An Anonymous Coward wrote: > (proof - look at the weblogs of an average commercial site)
This is not proof of anything. Several popular non-MS browsers can fake being IE (such as OmniWeb for OS X) just so poorly-designed "IE only" sites will work. This will skew the weblogs in favor of IE. I will agree that many more consumers use MS than anything else, but you'll need to find better proof.
Does Microsoft do any testing whatsoever of their software? It seems like every other day a new exploit is discovered. Is this ever going to stop? (Without hiding behind the "Organisation for Internet Safety" of course).
And yes, I'm aware that MS isn't the only guilty party when it comes to exploits and bugs, but it seems they have the most problems like this...
I had a very bad English teacher in 8th grade, but bad in a different way. The was very stupid. We had to write a research report, and had most of the quarter to do it.
Well, I never did it (8th grade was a bad year for me; I didn't really give a rats ass about a lot of things, for various reasons; I'm sure many fellow geeks can imagine...).
About 3 or 4 weeks before the end of the quarter, she asks me if I handed in this report, because she couldn't find it. I looked her in the eye and told her I did, and she bought it. The next week she handed out our preliminary quarter grades, and I had gotten a 95% or something on this paper I never wrote!
Many people in that class took advantage of her because of her stupidity, or perhaps senility. Her teaching style sucked too; I didn't learn a thing in that class.
I feel kind of bad about it now, but then I didn't care. I never did anything like that again, though. I've almost always done well in writing courses, and now have a few scientific publications(although only one of which I did any real writing, and it wasn't that scientific...)
heh, I remember reading this the Star Trek:TNG Technical Manual years ago. A very interesting read (if you're a Star Trek fan). It explains how everything in the Enterprise D works. So its basically 200 pages of technobabble, but its scattered with production footnotes like this, and provides some insight into why some things are they way they are on the show.
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A friend of mine brought back some warez cds from HK a few years ago, and one of them had "Win97" on it. It was just Win95 OSR 2.
heh... I'll second that. My 1995 Ford Crown Victoria just hit 160,000 and its running great (but its an old squad car, had 125,000 on it when I bought it three years ago)
eats gas, though... those 80 mile trips (one way) every weekend to visit my gf are getting expensive.
2. by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000, shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18...
As long as you don't distribute $1000 worth (whatever that means) of materials in a 180 day period, you're fine!:-P
Has anyone tried keeping these frogs frozen for extended periods of time? Maybe some should be kept frozen for a few years, and if that works, then try a few decades.
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My roommate has a sprint cell phone (god am I glad I dumped sprint long ago...) and he recently needed to call customer service for some reason. He was answered by an automated voice recognition system that of course had trouble understanding what he was saying. You're supposed to ask it questions like "I want to change my service" , etc. If it doesn't understand you it asks you to repeat your request. There is no option to push buttons on your phone, you must speak... this is insane!
But here's the kicker... after several failed attempts at understanding you, it asks if you want to speak to a customer service rep for a fee of $3.00!!! You have to pay to talk to customer serice? I guess this is the way sprint works... get a bunch of customers by offering good rate plans etc a few years ago, then when you have enough customers, screw them all because most will just put up with it and still pay.
The Buran shuttle was indeed transported like the NASA shuttle, atop a massive An-225 Mriya carrier aircraft with 6 jet engines(!). There is some info here
I've looked into linux for my J720 but haven't had time to really do anything with it... does it still require swapping out the ROM for a flash-rom? Can you but the old one back in and get CE back if you need it? Is there an actual distribution available yet (like Familiar for iPaq)?
I've tried finding answers to these questions myself but Jornada Linux info is spread all over the net...
It seems that Jornada PocketPCs will be replaced by iPaqs but what about their handheld PC line? I would hate to see them phase out the 700 line... I've had a Jornada 720 for over a year and it is indispensible.
Actually, he's been gaining an extra 10% per movie ever since TOS. Compare him to TOS, then each successive movie. He gets fatter every time. Starfleet must keep their engineers very well fed:-) I wonder if the food replicators can reproduce haggis?
