Another article for suits. Who gives a rat's ass about business other than suits? We're here for free source code and innovation that is unfettered by needing to cater to stockholders. Why are so many folks in IT obsessed with business? It makes no sense. I got into IT because of art. That's the way it should be. IT is all about being creative and original not business.
Really? What about the tranclucent menus and their thing that works like the retarded cousin of Mac OS X Dashboard? Those are leaps beyond Windows XP. There's also the completely new Alt-Tab switching with thumbnails of the applications and the ability to turn windows on their side with labels on the windows. You can even make notes on the back of windows. That's not different from 2K or XP? Really?
What about right now? My co-workers are all running Vista on their Intel 64-bit desktops with the incredible Aero enhancements. I have to say that this is probably the best Windows EVAR. It even gives Mac OS X a run for it's money but that might be going too far. Fortunately, I use Enlightenment on 64-bit Gentoo so I've been running with all these features for the past three years. But, it's nice to know that the rest of the world is catching on to what's possible.
Wow. Weird that you posted this considering my recent post in a friend's JE. Check out my post history and see the one in the "anti-abortionist" journal entry. It's a bit "radical" but says something similar.
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I wish I could find more people who are more like you and like me because they'd probably be more fun to hang out with and talk shop. I get pretty frustrated talking to "geeks" who don't get visual or auditory aesthetics. What better way is there to learn technology than to use it as a tool to actually make original and creative work? I honestly don't think using them for generic business tools is the best way... But that's just me. Thanks for the civil response.
SSL is a joke. It's not trustworthy in the least. It's been compromised so many times that's why they've gone from 24-bit to 39-bit to 73-bit and the latest 128-bit stuff. Remember when all the browsers in the world said that you couldn't use anything less than 128-bit SSL because all the old ones were expire in like 1999? Yeah, like THAT is trustworthy. SSL is a joke.
Heheh interesting that you say that since I graduated over 12 years ago. I think the real key to making my system work is to keep things simple. For example, don't spend too much money to begin with. Unless it's absolute necessity don't spend period. The only thing that falls under absolute necessity that isn't really is the occasional weekly entertainment expenditure. My family (yes wife and kid) and I don't live boring lives this way. It takes more discipline and hard work, but we think it's worth it. We rarely eat out since most of the restaurants serve poison anyway. And as far as tracking what burns a hole in the wallet every month, it's pretty obvious that it's the recurring bills and the mortgage. So we assume that about 3/4 of my take home is not ours. The other quarter is left for savings which usually get eaten up by the big ticket items. Like the roof that we're getting this Fall. We want to pay for it in cash that way we don't have a loan floating over us. But if we can't afford it, we'll try to weather one more year...
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I don't spend enough money to garner rewards as I try to spend as little as possible on anything. But even with the big ticket items that I purchase from time to time (like the 37" LCD monitor I got last Christmas for the family which cost me $2500 out the door) I still don't see what kind of advantage I'd get if I even got 5% back. That would be what... $125? What good is that? Unless I'm misunderstanding what you are saying. I noticed that someone else pointed out that they have a credit card that they've set up for automatic 100% monthly payment that is also a no membership fee card. His approach sounds interesting especially since I don't like to spend more than a mentally set limit. But, other than some bonus points (which all seem VERY small and worthless to me) I don't see how useful it really is other than establishing a good credit score. Incidentally (addressing the comments of others) I'm married and have a daughter and my system works fine for us. My wife (stay-at-home-mom) has a depression era mentality so she tries to keep her expenses to less than $400 a month for necessities. We own three cars all of which are completely paid off and we own a house that we purchased in 2004 with a reasonable mortgage (about $800 a month). I haven't had a credit card since 2000. I concluded that all credit card companies are run by and employ worthless greedy bastard motherfucking evil rotten stinking turds. I got screwed by Discover card in my teens. I got turned down by AT&T Universal when I *WANTED* a credit card even though I had a legit job. I got a Capitol One Visa thanks to my dad and even they fucked with me. NOBODY FUCKS WITH ME and gets away with it.
