Finally. A standards organization is actually trying to prevent companies from making more money. Charging royalties for developed technologies within W3 standards is ridiculous, and although it might provide financial encouragement to developers, the fact remains that the web already costs enough money to run, and corporations with the finances to develop more technologies should be doing so anyway. There is more to business than just making money anyway. Generosity is a good asset in a company.
It is most difficult to agree that censorship is futile. It is actually necessary.
There is a difference between free speech and the aura that the general population / post-modernism has created surrounding it. Free speech is not the right to say or express whatever you desire and where; it is exactly the right to keep the government in line and was first legislated to allow emphasis upon a democratic society.
Censorship is merely a partial means to control the path society takes, and is part of law.
The average consumer would assume that the Pentium chips are much faster as Intel has branded a 'fancy' new 2.2 GHz chip. Even that AMD chips *model names* only reach to +1900. (about 1.63 GHz).
Almost hilariously, AMD doesn't have to get their chips running at a 2.2 GHz frequency to get nearly the same performance.
The same speed differences per frequency show up in the lower bus-speed chips (Duron / Celeron).
The average consumer is completely unaware of the closeness between speed of the chips of each company.
AMD chips are much better priced, and carry more value for their money. Stability is excellent, speed is unmatchable in identical frequency ranges. It has been this way for a couple years now.
Aside, AMD has likely changed their naming system to make their chips 'sound' competitive compared to Intel chips? (i.e. Athlon XP 1600+ sure sounds like 1600 MHz doesn't it!).
If, perhaps, you do not favourably like JonKatz and/or his reviews, there is also an option to simply ignore the reviews, not read them, and not post anything in regards to them. Judging from the posts here already, this would cut down posts to a mere handful and then maybe JonKatz would get a subtle hint.
Agreeably though, I think a review for a movie of this calibre is completely out of place on/.
As this job is notably one of the most important in the computing world, do you plan on holding yourself accountable to ensure you follow a definitive game plan for ensuing a mass inspection and reorganization of Microsoft's resources and operation?
Excellent that finally people are doing something about spam... not like some that are just passing the buck.
Personally I am fed up with tolerance people have for spammers. It is a very negative facet of the computing industry and a lot of people are plain turned off of e-mail because of spammers. Economy-wise, there is a negative trend that will continue to appear if spammers, fakes, phoneys, aren't given the prod with a very hot iron.
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I personally would really enjoy a high-powered high-tech remote control helicopter myself.
Arm it with a video camera to not only spy on friends or surprise them when they are backing out of the driveway... But also to travel over long distances and see where you are going at the same time:) Maybe even a sensitive omni-directional mic?
Hook up the A/V and R/C to a high-power transmitter and sit in your equipment van in the park with the dish spinning.
Examples: I just formed a website design firm and even if I want to post an e-mail address on my website or any other website I design I find I can still get spam. Within three weeks of my first posted e-mail address I began receiving spam TODAY due to stupid bots. It seems like the bots can even get through the cgi-scripts. How fun!
Here in Canada I go to Radio Shack to get some batteries and they want my mailing address to send me their retarded flyers. I'm like, no. (Unless I'm desparate for some fire-starting paper!).
IMHO Spam must be obliterated not only through the Internet but also through mail... I still receive tons of junk mail through e-mail and my mailbox.
We must collaborate and form an allegiance against the terrorists.. er... spammers. You know what I mean.
Agreeably. I speak from experience- web designers have a hard enough time making a site even 90% compatible with Netscape. Thinking of Mozilla just adds pressure because then we also have to start thinking of how to fit a website in a 640x480 window. Don't get me started on that.
Don't forget the underdogs (Mozilla, etc) have to do a bit more work to catch up with the industry. Otherwise they are going to continue to spur up a conundrum of backlag.
CNet has one great idea posting this series. Their job is keeping people informed, and even if they are lacking technical detail, these articles are worth a read.
