yeah, except if it was designed well, it would take your ratings and compare it to others who like the same stuff you do. Thus if you rate "Yet another crappy reality TV show" as say 1 star, it would hopefully not recommend any other reality tv shows.
Of course it would be a little more complicated than just going off one or two ratings but it could work.
Mac, Linux and all other *NIX are secure by design. If you have administrative privledges and run a program that is malware (or trojan, etc...) I don't care what OS you run, you will get nailed.
The difference is that on ALL *NIX platforms (that I can think of) the default is that you must have administrative (root) privledges to install any program or pretty much screw up your system.
On windows, all a user has to do is double click that file that says "pr0n!!!.exe" and they are infected. Most version of windows have the main default user as the admin by default and no password or red flags or anything launch when a program wants to do something suspicious.
I like the idea of this keyboard, and I really like the Happy Hacking Keyboards but why do they have to be so expensive? I mean, someone got the bright idea to not paint the letters on the keys so it costs a lot more? I'm tempted to get the $69 Happy hacking keyboard but it's still more than I want to pay for a keyboard.
The difference is, those radio adverts pay for the music you listen to. If it weren't for those adverts, you would have no radio. They are also usually legitimate companies.
SPAM is usually a fradulent person. This is a known fact. You are only supposed to get perscriptions from your doctor... not from some guy on the internet. It's obviously a fraud and so I'd like to smack them.
Well, yes, I would like to smack the drug companies too. However, in my eyes, the people who buy the spam products are as much to blame for the spam problem we have now as the spammers themselves. I want to smack the drug companies for other reasons.
You know it's bad when you have to take a drug to combat the side effects from another drug which helps you from another drug which fixes the original problem. Doctors need to start writing prescriptions that read "Run your ass around the block a few times." We need to start practicing preventative medicine... but that really doesn't have anything to do with spammers...
The closest (smaller) theater near me charges $9.50 per ticket. For me and the wife to go see a movie, that's $19. Some of the larger theaters around me are around $10 or $11 for one ticket. (I guess that's what I get for living so close to NYC)
Add to that the price of popcorn and a soda and you're right around $30 for two people. (I haven't been in a while so I don't know the price of soda and popcorn)
Let's compare that to the price of buying or renting a DVD. A quick trip to Amazon shows that they have over 50 DVDs that are as low as $6.99 and 200 as low as $9.99. Ok, so for about the price of *ONE* movie ticket, I can have my choice of about 250 DVDs from amazon that I now own. Ok, so you say those are probably crap movies, you can pre order star wars episode III for $15.98, less than it would cost me and the wife to go out to see it. In fact they have a page that lists all the Summer 2005 box office hits and they are all about the same, or less, as it would be for the two of us to go see it in the theater. In fact, looking around, most of their DVDs are about the same or less to BUY the movie.
So I can spend a lot of money to go sit in an uncomfortable seat, deal with a sticky floor, those teenagers talking throughout the whole movie just so I can see it on "the big screen" or I can wait a few months for it to come out on DVD and watch it in the privacy of my own home, with as many of my friends as I want for about the same price? Oh wait, I also have the option of renting it for like $5...
I already have a decent audio setup with just as good if not better sound than the theaters (and I can sit on the subwoofer if I want), the only thing really missing is a big screen. Of course for about $1000 I can get a decent one which would pay for itself relatively quickly if you went to the theater relatively often.
Say you rented movies for $5 instead of spending about $20 for two people that would work out to about 67 movies and you've paid for it. That's not counting the gas (which we'll call a wash because you'd have to drive to the theater and drive to the movie rental place... unless you have netflix but I'm not getting into that) as well as the food. If you tend to get popcorn and soda a lot, it'll pay for itself sooner.
Plus if you have a nice enough setup, you could convince your friends to rent the movies and watch it on your system.
I think the biggest thing hurting them (besides the crappy movies they put out now) is the quicker turnaround time to rentals. It used to take a while for a movie to go from screen to VCR and a lot of people went in the theaters because otherwise it was going to be a while. Now there's very little time between theaters and DVD releases. (In fact, sometimes it's still in the 2nd or 3rd run theaters when it's released on DVD)
The only advantage of going to the theater, for me, is the big screen... For teenagers, it's still a chance to get out of the house.... Which is why there's usually a lot of them there and they can be very annoying.
