Thats what really grates my ass. When I am running windows and I go to a site that has the Gator instal message box. You have three options. "Yes", "No", and "Always trust Gator". This is a windows prompt box right, why the hell is there not a "Never trust Gator" It would make life so much easier.
You know someone said the same thing to me when she saw my anti-CSS/deCSS source code T-shirt back in college. It didn't bother me then and it sure doesn't bother me now.
I didn't kill any children today thank you. Actually I think I probably saved children today... Congress appropriated $4.696 billion for WIC in FY 2003. (That's from the WIC FAQ)
BTW you need to use sit ! seat & starving ! startving.
Looks like this might actually be closes to DN4 than you think laugh_at(everyone, for_having_the_patience_year_after_year_for_anothe r_unfinished_version);
so when they go to compile this code they get: ");" expected error notify sales department of 12 month delay.
Totally agree with your This isn't news. This is fear-based ratings pandering by the source. comment. It's just like the 11pm news, which I why I stopped watching the news in the first place.
So devices in hospitals that come in to close contact with people have bacteria, [ sarcasm ]I am shocked! [/sarcasm ] Hello! It's a smeggin hospital for Christ sake. I would have been shocked if the study said these cell phones didn't have any infectious "stuff" on them. This is not news this is common sense.
Who complaining, had I not stayed there five years I wouldn't have meet a person that introduced me to a person that hires for a fortune 500 company. I would not be working in downtown DC doing what I want to do. All in all the last year ended up being my best year.
(Actually I passed all my classes I just had to switch majors late in the game because the Air Force found out I had a heart murmor, can't be in ROTC if your not getting in:)
I hope your mechanic tells you that, next time you bring your car in to be fixed they might not say it but they make allot of money by using it as a business model. Think of how many people take there car to have stuff done that for some another car owner is nothing hard, like rotating tires or changing oil. Every car owner has there own level of personal maintenance based of many different factors: time, money, tools, etc. I had a friend that replaced is transmission on his own, that something that I'm ignorant about and wouldn't even begin to try to do this on my own. So I'd go to the mechanic. Weather or not the mechanic tells me it know not we both know it's true.
Think of linux like an automobile. The kernal is the car, the GUI is like the transmission it's either automatic or manual. How long has automatic been around...some would say for the average driver automatic is better, but there is no shortage on people who buy a car that is manual. Manual has it's pluses and negitives, just as automatic does. People are not as dumb as some people like to think they are, they can adapt if they choose too.
As for TV's, they are not the same either, the remote control which is the primary way of interfacing with you tv anymore is differnt from one model to the next, the menu system is differnt also, but people can adapt to those changes as well if they choose too.
There is a big problem with saying Linux and meaning a GUI.
I am willing to bet allot of money that most Linux users "only computer training is on Microsoft systems" before they went to Linux. Mine was and I did just fine.
I do not think that the reason allot of people use Linux is because it is like windows. I do not want a compromise my desktop choices I like KDE, I do not want KDE becoming more like Gnome or Gnome becoming more like KDE. All the desktop managers have pluses and minuses, which is why people chose one over the other. I also think that going to a one desktop fits all is the wrong approach to compete against Windows is the wrong idea. The beauty of Linux is the beauty of choice, that is it's advantage for the "fight" with Windows; some people use windows and like it, good for them. Some people use windows and say "I wish I had an choice on how my desktop worked, more than just applying a theme" and then they take a serious look at Linux. I think the Linux community has got to get over this attack Microsoft attitude and just make a product that appeals to those people who are not satisfied with the options that windows provides.
In communist Russia you don't drink the water........ Some one tapped me on the sholder. {Voice of KGB}You'll drink this water if you know what is good for you
This is the sort of flawed logic that arises from the use of analogies. I mean you can't define one system by using facts from another system and expect it to be completely accurate, they are different systems, if they were the same system you wouldn't need to use analogies; they'd be the same...
A computer virus is not naturally occurring so it should not be compared to something that is naturally occurring.
So, with that said, here is my analogy on why this is flawed. "Hey Biff I have a truck to help you move". Ned shows up with a car, Biff says, "Where is your truck?" Ned says "a car is like a truck"
I also must disagree with the good doctor. "SDF: Computer viruses are exactly like the normal viruses." They are not exactly alike, they may have similar characteristics but they are not exactly alike. I am a security administrator for a Fortune 500 company, that does not qualify me to publish a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association, so when they come to interview me, which I am sure they will, about this seasons flu, I will decline.
Back in my day I had to write games in BASIC, on a 4.7Mhz computer with no hard disk and 128K of RAM. And I was grateful.
You were lucky.
Back when I was young I had to get up two hours before I went to bed, drink a glass of sulfuric acid and had an Atari that connected to my tv and had to transcribe games from the manual and if the game was over three pages of code my "computer" would freeze
Great monty python skit!
I agree They should provide a margin of error. I'm willing to bet it's something like +/- 5% (it's alwyas 5% =) So do to there efforts software piracy could be up 4% do to there efforts. that 1% should for all intents and purposes be labeld a statistical anominal.
