I was about to submit my paper when I fired up rdesktop to view it in XP... it came out hacked in symbols (@#![])... I had to retype it in ms word!
Why didn't you do something like export it from OpenOffice (assuming you still had an origional copy) to something like plain text and then just do any touch-up's once you had the exported file in Word? That would have saved you a butt-load of time and effort.
Apple does not make money selling OS licenses, that's for Microsoft to do. They make their money selling hardware. That's why they will never switch to a Intel/AMD system. If they do that they lose their hardware market and get beat out by el-cheapo manufacturers.
I've been reading this thread for a while now and am getting tired of seeing the above. Apple switching to a chip (like the Intell/AMD offerings) does *not* mean that you instantly need to switch to PC hardware. There is nothing stopping them from designing their own motherboard that just happens to use another chip and will not function with common "WinTel" software.
We know that this Intel/AMD platform Apple Mac would get much better support from hardware and software manufacturers.
Really? Just because OS2 ran on Intel didn't help it.
OS/2 died because IBM seemingly didn't know how to market it, and at least to me, seemed like they just weren't interested in developing it beyond what it was in Warp 4. Your use of OS/2 as an example is horrible. BeOS would have been a better one, in my view. That company DID have the desier to make it into a great OS (and I think it was a great OS), however, it just never took off (for a number of reasons, all of which have been discussed elsewhere).
We know that this would make Apple a force to be reckoned with once more, make Microsoft very anxious and millions of customers delighted.
I think Apple has already achieved that. Throwing a couple "ROMs" into an Intel box just doesn't fit the big picture.
What?! If Apple *really* were a 'force to be reckoned with', MS would be bashing all over Apple like it does Linux and AMD/Intel would be talking about falling sales amongst other problems. I think you need a new reality check. Yours obviously bounced.
Lets say you have a priceless family heirloom. Someone steals it, locks it in a box, and gives it to you to sell at a garage sale. Then he goes to your garage sale, pays the $5 that you asked for, and then, in your presence, unlocks the box to show you your family heirloom, stating that he legitimately owns it now. Is the sale legitimate? I'd certainly sue someone who tried that on me..
The above is flawed. If you are stupid enough to not check what is in the box at your own garage sale, you deserve what you get. The exact same thing happened with SCO. Someone handed them a box and they happily redistributed it without first looking to see what was inside. It's their own fault.
That idea would completely destroy email as we know it. People *like* to be able to send mail to whom they want, when they want. Imagine if you wanted to send mail to a long-lost friend/relative. You'd half to find a way to get on the 'accept' list just to send a quick "Hello!" to them. That is too much of a burden on Joe Average user.
I believe that if you want to spa^H^H^HBulk Advertise to people, you should half to pay for some sort of permit to do so. It'd take some work to get a system such as that setup properly and working, but its a good idea in my book.. =]
Does anybody have a easy and effective way to stop spam mail reach the inbox?
If anyone did, do you really think you'd be reading this article right now?
There are many pieces of software that help rid *some* of the spam. A quick search of google would lead you to many of them. There is, quite obviously, nothing that will stop 100% of it (aside, of course, just not using email at all), and nothing (that I've seen/heard of) that stops it from even getting to your mail server in the first place.
You mean in the way that eMule does? (I don't know about eDonkey and the others) I've started to download several files only to find in the comments that the files were fake. I've even let a few finish just so I could see for myself and they were actually marked correctly.
Yea. Let's all defend ignorance. That's the smart thing to do. "Millions leave it default, therefore, MS shouldn't be allowed to provide more helpful 'error messages' in *their* software in an attempt to help the users. It's changeable, but we can't hold the users to actually learn the software they are running and change the defaults. That means asking questions or reading the built in help. That's too much like actuall work. We can't have that!"..
Now I know why this country is in the state of affairs it's currenlty in. People like you.
I used the letters "FUD" exactly twice in what is a fairly long reply. That hardly makes me obsessed with the word. I stand by what I said. I don't tolerate people who keep themselv's ignorant on purpose. Your response shows me you are one of the affore mentioned people. Have a nice day.
MSN's popularity is completely based on changing the users homepage to MSN with each update and stealing 404 traffic.
You are either stupid or just a troll. No update I have *ever* done to *any* of my windows machines has automatically set my home page to anything MSN.
Since updates are automatic for WinXP, the number of folks using MSN as their homepage will explode as folks retire their Win95/98/ME boxes.