I told Capitol One that I wanted a $1500 credit limit because I was only getting their card to purchase a Yamaha 16 channel mixer that was going to cost me $1300 and some change. They gave me an $1100 credit limit. So I complained. I wasn't asking them for some crazy arbitrary value, I was asking them for an exact standard limit size. A lot of other credit cards offered $1500 limits... So after I bitched and moaned to the rep on the phone she said, "Fine. You now have a $2500 limit"! Grrr... I didn't WANT a $2500 limit!! I knew myself well enough at the time that I couldn't be trusted to not charge to the limit. She finally hung up on me and left me with this very dangerous $2500 limit on my card. And sure enough, after I got the mixer and paid it off, then little by little I crept closer and closer to the limit and then all of the sudden they upped my limit to $4800!! (What kind of crazy numbers are they using. Everyone knows that credit limits are incremental by $500.) So at that point I knew I was in danger. I decided to pay what remained off over the course of the next year or so. Once I did that I cancelled the card and haven't had one since. That is why I think credit card companies are evil. They won't pay attention to what we know about ourselves. And I knew back then that I couldn't handle a sizable credit limit. It's just too tempting.
Well I'm going to try and answer you and a few of the other posters in this one reply...
For me it's just a matter of paranoia and security. As much as I don't care about money or don't like to think about it, I'm not crazy either. I have WiFi access point on my network (A Cisco AP that work gave me). It's secured with WEP. I also use SSH tunnels to and from all the wireless devices on my network. I still don't trust any of it with the sensitive information for banking. I use Firefox on all my boxes since they are all Linux boxes but I still don't trust the SSL connection to a bank. I personally think that the only safe way to conduct financial transaction via computer would be dedicated proprietary protocols and data lines. Obviously that won't happen any time soon, so I won't be banking online. It' way to easy to fall victim to online fraud because you can't always be one step ahead of the blackhat crackers. I was originally pretty angry at my bank for having moved to a voice activated phone tree (as in you SAY your SSN and PIN out loud). But I later discovered that you can still enter the info via the touch tone pad. The only thing I still have to say is the type of account I'm accessing once I've been authenticated (ie. "checking"). I'm not a tin foil hat wearer, but when it comes to my bank account I get pretty close.
Everything you've listed is the exact kind of stuff that really bothers me. I'm not saying it's bad, but just like a (l)user might go glassy eyed when I start extoling the wonders of hypervisor based virtualization, logical volume managers, global block devices and the like I feel the same about those sorts of things. They're vaguely interesting but I really don't want to know since it would be a waste of my time. This kind of information is very boring to me once you really get into it. For those who like it, great. Let them have at it. I'm just saying that most Slashdotters who really are into the tech side (and started off as musicians, DJs, photographers or film makers) are very likely the same as me. Those came to computers from the accounting/business end probably find this stuff fascinating but have difficulty troubleshooting major OS corruption in Windows. No insult meant by any of this. Just basically different strokes for different folks.
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Hear hear!! My method of accounting is simple:
1. Only one bank account (with a debit card) into which everything I make is direct deposited 2. No credit cards (they are EVIL) 3. Mentally remember how much you generally have in the account ($9786, OK, so I've got about $10,000 in the bank) 4. Confirm what you mentally think you have with your bank's automated phone system so that you have a fresh guess as to how much you've got 5. Never spend more than %50 of what you think you have in the account unless you have a REALLY GOOD reason 6. DO NOT bank online. Evar 7. Memorize the general amounts of your monthly charges, which should all be automatic withdrawals. ($54.99 for cable? OK so assume $60 a month)
In general it's all based on assumptions with a mental attitude that you have less than you actually do. So far it's worked wonders for my money situation in that I really don't have to think about it unless it matters at the moment. Because if there's one thing people like us HATE to do, it's thinking about money. Money is a nuisance in every way just as non-techs feel computers are a nuisance in every way. For those of you that have a strong interest in money, well... get help.
Man you read me totally wrong. I think we have far more in common than you might think. In general I'm just frustrated that there aren't more people like me in computing. I'm primarily a musician/videographer. For a long time I assumed that most of the artistic types became computer "geeks" because those are the tools of today. But when posting here on Slashdot I rarely find anyone who has a primary interest in the arts and a very strong but secondary interest in computers. It sounds like you are one of those people as am I. Saying that, I need to point out that you and I are rarities. So you can't say that you reflect the typical Mac user any more than I can say that I reflect the typical Linux user.
