Typical response from a liberal imperialist environmental communist.
If one doesn't agree with their feelings or view points, then the only thing to do (it's in their handbook) is to call names and throw insults. If you can't attack their logic (and why would they, it's no fun) then throw personal insults.
Luckily, I have an extremely thick flame suit (yes, they make flame suits in XXXL.. took a lot of baby seals, though).
You won't get any more replies from me on this topic.
Tidal could be COMPLETELY hidden from humans rather easily (submerged), or just put far out from the shore, or near uninhabited shores.
Then the envirolibbycommidiots would get upset that they're killing the coral / fish / sharks / whatever.
6. Wind power is too noisy
Only if you put it near people. There's plenty of wide-open land.
Still kills the little birdies...
Nobody has to have anything in their yards to use solar power. That's what THE GRID is for. A few square miles in the desert, and you've got thousands of homes on solar power.
Thousands.. How many are in even a small city?
And you've proven yourself so well-informed on the issue, clearly everyone
With all the liberal imperialist environmental communists out there screaming because
1. Coal is a non-renewable energy source. 2. Oil is a non-renewable energy source. 3. Natural gas is a non-renewable energy souce. 4. Wave power is too ugly to be built (too lazy to Google for it but Kennedy / Kerry vetoed the idea because it was too close to THEIR vacataion home). 5. Water flow (river) is too unpredictable (and causes environmental damage when you flood blah blah blah). 6. Wind power is too noisy and it kills birdies.
What the hell else do we have?
Solar? Right. Who wants a backyard full of panels? Some people like to BAR-B-QUE in their back yards.. not worry about whether the kids are going to burn themselves (or throw a baseball through) the solar array..
I say.. lets build some nuclear power plants. Use the efficient safe designs (pebble bed) and.. OHMYGOSH.. recycle the fuel. Heck, even on Slashdot they posted a story about a new tech that might make the waste that much LESS radioactive..
Be careful with the free-standing portable room air conditioners.
We used one in a server room... every little power spike would shut it off, and with no automatic turn on we'd end up with a toasty warm server room, and all of the servers howling..
Then we brought the people responsible for controlling the $$ into the server room for a 10 minute show-off. Oh, with the A/C unit off. And we explained how the A/C unit shut off with every little power spike (which we had 2 of during the meeting). The meeting ended 10 minutes later and within a month we had a roof-mounted air conditioning unit.
Server room: 62 degrees.
Turn off the big overhead unit (at 62 degrees) and the room is 80 degrees in less than an hour..
This with
8 HP DL380 1 Dell Poweredge 2450 1 HP MSA1000 1 HP ML6030 LTO2 changer 4 misc other computer/servers 3 APC 110v 30A UPS/w external batteries
OEM copies of Windows aren't "locked to the BIOS" or anything like that.
So, then, how is it that if I use my Dell Windows XP SP2 CD to re-install any Dell computer, I'm never asked for a product ID.. but if I use it to install XP SP2 to a NON Dell computer.. after Windows is done installing, I'm told that the product key is invalid and I must re-enter?
Seems as though he went to some fairly benign sites and installed a bunch of not-so bad toolbars. Not that I'm saying that the toolbars he installed are clean and rosy, but wtf.
Why not take Vista / IE7 to some not so great sites. Like some of the more underworld (note, I didn't say illegal) porn sites, or better yet, crack sites that (still) try to use the WMF vulnerability and other tricks. Maybe I'll do that in a VM session.. but *yawn* I'm not in the mood right now..
And hell, the product is still BETA. Half the software won't work with Vista right off the bat. But wait until some little teeny bop programmer actually finds an exploit.
I love and hate spyware. It keeps me employed.:) However, I hate having to do the same repetitive scans on a PC over and over, because someone wanted smilies and stationary in Outlook Express....
i wrote a web based "chat room". it used php/mysql. you login to it (no registration at this time), and you see the last so many lines posted. It uses 2 iframes (one for the html form post window, one for the refreshing chat).
