Maybe true, but don't you think there would be some sort of effort already to do so? Let's be honest, OSX has been out for, what, four years now and there isn't ONE virus.
for many of my personal tech clients is one of two choices: be vigilant about running your spyware eevry week and use Firefox instead of IE. Also, make sure to have all MS updates. My second option is to go the Mac way. I had a client the other night who had her family's IBM PC completely wiped out by some trojan horse. Her daughter downloaded free version of Limewire and it went to hell from there. She said her son (a college student in Boston) keeps egging her on about replacing the PC with a Mac. I told her about the new MiniMe box and seems like she's going to take the plunge.
Most people I deal with - parents, grandparents mostly - simply have no idea what to do about all this shit that these lozer hackerz throw at them. They get very angry and become very frustrated. So, switch to a Mac or learn your PC skills very well. In that vein, allow vigilatiism against these retard hackers.
I submit a story of newsworthiness and get rejected. you guys pick up a story from two DAYS ago after the entire world has already heard about it and post it? You guys suck.
I realize I may be in the minority, but I think the CPU specs suck. the BEST they can do is a 1.4Mhz G4? I might as well snag a used G4 tower at that price. And the 80GB drive? Still way too small. Since 300GB drives are available, why not give customers the option to go that high? Hell, even 200 would be great. I have an old Mac tower with 4 drives. Where am I supposed to put all my crap? In theory, this thing is great. But the G5 has been out for well over a year, year and a half and they're giving us the leftovers? Make it an inch higher and give us a screaming G5!! Oh, and the graphics card? Also yesterday' news. No thanks, Steve. What a bummer.
Other than offering an iPod at a cheap price-point, I don't see why anyone would want one. Capacity is a joke, so why bother? Maybe its Apple's way of hooking the 3-10 year-old market early.
Folks, I'm telling you, I've used Yahoo's new Spyware program that sits in the Yahoo toolbar and the thing works BETTER than AdAware. I'm serious. I had to fix my parents' and my inlaws' PCs, both with XP2. I've used AdAware and a few other freebies on both, but they still ran slow. So, for the hell of it, I used the new Yahoo thingy and it found TONS of stuff the others did not, including a trojan spam application. I have yet to see anyone talk about this app (even Ars Technica's latest Spyware article neglected to talk about it).
My good friend and I plan on spending an entire day watching the entire extended trilogy sometime this month. It's a good thing we're both married, as this wouldn't exactly attract the womens.
Although, I have to admit I never got it on with a geek babe...
Anyway, the LOTR trilogy will likely be the greatest movie series ever done. IMO, it is far, far, far superior to Stars Wars, old and new.
Well, as I said you idiot, I HAVE BEEN THERE. And, no, maybe not all of the people there are poor, but a majority of them are. You want to know how hard it was to even get a phone call out of there to the US? How about how long it took my lungs to recover from an 11-day trip? How about my plane being delayed for hours because of poor visibility...due to dense pollution in Mumbai?
You try to pin me as this teeny-bopper cyber dork, but you're the ignorant one. I've seen a good portion of the country FIRST HAND, as I'm sure you certainly have not. Much of it was beautiful, but what had been touched by human hands had been virtually destroyed.
And why exactly, do we need to be the "leader" in the space race? I see hundreds of billions of dollars being dumped into NASA, yet I can name about 10 school districts in my area that have terrible facilities, old, outdated books, high crime, underperforming students and crappy teachers. But I guess that's not so important anymore.
....that India has about a billion poor, illiterate and starving people -- not to mention an ancient infrastructure and horrible pollution -- I think the Indians can think of a few million BETTER ideas to waste money on. This is asinine. I've been there and seen the country, so I know what I am talking about.
I've got over 500 CDs in my collection, but these days I'm lucky if I buy a new one more than once every 4 or 5 months. There is just rarely anything good out there anymore. Granted, I'm a metal fan, but even metal acts suck these days. I can always relyon groups like Judas Priest, Megadeth or Iron Maiden to put out somethig worthwhile, but that's about it. Kinda sad.