Hmmm.. actaully this happened to Kirk too, but it was more pronounced in Scotty's case
When I was a kid I had a ton of Transformers (they might still be in a box at home somewhere) but the one Transformer that I always wanted and never got was Optimus Prime. If hasbro re-releases these (hopefully exactly the same as the originals; most of the original transformers were very well-built) I will go out and buy him and tear open the box... damn the "collectors value" ten years from now (and the fact that I'm 23 years old)!:-) If I decide I care about that I guess I could buy a second "untouchable" one...
Optimus Prime would live on top of my monitor for eternity!:-D
I had to remove this from my girlfriend's computer too... I had just reinstalled Win98SE for her (on her HP Pavilion POS... I should just build her a new system and put Linux on it...) and she has had it for only 2 weeks since the fresh install and already Gator is running! Also her Favorites in IE is populated with a bunch of ad and p0rn sites; does Gator do this? I think Gator was installed by the "Network Installation CD" that her school gave her (a private Catholic whose network seems to be base on Windows, and it is sloooooow).
I didn't have much trouble removing gator, but I wasn't aware of the pop-ups in installs in your Favorites.. I'll have to check that again. But it did send me to their site asking why I am removing Gator. This was AFTER the uninstall completed, so maybe it is designed to make people feel bad for uninstalling, and go "shit, maybe they're right! I better re-install"
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>A shrink-wrapped version of Windows 95 on floppy...
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Win95 on floppies... ouch
> The camera is built in on top of the screen and can flip to point to or away from the driver...
Do you need to go to school and get license to operate this laptop? What kind of safety features does it have? Seatbelts? Airbags?
Speaking of Solaris, why in the world are patches packaged as .jar files?? Sloooooooooow.....
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> (proof - look at the weblogs of an average commercial site)
This is not proof of anything. Several popular non-MS browsers can fake being IE (such as OmniWeb for OS X) just so poorly-designed "IE only" sites will work. This will skew the weblogs in favor of IE. I will agree that many more consumers use MS than anything else, but you'll need to find better proof.
Does Microsoft do any testing whatsoever of their software? It seems like every other day a new exploit is discovered. Is this ever going to stop? (Without hiding behind the "Organisation for Internet Safety" of course).
And yes, I'm aware that MS isn't the only guilty party when it comes to exploits and bugs, but it seems they have the most problems like this...
Does anyone know if this affects the OS X version of Limewire? Or is this just a Windows issue?
I had a very bad English teacher in 8th grade, but bad in a different way. The was very stupid. We had to write a research report, and had most of the quarter to do it.
Well, I never did it (8th grade was a bad year for me; I didn't really give a rats ass about a lot of things, for various reasons; I'm sure many fellow geeks can imagine...).
About 3 or 4 weeks before the end of the quarter, she asks me if I handed in this report, because she couldn't find it. I looked her in the eye and told her I did, and she bought it. The next week she handed out our preliminary quarter grades, and I had gotten a 95% or something on this paper I never wrote!
Many people in that class took advantage of her because of her stupidity, or perhaps senility. Her teaching style sucked too; I didn't learn a thing in that class.
I feel kind of bad about it now, but then I didn't care. I never did anything like that again, though. I've almost always done well in writing courses, and now have a few scientific publications(although only one of which I did any real writing, and it wasn't that scientific...)
heh... you're right. They'll probably figure this out soon, though and change it back to needing registration
heh, I remember reading this the Star Trek:TNG Technical Manual years ago. A very interesting read (if you're a Star Trek fan). It explains how everything in the Enterprise D works. So its basically 200 pages of technobabble, but its scattered with production footnotes like this, and provides some insight into why some things are they way they are on the show.
A friend of mine brought back some warez cds from HK a few years ago, and one of them had "Win97" on it. It was just Win95 OSR 2.
