And how many were web designers just downloading yet another browser for compatability checking purposes? I know that that's the reason why I did, and I'm sure there are countless others that fit that description too.
im pretty sure that there is a finite number of 'web developers', and a much smaller number of 'web developers' who care about cross browser compatibility.
One entry found for numerous. Main Entry: numerous Pronunciation: 'nüm-r&s, 'nü-m&-; 'nyüm-, 'nyü-m&- Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French numereux, from Latin numerosus, from numerus : consisting of great numbers of units or individuals ; also : MANY - numerously adverb - numerousness noun
Your homegrown behemoth has had more upgrades than Anna Nicole Smith. Your Windows installation kinda works. It takes 1-3 minutes to boot, another 1-5 minutes to load all it's crap after you log in. It refreshes your desktop icons sometimes for no reason at all, wasting time.
No offence, but if your computer is in this state with windows, then you're going to have a very messy hole-ridden linux install after a few months.
Windows doesn't act that way unless something is Very Wrong. If you're horrible at running an ms operating system then you aren't going to be any better at running linux.
Blanket statements like this are ignorant. Open your eyes.
I'm not a spammer, from working with an abuse department I can safely say working with the people in news.admin.net-abuse.email is like talking to a bunch of stuck up children.
I hate spam, I hate SPEWS, the existance of both has caused equal inconvenience in my life.
(the linked site states: "A few other tidbits of information about this new donation system: SF.NET is taking a 5% piece of the transaction fee," which seems to suggest that the transaction fee is larger than 5%)
You can take 5% of anything. It doesn't suggest a larger percentage at all.
i didn't realize that the fact that canadians watch/listen to a lot of american based media was suprising. it's noted, spelt out, and dealt with, even on a government level.
is that your point? that canadians consume american music and movies, and therefore SOCANN and its analouges should back off since most piracy does not relate to them?
you do realize that cds from international artists are dealt with on at least a SOCANN aligned distributor, if not a label?
as far as movies go, a large chunk of big budget/popular movies/television shows are filmed in canada, with canadian actors/crews that need to be payed, as well as various other country-specific costs i touched on before when talking about cds. (did i just reach my slash limit?)
so yes, to your original question, "Canadian musicians and movie industry people really believe their properties make up that large of a percentage of what is being downloaded", and rightly so.
always happy to help the ignorant. i await your snarky reply.
yes, and mtv canada is avilable on every major canadian digital cable/sattelite network, and has all the same shows (minus trl), negating the need to watch american mtv.
I'm guessing what you meant to say was that it takes about a minute longer than a CD to burn, but I don't know how that involves the words "same" or "in."
the speed it burns the dvd is fast.
if a cd writer had this writing speed of data per second, it could burn a full cd in just over a minute.
I worked at a (non-spamming) porn host for a while a couple of years ago, and the biggest headache to our business was people signing up for sites, having a tug, and then charge-backing the order. we probably went through 4 or 5 merchant accounts a year.
nothing, i was merely pointing out that you were equating metal detectors with guns, and then trying to make a point that we have the furthest thing from a gun crime problem in this city.
it's just funny to see how you assumed a common theme in your own culture was true in cultures of other countries.
i just would have never thought "searching for metal = firearm!".
I find it highly amusing that when the words 'Metal Detector' are used you instantly think they're checking for handguns.
Living in vancouver (3 blocks from the area referenced in the article), I have seen a 'personal defence' handgun once in my life (on an american who had smuggled it in on vacation). I also know nobody in any capacity who has been victimized or threatened by someone with a gun, or has witnessed it. This includes some bartenders/bouncers in the clubs in question.
We're mostly worried about things like batons or knives.
This is the same thing you hear from football coaches when people talk about the plays the call. Instead of admitting they called the wrong play, they want to talk about how the play was executed.
That makes no sense. Coming up with a solution to a problem is only half of resolving it. If you have problems implimenting your solution then you fail the entire task. If you are hungry and you end up burning your dinner, you failed the execution. If you prepare for a job interview, but mumble and stutter through it, you fail the execution.
