I use ClamWin. I haven't checked out any of the others, but we use clam on all the unix boxes for mail av so I just followed that to the windows world. =) Worth checking out, although very primative it works. Absolutely no bells and whistles, it's a *nix product in a win shell.
That's true, technically. But something that doesn't bother you(dormant) is as good as cured, and is more than the medical community was able to do for him.
I'm a big proponent of organic foods, not 100% of the time, but a when-you-can-and-it-doesn't-cost-$5-more-type-of-p erson. Food additives have very little testing, and people say it's in such small doses it has no affect. Yet, what, 33mg of aspirin can seriously reduce your chance of a heart attack, yet you're eating in terms of grams when it comes to food additives, ones that haven't been tesed, and ones that build up in your system, and yet people think it must be safe? Does anyone ever look to the fact that vegetarians are 90% less likely to develop any form of cancer, even when predisposed? (Not trying to convert anyone here, lower your meat intake if you want, cut the beef, eat more salt water fish, mmm'kay?) Yet people claim diet has little to do with health, yet it's the very foundation of health. You can easily make yourself obese and you'll develop all kinds of problems from there. ADD can be nearly eliminated by cutting out junk food and fast carbs.
The only currently known treatment of Autism is diet. It doesn't always work, but it works enough times that people are turning to it.
Not that the medical community doesn't have a place. I get inner ear infection a few times a year, and I need anti-biotics for it. It may be due to some ice cream splruge or something else I shouldn't have eaten, but it happens and I know exactly how to get rid of it (A lovely $50 dollars for a 5 minute trip to the doc. so I can say "Inner Ear" and he says "Antibiotics" and I say "I know, just write it up" and people wonder why people turn to Canada or Mexico(Antibiotics 3pk for $5 there, no dr visit required, but gas, ugh. Still, they work).
Yeah, a good book is an Anti Aging book by Dr. Perricone, he's completely out to make money, BUT, the Anti Wrinkle cure got me buying low inflammatory foods(low GI is a good book too) and my acne cleared up right away. People tell me how clear my skin is even if there's a few probs on it. A low GI book is great for finding desserts, go low on beef(I'm personally a vegetarian, not that that has anything to do with it, but not trying to convert anyone here, mmm'kay?). More chicken, salt water fish are the best. Desert from dixiediner.com is great too(easy fudge, made with no refined sugar, heh).
But basically inflammation makes everything worse, and inflammation is caused by food, yes, you can get a disease or something else that worsens it, but if you have nothing, you have inflammation. So eating foods that lower inflammation is the strategy as presented in these books(there, you don't even have to go buy them, heh!).
Wow, with 1, 2, and 3 as you said it compounding only about 40%(or less!) of the problem, it's amazing you skipped over the real problem with antibiotics. With over 60% of all antibiotics going to cattle and other factory-farm animals, who have the same bacteria that we do(it just doesn't affect them, but can live in them) and certain antibiotics surviving pasteurization and cooking, it's fun to blame the 40%. Kind of pounding on cars as the cause of pollution when a large percentage is from the oil refineries(here in texas, anyways). Skip the problem, and blame the people complaining.
Not that it's your fault, you're repeating what you've heard. =P
"And what about if those words were being used for legitimate purposes?"
There are plenty of legitimate uses, but, it's a minor convenience, so it shouldn't be a big deal. It's not like you can't search for those words, it just won't suggest them.
Actually, it sounds to me that the author was just bitter he didn't get to play with the PS3 much.
"None of us had the chance to seriously evaluate PS3 and the experience it has to offer."
Not that that is a good sign about the PS3, but the early adopters of the PS3 have already decided to buy or not, and, if sony wants to tell the other media people to go rot in hell, they're free to. It won't affect sales more than a few units, probably units that aren't at market yet due to shortages.
Exactly. Everything rails has accomplished could have been accomplished in another language. COULD HAVE BEEN. Not was, is being implemented now. Something better may emerge. But rails came in the game late, beat everyone to something, and now everyone is upset. I've been loving rails, it's so easy, didn't even have to really learn ruby(sorry, a lot of web stuff is so simple it could be done in plain english were there an interpreter for it and it looked good). Is it great for more advanced apps? Maybe, maybe not. But for the web, they put everything together in a nice neat package how it should have been for everything else.
