Yes, yes. There is some good background information in that book. Keep flipping the pages until you see the next 8 chapters are almost entirely screen shots of the buttons you push to configure your networking....just as the parent said. "1000 pages of the bleedin' obvious. "
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a blogging site, running a story about another blogging site not being real journalism.
>That means Microsoft is doing something right and >those other companies is doing something wrong. That's right. Theys be crushing the little guys REAL good.
And another thing...I want to know who started the rumor that College teaches you how to think! I've met as many boob's who have those very very expensive pieces of paper as I have the self-taught types.
College teaches you how to DRINK, but it does the opposite of promoting creative thought.
and don't get me started on certifications....With a certification you don't even get the lessons in drinking!
>Apple really isn't to blame, except maybe for buying drives with poorly written firmware. ....but I didn't buy a "Pioneer" I bought a MAC!...or so the argument goes, I don't care who MADE it, who inspected it, who goofed in the design of these things or who cleaned them before they left the factory..... Apple really is to blame for buying drives with poorly written firmware. Your computer should not be held hostage by a funny looking circular thing stuck in a CD player. I don't think Apple has to put a sticker telling people not to put things that don't say "CD" on them in their CD players, but I don't think I'd be too happy with Apple if I did.
But only 73,000 users, comScore projects, considered ending their relationship with Yahoo by visiting the page (https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete-user) that actually cancels their Yahoo accounts, which can include e-mail and other services. That was fewer, even, than the month before, when 114,000 users went to the page.
I went looking to delete my Yahoo accounts back befor e Yahoo started abusing peoples privacy(because of the dhtml ad's, damn that crap is annoying) and I couldn't find it. When I saw the link in this article I was very happy to click on it now and get rid of them but the link https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete-user doesn't work. How do I delete my userids?
>And if I accidentally pop it into an MP3 player in >the car and it "accidentally" fucks up the firmware >in my ABS system? You will probably be in a shitheap of trouble, and I think I'd be very mad at the people who produced the ABS system for the neglegence they showed in designing a saftey feature on my car.
>Sorry, saying "at your own risk" on something >doesn't mean shit legally, especially if the risk >is actually known. You can't put a sign on your >front door saying "enter at your own risk" if you >have a set gun behind the door which only goes off >about one time in twelve No you can not kill people (good call) even with a warning. If I send you an ashtray in a jewel-cd case and you stick it in your computer thinking that it is a CD and it breaks your computer, I have not commited a crime and you are an idiot who broke his computer by sticking an ashtray in it.
You guys are both nuts^G^G^G^Goverreacting AND you don't know what you are talking about. This disc does not work in your Macintosh as it says on the label and it does not destroy anything.
No one is intentionally damaging your computer BTW, it aint "malicious behavior towards a competing product" and here's the important part THERE IS NO CRIME!
Oh and if you think your computer is destroyed, I will be willing to take it off your hands for you.
Uhm, except that you can drive your car through the center of the mall. There are rules which prohibit the driving of cars through malls but there is no technology which explicitly prevents it (except doors, big potted plants and people ) It is a good analogy, because there are rules against MALL DRIVING and I make the choice to either follow them or not, JUST LIKE the same choice I make about whether or not to pirate "Training Day".
is that you can't copy them. If I had a DVD player that could record video/audio it would become a useful technology. Until that time it's a HALFWAY good technology. If the computer gets crippled it becomes a HALFWAY good technology too.
Why the hell does anyone want to take an extreemly useful technology and limit it. It's like the ability to drive anywhere I want is a very usefull technology but if the governemt decided that automobile manufacturers had to put devices in the steering wheels to prevent people from turning left makes it a HALFWAY good technology.
HALFWAY ain't good enough for the car and it's not good enough for the DVD and it sure as hell isn't good enough for MY computer.
I whole heartedly agree! Every software product should have the initials of every software project which contributed to it.
I think we should go further and have the initials of everyone who ever contributed to each and every software project which contributed to it. That way we give "Credit where credit is due"
Another idea is to prefix GNU software with the initals "GNU" and leave Linux alone.
> Because they know NOBODY in their right mind would EVER opt-in to something like this
PROBABLY true, but until they pass a law which prevents me from giving BOGUS information on everything I fill out on the internet this doesn't bother me in the least.