Is smack every one of the 72000 people who bought perscriptions from this guy. I don't think we'll ever really get rid of spammers until it's not profitable for them anymore. The best way to do that is to not buy anything from them.
I for one am looking to *lighten* my laptop, not throw more hard drives and a bigger battery on it. I could see this working for larger laptops that are aimed at replacing desktop units but for a true laptop I think this would really drain the battery down too much and require a big bulky case to add more than one HD.
I do like the idea, I just don't think it's practical unless we get much smaller and lighter hard drives and longer lasting batteries. Heck, I think this IBM A31 laptop I have is too heavy.
I am talking the audio bits, I'm already using gaim as my client to connect because it does support jabber, however the SIP protocol (the audio bits) isn't an open standard... at least not yet.
When Google first appeared on the search engine scene, Yahoo was fat and lazy as king. Google was the young, hip, energetic younger kid. Plus it used Linux!!! Google really brought linux into the limelight showing that it could take center stage and work. Google took advantage of this new found popularity and started hiring as many talented people as they could. Then Google started pressing the line and pissing off some people...
Since then, google seems to be positioning themselves to be the sole internet portal where everything will go through them, web searches, email, IM, your map searches. I mean, if google wanted to, it could know more about you than I think it should.
So far, their policy has been "do no evil." I for one hope that remains the case. Right now, my only real gripe is their lack of giving back to the open source community. They used linux to build their empire but give very little back to it other than being able to use it as an example of what linux can do. Ok, that's useful, but given how large they are, I think they could actually spend some resources to give back to the community.
But wait, they are using jabber for their IM servers. Well yes, I could use any IM client that uses jabber to connect to them, I think using an open standard like that is great, except you can't use the voice features that way, you have to use their program which isn't open source and currently only available for windows. So basically they are using an open source product to create a closed source program. Sure it's free, but that doesn't help me, the linux or mac user at all.
So unless you use windows, you can't use their IM client, you can't use google earth and I still haven't seen them release any source code. Is this evil of them? No, I don't think using open source products makes them evil, I think it's good in a way but I certainly wont consider them a friend until I'm running google earth on my linux box while talking to my friends over GIM.
what you don't think a spammer could have gone onto any board and said something like:
I NEED A GMAIL ACCOUNT!!!!!
and then someone gives him an invite (or two or three) He then has 50 invites a day to send to himself.
I mean I got two different invites, from two different people on two different message boards. I didn't know either person who gave me the invites. I could easily have been a spammer. It's a good way to make it a bit harder for someone to get accounts that spam but it's still possible.
I don't think it is ok for anyone to have overbroad patents... where did I say that in the previous post. Microsoft basically said we don't care as long as it doesn't hurt out bottom line, then we're going to start suing people. Why not just donate the patents to the EFF?
I think what really needs to be done is some serious patent reform.
From: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1566318,00.as p According to Microsoft's Kaefer, "We'll make our IP available to all comers, open-source or not." Kaefer added that Microsoft isn't focused on what garage-shop developers are doing but that if a major corporation is using its IP, "We would need to look at it."
So Microsoft will decide when and where to enforce patents. Yeah, that makes me feel better about the whole thing.
Sorry, I only named a few off the top of my head and I tend to think of IT related sites first because I use IT most of the time. I could care less about Tommy.com or any other online retailer. I did however find this interesting site: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linux2.html
Some other companies using linux (from the site above) Oh, I took out Google and Cisco because they are tech companies and I took out Tommy Hilfiger because well, I guess they aren't using it any more.
Amerada Hess Corporation, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), Boscov's Department Stores, Burlington Coat Factory, Conoco, Digital Domain, Ernie Ball Inc., City of Garden Grove California, Just Sports USA, Kaiser Aluminum, City of Largo Florida, Lawson Inc. (Japan), Mexico City - government of, Mobil Travel Guide, Omaha Steaks, Panasonic, Raymour & Flanigan, Royal Dutch/Shell, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Travelocity, U.S. Army, U.S. Federal Courts, U.S. Postal Service.
To see what capacity each of the companies use linux, visit the previously mentioned site.
Except I'm not talking to a CEO, I'm talking on slashdot where conspiracy theories multiply.
