It looks to me like your dvd changer would be playing that same dvd to every screen connected to it, whereas his freevo client machines could each be pulling a different movie from the server. Disney in the kids room, Tarantino in the den, and porno in the kitchen!
It probably was the only good analogy (most of them around here suck) but it's still rather flawed. When the police close off an area to search for an escaped criminal, it's usually hours, not days. Hell, even HazMat teams can normally have a chemical spill cleaned up relatively quick. I don't know anything about this particular hosting company, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if their clients numbered in the hundreds, and the FBI generally gives no idea of how long they'll keep the equipment, but it's been known to run *years*. That, to me, seems terribly inefficient considering all they have to do is copy the data. And remember, they WILL confiscate everything, which includes all of the backups. Imagine a business like thinkgeek or newegg having ALL of its data - website, online catalogue, customer records, current orders, shipping, EVERYTHING - taken away because some data possibly on the same network is maybe evidence in a criminal investigation, and then being told they'd get it back sometime in the future, maybe. Not quite the same as your coffee shop being cordoned off for a few hours.
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I had the "blowjobs for tech support" clause going with an ex. Of course, I was smart enough to install Win ME on her system, whereas you seem to be an idiot;)
Grand fucking idea. Why not cut all scientific research budgets to fund the military. I mean, with the way the U.S. is pissing off the rest of the world these days, it's a hell of a lot more likely that weapons development will be more useful than any other science.
Boy, did I ever bork that. Here goes again:
I know it comes up all the time when spam comes into the conversation (what's that, like 50 times a day?), but you should check out TMDA. It's not for everyone, but it's pretty much what you're describing. Whitelists and blacklists. Unknown senders get a message back telling them to reply if they want you to recieve their mail. When they respond, they get added to the whitelist. Spammers don't get that, since they spoof their from address anyways. I use it at home and I *never* see spam.
You have most certainly NOT demonstrated intent. If that were the case we'd do away with the laws for carrying a concealed weapon and just call it "attempted homocide". And now, anecdotal evidence (this happened to a friend of mine - in Canada, so YMMV). Friend went to bar, got too drunk, got in his car to sleep it off. A cop knocked on his window at about 5am or so and told him he would let it go this time, since he was actually asleep, but told him if he was going to do this again to lock his keys in the trunk (and hopefully have a trunk release) so that he could demonstrate that he had no intention of going anywhere. Had the cop not been so friendly, he could have actually been charged under that law, even though the officer could clearly see he was sleeping, and the keys were not in the ignition. Is that fair? Is that "intent to drive under the influence of alcohol"?
A friend's (now ex) girlfriend had an issue with her computer a few years back. She'd had somebody try to fix some problem, which he fixed, but in the process managed to make the cd-rom and soundcard unuseable. So he and I set about trying to make everything work. A few hours in, we decided our brains needed a break, so we went swimming. Laying in the sun made us thirsty and lazy, so we started doing shots of tequila. Hours later, we drunkenly went back to work and decided wicca was the only solution. When we sobered up we had ashtrays full of burnt down incense sticks, candles melted into puddles in a circle around us, and a computer with a fully functional cd-rom and soundcard - and no fucking clue how it got that way.
Until someone comes up with a new faster bus that would be great just for graphics, and we get boards with PCE-G, or some other catchy moniker. Remember the pre-PCI days of ISA, and VESA just for graphics? Then PCI was good enough for everything for a while, but then we got AGP. I'm sure we'll end up seeing the same thing here...
4. # PCI express allows you to gang serial channels for more bandwidth. Video card saturating one channel? Use two.
Now, I'm no EE, but if you're trying to simplify the bus by making it serial instead of parallel, aren't you just reintroducing all of the problems by parallelizing it again? And now making it worse by having to sync the timing on two seperate buses? Just curious, if someone could explain...
Not if you have people who know how to use all of those systems, but that's the crux of the problem. It's relatively easy for a Windows guru to get a Windows machine online and fairly well secured. Same goes for anyone else proficient with their OS of choice (OS X, Linux, BSD, Irix, etc...). Problem is, somewhere in the neighbourhood of 90% of desktops are running Windows, with (my estimate here) maybe 5% actually knowing what the hell they're doing. In an ideal diverse system, we'd have near equal numbers of Windows machines, Macs, Linux boxen, Irix, Novell, and maybe even some SCO Unix just for kicks, but the people using them would know what they were doing. What we have now is pretty much the exact opposite - dominance by one OS with mostly clueless users. In an idea situation, *you* wouldn't need to worry about 2 or 3 more OS's to integrate, only taking care of your chosen OS. Unfortunately, that'll never happen.