I didn't mean to offend anyone with my post. But I find it particularly interesting that you singled out this comment: "simply have great eyes and know how to use their apps" as offensive. Yes, it is a generalization which implies that it applies to a lot of Mac users. As I said above, you are not a typical Mac user. Especially if we're talking pre-Mac OS X. The new breed of Mac user that appreciates the command line, can write scripts and understands the network is not the same as the old Mac user who tended to be a substandard user. Nothing wrong with being a substandard user since it means that they don't really care about how the computer works or why, they just want it to work. That applies to a large part of the computer user base on both Windows and Mac sides.
Next, I am well aware that the Mac consistently outperforms a Windows box for certain graphical applications... for a while. Then the Windows versions surpass the Mac when newer bigger boxes come out on the Wintel side. And it's always a constant game of catch-up so that you can be sure your filter finishes in 24 seconds instead of 28 on either platform. Yes, those seconds can add up, but most users don't care until more power is available to them. And now considering that the Mac is Intel based, I don't think you'll see much difference between a Mac and a high-end Dell or HP graphics worksation. Apple doesn't hold any kind of special voodoo on performance. Yes, they tend to be more advanced than their PC counterparts when it comes to new busses or things like EFI. But again, most users (especially graphic designers who aren't technically inclined) don't care about those things.
Regarding this statement to which I *could* take offense to: "You might say that what I've said above makes me less knowledgeable than you, but you're wrong; it means that I don't enjoy having to worry myself as much as you do". You're assuming that I worry myself about something. I don't. My systems might take a little more work to configure intially, but once set up they are as reliable as what any Mac or Windows users would claim if not moreso. In general, in ANY OS if you know what you're doing and you like the platform you're on things "just work" for you. For me that's Linux. I'm sure I could do the same if I switched to all Macs at home, but frankly I can't afford to have a farm of Macs at home. I *can* afford to have a farm of AMD boxes at home though. And that comes in rather handy for me when I want to render some video with my Cinelerra render farm. However, I don't take offense at your comment because you obviously had no idea what you were talking about when you made it. Now that you have a better idea of what I'm about and how similar we are perhaps you might feel a little better about my original post.
Honestly, I always tell users that DNS is like 411 for computers. Just like people, they don't know someone they've never met before so they need a directory. Hence the raison d'etre for DNS. So if someone handed you the name of a person or business you don't know and says, "call them" but doesn't give you their phone number, what do you do? You either look in your phone book (Caching DNS which COULD be out of date) or... you call 411. Now, how would you like it if some third parties who weren't telcos started selling you "premium 411" service? I didn't think so. That's all this amounts to. You know that when third-parties jump in providing services they have no business providing, both you (the customer) and you (the legitimate DNS provider) are in for trouble. The customers are going to wind up being held hostage by this new premium service should it become lucrative. If the premium DNS service provider decides that it doesn't like the Democratic presidential candidate, they could set up a longer update cycle on those records just in case any last minute DNS changes happen... And the customer, not understanding that their ISP isn't to blame will call the ISP or the IT dept at work and start bitching to them about how "the internet is broken again". I can't really see this taking off anyway. And the concept that this is the way to stop phishers is laughable. I think this story should have been filed under humor. Maybe I'm just getting old at 36...
Quite right. I don't subscribe at all. I don't see it as being worth it. If they offered some really outsanding features beyond what they actually offer now I might consider it. But considering that it's technically unfeasable to FTP Kathleen Fent herself to my office, well I guess I won't be subscribing.;P
OK. Maybe a demonstration is needed to make things a bit clearer. I'm all for demonstrations against the Bush Administration:
Voters have strong opinions about the Bush Administration. "If I ever meet anyone from your cabinet, I will kill you," a person who identified himself as Kim Jong Il said in an e-mail to the Bush Adminstration last summer. "I will f------ kill you and your families." Such sentiments aren't unusual. "You people are EVIL personified," Kevin Horton wrote around the same time. "I would like the four years of my life back I have wasted trying to get your stupid uninvited government off my now crippled country." Sifting through a stack of voter complaints in June, 2005, a Bush Administration staffer decided to tally the most frequently used words of aggression: "die" (103 times), "f------" (44), and "kill" (15). Tony "Snowjob" Snow, the Bush Administration's press secretary, ribbed colleagues in an e-mail that with all the death threats, it was a "good thing his office sits farthest away from the entrance."