In one of my courses at college we learned that in places were there was a larger stork population there were more births so that must mean that storks cuase births, right? Riiiiiight...
That would be like a human resource manager saying thanks to me people walking off the job in the middle of the day and not coming back is up 5% can I ahve a raise?
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Man the women from my Women and Crime class would be so offended by that. "Rapist only going after skinny women is such a sterotype" I used to hear that all the time plus "only a 1/3 of rapes are commited by a person the victim doesn't know". It's sad that they would intentionaly make it to only fit small frame women... Sigh...
Oh well, this ought to be interesting to watch play out.
"Words for nerds" was a class at Florida State that the pre med people had to take. I helped my friend study for it.
Hysteria was thought to be caused by the woman's uterus moving further up the body, seriously. and so when a woman became hysterical they would put bad smelling stuff by her nose and good smelling stuff near her groin to get the uterus to come back down. That's how hysteria hysterical and hysterectomy are related
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First I never installed gator, I use Linux, you don't have to worry about me not taking pride or accountability in the software I installed.
It comes down to intent. What do you think the intent is when they have a borderless window? If they wanted people to know it was a normal window they would make it appear as a normal window. It's deceptive. Deceptive and misleading advertising is wrong, morally and sometimes legally wrong.
And no like I said in my post if the users opts to see or not see something that between you and well yourself. Open as many IM windows as you want.
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It bloody well should be. I mean If I go out and deface a webpage thats hacking and I can go to jail. What did I do? I changed what the website owners wanted the viewer to see. If I write some 2bit program that along with it's crappy usefull functionality changes a websites banner adds I have just done the same thing. Only the way it stands right now I wont get in any trouble. I think it should be up to the end user that way the we don't run in to the problem of say how is a pop up blocker legal. It should be legal because the end user can choose to activate it. The end user can't chose to in the case of Gator or a defaced website. $0.02
There are some times when I hate how many programs esp. on the internet wont work with Linux. Then there is Gator.com and everything is put back in to perspective.
It's nice not getting those popups, "Would you like to set your homepage to gator.com"=]
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Thats what really grates my ass. When I am running windows and I go to a site that has the Gator instal message box. You have three options. "Yes", "No", and "Always trust Gator". This is a windows prompt box right, why the hell is there not a "Never trust Gator" It would make life so much easier.
You know someone said the same thing to me when she saw my anti-CSS/deCSS source code T-shirt back in college. It didn't bother me then and it sure doesn't bother me now.
I didn't kill any children today thank you. Actually I think I probably saved children today... Congress appropriated $4.696 billion for WIC in FY 2003. (That's from the WIC FAQ)
BTW you need to use sit ! seat & starving ! startving.
Looks like this might actually be closes to DN4 than you thinke r_unfinished_version);
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so when they go to compile this code they get:
");" expected error notify sales department of 12 month delay.
But it only starts off slow. If it had to travel a longer distance it would continually pick up more speed. It is actually a really great technology.
Totally agree with your This isn't news. This is fear-based ratings pandering by the source.
/sarcasm ] Hello! It's a smeggin hospital for Christ sake. I would have been shocked if the study said these cell phones didn't have any infectious "stuff" on them. This is not news this is common sense.
comment. It's just like the 11pm news, which I why I stopped watching the news in the first place.
So devices in hospitals that come in to close contact with people have bacteria, [ sarcasm ]I am shocked! [
hahahahaha HAHAHAHAHAHAHA hahahahahaha
hold on let me catch my breath.
HAHAHA
Who complaining, had I not stayed there five years I wouldn't have meet a person that introduced me to a person that hires for a fortune 500 company. I would not be working in downtown DC doing what I want to do. All in all the last year ended up being my best year.
(Actually I passed all my classes I just had to switch majors late in the game because the Air Force found out I had a heart murmor, can't be in ROTC if your not getting in:)
That was one of the funniest posts I have ever read. Authors like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett come to mind. Are you by chance British?
I think the beer by the gallon has something to do with FSU being the best FIVE years of my life.
throw garbage on Spock's lawn
All I can say is classic:)
ROTFL
Yes, and I'm ignorant about spelling and grammer also. I know that.
I hope your mechanic tells you that, next time you bring your car in to be fixed they might not say it but they make allot of money by using it as a business model. Think of how many people take there car to have stuff done that for some another car owner is nothing hard, like rotating tires or changing oil. Every car owner has there own level of personal maintenance based of many different factors: time, money, tools, etc. I had a friend that replaced is transmission on his own, that something that I'm ignorant about and wouldn't even begin to try to do this on my own. So I'd go to the mechanic. Weather or not the mechanic tells me it know not we both know it's true.
Think of linux like an automobile. The kernal is the car, the GUI is like the transmission it's either automatic or manual. How long has automatic been around...some would say for the average driver automatic is better, but there is no shortage on people who buy a car that is manual. Manual has it's pluses and negitives, just as automatic does. People are not as dumb as some people like to think they are, they can adapt if they choose too.