Sounds like apple is going to have to clean house to find the leak. If Press is protecting their sources and competitors are gaining an edge, and someone in your company is leaking the info how do you find them without some kind of draconian tactics inside the company itself?
Who wants to go live at Apple Compound, CA where you can't leave? Great! Everyone else, you're fired!
It only takes one person to ruin it for everybody. The press should reveal their sources with some kind of deal to protect themselves(the press).
Just because you are the press does not mean you HAVE to protect your sources, just like to don't have to reveal, you don't have to protect them necessairily. It's a bad, difficult situation we have here.
If you're waiting for it to hit below $150, and, like DVD players which now come free with every happy meal, they will. But others still were happy to pay $300 and up when DVDs first came out.
The difference between regular cable TV, HD TV(over cable), and DVDs is huge, but it depends on your TV.
For most people, the acronyms don't matter, but, with a $1.5k price tag, they are targeting, what kids? Early Adopters. Not the majority. The majority still has to catch up and purchase a new tv. When they get it, it'll be easy. "Plug Cable A into both player and Television. Plug Power Cord into wall. Power On."
Wow, simple! Thanks to a single cable that does Video and Audio. Now, for those who don't care for that, there's other ways to go still. If you know what Dolby Digital Audio is, then you're probably going to be doing a different set up, and at that point, either you know what you're doing or you've chosen to pay someone else to do it already.
Make it cheaper? Make it durable? This is for Early Adopters, once again. It will become cheaper, it will become durable, but for most of the market, there's no improvement in quality and no reason to spend the money. The only thing will be having a single disc for seasons of a TV show, depending if they are in HD or not(cartoons especially won't need to worry, methinks, but not totally sure).
If you're not an early adopter, then you probably don't have to worry about the acronyms. Now, if you want my advice, get a nice HD compatible tv, with HDCP support, (you can ask the guy at Best Buy what you'll need), and then get a nice Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player. Then, follow instructions above(Plug cable A into Player and TV, Plug Power Cord into Wall." There, I saved ya from all those acronyms. It's very easy to do.
Almost every single one of your arguments I can use to say why computers will never, ever catch on.
Hell, acronym time: 1. OS 2. USB 3. Firewire 4. IEEE 1394 5. PS/2 6. PC 7. CPU(which, most people think is the big box that holds the other parts in there) 8. DIMM 9. RAM 10. CD 11. DVD 12. HDD 13. VGA 14. Ethernet, E-Net(ugh, hate that word), Net 15. MB 16. GB
And the list goes on. For that reason, the fact it's so complicated to set up, the fact so many things can go wrong, the fact they're never really stable, is why I doubt anyone will ever see more than 15 computers in their lifetime, if they're even around more than a few years.
Don't worry, unlike computers, the HD stuff will get easier(not sure how, maybe a wireless power for the house so there's only one cable to hook up? Or you mean the remotes? Well, people have learned to live with overly complex remotes, and working with TVs, these things are pretty good about setting up good defaults).
As far as quality, yes, there's a huge one, but you've got to have the right equipment. I'm running an HD projector at the house at 131" and there's a HUGE difference, and the most I get is upscaled DVD or cable compressed HDTV, and it really blows you away.
But, just sit tight, there's no reason to rush out and get one, unless that's what you want. Wait until they're $150, or you get a PS3 if any good games come out for it, or wait until they're like DVD players today, free with each happy meal. That's the good thing about technology, it evolves. =)
Yeah, I can't wait for the republicans to announce how there were no WMDs in Iraq(or very little, which kills the M in the middle, HA! Just cuz it's a chemical weapon does not make it a WMD!). You know, what 50% of the nation already knew.
How long before the public sees that nothing is getting done, and this whole immigration things is just to get away from the war for the november elections.
It's good to see some people learning from their past mistakes, I wonder when that concept will catch on to those in power, instead of those who never were?