More FUD. The automatic updates are an option, not a requirement, and can be disabled. It is true, on WinXP's initial install, the home page is set to MSN, it is very easy to change and as we all learned earlier, it stays how you set it. I also have never had MSN 'hijack' my 404's. If I go to a web page and it's not there, I get a big error message. Know why? I disabled the option that has IE automagically try to search for whatever it was you were looking for.
Anyway, I always tend to stay back from the cutting edge as the heat generated is too vast to be cooled silently. When the cutting edge chips become the average ones the cores have gone through a few changes so run cooler.
That is what cases like the VapoChill are for. I just tried to go to the web page and it didn't respond for some reason (mayhapps someone already mentioned them in here making them slashdot'ed? Mahapps a huge meteor fell on their web servers.. Or mayhapps even the dreaded Chubacobra (SP?) has chewed all the ethernet cables between myself and afore mentioned web servers.... Dunno, I haven't read through all of the posts yet)... Anyway..
Nice, cool, more silent than 60 80mm 7,000,000,000 RPM fans in your gigantic, waaaay too large for the use of the computer, heavily modded case..
"...the homosexual community to cheerlead the fact that they were happy with their decision and their lifestyle.
The fact that people call things that they think are stupid "gay" doesn't get me as upset as those who go around thinking that being homosexual is a 'choice'. I didn't wake up one day and go, "You know what? I dislike the taste of pussy. I think I'll just suck cock for the rest of my life despite the fact it'll get me oppressed in my day-to-day life. Yea. Cock it is!" It's no more a choice than someone who is heterosexual. They aren't that way by 'choice'. That is just part of their existance. It's not something, obviously, that can be explained. If it were a choice, do you *really* think I'd choose to go against the majority of the rest of *Earth*!? Puh-leeze!
To those in this thread - get over it. Get a life. 'Gay' will be used to mean homosexual/stupid/happy, 'hella' will be used in place of 'very' (even though it's a larger word), nigger will still be used by 'white' people as a derogatory word twords 'blacks' and 'blacks' will use it to greet eachother, etc. that is life.
From the very first paragraph to the item linked from within the slashdot story:
Cooking For The Web Set
The low-fat, high-bandwidth solution to your networked cooking needs is finally here. The George Foreman USB iGrill conveniently connects to your home or office PC using USB 2.0 technology, and provides a sophisticated web-based cooking interface./I
I know I wouldn't bother getting a 6-year-old 15" monitor fixed, even if it was for free.
This is why any business you may decide to start will more than likely fail rather quickly.
Lets see... Spend somewhere around $100 for a decent 15" replacement (and stay clear of the $49 bargan basement, crap-o-the-day monitor) or spend a few bucks shipping to fix your monitors..
""Furthermore, Linux is specifically architectured for the server market, which is why it's seen so much success in the enterprise. Trying to tweak it to run on a PDA is an excercise in feudalism. The choice could also be bad news for Linux, as people will start to think of the OS as suitable for only small devices.""
NASA hated the idea of 'common folk' leaving the planet. I wouldn't be suprised if NASA hired Lance Bass to 'pretend' to want to go to ISS, go through all the motions of being trained (thusly sucking up MORE of the Russian's resources), then 'back out' at the last minute due to 'lack of funding'...
And they'd all conflict with one another. Company A would blame it on company B's product interferring and vice versa.
Speaking of such - In the spot of the earth in which I reside, Sprint stuck some PCS towers up pretty close to a local Wireless TV operator here. The signal they used just HAPPENED to cross over into EagleVision's channel 40 because they were doing a horrible job of filtering out any noise they were also creating. When Sprint was contacted about it, refused to do *anything* about it. It forced EagleVision to purchase a bunch of filtering equipment on their own to fix Sprint's problem.
What you fail to realize about shows such as Fear Factor is that the people that are on the show are there *because* of their arrogance. The producers know that the people on those shows are going, for the most part, to make complete fools of themselvs. This is what the majority of the American public want to see on TV (I know I'm one of 'em. Seeing these idiots makes me feel better about myself sometimes).
Keep that in mind next time you see one of these stupid 'reality TV' shows.. =]
For the area in which I have decided to make my home, this won't matter for a while. It would be nice to have, however, if there were a plan with a HUGE pool of minutes (or unlimited, even if after a certian time of day). If the technology really works, I won't half to wait for CenturyTel to get off their collective asses and give the town in which I live the DSL that so many of us have expressed an interest in.
