Most people I know say they get tons of spam... I really just don't see how. Are you posting it to the web somewhere? Are you giving it away to pr0n sites? Do you still insist on useing that aol, earthlink, hotmail, etc address for no good reason? I never get any spam. I don't work too hard for it either. I create a new email account when I want to order something online, and then delete it when my order ships. I have an account for ebay, and paypal and the like. To be honest, that one gets 1-4 spams a week. And then I have a personal account that NEVER gets any spam. I don't have a filter, I don't do anything special really. Can someone tell me how they manage to get so much?
"I couldn't care less about its claims to be a conduit for freedom of speech."
"It does not extend to breaking laws revolving around child endangerment and molestation and civil rights violations and hiding behind it by claiming it's protected by the right to free speech."
Personally, I think you're totally crazy. A digital camera and a CD burner might seem like ideal tools for publishing child pr0n. Should they be illegal? Should I say that I couldn't care less about their non-infringing uses? You're just another hypocrite who hates the DMCA for it's effects on non-infringing uses, but at the same time is more than happy to kill a project like FreeNET because it can be used in ways that are in violation of your laws and morals. I don't want to start a war here, but what is wrong with you people!?!?
You cannon purchase non-Opteron AMD64 processors that are capable of running dual. The reason is simple. The Athlon 64 line does not have enough hyper-transport links to connect to both another CPU and to the motherboard. The Opterons however, have more HT links. If you want to go dual, buy a couple Opteron.... That's what I did.
Not to be a n00b, but I can't make too much sense of the benchmark the story linked to. Could anyone give a short simple little explanation of what it means? Thanks so much!
I dissagree. If my child is old enough to pick up the controller and start driving around and shooting people, then I think he's old enough to learn the diference between what's real and what isn't. I'd consider myself a failure as a parent if I couldn't teach that to my kids by the time they can play a console game with any proficency.
Is pretty simple. I don't want to buy rights to watch a movie once. Oh, I want to watch it again? Shit... now I have to relicence / rerent my movie. I have to pay more, and it's more of a hassle. So many of you say that if people don't like it, they won't buy it. You all know that's bullshit. I don't like windows all that much. I mean, it's ok, but guess what? I had to buy a copy for school. Is that terrible? No, not really... Is being forced to rent a movie for each vewing all that bad? No... but I still don't want to have to...
And it goes along the lines of renting cabin. I set off to rent a cabin the other day. Everyone kept asking me how many people were staying there. I said "The cabin says it sleeps 6. I want to rent the cabin. How much?" And come to find out I have to pay based on how many people sleep there..... It's still just one cabin... I get the whole thing... I still don't get it. Is that 20$ a person for the water bill? The electricity? I don't think so. It's for their pockets.
In the future we'll live in a world where we will pay each time we watch a movie or listen to a song. We'll pay for each pasanger we give a ride to in the car we rented for the weekend. We'll pay based on the number of people staying in the cabin regaurdless of the fact that we rent the whole thing. It goes on and on. Hell, some of that happens now.
It's all about people making money for free. Does it cost the recording company ANYTHING if I watch their movie twice? No. Does it cost the cabin owners more if I have an extra person over? $1.00 in water if they take a shower maybe.. Does it cost the car rental company more if I give a friend a lift? Wear and tear? $1.00 maybe?
It's comming, and nothing we can do will stop it. I'm just going to sit back and enjoy my right to bitch until that's gone too.
The author did a great job of describing why I personally am against DRM and strict copy protection schemes. I could never really put my fears into words before, but I have to say the article(sp) hit it right on the head.
He's axactly right:)
Really, ALL WRONG! I keep seeing posts about the GUI. "It's not pretty enough" or "The install is not graphical" or "I want icons on my desktop". What the hell is up with all that?
I mean, if the install is done in ascii, great! It'll start faster, work on any monitor / graphics card, and instead of looking at some bubbly picture / GUI trying to figure out what the fuck to click on next, I'll have a question right in front of me IN PLAIN, EASY TO READ TEXT.
KDE / Gnome isn't bubbly/pretty enough? Damn, I feel sorry for you if you like to have bullshit on your screen that doesn't do anything and doesn't provide any information. Good for you, it looks pretty; it also takes up half your screen.