You get to see what the previous people said (esp if they were having a conversation) or you can just make notes to everyone about whatever.
it's actually a really small program.. not too hard to do.
My first BBS experience was with my Commodore 64 and some old 300 baud modem. You actually had to dial it pulse, and switch a switch manually to make it connect. Or you just dialed it with a touch tone phone, then flipped it to conenct.
Upgraded to a Aprotek Minimodem C (1200 baud) and found the online world of BBS'ing. Got into some of the more nefarious sides of it (i dont know what the author did in warez, but I was a courier), not paying for LD calls and whatnot.
I upgraded to a PC, and the fun got more fun, found a multiline BBS (Metropolis BBS, metrobbs.com now) running MajorBBS. It was originally run by Gary Martin, one of the TW2002 authors. Got quite involved with that community, they had get togethers at King Arthurs in Lawrence, KS. When I first logged on they had Lawrence and KC numbers, all 2400 baud except the 9600 baud "download line". Then they moved it to Overland Park (6619900 came to mind... http://bbslist.textfiles.com/913/ yup). Also knew the guy who ran The File Shop (Walt) and even ended up working for him at one point as a tech (not on the BBS.. his BBS became one of the biggest local dial-up ISPs and became Birch).
You could even dial up to Metropolis after a while and get a SLIP connection (lordy mighty!) through the Major software.. then I ended up with a dialup account from The File Shop (ISP).
Then the WWW exploded on the scene, and I started BBSing less and less.. and now sadly even my Metrobbs account is gone..
AOL started as a Commodore 64 service, Quantum Link (1985). In 1988 they and Apple released AppleLink. After Apple and Quantum parted in 1989, they changed the name to AOL. In 1988, they and Tandy released PC-Link for the PC.
I posted an Ask Slashdot question.. about deploying OOO across a corporate network. The things I needed (such as setting OOO to use.DOC by default, not showing the NAG screen for every user, etc) are stored in XML or TEXT files. Sure, I could do some stupid kludgy thing and modify them for every user who logs in but jeez -- who has the freaking time..
People who write OSS are going to have to learn something extremely valuable. And learn it from Novell. You can fight Microsoft. You will lose. Your market share will go down the toilet. Or you can make things work all nice and pretty WITH Microsoft - then make your products work BETTER than Microsoft. Novell has learned this. Don't believe me? Check out the newest Zenworks. Or check out that you can run eDirectory / Groupwise / etc on a Windows server (and quite nicely, I might add, too!).
To emulate Ballmers change of "Developers..", I say
I manage several networks.. and on those networks we tried limited rollouts of Firefox..
1. Proxy settings. All the users at one site HAVE to go through a proxy server. It's a transparent server, but offers us logging (required by law) and it helps with the overloaded internet connection Set the proxy settings in Firefox, and a user need only go Tools | Options | General | Connection Settings to turn them off. No way to disable the menu, without going in and re-writing the XUL code. IE? Easy, shove a.reg file to the machine to disable access to that tab. Easy to bypass, yes. For a geek. But for a general user, not quite so easy for them.
2. IE Only Sites. There's nothing more than I'd love than to put Firefox and remove IE from people's desktop. In fact, I do at every chance I get. But telling someone that if they come across a site that FF doesn't work with - the site isn't worth it for them, and it turns out their BANKING or STOCK site doesn't work... well your credibility just got shot down.
No, Napster would become the de-facto standard. You can download basically an unlimited amount of music for $14.99 a month.
It could feel glamorous to unsubscribe and keep all the MP3 files.. however why? It's ONLY $14.99 a month. That's less than I spend on almost anything else. In fact, it's more than I saved by switching to Vonage. Just pay the $14.99 a month.. and you're legal.
It's one less premium channel on the cable box (which, btw I watch very little of).
