Dreamhost is AWESOME! I have been with them for a couple years and they are great and always giving new features. I wouldn't run something mission-critical on a $7.95 a month plan, but for email, blogs, non-traffic heavy sites, I would use them again and again.
Of course you are right. Like I said above, a point and click GUI is no mystery. I'm sure I could use a Windows machine better than my mom. However my mom has much more experience using one. I can use one in an internet cafe no problem.
You ask me anything more than basics on a PC and I'm lost. I wouldn't know where to look if I was having problems wit a program. I wouldn't really know how to configure a peripheral. Could I figure it out? Probably. Could I blindly walk someone through it? Not a chance. As me to blindly walk someone through an OS X install while I'm chewing gum and walking down the street and we're fine.
I can configure Apache as I need it. It took me months to even figure out what IIS is, and I have NEVER touched it.
Dude, I'm posting here, of course I could figure stuff out. Let's not be silly - but like I said, me and my little Apple-shaped world are doing just fine.
Absolute - no. I can open Internet Explorer and make sure my sites look right. Beside that I couldn't tell you what to do.
I'm really shocked that folks like you find it staggeringly impossible that I know what I'm doing and have a good head on my shoulders and don't know much about Windows.
I build web apps. I need a development machine (OS X) and a server (OS X). I know how they work, and I could take either one apart as much as I need to. I can even get around my DreamHost account just fine without a good knowledge of Windows. I need to test on IE from time to time, but that is it.
I guess I'm what you might call a specialist. I know what I do quite well, and over the last 10+ years it has NEVER been important or necessary for me to use or learn much about Windows. It has never got in the way of my career or getting a job - it has never been a "BAD THING". Your logic is no good.
I'm sure I'm an anomoly. It's by choice. Me and my little Apple-shaped world are doin just fine.
I also know what a 3.5" floppy is. I have even successfully used one. That doesn't mean I know how one works. Same for Windows: Just because I understand technology terms doesn't mean I know how any of that technology works!
I'm a geek for gods sake! I pay attention.
Sure I know DLLs are important. I still don't know what the heck they do (until I read the post below).
I don't know how to use a PC. Give me OSX or a CLI and I'm fine. But I only used a PC for the only two weeks I worked in a cube.
I worked in a mac-based office (not a design firm, a real office) and have done years of development exclusively on macs. My servers are OS X servers.
I do not know how to use a PC more than basic point and click. I have no idea what a DLL is. I don't know what it means to flash BIOS. Why? Because I have never needed to know, nor have I wanted to know.
As for the atom feed and stuff, that stuff is basic when you setup a blog. Come on.
Maybe this is astroturf, but I am a very tech savvy individual and have hardly any knowledge of Windows or experience using it. And I love it.
Why does it have to be an implant? Can't it be wearable? I don't want to implant my kid, but if they have a tracking chip imbedded in their belt and shoes isn't that going to satisfy 99% of the need to have a tracking chip?
The chip send an alarm back if breathing stops, the belt and/or shoes are removed. Why can't adults be the same way? If I leave the house without my chipped belt I can't get money from the ATM, how is that different from me forgetting my card?
Why does it always have to be an implant? Not a bracelet, necklace, belt insert, shoe insert, ring...
This program benefits itunes, even though they screwed up. They offer a service I don't want, but this program turns it into a service I might want.
That is like saying you went to get a massage (a service) and after you drugged the masseuse she was willing to give you a hand job! Thanks roofies! That is not was she is providing, and you need to respect that. Same with iTMS
I don't like DRM because, once I buy a recording of some music, I want to be able to make copies of it for my own use. I do not think it's ok to distribute copyrighted material without permission of the recipient of the legislated monopoly.
YOU do. But you probably don't steal things from stores either. Other people do, and DRM is for those people that can't be trusted. If you want to use the service, you have to accept all of it.
Music is not open source.
Folks here want open source everything, well Music isn't open and can't be shared for free (usually). For artists to make a living, it shouldn't. So whatever is paying the artists (iTMS) should not be circumvented to cheat them.
It's another way of telling record companies that we don't want DRM'd music. It's a message to itunes that they failed to produce the product we want, so somebody went out and "fixed" it.
They provide a service, and if you don't like it you are free to use another. The reason for a DRM is so you don't pass on the music to someone else for free, because once 1000 people get copies of the song you bought for $.99 the artist only gets 1 royalty payment - and that is unfair.
If it is only a ID number, then the picture and info could be stored centrally. But then what about when that server gets hacked?
I think that if there is no broadcast, but info is on the passport and it is a touch transfer that could solve the problem, What would be so hard about it being a smart card that doesn't transmit?
You really think a heard can think? The forbes headline said GOOD! the copy said... well... Please don't be silly - people listen to the headline, and all that means is I hope I get my share allotment.
Slashdot Mirror
I swear first I see a story up on Reddit. Next day it is on Digg. Then like 3-4 days later it shows up on Slashdot.
Explains why I visit this site so much less now.
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agreed
Dreamhost is AWESOME! I have been with them for a couple years and they are great and always giving new features. I wouldn't run something mission-critical on a $7.95 a month plan, but for email, blogs, non-traffic heavy sites, I would use them again and again.