He's saying that Microsoft isn't evil because they write crappy software; they're evil because they aren't being punished by the market for it.
That's not what he is saying at all. It has nothing to do with the quality of the software, but with practices like bundling and competing unfairly.
I work at a large internet colo facility, and from first hand experience I hate whitelists. About half a dozen times I have worked on a problem for a customer, written a long reply, then gone out for lunch or gone home for the day.
The shift covering me gets an angry call from a cutomer who wants to know why we havent resolved his issue. Now the customer has to wait until I am in the office or at home again to open up my email and click his stupid whitelist link. I dread the 4am phone call where I have to click some jerk's whitelist link.
A well configured spam filtering server and some local filtering will get rid of 95% of spam. Set up once and you're done.
Too many idiots use whitelists, it's a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I don't know why someone has to waste everyone elses time, espcially if thier justification is they don't want thier own time wasted.
I see you're having trouble disconnecting the thoughts of KDE and linux. Here are some easy steps:
1) boot to a console on a freebsd/netbsd/openbsd/non-linux UNIX-esque os.
2) install kde.
3) start kde.
4) repeat for a few other os'
5) compare what you get on the fresh desktop to the fresh desktop of a windows system. I'd honestly be suprised if the end result between systems looked/functioned the same without lots of fiddling. This is my point.
Is it an unfair comparison? Generally yes, I'd agree with you. On the other hand, in the particular context it was used in, to me it seemed quite fair, because I was never comparing the underlying OS of each system. I'm beginning to think I'm dealing with somebody who has never installed KDE from scratch.
If you are going to continue, please try to without using the word 'linux' or mention any linux flavour, since they really have nothing to what im talking about. I also really don't feel like getting into a 'who has the most linux-centric job' pissing contest either, so unless you really have something relevant to add along that line, cut that out as well.
Jesus, all these semantics over a one line comment.
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im pretty sure that there is a finite number of 'web developers', and a much smaller number of 'web developers' who care about cross browser compatibility.
(The dictionary is your friend)
One entry found for numerous.
Main Entry: numerous
Pronunciation: 'nüm-r&s, 'nü-m&-; 'nyüm-, 'nyü-m&-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French numereux, from Latin numerosus, from numerus
: consisting of great numbers of units or individuals ; also : MANY
- numerously adverb
- numerousness noun
Your homegrown behemoth has had more upgrades than Anna Nicole Smith. Your Windows installation kinda works. It takes 1-3 minutes to boot, another 1-5 minutes to load all it's crap after you log in. It refreshes your desktop icons sometimes for no reason at all, wasting time. No offence, but if your computer is in this state with windows, then you're going to have a very messy hole-ridden linux install after a few months. Windows doesn't act that way unless something is Very Wrong. If you're horrible at running an ms operating system then you aren't going to be any better at running linux.
Yes, that's exactly why you've lost your dignity. You will die alone and unhappy with a copy of Roll The Bones clutched tightly to your chest.
A rush ringtone costs more than money, dignity too.
Still missing where sending unsolicited mail to many people, when only one of them is possibly at fault for your suffering, is not spam.
You're becoming what you hate, I'd wager not everyone on the sales and info alias writes pink contracts.
Solving the spam problem with more spam is a little dumb.
Only a spammer would talk like that.
Blanket statements like this are ignorant. Open your eyes.
I'm not a spammer, from working with an abuse department I can safely say working with the people in news.admin.net-abuse.email is like talking to a bunch of stuck up children.
I hate spam, I hate SPEWS, the existance of both has caused equal inconvenience in my life.