Gah, I could go on forever. Don't even get me started about dependency problems. I want an os that works. The main reason linux is unstable is all the graphics bullshit. I have NEVER had linux crash on me, X crashes every month or so, mozilla crashes weekly, and how about mozilla plugins? Twice as often. You see the trend here? To much laying, too much complexity. No, it's not good enough to write programs using the X11 API.... we need another layer! Yeah! That's it! Lets add another layer so things take up more memory, are slower, and have more bugs! Yay! Fuck all that.... grr... agrivated rant over...
I've been following the opteron's progress for quite a while now (3-4 months). Well, to be honest, I type "AMD" in the google news search and read anything that comes up everyday before I actually start doing any work. While SUN seems the be the largets potential supporter, Newisys, MSI, Appro International, smaller MB makers, and various vendors do seem to be giving good support. Even Microsoft has a working (I've seen some screen shots of a beta) version of windows for x86-64 called "Anvil" (Not yet released of course). Linux is up to speed, RedHat and SuSe and I don't know who all else has support. The chip isn't even out yet! I think things are going to work out for AMD and the Opteron/Athlon64. So far it seems like a good product, and I can say for meself at least that the delays only make me want one more.... If SUN jumps on the AMD wagon from the start as it looks like they're planning on, I think it may be what saves them.
I'm one paranoid mother fucker... and I think you're out to get me! I will not post in favor of your coments for fear that the man will find me! THE MAN WILL FUND ME! And stop posting that anyways. It's been in like all the stories for the past day and no, it's never on topic.
I'm not sure if anyone said this or not, but flash will work when used offline. I download flash movies all the time and have no problem using them. I have to say, I don't quite get it...
Woah! Chill out man. I have no real desire to emphasise the fact that the post is my opinion. Then why do I do it you ask? Simple. Statistically posts which include the phrase "Just my two cents" don't get modded down as often. Just looking after my karma.
The price hike sounds entirely reasonable because of the increased support responsibilities involved. I'm actually kind of supprised they didn't raise the prices more.. Just my 2 cents.
What ever happened do doing something for yourself by yourself? Let me ask you this. How would you feel about yourself if you quit smoking on your own? You just laid off the cigs a bit and then quit when you knew you had a handle on things. I bet you'd feel like a million bucks and be a lot more likely to try to improve yourself in the future! Now, how would you feel if you quit because someone was watching you over your shoulder? Good, but not as good. They made you quit; you didn't do it on your own. The smoking is gone, but the root of the problem is not solved or improved.
I may have an attitude about this, but concerning most self improvement, if you have too much help, it defeats the whole purpose. Grow a spine you limp-ass noodle! If you can't stop looking at a little pr0n on your own, you need to go to some classes on self control, some therapy, or talk some things out with a good friend. Now that is getting some needed help. The pr0n isn't the problem. The fact that you're a pussy is the problem. If you can't stop you have a problem that is not going to be solved by having someone watch you over your shoulder.
This software will be used to help people? I doubt it. It will be used to further Joe's issues. After all, why grow the balls to quit when you can be a pussy and have someone else make you? And when they are gone? What are you going to do? Start looking at the pr0n. You haven't learned a god-damned thing.
This is what is wrong with parents these days. Don't clean up their mess for them. Fucking smack them upside the head when they deserve it. It doesn't hurt them. It helps them.
Now, don't get me wrong. Heroin and coke addics can't just grow bigger balls. The addiction is bigger than their balls alone will ever be. That's when a person needs help. And yes, I'll apologize to the 100 or so people in the world who have a real pr0n addiction -- sorry.
Gah, the point is this. You claim that this will be used to help people. The people it will be used to "help" are actually getting fucked up worse. So I guess that whole "help" thing is out. Now what happens when this get abused? Jane: Joe! You better install that! We want you to quit right? Joe: (thinks: not really. I'm fine with it. We didn't have any problems until you found out.. what's the big deal? It doesn't change anything. I've been beating it to some pr0n ever since we've been dating!) Yeah honey! (thinks: I love you so much I'll give it up for you if i have to.. but damn... this stupid program! fuck you program, things would have been fine!)
Ok, ok, that's a little crazy... but it could happen. This program isn't wrong. It shouldn't be illeagal or anything. I know it's volitary... Just I think it will only be abused.
It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such as IBM.
Of course! Nothing can possibly be as good as your product unless they steal from you! I mean, after all, your product is perfect isn't it? If the person who made that comment meant it, I can't understand how they came to be in such a profession when they are clearly clueless. If they didn't mean it, I'm not so surprised. Liars are successful these days.