Why should we line the pockets of accouting suits and boy band whores for music that sucks and artists that can't really sing. Britney can't sing live (never has), no can half the "stars" out there. Start promoting some GOOD music and GOOD musicians and then maybe we'll start buying CDs again. The new Judas Priest album is due out in January. Let's see if Sony actually promotes them more than some porn star-looking wench....
I also wanted to point out something that speaks clearly to the lack of a "message" by the Kerry campaign. I had more than one prson say to me "Kerry keeps saying 'I have a plan.' Well, what is this plan? He keeps talking about it but never tells us what it is!" Even my dad, who voted for Perot 12 years ago and isn't what you'd call a conservative, said this. Most people aren't going to seek out real information on candidates and vote on shallow issues or mis-information. Hell, a survey taken 2 weeks ago found that a majority of Bush supporters were still convinced Saddam had something to do with 9/11 and that there were WMDs stillin Iraq. Go figure that one out....
I agree with another poster that Kerry (or maybe rather the Democrats) put up a lame fight. I am shocked and depressed that more than 50 million people voted for the dumbest president in our history. He's done everything to appease the far right, led us into a war that is only festering the wounds of anti-Americanism, is plunging us into mind-boggling debt and uses emotional - and completely irrelevant - issues to weasel votes in his favor. Abortion? Gay marriage? You tell me how many of you are directly and negatively affected by either of these. I only hope the next four years are different from the last four. This administration sickens me in more ways than I can think. We are lving in a more dangerous world that's only going to be come more dangerous under Bush's watch. God help us (although I don't really believe in "god.")
And I hope that day comes sooner rather than later. This is about as asinine as suing others over "patenting" online coupons or graphical images. With every day I live, the more I despise lawyers. Vioxx lawsuits, personal injury attorneys, bogus technology patent lawsuits... It never ends. It's next to impossible to do business in this country anymore. Please, lord, make it stop!!
I wrote a story for a paper I work for this week about some guy here in town who got one of thses checks. You should see the emails these morons sent this guy. Hilarious and horrible English: You can make the transfer of our profit to our headquarters in London. These morons gave him instructions on how to send the extra $2100 via Western Union. The fake check was sent from Greece in a crappy brown paper envelope and they wanted payemt sent to Scotland. What a racket they got going. The check looks pretty good, but these numbnuts used regular paper stock, notthe heavy paper used by banks, and no watermarks.
Anyway, I've heard a few other stories around here. People are just too trusting and/or dumb. They readily fall for this scam left and right.
Yeah, he does shill for lots of bands, but the rest of his show is genuine. I don't listen to his show for the music, though, unless it's Crackhead Bob singing God Bless America.
You have no idea how happy this makes me. Sure, this may not be the job of the AG, but who else has stepped up? It's clear tyhe scummy record industry has been doing this illegaly for years. Listen to any rock station in any given city adn what do you hear? The same shit played over and over. I refuse to listen to radio anymore unless it's Howard Stern, CBS news or a sports game. Otherwise, I listen to my CDs. Radio is such a joke and is simply a marketing whore tool for the record shills. Gone are the days when DJs actually picked GOOD music to play. Now, we have record companies (who are going the way of the DoDo, thank god) dictating what we listen to. They must all be Republicans....
I don't know why fellow members of the press give any attention to Marc Asdreeson. Look, he was lucky where he ended up during and after college. Since then, what exactly has he done? Nothing. If I were him, I'd enjoy my millions made of Netscape stock and go away. He really has no authority or experience to really talk much about the internet anymore. I have no interest in what he says because in my mind he's a one-hit wonder. It's like paying attention to Sally Jesse Raphael talking about Howard Stern movign to sat radio. There's nothing there. Just my opinion.
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Mini Mac. $500+. No reason to spend $1,000 if they don't want to. Also, the OS is much mroe user-friendly than XP or whatever.
Maybe true, but don't you think there would be some sort of effort already to do so? Let's be honest, OSX has been out for, what, four years now and there isn't ONE virus.
for many of my personal tech clients is one of two choices: be vigilant about running your spyware eevry week and use Firefox instead of IE. Also, make sure to have all MS updates.
