Hm. The same Nicaragua in where the Sardinistas ruled, slaughtering in tens of thousands? But now, they've been trown out - democratically - and suddently, mass graves start turning up.
But of course - because the USA intervened in the creation of a cute lil' socialist dictatorship, you have to bash them as un-democratic. Um, yeah.
In a world of oligopolies and monopolies, piracy acts as measure of competition, and therefore is necessary, and not as "evil" and "dangerous" as the BSA and the like wants you to think!
Yeah! And while you're add it, why do people need to do work on the plane with "laptops" ? They hould do it before they travel, and be well prepared for whatever meetings or presentations they're going to do. Sheesh!
And whats with this "cellular phone" craze ? Foolish, I tell you, phones are supposed to stay at home, so people know where you are when they call.
Excelllent response, but you should have added that having people to decide such nonsense is a waste of your taxpayer money, and they you demand to see the person responsible for it fired.
California is after all the US state with the highest general tax level - and this is what you tax dollars are used for ?!
"Important message from Belkin: In response to a recent Usenet group posting stating that Belkin spams its customers through its routers, Belkin Corporation apologizes for the concern this has caused and is taking action to address the issue. To allay customers' worries, Belkin will offer a firmware upgrade that will be available via download from its website (www.belkin.com) on November 17, 2003. This upgrade will rid the redirect completely so that no additional browser windows will appear during the router's installation process. Questions can be directed to our dedicated networking customer support line at 877-736-5771 or e-mailed to kannynmc@belkin.com."
Att. Kannyn MC @ belkin.com
Regarding the latest debacle caused by your company's intrusions:
While I am myself - at present - not a Belkin product user, I would like to share this with you.
I have followed the debate that resulted from your malware included in your latest router product series. And I am infuriated.
The free computing world today is on the brink of falling to centralised data control and monitoring, and complete privacy is absolutely essential if we are to avoid todays technological evolution resulting in a totalitarian fallout due to lax security procedures and lack of respect for personal freedom and privacy.
In that context, lets see what your company have done: You are taking CENTRALISED control over personal datastreams, so that you can advertise your products to your users. And to add insult to injury, you do so with a product that further seeks to stem the free flow of information to minors, under guise of "morality". Ergo, you are compromising the data freedom and integrity and wasting work time of your customers, because your marketing department had a "smart idea" on how to squeeze a few more bucks out of your user base - with an abominable product.
I am an independent IT consultant, and while I will not tell lies by saying that my personal recommandations or purchases will have a noticable impact on your bottom line, you can be completely assured, that I will remember this transgression against your customers (actual and potential), and that I will never, ever purchase one of your products, or recommend its purchase. In fact, I will do the exact opposite. I have already notified the local Danish user group of your actions.
Your company have violated the trust of its customers in one of the worst ways possible, and I will gleefully observe your market erode away because of this idiocy on part of your company. If nothing else, it will be a very convincing example for your competitors of what NOT to do in this business.
I beg to differ. During the cold war, the US needed all the allies it could get against the communist onslaught. That Iraq turned foul is circumstantial. Don't lean on the founding fathers in this case, buddy.
"Also, Could IBM be developing their G3+AltiVec chip for this? It seems to me that if the G3 series was dead IBM would stop working on it, but there are 750GX CPUs due soon (just a 750FX with 1MB on-die cache), and rumors of a G3 with SIMD coming down the pipe. It seems to me that if IBM bastardized some of the SIMD logic from the 970 and strapped it to the 750 they'd have a pretty decent low-power SIMD chip that Apple could market as a 'G3', 'G4' or a 'G5.' "
Just so you know, a G3 + Altivec is essentially a G4.
The G3+SIMD rumors are 5 years old, and the rumored CPU was called 770.
That there will now be Matrix Religious Wars? That people will trounce each other for being too moronic to grasp this wonderful movie (or not)? Like the warz we know over which Linux distro to use? or Mac vs Windows ?
