I think the tone of the article is just a result of most non-mac users just sick of mac zealots in general. The holier than thou attitude and rampant annoying fanboy squealing every time Steve Jobs farts in their general direction (MP props).
Bottom line. PC folks just don't spend that much time waxing their dicks over their OS. They spend time using their computer. If Apples are easier to use (I don't agree), then it's a good thing because 50% of the time spent is rubbing one out to how your baby blue GUI makes you randy.
You folks are missing the point of just who should be punished. ISP's should proactively monitor traffic and activity and if they are allow the spammer to operate, they need to pay the price. If spam happens to be coming from outside the country, the ISP outisde the country should be blocked.
That's how blacklists should operate. Eventually the ISPs will start caring when their clients complain that they can't anywhere on the net using their service.
When I was a freshman in highschool there were two kids who would bother the shit out of me in gym class. they were both juniors and scared the shit out of me. This went on for months.
One time (no not at band camp) I was taking abuse in front of a girl that I really liked. I snapped. Without time to give it a second thought I swung and connected. The guy bent over grabbing his nose and I full on place kicked him in the face. Breaking his nose and knocking out teeth...
In the next 3 and a half years, no one said or did shit to me. Today I am married to that girl.
Things are a little different today. if my son was being bullied I'm not sure I'd give him the same advice.. Kids these days are crazy.. I'd track the kid down myself and throw him a beating.
Cycles of violence are usually stopped by violence. Bullies don't understand compassion or logic. A good full on beatin usually gives this lesser lifeform pause to think next time.
"Until the day comes when you move to a new PC and have to move all that music...or the HD crashes...or someone uses that Flash card and wipes your music...or any of the other millions of ways that large quantities of data are frequently lost"
Two 120 gig drives, mirrored... Unless there is a disaster, I'm pretty confident my music is secure.
"All my CDs work. I can keep all of them working very easily. Even if one does get scratched, I can rebuy it without having to replace all my other CDs. I cannot say the same for my computer data."
If m$ would just look into their crystal ball and predict all of the exploits that might be found and outmaneuver the hackers Windows would be a much better product.
For those folks who got code red, soBig, etc., they deserve it. Patches we out for months. Companies who were hit should immediately fire their worthless NT admins and seriously consider moving to Linux.
But guess what.. you still need multi-layered protection even if you are on Linux.
Anyone who relies on the OS to stop all attacks and keep you safe at night deserve the havok that follows.
I was turned off from Apple when they rigged their software to not run on older hardware because they wanted to squeeze their user base for an upgrade.
Fuck Apple.
Now go ahead and mod me down because I just pissed on one of Slashdot's sacred cows.
Best tool for the job.. However, most folks are finding that jsp/ejb is rarely the best tool for 95% of apps..
The nice things about coldfusion:
1) It's java - stoopid... 2) First time thru the entire page gets compiled into bytecode 3) The quickest and easiest way to manipulate tables for a dynamic site: 4) Can write custom tags in CF/Java/C++ 5) Can use existing java apps/code and invoke it in the page 2 lines of code...
<cfquery datasource="x" name="getStuff"> select * from table </cfquery>
What happens is when a new tech comes along that is easy to use and easy to learn, we folks who toiled for years to become good progammers with Java and C++ get edgey that the noobs are taking jobs without paying the price..
Personally,programming is just a means to an end.. Learn whatever technology gets you paid...
On windows everything crashes, or the hard drives mysteriously get corrupted, or the current version of the driver for my video card somehow conflicts with something which causes an instant blue screen 20 minutes (exactly) into my computing session. (Don't forget the creative sound card 'helper' that freaks out and eats all of your system memory when it gets bored).
This just shows that this user hasn't recently if ever used a windows machine. This line comes from the tried and true "why I don't like peecee's" handbook handed out at the maczealot meetings.
I haven't had an unstable windows machine in 4-5 years. I use the machine from audio to video and everthing in between. OSX is a step in the right direction... Now all they have to do is get it to nativly run all win32 apps and I'd buy one!:)
There were probably 12 dumbasses sitting on the jury who in their periphery have heard that M$ is bad and are evil. And that geek Gates is a billionaire which means he must be bad...
Unless the patent office can figure out just what prior art means there should be a moratorium on the issuance of patents.
The problem with this argument is the music industry operates much the same way they did decades ago. Play the numbers game, saturate the market with copy-cat what's the current hot thing cookie-cutter crap and do the bare minumum required to satisfy the buyers to maximize profits.
They haven't innovated shit. They didn't even have much to do with the format their music is delivered on.
There is no band loyalty anymore like there was 15-20 years ago. Everything is a one hit wonder now. A handful of bands can actually pull off two successful albums these days. that's the real reason the industry has almost completely killed the single. People were buying the singles and not the more profitable albums
Their cash crop has turned into nothing but a pile of fertilizer and they don't know what to do except sign more hardly talented hacks with studs in their noses and lips.
