I wish that the pop-over ads would only pop-over when I hovered over them... a bunch of ads from Dell I've seen seem to do that... and I appreciate that... it sits there like a banner, and when I hover over it, it expands and does it's nice flash ad... but the ones that do it 5 seconds after the sight loads (car adverts on CNN anyone?) I really hate... it's annoying and ensures that I will never consider watching it...
A bit of courtesy from the advertisers and I am willing to watch it if it catches my fancy, but if they throw it in my face, they ain't getting anything but rage from me.
Now I remember who the hell it was that stole my domain from me... 3 years ago I was late renewing by one single damned day, and lost my domain to that damned company... and ain't a damn thing I could do about it... although now that I was reminded of the name, I have this need for revenge... who's with me?
I hate to say it, but if it bothers you that much that you have to circumvent laws/rules placed by your government, or government approved commitee, I suggest you move to a country where your rights won't be squished. Or, sit on your ass and suck it up...
Just get a single P4 chip, no need for 7 individual cyrix chips... Intel is always thinking about people like me who don't want 7 things... I want 7 things in one...;)
So long as the audio comes out speakers at some point you will always be able to grab the analog signal and re-encode it to whatever format you want... this isn't some breakthrough... It's called recording the analog output...
I think when you're trying to keep prices up and keep sales volume up, yes it might be too much to ask. I agree though, it's harder and harder to find a decent mobile phone that works well as a phone, first and foremost. Often you have to buy some super-fancy decked out version just to get a decent phone, but pay a huge premium for 45 features you don't want or need. Well, here's your market opening... get out the soldering gun.
Wait... you said a decent phone... I can't make a decent phone... if multi-billion dollar companies can't make one, how on earth could I make one? Short of buying one of theirs and frying all the 45 extra features I didn't want... hmmm... I think you're on to something...:P
I must be a dying breed... I want my phone to make calls with, I want my iPod to listen to music too, and now you guys are blurring the lines again... Stop it... I can see it now... in a year, I'll have an iPod that does PDA stuff, plays music, is a cell phone, has a 10 megapixel camera in it, and opens my garage door.
Why can't I have a phone that just works as a phone... and an Mp3 player that just plays music, nothing else? I thought apple was going in the right direction with the shuffle... it's small, and does just one thing... play music... is that too much to ask of phones?
I'm Hungarian, and a progammer, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, Hungarian notation was great... back in the 80's... and only at Microsoft... Let it die already... or at the very least, stop calling it Hungarian... One single Hungarain born, American residing, developer working at Microsoft came up with it... Why the hell don't they call it the charles notation?
Do we really want to turn our bodies into a battlefield for germ warfare?
I ask myself that same question everytime I eat out... the answer is yes... yes I do... taco-hell is just too good to pass up, and the other germs I picked up from KFC and the chinese food place down the street will battle it out...;)
I hate businesses that assume that you will buy certain services from them because they deem them 'essential', and when all of a sudden you don't, they jack up the price of the services you still do buy from them...
In this case, tuition will go up because they stop making money on landline sales??? How about my damned cable company (or phone company) that charges me an extra $10 a month because I just want a highspeed internet connection but don't want their cable offerings or long distance plan?
How can they get away with this BS? It's like those computer stores that 'cash discount' their prices... Play on words to get around rules that prevent them from jacking up the price because you wanna pay by credit card...
About that... I've unsuccessfully tried hotswapping an AGP video card once... I spent the rest of the day looking up motherboard, ram, and video card prices online... using another computer... I'll let you figure out why...
Can I shoplift from a store in my underwear? I think the extra 3.2 million is a convenience fee for being able to commit crime in my parent's basement...
Okay, what's with the crazy version numbers? Can we not have some universal version numbering system... where if more than say 10% of the API is updated then make it a major number change... I mean... how long has it been at version 6? Since 2001???
Computers are at risk if they run an unpatched version of a Symantec product that scans files to detect malicious code and if they use the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and AIX operating systems, Symantec said
What I don't understand is how can it affect all those different operating systems? I mean a bug that affects Linux and Windows? It's almost like the module was designed to execute code passed to it, not some vulnerability that slipped through the cracks... or maybe I'm just too stupid to figure out how a buffer overflow, or malformed packet or whatever can cause all of those OS's to execute malicious code (obviously each attack would be tailered to each OS, but still)...
Either the browser supports it, or doesn't... stop personifying software... it does what it designed to do. Just because other pages out there don't use certain features doesn't mean the browser is doing some amazing task by supporting features.
Also, all the alternatives are unintuitive, lack the software they want to run, and generally don't do what they need.
Little Johny wants to play games, you need windows for that... Mommy wants to send emails to her friends with cute little greeting cards and flash games, and update the music on her iPod with music she buys from iTunes... Daddy wants to run Quicktax to do his tax return and Quicken to balance the books.
