I didn't say the segway was a good idea, we'll have to let the market make that choice. I think they're stupid (as do a lot of others), but it's not my choice.
Maybe some day we'll all be zipping around on retarded scooters, maybe we won't. I don't think we should make premtive laws unless there's a problem.
All this means is that the company you sell your action figure rights to will only be taxed at 6% rather then 12% for importing them from china, should they travel back in time and import them when these taxes were still in effect.
I'm assuming that your super power had something to do with time travel...
Are they going to ban skateboards, roller blades, and inline electric scooters as well? Seaways are supposed to be safer then these things.
Bleh, fucking lame ass government stifling innovation because of imagined phantoms. Lets keep things exactly the way they are, and then we don't have to worry about the unknown, nothing to fear (except for car crashes...)
I hate this preemptive rulemaking bullshit. If something causes a problem out of proportion to it's benefit then ban it. Certainly they shouldn't be banned until they have been shown to be dangerous!
Holy shit that heat-sink is insane. The size of heat-sinks on chips and graphics cards has been ridiculous lately. I remember the first time I got a video card with a tiny heat sink hastily glued on.
I guess if people are willing to buy it, more power to 'em, but that thing is just wrong:P
Maybe in a few years PCs will have standard coolent connectors the way they have standard power connectors today...
Please, they are run by the same damn people. XM is part owned by Clear Channel for god's sake.
Hopefully in the future the Cellular/wi-fi networks will keep us connected to the internet all the time and we'll be able to listen to streaming radio in our cars.
(btw, does anyone ever listen to the radio while they're not driving around? It's kind of weird. Oh well)
This should do a lot to discredit Seti. Either they are UFO loving wack-jobs, or UFO's do exist, but obviously aren't using any kind of radio communication that can be detected using Distributed computing.
Perhaps these people will put their computers to better use.
I can't imagine they're talking about deep-linking in the regular sense... i.e. doing what slashdot and a billion other sites out there do, link to spesific pages within a website.
IIRC, it had a lot to do with the fact that they were framing content and showing their own ads and stuff. I still think a lawsuit is rediculous, seeing as all you need to do is block certan refers and break out of frames using JS or HTTP headers.
But anyway, is it really that important to 'pirate' links or whatever? Seems rediculous. Glad I don't live in Europe I guess. Erm, not that US laws are that great. We'll have to form our own nation. Call it technopia or something. Yup, that's the ticket.
After having some problems with my mail server, I re-enabled my hotmail account and I noticed a lot of spam these days consist entirely of graphical images, with some random, non-sensical words thrown in for good mesure. I don't think it will be long before you Bayesian filter will be obsolite.
If a spammers is just taking advantage of an open relay, having 25 cut off from them will stop them, but "Big guys" like Ralski won't be harmed because they'll be using their own 'legitimate' machines overseas.
Actualy, I think something more like this, at least for 'personal' mail protocol.
You have a Certificate Authority, say your ISP, VeriSign (gag), Me, whoever and when you send an email you digitally sign it, and send a copy of your public key (to verify), which in turn has been signed by the CA. If I trust the CA, then my mail server will accept your mail. Otherwise, bouncy bouncy...
If a CA gives out a lot of certs to spammers, they'll get taken off the list of valid CAs.
Well, actually he's not an idiot in general but this time he's talking about something he does not understand.
(btw, Apple didn't port anything, they wrote their own version of UNIX and then wrote a compatibility layer for their old stuff. )
Anyway, The entire basis of the article relies on a false premise, that Windows XP is still based on DOS. He offers cmd.exe as evidence. But the thing is, M$ already did what apple did, years BEFORE apple when they wrote NT. NT does most of what Unix can do, and it doesn't need to be replaced by Linux for any reason.
If you don't need the features, don't use 'em. A good multi-user OS is helpfull for families so that diffrent members can have their own book-marks, files, desktop backgrounds, etc. Sure, you don't need a multi-user OS to do that, but it makes it a lot cleaner.
It's also nice to be able to throw an OS you're used to up on a server, or whatnot.
but what if people want to run their own mail servers? For their own domains?
