Think you'll find them reporting stories like this one? I doubt it.
And even when they're reporting about things unrelated to christian science, I don't need to hear what they have to say! Read this and come back here. Do you want to read news written by people deny that medicines can have any effect on their own, but instead work entirely through placebo? ("[A] drug has no efficacy of its own, but borrows its power from human faith and belief. The drug does nothing, because it has no intelligence." (Science and Health, p. 12)).
If you want to read the news as it's seen through the eyes of christian science wackos, go for it. But you're not going to convince me that CSM is a respectable newspaper.
The other question is why a trade show wouldn't let companies offer hands-on demos at their's booths. Anyone know a logical reason for a rule like that?
Considering that I happen to be a citizen of a country whose "founding fathers" talked about the natural rights of mankind and then went home and had their slaves cook dinner I try not to judge the present state of institutions by their founders
So, you're saying they used to publish articles with a christian slant? From what I read on their site, I don't think they claim to have changed greatly, or lessened any one-time christian influence.
But your comparison is an interesting one. Suppose our country was so racist at the time of it's founding that the founding fathers had decided to throw some racial reference into the very name of the country; would you still stand by that now? Most likely, people would have realized at some point how backwards the name was and changed it.
If the CSM was once a backwards religion-influenced paper, but has now changed (which I don't believe is the case at all), they should change their name.
No, seriously. The Christian Science Monitor has a very good reputation. The name is not indicitave of the content.
I'm sorry, but you are mistaken.
Regardless of their coverage of world events, the prizes they've won, and their "honest, it's a secular paper!" page, they are still a religious-oriented publication.
Would you trust a news publication called the Santa Clause Science Monitor (SCSM) that is published by people who, though they are so sure Santa is real they named their paper after him, swear the paper has only only column about the jolly old man? I don't think so. You'd think they were insane. Well, these people are so sure Christ did all the silly stuff the bible says that they fit the word christ into the title of their publication. I'm sorry, but that is not a secular paper. And I have no more respect for it than I do for The Washington Times (run by moonies) or the hypothetical SCSM.
from the looks the the regular expression syntax on their site, I'd say it's a fair bet these spammers are using open source (perl) for their dirty work. And I bet they aren't even "doing the right thing" and releasing their scripts under the GPL!
Apple liscensed sorenson for the mac and windows versions of quicktime; why not release an "official" quicktime (closed source if need be, with sorenson) for linux? Maybe it's because they'd rather not see linux succeed as a desktop OS?
(they obviously had no choice about making quicktime for windows; a format with no windows support wouldn't make it too far)
from the zdnet link: Meanwhile, advertisers will choose a site because they are interested in targeting people who are most interested in the content. And those are precisely the people who this site can no longer deliver to the advertisers.
Slashdot's got that problem covered - even paying subscribers still see ads some of the time!
Is this a review of a website (thetherapist.com)? Being paid to submit a story about the website? Getting more hits on the website?
That would make sense, except said site has no ads and isn't in bussiness to make money.
From http://www.thetherapist.com/Explanation.html: The Company Therapist was not about making money. There is no business plan underlying this project. This is a labor of love. There are no advertisements. No money changed hands.
Hey, I could be wrong, but I don't think there is any secret payoff going on here.
I've used the service for probably close to a couple years. I've used to to send and receive money for ebay auctions, I've used to it transfer money between myself and friends, and now I've even got their MasterCard version of the visacheckcard (it works like an ATM or a mastercard, but draws from my paypal balance and doesn't actually have a creditline (and is not a creditcard)). I transfer a bit of money from each paycheck I get into paypal, and use my paypal card for a lot of day-to-day expenses like fuel and so on. I really like paypal.
They've never fucked me, and they've never fucked anyone I know, or anyone who knows someone I know. They have, allegedly, fucked some people I don't know, however. But I'm skeptical of the claims of frozen accounts; I'm sure it's happened on occasion, but I don't think the messageboard posts I read told the whole story. All the same, it's made me paranoid enough to not keep any large ammounts in my account, but to me the convenience of their unique service makes the slight risk of a small ammount of funds worth it. And until I see some solid proof of wrongdoing, I'm going to go on believing they're an OK company.
So bravo for the (possibly) beneficial "not a bank" ruling from the FDIC. I hope the states follow suit.
No, these aren't clones per se. They're Apple machines that have been re-cased in a custom case. Basicly they buy a dual G4 from Apple and put it in a new case and install YDL.
I find that hard to believe. Doesn't sound very cost-effective. (!) I doubt apple would hookup a bulk rate for them either.
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sure you can hack something together that does it all, but a tivo looks nice, works nice, and is already set up for you.