I've seen several posts now where the following text is read wrong (either by reading to fast, or skimming, or something). Figgered I'd clear up the confusion...
Zoltan Kovacs, founder of DirectAdvertiser.com, said the company has sold about 200 copies of the program since launching two months ago. According to Kovacs, the software is ideal for advertising 900-number and other telephone services.
"I have customers who call me back and tell me they love it and it generates hundreds of calls right away," said Kovacs, who noted that Direct Advertiser is a good alternative to bulk e-mail because its messages are not regulated by spam laws.
The above doesn't mean that Joe User, sitting at his desk receiving all the spam via this new method, is calling and saying how they love it -- as several posts have noted. It means that Joe Spammer, the lowest form of life on earth, is calling and saying how they love the 'product' that directadvertiser.com is selling. World of difference there.
The fact that he had 20 vs. 1 doesn't mean anything being as they were all shipped in the same box. All it would have taken was one bump the wrong way and all the drives could have, in some way, been damaged.
The fact that he, in a sense, stole them from his vendor and then the drives having all failed, could be karma coming back to bite him in his ass.
Actually, from what I've seen lately, SiS chipsets are being used quite frequently in low-end systems. They are cheap, relativly decent (though I have not tried dual-head support with it), and very plentiful. The "no frills" machines my place of employment uses a mobo that has video/lan/sound/modem built in (though we put it into a 'standard' ATX case so it can quickly be changed down the road). All said built in items are SiS integrated items. They even all have Linux drivers! =] Right on the CD even! =]
Come to think of it.. I can't remember the last time I saw a 'low end' system with a Trident video card in it.. =]
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Not my MITS Altair 8800.
Clearly a far superior machine.
DOH!
Feh, my Atari 2600 walks all over that Pentium 4 AND your Windows 2000 - combined!
Yea, well my Atari 5200 walks all over anything you've got!
I was about to submit my paper when I fired up rdesktop to view it in XP... it came out hacked in symbols (@#![])... I had to retype it in ms word!
Why didn't you do something like export it from OpenOffice (assuming you still had an origional copy) to something like plain text and then just do any touch-up's once you had the exported file in Word? That would have saved you a butt-load of time and effort.
Just my two cents.
Apple does not make money selling OS licenses, that's for Microsoft to do. They make their money selling hardware. That's why they will never switch to a Intel/AMD system. If they do that they lose their hardware market and get beat out by el-cheapo manufacturers.
I've been reading this thread for a while now and am getting tired of seeing the above. Apple switching to a chip (like the Intell/AMD offerings) does *not* mean that you instantly need to switch to PC hardware. There is nothing stopping them from designing their own motherboard that just happens to use another chip and will not function with common "WinTel" software.
Shesh!
We know that this Intel/AMD platform Apple Mac would get much better support from hardware and software manufacturers.
Really? Just because OS2 ran on Intel didn't help it.
OS/2 died because IBM seemingly didn't know how to market it, and at least to me, seemed like they just weren't interested in developing it beyond what it was in Warp 4. Your use of OS/2 as an example is horrible. BeOS would have been a better one, in my view. That company DID have the desier to make it into a great OS (and I think it was a great OS), however, it just never took off (for a number of reasons, all of which have been discussed elsewhere).
We know that this would make Apple a force to be reckoned with once more, make Microsoft very anxious and millions of customers delighted.
I think Apple has already achieved that. Throwing a couple "ROMs" into an Intel box just doesn't fit the big picture.
What?! If Apple *really* were a 'force to be reckoned with', MS would be bashing all over Apple like it does Linux and AMD/Intel would be talking about falling sales amongst other problems. I think you need a new reality check. Yours obviously bounced.
Lets say you have a priceless family heirloom. Someone steals it, locks it in a box, and gives it to you to sell at a garage sale. Then he goes to your garage sale, pays the $5 that you asked for, and then, in your presence, unlocks the box to show you your family heirloom, stating that he legitimately owns it now. Is the sale legitimate? I'd certainly sue someone who tried that on me..
The above is flawed. If you are stupid enough to not check what is in the box at your own garage sale, you deserve what you get. The exact same thing happened with SCO. Someone handed them a box and they happily redistributed it without first looking to see what was inside. It's their own fault.