Ok, first off, I think you're just trolling here, since every commentyoumake is the same thing, over and over again, despite having been corrected on your facts time and time again. But I'll bite anyways. Would you risk your life driving to the store knowing that (a) they may be out of Diet Pepsi, (b) you might get hit by a car in the parking lot, (c) you have groceries in the house now, and (d) that if you get struck by lightning, your friends and family may be scarred for life and unable to go grocery shopping during a thunderstorm ever again? Seriously man - two accidents in the last 18 years, and a hundred plus launches. It's a risky business, and everyone in it knows that. How is it immoral to ask "fine Americans" to do their job? Was it crazy and immoral to send them to war in Iraq too? Is it crazy and immoral to ask construction workers to build skyscrapers, since they'd gladly accept for the thrill of putting food on the table? Please, in the future, make sense or shut up.
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If they think it's cool to be obnoxious on the cellphone, why can't I think it's cool to be obnoxious with my jammer? When I'm sitting in a restaurant or at a movie I don't want to have to listen to some jackhole screaming loudly into his cellphone because he's too fucking rude to get up and leave the room for five minutes or return the call later. And it's "socially unacceptable" for me to get up and punch him in the face. So if it's so cool for them to be rude, I can be just as cool.
Anti-music would sound like music that is not created artistically, as music should be, but that is created by the marketing department. It would sound like Britney Spears, N`Sync, and the like. And if you listen to the radio at all, you would know that they don't annihilate each other, but rather that anti-music envelopes all else, sucking formerly decent artists into its clutches and making them turn out crappy albums. Oh yeah, and since this is nothing but flame-bait, the obligatory plea for leniency: Mod me down if you want, but you know I'm right;)
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Ok, so for those of us with A.D.D., what does all of that mean in english?
Fair enough, and as I originally stated, in my experience with Lindows, it sucked. And I agree that they'd be better off making a name on their own. My issue is that Microsoft is trying to extend their trademark to the generic term "windows" when in fact that term was in common use for the GUI component long before MS trademarked it. If they win the case against Lindows, what's to stop them from going after X Windows?
They surely can claim exactly that, since "windows" was a generic term for an element of a GUI before Microsoft came along and trademarked it. So really, they can simply claim that it's a Linux distro pre-configured to launch the GUI at start up. Linux + windows = Lindows.
Yeah, except in your example "Macintosh" is NOT A FUCKING GENERIC COMPUTING TERM. "Windows" was a generic term LONG before Microsoft came along and laid claim to it. Why don't you go ahead and try to trademark "mouse" or "printer" while we're at it. The trademark is specifically for "Microsoft Windows". So if Lindows was trying to market their OS as "MikeRoweSoft Lindows" or something similar, then yeah, fuck 'em. But "LindowsOS" and "Microsoft Windows" don't sound too similar to me. Besides, Lindows blows.
Yeah, but www.litigiousbastards.com is the first hit (which is a site about SCO) and the entirety of the first page of returns, besides that site, are blogs supporting the googlebombing effort. So even though the litigious bastards don't show up in person, there are more than enough others there that anyone searching google for "litigious bastards" will get returns about SCO, which is still pretty fucking funny:)
Off the top of my head, Sorcerer Linux forked over something along the lines of "I hate you so I'm forking off" (pun intended) and ended up with *three* projects - Sorcerer, Lunar Linux, and Source Mage. Also, have a look at IPCop, a fork of the SmoothWall firewall distro. I'm sure there are probably others, but those were the first two to come to mind.
Every time this goes around I say the exact same thing. Would it be so difficult to hand out a modem/router combo? It wouldn't cost them anything more - the customers are paying for their hardware anyways (at least where I am, I pay a monthly "lease" fee with no opportunity to buy my own). Lock the thing down and have a web admin interface, accessible ONLY from the internal network. All ports closed by default. Anyone who needs to do anything more complex than surfing the web, checking email, and using IM should be able to figure it out - if you can't manage to open a service hole in your firewall, does the internet really *need* you to be running web/mail servers??
Playboy photographer ranks right up on my list. Maxim / Stuff / FHM photographer would run a real close second. But hey, if configuring load balancers for playboy.com is all the fun you need, that means less competition for *my* dream job.
Major burden on my competitors when I start sending out fake warrantemail spoofed to look like it came from them. Major burden on the government and legal system when trying to catch everyone bouncing fake warrantemail off of open relays. Extremely minor hiccup in "business as usual" for all of the spammers who already spoof originating addresses and use open relays / ownz0red machines. In order for your idea to be anything more than A Good Idea In Theory (tm) there *has* to be an infrastructure change.
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It looks to me like your dvd changer would be playing that same dvd to every screen connected to it, whereas his freevo client machines could each be pulling a different movie from the server. Disney in the kids room, Tarantino in the den, and porno in the kitchen!