They fixed a serious bug that was affecting me in the moz branch, that was ported over to the xulrunner nightlies. Apparently I was creating too many JS Obj's and crashing out the system. Now it works perfectly with my thousands of javascript objects, mwa-ha-ha. =)
But seriously, it's a CRM app loading stats from an XML source on the server side, and when using E4X you get an XML Object for each XML file(or entry, depending) so it's easy and quick when running yearly stats to generate a bunch of objects. But now it works like a charm, smooth, and fast. The only prob is it's a 1.8.0.2 nightly, not a release. But working is working.
I don't trust Dell for my desktops yet. =/ Sorry, I've heard great reviews and have had bad experiences, personally, and places where I've worked.
eMachine > Dell and I can't figure out why! I'd prefer Dell, I'd like to suggest Dell, but in the end, well..
When their Sales Rep says that we need Media Center Edition + a Remote Control for a simple workstation that will NOT DO any type of sharing, local networking, microsoft networking, etc... because it's for work-at-home person, I can't even trust their Techs or Sales people.
Fight it if you can, if it's taken over, adapt. It's just like in a game.
If you were playing oblivion, and you're used to FPS like Doom 3, you'd learn how to play, right? or would you get pissed off and write bad reviews and write to slashdot that Oblivion isn't doom 3 and therefore sucks.
But, if you can resist, do it. But don't be stupid about it.
Agreed, I never knew how out of shape I was until my metabolism started slowing down. Now I work out regularly(regularly enough), I see a trainer 1x/week, I have strange problems that shouldn't exist that keep popping up(blood vessel in one of my shoulders is off and my arm goes numb if in the wrong position for too long, my knees aren't aligned properly) that we're working through and past. I'm healthier, more energetic, my sleep is better, even if it's only a few hours because of Oblivion or DDO. You can do it. Your brain doesn't matter, it learns and adjusts. I exercise while thinking about other things, or fast paced music on my ipod helps drown it all out.
But, leave it to a geek to write up a reason rather than getting out there and running those few miles. Here's a hint, your brain plays a huge part of it, 99%. But you have to train to get there. You take a future college basketball player, someone who has never run in his life, and he can't go more than a mile or two without breathing heavy and having to stop. It's just that he keeps doing it is why he learns to run multiple miles no problem. There's no quick shortcut, you can't write a regular expression to get out of it.
Before you buy, check the forums(which are completely negative with people convined no one ever, anywhere, has gotten the game to work, ignore thoses posts). Look for stuff on your video card. What runs Doom3 in High may only run Oblivion on Low, and what runs Doom3 on med may not even run it(or it may). My ATI 9800 Pro was nothing to it, barely ran, slowly, and very low framerate. I should have bought a 360 and the game on 360 but I want to be avail for plugins. Now I'm sli geforce 6800gs w/ 1gb ram and it runs high quality, but just barely, and slows down sometimes. But, it's incredibly beautiful, and very worth it. I think the 360 version will do plugins with the hard drive though, but I'm not sure, and I'm not much of a console gamer to begin with.
So, check your stuff out, but it's completely worth it. It requires Shader 3, so half life w/ HDR doesn't mean Oblivion w/ HDR. It's an intensive game, well worth it, but intensive. Your once top of the line comp is obsoleted by this next generation game.
And I hear GeForce FX series support is bad, ultra-low quality, etc... So 6000/7000 series, ATI 9500 or up to run, but my 9800 Pro was low quality, so be prepared.
But definately worth it. Man, pushes the limits of gaming.
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I use ClamWin. I haven't checked out any of the others, but we use clam on all the unix boxes for mail av so I just followed that to the windows world. =) Worth checking out, although very primative it works. Absolutely no bells and whistles, it's a *nix product in a win shell.
Umm, make the wiki your documentation? After that it's well structured, easily searchable, and can easily be updated.
That's true, technically. But something that doesn't bother you(dormant) is as good as cured, and is more than the medical community was able to do for him.
