Do the movie studios really think that the people leaking their movies are the same people who are getting free copies to vote on? I really doubt that the movies that get out early come from encrypted DVDs.
When you've got people working at the movie studio with unencrypted media, you can expect that most of the leaked movies will come directly from the movie studio.
I don't really think that Dashboard is a copy of Konfabulator. Apple had a lot of the stuff in Dashboard a long time ago- desktop accessories in the old Mac OS: Calculator, Stickies, Puzzle, et cetera. The floating clock came from NeXTSTEP(the OS Apple "merged" with Mac OS to create OS X).
It looks more like Apple is taking their old ideas and incorporating them in a way that looks like a recent product, kind of like people thought they had copied the dock from the Windows taskbar when NeXT had had docked icons for years before Windows 95 came out.
Do you really think that you'll always have to type in numbers to call someone?
Eventually, I bet you'll be able to pick up a "phone", say "New York City, Michael Joseph Smith and Mary Ellen Smith", and have it connect you.
It's not that the device you use will have a database itself. It will probably use something similar to DNS Servers to resolve your words to an address.
He described ideals. You described current attempts at meeting those ideals.
You may have menus on your phone for commonly-dialed friends, family, and businesses, but you still had to put in the numbers at least once.
I don't think it's likely that spambots will pick up on more than one of my addresses within several months. I'm probably only registered at about 30-40 sites(about 10 of which I visit really frequently), and most of them can be set to hide your email address. I haven't had to block any of the addresses I've used at popular sites so far.
Even if they did, I could knock the spam I received back down to zero just by having my server disregard any mail sent to that address and then if I'm still visiting that site, changing my address in that site's preferences.
When you register with a hosting company, very frequently, they set up what's called a catch-all account, and any email to your domain that's not addressed to a real address goes there. This is how I use it:
I only use my main email address with friends and family, and never post it online.
Whenever I post an email address or register for anything online, I put thatsite@mydomain.com as my email address.
All email is received by one account, but each message can have a different "to:" header. I set my filters to filter mail to different boxes. Email sent to amazon@mydomain.com goes to the amazon folder. Same with ebay, slashdot, whatever.
Any time I start receiving spam, I just set my mail server to disregard email sent to whatever email address is getting the spam, and I can stop doing business with the company that sold my email address.
I've lived in Albuquerque(next to Rio Rancho) half my life, and the rest of New Mexico for most of the other half, and I've gone years without seeing a cactus.
I have mod points right now and I'm posting with Firefox.9 with several extensions in OS X 10.3.4 with all recent updates. Slashdot's layout looks the same to me right now as it has since I've been coming here.
You give the public more credit than they deserve. Just because a product is better doesn't mean that people will use it more.
For example, take just about every product Microsoft makes. Does the competition have a better product? Then why does Microsoft have the marketshare? Because people know the name "Microsoft".
Maybe in a few years after this deal, Starz will be known for crappy B-rated movies that you'd certainly never intentionally see in a theater, but I'd bet that would have more to do with the Real encoding than the content of the movies.
From what I've seen, Starz plays more big-name movies and sooner than HBO, Cinemax, The Movie Channel, Showtime, et cetera.
I agree that the XP theme is the worst theme I've ever used. The classic Windows theme is better, but it's still no OS X. I'm really impressed by Plastik in the newest version of KDE. Plastik doesn't jump out and say "Look at me! Look at me!" like XP does. It lets you focus on what you're doing instead of trying to make every little widget look like the prettiest thing in the world like XP does. Plastik looks almost as good as Aqua.
That being said, I'm not a huge fan of the way the KDE panel looks. It still seems to be trying to grab your attention. When I'm looking at the bottom of the screen in KDE, I always find myself looking at it because it looks like a glass bar.
As for icons, I don't like the icons in KDE. They look like someone tried to draw cartoons on glass. I prefer OS X's icons, because they seem the most realistic and least cartoony. XP has somewhat-decent-looking icons, but I don't think they look as nice as the icons in OS X.
There are already ways to screw up cel phone reception, and I don't think that's a bad thing. I would love to see jammers in movie theaters. I can't remember the last movie I went to where some jackoff five seats away from me didn't decide he needed to talk to someone right at the best part of the movie.