You sir, need to learn to lighten up and learn when someone is joking. Although there is some seriousness to it because I certainly wouldn't put it past Microsoft.
Good points except for the Mac comparisons. Going to 10.0.1 cost nothing, as did going from 10.0.1 to 10.0.1. Now, going from 10.1->10.2 did cost but I think it was well worth it. The big thing in 10.2 was expose and then now in 10.3 it's the new docklets. (Though I'm still at 10.2 and haven't upgraded yet.)
From the article: "They [microsoft] jumped through a lot of hoops to help us out."
Uhhh.... yeah, and that kickback doesn't hurt either.
However the article doesn't talk about what tools they would like to see. Reliable? well I can name a few companies who think so.... Google, amazon, oracle, IBM.... but Tommy is much bigger than any of those companies.
Really I'm amazed at some of the compaies I do some support for. Their IT staff can barely install windows and I'm thinking this is one of those groups. Of course Microsoft will come in and help them set everything up if they help bash linux.
Ok, I like free speech and free beer as much as the next guy but it's already law that you can't copyright a list of ingredients and as long as you change the wording on the directions, you're in the clear.
If you are into homebrewing, there are plenty of places to get recipes. Goto just about any of the online brewing forums and say, "I want a beer that tastes like..." and then insert your favorite beer. You can then use that recipe to your hearts content.
A study by Lifetime is going to show a bias towards women.
Now I can tell you that my wife probably uses the PVR more than I do but I built it (mythtv) so I think I understand it a little. I just have less time to sit in front of the TV and watch anything.
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Then maybe you should get their information and take them to court and get some money out of the deal. http://www.stopjunkcalls.com/script.htm
I've found the do not call list to be quite helpful.
yeah, except if it was designed well, it would take your ratings and compare it to others who like the same stuff you do. Thus if you rate "Yet another crappy reality TV show" as say 1 star, it would hopefully not recommend any other reality tv shows.
Of course it would be a little more complicated than just going off one or two ratings but it could work.
Mac, Linux and all other *NIX are secure by design. If you have administrative privledges and run a program that is malware (or trojan, etc...) I don't care what OS you run, you will get nailed.
The difference is that on ALL *NIX platforms (that I can think of) the default is that you must have administrative (root) privledges to install any program or pretty much screw up your system.
On windows, all a user has to do is double click that file that says "pr0n!!!.exe" and they are infected. Most version of windows have the main default user as the admin by default and no password or red flags or anything launch when a program wants to do something suspicious.
I like the idea of this keyboard, and I really like the Happy Hacking Keyboards but why do they have to be so expensive? I mean, someone got the bright idea to not paint the letters on the keys so it costs a lot more? I'm tempted to get the $69 Happy hacking keyboard but it's still more than I want to pay for a keyboard.
The difference is, those radio adverts pay for the music you listen to. If it weren't for those adverts, you would have no radio. They are also usually legitimate companies.
SPAM is usually a fradulent person. This is a known fact. You are only supposed to get perscriptions from your doctor... not from some guy on the internet. It's obviously a fraud and so I'd like to smack them.
Well, yes, I would like to smack the drug companies too. However, in my eyes, the people who buy the spam products are as much to blame for the spam problem we have now as the spammers themselves. I want to smack the drug companies for other reasons.
You know it's bad when you have to take a drug to combat the side effects from another drug which helps you from another drug which fixes the original problem. Doctors need to start writing prescriptions that read "Run your ass around the block a few times." We need to start practicing preventative medicine... but that really doesn't have anything to do with spammers...
The closest (smaller) theater near me charges $9.50 per ticket. For me and the wife to go see a movie, that's $19. Some of the larger theaters around me are around $10 or $11 for one ticket. (I guess that's what I get for living so close to NYC)
Add to that the price of popcorn and a soda and you're right around $30 for two people. (I haven't been in a while so I don't know the price of soda and popcorn)
Let's compare that to the price of buying or renting a DVD. A quick trip to Amazon shows that they have over 50 DVDs that are as low as $6.99 and 200 as low as $9.99. Ok, so for about the price of *ONE* movie ticket, I can have my choice of about 250 DVDs from amazon that I now own. Ok, so you say those are probably crap movies, you can pre order star wars episode III for $15.98, less than it would cost me and the wife to go out to see it. In fact they have a page that lists all the Summer 2005 box office hits and they are all about the same, or less, as it would be for the two of us to go see it in the theater. In fact, looking around, most of their DVDs are about the same or less to BUY the movie.