Are you saying that if I want to run my own mail server, I should get in touch with the mail admins of every single mail server of everyone I might ever want to send an email too so that I can send it on another port?
That's ridiculous. I shouldn't need to subsidize MX providers.
Otoh, a good solution might be traffic shaping, or even a sort of intelligent traffic shaper that limits the number of actual emails per day.
Personally, I think SMTP is just obsolete. Schlepping anti-spam mesures onto it is like trying to put copy protection on CDs. It's just not going to work. What we need to do move to new protocols. Ideally two separate ones. one for personal mail, and one for commercial/bulk mail. The personal system would make it difficult to send out tons of mail, but easy to get into people's boxes, while the commercial system would make it hard to get into the box (i.e. you need to be pre-authorized) but, by definition, you could send out as much as you want.
Digital certificates and encryption would be helpfull, for one thing
Even today, you can still get to a C: prompt under Windows XP, which means a disk operating system is hiding there no matter what Microsoft wants us to believe.
I can't belive he's so ignorant. You can get a C prompt in XP because people want a C prompt. It isn't needed (and in fact you can't get one in Windows ME, which is more DOS-like then XP)
Well, IBM is larger, and they ship free software. So in order for Microsoft to be the largest company that sells free software, they would need to be larger then IBM.
Otoh, if you're mesuring units shipped, M$ could probably do it. I don't know why they would want to, though.
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I didn't say the segway was a good idea, we'll have to let the market make that choice. I think they're stupid (as do a lot of others), but it's not my choice.
Maybe some day we'll all be zipping around on retarded scooters, maybe we won't. I don't think we should make premtive laws unless there's a problem.
All this means is that the company you sell your action figure rights to will only be taxed at 6% rather then 12% for importing them from china, should they travel back in time and import them when these taxes were still in effect.
I'm assuming that your super power had something to do with time travel...
Since the subcontracted to company (not marvel, I think it was Toy-Biz) won, they'll be reimbursed.
Are they going to ban skateboards, roller blades, and inline electric scooters as well? Seaways are supposed to be safer then these things.
Bleh, fucking lame ass government stifling innovation because of imagined phantoms. Lets keep things exactly the way they are, and then we don't have to worry about the unknown, nothing to fear (except for car crashes...)
I hate this preemptive rulemaking bullshit. If something causes a problem out of proportion to it's benefit then ban it. Certainly they shouldn't be banned until they have been shown to be dangerous!
These shots were done with this card
Holy shit that heat-sink is insane. The size of heat-sinks on chips and graphics cards has been ridiculous lately. I remember the first time I got a video card with a tiny heat sink hastily glued on.
:P
I guess if people are willing to buy it, more power to 'em, but that thing is just wrong
Maybe in a few years PCs will have standard coolent connectors the way they have standard power connectors today...
Please, they are run by the same damn people. XM is part owned by Clear Channel for god's sake.
Hopefully in the future the Cellular/wi-fi networks will keep us connected to the internet all the time and we'll be able to listen to streaming radio in our cars.
(btw, does anyone ever listen to the radio while they're not driving around? It's kind of weird. Oh well)
This should do a lot to discredit Seti. Either they are UFO loving wack-jobs, or UFO's do exist, but obviously aren't using any kind of radio communication that can be detected using Distributed computing.
Perhaps these people will put their computers to better use.
I can't imagine they're talking about deep-linking in the regular sense... i.e. doing what slashdot and a billion other sites out there do, link to spesific pages within a website.
IIRC, it had a lot to do with the fact that they were framing content and showing their own ads and stuff. I still think a lawsuit is rediculous, seeing as all you need to do is block certan refers and break out of frames using JS or HTTP headers.
But anyway, is it really that important to 'pirate' links or whatever? Seems rediculous. Glad I don't live in Europe I guess. Erm, not that US laws are that great. We'll have to form our own nation. Call it technopia or something. Yup, that's the ticket.