It probably was the only good analogy (most of them around here suck) but it's still rather flawed. When the police close off an area to search for an escaped criminal, it's usually hours, not days. Hell, even HazMat teams can normally have a chemical spill cleaned up relatively quick. I don't know anything about this particular hosting company, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if their clients numbered in the hundreds, and the FBI generally gives no idea of how long they'll keep the equipment, but it's been known to run *years*. That, to me, seems terribly inefficient considering all they have to do is copy the data. And remember, they WILL confiscate everything, which includes all of the backups. Imagine a business like thinkgeek or newegg having ALL of its data - website, online catalogue, customer records, current orders, shipping, EVERYTHING - taken away because some data possibly on the same network is maybe evidence in a criminal investigation, and then being told they'd get it back sometime in the future, maybe. Not quite the same as your coffee shop being cordoned off for a few hours.
I had the "blowjobs for tech support" clause going with an ex. Of course, I was smart enough to install Win ME on her system, whereas you seem to be an idiot ;)
And I think it's very interesting that parents would be so cruel as to name their child "Dick Box".
Grand fucking idea. Why not cut all scientific research budgets to fund the military. I mean, with the way the U.S. is pissing off the rest of the world these days, it's a hell of a lot more likely that weapons development will be more useful than any other science.
Boy, did I ever bork that. Here goes again:
I know it comes up all the time when spam comes into the conversation (what's that, like 50 times a day?), but you should check out TMDA. It's not for everyone, but it's pretty much what you're describing. Whitelists and blacklists. Unknown senders get a message back telling them to reply if they want you to recieve their mail. When they respond, they get added to the whitelist. Spammers don't get that, since they spoof their from address anyways. I use it at home and I *never* see spam.
I know it comes up all the time when spam comes into the conversation (what's that, like 50 times a day?), but you should check out . It's not for everyone, but it's pretty much what you're describing. Whitelists and blacklists. Unknown senders get a message back telling them to reply if they want you to recieve their mail. When they respond, they get added to the whitelist. Spammers don't get that, since they spoof their from address anyways. I use it at home and I *never* see spam.
You have most certainly NOT demonstrated intent. If that were the case we'd do away with the laws for carrying a concealed weapon and just call it "attempted homocide". And now, anecdotal evidence (this happened to a friend of mine - in Canada, so YMMV). Friend went to bar, got too drunk, got in his car to sleep it off. A cop knocked on his window at about 5am or so and told him he would let it go this time, since he was actually asleep, but told him if he was going to do this again to lock his keys in the trunk (and hopefully have a trunk release) so that he could demonstrate that he had no intention of going anywhere. Had the cop not been so friendly, he could have actually been charged under that law, even though the officer could clearly see he was sleeping, and the keys were not in the ignition. Is that fair? Is that "intent to drive under the influence of alcohol"?
A friend's (now ex) girlfriend had an issue with her computer a few years back. She'd had somebody try to fix some problem, which he fixed, but in the process managed to make the cd-rom and soundcard unuseable. So he and I set about trying to make everything work. A few hours in, we decided our brains needed a break, so we went swimming. Laying in the sun made us thirsty and lazy, so we started doing shots of tequila. Hours later, we drunkenly went back to work and decided wicca was the only solution. When we sobered up we had ashtrays full of burnt down incense sticks, candles melted into puddles in a circle around us, and a computer with a fully functional cd-rom and soundcard - and no fucking clue how it got that way.
Yeah, but so far you've managed to get modded +8 insightful by dupe posting that one comment. Keep up that good work and they'll make you an editor!
Until someone comes up with a new faster bus that would be great just for graphics, and we get boards with PCE-G, or some other catchy moniker. Remember the pre-PCI days of ISA, and VESA just for graphics? Then PCI was good enough for everything for a while, but then we got AGP. I'm sure we'll end up seeing the same thing here...
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# PCI express allows you to gang serial channels for more bandwidth. Video card saturating one channel? Use two.
Now, I'm no EE, but if you're trying to simplify the bus by making it serial instead of parallel, aren't you just reintroducing all of the problems by parallelizing it again? And now making it worse by having to sync the timing on two seperate buses? Just curious, if someone could explain...
Not if you have people who know how to use all of those systems, but that's the crux of the problem. It's relatively easy for a Windows guru to get a Windows machine online and fairly well secured. Same goes for anyone else proficient with their OS of choice (OS X, Linux, BSD, Irix, etc...). Problem is, somewhere in the neighbourhood of 90% of desktops are running Windows, with (my estimate here) maybe 5% actually knowing what the hell they're doing. In an ideal diverse system, we'd have near equal numbers of Windows machines, Macs, Linux boxen, Irix, Novell, and maybe even some SCO Unix just for kicks, but the people using them would know what they were doing. What we have now is pretty much the exact opposite - dominance by one OS with mostly clueless users. In an idea situation, *you* wouldn't need to worry about 2 or 3 more OS's to integrate, only taking care of your chosen OS. Unfortunately, that'll never happen.
