Vista. Total, utter failure! No backtalk, now! This is really happening, Microsoft has lost its way and the wolves are at the door. BS.
Windows 2000 was a total utter failure too, when it first came out. Applications and drivers designed for Windows 98, or for NT 4.0, didn't work. It couldn't play any games. People were switching back to Windows 98 in droves.
Then, gradually, application vendors released patches, hardware manufacturers updated their drivers, and the next crop of Windows 2000 users absolutely loved it. So much so, that when Windows XP came out, they all swore they'd never upgrade to that bloated DRM-ridden pile of crap.
Well, here we go again. Wait a year, people will love Vista.
But the concept of EOL'ing an operating system that's at the heart of bazillion old machines out there seems completely wrong, to the point of being bizarre. They've moved on. They're working on something else now. They don't want to continue selling XP, because they don't want to continue supporting XP, because they've all been working on Vista for the past several years, and they don't want to deal with the legacy cruft of XP anymore.
They're not dropping support for XP yet. They will, just like they already did for Windows 98 and Windows ME a year ago.
To put this in perspective, I had a client with a machine running RedHat 7.3, which RedHat completely dropped support for (including security patches) just ONE YEAR after it was released.
That's actually a fairly sensible thing to do. Scanning every passenger is too time-consuming; profiling to guess which passengers look dangerous yields poor results; random scanning is the most likely strategy to find something.
I'm curious what the next hairbrained terrorist scheme will be, and what sort of totally senseless travel restrictions will be added as a result. Any ideas? Liquid bombs that explode in the garbage can at an airport security checkpoint after having been dumped there by a terrorist with a fake boarding pass.
Is there a teacher's union you can talk to about that? That sounds like grounds for a lawsuit or something. At the very least, it might be something a local TV station might be interested in doing a news story about...
I know it's not technically over and there will be more to slog through, When will it be technically over, and when will there be no more to slog through?
Also, don't compare music and movies. Making music involves a band, a couple of engineers, and possibly a studio musician or two for the "extras". Next time you go see a movie in theaters, sit through all the credits... Try to count the names. Music involves a couple of handfuls of people to create, a movie requires hundreds. Now, to clarify, I'm not in any way for the high prices and I'm not defending current copyright laws (I believe the system is broken personally). I'm just pointing out that movies and music are on different levels. And yet, the soundtrack for a movie on CD (which is priced in line with other CDs) often costs more than the movie itself on DVD...
The absolute worst you can do is to trash your user account. It's not pleasant, but it's a hell of a lot better than infecting your entire system. On servers, this is true. On desktop systems, infecting the OS isn't pleasant, but it's a hell of a lot better than trashing your user account.
If you use a DOCTYPE declaration to indicate what version of HTML you're writing in, browsers won't do backwards-compatibility crap. It's only when you leave that out that they try to emulate Netscape 4 and other legacy cruft.
Of course, it's not like we can expect IE to rush out to support these new tags either. Making the whole effort, honestly, pointless. IE is no longer dead. There's IE7 now, and there will be IE8 in a couple years. Within a decade, IE8 will have substantial market share. HTML 5 isn't pointless, it's just forward-thinking. A decade from now, thing will suck less.
They are releasing an SDK, in much the same way that Microsoft released Windows Vista last winter. Sorry, but the rest of us use the word "release" to apply to closed-source proprietary software too.
Healthcare costs more in this country than it should, but it sounds like you don't understand the concept behind insurance. As others here have pointed out, the whole concept is for everybody to share the risk, so that if something bad happens to one person, they can get the care they need without being completely financially screwed.
A couple years ago I was playing a game with kids at my church. Somehow I tripped while running. BAM! $15,000, right there. The church's liability insurance policy was limited to $5,000 (I think they may have increased it since then; they didn't realize it was that low), so I flew to a third-world country to have surgery done cheaply. Even if I had been able to get everything done here in the US for $7,500 (not at all unreasonable considering the people and equipment involved), it still would have been more than I could afford by myself without help. And that was for a very small, simple injury that could easily happen to anyone. What if I'd been hit by a car?