The French of course don't owe their every waking moment to the USA.
But seeing how they have numerous times had their asses saved by the USA, at the cost of blood and hard work, it adds insult to injury, when the USA is trying to fight down the opressors of this world.
And I wont go into the technicalities of the Iraq thing, such as the major weapon sales of France to Iraq. Look it up yourself.
Looks to me like we're screwed throughly until someone decides to expland GIMP or come up with a brand new program package that does vector illustration, portable documents, and advance image manipulation...
I'd like to see what the people who were busy bashing Merril-Lynch over their predictions are saying now.
You can say what you will about financial institutions, but claiming that Sun and other oldtime industry darlings have their balls in the meatgrinder in this era of commodity hardware cannot be refuted.
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But anyway, I can add my sentiments to the debate. Information pollution ? About time we bring this up.
Does the world really need that every peon around the world has his or her own web page with rants raves, and pictures of cats/gerbils/whatever ?
Do WE need it ? Sure, freedom of speech, expression and open communications, but...
I wonder how Google will tackle it when every human being on this planet is online with its own web page. Ouch.
Hm. The same Nicaragua in where the Sardinistas ruled, slaughtering in tens of thousands? But now, they've been trown out - democratically - and suddently, mass graves start turning up.
But of course - because the USA intervened in the creation of a cute lil' socialist dictatorship, you have to bash them as un-democratic. Um, yeah.
In a world of oligopolies and monopolies, piracy acts as measure of competition, and therefore is necessary, and not as "evil" and "dangerous" as the BSA and the like wants you to think!
Sorry to burst your bubble, but:
1) There are virtually no "integration" issues between Mac OS X and Windows. OS X supportes Samba out of the box.
2) I thought most companies frowned upon games on company computers , on company time ?
5$ to stop recieving something you didn't want in the first place ?
Extortion tactics.
Yeah! And while you're add it, why do people need to do work on the plane with "laptops" ? They hould do it before they travel, and be well prepared for whatever meetings or presentations they're going to do. Sheesh!
And whats with this "cellular phone" craze ? Foolish, I tell you, phones are supposed to stay at home, so people know where you are when they call.
Excelllent response, but you should have added that having people to decide such nonsense is a waste of your taxpayer money, and they you demand to see the person responsible for it fired.
California is after all the US state with the highest general tax level - and this is what you tax dollars are used for ?!
...plug it in. Now. i need you to plug me real good now... yes... that right....
ARGH!!!! MICHAEL JACKSON?!??
*smack*
"Anyway, if you don't like the article, that's fine. But being a hater about it just makes you look lame."
And once more, Hannibal demonstrates, that his writings @ Ars are more about being "kick@$$ kewl dude" than having the facts in check.
It didn't occur to you, Hannibal, that you just went ad hominem on pz, when he delivered sound and substatial ciritcism to your article ?
11. PROFIT !!!
Oh, wait....
Sorry to bust your joke, but Methane doesn't have a smell.
e .h tm
http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/eh/ChemFS/fs/Methan
"Important message from Belkin:
In response to a recent Usenet group posting stating that Belkin spams its customers through its routers, Belkin Corporation apologizes for the concern this has caused and is taking action to address the issue. To allay customers' worries, Belkin will offer a firmware upgrade that will be available via download from its website (www.belkin.com) on November 17, 2003. This upgrade will rid the redirect completely so that no additional browser windows will appear during the router's installation process. Questions can be directed to our dedicated networking customer support line at 877-736-5771 or e-mailed to kannynmc@belkin.com."
Att. Kannyn MC @ belkin.com
Regarding the latest debacle caused by your company's intrusions:
While I am myself - at present - not a Belkin product user, I would like to share this with you.
I have followed the debate that resulted from your malware included in your latest router product series. And I am infuriated.