"People have been concerned about provisions of the Patriot Act that would grant law enforcement access to your library records"
The feds had the authority to do this 50years ago and they STILL have to abide by the same rules. A court has to allow it. They can not simply do this carte blanche. If the could, what would be the point of putting it in print? They'd just go ahead and do it.
Do a little research dumb ass and you'll quickly find that the dems were the ones who put us in this position.
It's the repubs who are going to pull us out of this dmca bullshit. I know it's not fashionable here at/. to actually say this, but most of you here have so completely drank the cool-aid on the myth that the dems are all for freedom and civil rights.
That's ok. When I was younger and stupid I thought the dems fought the good fight and I thought it was noble to be a lib..
Now I realize it was because I thought I had all the answers and that the libs only make it appear to fight for the little guy to keep power..
No. But who visits this place are a bunch of folks who take everything to the extreme squared.
"Judge rules company X can incorporate methods to combat theft."
SD FOLKS: "Christ! These facist right-wing companies and the politicians in their pockets are soon going to keep air and water from us! It's 1984 I tell you!"
I read through alot of these messages and no one has really hit the nail on the head.
SMTP and POP are outdated protocols. A re-working needs to be done to ingrain authentication so the recipient can simply say, "Bounce all non-authenticated emails".
Although it's sort of chicken and the egg, if a solid alternative was developed I think many large ISP's could be brought on board quickly. They hate spam
As soon as these fuckwits who buy CD's actually STOP completely and let the industry know that their practices, not free downloads are the real reason, things might change.
CD's are copyable. I haven't bought one in three years.
DVD's are copyable. I buy about 6 a month.
It's all about value. Current music is over-produced, cookie-cutter, over-priced dreck.
If you love music, go to E-music. http://www.emusic.com
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I think the tone of the article is just a result of most non-mac users just sick of mac zealots in general. The holier than thou attitude and rampant annoying fanboy squealing every time Steve Jobs farts in their general direction (MP props).
Bottom line. PC folks just don't spend that much time waxing their dicks over their OS. They spend time using their computer. If Apples are easier to use (I don't agree), then it's a good thing because 50% of the time spent is rubbing one out to how your baby blue GUI makes you randy.
Christ..
You folks are missing the point of just who should be punished. ISP's should proactively monitor traffic and activity and if they are allow the spammer to operate, they need to pay the price. If spam happens to be coming from outside the country, the ISP outisde the country should be blocked. That's how blacklists should operate. Eventually the ISPs will start caring when their clients complain that they can't anywhere on the net using their service.
Did some new laws get enacted after Bush took office? I don't remember the previous administration doing much in it's 8 worthless years at the helm.
I am not a federal entity. it would be illegal for me to finance an ad as a private individual 30 days from an election.
When I was a freshman in highschool there were two kids who would bother the shit out of me in gym class. they were both juniors and scared the shit out of me. This went on for months.
One time (no not at band camp) I was taking abuse in front of a girl that I really liked. I snapped. Without time to give it a second thought I swung and connected. The guy bent over grabbing his nose and I full on place kicked him in the face. Breaking his nose and knocking out teeth...
In the next 3 and a half years, no one said or did shit to me. Today I am married to that girl.
Things are a little different today. if my son was being bullied I'm not sure I'd give him the same advice.. Kids these days are crazy.. I'd track the kid down myself and throw him a beating.
Cycles of violence are usually stopped by violence. Bullies don't understand compassion or logic. A good full on beatin usually gives this lesser lifeform pause to think next time.
Interesting site
http://www.opinion-exchange.com
For a mere 10 dollars I will send you some nice CD's all set to go...
"Until the day comes when you move to a new PC and have to move all that music...or the HD crashes...or someone uses that Flash card and wipes your music...or any of the other millions of ways that large quantities of data are frequently lost"
Two 120 gig drives, mirrored... Unless there is a disaster, I'm pretty confident my music is secure.
"All my CDs work. I can keep all of them working very easily. Even if one does get scratched, I can rebuy it without having to replace all my other CDs. I cannot say the same for my computer data."
I can.
On the machine that it's running on, which is anything but server class, it does quite well.
Each db hit doesn't necessarily represent a unique user. Transactions (in the general sense) might be several reads and writes at once.
At any given point there are 60-80 concurrent users hitting the db machine.
Ha!
We have one mysql box running on a p3 machine and it handles over 250,000 inserts and 800,000 selects a day. And it never dies.
If m$ would just look into their crystal ball and predict all of the exploits that might be found and outmaneuver the hackers Windows would be a much better product.
For those folks who got code red, soBig, etc., they deserve it. Patches we out for months. Companies who were hit should immediately fire their worthless NT admins and seriously consider moving to Linux.