Personally, I find case mods help with that. I mean, I know they serve no real pourpose, but when you have a room filled with computers, it can help brighten things up. I have a window in my server cube and a cold-cathode light kit. My computer now looks kinda cool and provides a little blue light for the room. My rackmount server is in a 19" black (gloss black spray paint) rack with another hub. The rack is mostly empty so it's not really needed, but it still has a good look to it. I guess what I'm saying here is to unclutter things with a rack and at the same time try to increase the coolness factor. If you add a little style, the room won't seem quite so drab. My 2 cents anyways.
The question: have they broken the UK's Computer Misuse Act?
Heh, who cares about this "Computer Misuse Act". They broke your property which they did not have permission to mess with. It's really just as simple as, that. Sue them! You'll win hands down in my opinion (not that it matters).
Why not use CDROM ios images? It's standard, supported on every platform, and the software should be free. For windows, try Deamon Tools (read only). If you need read and write access, you may have to find some special software to make the.iso files to work, but I know It's possible.
I'm pleased. Open source should be considered. And at the same time, I'm glad they didn't take things too far and require the use of open source. This is a positive influence yet doesn't seem too restrictive. Good for them:)
I don't think that is anything to worry about. I mean, think about it.
Everyone in America is complaining about how US firms are employing foreign workings instead of US citizens. Once the foreign market starts to keep pace with / pass up the US, there will be an increased demand for IT workers in those countries. As demand for these workers increases, their salries will increase as well. This means US firms will be less eager to hire foreign workers.
Also, I think the US could use a good kick in the pants when it comes to motivation for product innovation. This may be just what we need.
As my professor described it, is a system similar to a power grid. You can plug in anywhere, and use the resources (Disk, Memory, CPU) of the grid for computation. Your resources would be added to the "grid collective" as well.
It seems as though this system would inherently be P2P. It's good to know the P2P people are starting to realize that there is more the P2P than file sharing. As for the grid people, they knew their system could be called "Peer to Peer" all along.
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lol! That would have been really funny if it was my address. :)
Most people I know say they get tons of spam... I really just don't see how. Are you posting it to the web somewhere? Are you giving it away to pr0n sites? Do you still insist on useing that aol, earthlink, hotmail, etc address for no good reason? I never get any spam. I don't work too hard for it either. I create a new email account when I want to order something online, and then delete it when my order ships. I have an account for ebay, and paypal and the like. To be honest, that one gets 1-4 spams a week. And then I have a personal account that NEVER gets any spam. I don't have a filter, I don't do anything special really. Can someone tell me how they manage to get so much?
"I couldn't care less about its claims to be a conduit for freedom of speech."
"It does not extend to breaking laws revolving around child endangerment and molestation and civil rights violations and hiding behind it by claiming it's protected by the right to free speech."
Personally, I think you're totally crazy. A digital camera and a CD burner might seem like ideal tools for publishing child pr0n. Should they be illegal? Should I say that I couldn't care less about their non-infringing uses? You're just another hypocrite who hates the DMCA for it's effects on non-infringing uses, but at the same time is more than happy to kill a project like FreeNET because it can be used in ways that are in violation of your laws and morals. I don't want to start a war here, but what is wrong with you people!?!?
You cannon purchase non-Opteron AMD64 processors that are capable of running dual. The reason is simple. The Athlon 64 line does not have enough hyper-transport links to connect to both another CPU and to the motherboard. The Opterons however, have more HT links. If you want to go dual, buy a couple Opteron.... That's what I did.
Not to be a n00b, but I can't make too much sense of the benchmark the story linked to. Could anyone give a short simple little explanation of what it means? Thanks so much!
I dissagree. If my child is old enough to pick up the controller and start driving around and shooting people, then I think he's old enough to learn the diference between what's real and what isn't. I'd consider myself a failure as a parent if I couldn't teach that to my kids by the time they can play a console game with any proficency.
The pictures in the box aren't real jimmy!
Is pretty simple. I don't want to buy rights to watch a movie once. Oh, I want to watch it again? Shit... now I have to relicence / rerent my movie. I have to pay more, and it's more of a hassle. So many of you say that if people don't like it, they won't buy it. You all know that's bullshit. I don't like windows all that much. I mean, it's ok, but guess what? I had to buy a copy for school. Is that terrible? No, not really... Is being forced to rent a movie for each vewing all that bad? No... but I still don't want to have to...