The software I use is closed source, however it's FAQ says that it is not actually defeating the DRM. My guess is that it uses the Windows Media Player codec to decrypt the file, and then runs the digital output of WMPlayer to another file.
WinAMP will play a Windows Media file. You think they use their own code to do so?
By stopping your subscription, you've lost your license to the music. If you still subscribe, you still have a license to use the music.
I don't mind paying to keep a perpetual license on the content I use.
The book analogy isn't a good one.
If I could download ALL the books I wanted for $14.99 a month, and there were a way to de-drm them (so I could read them on whatever little LCD device I wanted), I'd probably subscribe to that, too..
Photocopying the book destroys the format (and familiarity with) the book.
Your analogy is more (but not totally) like someone taking a laptop to the library, "borrowing" the CD's and ripping them on site. That's stealing. You do not have a license to copy that.
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.. took a lot of baby seals, though).
Typical response from a liberal imperialist environmental communist.
If one doesn't agree with their feelings or view points, then the only thing to do (it's in their handbook) is to call names and throw insults. If you can't attack their logic (and why would they, it's no fun) then throw personal insults.
Luckily, I have an extremely thick flame suit (yes, they make flame suits in XXXL
You won't get any more replies from me on this topic.
A/C posting, eh?
Mmmkay..
Then the envirolibbycommidiots would get upset that they're killing the coral / fish / sharks / whatever.
6. Wind power is too noisy
Only if you put it near people. There's plenty of wide-open land.
Still kills the little birdies...
Nobody has to have anything in their yards to use solar power. That's what THE GRID is for. A few square miles in the desert, and you've got thousands of homes on solar power.
Thousands .. How many are in even a small city?
And you've proven yourself so well-informed on the issue, clearly everyone
I've not proven anything..
Let's see ...
Fat Ass? Check
Redneck? Check
Limited brain power? Nope, sorry.
Back yard? I for one welcome my pebble bed overlords...
I would seriously not have a problem with a nuclear power plant in my back yard.
Why? Because I believe they can be clean and safe. And I'd make a $hitload of money selling power..
Well make up your damn minds and call me when you can figure out what it is that you want..... :)
Why is it scary?
.. not worry about whether the kids are going to burn themselves (or throw a baseball through) the solar array..
.. lets build some nuclear power plants. Use the efficient safe designs (pebble bed) and .. OHMYGOSH .. recycle the fuel. Heck, even on Slashdot they posted a story about a new tech that might make the waste that much LESS radioactive..
With all the liberal imperialist environmental communists out there screaming because
1. Coal is a non-renewable energy source.
2. Oil is a non-renewable energy source.
3. Natural gas is a non-renewable energy souce.
4. Wave power is too ugly to be built (too lazy to Google for it but Kennedy / Kerry vetoed the idea because it was too close to THEIR vacataion home).
5. Water flow (river) is too unpredictable (and causes environmental damage when you flood blah blah blah).
6. Wind power is too noisy and it kills birdies.
What the hell else do we have?
Solar? Right. Who wants a backyard full of panels? Some people like to BAR-B-QUE in their back yards
I say
Be careful with the free-standing portable room air conditioners.
... every little power spike would shut it off, and with no automatic turn on we'd end up with a toasty warm server room, and all of the servers howling..
/w external batteries
We used one in a server room
Then we brought the people responsible for controlling the $$ into the server room for a 10 minute show-off. Oh, with the A/C unit off. And we explained how the A/C unit shut off with every little power spike (which we had 2 of during the meeting). The meeting ended 10 minutes later and within a month we had a roof-mounted air conditioning unit.
Server room: 62 degrees.
Turn off the big overhead unit (at 62 degrees) and the room is 80 degrees in less than an hour..
This with
8 HP DL380
1 Dell Poweredge 2450
1 HP MSA1000
1 HP ML6030 LTO2 changer
4 misc other computer/servers
3 APC 110v 30A UPS
and a few other things..