I'm a big proponent of organic foods, not 100% of the time, but a when-you-can-and-it-doesn't-cost-$5-more-type-of-p erson. Food additives have very little testing, and people say it's in such small doses it has no affect. Yet, what, 33mg of aspirin can seriously reduce your chance of a heart attack, yet you're eating in terms of grams when it comes to food additives, ones that haven't been tesed, and ones that build up in your system, and yet people think it must be safe? Does anyone ever look to the fact that vegetarians are 90% less likely to develop any form of cancer, even when predisposed? (Not trying to convert anyone here, lower your meat intake if you want, cut the beef, eat more salt water fish, mmm'kay?) Yet people claim diet has little to do with health, yet it's the very foundation of health. You can easily make yourself obese and you'll develop all kinds of problems from there. ADD can be nearly eliminated by cutting out junk food and fast carbs.
The only currently known treatment of Autism is diet. It doesn't always work, but it works enough times that people are turning to it.
Not that the medical community doesn't have a place. I get inner ear infection a few times a year, and I need anti-biotics for it. It may be due to some ice cream splruge or something else I shouldn't have eaten, but it happens and I know exactly how to get rid of it (A lovely $50 dollars for a 5 minute trip to the doc. so I can say "Inner Ear" and he says "Antibiotics" and I say "I know, just write it up" and people wonder why people turn to Canada or Mexico(Antibiotics 3pk for $5 there, no dr visit required, but gas, ugh. Still, they work).
Yeah, a good book is an Anti Aging book by Dr. Perricone, he's completely out to make money, BUT, the Anti Wrinkle cure got me buying low inflammatory foods(low GI is a good book too) and my acne cleared up right away. People tell me how clear my skin is even if there's a few probs on it. A low GI book is great for finding desserts, go low on beef(I'm personally a vegetarian, not that that has anything to do with it, but not trying to convert anyone here, mmm'kay?). More chicken, salt water fish are the best. Desert from dixiediner.com is great too(easy fudge, made with no refined sugar, heh).
But basically inflammation makes everything worse, and inflammation is caused by food, yes, you can get a disease or something else that worsens it, but if you have nothing, you have inflammation. So eating foods that lower inflammation is the strategy as presented in these books(there, you don't even have to go buy them, heh!).
Wow, with 1, 2, and 3 as you said it compounding only about 40%(or less!) of the problem, it's amazing you skipped over the real problem with antibiotics. With over 60% of all antibiotics going to cattle and other factory-farm animals, who have the same bacteria that we do(it just doesn't affect them, but can live in them) and certain antibiotics surviving pasteurization and cooking, it's fun to blame the 40%. Kind of pounding on cars as the cause of pollution when a large percentage is from the oil refineries(here in texas, anyways). Skip the problem, and blame the people complaining.
Not that it's your fault, you're repeating what you've heard. =P
"And what about if those words were being used for legitimate purposes?"
There are plenty of legitimate uses, but, it's a minor convenience, so it shouldn't be a big deal. It's not like you can't search for those words, it just won't suggest them.
No, it won't add much fuel if any, other than some GPL zealots trying to convert. I see it as one of the high points of BSD licensing.
Actually, it sounds to me that the author was just bitter he didn't get to play with the PS3 much.
"None of us had the chance to seriously evaluate PS3 and the experience it has to offer."
Not that that is a good sign about the PS3, but the early adopters of the PS3 have already decided to buy or not, and, if sony wants to tell the other media people to go rot in hell, they're free to. It won't affect sales more than a few units, probably units that aren't at market yet due to shortages.
MozStorage baby(sqllite with an XPCOM iface or some kind of iface). Built in, default, and used. Thanks goodness.
"For many users, speed is the most important aspect of a browser."
Which is why opera is the current leader in the browser market.
Exactly. Everything rails has accomplished could have been accomplished in another language. COULD HAVE BEEN. Not was, is being implemented now. Something better may emerge. But rails came in the game late, beat everyone to something, and now everyone is upset. I've been loving rails, it's so easy, didn't even have to really learn ruby(sorry, a lot of web stuff is so simple it could be done in plain english were there an interpreter for it and it looked good). Is it great for more advanced apps? Maybe, maybe not. But for the web, they put everything together in a nice neat package how it should have been for everything else.