All these have some sort of HACK in Linux, I'm not going to start arguing that note... but they are just that, hacks... they are not a simple, familiar easy to use interface... and heaven forbid they decide to buy a digital camera, or even just the latest ATI video card for little Johny... best of luck getting that to work outta the box on linux as easily as you would if you were running windows... Heck, even MACs have a lack of driver support, and very few software titles when compared to the GENERAL, MAINSTREAM software the average user uses.
Funny, I get about 25 spam messages a day... now that's after the corporate firewall/antispam software has had it's hands in it... and really, any message from my boss is counted as SPAM and moved to my junk folder so, yeah, 0 spam from the world, about 25 spams from my boss... yup... near the average then I guess..
sweet... so if I engage in 'adult activity' at work, and 9 months later a kid appears... since I did it on company time, it's the company's kid? AWESOME!:D
Cool... As I stated earlier, I was simply extracting info from the article, if you guys in the media group use iPods, that means the very people who are working on the competing products have a good template to work with right on them... I can only see good come of this...:)
No... Fast food workers refuse to eat where they work for 2 reasons, first they know what goes in the food (scary stuff), and second they are sick of the taste and smell of it.
Factory workers on the other hand... well, let's break that up, those who work in factories that produce foods, they once again see what goes into it... (that's very scary stuff, I've seen what goes into most cookies and crackers... most of the ingredients are also found in windex...) Now as for the other group, they simply know the flaws in the products their factory produces...
In the case of Microsoft, their employees tried their product, found it inferior, and moved on. Don't forget, MS is a huge company, and you'll note the article specifically mentions that the media group is all using MS based players... that's probably due to fear of losing your job, rather than thinking your product is superior... but anyways...
What I'm trying to get at, is that the don't feel hatred to their employeers as the parent tried to imply, they simply know a little too much about the product produced...
Really, handwriting analysis? This is the computer age... I don't even know how to write... I put an 'X' in the 'sign here' section... everything else I type... If they analysed my handwriting, well... they'd think I was a 2 year old with a crayon.;)
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I wish that the pop-over ads would only pop-over when I hovered over them... a bunch of ads from Dell I've seen seem to do that... and I appreciate that... it sits there like a banner, and when I hover over it, it expands and does it's nice flash ad... but the ones that do it 5 seconds after the sight loads (car adverts on CNN anyone?) I really hate... it's annoying and ensures that I will never consider watching it...
A bit of courtesy from the advertisers and I am willing to watch it if it catches my fancy, but if they throw it in my face, they ain't getting anything but rage from me.
Come on... the story is right on the front page still... same title... Are you people completely blind?
Now I remember who the hell it was that stole my domain from me... 3 years ago I was late renewing by one single damned day, and lost my domain to that damned company... and ain't a damn thing I could do about it... although now that I was reminded of the name, I have this need for revenge... who's with me?
I hate to say it, but if it bothers you that much that you have to circumvent laws/rules placed by your government, or government approved commitee, I suggest you move to a country where your rights won't be squished. Or, sit on your ass and suck it up...
Just get a single P4 chip, no need for 7 individual cyrix chips... Intel is always thinking about people like me who don't want 7 things... I want 7 things in one... ;)
I bet they aren't x86 compatable... cuz if they were... HOLY CRAP!
So long as the audio comes out speakers at some point you will always be able to grab the analog signal and re-encode it to whatever format you want... this isn't some breakthrough... It's called recording the analog output...
I think when you're trying to keep prices up and keep sales volume up, yes it might be too much to ask. I agree though, it's harder and harder to find a decent mobile phone that works well as a phone, first and foremost. Often you have to buy some super-fancy decked out version just to get a decent phone, but pay a huge premium for 45 features you don't want or need. Well, here's your market opening... get out the soldering gun.
:P
Wait... you said a decent phone... I can't make a decent phone... if multi-billion dollar companies can't make one, how on earth could I make one? Short of buying one of theirs and frying all the 45 extra features I didn't want... hmmm... I think you're on to something...
I must be a dying breed... I want my phone to make calls with, I want my iPod to listen to music too, and now you guys are blurring the lines again... Stop it... I can see it now... in a year, I'll have an iPod that does PDA stuff, plays music, is a cell phone, has a 10 megapixel camera in it, and opens my garage door.
Why can't I have a phone that just works as a phone... and an Mp3 player that just plays music, nothing else? I thought apple was going in the right direction with the shuffle... it's small, and does just one thing... play music... is that too much to ask of phones?
I'm Hungarian, and a progammer, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, Hungarian notation was great... back in the 80's... and only at Microsoft... Let it die already... or at the very least, stop calling it Hungarian... One single Hungarain born, American residing, developer working at Microsoft came up with it... Why the hell don't they call it the charles notation?