So, then, how is it that if I use my Dell Windows XP SP2 CD to re-install any Dell computer, I'm never asked for a product ID .. but if I use it to install XP SP2 to a NON Dell computer .. after Windows is done installing, I'm told that the product key is invalid and I must re-enter?
They didn't test a nuke.
They had 500,000 people all jump at the same time and yell BOOM!!!
Seems as though he went to some fairly benign sites and installed a bunch of not-so bad toolbars. Not that I'm saying that the toolbars he installed are clean and rosy, but wtf.
.. but *yawn* I'm not in the mood right now..
:) However, I hate having to do the same repetitive scans on a PC over and over, because someone wanted smilies and stationary in Outlook Express....
Why not take Vista / IE7 to some not so great sites. Like some of the more underworld (note, I didn't say illegal) porn sites, or better yet, crack sites that (still) try to use the WMF vulnerability and other tricks. Maybe I'll do that in a VM session
And hell, the product is still BETA. Half the software won't work with Vista right off the bat. But wait until some little teeny bop programmer actually finds an exploit.
I love and hate spyware. It keeps me employed.
He probably isn't.
.. it's a surprise that he got it to run at all...
I have serious issues with Steam games
And I had the same usability issues with RC1 too.
Downloading RC2 and we'll see...
i wrote a web based "chat room". it used php/mysql. you login to it (no registration at this time), and you see the last so many lines posted. It uses 2 iframes (one for the html form post window, one for the refreshing chat).
.. not too hard to do.
You get to see what the previous people said (esp if they were having a conversation) or you can just make notes to everyone about whatever.
it's actually a really small program
Check out vmware.com and see that their VMWare server is now free...
It is what used to be VMWare GSX...
If all the terrorists are using is Counter Strike and as_oilrig ... I already feel safer.
:)
Maybe we can show them how to boost through the ceiling. It would be fun to watch Ashad trying to boost his fellow mate through the ceiling
My first BBS experience was with my Commodore 64 and some old 300 baud modem. You actually had to dial it pulse, and switch a switch manually to make it connect. Or you just dialed it with a touch tone phone, then flipped it to conenct.
... http://bbslist.textfiles.com/913/ yup). Also knew the guy who ran The File Shop (Walt) and even ended up working for him at one point as a tech (not on the BBS .. his BBS became one of the biggest local dial-up ISPs and became Birch).
.. then I ended up with a dialup account from The File Shop (ISP).
.. and now sadly even my Metrobbs account is gone..
Upgraded to a Aprotek Minimodem C (1200 baud) and found the online world of BBS'ing. Got into some of the more nefarious sides of it (i dont know what the author did in warez, but I was a courier), not paying for LD calls and whatnot.
I upgraded to a PC, and the fun got more fun, found a multiline BBS (Metropolis BBS, metrobbs.com now) running MajorBBS. It was originally run by Gary Martin, one of the TW2002 authors. Got quite involved with that community, they had get togethers at King Arthurs in Lawrence, KS. When I first logged on they had Lawrence and KC numbers, all 2400 baud except the 9600 baud "download line". Then they moved it to Overland Park (6619900 came to mind
You could even dial up to Metropolis after a while and get a SLIP connection (lordy mighty!) through the Major software
Then the WWW exploded on the scene, and I started BBSing less and less
The days! Thanks!
You'd better check your history...
n ings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Online#Begin
AOL started as a Commodore 64 service, Quantum Link (1985). In 1988 they and Apple released AppleLink. After Apple and Quantum parted in 1989, they changed the name to AOL. In 1988, they and Tandy released PC-Link for the PC.
Bleh. That's what I think.
.. not ever actually getting to play (unless you count 3 steps in spawn as playing before the game crashes).
I understand that everything is still in flux right now, but COME ON!!
