My first thought when seeing the trailer for The Ring was much like everyone else: "Great, another teen slasher flick". But then I heard some good reviews so I thought I'd give it a chance and rented it. I learned a valuable lesson from this: Never second-guess myself this way.
The plot was completely non-sensical, the acting was sub-par, and it was totally predictable up to the obligatory "twist" ending that every teen movie these days seems to require. Maybe "worst movie ever" is a bit harsh, but it was pretty bad.
The fact that it's in quotation marks (you know, these things -> "") suggests that it's a quote from somewhere, not an original statement by the poster.
True, people just don't install service packs. Look at how many Windows machines are compromised due to security holes that were patched months (if not years) ago for evidence of this. I don't see this changing any time soon.
I'm pretty sure he means "IE only" in the sense that every other major browser available gives you the option to disallow them. Therefore, only IE users are seeing them.
Of course 90%+ of the people using the web are using IE. From the marketers' perspective, there's little incentive to find work-arounds for the browsers that don't display their ads, so they haven't bothered. You can bet they will though once that number hits 50% or so.
Maybe, but why not follow the OS X model then? It gives you the best of both worlds: power and flexibility for us and ease-of-use for them.
OS X has an extremely user friendly preference panel with checkboxes to allow access to various services like "Windows file sharing" (aka SMB), "Personal web sharing" (aka HTTP), etc. Changes made here are applied to ipfw which is running under the hood. Access to everything is restricted by default.
More experienced users can write ipfw rules manually, just the way you would on any regular BSD machine. When the system notices ipfw has been modified by hand it disables use of the preference panel so your own rules aren't overwritten.
I'm having the same SMB problems I was having pre-update. I can mount the shares individually using Cmd-K, just like I always could, but using the Network icon in a finder window doesn't show anything but a "Servers" icon that only contains the local machine. My Samba server doesn't appear at all.
The vast majority of them that I've come in contact with (thankfully not physical contact, or else I'd likely not be here to talk about it) drive like they're still driving the family car they used to own. They often tailgate, apparently not realizing that it takes significantly longer to stop one of those land yachts than it does a normal sized car. While they might be able to see greater distances due to being so high up, they often can't see what's right next to them as they change lanes (usually without turn signals; do SUVs even come equipped with them anymore?).
SUVs are marketed to appeal to agressive drivers, which means that bad drivers often drive them. I can't count the number of times my medium-sized Acura has nearly been run off the road or completely wiped out by one.
Apple Mail already offers this, but I think it's a bad idea. Spammers often use forged return addresses. They'll usually pick one at random off the list they're sending the spam to, so bouncing the mail will most likely only annoy the person whose address was used.
Personally, I prefer programs that do one thing and do it well. I currently use Mozilla for web browsing and Apple Mail for mail. I'll probably switch to the stand-alone Firebird browser eventually, but I didn't care for the way it felt the last time I used it. Likewise, I also use a stand-alone newsreader rather than Usenet functionality built into my web browser or mail client (hypothetically speaking that is, Apple Mail doesn't try to be a newsreader, thankfully).
click on a link in the e-mail to go to a browser window, then click on a link on the page to send an e-mail reply - why would anyone NOT want them integrated????
Because they don't need to be in order to get this functionality. Clicking a URL/hyperlink in a mail or news client should do nothing but pass that URI to the system's default application for that type of data. So clicking URLs in Mail will launch a Mozilla window and clicking a mailto: link on a web page will launch Mail. No application integration necessary.
Separate inboxes for each e-mail account in a single mail client is actually more like having a separate physical mailbox for each individual person living at your home address.
IMO, POP3 clients should deposit mail into one place. If I wanted them sorted by account, I'd use a filter.
you must be old. when you were young, i bet you didnt like the idea of seeing 60yr old women naked. only way ill enjoy it is when its my wife 45 years from now
Actually the word "internet" is appropriate there. Before the popularity of the web spammers were harvesting e-mail addresses from Usenet so, in this context, "internet" means the web, Usenet, and anywhere else that addresses can be harvested (eg, AOL chat rooms, etc).
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For more information on #2, there's an article called The Wal-Mart You Don't Know over at fastcompany.com. Interesting stuff.
I think you misread the parent post.
My first thought when seeing the trailer for The Ring was much like everyone else: "Great, another teen slasher flick". But then I heard some good reviews so I thought I'd give it a chance and rented it. I learned a valuable lesson from this: Never second-guess myself this way.
The plot was completely non-sensical, the acting was sub-par, and it was totally predictable up to the obligatory "twist" ending that every teen movie these days seems to require. Maybe "worst movie ever" is a bit harsh, but it was pretty bad.
It's called humor. Look it up sometime.