And it goes along the lines of renting cabin. I set off to rent a cabin the other day. Everyone kept asking me how many people were staying there. I said "The cabin says it sleeps 6. I want to rent the cabin. How much?" And come to find out I have to pay based on how many people sleep there..... It's still just one cabin... I get the whole thing... I still don't get it. Is that 20$ a person for the water bill? The electricity? I don't think so. It's for their pockets.
In the future we'll live in a world where we will pay each time we watch a movie or listen to a song. We'll pay for each pasanger we give a ride to in the car we rented for the weekend. We'll pay based on the number of people staying in the cabin regaurdless of the fact that we rent the whole thing. It goes on and on. Hell, some of that happens now.
It's all about people making money for free. Does it cost the recording company ANYTHING if I watch their movie twice? No. Does it cost the cabin owners more if I have an extra person over? $1.00 in water if they take a shower maybe.. Does it cost the car rental company more if I give a friend a lift? Wear and tear? $1.00 maybe?
It's comming, and nothing we can do will stop it. I'm just going to sit back and enjoy my right to bitch until that's gone too.
The author did a great job of describing why I personally am against DRM and strict copy protection schemes. I could never really put my fears into words before, but I have to say the article(sp) hit it right on the head. He's axactly right :)
Really, ALL WRONG! I keep seeing posts about the GUI. "It's not pretty enough" or "The install is not graphical" or "I want icons on my desktop". What the hell is up with all that?
I mean, if the install is done in ascii, great! It'll start faster, work on any monitor / graphics card, and instead of looking at some bubbly picture / GUI trying to figure out what the fuck to click on next, I'll have a question right in front of me IN PLAIN, EASY TO READ TEXT.
KDE / Gnome isn't bubbly/pretty enough? Damn, I feel sorry for you if you like to have bullshit on your screen that doesn't do anything and doesn't provide any information. Good for you, it looks pretty; it also takes up half your screen.
Gah, I could go on forever. Don't even get me started about dependency problems. I want an os that works. The main reason linux is unstable is all the graphics bullshit. I have NEVER had linux crash on me, X crashes every month or so, mozilla crashes weekly, and how about mozilla plugins? Twice as often. You see the trend here? To much laying, too much complexity. No, it's not good enough to write programs using the X11 API.... we need another layer! Yeah! That's it! Lets add another layer so things take up more memory, are slower, and have more bugs! Yay! Fuck all that.... grr... agrivated rant over...
I've been following the opteron's progress for quite a while now (3-4 months). Well, to be honest, I type "AMD" in the google news search and read anything that comes up everyday before I actually start doing any work. While SUN seems the be the largets potential supporter, Newisys, MSI, Appro International, smaller MB makers, and various vendors do seem to be giving good support. Even Microsoft has a working (I've seen some screen shots of a beta) version of windows for x86-64 called "Anvil" (Not yet released of course). Linux is up to speed, RedHat and SuSe and I don't know who all else has support. The chip isn't even out yet! I think things are going to work out for AMD and the Opteron/Athlon64. So far it seems like a good product, and I can say for meself at least that the delays only make me want one more.... If SUN jumps on the AMD wagon from the start as it looks like they're planning on, I think it may be what saves them.
w00t for AMD!
I'm one paranoid mother fucker... and I think you're out to get me! I will not post in favor of your coments for fear that the man will find me! THE MAN WILL FUND ME! And stop posting that anyways. It's been in like all the stories for the past day and no, it's never on topic.
I'm not sure if anyone said this or not, but flash will work when used offline. I download flash movies all the time and have no problem using them. I have to say, I don't quite get it...
Woah! Chill out man. I have no real desire to emphasise the fact that the post is my opinion. Then why do I do it you ask? Simple. Statistically posts which include the phrase "Just my two cents" don't get modded down as often. Just looking after my karma.
The price hike sounds entirely reasonable because of the increased support responsibilities involved. I'm actually kind of supprised they didn't raise the prices more.. Just my 2 cents.
What ever happened do doing something for yourself by yourself? Let me ask you this. How would you feel about yourself if you quit smoking on your own? You just laid off the cigs a bit and then quit when you knew you had a handle on things. I bet you'd feel like a million bucks and be a lot more likely to try to improve yourself in the future! Now, how would you feel if you quit because someone was watching you over your shoulder? Good, but not as good. They made you quit; you didn't do it on your own. The smoking is gone, but the root of the problem is not solved or improved.