According to angry voters and the New York State Attorney General, the Bush Administration makes Microsoft and other software vendors install NSA "spyware" on voter's PCs. These programs track where you go on the Internet and what porn you look at. The NSA Spyware can get stuck in your computer's hard drive right from the factory or as you shop, chat, or download a song. It might arrive attached to that clever video you just nabbed at no charge. Web security company McAfee Inc. (MFE ) estimates that nearly three-quarters of all sites listed in response to Internet searches for popular phrases like "free screen savers" or "digital music" attempt to install some form of NSA software in visitors' computers. Once lodged there, spyware can sap a PC's processing power, slow its functioning, and even cause it to crash. Oh yeah, it can also invade your privacy, but that's less of a concern.
This explains the vitriol aimed at the Bush Administration and the NSA. The federal government, located in a white building in Washington DC's Beltway district, has been a pioneer in a seamy corner of the booming wiretapping industry. Although it is small by some corporate standards, having generated sales of about a $100 billion deficit since its start in 2000, these programs have burrowed into nearly 100 million computers and produced billions of breaches of privacy.
The Bush Administration's swift rise illustrates the intertwining of NSA spyware, fearmongering and mainstream propaganda. The Web is the hottest game in brainwashing, but what's rarely acknowledged is the extent to which unsavory fearmongering boost the sagging presidential ratings. Here's how it often works: Large corporations, ranging from large defense contracts to much smaller weapons enterprises need jobs. In peacetime their profits are down. So they ask for the administration to start a few small wars but make it sound good. Then FOX News and the other whore news media sign up to distribute the propaganda beyond their own sites, and then those partners sign up other partners. Down the line, a big piece of the business winds up in the hands of outfits like the Bush Administration, which further disseminate the propaganda via publicity. Once the wars are in full swing, they share the revenue with their defense contractors. Oh yeah and that spyware stuff... it collects information about what you post on the internet so that the government can track what you do and if need be lock you up in prison for a long time with no trial on an island outside the US just in case you're making too much fuss about their chicanery. But that's less important. After all, it couldn't happen to you.
...like some dude is going to sit there hitting the print screen button 97,000 times. But wait, that gives me an idea! OB HACK: Overclock the repeat timer in the keyboard so that the key click rate is something like 100,000 a second and maybe this would work! And it would be WAY faster than using a ripper since it could just take a single key press to rip a whole movie!!! OK. So maybe this isn't such bad news after all!:)))
I've been watching these supcious types who go to the internet cafe down the street. They wear funny clothes, smell funny and speak a foreign language. That's about as un-American as you can get. I've been trailing them for a year and over that time I've noticed that they've been working together with others via the internet to stage some kind of attack. Over that time I also deputized some of my online friends in neighboring cities and states to track the other members of the cell as I've gotten clues and hints by watching their chat with binoculars. In some cases I've even seen IP addresses posted in the forums which makes it super easy to pinpoint where the others are. Today I struck. I followed these evildoers as they left the cafe since I heard them make some mention of a group meeting. I figured I'd find other terrists there too. When they got to their destination I saw I was right. There were others of their kind gathered together to discuss their plans. It was a small gethering maybe only ten or twelve of them. But they were no match for my hand to hand combat skills. While the terrists might be able to scare people as a group, individually they can be easily overcome. When I finally pounded the last one's face flat into the floor, I took notice of the strange writing on his shirt. Looks like some kind of foreign insignia or incomprehensible gibberish. It said, "Got root"? Who needs Homeland security when a civilian force of people like me can take these terrists out singlehandedly and easily?
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Odd... I don't have to restart it. It "just works" for me. What kind of problems caused you to have to restart E?
Another article for suits. Who gives a rat's ass about business other than suits? We're here for free source code and innovation that is unfettered by needing to cater to stockholders. Why are so many folks in IT obsessed with business? It makes no sense. I got into IT because of art. That's the way it should be. IT is all about being creative and original not business.