The kind of people that want a stereo-compenent-ish player are probably the same people who don't the the noise of a hard disk in their living room. That alone sinks all these devices imho. Course, the Tivo sold somewhat well (?), so what do I know...
Yeah, one could probably build a net-booting (no hd, silent) PC for a lot less money, and have some change left over for a sleek black case. My ideal mp3s-on-the-stereo setup most definitely has the files stored on a server in the other room, and doesn't have a noisy hard disk in the living room.
I like how the website is quick to establish that it's a "home theatre compenent", because everybody knows that $1500 for a PC that doesn't even have ethernet is a ripoff.
Nice concept, nice to see linux used, but sorry guys $1500 is more than anybody in their right mind is gonna pay for something like this.
If these can run OSX, then, for all intents and purposes, mac clones are back. Right?
I realize these boxes don't use any apple (c) ROMs, but if OS X doesn't need them, then cloning is back, yes?
Could we possibly see some non-apple PPC OSX-compatible laptops in the future? Competition is the american way, remember.
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There are many web pages out there which contain entire dictionaries and therefore every two word combination which can be generated from the dictionary.
Uh, no. If there we're a single indexable site like you describe, it would come up in every search containing only english words (including every googlewhack). And we'd all be real real familiar with it by now.
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There is also a somewhat easy to prevent google from picking up the posted whack: post it as an image.
or you could just use this meta tag: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Or, for google-specific-blocking, this one: <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
I'm really not trying to troll, but is this really worth being an entire thread on Slashdot? ... now an operating-system configuration issue caused by user-error is cause for concern?
If major distributors ship with this feature enabled (which I have not yet confirmed; the article appears to be down), then this is indeed a large (newsworthy) problem.
I want to have a nice looking, easy to use desktop. With a nice file manager, good web browser, extensive control panel, something that rivals windows.
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Think you'll find them reporting stories like this one? I doubt it.
And even when they're reporting about things unrelated to christian science, I don't need to hear what they have to say! Read this and come back here. Do you want to read news written by people deny that medicines can have any effect on their own, but instead work entirely through placebo? ("[A] drug has no efficacy of its own, but borrows its power from human faith and belief. The drug does nothing, because it has no intelligence." (Science and Health, p. 12)).
If you want to read the news as it's seen through the eyes of christian science wackos, go for it. But you're not going to convince me that CSM is a respectable newspaper.
The other question is why a trade show wouldn't let companies offer hands-on demos at their's booths.
Anyone know a logical reason for a rule like that?
Who would buy gaming hardware from stuck up pricks
The over a million gamers who don't give a damn about what they support with their money.. ?
Considering that I happen to be a citizen of a country whose "founding fathers" talked about the natural rights of mankind and then went home and had their slaves cook dinner I try not to judge the present state of institutions by their founders
So, you're saying they used to publish articles with a christian slant? From what I read on their site, I don't think they claim to have changed greatly, or lessened any one-time christian influence.
But your comparison is an interesting one. Suppose our country was so racist at the time of it's founding that the founding fathers had decided to throw some racial reference into the very name of the country; would you still stand by that now? Most likely, people would have realized at some point how backwards the name was and changed it.
If the CSM was once a backwards religion-influenced paper, but has now changed (which I don't believe is the case at all), they should change their name.
No, seriously. The Christian Science Monitor has a very good reputation. The name is not indicitave of the content.
I'm sorry, but you are mistaken.
Regardless of their coverage of world events, the prizes they've won, and their "honest, it's a secular paper!" page, they are still a religious-oriented publication.
Would you trust a news publication called the Santa Clause Science Monitor (SCSM) that is published by people who, though they are so sure Santa is real they named their paper after him, swear the paper has only only column about the jolly old man? I don't think so. You'd think they were insane. Well, these people are so sure Christ did all the silly stuff the bible says that they fit the word christ into the title of their publication. I'm sorry, but that is not a secular paper. And I have no more respect for it than I do for The Washington Times (run by moonies) or the hypothetical SCSM.
www.Beyond7.com Insane modern art water sculpture.
:)
the sculptures aren't what i'd call "insane", but those prices are
from the looks the the regular expression syntax on their site, I'd say it's a fair bet these spammers are using open source (perl) for their dirty work. And I bet they aren't even "doing the right thing" and releasing their scripts under the GPL!
go get em, mofo!
Apple liscensed sorenson for the mac and windows versions of quicktime; why not release an "official" quicktime (closed source if need be, with sorenson) for linux? Maybe it's because they'd rather not see linux succeed as a desktop OS?