Nobody expects the MSFT Inquisition!
Thanks for that. =)
With portsentry setting pf to block all other port scans I can do this without having to move sshd ports(like I've currently had to do).
Sounds like apple is going to have to clean house to find the leak. If Press is protecting their sources and competitors are gaining an edge, and someone in your company is leaking the info how do you find them without some kind of draconian tactics inside the company itself?
Who wants to go live at Apple Compound, CA where you can't leave? Great! Everyone else, you're fired!
It only takes one person to ruin it for everybody. The press should reveal their sources with some kind of deal to protect themselves(the press).
Just because you are the press does not mean you HAVE to protect your sources, just like to don't have to reveal, you don't have to protect them necessairily. It's a bad, difficult situation we have here.
Based off of The RFID Blocking Wallet anyone?
Um, have you ever heard the term "Early Adopter" ?
Here's a handy dandy, what kids? Reference!
If you're waiting for it to hit below $150, and, like DVD players which now come free with every happy meal, they will. But others still were happy to pay $300 and up when DVDs first came out.
The difference between regular cable TV, HD TV(over cable), and DVDs is huge, but it depends on your TV.
For most people, the acronyms don't matter, but, with a $1.5k price tag, they are targeting, what kids? Early Adopters. Not the majority. The majority still has to catch up and purchase a new tv. When they get it, it'll be easy. "Plug Cable A into both player and Television. Plug Power Cord into wall. Power On."
Wow, simple! Thanks to a single cable that does Video and Audio. Now, for those who don't care for that, there's other ways to go still. If you know what Dolby Digital Audio is, then you're probably going to be doing a different set up, and at that point, either you know what you're doing or you've chosen to pay someone else to do it already.
Make it cheaper? Make it durable? This is for Early Adopters, once again. It will become cheaper, it will become durable, but for most of the market, there's no improvement in quality and no reason to spend the money. The only thing will be having a single disc for seasons of a TV show, depending if they are in HD or not(cartoons especially won't need to worry, methinks, but not totally sure).
If you're not an early adopter, then you probably don't have to worry about the acronyms. Now, if you want my advice, get a nice HD compatible tv, with HDCP support, (you can ask the guy at Best Buy what you'll need), and then get a nice Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player. Then, follow instructions above(Plug cable A into Player and TV, Plug Power Cord into Wall." There, I saved ya from all those acronyms. It's very easy to do.
Almost every single one of your arguments I can use to say why computers will never, ever catch on.
Hell, acronym time:
1. OS
2. USB
3. Firewire
4. IEEE 1394
5. PS/2
6. PC
7. CPU(which, most people think is the big box that holds the other parts in there)
8. DIMM
9. RAM
10. CD
11. DVD
12. HDD
13. VGA
14. Ethernet, E-Net(ugh, hate that word), Net
15. MB
16. GB
And the list goes on. For that reason, the fact it's so complicated to set up, the fact so many things can go wrong, the fact they're never really stable, is why I doubt anyone will ever see more than 15 computers in their lifetime, if they're even around more than a few years.
Don't worry, unlike computers, the HD stuff will get easier(not sure how, maybe a wireless power for the house so there's only one cable to hook up? Or you mean the remotes? Well, people have learned to live with overly complex remotes, and working with TVs, these things are pretty good about setting up good defaults).
As far as quality, yes, there's a huge one, but you've got to have the right equipment. I'm running an HD projector at the house at 131" and there's a HUGE difference, and the most I get is upscaled DVD or cable compressed HDTV, and it really blows you away.
But, just sit tight, there's no reason to rush out and get one, unless that's what you want. Wait until they're $150, or you get a PS3 if any good games come out for it, or wait until they're like DVD players today, free with each happy meal. That's the good thing about technology, it evolves. =)
"Ummm, you plug the HDMI connector into the back of the HD-DVD player and the other end into your TV."
Yeah, but I didn't know my TV wasn't HDCP capable. =(
As for DRM, it doesn't affect me outside of the lack of HDCP. Which sucks, but hey, I understand. Now I just gotta upgrade. Grr..
