Nice, so I can just sell my vote (my client certificate) to someone. Just like the good ole days of the early 20th century.
The entire point of the secret ballot is so people can't tell how you vote so someone attempting to buy your vote can't confirm whether you voted as they wanted. The point of needing identification at the polling place is so someone can't vote on your behalf. Both big sources of voter fraud are covered. This system removes both controls. Wonderful.
I have never bought from Amazon due to their early reputation as spamming their customers regardless of whether one chose to receive "valuable offers" over email. They got this reputation and nickname in spam abuse circles from the early days of their business several years ago. I have never bought from them because of it.
I was just wondering if they are still doing this or if it is now possible to buy from them and not get spammed to death.
It's not a computer store, it's an Apple computer store. If you don't understand, you are not one of us, you should not be reading apple.slashdot.org and you should just stick to the main/. page...:-)
That's not what I hear on the radio every day from some annoying computer training ads. "Earn your MCSE Microsoft certification. Microsoft computer professionals are in demand. You can earn $60,000, $70,000 or more. No previous computer experience is needed. Are you a Vet? Vets can get up to $2,000 in training assistance. Call today."
I could do the same thing with Robotron 2084, clearing all 255 waves (and then it restarted at wave 1). It'd give you a life every 25k points (which you really needed).
I'd play inside a convenience store and often just walk away from the cabinet, go buy a coke, go back, and start playing again. During my time away I'd lose a few dozen lives. No big deal!:)
Let's see, in the beginning, our collective position was that it's not the fault of ISPs and programs that their users use them in illegal ways and targetting the ISPs and software vendors was not right. Common carrier arguments and all.
So now RIAA are targeting people who are sharing the stuff out, now we're all going to say how evil that is too.
Isn't it great to be fickle!:)
But seriously, what happens if a user doesn't know their stuff is being shared? What if the next windows worm searches out for someone's legal mp3 collection and then connects to a p2p network and shares it out, all unknown to the user? A stretch? Hardly, certainly possible.
Didn't someone just get a case thrown out for having child porn on their computer because they maintained that their computer was hacked and the stuff planted there?
I assume RIAA is doing this in civil courts and hence won't need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, but I am still curious how they intend to make a case that each user actually knew they were sharing files.
(I also assume they don't expect anyone to fight it and to just roll over and settle...)
Still, if this kills illegal trading, I think it's a good thing. Call me old fashioned, but I still believe people should pay for this stuff and if it's a load of rubbish -- which most of it is -- don't buy it. At least then maybe they will stop blaming the net for declining sales and maybe, just maybe, produce some better and more diverse talent at a fair price. But I am still concerned about innocents being caught in the collateral damage and hence don't trust RIAA to execute this fairly.
Maybe, but he has some good points too. If, worse case scenario, the linux kernel is considered tainted, then one solution would be to use another non-tainted kernel and port drivers and such to it.
Surely all of us can see that there is a big difference between the kernel and everything else that sits on top of it. Is SCO's lawsuit relevant to Gimp, for example? Or/bin/ls?
The real world considers "linux" as an entire package. SCO, even in their wildest dreams, won't be able to force me to move from Apache to IIS.
But SCO has stated that they think Linux will still exist, but not be free (cost) anymore. Now if they did in some twisted universe win, do you really think everyone won't just flee to BSD (which just happens to have a heck of a lot of GNU stuff on top of it as well).
He made so many errors in his "debunking" yet so many people took it for gospel.
Like, the switch -mfpmath=sse when used in a P4 *does* use SSE2, but this guy thought just cause the switch flag says sse that it must be SSE only.
Then someone else (can't find the post, on usenet, under the mac advocacy group) pointed out that Dell's SPEC tests also disabled hyperthreading.
Then, based on this person's web page who no one even knows who he is, they start drawing conclusions that if Apple faked these (based on his flawed analysis), that they also must have faked those Adobe, Mathmatica, and other demos -- despite the execs for those companies being on stage also confirming the results.
Gotta love the net...
As for me, I don't know what to believe. I'm just going to patiently wait until some reputable sites spend a lot of time and do an in depth analysis and their own benchmarks, like Tom's Hardware for example. Then I may start drawing my own conclusions.
As for me, all I want is to be able to encode mpeg video at something greater than real time. Show me *that* benchmark please!
I just got into OS X last April. I've never had the same excitement over stuff on the wintel side as I do with this stuff. Each time there is a Job's keynote, he announces really neat stuff and then I get all worked up and can't wait to get my hands on it.
Now, it may be mainly hype, but it works.
For example, ho hum, I saw a preview release of MSN messenger 6 out today. Downloaded it, has neat features like a/v that apple is making a big deal of, plus also allows you to play games through it. But did I get excited? Nope... Yawn...
So, maybe I have some irrational fever or something, but I like it.
What the hell does microsoft have? Ballmer dancing around like an idiot? When Billy Gates comes out and announces something, everyone falls asleep. It's just doesn't have the juice...