But guess what.. you still need multi-layered protection even if you are on Linux.
Anyone who relies on the OS to stop all attacks and keep you safe at night deserve the havok that follows.
I was turned off from Apple when they rigged their software to not run on older hardware because they wanted to squeeze their user base for an upgrade.
Fuck Apple.
Now go ahead and mod me down because I just pissed on one of Slashdot's sacred cows.
Best tool for the job.. However, most folks are finding that jsp/ejb is rarely the best tool for 95% of apps..
The nice things about coldfusion:
1) It's java - stoopid...
2) First time thru the entire page gets compiled into bytecode
3) The quickest and easiest way to manipulate tables for a dynamic site:
4) Can write custom tags in CF/Java/C++
5) Can use existing java apps/code and invoke it in the page 2 lines of code...
<cfquery datasource="x" name="getStuff">
select * from table
</cfquery>
What happens is when a new tech comes along that is easy to use and easy to learn, we folks who toiled for years to become good progammers with Java and C++ get edgey that the noobs are taking jobs without paying the price..
Personally,programming is just a means to an end.. Learn whatever technology gets you paid...
On windows everything crashes, or the hard drives mysteriously get corrupted, or the current version of the driver for my video card somehow conflicts with something which causes an instant blue screen 20 minutes (exactly) into my computing session. (Don't forget the creative sound card 'helper' that freaks out and eats all of your system memory when it gets bored).
:)
This just shows that this user hasn't recently if ever used a windows machine. This line comes from the tried and true "why I don't like peecee's" handbook handed out at the maczealot meetings.
I haven't had an unstable windows machine in 4-5 years. I use the machine from audio to video and everthing in between. OSX is a step in the right direction... Now all they have to do is get it to nativly run all win32 apps and I'd buy one!
Not only that but if I share and people download then I want 10 cents per download..
Fuck them..
They should be patching their piece of shit IIS to make it more secure. I can not believe why anyone would voluntarily run that piece of swiss cheese.
I submitted this story months ago, the day I got the letter of apology..
Took a while to get picked up...
What do you expect?
There were probably 12 dumbasses sitting on the jury who in their periphery have heard that M$ is bad and are evil. And that geek Gates is a billionaire which means he must be bad...
Unless the patent office can figure out just what prior art means there should be a moratorium on the issuance of patents.
The problem with this argument is the music industry operates much the same way they did decades ago. Play the numbers game, saturate the market with copy-cat what's the current hot thing cookie-cutter crap and do the bare minumum required to satisfy the buyers to maximize profits.
They haven't innovated shit. They didn't even have much to do with the format their music is delivered on.
There is no band loyalty anymore like there was 15-20 years ago. Everything is a one hit wonder now. A handful of bands can actually pull off two successful albums these days. that's the real reason the industry has almost completely killed the single. People were buying the singles and not the more profitable albums
Their cash crop has turned into nothing but a pile of fertilizer and they don't know what to do except sign more hardly talented hacks with studs in their noses and lips.
emusic.com baby...
"People have been concerned about provisions of the Patriot Act that would grant law enforcement access to your library records"
The feds had the authority to do this 50years ago and they STILL have to abide by the same rules. A court has to allow it. They can not simply do this carte blanche. If the could, what would be the point of putting it in print? They'd just go ahead and do it.
Do a little research dumb ass and you'll quickly find that the dems were the ones who put us in this position.
/. to actually say this, but most of you here have so completely drank the cool-aid on the myth that the dems are all for freedom and civil rights.
It's the repubs who are going to pull us out of this dmca bullshit. I know it's not fashionable here at
That's ok. When I was younger and stupid I thought the dems fought the good fight and I thought it was noble to be a lib..
Now I realize it was because I thought I had all the answers and that the libs only make it appear to fight for the little guy to keep power..
You'll grow up some day... Or not..
No. But who visits this place are a bunch of folks who take everything to the extreme squared.
"Judge rules company X can incorporate methods to combat theft."
SD FOLKS: "Christ! These facist right-wing companies and the politicians in their pockets are soon going to keep air and water from us! It's 1984 I tell you!"
I read through alot of these messages and no one has really hit the nail on the head.
SMTP and POP are outdated protocols. A re-working needs to be done to ingrain authentication so the recipient can simply say, "Bounce all non-authenticated emails".
Although it's sort of chicken and the egg, if a solid alternative was developed I think many large ISP's could be brought on board quickly. They hate spam
As soon as these fuckwits who buy CD's actually STOP completely and let the industry know that their practices, not free downloads are the real reason, things might change.
CD's are copyable. I haven't bought one in three years.
DVD's are copyable. I buy about 6 a month.
It's all about value. Current music is over-produced, cookie-cutter, over-priced dreck.
If you love music, go to E-music. http://www.emusic.com