My second option is to go the Mac way. I had a client the other night who had her family's IBM PC completely wiped out by some trojan horse. Her daughter downloaded free version of Limewire and it went to hell from there. She said her son (a college student in Boston) keeps egging her on about replacing the PC with a Mac. I told her about the new MiniMe box and seems like she's going to take the plunge.
Most people I deal with - parents, grandparents mostly - simply have no idea what to do about all this shit that these lozer hackerz throw at them. They get very angry and become very frustrated. So, switch to a Mac or learn your PC skills very well. In that vein, allow vigilatiism against these retard hackers.
I submit a story of newsworthiness and get rejected. you guys pick up a story from two DAYS ago after the entire world has already heard about it and post it? You guys suck.
I realize I may be in the minority, but I think the CPU specs suck. the BEST they can do is a 1.4Mhz G4? I might as well snag a used G4 tower at that price. And the 80GB drive? Still way too small. Since 300GB drives are available, why not give customers the option to go that high? Hell, even 200 would be great. I have an old Mac tower with 4 drives. Where am I supposed to put all my crap?
In theory, this thing is great. But the G5 has been out for well over a year, year and a half and they're giving us the leftovers? Make it an inch higher and give us a screaming G5!!
Oh, and the graphics card? Also yesterday' news. No thanks, Steve.
What a bummer.
You forgot to add a cordless drill.
Other than offering an iPod at a cheap price-point, I don't see why anyone would want one. Capacity is a joke, so why bother? Maybe its Apple's way of hooking the 3-10 year-old market early.
I doubt it. It's not like they're Gator or some other shady company.
I forgot to mention that both PCs ran noticeably faster after using this tool.
Folks, I'm telling you, I've used Yahoo's new Spyware program that sits in the Yahoo toolbar and the thing works BETTER than AdAware. I'm serious. I had to fix my parents' and my inlaws' PCs, both with XP2. I've used AdAware and a few other freebies on both, but they still ran slow. So, for the hell of it, I used the new Yahoo thingy and it found TONS of stuff the others did not, including a trojan spam application. I have yet to see anyone talk about this app (even Ars Technica's latest Spyware article neglected to talk about it).
My good friend and I plan on spending an entire day watching the entire extended trilogy sometime this month. It's a good thing we're both married, as this wouldn't exactly attract the womens.
Although, I have to admit I never got it on with a geek babe...
Anyway, the LOTR trilogy will likely be the greatest movie series ever done. IMO, it is far, far, far superior to Stars Wars, old and new.
Well, as I said you idiot, I HAVE BEEN THERE. And, no, maybe not all of the people there are poor, but a majority of them are. You want to know how hard it was to even get a phone call out of there to the US? How about how long it took my lungs to recover from an 11-day trip? How about my plane being delayed for hours because of poor visibility...due to dense pollution in Mumbai?
You try to pin me as this teeny-bopper cyber dork, but you're the ignorant one. I've seen a good portion of the country FIRST HAND, as I'm sure you certainly have not. Much of it was beautiful, but what had been touched by human hands had been virtually destroyed.
And why exactly, do we need to be the "leader" in the space race? I see hundreds of billions of dollars being dumped into NASA, yet I can name about 10 school districts in my area that have terrible facilities, old, outdated books, high crime, underperforming students and crappy teachers.
But I guess that's not so important anymore.
....that India has about a billion poor, illiterate and starving people -- not to mention an ancient infrastructure and horrible pollution -- I think the Indians can think of a few million BETTER ideas to waste money on. This is asinine.
I've been there and seen the country, so I know what I am talking about.
...people think broadband is a southern rock group with chicks.
"What yuh doin' with that thar 'puter, Billy Bob?"
Yeah, I know OS X has been out for 3 years, but we don't have it at work and I can't afford a new machine that can run OS X. Where's the love, people?