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Well, when I heard that they were giving away over 3,000 iSights at $149 each to all in attendence, my first thought was that Apple shareholders were going to have a stroke. Coincidence?!:)
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I was a college instructor (evening) for 10 years. In the beginning, I was too easy and gave out too many A's. I rated my quality as an instructor initially as crap. I got great reviews. As time went on and I got more comfortable teaching and got better at helping students learn the topic (and graded their ability appropriately), my ratings went down into the toilet. And the ratings tended to map the distribution of my grades. That is, students who did well rated me excellent, students that did poorly rated me poorly.
The only portion of student-submitted ratings that were helpful to me were the free-form comments where some took the time to make constuctive criticisms and suggestions. That was the feedback that helped me improve, not trying to boost my score to college's most favored instructor...
So, to get back to topic, ratings without some sort of backing context, removal of biases and favoritism, planted comments, and consideration of reputation of reviewer, is next to worthless.
There are some pages I wrote like 7 years ago and haven't touched for ages, and they hit #1 on Google. For example, a search on my local mall, Christiana Mall
I should do something cool (or devious) with it, considering all the hits I get on it!:)
Dream Theater puts on some wicked concept albums. Scenese from a Memory was so intense I had tears in my eyes by the last song. Their latest, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance is a two CD set with the second CD being one complete "story."
Ironically, on iTMS you can only buy them on a single-only basis and one or two tracks from each is not available.
It's ironic that Linkin Park is in on this "protest." Their two latest CDs are only half an album anyway. 35 minutes each. Each song is only about 3 minutes. So 99 cents a piece is a good deal for them. In fact, I was able to put both of their latest CDs onto one 80 minute CD-R (uncompressed, normal CD audio format).
Hey, but at least I got a playable Mac and PC version of Warcraft 3 demo on the CD, so the record labels at least didn't let all of the CD go to waste. But when I saw that, my first thought was, ah, any room left for any actual music? Yeah, a whopping 35 minutes worth.
Works, until one of your buddies that knows your email address goes to one of those cool flash gimmick sites that ends with "send this to all of your friends, click here" link. They then enter your address into someone else's web server. That site operator may just harvest those addresses for spam lists.
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Ha, your meyerweb.com link example works in every browser I tried it with except for IE 6. Hence all of the other ones are busted and Microsoft rules.
Next time maybe the guy should make his pages with Front Page. If it really has to work on "non-standard" browsers, about 50k of javascript browser sniffing code and branches produced by Adobe Golive might be just the ticket.
Step 1: Windows PC infected with latest worm, causing havoc everywhere
Step 2: Insert "code of your choice" on user's infected PC via backdoor inserted by worm author
Step 3: Code of your choice connects to a p2p network, starts downloading John Denver songs disguised as Metallica tunes
Step 4: Hatch attack destroys infected PC
Step 5: One less annoying PC hammering out worm attempts and causing havoc
I noticed there is mention of an SMP mailing list hosted at Rutgers. One doesn't protect a trade secret by talking about the details, design, development and implementation of it on a public mailing list as well as accepting contributions and patches from the public.
Isn't the 970 a 64-bit chip? Shouldn't those that are uptight and comparing just raw clock rates compare it to another 64-bit chip like the Itanium? What's the current clock for Itaniums (if you can get em), 1.8 Ghz?
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Hope they don't blow it all on a Superbowl ad.
Wow, what a brilliant way to put it into perspective. I'm still shaking at thinking through that comparison...
The entire point of the secret ballot is so people can't tell how you vote so someone attempting to buy your vote can't confirm whether you voted as they wanted. The point of needing identification at the polling place is so someone can't vote on your behalf. Both big sources of voter fraud are covered. This system removes both controls. Wonderful.
I was just wondering if they are still doing this or if it is now possible to buy from them and not get spammed to death.
It's not a computer store, it's an Apple computer store. If you don't understand, you are not one of us, you should not be reading apple.slashdot.org and you should just stick to the main /. page... :-)
That's weird, I thought that was Budweisers job (or some other unrelated company I see attaching their names to some tours...)
That's not what I hear on the radio every day from some annoying computer training ads. "Earn your MCSE Microsoft certification. Microsoft computer professionals are in demand. You can earn $60,000, $70,000 or more. No previous computer experience is needed. Are you a Vet? Vets can get up to $2,000 in training assistance. Call today."
I'd play inside a convenience store and often just walk away from the cabinet, go buy a coke, go back, and start playing again. During my time away I'd lose a few dozen lives. No big deal! :)
So now RIAA are targeting people who are sharing the stuff out, now we're all going to say how evil that is too.
Isn't it great to be fickle! :)
But seriously, what happens if a user doesn't know their stuff is being shared? What if the next windows worm searches out for someone's legal mp3 collection and then connects to a p2p network and shares it out, all unknown to the user? A stretch? Hardly, certainly possible.