You can take 5% of anything. It doesn't suggest a larger percentage at all.
awesome! always glad to help the uninformed.
i didn't realize that the fact that canadians watch/listen to a lot of american based media was suprising. it's noted, spelt out, and dealt with, even on a government level.
is that your point? that canadians consume american music and movies, and therefore SOCANN and its analouges should back off since most piracy does not relate to them?
you do realize that cds from international artists are dealt with on at least a SOCANN aligned distributor, if not a label?
as far as movies go, a large chunk of big budget/popular movies/television shows are filmed in canada, with canadian actors/crews that need to be payed, as well as various other country-specific costs i touched on before when talking about cds. (did i just reach my slash limit?)
so yes, to your original question, "Canadian musicians and movie industry people really believe their properties make up that large of a percentage of what is being downloaded", and rightly so.
always happy to help the ignorant. i await your snarky reply.
yes, and mtv canada is avilable on every major canadian digital cable/sattelite network, and has all the same shows (minus trl), negating the need to watch american mtv.
we have mtv canada.
I've worked in 2 major datacenters and samba is no where to be seen. Do you even know what a datacenter is?
I'm guessing what you meant to say was that it takes about a minute longer than a CD to burn, but I don't know how that involves the words "same" or "in."
the speed it burns the dvd is fast.
if a cd writer had this writing speed of data per second, it could burn a full cd in just over a minute.
He's right though.
I worked at a (non-spamming) porn host for a while a couple of years ago, and the biggest headache to our business was people signing up for sites, having a tug, and then charge-backing the order. we probably went through 4 or 5 merchant accounts a year.
Chargebacks abosolutely kill internet business.
Looks like you've never had a goldfish.
it's just funny to see how you assumed a common theme in your own culture was true in cultures of other countries.
i just would have never thought "searching for metal = firearm!".
Living in vancouver (3 blocks from the area referenced in the article), I have seen a 'personal defence' handgun once in my life (on an american who had smuggled it in on vacation). I also know nobody in any capacity who has been victimized or threatened by someone with a gun, or has witnessed it. This includes some bartenders/bouncers in the clubs in question.
We're mostly worried about things like batons or knives.
Kind of funny you draw the line at 'SCSI drives' when it comes to plugging things into your ass.
Was there a lot of trial and error in this decision?
That makes no sense. Coming up with a solution to a problem is only half of resolving it. If you have problems implimenting your solution then you fail the entire task. If you are hungry and you end up burning your dinner, you failed the execution. If you prepare for a job interview, but mumble and stutter through it, you fail the execution.
He's saying that Microsoft isn't evil because they write crappy software; they're evil because they aren't being punished by the market for it.
That's not what he is saying at all. It has nothing to do with the quality of the software, but with practices like bundling and competing unfairly.
an athalon with 512K of ram? reading slashdot must take all day. imagine going into swap just for the text?
I work at a large internet colo facility, and from first hand experience I hate whitelists. About half a dozen times I have worked on a problem for a customer, written a long reply, then gone out for lunch or gone home for the day.
The shift covering me gets an angry call from a cutomer who wants to know why we havent resolved his issue. Now the customer has to wait until I am in the office or at home again to open up my email and click his stupid whitelist link. I dread the 4am phone call where I have to click some jerk's whitelist link.
A well configured spam filtering server and some local filtering will get rid of 95% of spam. Set up once and you're done.
Too many idiots use whitelists, it's a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I don't know why someone has to waste everyone elses time, espcially if thier justification is they don't want thier own time wasted.
I see you're having trouble disconnecting the thoughts of KDE and linux. Here are some easy steps:
1) boot to a console on a freebsd/netbsd/openbsd/non-linux UNIX-esque os.
2) install kde.
3) start kde.
4) repeat for a few other os'
5) compare what you get on the fresh desktop to the fresh desktop of a windows system. I'd honestly be suprised if the end result between systems looked/functioned the same without lots of fiddling. This is my point.
Is it an unfair comparison? Generally yes, I'd agree with you. On the other hand, in the particular context it was used in, to me it seemed quite fair, because I was never comparing the underlying OS of each system. I'm beginning to think I'm dealing with somebody who has never installed KDE from scratch.
If you are going to continue, please try to without using the word 'linux' or mention any linux flavour, since they really have nothing to what im talking about. I also really don't feel like getting into a 'who has the most linux-centric job' pissing contest either, so unless you really have something relevant to add along that line, cut that out as well.
Jesus, all these semantics over a one line comment.
would googling be that hard?