After having some problems with my mail server, I re-enabled my hotmail account and I noticed a lot of spam these days consist entirely of graphical images, with some random, non-sensical words thrown in for good mesure. I don't think it will be long before you Bayesian filter will be obsolite.
If a spammers is just taking advantage of an open relay, having 25 cut off from them will stop them, but "Big guys" like Ralski won't be harmed because they'll be using their own 'legitimate' machines overseas.
D:\WINNT>DEL TREE /Y C:/
Invalid switch - "Y".
Actualy, I think something more like this, at least for 'personal' mail protocol.
You have a Certificate Authority, say your ISP, VeriSign (gag), Me, whoever and when you send an email you digitally sign it, and send a copy of your public key (to verify), which in turn has been signed by the CA. If I trust the CA, then my mail server will accept your mail. Otherwise, bouncy bouncy...
If a CA gives out a lot of certs to spammers, they'll get taken off the list of valid CAs.
Well, slashdot wasn't an apple zealot orgy when first started using the site (like 99 or 98). The apple crap only started up about a year so ago.
Apple put a nice GUI on top of UNIX and called it OS X then why can't Microsoft develop a nice GUI to go on top of Linux and just call it Windows?
1) Linux is GPL'd and Microsoft would have to release a lot of their secret sauce, which they loath to do.
2) It would be retarded.
Well, actually he's not an idiot in general but this time he's talking about something he does not understand.
(btw, Apple didn't port anything, they wrote their own version of UNIX and then wrote a compatibility layer for their old stuff. )
Anyway, The entire basis of the article relies on a false premise, that Windows XP is still based on DOS. He offers cmd.exe as evidence. But the thing is, M$ already did what apple did, years BEFORE apple when they wrote NT. NT does most of what Unix can do, and it doesn't need to be replaced by Linux for any reason.
If you don't need the features, don't use 'em. A good multi-user OS is helpfull for families so that diffrent members can have their own book-marks, files, desktop backgrounds, etc. Sure, you don't need a multi-user OS to do that, but it makes it a lot cleaner.
It's also nice to be able to throw an OS you're used to up on a server, or whatnot.
Win9x didn't really run 'on-top' of dos, but rather 'next' to it. Their relationship was complicated.
but what if people want to run their own mail servers? For their own domains?
Are you saying that if I want to run my own mail server, I should get in touch with the mail admins of every single mail server of everyone I might ever want to send an email too so that I can send it on another port?
That's ridiculous. I shouldn't need to subsidize MX providers.
Otoh, a good solution might be traffic shaping, or even a sort of intelligent traffic shaper that limits the number of actual emails per day.
Personally, I think SMTP is just obsolete. Schlepping anti-spam mesures onto it is like trying to put copy protection on CDs. It's just not going to work. What we need to do move to new protocols. Ideally two separate ones. one for personal mail, and one for commercial/bulk mail. The personal system would make it difficult to send out tons of mail, but easy to get into people's boxes, while the commercial system would make it hard to get into the box (i.e. you need to be pre-authorized) but, by definition, you could send out as much as you want.
Digital certificates and encryption would be helpfull, for one thing
Even today, you can still get to a C: prompt under Windows XP, which means a disk operating system is hiding there no matter what Microsoft wants us to believe.
I can't belive he's so ignorant. You can get a C prompt in XP because people want a C prompt. It isn't needed (and in fact you can't get one in Windows ME, which is more DOS-like then XP)
Well, IBM is larger, and they ship free software. So in order for Microsoft to be the largest company that sells free software, they would need to be larger then IBM.
Otoh, if you're mesuring units shipped, M$ could probably do it. I don't know why they would want to, though.
I don't think anyone thinks Ann Coulter isn't a bitch.
They're not going to vent 2,000L of Helium, per magnet into the ozone, are they?
Erm, what exactly would be the problem with this?
Especially since we know this money will all go to innovative musicians creating great music. And not corporations that produce nothing.
Find me another mutli-billiion dollar a year industry that's NOT hurting in this day and age and I'll give you a cookie.
I hear the Military industrial complex is doing pretty good business these days.