So I can spend a lot of money to go sit in an uncomfortable seat, deal with a sticky floor, those teenagers talking throughout the whole movie just so I can see it on "the big screen" or I can wait a few months for it to come out on DVD and watch it in the privacy of my own home, with as many of my friends as I want for about the same price? Oh wait, I also have the option of renting it for like $5...
I already have a decent audio setup with just as good if not better sound than the theaters (and I can sit on the subwoofer if I want), the only thing really missing is a big screen. Of course for about $1000 I can get a decent one which would pay for itself relatively quickly if you went to the theater relatively often.
Say you rented movies for $5 instead of spending about $20 for two people that would work out to about 67 movies and you've paid for it. That's not counting the gas (which we'll call a wash because you'd have to drive to the theater and drive to the movie rental place... unless you have netflix but I'm not getting into that) as well as the food. If you tend to get popcorn and soda a lot, it'll pay for itself sooner.
Plus if you have a nice enough setup, you could convince your friends to rent the movies and watch it on your system.
I think the biggest thing hurting them (besides the crappy movies they put out now) is the quicker turnaround time to rentals. It used to take a while for a movie to go from screen to VCR and a lot of people went in the theaters because otherwise it was going to be a while. Now there's very little time between theaters and DVD releases. (In fact, sometimes it's still in the 2nd or 3rd run theaters when it's released on DVD)
The only advantage of going to the theater, for me, is the big screen... For teenagers, it's still a chance to get out of the house.... Which is why there's usually a lot of them there and they can be very annoying.
Ah, whatever, I'm done ranting now.
Is smack every one of the 72000 people who bought perscriptions from this guy. I don't think we'll ever really get rid of spammers until it's not profitable for them anymore. The best way to do that is to not buy anything from them.
I for one am looking to *lighten* my laptop, not throw more hard drives and a bigger battery on it. I could see this working for larger laptops that are aimed at replacing desktop units but for a true laptop I think this would really drain the battery down too much and require a big bulky case to add more than one HD.
I do like the idea, I just don't think it's practical unless we get much smaller and lighter hard drives and longer lasting batteries. Heck, I think this IBM A31 laptop I have is too heavy.
I am talking the audio bits, I'm already using gaim as my client to connect because it does support jabber, however the SIP protocol (the audio bits) isn't an open standard... at least not yet.
manager/sales type explains to the engineers:
"Let me explain what video compression is..."
Dilbert: "Would you stop if I pointed out that everyone in this room except you is an electrical engineer?"
manager/sales type: "Zeros are round and fat compared to ones..."
Dilbert: "I'm begging you..."
When Google first appeared on the search engine scene, Yahoo was fat and lazy as king. Google was the young, hip, energetic younger kid. Plus it used Linux!!! Google really brought linux into the limelight showing that it could take center stage and work. Google took advantage of this new found popularity and started hiring as many talented people as they could. Then Google started pressing the line and pissing off some people...
Since then, google seems to be positioning themselves to be the sole internet portal where everything will go through them, web searches, email, IM, your map searches. I mean, if google wanted to, it could know more about you than I think it should.
So far, their policy has been "do no evil." I for one hope that remains the case. Right now, my only real gripe is their lack of giving back to the open source community. They used linux to build their empire but give very little back to it other than being able to use it as an example of what linux can do. Ok, that's useful, but given how large they are, I think they could actually spend some resources to give back to the community.
But wait, they are using jabber for their IM servers. Well yes, I could use any IM client that uses jabber to connect to them, I think using an open standard like that is great, except you can't use the voice features that way, you have to use their program which isn't open source and currently only available for windows. So basically they are using an open source product to create a closed source program. Sure it's free, but that doesn't help me, the linux or mac user at all.
So unless you use windows, you can't use their IM client, you can't use google earth and I still haven't seen them release any source code. Is this evil of them? No, I don't think using open source products makes them evil, I think it's good in a way but I certainly wont consider them a friend until I'm running google earth on my linux box while talking to my friends over GIM.
what you don't think a spammer could have gone onto any board and said something like:
I NEED A GMAIL ACCOUNT!!!!!
and then someone gives him an invite (or two or three) He then has 50 invites a day to send to himself.