Really? What about the tranclucent menus and their thing that works like the retarded cousin of Mac OS X Dashboard? Those are leaps beyond Windows XP. There's also the completely new Alt-Tab switching with thumbnails of the applications and the ability to turn windows on their side with labels on the windows. You can even make notes on the back of windows. That's not different from 2K or XP? Really?
What about right now? My co-workers are all running Vista on their Intel 64-bit desktops with the incredible Aero enhancements. I have to say that this is probably the best Windows EVAR. It even gives Mac OS X a run for it's money but that might be going too far. Fortunately, I use Enlightenment on 64-bit Gentoo so I've been running with all these features for the past three years. But, it's nice to know that the rest of the world is catching on to what's possible.
Wow. Weird that you posted this considering my recent post in a friend's JE. Check out my post history and see the one in the "anti-abortionist" journal entry. It's a bit "radical" but says something similar.
Actually... I thought that the British DO have more sex than the 'Muricuhns because, well... British women are hotter.
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Jeeze-o-Pete... look at the day and ponder the signifigance on Slashdot. ;P Yes.. some of my above posts are serious and some are not.
I wish I could find more people who are more like you and like me because they'd probably be more fun to hang out with and talk shop. I get pretty frustrated talking to "geeks" who don't get visual or auditory aesthetics. What better way is there to learn technology than to use it as a tool to actually make original and creative work? I honestly don't think using them for generic business tools is the best way... But that's just me. Thanks for the civil response.
SSL is a joke. It's not trustworthy in the least. It's been compromised so many times that's why they've gone from 24-bit to 39-bit to 73-bit and the latest 128-bit stuff. Remember when all the browsers in the world said that you couldn't use anything less than 128-bit SSL because all the old ones were expire in like 1999? Yeah, like THAT is trustworthy. SSL is a joke.
I cover the transmitter when I press the numbers and if I always do it on a landline. No cell phones or cordless phones for bank stuff either. ;P
Heheh interesting that you say that since I graduated over 12 years ago. I think the real key to making my system work is to keep things simple. For example, don't spend too much money to begin with. Unless it's absolute necessity don't spend period. The only thing that falls under absolute necessity that isn't really is the occasional weekly entertainment expenditure. My family (yes wife and kid) and I don't live boring lives this way. It takes more discipline and hard work, but we think it's worth it. We rarely eat out since most of the restaurants serve poison anyway. And as far as tracking what burns a hole in the wallet every month, it's pretty obvious that it's the recurring bills and the mortgage. So we assume that about 3/4 of my take home is not ours. The other quarter is left for savings which usually get eaten up by the big ticket items. Like the roof that we're getting this Fall. We want to pay for it in cash that way we don't have a loan floating over us. But if we can't afford it, we'll try to weather one more year...
I don't spend enough money to garner rewards as I try to spend as little as possible on anything. But even with the big ticket items that I purchase from time to time (like the 37" LCD monitor I got last Christmas for the family which cost me $2500 out the door) I still don't see what kind of advantage I'd get if I even got 5% back. That would be what... $125? What good is that? Unless I'm misunderstanding what you are saying. I noticed that someone else pointed out that they have a credit card that they've set up for automatic 100% monthly payment that is also a no membership fee card. His approach sounds interesting especially since I don't like to spend more than a mentally set limit. But, other than some bonus points (which all seem VERY small and worthless to me) I don't see how useful it really is other than establishing a good credit score. Incidentally (addressing the comments of others) I'm married and have a daughter and my system works fine for us. My wife (stay-at-home-mom) has a depression era mentality so she tries to keep her expenses to less than $400 a month for necessities. We own three cars all of which are completely paid off and we own a house that we purchased in 2004 with a reasonable mortgage (about $800 a month). I haven't had a credit card since 2000. I concluded that all credit card companies are run by and employ worthless greedy bastard motherfucking evil rotten stinking turds. I got screwed by Discover card in my teens. I got turned down by AT&T Universal when I *WANTED* a credit card even though I had a legit job. I got a Capitol One Visa thanks to my dad and even they fucked with me. NOBODY FUCKS WITH ME and gets away with it.