Didn't someone just get a case thrown out for having child porn on their computer because they maintained that their computer was hacked and the stuff planted there?
I assume RIAA is doing this in civil courts and hence won't need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, but I am still curious how they intend to make a case that each user actually knew they were sharing files.
(I also assume they don't expect anyone to fight it and to just roll over and settle...)
Still, if this kills illegal trading, I think it's a good thing. Call me old fashioned, but I still believe people should pay for this stuff and if it's a load of rubbish -- which most of it is -- don't buy it. At least then maybe they will stop blaming the net for declining sales and maybe, just maybe, produce some better and more diverse talent at a fair price. But I am still concerned about innocents being caught in the collateral damage and hence don't trust RIAA to execute this fairly.
Surely all of us can see that there is a big difference between the kernel and everything else that sits on top of it. Is SCO's lawsuit relevant to Gimp, for example? Or /bin/ls?
The real world considers "linux" as an entire package. SCO, even in their wildest dreams, won't be able to force me to move from Apache to IIS.
But SCO has stated that they think Linux will still exist, but not be free (cost) anymore. Now if they did in some twisted universe win, do you really think everyone won't just flee to BSD (which just happens to have a heck of a lot of GNU stuff on top of it as well).
Found it, credit where credit is due: Peter Ammon - pa44@cornell.edu from comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Like, the switch -mfpmath=sse when used in a P4 *does* use SSE2, but this guy thought just cause the switch flag says sse that it must be SSE only.
Then someone else (can't find the post, on usenet, under the mac advocacy group) pointed out that Dell's SPEC tests also disabled hyperthreading.
Then, based on this person's web page who no one even knows who he is, they start drawing conclusions that if Apple faked these (based on his flawed analysis), that they also must have faked those Adobe, Mathmatica, and other demos -- despite the execs for those companies being on stage also confirming the results.
Gotta love the net...
As for me, I don't know what to believe. I'm just going to patiently wait until some reputable sites spend a lot of time and do an in depth analysis and their own benchmarks, like Tom's Hardware for example. Then I may start drawing my own conclusions.
As for me, all I want is to be able to encode mpeg video at something greater than real time. Show me *that* benchmark please!
When in doubt, turn to snopes
Now, it may be mainly hype, but it works.
For example, ho hum, I saw a preview release of MSN messenger 6 out today. Downloaded it, has neat features like a/v that apple is making a big deal of, plus also allows you to play games through it. But did I get excited? Nope... Yawn...
So, maybe I have some irrational fever or something, but I like it.
What the hell does microsoft have? Ballmer dancing around like an idiot? When Billy Gates comes out and announces something, everyone falls asleep. It's just doesn't have the juice...
Well, when I heard that they were giving away over 3,000 iSights at $149 each to all in attendence, my first thought was that Apple shareholders were going to have a stroke. Coincidence?! :)
The only portion of student-submitted ratings that were helpful to me were the free-form comments where some took the time to make constuctive criticisms and suggestions. That was the feedback that helped me improve, not trying to boost my score to college's most favored instructor...
So, to get back to topic, ratings without some sort of backing context, removal of biases and favoritism, planted comments, and consideration of reputation of reviewer, is next to worthless.
Not how I remember it. No mention of the scribbling crap into your boot block or inability to install into vmware machines, etc, etc...
I switched to Tax Cut.
I should do something cool (or devious) with it, considering all the hits I get on it! :)
Ironically, on iTMS you can only buy them on a single-only basis and one or two tracks from each is not available.
Hey, but at least I got a playable Mac and PC version of Warcraft 3 demo on the CD, so the record labels at least didn't let all of the CD go to waste. But when I saw that, my first thought was, ah, any room left for any actual music? Yeah, a whopping 35 minutes worth.
Works, until one of your buddies that knows your email address goes to one of those cool flash gimmick sites that ends with "send this to all of your friends, click here" link. They then enter your address into someone else's web server. That site operator may just harvest those addresses for spam lists.
Next time maybe the guy should make his pages with Front Page. If it really has to work on "non-standard" browsers, about 50k of javascript browser sniffing code and branches produced by Adobe Golive might be just the ticket.
Step 2: Insert "code of your choice" on user's infected PC via backdoor inserted by worm author
Step 3: Code of your choice connects to a p2p network, starts downloading John Denver songs disguised as Metallica tunes
Step 4: Hatch attack destroys infected PC
Step 5: One less annoying PC hammering out worm attempts and causing havoc
That Hatch is a brilliant man!
More.free.open.access.points.
I noticed there is mention of an SMP mailing list hosted at Rutgers. One doesn't protect a trade secret by talking about the details, design, development and implementation of it on a public mailing list as well as accepting contributions and patches from the public.
Isn't the 970 a 64-bit chip? Shouldn't those that are uptight and comparing just raw clock rates compare it to another 64-bit chip like the Itanium? What's the current clock for Itaniums (if you can get em), 1.8 Ghz?