A little off-topic, but since you sound like you live in PDX, I thought I'd ask: how hard is it to buy larger lots of land outside Portland, like on the western side? I'd like to live someplace more rural, and work from home, but have good access to the city. It shouldn't be hard; I'm not sure what's available specifically.
You're right about Phoenix, but I think most cities aren't as spread out as Phoenix is. Phoenix has no significant geographical barriers, and no artificial barriers to legally force development into constrained areas. Here in Portland, we have both: rivers and hills limit where stuff can be built, and Metro (a tri-county regional government) enforces an urban growth boundary that restricts where developers can build houses and such. Sprawl is still a problem, but it's nothing like Phoenix, where people think nothing of driving 20 minutes just to go to a grocery store.
Lightrail works here, and they're working on expanding it right now. The Portland Transit Mall (two entire streets in the middle of downtown Portland used for nothing but bus stops) is being completely rebuilt; when construction is complete there will be a new north-south lightrail line intersecting the existing east-west line, with trains running to Clackamas Town Center and Milwaukie Transit Center in addition to Gresham, Beaverton/Hillsboro, PDX, and the Portland Expo Center. The vast majority of people live and/or work somewhere near one of these lines (although the Tualatin area is growing fast, and is not well served by public transportation yet).
Lightrail does not work in Phoenix. I haven't seen the new lightrail line I heard they were building, but there's just no way it could be more than a slight improvement over existing buses, and adding more buses would be a far better use of money. The only way you could improve public transit in Phoenix is to build some sort of above-ground monorail network, or dig subway tunnels, that would connect between existing bus transit centers and move at very high speeds. The idea would be, you'd take a bus from near your house to the closest transit center, then a train to the transit center nearest your destination, then transfer to another bus. The train would have very minimal stops, and you'd completely bypass traffic. It would be hugely expensive to build, and since it would probably be designed by a committee of politicians who know nothing about public transit, it would be doomed to failure, but that's my best idea.
I was at a Sun party recently. Drunk people were racing each other on little plastic children's tricycles (two-person teams with one person sitting down while the other person pushes). Somebody was passing out OpenSolaris stickers, but when I asked why I should run OpenSolaris, nobody really had an answer.
So if this party was anything like that party, yeah, don't put any stock in anything anybody says.
Yeah, well they fixed that in newer Macs (and by "newer" I mean in the early 90's with OpenFirmware, not 2006 with the Intel switch). *ahem* First of all, I wouldn't call 1995 "early 90s" (the PowerMac 6200 was the first Mac to ship with OpenFirmware, and was introduced in May of that year). Secondly, I wouldn't call the problem "fixed" on Old World Macs - it wasn't until the release of the iMac in August 1998 that it became simple and easy to boot operating systems other than Mac OS.
If you get said Mac mini, you then lose the ability to install/run Ubuntu x86 so that arguement won't work in this particular case. But Ubuntu PPC works great, so that counter-argument doesn't apply.:-P
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While they're learning to read, wouldn't it be nice if they could hear text spoken to them at the same time that it appears on the screen?
Windows 2000 was a total utter failure too, when it first came out. Applications and drivers designed for Windows 98, or for NT 4.0, didn't work. It couldn't play any games. People were switching back to Windows 98 in droves.
Then, gradually, application vendors released patches, hardware manufacturers updated their drivers, and the next crop of Windows 2000 users absolutely loved it. So much so, that when Windows XP came out, they all swore they'd never upgrade to that bloated DRM-ridden pile of crap.
Well, here we go again. Wait a year, people will love Vista.
They're not dropping support for XP yet. They will, just like they already did for Windows 98 and Windows ME a year ago.
To put this in perspective, I had a client with a machine running RedHat 7.3, which RedHat completely dropped support for (including security patches) just ONE YEAR after it was released.
That's actually a fairly sensible thing to do. Scanning every passenger is too time-consuming; profiling to guess which passengers look dangerous yields poor results; random scanning is the most likely strategy to find something.
Is there a teacher's union you can talk to about that? That sounds like grounds for a lawsuit or something. At the very least, it might be something a local TV station might be interested in doing a news story about...
