If they're really that fix-crazed, how come outlook has had the same bug (overly persistent and reappearing send/receive dialog box) for years now? I first got that bug on Outlook Express on Windows 95. Fast forward 5 years, and I have that bug on Outlook on Windows 2000.
People like that guy keep my cynicism at bay. Keeping people like him somewhere in the back of your mind will give you hope for humankind when otherwise you'd give in to pessimism, and a snide outlook.
I'm sure MSFT shouldn't be in charge of this, there should be a gov't mandate to ISPs, and international treaties to cover the world, ensuring that a server in Kazahkstan doesn't just fill the gap. We have to change the economics, becaues complete filtering is impossible, and email is becoming tiresome from spam. Why should you have to hide your email address in communications? Death to Spammers.
this is why in the latest Wired Ralph Nader says we shouldn't export our patent system to other countries--for all it costs, it's malfunctional, routinely issuing destructive, horrible patents.
Gliek's is the best anti-spam article I've seen. I read this article yesterday and then emailed David Price, my Rep, and John Edwards, my Senator, urging them to support national prohibitions or regulations of spam. I urge you to do the same. Politicians bow to pressure. Apply enough citizen pressure and you can overcome even lobbyists.
The Greens are mostly uninformed anti-technology citizens. If they achieve political power we'll all be worse off. Forget lives saved via irradiation, cleaner air via nuclear power, a lassaiz-faire market. It would almost be as bad a world to live in as the Republicans would make, had they the power.
but as far as I know, a trade group like that cannot demand access to your computers, or your facilities. The BSA has no power to force any sort of audit of your licenses. We have old computers at work, and might not be able to locate proof that we paid for some of this stuff years ago. I manage the computers there, and if the BSA ever contacts me demanding an audit they'll be told to choke on it.
If it's somewhere in a license they can show we bought, that we have to allow access to the installed software, then for every license they can show, I can provide an adequate installation.
But the space shuttle has not lived up to promises, and there are no current technologies which will get space travel to a reasonable cost. Plus, there's really a lack of a mission. I'd say the hubble and other satellites are the only worthwhile things it's done. Given finite resources, what else could we do with those billions? A fusion manhattan project? Thousands more grants to scientists? The end of oil dependence? These are all more valuable things than going to space right now. I hate to say it, but rationally I believe we're better off shuttering nasa and diverting the money to other science endeavors. And if you consider all the possible uses for the money, it becomes more attractive to shutter nasa. Think of the millions in jeapordy from AIDS, and the horrors of Africa and parts of Asia.
the OSNews story sounds horrible. Who cares about something that worthless? Ohhhh wait that's why I use Windows 2000--I need to get stuff done, not spend my time screwing around with a kernel debugger. While we're at it, I don't build me own kitchen knives. I just buy some and get to making food.
mibad. that was supposed to be a reply to this guy's post, not a new reply:
Well... (Score:1)
by booch (4157) on Friday January 03, @13:13 (#5007578)
(http://craigbuchek.com/)
I'll be a monkey's uncle then.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Oh god I just realized with horror that further down this discussion I'm going to see creationist comments. Damn. You go for weeks with nothing but average-to-smart people, and then the aggressive morons pop up out of the blue. Such is life.
Because it raises the possibility of having the Ultimate Textbook. It is currently arduous to find comprehensive, well-developed resources for science. That's why 97% of my undergrad physics education is being done with dead-tree technology, and 3% is being done with email, mathematica, physlink, etc. This is the second recent big step in the right direction, the first being MIT's recent program. Soon, teachers and students will have quicker access to the meat, without being forced to endure a deluge of thousands of indistinct links, etc.
What would deal a bigger blow to these sorry-assed religions than meeting up with planetfulls of other intelligent beings, none of whom have heard of Allah, Yahweh, etc., and we haven't heard of their True Religions, Karlax, Vronontia, Mooolawaei....
Well what do you know, there's hope for the world yet!
Something to read while awaiting the next Neal Stephenson book. Except that the next Neal book is going to be about some crappy period hundreds of years ago when everything sucked.
"It's so big, it could even rain inside, so we have to keep the moisture down,"
Wasn't there something like this in Clive Barker's Imajica? A building, owned by the Autarch, so large it contained weater systems? How cool is that? Sure, not as big as Slartibartfast's shop, but still....
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If they're really that fix-crazed, how come outlook has had the same bug (overly persistent and reappearing send/receive dialog box) for years now? I first got that bug on Outlook Express on Windows 95. Fast forward 5 years, and I have that bug on Outlook on Windows 2000.