Ok, first off, I think you're just trolling here, since every comment you make is the same thing, over and over again, despite having been corrected on your facts time and time again. But I'll bite anyways. Would you risk your life driving to the store knowing that (a) they may be out of Diet Pepsi, (b) you might get hit by a car in the parking lot, (c) you have groceries in the house now, and (d) that if you get struck by lightning, your friends and family may be scarred for life and unable to go grocery shopping during a thunderstorm ever again? Seriously man - two accidents in the last 18 years, and a hundred plus launches. It's a risky business, and everyone in it knows that. How is it immoral to ask "fine Americans" to do their job? Was it crazy and immoral to send them to war in Iraq too? Is it crazy and immoral to ask construction workers to build skyscrapers, since they'd gladly accept for the thrill of putting food on the table? Please, in the future, make sense or shut up.
If they think it's cool to be obnoxious on the cellphone, why can't I think it's cool to be obnoxious with my jammer? When I'm sitting in a restaurant or at a movie I don't want to have to listen to some jackhole screaming loudly into his cellphone because he's too fucking rude to get up and leave the room for five minutes or return the call later. And it's "socially unacceptable" for me to get up and punch him in the face. So if it's so cool for them to be rude, I can be just as cool.
Anti-music would sound like music that is not created artistically, as music should be, but that is created by the marketing department. It would sound like Britney Spears, N`Sync, and the like. And if you listen to the radio at all, you would know that they don't annihilate each other, but rather that anti-music envelopes all else, sucking formerly decent artists into its clutches and making them turn out crappy albums. Oh yeah, and since this is nothing but flame-bait, the obligatory plea for leniency: Mod me down if you want, but you know I'm right ;)
Ok, so for those of us with A.D.D., what does all of that mean in english?
Fair enough, and as I originally stated, in my experience with Lindows, it sucked. And I agree that they'd be better off making a name on their own. My issue is that Microsoft is trying to extend their trademark to the generic term "windows" when in fact that term was in common use for the GUI component long before MS trademarked it. If they win the case against Lindows, what's to stop them from going after X Windows?
They surely can claim exactly that, since "windows" was a generic term for an element of a GUI before Microsoft came along and trademarked it. So really, they can simply claim that it's a Linux distro pre-configured to launch the GUI at start up. Linux + windows = Lindows.
Yeah, except in your example "Macintosh" is NOT A FUCKING GENERIC COMPUTING TERM. "Windows" was a generic term LONG before Microsoft came along and laid claim to it. Why don't you go ahead and try to trademark "mouse" or "printer" while we're at it. The trademark is specifically for "Microsoft Windows". So if Lindows was trying to market their OS as "MikeRoweSoft Lindows" or something similar, then yeah, fuck 'em. But "LindowsOS" and "Microsoft Windows" don't sound too similar to me. Besides, Lindows blows.
Yeah, but www.litigiousbastards.com is the first hit (which is a site about SCO) and the entirety of the first page of returns, besides that site, are blogs supporting the googlebombing effort. So even though the litigious bastards don't show up in person, there are more than enough others there that anyone searching google for "litigious bastards" will get returns about SCO, which is still pretty fucking funny :)
Off the top of my head, Sorcerer Linux forked over something along the lines of "I hate you so I'm forking off" (pun intended) and ended up with *three* projects - Sorcerer, Lunar Linux, and Source Mage. Also, have a look at IPCop, a fork of the SmoothWall firewall distro. I'm sure there are probably others, but those were the first two to come to mind.
Every time this goes around I say the exact same thing. Would it be so difficult to hand out a modem/router combo? It wouldn't cost them anything more - the customers are paying for their hardware anyways (at least where I am, I pay a monthly "lease" fee with no opportunity to buy my own). Lock the thing down and have a web admin interface, accessible ONLY from the internal network. All ports closed by default. Anyone who needs to do anything more complex than surfing the web, checking email, and using IM should be able to figure it out - if you can't manage to open a service hole in your firewall, does the internet really *need* you to be running web/mail servers??
Playboy photographer ranks right up on my list. Maxim / Stuff / FHM photographer would run a real close second. But hey, if configuring load balancers for playboy.com is all the fun you need, that means less competition for *my* dream job.
Major burden on my competitors when I start sending out fake warrantemail spoofed to look like it came from them. Major burden on the government and legal system when trying to catch everyone bouncing fake warrantemail off of open relays. Extremely minor hiccup in "business as usual" for all of the spammers who already spoof originating addresses and use open relays / ownz0red machines. In order for your idea to be anything more than A Good Idea In Theory (tm) there *has* to be an infrastructure change.