Also, if you remember a few years back, we didn't have cel phones. They weren't needed when I was a kid, and I was born all the way back in 1982.
How do we know this isn't just like one of the hundreds of fake Windows virus warnings out there? Has anyone else found this file yet? I haven't and I'm looking all over Limewire.
Without requiring a password, this would be pretty difficult to do, since a user wouldn't have permission to touch much of anything outside of his home directory. I'd be willing to bet this is a hoax.
Since when does anything Comcast does make any sense?
They put bandwidth restrictions on customers, but don't tell the customers what the restrictions are.
They try to buy Disney.
Now they buy TechTV, kill off a whole network of great programming, and replace it with G4? Seriously, what kind of loser wants to watch other people play games?
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When you've got people working at the movie studio with unencrypted media, you can expect that most of the leaked movies will come directly from the movie studio.
I see your little plan. What a clever way to wipe out the population at Microsoft.
I got that too.
Funny? I don't think he was joking.
It looks more like Apple is taking their old ideas and incorporating them in a way that looks like a recent product, kind of like people thought they had copied the dock from the Windows taskbar when NeXT had had docked icons for years before Windows 95 came out.
I would like Apple to add peeling to the next version of OS X.
Who owns Slashdot?
Actually yes, yes we do.
Eventually, I bet you'll be able to pick up a "phone", say "New York City, Michael Joseph Smith and Mary Ellen Smith", and have it connect you.
It's not that the device you use will have a database itself. It will probably use something similar to DNS Servers to resolve your words to an address.
He described ideals. You described current attempts at meeting those ideals. You may have menus on your phone for commonly-dialed friends, family, and businesses, but you still had to put in the numbers at least once.
Even if they did, I could knock the spam I received back down to zero just by having my server disregard any mail sent to that address and then if I'm still visiting that site, changing my address in that site's preferences.
- I only use my main email address with friends and family, and never post it online.
- Whenever I post an email address or register for anything online, I put thatsite@mydomain.com as my email address.
- All email is received by one account, but each message can have a different "to:" header. I set my filters to filter mail to different boxes. Email sent to amazon@mydomain.com goes to the amazon folder. Same with ebay, slashdot, whatever.
- Any time I start receiving spam, I just set my mail server to disregard email sent to whatever email address is getting the spam, and I can stop doing business with the company that sold my email address.
I receive on average 0 spams per day.How in the heck was that a troll?
Before I looked, I knew this comment would get a lot of replies.
The Albuquerque/Rio Rancho area has about a million people, and Intel has a nice big fab in Rio Rancho. This isn't exactly the middle of nowhere.
I've lived in Albuquerque(next to Rio Rancho) half my life, and the rest of New Mexico for most of the other half, and I've gone years without seeing a cactus.
Are you kidding me?
I have mod points right now and I'm posting with Firefox .9 with several extensions in OS X 10.3.4 with all recent updates. Slashdot's layout looks the same to me right now as it has since I've been coming here.
For example, take just about every product Microsoft makes. Does the competition have a better product? Then why does Microsoft have the marketshare? Because people know the name "Microsoft".
From what I've seen, Starz plays more big-name movies and sooner than HBO, Cinemax, The Movie Channel, Showtime, et cetera.
That being said, I'm not a huge fan of the way the KDE panel looks. It still seems to be trying to grab your attention. When I'm looking at the bottom of the screen in KDE, I always find myself looking at it because it looks like a glass bar.
As for icons, I don't like the icons in KDE. They look like someone tried to draw cartoons on glass. I prefer OS X's icons, because they seem the most realistic and least cartoony. XP has somewhat-decent-looking icons, but I don't think they look as nice as the icons in OS X.
Also, if you remember a few years back, we didn't have cel phones. They weren't needed when I was a kid, and I was born all the way back in 1982.
How do we know this isn't just like one of the hundreds of fake Windows virus warnings out there? Has anyone else found this file yet? I haven't and I'm looking all over Limewire.
Without requiring a password, this would be pretty difficult to do, since a user wouldn't have permission to touch much of anything outside of his home directory. I'd be willing to bet this is a hoax.
"Yes, but Apple created their own Gecko-based browser..they didnt ask the opensource community to write their browser around OS X"
he was wrong.