I don't know about you but I play video games to escape "Real Life." That's what games are best at, providing us an imaginary world to avoid the real on ( and to help us forget that we're all in the Matrix )
hmm... I think you're a little harsh. While I agree the coloring books are a good idea I think that the bulk of the blame should go to the vendors for using irresponsible default settings. I don't blame the Mom and Pop operations who get's their brothers son to come in on the weekends to configure their "server". This kid couldn't care less about internet citizenship or traffic on routers in other states or countries.(what's a router?) He wants some beer money and to get that he just has to make sure that his uncles secretary can get her email.
We're busy people and shit happens. If I install a 30 day eval and run it the first day and then not look at it again untill a month and a half later, I am not done an evaluation but there I am uninstalling the software. IBM has a limited evaluation edition of Visual Age for Java that limited you to 500(?) classes. That's a reasonable limit and enough "usage" for a thorough evaluation. 30 - days that you actually start the program would be fine.
The UPS guy comes to the door and asks you to sign for a package. You sign for it and inside is a letter that says, "Now that you have agreed to give us your unborn child..." You scramble to find the paper you just signed and find that everything seems in order, and that you just agreed to give UPS your firstborn.
I'll wager you don't read everything you sign, "smart people should" you say but you have realistic assumptions which are protected by the law. You are protected, regardless if you've had a "real job" or if you have any "friends", from people doing intentionally deceptive things to manipulate consumers.
You are a twit for not realizing this, but this law will protect you nonetheless.
...oh yeah, and you don't have to fight consumer advocates, there will still be plenty of computer "consultant" work.
Microsoft will figure it out.
Exclusive games are bad for the consumer and good for the producer. Microsoft couldn't give a shit about the consumer.
You should see lots of exclusive titles very soon.
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Yes, yes. There is some good background information in that book. Keep flipping the pages until you see the next 8 chapters are almost entirely screen shots of the buttons you push to configure your networking....just as the parent said. "1000 pages of the bleedin' obvious. "
a blogging site, running a story about another blogging site not being real journalism.
Parody or no, this was a waste of my time and whoever made it. It doesn't send a usefull message and it's not "funny" enough to have any value.
>That means Microsoft is doing something right and
>those other companies is doing something wrong.
That's right. Theys be crushing the little guys REAL good.
hey...
That would make a GREAT movie!
And another thing...I want to know who started the rumor that College teaches you how to think! I've met as many boob's who have those very very expensive pieces of paper as I have the self-taught types.
College teaches you how to DRINK, but it does the opposite of promoting creative thought.
and don't get me started on certifications....With a certification you don't even get the lessons in drinking!
>Apple really isn't to blame, except maybe for buying drives with poorly written firmware.
....but I didn't buy a "Pioneer" I bought a MAC!...or so the argument goes, I don't care who MADE it, who inspected it, who goofed in the design of these things or who cleaned them before they left the factory.....
Apple really is to blame for buying drives with poorly written firmware. Your computer should not be held hostage by a funny looking circular thing stuck in a CD player.
I don't think Apple has to put a sticker telling people not to put things that don't say "CD" on them in their CD players, but I don't think I'd be too happy with Apple if I did.
But only 73,000 users, comScore projects, considered ending their relationship with Yahoo by visiting the page (https://edit.yahoo.com /config/delete-user) that actually cancels their Yahoo accounts, which can include e-mail and other services. That was fewer, even, than the month before, when 114,000 users went to the page.
/config/delete-user doesn't work. How do I delete my userids?
I went looking to delete my Yahoo accounts back befor e Yahoo started abusing peoples privacy(because of the dhtml ad's, damn that crap is annoying) and I couldn't find it. When I saw the link in this article I was very happy to click on it now and get rid of them but the link https://edit.yahoo.com
>And if I accidentally pop it into an MP3 player in
>the car and it "accidentally" fucks up the firmware
>in my ABS system?
You will probably be in a shitheap of trouble, and I think I'd be very mad at the people who produced the ABS system for the neglegence they showed in designing a saftey feature on my car.
>Sorry, saying "at your own risk" on something
>doesn't mean shit legally, especially if the risk
>is actually known. You can't put a sign on your
>front door saying "enter at your own risk" if you
>have a set gun behind the door which only goes off
>about one time in twelve
No you can not kill people (good call) even with a warning. If I send you an ashtray in a jewel-cd case and you stick it in your computer thinking that it is a CD and it breaks your computer, I have not commited a crime and you are an idiot who broke his computer by sticking an ashtray in it.