I told Capitol One that I wanted a $1500 credit limit because I was only getting their card to purchase a Yamaha 16 channel mixer that was going to cost me $1300 and some change. They gave me an $1100 credit limit. So I complained. I wasn't asking them for some crazy arbitrary value, I was asking them for an exact standard limit size. A lot of other credit cards offered $1500 limits... So after I bitched and moaned to the rep on the phone she said, "Fine. You now have a $2500 limit"! Grrr... I didn't WANT a $2500 limit!! I knew myself well enough at the time that I couldn't be trusted to not charge to the limit. She finally hung up on me and left me with this very dangerous $2500 limit on my card. And sure enough, after I got the mixer and paid it off, then little by little I crept closer and closer to the limit and then all of the sudden they upped my limit to $4800!! (What kind of crazy numbers are they using. Everyone knows that credit limits are incremental by $500.) So at that point I knew I was in danger. I decided to pay what remained off over the course of the next year or so. Once I did that I cancelled the card and haven't had one since. That is why I think credit card companies are evil. They won't pay attention to what we know about ourselves. And I knew back then that I couldn't handle a sizable credit limit. It's just too tempting.
Well I'm going to try and answer you and a few of the other posters in this one reply...
For me it's just a matter of paranoia and security. As much as I don't care about money or don't like to think about it, I'm not crazy either. I have WiFi access point on my network (A Cisco AP that work gave me). It's secured with WEP. I also use SSH tunnels to and from all the wireless devices on my network. I still don't trust any of it with the sensitive information for banking. I use Firefox on all my boxes since they are all Linux boxes but I still don't trust the SSL connection to a bank. I personally think that the only safe way to conduct financial transaction via computer would be dedicated proprietary protocols and data lines. Obviously that won't happen any time soon, so I won't be banking online. It' way to easy to fall victim to online fraud because you can't always be one step ahead of the blackhat crackers. I was originally pretty angry at my bank for having moved to a voice activated phone tree (as in you SAY your SSN and PIN out loud). But I later discovered that you can still enter the info via the touch tone pad. The only thing I still have to say is the type of account I'm accessing once I've been authenticated (ie. "checking"). I'm not a tin foil hat wearer, but when it comes to my bank account I get pretty close.
Everything you've listed is the exact kind of stuff that really bothers me. I'm not saying it's bad, but just like a (l)user might go glassy eyed when I start extoling the wonders of hypervisor based virtualization, logical volume managers, global block devices and the like I feel the same about those sorts of things. They're vaguely interesting but I really don't want to know since it would be a waste of my time. This kind of information is very boring to me once you really get into it. For those who like it, great. Let them have at it. I'm just saying that most Slashdotters who really are into the tech side (and started off as musicians, DJs, photographers or film makers) are very likely the same as me. Those came to computers from the accounting/business end probably find this stuff fascinating but have difficulty troubleshooting major OS corruption in Windows. No insult meant by any of this. Just basically different strokes for different folks.
Hear hear!! My method of accounting is simple:
1. Only one bank account (with a debit card) into which everything I make is direct deposited
2. No credit cards (they are EVIL)
3. Mentally remember how much you generally have in the account ($9786, OK, so I've got about $10,000 in the bank)
4. Confirm what you mentally think you have with your bank's automated phone system so that you have a fresh guess as to how much you've got
5. Never spend more than %50 of what you think you have in the account unless you have a REALLY GOOD reason
6. DO NOT bank online. Evar
7. Memorize the general amounts of your monthly charges, which should all be automatic withdrawals. ($54.99 for cable? OK so assume $60 a month)
In general it's all based on assumptions with a mental attitude that you have less than you actually do. So far it's worked wonders for my money situation in that I really don't have to think about it unless it matters at the moment. Because if there's one thing people like us HATE to do, it's thinking about money. Money is a nuisance in every way just as non-techs feel computers are a nuisance in every way. For those of you that have a strong interest in money, well... get help.
Man you read me totally wrong. I think we have far more in common than you might think. In general I'm just frustrated that there aren't more people like me in computing. I'm primarily a musician/videographer. For a long time I assumed that most of the artistic types became computer "geeks" because those are the tools of today. But when posting here on Slashdot I rarely find anyone who has a primary interest in the arts and a very strong but secondary interest in computers. It sounds like you are one of those people as am I. Saying that, I need to point out that you and I are rarities. So you can't say that you reflect the typical Mac user any more than I can say that I reflect the typical Linux user.