That idea would completely destroy email as we know it. People *like* to be able to send mail to whom they want, when they want. Imagine if you wanted to send mail to a long-lost friend/relative. You'd half to find a way to get on the 'accept' list just to send a quick "Hello!" to them. That is too much of a burden on Joe Average user.
I believe that if you want to spa^H^H^HBulk Advertise to people, you should half to pay for some sort of permit to do so. It'd take some work to get a system such as that setup properly and working, but its a good idea in my book.. =]
Does anybody have a easy and effective way to stop spam mail reach the inbox?
If anyone did, do you really think you'd be reading this article right now?
There are many pieces of software that help rid *some* of the spam. A quick search of google would lead you to many of them. There is, quite obviously, nothing that will stop 100% of it (aside, of course, just not using email at all), and nothing (that I've seen/heard of) that stops it from even getting to your mail server in the first place.
You mean in the way that eMule does? (I don't know about eDonkey and the others) I've started to download several files only to find in the comments that the files were fake. I've even let a few finish just so I could see for myself and they were actually marked correctly.
=]
Are YOU finished?
Yea. Let's all defend ignorance. That's the smart thing to do. "Millions leave it default, therefore, MS shouldn't be allowed to provide more helpful 'error messages' in *their* software in an attempt to help the users. It's changeable, but we can't hold the users to actually learn the software they are running and change the defaults. That means asking questions or reading the built in help. That's too much like actuall work. We can't have that!"..
Now I know why this country is in the state of affairs it's currenlty in. People like you.
I used the letters "FUD" exactly twice in what is a fairly long reply. That hardly makes me obsessed with the word. I stand by what I said. I don't tolerate people who keep themselv's ignorant on purpose. Your response shows me you are one of the affore mentioned people. Have a nice day.
MSN's popularity is completely based on changing the users homepage to MSN with each update and stealing 404 traffic.
You are either stupid or just a troll. No update I have *ever* done to *any* of my windows machines has automatically set my home page to anything MSN.
Since updates are automatic for WinXP, the number of folks using MSN as their homepage will explode as folks retire their Win95/98/ME boxes.
More FUD. The automatic updates are an option, not a requirement, and can be disabled. It is true, on WinXP's initial install, the home page is set to MSN, it is very easy to change and as we all learned earlier, it stays how you set it. I also have never had MSN 'hijack' my 404's. If I go to a web page and it's not there, I get a big error message. Know why? I disabled the option that has IE automagically try to search for whatever it was you were looking for.
Do us all a favor - spread your FUD elsewhere.
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Stupid people make stupid little people.
Anyway, I always tend to stay back from the cutting edge as the heat generated is too vast to be cooled silently. When the cutting edge chips become the average ones the cores have gone through a few changes so run cooler.
That is what cases like the VapoChill are for. I just tried to go to the web page and it didn't respond for some reason (mayhapps someone already mentioned them in here making them slashdot'ed? Mahapps a huge meteor fell on their web servers.. Or mayhapps even the dreaded Chubacobra (SP?) has chewed all the ethernet cables between myself and afore mentioned web servers.... Dunno, I haven't read through all of the posts yet)... Anyway..
Nice, cool, more silent than 60 80mm 7,000,000,000 RPM fans in your gigantic, waaaay too large for the use of the computer, heavily modded case..
I'm rambling now...
*pop of pill* Ahhh.. Good ol' ridlin.... *drool*
"...the homosexual community to cheerlead the fact that they were happy with their decision and their lifestyle.
The fact that people call things that they think are stupid "gay" doesn't get me as upset as those who go around thinking that being homosexual is a 'choice'. I didn't wake up one day and go, "You know what? I dislike the taste of pussy. I think I'll just suck cock for the rest of my life despite the fact it'll get me oppressed in my day-to-day life. Yea. Cock it is!" It's no more a choice than someone who is heterosexual. They aren't that way by 'choice'. That is just part of their existance. It's not something, obviously, that can be explained. If it were a choice, do you *really* think I'd choose to go against the majority of the rest of *Earth*!? Puh-leeze!
To those in this thread - get over it. Get a life. 'Gay' will be used to mean homosexual/stupid/happy, 'hella' will be used in place of 'very' (even though it's a larger word), nigger will still be used by 'white' people as a derogatory word twords 'blacks' and 'blacks' will use it to greet eachother, etc. that is life.
Move on. Nothing to see here.
You didn't read the item's description, did you?
