Not just pop-up ads, in my case; but also cookies and even banner ads. Mozilla is just plain better than IE. The only reason it took me as long as it did to convert completely is because I was waiting for someone to program the ALT-D "Address Bar" hotkey into Mozilla.
Centralised computing is where most companies should be at, cheap disposable terminals on the desktop and a beast of a server under lock and key.
I considered the above a load of crap the first time I heard it about 8 years ago, and I think it's just as much a load of crap now. You're not going to spend any appreciable amount less buying some stovepiped dumb terminal than you'll spend on a low-level PC; and the PC will still be useable when your network takes a dive and the dumb terminal becomes a paperweight.
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I'd expected a search for COBOL to turn up a lot of hits, perhaps even more then Java.:) I was pleasantly surprised to find that COBOL only scored about 620 total hits. I don't know what perspective that adds, but it actually outweighs the C# positions.
Depends, I guess. Don't most cars still have governors in them? The Chevy Cavalier I owned had a speedometer that measured up to 120 mph, but I could only take it as high as 104 or so before it kicked itself down to a slower speed.
In this 'brave new world' don't expect to have any rights, unless you are the government. It is all about total control of the populace an the pace is quickening.
As seductive as this statement may be, it's also patently false. Are you truly suggesting that a corrupt government has ever existed for anything but its own power? There's nothing "new" about that. And to suggest that things are getting worse is to deny any accounting of history. Go back even through a mere sixty years of American history, to a time when we had Japanese nationals in concentration camps during World War II, and when African-Americans were third-class citizens, and tell me if you can honestly believe things are worse now than they were then.
The further back in time you go, the more evidence you'll find to contradict your statement. We have a lot of freedoms now that are very much worth protecting, but the only way you'll ever see the kind of Orwellian government you describe is if no one speaks up against it. I have more faith in the people of the United States, Canada, Japan, the EU, etc., than to think such a thing could happen without a lot of advance warning.
Now you've produced a document which displays links to e-mail addresses, without specifying any easily-harvested e-mail addresses in the source of the document.
(1) Put as much money as possible in 401(k) or 403(b) plans, IRAs, and RothIRAs, and possibly annuities. These are sheltered from taxes, and are likely more sheltered from lawsuites. Indeed, colleges don't even consider them when determining how much aid you should get.
(2) Transfer money off-shore to countries that don't recognize the US' insane copyright laws.
(3) After discussing the credit implications with a lawyer, and loan implications, consider the possibility of declaring bankruptcy. They don't get shit if you declare bankruptcy.
Or alternately, they can just not share music in the first place. Hrm, tough one. . . ruin my credit to make some idealogical stance in which I hold little faith to begin with, or decide the opportunity cost is too high and do something productive with my life? That's a tough one. ..
First and most importantly, Kazaa is more popular. Second, people who're running Kazaa are less likely to have, say, hacked into a school's server and set up an MP3bot there--in which case, the IP address of the true culprit would be much more difficult, or even impossible, to track down.
No, trolls make invalid points carefully worded and covered with misinformation so that they appear enough to be valid points. If his previous articles turned out to match this pattern, who says this latest one doesn't?
All well and good - but if you want to prove he's a troll, establish the incidents where he deliberately uses misinformation. The post I originally replied to didn't do that--it just said "this guy is a troll," without offering any proof. At the very least, it's a weak argument; and at worst, the poster is doing exactly what he accused spl of doing in the first place!
Ahh, well, it's about US$1.319 here at the moment. Effectively the trailing 9 means gasoline is really $1.32--but most people, myself included, unconsciously forget about the last nine-tenths of a cent.
Trolls, by definition, don't make valid points. Just because he dares to disagree with Mac fanatics doesn't make him a troll - there has to be a more compelling reasoning behind that statement if it's to stick.
There may well be aspects of MacOS X that Apple copied from the Windows GUI. Gods know, it certainly went the other way. But if he substantiated his case, then he's still not a troll.
Of course, calling someone a troll is easier than actually refuting his arguments; but that won't really make your point well, either. The way to refute the guy's "maybe-valid" points is to reason through them logically.
"Misleading prices" hardly starts or stops with Apple and Dell; and it's not all that bad, considering they're giving you an up-front price, at least. Consider manufacturers that sell their hardware at "Just $299! (After $400 rebate that will take 6 months to arrive) The $?99 price scheme has been around for as long as I can remember - just look at gasoline prices if you want to see what I mean.
I built a Javascript function to build an e-mail address, so that the source code wouldn't contain the address but the rendered page would. I'm thinking this would stop most harvesters, since the complete address isn't even spelled out in the function's code. ..
Has anyone else done this? How does it work for you?
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Not just pop-up ads, in my case; but also cookies and even banner ads. Mozilla is just plain better than IE. The only reason it took me as long as it did to convert completely is because I was waiting for someone to program the ALT-D "Address Bar" hotkey into Mozilla.
Centralised computing is where most companies should be at, cheap disposable terminals on the desktop and a beast of a server under lock and key.
I considered the above a load of crap the first time I heard it about 8 years ago, and I think it's just as much a load of crap now. You're not going to spend any appreciable amount less buying some stovepiped dumb terminal than you'll spend on a low-level PC; and the PC will still be useable when your network takes a dive and the dumb terminal becomes a paperweight.
I'd expected a search for COBOL to turn up a lot of hits, perhaps even more then Java. :) I was pleasantly surprised to find that COBOL only scored about 620 total hits. I don't know what perspective that adds, but it actually outweighs the C# positions.
Yeah, I think that one kinda fell flat.
Sharp. . . flat. . . get it. . ?