I didn't mean to offend anyone with my post. But I find it particularly interesting that you singled out this comment: "simply have great eyes and know how to use their apps" as offensive. Yes, it is a generalization which implies that it applies to a lot of Mac users. As I said above, you are not a typical Mac user. Especially if we're talking pre-Mac OS X. The new breed of Mac user that appreciates the command line, can write scripts and understands the network is not the same as the old Mac user who tended to be a substandard user. Nothing wrong with being a substandard user since it means that they don't really care about how the computer works or why, they just want it to work. That applies to a large part of the computer user base on both Windows and Mac sides.
Next, I am well aware that the Mac consistently outperforms a Windows box for certain graphical applications... for a while. Then the Windows versions surpass the Mac when newer bigger boxes come out on the Wintel side. And it's always a constant game of catch-up so that you can be sure your filter finishes in 24 seconds instead of 28 on either platform. Yes, those seconds can add up, but most users don't care until more power is available to them. And now considering that the Mac is Intel based, I don't think you'll see much difference between a Mac and a high-end Dell or HP graphics worksation. Apple doesn't hold any kind of special voodoo on performance. Yes, they tend to be more advanced than their PC counterparts when it comes to new busses or things like EFI. But again, most users (especially graphic designers who aren't technically inclined) don't care about those things.
Regarding this statement to which I *could* take offense to: "You might say that what I've said above makes me less knowledgeable than you, but you're wrong; it means that I don't enjoy having to worry myself as much as you do". You're assuming that I worry myself about something. I don't. My systems might take a little more work to configure intially, but once set up they are as reliable as what any Mac or Windows users would claim if not moreso. In general, in ANY OS if you know what you're doing and you like the platform you're on things "just work" for you. For me that's Linux. I'm sure I could do the same if I switched to all Macs at home, but frankly I can't afford to have a farm of Macs at home. I *can* afford to have a farm of AMD boxes at home though. And that comes in rather handy for me when I want to render some video with my Cinelerra render farm. However, I don't take offense at your comment because you obviously had no idea what you were talking about when you made it. Now that you have a better idea of what I'm about and how similar we are perhaps you might feel a little better about my original post.
...the people who buy this service.
Honestly, I always tell users that DNS is like 411 for computers. Just like people, they don't know someone they've never met before so they need a directory. Hence the raison d'etre for DNS. So if someone handed you the name of a person or business you don't know and says, "call them" but doesn't give you their phone number, what do you do? You either look in your phone book (Caching DNS which COULD be out of date) or... you call 411. Now, how would you like it if some third parties who weren't telcos started selling you "premium 411" service? I didn't think so. That's all this amounts to. You know that when third-parties jump in providing services they have no business providing, both you (the customer) and you (the legitimate DNS provider) are in for trouble. The customers are going to wind up being held hostage by this new premium service should it become lucrative. If the premium DNS service provider decides that it doesn't like the Democratic presidential candidate, they could set up a longer update cycle on those records just in case any last minute DNS changes happen... And the customer, not understanding that their ISP isn't to blame will call the ISP or the IT dept at work and start bitching to them about how "the internet is broken again". I can't really see this taking off anyway. And the concept that this is the way to stop phishers is laughable. I think this story should have been filed under humor. Maybe I'm just getting old at 36...
Quite right. I don't subscribe at all. I don't see it as being worth it. If they offered some really outsanding features beyond what they actually offer now I might consider it. But considering that it's technically unfeasable to FTP Kathleen Fent herself to my office, well I guess I won't be subscribing. ;P
Voters have strong opinions about the Bush Administration. "If I ever meet anyone from your cabinet, I will kill you," a person who identified himself as Kim Jong Il said in an e-mail to the Bush Adminstration last summer. "I will f------ kill you and your families." Such sentiments aren't unusual. "You people are EVIL personified," Kevin Horton wrote around the same time. "I would like the four years of my life back I have wasted trying to get your stupid uninvited government off my now crippled country." Sifting through a stack of voter complaints in June, 2005, a Bush Administration staffer decided to tally the most frequently used words of aggression: "die" (103 times), "f------" (44), and "kill" (15). Tony "Snowjob" Snow, the Bush Administration's press secretary, ribbed colleagues in an e-mail that with all the death threats, it was a "good thing his office sits farthest away from the entrance."