/I
From the very first paragraph to the item linked from within the slashdot story:
Cooking For The Web Set
The low-fat, high-bandwidth solution to your networked cooking needs is finally here. The George Foreman USB iGrill conveniently connects to your home or office PC using USB 2.0 technology, and provides a sophisticated web-based cooking interface.
Geez!
From what I hear, that will be a while. There probably WILL be an RFC3514 by the time that happens....
I know I wouldn't bother getting a 6-year-old 15" monitor fixed, even if it was for free.
This is why any business you may decide to start will more than likely fail rather quickly.
Lets see... Spend somewhere around $100 for a decent 15" replacement (and stay clear of the $49 bargan basement, crap-o-the-day monitor) or spend a few bucks shipping to fix your monitors..
I know what I'd do...
""Furthermore, Linux is specifically architectured for the server market, which is why it's seen so much success in the enterprise. Trying to tweak it to run on a PDA is an excercise in feudalism. The choice could also be bad news for Linux, as people will start to think of the OS as suitable for only small devices.""
I take it you've never heard of the Sharp Zaurus?
I submit the following:
NASA hated the idea of 'common folk' leaving the planet. I wouldn't be suprised if NASA hired Lance Bass to 'pretend' to want to go to ISS, go through all the motions of being trained (thusly sucking up MORE of the Russian's resources), then 'back out' at the last minute due to 'lack of funding'...
Hmmm...
And they'd all conflict with one another. Company A would blame it on company B's product interferring and vice versa.
Speaking of such - In the spot of the earth in which I reside, Sprint stuck some PCS towers up pretty close to a local Wireless TV operator here. The signal they used just HAPPENED to cross over into EagleVision's channel 40 because they were doing a horrible job of filtering out any noise they were also creating. When Sprint was contacted about it, refused to do *anything* about it. It forced EagleVision to purchase a bunch of filtering equipment on their own to fix Sprint's problem.
How sad is that?
Stupid Sprint!
What you fail to realize about shows such as Fear Factor is that the people that are on the show are there *because* of their arrogance. The producers know that the people on those shows are going, for the most part, to make complete fools of themselvs. This is what the majority of the American public want to see on TV (I know I'm one of 'em. Seeing these idiots makes me feel better about myself sometimes).
Keep that in mind next time you see one of these stupid 'reality TV' shows.. =]
For the area in which I have decided to make my home, this won't matter for a while. It would be nice to have, however, if there were a plan with a HUGE pool of minutes (or unlimited, even if after a certian time of day). If the technology really works, I won't half to wait for CenturyTel to get off their collective asses and give the town in which I live the DSL that so many of us have expressed an interest in.
*sigh*
I've seen several posts now where the following text is read wrong (either by reading to fast, or skimming, or something). Figgered I'd clear up the confusion...
Zoltan Kovacs, founder of DirectAdvertiser.com, said the company has sold about 200 copies of the program since launching two months ago. According to Kovacs, the software is ideal for advertising 900-number and other telephone services.
"I have customers who call me back and tell me they love it and it generates hundreds of calls right away," said Kovacs, who noted that Direct Advertiser is a good alternative to bulk e-mail because its messages are not regulated by spam laws.
The above doesn't mean that Joe User, sitting at his desk receiving all the spam via this new method, is calling and saying how they love it -- as several posts have noted. It means that Joe Spammer, the lowest form of life on earth, is calling and saying how they love the 'product' that directadvertiser.com is selling. World of difference there.
The fact that he had 20 vs. 1 doesn't mean anything being as they were all shipped in the same box. All it would have taken was one bump the wrong way and all the drives could have, in some way, been damaged.
The fact that he, in a sense, stole them from his vendor and then the drives having all failed, could be karma coming back to bite him in his ass.
The disk compression technology was 'lifted', if I dismember correctly, from STAC Electronics...
That was one of the reasons behind the release of MSDOS 6.22.
Actually, from what I've seen lately, SiS chipsets are being used quite frequently in low-end systems. They are cheap, relativly decent (though I have not tried dual-head support with it), and very plentiful. The "no frills" machines my place of employment uses a mobo that has video/lan/sound/modem built in (though we put it into a 'standard' ATX case so it can quickly be changed down the road). All said built in items are SiS integrated items. They even all have Linux drivers! =] Right on the CD even! =]
Come to think of it.. I can't remember the last time I saw a 'low end' system with a Trident video card in it.. =]