Oh, nevermind, I'm going home.
Yep. And you must also accept a salary of around $5,900 a year, assuming you're relocating to India.
What's the median income for India? A salary of $6k is probably still pretty good over there.
Depends, I guess. Don't most cars still have governors in them? The Chevy Cavalier I owned had a speedometer that measured up to 120 mph, but I could only take it as high as 104 or so before it kicked itself down to a slower speed.
note (for the humour-impaired) : this is irony
No it isn't. :) Irony doesn't drip. That's sarcasm.
At WORST he is a lying scuzzball.
<translate language="Microsoftese">
</translate>Before you can logon you must answer three questions...
Actually, I was there a few years before that, for Wolfenstein 3D. :)
The words Active, Smart, Rich etc. are part of MSspeak - leave a bad taste..
What? These words were in the dictionary before 1981.
Terminator is trying to ..excuse me RIAA/MPAA is trying to get Arnold to run for President under their banner..
. . .for the 2029 Annihilator of Humanity election, that is.
This is just a case of user error, nothing more.
When I worked in a shop that fixed computers, we referred to things like the above as ID-ten-T (ID10T) errors. Evidently, the label is still apt.
In this 'brave new world' don't expect to have any rights, unless you are the government. It is all about total control of the populace an the pace is quickening.
As seductive as this statement may be, it's also patently false. Are you truly suggesting that a corrupt government has ever existed for anything but its own power? There's nothing "new" about that. And to suggest that things are getting worse is to deny any accounting of history. Go back even through a mere sixty years of American history, to a time when we had Japanese nationals in concentration camps during World War II, and when African-Americans were third-class citizens, and tell me if you can honestly believe things are worse now than they were then.
The further back in time you go, the more evidence you'll find to contradict your statement. We have a lot of freedoms now that are very much worth protecting, but the only way you'll ever see the kind of Orwellian government you describe is if no one speaks up against it. I have more faith in the people of the United States, Canada, Japan, the EU, etc., than to think such a thing could happen without a lot of advance warning.
Six days to write the code. . . and thirteen billion years for system and integration testing.
God saw the light; and He said, "It is good." Then he saw the power bill, and He said, "It is not so good."
Is the problem just one of your e-mail being harvested off the webpage(s)? If so, try this:
<script language="JavaScript">
function writeAddress(name, domain, msg) {
document.write('<a href="mailto:' + name + '@' + domain + '">');
document.write(msg);
document.writeln('</a>');
}
</script>
Blah blah blah
<script language="JavaScript">
writeAddress('mymail', 'nospam.com', 'E-mail me!');
</script>
Now you've produced a document which displays links to e-mail addresses, without specifying any easily-harvested e-mail addresses in the source of the document.
Advice to those individuals:
(1) Put as much money as possible in 401(k) or 403(b) plans, IRAs, and RothIRAs, and possibly annuities. These are sheltered from taxes, and are likely more sheltered from lawsuites. Indeed, colleges don't even consider them when determining how much aid you should get.
(2) Transfer money off-shore to countries that don't recognize the US' insane copyright laws.
(3) After discussing the credit implications with a lawyer, and loan implications, consider the possibility of declaring bankruptcy. They don't get shit if you declare bankruptcy.
Or alternately, they can just not share music in the first place. Hrm, tough one. . . ruin my credit to make some idealogical stance in which I hold little faith to begin with, or decide the opportunity cost is too high and do something productive with my life? That's a tough one. . .
First and most importantly, Kazaa is more popular. Second, people who're running Kazaa are less likely to have, say, hacked into a school's server and set up an MP3bot there--in which case, the IP address of the true culprit would be much more difficult, or even impossible, to track down.
No, trolls make invalid points carefully worded and covered with misinformation so that they appear enough to be valid points. If his previous articles turned out to match this pattern, who says this latest one doesn't?
All well and good - but if you want to prove he's a troll, establish the incidents where he deliberately uses misinformation. The post I originally replied to didn't do that--it just said "this guy is a troll," without offering any proof. At the very least, it's a weak argument; and at worst, the poster is doing exactly what he accused spl of doing in the first place!
Even if it had a four-bit operating system made by a two-bit company? :)
Ahh, well, it's about US$1.319 here at the moment. Effectively the trailing 9 means gasoline is really $1.32--but most people, myself included, unconsciously forget about the last nine-tenths of a cent.
Trolls, by definition, don't make valid points. Just because he dares to disagree with Mac fanatics doesn't make him a troll - there has to be a more compelling reasoning behind that statement if it's to stick.
There may well be aspects of MacOS X that Apple copied from the Windows GUI. Gods know, it certainly went the other way. But if he substantiated his case, then he's still not a troll.
Of course, calling someone a troll is easier than actually refuting his arguments; but that won't really make your point well, either. The way to refute the guy's "maybe-valid" points is to reason through them logically.
"Misleading prices" hardly starts or stops with Apple and Dell; and it's not all that bad, considering they're giving you an up-front price, at least. Consider manufacturers that sell their hardware at "Just $299! (After $400 rebate that will take 6 months to arrive) The $?99 price scheme has been around for as long as I can remember - just look at gasoline prices if you want to see what I mean.
I built a Javascript function to build an e-mail address, so that the source code wouldn't contain the address but the rendered page would. I'm thinking this would stop most harvesters, since the complete address isn't even spelled out in the function's code. . .
Has anyone else done this? How does it work for you?
Under the GPL, if you can't distribute it for free, you can't distribute it at all.
Have you read the GPL lately? You can distribute the executables for whatever price you want, as long as you distribute the source with it.