Install Vista - clean install no upgrades here. 2.8ghz P4 . 1g ram . 250g SATA drive. How much faster do you want? nVidia 6600 PCI-X video card.
Download / install the drivers from nVidia. Install Steam ( steampowered.com ) and try to play DOD / Counter Strike or any of the source games.
Watch in amazement as Vista wigs out
This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE?!?!
Feels more like a Beta1..
Exactly.
.. about deploying OOO across a corporate network. The things I needed (such as setting OOO to use .DOC by default, not showing the NAG screen for every user, etc) are stored in XML or TEXT files. Sure, I could do some stupid kludgy thing and modify them for every user who logs in but jeez -- who has the freaking time..
..", I say
I posted an Ask Slashdot question
People who write OSS are going to have to learn something extremely valuable. And learn it from Novell. You can fight Microsoft. You will lose. Your market share will go down the toilet. Or you can make things work all nice and pretty WITH Microsoft - then make your products work BETTER than Microsoft. Novell has learned this. Don't believe me? Check out the newest Zenworks. Or check out that you can run eDirectory / Groupwise / etc on a Windows server (and quite nicely, I might add, too!).
To emulate Ballmers change of "Developers
"Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate, Integrate"...
Wish that were the case ..
.. and on those networks we tried limited rollouts of Firefox ..
.reg file to the machine to disable access to that tab. Easy to bypass, yes. For a geek. But for a general user, not quite so easy for them.
... well your credibility just got shot down.
I manage several networks
1. Proxy settings. All the users at one site HAVE to go through a proxy server. It's a transparent server, but offers us logging (required by law) and it helps with the overloaded internet connection Set the proxy settings in Firefox, and a user need only go Tools | Options | General | Connection Settings to turn them off. No way to disable the menu, without going in and re-writing the XUL code. IE? Easy, shove a
2. IE Only Sites. There's nothing more than I'd love than to put Firefox and remove IE from people's desktop. In fact, I do at every chance I get. But telling someone that if they come across a site that FF doesn't work with - the site isn't worth it for them, and it turns out their BANKING or STOCK site doesn't work
Uhm ... sure .. I don't work for Diebold.
..
Heck, if I worked for Diebold, we could have such things as the root password being
s3cr3t
or even better yet
password
admin
Yeah, and the cheat code for the voting booth is
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, VOTE
That way the machine will access it's hidden firmware and convert ALL the votes to the person of your choice..
Plain old FUD .. EVERY friggin website in the world logs your IP address. It's only that, an IP address.
I went there JUST so they would log my IP address. There! Sue me RIAA. I visited a public website. Boo friggin hoo..
Next they'll be sending secret police to my house to @(*$fiu$#(NO CARRIER)
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No, Napster would become the de-facto standard. You can download basically an unlimited amount of music for $14.99 a month.
.. however why? It's ONLY $14.99 a month. That's less than I spend on almost anything else. In fact, it's more than I saved by switching to Vonage. Just pay the $14.99 a month .. and you're legal.
It could feel glamorous to unsubscribe and keep all the MP3 files
It's one less premium channel on the cable box (which, btw I watch very little of).
The software I use is closed source, however it's FAQ says that it is not actually defeating the DRM. My guess is that it uses the Windows Media Player codec to decrypt the file, and then runs the digital output of WMPlayer to another file.
WinAMP will play a Windows Media file. You think they use their own code to do so?
By stopping your subscription, you've lost your license to the music. If you still subscribe, you still have a license to use the music.
I don't mind paying to keep a perpetual license on the content I use.
The book analogy isn't a good one.
If I could download ALL the books I wanted for $14.99 a month, and there were a way to de-drm them (so I could read them on whatever little LCD device I wanted), I'd probably subscribe to that, too..
Photocopying the book destroys the format (and familiarity with) the book.
Your analogy is more (but not totally) like someone taking a laptop to the library, "borrowing" the CD's and ripping them on site. That's stealing. You do not have a license to copy that.