We have ICRA (formerly RSACi) for that. Nobody really uses it. What makes you think they'd use your idea?
If you use a DOCTYPE declaration to indicate what version of HTML you're writing in, browsers won't do backwards-compatibility crap. It's only when you leave that out that they try to emulate Netscape 4 and other legacy cruft.
They are releasing an SDK, in much the same way that Microsoft released Windows Vista last winter. Sorry, but the rest of us use the word "release" to apply to closed-source proprietary software too.
Healthcare costs more in this country than it should, but it sounds like you don't understand the concept behind insurance. As others here have pointed out, the whole concept is for everybody to share the risk, so that if something bad happens to one person, they can get the care they need without being completely financially screwed.
A couple years ago I was playing a game with kids at my church. Somehow I tripped while running. BAM! $15,000, right there. The church's liability insurance policy was limited to $5,000 (I think they may have increased it since then; they didn't realize it was that low), so I flew to a third-world country to have surgery done cheaply. Even if I had been able to get everything done here in the US for $7,500 (not at all unreasonable considering the people and equipment involved), it still would have been more than I could afford by myself without help. And that was for a very small, simple injury that could easily happen to anyone. What if I'd been hit by a car?
We're whalers on the moon,
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune.
You're right about Phoenix, but I think most cities aren't as spread out as Phoenix is. Phoenix has no significant geographical barriers, and no artificial barriers to legally force development into constrained areas. Here in Portland, we have both: rivers and hills limit where stuff can be built, and Metro (a tri-county regional government) enforces an urban growth boundary that restricts where developers can build houses and such. Sprawl is still a problem, but it's nothing like Phoenix, where people think nothing of driving 20 minutes just to go to a grocery store.
Lightrail works here, and they're working on expanding it right now. The Portland Transit Mall (two entire streets in the middle of downtown Portland used for nothing but bus stops) is being completely rebuilt; when construction is complete there will be a new north-south lightrail line intersecting the existing east-west line, with trains running to Clackamas Town Center and Milwaukie Transit Center in addition to Gresham, Beaverton/Hillsboro, PDX, and the Portland Expo Center. The vast majority of people live and/or work somewhere near one of these lines (although the Tualatin area is growing fast, and is not well served by public transportation yet).
Lightrail does not work in Phoenix. I haven't seen the new lightrail line I heard they were building, but there's just no way it could be more than a slight improvement over existing buses, and adding more buses would be a far better use of money. The only way you could improve public transit in Phoenix is to build some sort of above-ground monorail network, or dig subway tunnels, that would connect between existing bus transit centers and move at very high speeds. The idea would be, you'd take a bus from near your house to the closest transit center, then a train to the transit center nearest your destination, then transfer to another bus. The train would have very minimal stops, and you'd completely bypass traffic. It would be hugely expensive to build, and since it would probably be designed by a committee of politicians who know nothing about public transit, it would be doomed to failure, but that's my best idea.
I was at a Sun party recently. Drunk people were racing each other on little plastic children's tricycles (two-person teams with one person sitting down while the other person pushes). Somebody was passing out OpenSolaris stickers, but when I asked why I should run OpenSolaris, nobody really had an answer.
So if this party was anything like that party, yeah, don't put any stock in anything anybody says.
That's bug #95849.
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
with:
zen.spamhaus.org Nope, I got too many false positives with that.
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FEATURE(`dnsbl', `cn.ascc.dnsbl.bit.nl', `"550 Rejected: Due to a high volume of spam we do not accept mail from China. " $&{client_addr} " listed at cn.ascc.dnsbl.bit.nl"')
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `korea.services.net', `"550 Rejected: Due to a high volume of spam we do not accept mail from Korea. " $&{client_addr} " listed at korea.services.net"')
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `web.dnsbl.sorbs.net', `"550 Rejected: Your IP address is known to host a web site containing security holes which can be used to send spam. " $&{client_addr} " listed at web.dnsbl.sorbs.net"')
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `spam.dnsrbl.net', `"550 Rejected: Your IP address has been used to send spam. "$&{client_addr} " listed at spam.dnsrbl.net"')
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