Ernest Shackleton's another guy who, kept in the background of your mind, will serve that purpose.
People like that guy keep my cynicism at bay. Keeping people like him somewhere in the back of your mind will give you hope for humankind when otherwise you'd give in to pessimism, and a snide outlook.
I'm sure MSFT shouldn't be in charge of this, there should be a gov't mandate to ISPs, and international treaties to cover the world, ensuring that a server in Kazahkstan doesn't just fill the gap. We have to change the economics, becaues complete filtering is impossible, and email is becoming tiresome from spam. Why should you have to hide your email address in communications? Death to Spammers.
How about in the slashdot summary, we give some idea what we're talking about from now on.
this is why in the latest Wired Ralph Nader says we shouldn't export our patent system to other countries--for all it costs, it's malfunctional, routinely issuing destructive, horrible patents.
Gliek's is the best anti-spam article I've seen. I read this article yesterday and then emailed David Price, my Rep, and John Edwards, my Senator, urging them to support national prohibitions or regulations of spam. I urge you to do the same. Politicians bow to pressure. Apply enough citizen pressure and you can overcome even lobbyists.
The Greens are mostly uninformed anti-technology citizens. If they achieve political power we'll all be worse off. Forget lives saved via irradiation, cleaner air via nuclear power, a lassaiz-faire market. It would almost be as bad a world to live in as the Republicans would make, had they the power.
Was there some sort of malfunction on Slashdot which caused 1000 words to appear where there should have been a summary?
If it's somewhere in a license they can show we bought, that we have to allow access to the installed software, then for every license they can show, I can provide an adequate installation.
I think from Aldrich. Maybe Sigma. Can't remember.
But the space shuttle has not lived up to promises, and there are no current technologies which will get space travel to a reasonable cost. Plus, there's really a lack of a mission. I'd say the hubble and other satellites are the only worthwhile things it's done. Given finite resources, what else could we do with those billions? A fusion manhattan project? Thousands more grants to scientists? The end of oil dependence? These are all more valuable things than going to space right now. I hate to say it, but rationally I believe we're better off shuttering nasa and diverting the money to other science endeavors. And if you consider all the possible uses for the money, it becomes more attractive to shutter nasa. Think of the millions in jeapordy from AIDS, and the horrors of Africa and parts of Asia.
the OSNews story sounds horrible. Who cares about something that worthless? Ohhhh wait that's why I use Windows 2000--I need to get stuff done, not spend my time screwing around with a kernel debugger. While we're at it, I don't build me own kitchen knives. I just buy some and get to making food.
I hope this works. It will enable new classes of democratic occupations based on information products which have very small per-unit value.
And after using them to begin two languages, it's now the first thing I look for. Consistently good series. Congrats, guys.
mibad. that was supposed to be a reply to this guy's post, not a new reply: Well... (Score:1) by booch (4157) on Friday January 03, @13:13 (#5007578) (http://craigbuchek.com/) I'll be a monkey's uncle then. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Oh god I just realized with horror that further down this discussion I'm going to see creationist comments. Damn. You go for weeks with nothing but average-to-smart people, and then the aggressive morons pop up out of the blue. Such is life.
Because it raises the possibility of having the Ultimate Textbook. It is currently arduous to find comprehensive, well-developed resources for science. That's why 97% of my undergrad physics education is being done with dead-tree technology, and 3% is being done with email, mathematica, physlink, etc. This is the second recent big step in the right direction, the first being MIT's recent program. Soon, teachers and students will have quicker access to the meat, without being forced to endure a deluge of thousands of indistinct links, etc.
As long as it doesn't turn into Space Muslims ramming K-XQ9 Interceptors into the Sears Tower, that is.
What would deal a bigger blow to these sorry-assed religions than meeting up with planetfulls of other intelligent beings, none of whom have heard of Allah, Yahweh, etc., and we haven't heard of their True Religions, Karlax, Vronontia, Mooolawaei....
Well what do you know, there's hope for the world yet!
Something to read while awaiting the next Neal Stephenson book. Except that the next Neal book is going to be about some crappy period hundreds of years ago when everything sucked.
please
*Weather Systems, that is
Wasn't there something like this in Clive Barker's Imajica? A building, owned by the Autarch, so large it contained weater systems? How cool is that? Sure, not as big as Slartibartfast's shop, but still....
who put this in the Science section? This belongs in Comedy. Or, if such a category exists, Retarded.