I've got over 500 CDs in my collection, but these days I'm lucky if I buy a new one more than once every 4 or 5 months. There is just rarely anything good out there anymore. Granted, I'm a metal fan, but even metal acts suck these days. I can always relyon groups like Judas Priest, Megadeth or Iron Maiden to put out somethig worthwhile, but that's about it. Kinda sad.
Why should we line the pockets of accouting suits and boy band whores for music that sucks and artists that can't really sing. Britney can't sing live (never has), no can half the "stars" out there. Start promoting some GOOD music and GOOD musicians and then maybe we'll start buying CDs again.
The new Judas Priest album is due out in January. Let's see if Sony actually promotes them more than some porn star-looking wench....
I also wanted to point out something that speaks clearly to the lack of a "message" by the Kerry campaign. I had more than one prson say to me "Kerry keeps saying 'I have a plan.' Well, what is this plan? He keeps talking about it but never tells us what it is!"
Even my dad, who voted for Perot 12 years ago and isn't what you'd call a conservative, said this. Most people aren't going to seek out real information on candidates and vote on shallow issues or mis-information. Hell, a survey taken 2 weeks ago found that a majority of Bush supporters were still convinced Saddam had something to do with 9/11 and that there were WMDs stillin Iraq. Go figure that one out....
I agree with another poster that Kerry (or maybe rather the Democrats) put up a lame fight. I am shocked and depressed that more than 50 million people voted for the dumbest president in our history. He's done everything to appease the far right, led us into a war that is only festering the wounds of anti-Americanism, is plunging us into mind-boggling debt and uses emotional - and completely irrelevant - issues to weasel votes in his favor. Abortion? Gay marriage? You tell me how many of you are directly and negatively affected by either of these.
I only hope the next four years are different from the last four. This administration sickens me in more ways than I can think. We are lving in a more dangerous world that's only going to be come more dangerous under Bush's watch. God help us (although I don't really believe in "god.")
And I hope that day comes sooner rather than later. This is about as asinine as suing others over "patenting" online coupons or graphical images. With every day I live, the more I despise lawyers. Vioxx lawsuits, personal injury attorneys, bogus technology patent lawsuits... It never ends. It's next to impossible to do business in this country anymore. Please, lord, make it stop!!
I wrote a story for a paper I work for this week about some guy here in town who got one of thses checks. You should see the emails these morons sent this guy. Hilarious and horrible English: You can make the transfer of our profit to our headquarters in London.
These morons gave him instructions on how to send the extra $2100 via Western Union. The fake check was sent from Greece in a crappy brown paper envelope and they wanted payemt sent to Scotland. What a racket they got going. The check looks pretty good, but these numbnuts used regular paper stock, notthe heavy paper used by banks, and no watermarks.
Anyway, I've heard a few other stories around here. People are just too trusting and/or dumb. They readily fall for this scam left and right.
Yeah, he does shill for lots of bands, but the rest of his show is genuine. I don't listen to his show for the music, though, unless it's Crackhead Bob singing God Bless America.
You have no idea how happy this makes me. Sure, this may not be the job of the AG, but who else has stepped up? It's clear tyhe scummy record industry has been doing this illegaly for years. Listen to any rock station in any given city adn what do you hear? The same shit played over and over. I refuse to listen to radio anymore unless it's Howard Stern, CBS news or a sports game. Otherwise, I listen to my CDs. Radio is such a joke and is simply a marketing whore tool for the record shills. Gone are the days when DJs actually picked GOOD music to play. Now, we have record companies (who are going the way of the DoDo, thank god) dictating what we listen to. They must all be Republicans....
I don't know why fellow members of the press give any attention to Marc Asdreeson. Look, he was lucky where he ended up during and after college. Since then, what exactly has he done? Nothing. If I were him, I'd enjoy my millions made of Netscape stock and go away. He really has no authority or experience to really talk much about the internet anymore. I have no interest in what he says because in my mind he's a one-hit wonder. It's like paying attention to Sally Jesse Raphael talking about Howard Stern movign to sat radio. There's nothing there.
Just my opinion.
Actually, now thast I see he owes a lot of money to some Chinese businessmen, I have more hope that he'll "disappear." You don't mess with them.