Yeah, I can't wait for the republicans to announce how there were no WMDs in Iraq(or very little, which kills the M in the middle, HA! Just cuz it's a chemical weapon does not make it a WMD!). You know, what 50% of the nation already knew.
How long before the public sees that nothing is getting done, and this whole immigration things is just to get away from the war for the november elections.
It's good to see some people learning from their past mistakes, I wonder when that concept will catch on to those in power, instead of those who never were?
They fixed a serious bug that was affecting me in the moz branch, that was ported over to the xulrunner nightlies. Apparently I was creating too many JS Obj's and crashing out the system. Now it works perfectly with my thousands of javascript objects, mwa-ha-ha. =)
But seriously, it's a CRM app loading stats from an XML source on the server side, and when using E4X you get an XML Object for each XML file(or entry, depending) so it's easy and quick when running yearly stats to generate a bunch of objects. But now it works like a charm, smooth, and fast. The only prob is it's a 1.8.0.2 nightly, not a release. But working is working.
1.3 Megapixels ought to be enough for anybody.
I don't trust Dell for my desktops yet. =/ Sorry, I've heard great reviews and have had bad experiences, personally, and places where I've worked.
eMachine > Dell and I can't figure out why! I'd prefer Dell, I'd like to suggest Dell, but in the end, well..
When their Sales Rep says that we need Media Center Edition + a Remote Control for a simple workstation that will NOT DO any type of sharing, local networking, microsoft networking, etc... because it's for work-at-home person, I can't even trust their Techs or Sales people.
Sorry Dell.
Fight it if you can, if it's taken over, adapt. It's just like in a game.
If you were playing oblivion, and you're used to FPS like Doom 3, you'd learn how to play, right? or would you get pissed off and write bad reviews and write to slashdot that Oblivion isn't doom 3 and therefore sucks.
But, if you can resist, do it. But don't be stupid about it.
Agreed, I never knew how out of shape I was until my metabolism started slowing down. Now I work out regularly(regularly enough), I see a trainer 1x/week, I have strange problems that shouldn't exist that keep popping up(blood vessel in one of my shoulders is off and my arm goes numb if in the wrong position for too long, my knees aren't aligned properly) that we're working through and past. I'm healthier, more energetic, my sleep is better, even if it's only a few hours because of Oblivion or DDO. You can do it. Your brain doesn't matter, it learns and adjusts. I exercise while thinking about other things, or fast paced music on my ipod helps drown it all out.
But, leave it to a geek to write up a reason rather than getting out there and running those few miles. Here's a hint, your brain plays a huge part of it, 99%. But you have to train to get there. You take a future college basketball player, someone who has never run in his life, and he can't go more than a mile or two without breathing heavy and having to stop. It's just that he keeps doing it is why he learns to run multiple miles no problem. There's no quick shortcut, you can't write a regular expression to get out of it.
And, just to be helpful, 8 week program for beginning runners works very well.
Before you buy, check the forums(which are completely negative with people convined no one ever, anywhere, has gotten the game to work, ignore thoses posts). Look for stuff on your video card. What runs Doom3 in High may only run Oblivion on Low, and what runs Doom3 on med may not even run it(or it may). My ATI 9800 Pro was nothing to it, barely ran, slowly, and very low framerate. I should have bought a 360 and the game on 360 but I want to be avail for plugins. Now I'm sli geforce 6800gs w/ 1gb ram and it runs high quality, but just barely, and slows down sometimes. But, it's incredibly beautiful, and very worth it. I think the 360 version will do plugins with the hard drive though, but I'm not sure, and I'm not much of a console gamer to begin with.
So, check your stuff out, but it's completely worth it. It requires Shader 3, so half life w/ HDR doesn't mean Oblivion w/ HDR. It's an intensive game, well worth it, but intensive. Your once top of the line comp is obsoleted by this next generation game.
And I hear GeForce FX series support is bad, ultra-low quality, etc... So 6000/7000 series, ATI 9500 or up to run, but my 9800 Pro was low quality, so be prepared.
But definately worth it. Man, pushes the limits of gaming.