I may have an attitude about this, but concerning most self improvement, if you have too much help, it defeats the whole purpose. Grow a spine you limp-ass noodle! If you can't stop looking at a little pr0n on your own, you need to go to some classes on self control, some therapy, or talk some things out with a good friend. Now that is getting some needed help. The pr0n isn't the problem. The fact that you're a pussy is the problem. If you can't stop you have a problem that is not going to be solved by having someone watch you over your shoulder.
This software will be used to help people? I doubt it. It will be used to further Joe's issues. After all, why grow the balls to quit when you can be a pussy and have someone else make you? And when they are gone? What are you going to do? Start looking at the pr0n. You haven't learned a god-damned thing.
This is what is wrong with parents these days. Don't clean up their mess for them. Fucking smack them upside the head when they deserve it. It doesn't hurt them. It helps them.
Now, don't get me wrong. Heroin and coke addics can't just grow bigger balls. The addiction is bigger than their balls alone will ever be. That's when a person needs help. And yes, I'll apologize to the 100 or so people in the world who have a real pr0n addiction -- sorry.
Gah, the point is this. You claim that this will be used to help people. The people it will be used to "help" are actually getting fucked up worse. So I guess that whole "help" thing is out. Now what happens when this get abused? Jane: Joe! You better install that! We want you to quit right? Joe: (thinks: not really. I'm fine with it. We didn't have any problems until you found out.. what's the big deal? It doesn't change anything. I've been beating it to some pr0n ever since we've been dating!) Yeah honey! (thinks: I love you so much I'll give it up for you if i have to.. but damn... this stupid program! fuck you program, things would have been fine!)
Ok, ok, that's a little crazy... but it could happen. This program isn't wrong. It shouldn't be illeagal or anything. I know it's volitary... Just I think it will only be abused.
It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such as IBM.
Of course! Nothing can possibly be as good as your product unless they steal from you! I mean, after all, your product is perfect isn't it? If the person who made that comment meant it, I can't understand how they came to be in such a profession when they are clearly clueless. If they didn't mean it, I'm not so surprised. Liars are successful these days.
Personally, I find case mods help with that. I mean, I know they serve no real pourpose, but when you have a room filled with computers, it can help brighten things up. I have a window in my server cube and a cold-cathode light kit. My computer now looks kinda cool and provides a little blue light for the room. My rackmount server is in a 19" black (gloss black spray paint) rack with another hub. The rack is mostly empty so it's not really needed, but it still has a good look to it. I guess what I'm saying here is to unclutter things with a rack and at the same time try to increase the coolness factor. If you add a little style, the room won't seem quite so drab. My 2 cents anyways.
The question: have they broken the UK's Computer Misuse Act?
Heh, who cares about this "Computer Misuse Act". They broke your property which they did not have permission to mess with. It's really just as simple as, that. Sue them! You'll win hands down in my opinion (not that it matters).
Why not use CDROM ios images? It's standard, supported on every platform, and the software should be free. For windows, try Deamon Tools (read only). If you need read and write access, you may have to find some special software to make the .iso files to work, but I know It's possible.
The key word here is "consider."
I'm pleased. Open source should be considered. And at the same time, I'm glad they didn't take things too far and require the use of open source. This is a positive influence yet doesn't seem too restrictive. Good for them :)
I don't think that is anything to worry about. I mean, think about it.
Everyone in America is complaining about how US firms are employing foreign workings instead of US citizens. Once the foreign market starts to keep pace with / pass up the US, there will be an increased demand for IT workers in those countries. As demand for these workers increases, their salries will increase as well. This means US firms will be less eager to hire foreign workers.
Also, I think the US could use a good kick in the pants when it comes to motivation for product innovation. This may be just what we need.
Wow, with it's 15.4" display, that's going to look REALLY crisp. It sounds like a great laptop display wise to me. 1600x1200 on a 15.4"? wow...
They can solve my spam problem for me :) I have been known to be a bit lazy, and it's refreshing to know someone smarter than I will be working on it :)
As my professor described it, is a system similar to a power grid. You can plug in anywhere, and use the resources (Disk, Memory, CPU) of the grid for computation. Your resources would be added to the "grid collective" as well.
It seems as though this system would inherently be P2P. It's good to know the P2P people are starting to realize that there is more the P2P than file sharing. As for the grid people, they knew their system could be called "Peer to Peer" all along.