You guys are both nuts^G^G^G^Goverreacting AND you don't know what you are talking about. This disc does not work in your Macintosh as it says on the label and it does not destroy anything.
No one is intentionally damaging your computer BTW, it aint "malicious behavior towards a competing product" and here's the important part THERE IS NO CRIME!
Oh and if you think your computer is destroyed, I will be willing to take it off your hands for you.
> Every single person with so much as one molecule of their finger in this pie deserves prison time.
Prison time! Yeah and we should be able to flog their families too! Are you possibly overreacting?
Uhm, except that you can drive your car through the center of the mall. There are rules which prohibit the driving of cars through malls but there is no technology which explicitly prevents it (except doors, big potted plants and people ) It is a good analogy, because there are rules against MALL DRIVING and I make the choice to either follow them or not, JUST LIKE the same choice I make about whether or not to pirate "Training Day".
is that you can't copy them. If I had a DVD player that could record video/audio it would become a useful technology. Until that time it's a HALFWAY good technology. If the computer gets crippled it becomes a HALFWAY good technology too.
Why the hell does anyone want to take an extreemly useful technology and limit it. It's like the ability to drive anywhere I want is a very usefull technology but if the governemt decided that automobile manufacturers had to put devices in the steering wheels to prevent people from turning left makes it a HALFWAY good technology.
HALFWAY ain't good enough for the car and it's not good enough for the DVD and it sure as hell isn't good enough for MY computer.
I whole heartedly agree! Every software product should have the initials of every software project which contributed to it.
I think we should go further and have the initials of everyone who ever contributed to each and every software project which contributed to it. That way we give "Credit where credit is due"
Another idea is to prefix GNU software with the initals "GNU" and leave Linux alone.
> Because they know NOBODY in their right mind would EVER opt-in to something like this
PROBABLY true, but until they pass a law which prevents me from giving BOGUS information on everything I fill out on the internet this doesn't bother me in the least.
>Isn't there already a game...
>like that called sex?
This is slashdot, sex isn't a very popular game here ( the multiplayer version anyway )
it's a joke, and yes I'm laughing at you!
I don't know about you but I play video games to escape "Real Life."
That's what games are best at, providing us an imaginary world to avoid the real on ( and to help us forget that we're all in the Matrix )
But as long as the key networks are owned by a few media monopolies, you will play by their rules, or your plug will be pulled.
What are you talking about? What media monopolies? And who is getting thier plug pulled and for what?
hmm... I think you're a little harsh. While I agree the coloring books are a good idea I think that the bulk of the blame should go to the vendors for using irresponsible default settings. I don't blame the Mom and Pop operations who get's their brothers son to come in on the weekends to configure their "server". This kid couldn't care less about internet citizenship or traffic on routers in other states or countries.(what's a router?) He wants some beer money and to get that he just has to make sure that his uncles secretary can get her email.
What exactly is your complaint about firewalls?
....because they are hard to configure?
Do you think that firewalls are a bad thing?
>The only purpose of firewalls seems to be to accomodate people who can't be bothered switching to DHCP.
Is this a joke?
We're busy people and shit happens. If I install a 30 day eval and run it the first day and then not look at it again untill a month and a half later, I am not done an evaluation but there I am uninstalling the software.
IBM has a limited evaluation edition of Visual Age for Java that limited you to 500(?) classes. That's a reasonable limit and enough "usage" for a thorough evaluation.
30 - days that you actually start the program would be fine.
> I don't pay them to encourage a crime so they can
> swoop in and bust (and make $$$ from) the perps.
Who's encouraging a crime?
and what $$$ "making" are you talking about?
The UPS guy comes to the door and asks you to sign for a package. You sign for it and inside is a letter that says, "Now that you have agreed to give us your unborn child..." You scramble to find the paper you just signed and find that everything seems in order, and that you just agreed to give UPS your firstborn.
...oh yeah, and you don't have to fight consumer advocates, there will still be plenty of computer "consultant" work.
I'll wager you don't read everything you sign, "smart people should" you say but you have realistic assumptions which are protected by the law. You are protected, regardless if you've had a "real job" or if you have any "friends", from people doing intentionally deceptive things to manipulate consumers.
You are a twit for not realizing this, but this law will protect you nonetheless.
Microsoft will figure it out.
Exclusive games are bad for the consumer and good for the producer. Microsoft couldn't give a shit about the consumer.
You should see lots of exclusive titles very soon.