The fact that it's in quotation marks (you know, these things -> "") suggests that it's a quote from somewhere, not an original statement by the poster.
True, people just don't install service packs. Look at how many Windows machines are compromised due to security holes that were patched months (if not years) ago for evidence of this. I don't see this changing any time soon.
I'm pretty sure he means "IE only" in the sense that every other major browser available gives you the option to disallow them. Therefore, only IE users are seeing them.
Of course 90%+ of the people using the web are using IE. From the marketers' perspective, there's little incentive to find work-arounds for the browsers that don't display their ads, so they haven't bothered. You can bet they will though once that number hits 50% or so.
Maybe, but why not follow the OS X model then? It gives you the best of both worlds: power and flexibility for us and ease-of-use for them.
OS X has an extremely user friendly preference panel with checkboxes to allow access to various services like "Windows file sharing" (aka SMB), "Personal web sharing" (aka HTTP), etc. Changes made here are applied to ipfw which is running under the hood. Access to everything is restricted by default.
More experienced users can write ipfw rules manually, just the way you would on any regular BSD machine. When the system notices ipfw has been modified by hand it disables use of the preference panel so your own rules aren't overwritten.
I'm having the same SMB problems I was having pre-update. I can mount the shares individually using Cmd-K, just like I always could, but using the Network icon in a finder window doesn't show anything but a "Servers" icon that only contains the local machine. My Samba server doesn't appear at all.
If the company's logo is any indication, we can guess where Mac users are going to end up.
I love it when people say that tired old line: "This has nothing to do with September 11".
Bullshit.
Please explain, in detail, the connection. I'll wait.
The vast majority of them that I've come in contact with (thankfully not physical contact, or else I'd likely not be here to talk about it) drive like they're still driving the family car they used to own. They often tailgate, apparently not realizing that it takes significantly longer to stop one of those land yachts than it does a normal sized car. While they might be able to see greater distances due to being so high up, they often can't see what's right next to them as they change lanes (usually without turn signals; do SUVs even come equipped with them anymore?).
SUVs are marketed to appeal to agressive drivers, which means that bad drivers often drive them. I can't count the number of times my medium-sized Acura has nearly been run off the road or completely wiped out by one.
Better still, put the machines in two stacks a few feet apart, throw a piece of plywood on top, and you don't even need a desk!
You want nerd music? Nothing is nerdier than S.P.O.C.K.
Don't forget to look at their pictures!
Now that is a depressing thought.
Apple Mail already offers this, but I think it's a bad idea. Spammers often use forged return addresses. They'll usually pick one at random off the list they're sending the spam to, so bouncing the mail will most likely only annoy the person whose address was used.
As for Linux users, their clipboard images are planned for next century.
That's because it'll take that long to fix the clipboard(s) in X.
Personally, I prefer programs that do one thing and do it well. I currently use Mozilla for web browsing and Apple Mail for mail. I'll probably switch to the stand-alone Firebird browser eventually, but I didn't care for the way it felt the last time I used it. Likewise, I also use a stand-alone newsreader rather than Usenet functionality built into my web browser or mail client (hypothetically speaking that is, Apple Mail doesn't try to be a newsreader, thankfully).
click on a link in the e-mail to go to a browser window, then click on a link on the page to send an e-mail reply - why would anyone NOT want them integrated????
Because they don't need to be in order to get this functionality. Clicking a URL/hyperlink in a mail or news client should do nothing but pass that URI to the system's default application for that type of data. So clicking URLs in Mail will launch a Mozilla window and clicking a mailto: link on a web page will launch Mail. No application integration necessary.
As much as I hate playing analogy-wars...
Separate inboxes for each e-mail account in a single mail client is actually more like having a separate physical mailbox for each individual person living at your home address.
IMO, POP3 clients should deposit mail into one place. If I wanted them sorted by account, I'd use a filter.
Yep, the San Fernando valley, aka "silicone valley".
Psst, 1999 called. They want their (factually incorrect) joke back.
President Flightsuit would claim to have evidence of WMD in Alan Ralsky's basement, have the ATF kick in his door and drag him off to Guantanamo
Not a bad idea, actually...
you must be old. when you were young, i bet you didnt like the idea of seeing 60yr old women naked. only way ill enjoy it is when its my wife 45 years from now
Your wife is 15?
Basically she stole the fucking guy from her best friend at the time, which says an awful lot about Jenni.
Doesn't that actually say a lot more about about him than it does her?
That doesn't imply anything, since both those programs have been available for Windows for as long as I can remember.
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And that implies Windows.
Actually the word "internet" is appropriate there. Before the popularity of the web spammers were harvesting e-mail addresses from Usenet so, in this context, "internet" means the web, Usenet, and anywhere else that addresses can be harvested (eg, AOL chat rooms, etc).