As for TV's, they are not the same either, the remote control which is the primary way of interfacing with you tv anymore is differnt from one model to the next, the menu system is differnt also, but people can adapt to those changes as well if they choose too.
There is a big problem with saying Linux and meaning a GUI.
I am willing to bet allot of money that most Linux users "only computer training is on Microsoft systems" before they went to Linux. Mine was and I did just fine.
I do not think that the reason allot of people use Linux is because it is like windows. I do not want a compromise my desktop choices I like KDE, I do not want KDE becoming more like Gnome or Gnome becoming more like KDE. All the desktop managers have pluses and minuses, which is why people chose one over the other.
I also think that going to a one desktop fits all is the wrong approach to compete against Windows is the wrong idea. The beauty of Linux is the beauty of choice, that is it's advantage for the "fight" with Windows; some people use windows and like it, good for them. Some people use windows and say "I wish I had an choice on how my desktop worked, more than just applying a theme" and then they take a serious look at Linux.
I think the Linux community has got to get over this attack Microsoft attitude and just make a product that appeals to those people who are not satisfied with the options that windows provides.
In communist Russia you don't drink the water.... .. ..
Some one tapped me on the sholder.
{Voice of KGB}You'll drink this water if you know what is good for you
{Of apples and oranges}
This is the sort of flawed logic that arises from the use of analogies. I mean you can't define one system by using facts from another system and expect it to be completely accurate, they are different systems, if they were the same system you wouldn't need to use analogies; they'd be the same...
A computer virus is not naturally occurring so it should not be compared to something that is naturally occurring.
So, with that said, here is my analogy on why this is flawed. "Hey Biff I have a truck to help you move". Ned shows up with a car, Biff says, "Where is your truck?" Ned says "a car is like a truck"
I also must disagree with the good doctor. "SDF: Computer viruses are exactly like the normal viruses." They are not exactly alike, they may have similar characteristics but they are not exactly alike. I am a security administrator for a Fortune 500 company, that does not qualify me to publish a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association, so when they come to interview me, which I am sure they will, about this seasons flu, I will decline.
Maybe it's like the forever flashlite over at Think Geek and all you need to do is shake it for 10-15 seconds then play for up to 5 minutes =]
Back in my day I had to write games in BASIC, on a 4.7Mhz computer with no hard disk and 128K of RAM. And I was grateful.
You were lucky. Back when I was young I had to get up two hours before I went to bed, drink a glass of sulfuric acid and had an Atari that connected to my tv and had to transcribe games from the manual and if the game was over three pages of code my "computer" would freeze Great monty python skit!
I agree They should provide a margin of error. I'm willing to bet it's something like +/- 5% (it's alwyas 5% =) So do to there efforts software piracy could be up 4% do to there efforts.
that 1% should for all intents and purposes be labeld a statistical anominal.
In one of my courses at college we learned that in places were there was a larger stork population there were more births so that must mean that storks cuase births, right? Riiiiiight...
That would be like a human resource manager saying thanks to me people walking off the job in the middle of the day and not coming back is up 5% can I ahve a raise?
Man the women from my Women and Crime class would be so offended by that. "Rapist only going after skinny women is such a sterotype" I used to hear that all the time plus "only a 1/3 of rapes are commited by a person the victim doesn't know". It's sad that they would intentionaly make it to only fit small frame women... Sigh...
Oh well, this ought to be interesting to watch play out.
"Words for nerds" was a class at Florida State that the pre med people had to take. I helped my friend study for it.
Hysteria was thought to be caused by the woman's uterus moving further up the body, seriously. and so when a woman became hysterical they would put bad smelling stuff by her nose and good smelling stuff near her groin to get the uterus to come back down. That's how hysteria hysterical and hysterectomy are related
First I never installed gator, I use Linux, you don't have to worry about me not taking pride or accountability in the software I installed.
It comes down to intent. What do you think the intent is when they have a borderless window? If they wanted people to know it was a normal window they would make it appear as a normal window. It's deceptive. Deceptive and misleading advertising is wrong, morally and sometimes legally wrong.
And no like I said in my post if the users opts to see or not see something that between you and well yourself. Open as many IM windows as you want.
It bloody well should be. I mean If I go out and deface a webpage thats hacking and I can go to jail. What did I do? I changed what the website owners wanted the viewer to see. If I write some 2bit program that along with it's crappy usefull functionality changes a websites banner adds I have just done the same thing. Only the way it stands right now I wont get in any trouble. I think it should be up to the end user that way the we don't run in to the problem of say how is a pop up blocker legal. It should be legal because the end user can choose to activate it. The end user can't chose to in the case of Gator or a defaced website. $0.02
There are some times when I hate how many programs esp. on the internet wont work with Linux. Then there is Gator.com and everything is put back in to perspective.
It's nice not getting those popups, "Would you like to set your homepage to gator.com"=]