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They might turn into a viable company that we might like. I'd rather watch MSFT fail. Seems like more fun.
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Sounds like a mad journalist to me.
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Of course you are right. Like I said above, a point and click GUI is no mystery. I'm sure I could use a Windows machine better than my mom. However my mom has much more experience using one. I can use one in an internet cafe no problem.
You ask me anything more than basics on a PC and I'm lost. I wouldn't know where to look if I was having problems wit a program. I wouldn't really know how to configure a peripheral. Could I figure it out? Probably. Could I blindly walk someone through it? Not a chance. As me to blindly walk someone through an OS X install while I'm chewing gum and walking down the street and we're fine.
I can configure Apache as I need it. It took me months to even figure out what IIS is, and I have NEVER touched it.
Dude, I'm posting here, of course I could figure stuff out. Let's not be silly - but like I said, me and my little Apple-shaped world are doing just fine.
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"My computer is not working"
"oh sorry, I don't know anything about Windows, you'll have to ask someone else"
Day to day I'm sure I could function using a Windows computer, but nothing more than that. It's a point and click GUI, there is not that much mystery.
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Absolute - no. I can open Internet Explorer and make sure my sites look right. Beside that I couldn't tell you what to do.
I'm really shocked that folks like you find it staggeringly impossible that I know what I'm doing and have a good head on my shoulders and don't know much about Windows.
I build web apps. I need a development machine (OS X) and a server (OS X). I know how they work, and I could take either one apart as much as I need to. I can even get around my DreamHost account just fine without a good knowledge of Windows. I need to test on IE from time to time, but that is it.
I guess I'm what you might call a specialist. I know what I do quite well, and over the last 10+ years it has NEVER been important or necessary for me to use or learn much about Windows. It has never got in the way of my career or getting a job - it has never been a "BAD THING". Your logic is no good.
I'm sure I'm an anomoly. It's by choice. Me and my little Apple-shaped world are doin just fine.
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Tell that to my clients.
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I also know what a 3.5" floppy is. I have even successfully used one. That doesn't mean I know how one works. Same for Windows: Just because I understand technology terms doesn't mean I know how any of that technology works!
I'm a geek for gods sake! I pay attention.
Sure I know DLLs are important. I still don't know what the heck they do (until I read the post below).
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I don't know how to use a PC. Give me OSX or a CLI and I'm fine. But I only used a PC for the only two weeks I worked in a cube.
I worked in a mac-based office (not a design firm, a real office) and have done years of development exclusively on macs. My servers are OS X servers.
I do not know how to use a PC more than basic point and click. I have no idea what a DLL is. I don't know what it means to flash BIOS. Why? Because I have never needed to know, nor have I wanted to know.
As for the atom feed and stuff, that stuff is basic when you setup a blog. Come on.
Maybe this is astroturf, but I am a very tech savvy individual and have hardly any knowledge of Windows or experience using it. And I love it.
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Then they will care about you. Why should they port to a competing *NIX variant?
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1.3 17 PB.
Just the standard bookmarks, don't know why
Why does it have to be an implant? Can't it be wearable? I don't want to implant my kid, but if they have a tracking chip imbedded in their belt and shoes isn't that going to satisfy 99% of the need to have a tracking chip?
The chip send an alarm back if breathing stops, the belt and/or shoes are removed. Why can't adults be the same way? If I leave the house without my chipped belt I can't get money from the ATM, how is that different from me forgetting my card?
Why does it always have to be an implant? Not a bracelet, necklace, belt insert, shoe insert, ring...
p-oz
thanks
And their PRODUCT is DRM'd. Period.
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This program benefits itunes, even though they screwed up. They offer a service I don't want, but this program turns it into a service I might want.
That is like saying you went to get a massage (a service) and after you drugged the masseuse she was willing to give you a hand job! Thanks roofies! That is not was she is providing, and you need to respect that. Same with iTMS
I don't like DRM because, once I buy a recording of some music, I want to be able to make copies of it for my own use. I do not think it's ok to distribute copyrighted material without permission of the recipient of the legislated monopoly.
YOU do. But you probably don't steal things from stores either. Other people do, and DRM is for those people that can't be trusted. If you want to use the service, you have to accept all of it.
Music is not open source.
Folks here want open source everything, well Music isn't open and can't be shared for free (usually). For artists to make a living, it shouldn't. So whatever is paying the artists (iTMS) should not be circumvented to cheat them.
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It's another way of telling record companies that we don't want DRM'd music. It's a message to itunes that they failed to produce the product we want, so somebody went out and "fixed" it.
They provide a service, and if you don't like it you are free to use another. The reason for a DRM is so you don't pass on the music to someone else for free, because once 1000 people get copies of the song you bought for $.99 the artist only gets 1 royalty payment - and that is unfair.
Music is not open source.
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If it is only a ID number, then the picture and info could be stored centrally. But then what about when that server gets hacked?
I think that if there is no broadcast, but info is on the passport and it is a touch transfer that could solve the problem, What would be so hard about it being a smart card that doesn't transmit?
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You really think a heard can think? The forbes headline said GOOD! the copy said... well... Please don't be silly - people listen to the headline, and all that means is I hope I get my share allotment.
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