Do we really want to turn our bodies into a battlefield for germ warfare?
;)
I ask myself that same question everytime I eat out... the answer is yes... yes I do... taco-hell is just too good to pass up, and the other germs I picked up from KFC and the chinese food place down the street will battle it out...
I hate businesses that assume that you will buy certain services from them because they deem them 'essential', and when all of a sudden you don't, they jack up the price of the services you still do buy from them...
In this case, tuition will go up because they stop making money on landline sales??? How about my damned cable company (or phone company) that charges me an extra $10 a month because I just want a highspeed internet connection but don't want their cable offerings or long distance plan?
How can they get away with this BS? It's like those computer stores that 'cash discount' their prices... Play on words to get around rules that prevent them from jacking up the price because you wanna pay by credit card...
Aren't there laws against this sorta crap?
Or hardware installation :)
About that... I've unsuccessfully tried hotswapping an AGP video card once... I spent the rest of the day looking up motherboard, ram, and video card prices online... using another computer... I'll let you figure out why...
Can I shoplift from a store in my underwear? I think the extra 3.2 million is a convenience fee for being able to commit crime in my parent's basement...
Okay, what's with the crazy version numbers? Can we not have some universal version numbering system... where if more than say 10% of the API is updated then make it a major number change... I mean... how long has it been at version 6? Since 2001???
Computers are at risk if they run an unpatched version of a Symantec product that scans files to detect malicious code and if they use the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and AIX operating systems, Symantec said
What I don't understand is how can it affect all those different operating systems? I mean a bug that affects Linux and Windows? It's almost like the module was designed to execute code passed to it, not some vulnerability that slipped through the cracks... or maybe I'm just too stupid to figure out how a buffer overflow, or malformed packet or whatever can cause all of those OS's to execute malicious code (obviously each attack would be tailered to each OS, but still)...
Either the browser supports it, or doesn't... stop personifying software... it does what it designed to do. Just because other pages out there don't use certain features doesn't mean the browser is doing some amazing task by supporting features.
Now the question is, can this tool be used for evil? As in finding all the logs on the system and sending them to some script-kiddie?
How they got panoramic shots of the fake moon set without getting any of the lights or equipment in the shots... ;)
;)
Let the conspiracy theorists loose... this should be fun...
Also, all the alternatives are unintuitive, lack the software they want to run, and generally don't do what they need.
Little Johny wants to play games, you need windows for that...
Mommy wants to send emails to her friends with cute little greeting cards and flash games, and update the music on her iPod with music she buys from iTunes...
Daddy wants to run Quicktax to do his tax return and Quicken to balance the books.
All these have some sort of HACK in Linux, I'm not going to start arguing that note... but they are just that, hacks... they are not a simple, familiar easy to use interface... and heaven forbid they decide to buy a digital camera, or even just the latest ATI video card for little Johny... best of luck getting that to work outta the box on linux as easily as you would if you were running windows... Heck, even MACs have a lack of driver support, and very few software titles when compared to the GENERAL, MAINSTREAM software the average user uses.
Funny, I get about 25 spam messages a day... now that's after the corporate firewall/antispam software has had it's hands in it... and really, any message from my boss is counted as SPAM and moved to my junk folder so, yeah, 0 spam from the world, about 25 spams from my boss... yup... near the average then I guess..
sweet... so if I engage in 'adult activity' at work, and 9 months later a kid appears... since I did it on company time, it's the company's kid? AWESOME! :D
Cool... As I stated earlier, I was simply extracting info from the article, if you guys in the media group use iPods, that means the very people who are working on the competing products have a good template to work with right on them... I can only see good come of this... :)
No... Fast food workers refuse to eat where they work for 2 reasons, first they know what goes in the food (scary stuff), and second they are sick of the taste and smell of it.
Factory workers on the other hand... well, let's break that up, those who work in factories that produce foods, they once again see what goes into it... (that's very scary stuff, I've seen what goes into most cookies and crackers... most of the ingredients are also found in windex...) Now as for the other group, they simply know the flaws in the products their factory produces...
In the case of Microsoft, their employees tried their product, found it inferior, and moved on. Don't forget, MS is a huge company, and you'll note the article specifically mentions that the media group is all using MS based players... that's probably due to fear of losing your job, rather than thinking your product is superior... but anyways...
What I'm trying to get at, is that the don't feel hatred to their employeers as the parent tried to imply, they simply know a little too much about the product produced...
Really, handwriting analysis? This is the computer age... I don't even know how to write... I put an 'X' in the 'sign here' section... everything else I type... If they analysed my handwriting, well... they'd think I was a 2 year old with a crayon. ;)