There are millions upon millions of uninformed internet users in the world. The reality is, if local ISP's keep getting bought out either by AOL or Microsoft, people will eventually run out of alternative solutions to net access.
But the Internet is so vast. It would take Microsoft *quite* a while to accomplish their task. XP seems like it is just the first step... a new piece of software, new features, new activation features, etc etc. Everything is promising to be more secure, more friendly, easier to use, prettier to look at.
Don't forget, people, under all that pretty GUI gobbley-gook, there is CODE. A lot of M$ code.
And down the line, where is this code taking us? Is it taking us down the line of product and service excellence, and customer care? Or is it taking us down the line customer control? I think you can see the gist of XP.
It seems like this is a typical statement from Microsoft, really.
You'd think that even a half-decent software company would somewhat appreciate people's efforts to exploit their software.
But not Microsoft.
There have quite literally been hundreds of critical flaws with half of Microsoft's OSes in the past long while. DOS or Win 3.1 were probably the most secure operating systems to date, albeit less dynamic.
True, exploiting can do damage, but... where would MS be if it weren't for public displays of hacking? There would be bigger underground hacking parties, who eventually would come out with all the exploits and do big damage to big companies on big networks.
Just fresh format and install Win98, for example, (which millions of people still use). Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and see for yourself, you've got a lot of downloading and rebooting to do to make sure you are secure.
I really think that, (and this is likely obvious to most people), Microsoft is getting frustrated with having to send out buckets 'o patches.
One surefire way of getting rid of exploitation is:
If Microsoft completely tested all software and the programmers were more efficient organized and to start with they wouldn't have half the problems.
It seems, looking at the source for MS products could give me nightmares.
Microsoft really should be, as any company should be, a company aiming for excellence in their products and services. As currently it appears so to the general public! But under a magnifying glass...
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There is a difference between free speech and the aura that the general population / post-modernism has created surrounding it. Free speech is not the right to say or express whatever you desire and where; it is exactly the right to keep the government in line and was first legislated to allow emphasis upon a democratic society.
Censorship is merely a partial means to control the path society takes, and is part of law.
org9
The average consumer would assume that the Pentium chips are much faster as Intel has branded a 'fancy' new 2.2 GHz chip. Even that AMD chips *model names* only reach to +1900. (about 1.63 GHz).
Almost hilariously, AMD doesn't have to get their chips running at a 2.2 GHz frequency to get nearly the same performance.
The same speed differences per frequency show up in the lower bus-speed chips (Duron / Celeron).
The average consumer is completely unaware of the closeness between speed of the chips of each company.
AMD chips are much better priced, and carry more value for their money. Stability is excellent, speed is unmatchable in identical frequency ranges. It has been this way for a couple years now.
Aside, AMD has likely changed their naming system to make their chips 'sound' competitive compared to Intel chips? (i.e. Athlon XP 1600+ sure sounds like 1600 MHz doesn't it!).
orgnine
Agreeably this could be true, but to the same effect I am wondering how one person managed to attempt 228 times (as mentioned in the article) to vote.
Isn't this obviously more than just shameful mass e-mail tactics? Such as automated scripts?
orgnine
If, perhaps, you do not favourably like JonKatz and/or his reviews, there is also an option to simply ignore the reviews, not read them, and not post anything in regards to them. Judging from the posts here already, this would cut down posts to a mere handful and then maybe JonKatz would get a subtle hint.
/.
Agreeably though, I think a review for a movie of this calibre is completely out of place on
:)
org9
As this job is notably one of the most important in the computing world, do you plan on holding yourself accountable to ensure you follow a definitive game plan for
ensuing a mass inspection and reorganization of Microsoft's resources and operation?
Excellent that finally people are doing something about spam... not like some that are just passing the buck.
Personally I am fed up with tolerance people have for spammers. It is a very negative facet of the computing industry and a lot of people are plain turned off of e-mail because of spammers. Economy-wise, there is a negative trend that will continue to appear if spammers, fakes, phoneys, aren't given the prod with a very hot iron.