(they obviously had no choice about making quicktime for windows; a format with no windows support wouldn't make it too far)
from the zdnet link:
Meanwhile, advertisers will choose a site because they are interested in targeting people who are most interested in the content. And those are precisely the people who this site can no longer deliver to the advertisers.
Slashdot's got that problem covered - even paying subscribers still see ads some of the time!
damn.
you beat me by less than a minute,
and only 3 units of slashdot CID!
(whats that? a few seconds?)
Is this a review of a website (thetherapist.com)?
Being paid to submit a story about the website?
Getting more hits on the website?
That would make sense, except said site has no ads and isn't in bussiness to make money.
From http://www.thetherapist.com/Explanation.html:
The Company Therapist was not about making money. There is no business plan underlying this project. This is a labor of love. There are no advertisements. No money changed hands.
Hey, I could be wrong, but I don't think there is any secret payoff going on here.
All that for $189? What a bargin!
I like paypal.
I've used the service for probably close to a couple years. I've used to to send and receive money for ebay auctions, I've used to it transfer money between myself and friends, and now I've even got their MasterCard version of the visacheckcard (it works like an ATM or a mastercard, but draws from my paypal balance and doesn't actually have a creditline (and is not a creditcard)). I transfer a bit of money from each paycheck I get into paypal, and use my paypal card for a lot of day-to-day expenses like fuel and so on. I really like paypal.
They've never fucked me, and they've never fucked anyone I know, or anyone who knows someone I know. They have, allegedly, fucked some people I don't know, however. But I'm skeptical of the claims of frozen accounts; I'm sure it's happened on occasion, but I don't think the messageboard posts I read told the whole story. All the same, it's made me paranoid enough to not keep any large ammounts in my account, but to me the convenience of their unique service makes the slight risk of a small ammount of funds worth it. And until I see some solid proof of wrongdoing, I'm going to go on believing they're an OK company.
So bravo for the (possibly) beneficial "not a bank" ruling from the FDIC. I hope the states follow suit.
This site could eaisly keep me from getting any work done today, tommorrow, and possibly most of next week. I better stop now.
No, these aren't clones per se. They're Apple machines that have been re-cased in a custom case. Basicly they buy a dual G4 from Apple and put it in a new case and install YDL.
I find that hard to believe. Doesn't sound very cost-effective. (!)
I doubt apple would hookup a bulk rate for them either.
"google whacking" has been around since long before google.o nehit.html
it used to be called finding a "one hit wonder" on altavista.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~andrewm/misc/segames/
sure you can hack something together that does it all, but a tivo looks nice, works nice, and is already set up for you.
The kind of people that want a stereo-compenent-ish player are probably the same people who don't the the noise of a hard disk in their living room. That alone sinks all these devices imho. Course, the Tivo sold somewhat well (?), so what do I know...
Yeah, one could probably build a net-booting (no hd, silent) PC for a lot less money, and have some change left over for a sleek black case. My ideal mp3s-on-the-stereo setup most definitely has the files stored on a server in the other room, and doesn't have a noisy hard disk in the living room.
I like how the website is quick to establish that it's a "home theatre compenent", because everybody knows that $1500 for a PC that doesn't even have ethernet is a ripoff.
Nice concept, nice to see linux used, but sorry guys $1500 is more than anybody in their right mind is gonna pay for something like this.
If these can run OSX, then, for all intents and purposes, mac clones are back. Right?
I realize these boxes don't use any apple (c) ROMs, but if OS X doesn't need them, then cloning is back, yes?
Could we possibly see some non-apple PPC OSX-compatible laptops in the future? Competition is the american way, remember.
There are many web pages out there which contain entire dictionaries and therefore every two word combination which can be generated from the dictionary.
Uh, no. If there we're a single indexable site like you describe, it would come up in every search containing only english words (including every googlewhack). And we'd all be real real familiar with it by now.
There is also a somewhat easy to prevent google from picking up the posted whack: post it as an image.
or you could just use this meta tag:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Or, for google-specific-blocking, this one:
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
I'm really not trying to troll, but is this really worth being an entire thread on Slashdot?
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now an operating-system configuration issue caused by user-error is cause for concern?
If major distributors ship with this feature enabled (which I have not yet confirmed; the article appears to be down), then this is indeed a large (newsworthy) problem.
And in any case, it's awfully funny.
So, all teachers, writers, musicians and similar should be tax-exempt?
No, their thought-processes should be. Duh!
I want to have a nice looking, easy to use desktop. With a nice file manager, good web browser, extensive control panel, something that rivals windows.
Considered Mac OS X?
I hope spiderman and Blade II aren't as poor. (Though I fully expect "Attack of the Clones" to suck).
Mr. Valenti could care less if you like the movies,
just so long as you pay your $8 each before complaining.