640K ought to be enough for anybody! :-)
heh... I'll second that. My 1995 Ford Crown Victoria just hit 160,000 and its running great (but its an old squad car, had 125,000 on it when I bought it three years ago)
eats gas, though... those 80 mile trips (one way) every weekend to visit my gf are getting expensive.
2. by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000, shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18...
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As long as you don't distribute $1000 worth (whatever that means) of materials in a 180 day period, you're fine!
This too, is slashdotted (sort of... exceeded data transfer limit or some such yahoo error)
Has anyone tried keeping these frogs frozen for extended periods of time? Maybe some should be kept frozen for a few years, and if that works, then try a few decades.
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My roommate has a sprint cell phone (god am I glad I dumped sprint long ago...) and he recently needed to call customer service for some reason. He was answered by an automated voice recognition system that of course had trouble understanding what he was saying. You're supposed to ask it questions like "I want to change my service" , etc. If it doesn't understand you it asks you to repeat your request. There is no option to push buttons on your phone, you must speak... this is insane!
But here's the kicker... after several failed attempts at understanding you, it asks if you want to speak to a customer service rep for a fee of $3.00!!! You have to pay to talk to customer serice? I guess this is the way sprint works... get a bunch of customers by offering good rate plans etc a few years ago, then when you have enough customers, screw them all because most will just put up with it and still pay.
The Buran shuttle was indeed transported like the NASA shuttle, atop a massive An-225 Mriya carrier aircraft with 6 jet engines(!).
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There is some info here
Also, a couple interesting Buran info sites:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/molniya5.htm
http://k26.com/buran/Info/A_Quick_Look/a_quick_lo
I've looked into linux for my J720 but haven't had time to really do anything with it... does it still require swapping out the ROM for a flash-rom? Can you but the old one back in and get CE back if you need it? Is there an actual distribution available yet (like Familiar for iPaq)?
I've tried finding answers to these questions myself but Jornada Linux info is spread all over the net...
It seems that Jornada PocketPCs will be replaced by iPaqs but what about their handheld PC line? I would hate to see them phase out the 700 line... I've had a Jornada 720 for over a year and it is indispensible.
Does anyone know what the story is here?
Actually, he's been gaining an extra 10% per movie ever since TOS. Compare him to TOS, then each successive movie. He gets fatter every time. Starfleet must keep their engineers very well fed :-) I wonder if the food replicators can reproduce haggis?
Hmmm.. actaully this happened to Kirk too, but it was more pronounced in Scotty's case
See the update here: http://www.syfyportal.com/article/?id=703
He has been released and is recovering at home; he's not comatose
When I was a kid I had a ton of Transformers (they might still be in a box at home somewhere) but the one Transformer that I always wanted and never got was Optimus Prime. If hasbro re-releases these (hopefully exactly the same as the originals; most of the original transformers were very well-built) I will go out and buy him and tear open the box... damn the "collectors value" ten years from now (and the fact that I'm 23 years old)! :-) If I decide I care about that I guess I could buy a second "untouchable" one...
:-D
Optimus Prime would live on top of my monitor for eternity!
Actually, it's "Why do my eyes hurt?" "You've never used them before"
:-D
But your point is well taken. I would also love to learn "Drunken Boxing" in 30 seconds as well as Kung Fu
I had to remove this from my girlfriend's computer too... I had just reinstalled Win98SE for her (on her HP Pavilion POS... I should just build her a new system and put Linux on it...) and she has had it for only 2 weeks since the fresh install and already Gator is running! Also her Favorites in IE is populated with a bunch of ad and p0rn sites; does Gator do this? I think Gator was installed by the "Network Installation CD" that her school gave her (a private Catholic whose network seems to be base on Windows, and it is sloooooow).
I didn't have much trouble removing gator, but I wasn't aware of the pop-ups in installs in your Favorites.. I'll have to check that again. But it did send me to their site asking why I am removing Gator. This was AFTER the uninstall completed, so maybe it is designed to make people feel bad for uninstalling, and go "shit, maybe they're right! I better re-install"