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The Original Spam
I personally would really enjoy a high-powered high-tech remote control helicopter myself.
:) Maybe even a sensitive omni-directional mic?
Arm it with a video camera to not only spy on friends or surprise them when they are backing out of the driveway... But also to travel over long distances and see where you are going at the same time
Hook up the A/V and R/C to a high-power transmitter and sit in your equipment van in the park with the dish spinning.
I think it'd be a blast.
orgnine
Spam is such a law-bending crock.
Spammers remind me of terrorists.
Examples:
I just formed a website design firm and even if I want to post an e-mail address on my website or any other website I design I find I can still get spam. Within three weeks of my first posted e-mail address I began receiving spam TODAY due to stupid bots. It seems like the bots can even get through the cgi-scripts. How fun!
Here in Canada I go to Radio Shack to get some batteries and they want my mailing address to send me their retarded flyers. I'm like, no. (Unless I'm desparate for some fire-starting paper!).
IMHO Spam must be obliterated not only through the Internet but also through mail... I still receive tons of junk mail through e-mail and my mailbox.
We must collaborate and form an allegiance against the terrorists.. er... spammers. You know what I mean.
orgnine
Wait a sec... Does this mean if I modify quake to the Quack version that I will get better quality performance out of my ATI drivers?
org9
Agreeably. I speak from experience- web designers have a hard enough time making a site even 90% compatible with Netscape. Thinking of Mozilla just adds pressure because then we also have to start thinking of how to fit a website in a 640x480 window. Don't get me started on that.
Don't forget the underdogs (Mozilla, etc) have to do a bit more work to catch up with the industry. Otherwise they are going to continue to spur up a conundrum of backlag.
org9
CNet has one great idea posting this series. Their job is keeping people informed, and even if they are lacking technical detail, these articles are worth a read.
There are millions upon millions of uninformed internet users in the world. The reality is, if local ISP's keep getting bought out either by AOL or Microsoft, people will eventually run out of alternative solutions to net access.
But the Internet is so vast. It would take Microsoft *quite* a while to accomplish their task. XP seems like it is just the first step... a new piece of software, new features, new activation features, etc etc. Everything is promising to be more secure, more friendly, easier to use, prettier to look at.
Don't forget, people, under all that pretty GUI gobbley-gook, there is CODE. A lot of M$ code.
And down the line, where is this code taking us? Is it taking us down the line of product and service excellence, and customer care? Or is it taking us down the line customer control? I think you can see the gist of XP.
org9
And I thought these were bad:
Pontiac Aztec
Dodge PT Cruiser
Dodge Prowler
not to mention some newer pick up trucks
and trucks with 8" alloy tires (WTH?)
org9
It seems like this is a typical statement from Microsoft, really. You'd think that even a half-decent software company would somewhat appreciate people's efforts to exploit their software. But not Microsoft. There have quite literally been hundreds of critical flaws with half of Microsoft's OSes in the past long while. DOS or Win 3.1 were probably the most secure operating systems to date, albeit less dynamic. True, exploiting can do damage, but... where would MS be if it weren't for public displays of hacking? There would be bigger underground hacking parties, who eventually would come out with all the exploits and do big damage to big companies on big networks. Just fresh format and install Win98, for example, (which millions of people still use). Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and see for yourself, you've got a lot of downloading and rebooting to do to make sure you are secure. I really think that, (and this is likely obvious to most people), Microsoft is getting frustrated with having to send out buckets 'o patches. One surefire way of getting rid of exploitation is: If Microsoft completely tested all software and the programmers were more efficient organized and to start with they wouldn't have half the problems. It seems, looking at the source for MS products could give me nightmares. Microsoft really should be, as any company should be, a company aiming for excellence in their products and services. As currently it appears so to the general public! But under a magnifying glass...