The free computing world today is on the brink of falling to centralised data control and monitoring, and complete privacy is absolutely essential if we are to avoid todays technological evolution resulting in a totalitarian fallout due to lax security procedures and lack of respect for personal freedom and privacy.
In that context, lets see what your company have done: You are taking CENTRALISED control over personal datastreams, so that you can advertise your products to your users. And to add insult to injury, you do so with a product that further seeks to stem the free flow of information to minors, under guise of "morality". Ergo, you are compromising the data freedom and integrity and wasting work time of your customers, because your marketing department had a "smart idea" on how to squeeze a few more bucks out of your user base - with an abominable product.
I am an independent IT consultant, and while I will not tell lies by saying that my personal recommandations or purchases will have a noticable impact on your bottom line, you can be completely assured, that I will remember this transgression against your customers (actual and potential), and that I will never, ever purchase one of your products, or recommend its purchase. In fact, I will do the exact opposite. I have already notified the local Danish user group of your actions.
Your company have violated the trust of its customers in one of the worst ways possible, and I will gleefully observe your market erode away because of this idiocy on part of your company. If nothing else, it will be a very convincing example for your competitors of what NOT to do in this business.
Your truly,
Peter Perlso - web: http://haxor.dk
My apologies for being really sleazy, but i read that last sentences as ".... a sleazy cunt".
I beg to differ. During the cold war, the US needed all the allies it could get against the communist onslaught. That Iraq turned foul is circumstantial. Don't lean on the founding fathers in this case, buddy.
"Also, Could IBM be developing their G3+AltiVec chip for this? It seems to me that if the G3 series was dead IBM would stop working on it, but there are 750GX CPUs due soon (just a 750FX with 1MB on-die cache), and rumors of a G3 with SIMD coming down the pipe. It seems to me that if IBM bastardized some of the SIMD logic from the 970 and strapped it to the 750 they'd have a pretty decent low-power SIMD chip that Apple could market as a 'G3', 'G4' or a 'G5.'
"
Just so you know, a G3 + Altivec is essentially a G4.
The G3+SIMD rumors are 5 years old, and the rumored CPU was called 770.
Well, CPUs and hard drives are two different beasts entirely.
One deals with flow of eletricity (erm... well... voltage switching, really), the other with stable magnetization.
What are you saying??
That there will now be Matrix Religious Wars? That people will trounce each other for being too moronic to grasp this wonderful movie (or not)? Like the warz we know over which Linux distro to use? or Mac vs Windows ?
Gasp!
Yeah! WHat happened to Halo for Mac ?
*poof*
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see the Communist Party take 98% of the ballot! :/
You can have your Ford T in any color you'd like - as long as it's black.
No, my friend.
The French of course don't owe their every waking moment to the USA.
But seeing how they have numerous times had their asses saved by the USA, at the cost of blood and hard work, it adds insult to injury, when the USA is trying to fight down the opressors of this world.
And I wont go into the technicalities of the Iraq thing, such as the major weapon sales of France to Iraq. Look it up yourself.
Moore's Law wont hold. It'll break i 10 years, when the logic gates becomes too small to keep the current where it's supposed to go.
By then, we'll either have to boost the chip sizes (more gates), or move to chem/bio/quantum computers.
Now that most of us here agree that Adobe is slowly screwing their customers - I'd like to know, what alternatives to their products are there ?
Photoshop - GIMP ? (come on...)
Illustratore - Macromedia Freehand ?
InDesign - Quark (oh dear!)
Acrobat - ???
Looks to me like we're screwed throughly until someone decides to expland GIMP or come up with a brand new program package that does vector illustration, portable documents, and advance image manipulation...
Kids with bigger feet also score better grades than kids with small feet.
I'd like to see what the people who were busy bashing Merril-Lynch over their predictions are saying now.
You can say what you will about financial institutions, but claiming that Sun and other oldtime industry darlings have their balls in the meatgrinder in this era of commodity hardware cannot be refuted.