I mean I got two different invites, from two different people on two different message boards. I didn't know either person who gave me the invites. I could easily have been a spammer. It's a good way to make it a bit harder for someone to get accounts that spam but it's still possible.
Except you can't use the voice talk bits...
However there are many clients that use jabber and it's very easy to set it up to connect to talk.google.com:5222
In fact they list some popular clients and how to configure them here:
http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html
telnet lord.nuklear.org 10240
Their website is here: http://lord.nuklear.org/
I don't think it is ok for anyone to have overbroad patents... where did I say that in the previous post. Microsoft basically said we don't care as long as it doesn't hurt out bottom line, then we're going to start suing people. Why not just donate the patents to the EFF?
I think what really needs to be done is some serious patent reform.
From: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1566318,00.as p
According to Microsoft's Kaefer, "We'll make our IP available to all comers, open-source or not." Kaefer added that Microsoft isn't focused on what garage-shop developers are doing but that if a major corporation is using its IP, "We would need to look at it."
So Microsoft will decide when and where to enforce patents. Yeah, that makes me feel better about the whole thing.
Well yes, at least when said non-anglo-saxon name is a profanity. Hehehe... he said Thiti (which sounds like titty)... Hehehe... he said wang.
Then of course after the first two, Aryattawanich just looks like it should be dirty. (something to do with a sandwich)
Sorry, I only named a few off the top of my head and I tend to think of IT related sites first because I use IT most of the time. I could care less about Tommy.com or any other online retailer. I did however find this interesting site: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linux2.html
Some other companies using linux (from the site above) Oh, I took out Google and Cisco because they are tech companies and I took out Tommy Hilfiger because well, I guess they aren't using it any more.
Amerada Hess Corporation, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), Boscov's Department Stores, Burlington Coat Factory, Conoco, Digital Domain, Ernie Ball Inc., City of Garden Grove California, Just Sports USA, Kaiser Aluminum, City of Largo Florida, Lawson Inc. (Japan), Mexico City - government of, Mobil Travel Guide, Omaha Steaks, Panasonic, Raymour & Flanigan, Royal Dutch/Shell, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Travelocity, U.S. Army, U.S. Federal Courts, U.S. Postal Service.
To see what capacity each of the companies use linux, visit the previously mentioned site.
Except I'm not talking to a CEO, I'm talking on slashdot where conspiracy theories multiply.
You sir, need to learn to lighten up and learn when someone is joking. Although there is some seriousness to it because I certainly wouldn't put it past Microsoft.
Good points except for the Mac comparisons. Going to 10.0.1 cost nothing, as did going from 10.0.1 to 10.0.1. Now, going from 10.1->10.2 did cost but I think it was well worth it. The big thing in 10.2 was expose and then now in 10.3 it's the new docklets. (Though I'm still at 10.2 and haven't upgraded yet.)
From the article:
"They [microsoft] jumped through a lot of hoops to help us out."
Uhhh.... yeah, and that kickback doesn't hurt either.
However the article doesn't talk about what tools they would like to see. Reliable? well I can name a few companies who think so....
Google, amazon, oracle, IBM.... but Tommy is much bigger than any of those companies.
Really I'm amazed at some of the compaies I do some support for. Their IT staff can barely install windows and I'm thinking this is one of those groups. Of course Microsoft will come in and help them set everything up if they help bash linux.
No news here, let's move on.
Ok, I like free speech and free beer as much as the next guy but it's already law that you can't copyright a list of ingredients and as long as you change the wording on the directions, you're in the clear.
If you are into homebrewing, there are plenty of places to get recipes. Goto just about any of the online brewing forums and say, "I want a beer that tastes like..." and then insert your favorite beer. You can then use that recipe to your hearts content.
A study by Lifetime is going to show a bias towards women.
Now I can tell you that my wife probably uses the PVR more than I do but I built it (mythtv) so I think I understand it a little. I just have less time to sit in front of the TV and watch anything.
In my first AI class we learned this... I kindof figured it was also common knowledge for pretty much anyone who knew anything about computers.
Humans and computers process things completely differently... hence the problems in trying to create AI.
What next, computers and people get their energy from different sources?