) seems to be the lower limit, certainly not 1 or 5.
You must live in a bad area, or gave your email to the wrong people, or something....I've been using MSN off and on for 3 years now, and i've NEVER gotten pop-up spam like that.
It's not my favorite piece of software, granted, but it's not as bad as all that.
Having gone to college for a long time, at several different schools at different stages (in my 30s and only fully finished two years ago), I can tell you that most professors absolutely abhor the student who flips open the laptop and begins typing away during lectures. You'll be lucky to only get scowled at. You may get flat out kicked until you show up with a spiral notebook. Seen it happen more than once.
Just curious, what college did you atttend(and what program)?
I've been going to RIT for 3 years now, and i've NEVER seen somebody get kicked out of class for using a laptop. Admittedly, this place is Geek Central, but still...Even the professor for my art history course this quarter had one (iBook).
Hell, even at the dinky community college I went to for a year, a few people had laptops- everyone seemed to think it was kinda neat, and as long as they didn't start blatantly gaming or something, nobody really gave a damn.
I've always been told that you're in college because you want to be, and professors aren't there to babysit...Blow off the class, it's your own problem.
Because I was rather bored this morning- decided to try sending a response to this guy....I'm going to die laughing if I actually get something serious back. The beginning is somewhat adapted from one of the other reverse-scams, seemed like a good place to start....The name on the account I sent this from is Anakin Skywalker, as well :)
Greetings Mr. MOHAMMED,
This mail is in regards to a communication you sent a friend of mine on the 31st of May, 2003. Unfortunately, he is not able to take advantage of your wonderful opportunity himself, but he has graciously allowed me to leverage it, and hopes you will be as understanding.
He also apologizes for the slight delay in sending a response, as he returned yesterday from an extended antlion-hunting trip in southern Texas, and needed a short time to recuperate. The trip went well, and several of the murderous beasts were taken, though two of his companions were eaten alive in the process.
As well, he apologizes for any harassing emails you may recieve, as a heathen co-worker of his unlawfully accessed his email, and posted your offer on a large web discussion board.
(Mr. Sparkle reference)
Be assured that I am very disrespectful to scum such as that, and you can see that I am very serious about your offer. The aforementioned heathen will be making a trip to the land of wind and ghosts soon, as I have hired several large Italian thugs to break his kneecaps and other such unpleasantries.
In any event, I request that you send me the detailed information promised in your first mail. Please direct any and all future communication to THIS email address(XXXXXX@hotmail.com), and not the previous one - any mails there will NOT be replied to. My apologies if this email address sounds rather unprofessional, I will set up another shortly.
I almost choked on my coffee laughing so hard....It boggles me that those idiots can really be that gullible :)
Good point, I think Ogg-Vorbis support would be a niche-niche, if there is such a thing, though.
Consider...It would be an area in which the consumer:
A) Knows that portable music players besides CD players and Walkmans exist in the first place, and wants one.
B) Is interested and knowledgeable enough to go after an (expensive) Apple product in the first place.
C) Knows that Ogg-Vorbis even exists in the first place.
D) Cares enough about format differences to have a need to play Ogg-Vorbis files.
Again, that just doesn't seem like a big enough market for Apple to care. Please feel free to correct me with actual statistics if you have them, though.
Let them know your future business depends on it!
Not to try and flame you, but isn't that a bit of an empty threat at the moment, considering ogg-vorbis mindshare in the general public?
It'd be a nice "geek" feature, i'm sure, but I don't think it's really at the level where Apple will take lost business because of it very seriously.
It's a lot easier to say that when you're not the one that has to deal with hordes of angry paying customers, isn't it?
:)
I'm not sure what you would find a valid reason to prosecute someone, but the fact is that the law doesn't really give a damn what the servers were running- they were privately owned by a business, and were illegaly accessed and altered, and that's really all that matters
Tough luck for the kid if he though he was gonna be ignored because it's "just a game".
Umm, XP Pro does not need to be activated, actually.
It needs a proper registration key to be installed, yes, but there's a difference.
I've personally (re)installed it 3 times, swapped out memory, hard drives, a video card, and a CD burner, and haven't had any trouble of that nature.
Did you try actually reading the posts above, where they shifted from pellet guns to high-powered sniper rifles?
:)
And they're modded (mostly) funny, not insightful, as they should be
You do realize he's joking, right? Lighten up a bit :)
Glad to know it's improved somewhat in the last few years, then.
Rixner was the problem for me...makes me wish i'd known of the couple professor evaluation sites around these days...Would have saved a lotta trouble.
Yeah, fraudrogic, i'd tend to agree. It seemed to me that not even the lower-level courses used it either, as well....If you'd gotten through courses up to trig in high school, and maybe done some basic work with pure logic, you weren't going to be in any trouble with that math stuff.
:)
As I said above, I switched majors to IT from CS...I have to wonder how I would have done in the CS curriculum without, at the same time, having to struggle through the math classes I never used, though.
Sigh Again...there are alternatives. That program isn't the only one out there. There are other ways to get a CS education.
Did I say there weren't? To further clarify, I gave an example of my school's current policy, and surmised that it's probably almost the same at other large technical schools. Don't put words in my mouth, please
Umm...What's this, then?
3 Calculus courses, 2 Discrete Math courses, and a Statistics course, just for a BS in Computer Science. Among other things, that's why I switched degrees from CS...I could handle some of it, but I didn't want to practically get a minor in Math.
I'm willing to bet most other CS programs at large technical schools are close to the same.