According to angry voters and the New York State Attorney General, the Bush Administration makes Microsoft and other software vendors install NSA "spyware" on voter's PCs. These programs track where you go on the Internet and what porn you look at. The NSA Spyware can get stuck in your computer's hard drive right from the factory or as you shop, chat, or download a song. It might arrive attached to that clever video you just nabbed at no charge. Web security company McAfee Inc. (MFE ) estimates that nearly three-quarters of all sites listed in response to Internet searches for popular phrases like "free screen savers" or "digital music" attempt to install some form of NSA software in visitors' computers. Once lodged there, spyware can sap a PC's processing power, slow its functioning, and even cause it to crash. Oh yeah, it can also invade your privacy, but that's less of a concern.
This explains the vitriol aimed at the Bush Administration and the NSA. The federal government, located in a white building in Washington DC's Beltway district, has been a pioneer in a seamy corner of the booming wiretapping industry. Although it is small by some corporate standards, having generated sales of about a $100 billion deficit since its start in 2000, these programs have burrowed into nearly 100 million computers and produced billions of breaches of privacy.
The Bush Administration's swift rise illustrates the intertwining of NSA spyware, fearmongering and mainstream propaganda. The Web is the hottest game in brainwashing, but what's rarely acknowledged is the extent to which unsavory fearmongering boost the sagging presidential ratings. Here's how it often works: Large corporations, ranging from large defense contracts to much smaller weapons enterprises need jobs. In peacetime their profits are down. So they ask for the administration to start a few small wars but make it sound good. Then FOX News and the other whore news media sign up to distribute the propaganda beyond their own sites, and then those partners sign up other partners. Down the line, a big piece of the business winds up in the hands of outfits like the Bush Administration, which further disseminate the propaganda via publicity. Once the wars are in full swing, they share the revenue with their defense contractors. Oh yeah and that spyware stuff... it collects information about what you post on the internet so that the government can track what you do and if need be lock you up in prison for a long time with no trial on an island outside the US just in case you're making too much fuss about their chicanery. But that's less important. After all, it couldn't happen to you.
...like some dude is going to sit there hitting the print screen button 97,000 times. But wait, that gives me an idea! OB HACK: Overclock the repeat timer in the keyboard so that the key click rate is something like 100,000 a second and maybe this would work! And it would be WAY faster than using a ripper since it could just take a single key press to rip a whole movie!!! OK. So maybe this isn't such bad news after all! :)))
...sounds like they can just change the names and it's all about the Bush administration. LOL!!! ;p!!!!!!111111!!!!!!ELEVENTY!!!!
Pure genius. Sad that I haven't had mod points in well over a year now while the Diggers get endless mod points with nothing of quality to mod. ;P
I've been watching these supcious types who go to the internet cafe down the street. They wear funny clothes, smell funny and speak a foreign language. That's about as un-American as you can get. I've been trailing them for a year and over that time I've noticed that they've been working together with others via the internet to stage some kind of attack. Over that time I also deputized some of my online friends in neighboring cities and states to track the other members of the cell as I've gotten clues and hints by watching their chat with binoculars. In some cases I've even seen IP addresses posted in the forums which makes it super easy to pinpoint where the others are. Today I struck. I followed these evildoers as they left the cafe since I heard them make some mention of a group meeting. I figured I'd find other terrists there too. When they got to their destination I saw I was right. There were others of their kind gathered together to discuss their plans. It was a small gethering maybe only ten or twelve of them. But they were no match for my hand to hand combat skills. While the terrists might be able to scare people as a group, individually they can be easily overcome. When I finally pounded the last one's face flat into the floor, I took notice of the strange writing on his shirt. Looks like some kind of foreign insignia or incomprehensible gibberish. It said, "Got root"? Who needs Homeland security when a civilian force of people like me can take these terrists out singlehandedly and easily?