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Good thing there's no step 2. I HATE second steps.
...and there is no way I'd ever pay for any subscription to anything (even in print) ever again.
The freeness of information on the net has forever tainted my opinion on things worth subscribing to, as it as done to many others. Eventually, this will lead to a ton of small sites that exist based on the owners love of whatever that site is about. The quality won't be the same, but I'll be damned if I'm paying a penny for any of that anymore.
So I've had the same email address for 10 years, another alternate email address, and two *@mydomain catch-alls that all forward to the same inbox. I get about 30 spams AN HOUR. Pine has ok filters, but some of the stuff just can't be filtered.
It's a massive annoyance... in the mid 90's I was sending over a thousand emails a month, now I'm sending less than 100 and a lot of that has to do with spam. Feh...
But really... if you aren't doing anything extremely wrong you've got nothing to hide. I know the idea is that the more power you give the government the more it will abuse that power, but honestly, nobody cares about going 5 miles over the speed limit, your saturday night poker game, or equivilant crimes and nobody ever will.
If I can carry a piece of plastic with me that will help stop thousands of terrorism related deaths a year I'm all for that.
I'm constantly disappointed by peoples utter lack of knowledge about exactly how far back the tradition goes. I'm not a fan of anime, and I've never been one, but even I can see that the roots of anime go back several centuries. To say that they come from manga is only one step in the right direction. Japanese printmakers such as Hokusai and others in the Edo period are the ones that really started the ball rolling.
The 128mb version is still a little too big, and the 20gb version is obscenely big... despite the size issues it actually appears to have been made by a professional designer with a moderate amount of taste. Something most of the millions of mp3 players don't have the fortune of having.
anyone else think those guys pictured in the article look sorta like robots?
Aren't APPS the real issue?
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Watch any documentary about the infancy of the computer world and you'll hear the phrase "killer app" about a billion times. The real goal should be to get to the point where the line between it and Windows is transparent. The fact that Linux is free and more stable obviously isn't a selling point for most computer users, but get to the point where the desktops are just as intuitive, where all the apps people want to use are available in their Linux form and can interact with Windows apps: the basics: Office, AIM, Solitare:), and more importantly the more advanced stuff like Adobe's software, Macromedia, High end audio and sequencing software like eMagic Logic, and Cycling 74's Max/MSP...
Most people that buy a Windows computer with Windows preinstalled aren't going to switch, or at least most will be absolutely intimidated by the idea, so you have to get them when they purchase the computer. Get Linux boxes into stores and available through the channels people buy through online, if somebody is looking at two identical computers that have the same stats, can run the "same" programs, and one of them costs $300 less because it doesn't have to bother with MS, then you have a winner.
The real issue isn't what MS does to combat open source, the only people who understand the arguments about OSS are people already involved. The average computer user just wants something to run Office and get on the web...
The contradiction to the Super-Jedi argument would be Superman's apprent inability to save falling Statues of Liberty by manipulation of the Force.
I haven't read any comics in years, and it's been even longer since I read a Superman book (probably back to his "death")... Anyone care to shed some light?
It depends on how you define hacking... if they had no inside information about the URL, then yeah, guessing the URL would be a type of hacking but, I don't believe, one that could be punishable by law.
For example, if I put an object I own in a public place... say, some place where the object is hidden but could be found if somebody was looking for it. Then a couple days later it's gone... is that theft? Sure, but, again, I don't think it can be punished. One of those "you should have known better," examples.
Video of Bill Gates in butterfly outfit...
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I've read on a couple sites that during the video Gates showed at the MSN8 release he was in a butterfly costume doing something... anyone have a link to this?
I'm just using the drivers that came with my Matrox G450. Works wonderfully...
The resolution still isn't up to par...
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I'm a real estate whore... I'm currently running 2 19" monitors at 1600x1200 (3200x1200) and I'm seriously considering getting a third. I've looked at LCD's every once in a while and I've never been pleased with what I've found, I can get a very decent 19" for under $200, Viewsonic PF790's are what I'm using now. Lower cost, higher res, I could even get three of these and be right in the middle of the pack pricewise. Apart from the Apple Cinema HD (which I wouldn't mind getting four of) I can't think of an LCD that cuts it.
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Good thing there's no step 2. I HATE second steps.
...and there is no way I'd ever pay for any subscription to anything (even in print) ever again.
The freeness of information on the net has forever tainted my opinion on things worth subscribing to, as it as done to many others. Eventually, this will lead to a ton of small sites that exist based on the owners love of whatever that site is about. The quality won't be the same, but I'll be damned if I'm paying a penny for any of that anymore.
So I've had the same email address for 10 years, another alternate email address, and two *@mydomain catch-alls that all forward to the same inbox. I get about 30 spams AN HOUR. Pine has ok filters, but some of the stuff just can't be filtered.
It's a massive annoyance... in the mid 90's I was sending over a thousand emails a month, now I'm sending less than 100 and a lot of that has to do with spam. Feh...
But really... if you aren't doing anything extremely wrong you've got nothing to hide. I know the idea is that the more power you give the government the more it will abuse that power, but honestly, nobody cares about going 5 miles over the speed limit, your saturday night poker game, or equivilant crimes and nobody ever will.
If I can carry a piece of plastic with me that will help stop thousands of terrorism related deaths a year I'm all for that.
I sure would like to play some of YOUR best-selling games... but your link doesn't work.
I never mentioned the iPod. Too big is too big, period, it doesn't matter what features it has.
I'm constantly disappointed by peoples utter lack of knowledge about exactly how far back the tradition goes. I'm not a fan of anime, and I've never been one, but even I can see that the roots of anime go back several centuries. To say that they come from manga is only one step in the right direction. Japanese printmakers such as Hokusai and others in the Edo period are the ones that really started the ball rolling.
"Remove wrapper, open mouth, insert muffin, eat." -- Instructions on the packaging for a muffin at a 7-11.
The entire muffin? That sounds like a lawsuit just waiting to happen...
The 128mb version is still a little too big, and the 20gb version is obscenely big... despite the size issues it actually appears to have been made by a professional designer with a moderate amount of taste. Something most of the millions of mp3 players don't have the fortune of having.
anyone else think those guys pictured in the article look sorta like robots?
Watch any documentary about the infancy of the computer world and you'll hear the phrase "killer app" about a billion times. The real goal should be to get to the point where the line between it and Windows is transparent. The fact that Linux is free and more stable obviously isn't a selling point for most computer users, but get to the point where the desktops are just as intuitive, where all the apps people want to use are available in their Linux form and can interact with Windows apps: the basics: Office, AIM, Solitare :), and more importantly the more advanced stuff like Adobe's software, Macromedia, High end audio and sequencing software like eMagic Logic, and Cycling 74's Max/MSP...
Most people that buy a Windows computer with Windows preinstalled aren't going to switch, or at least most will be absolutely intimidated by the idea, so you have to get them when they purchase the computer. Get Linux boxes into stores and available through the channels people buy through online, if somebody is looking at two identical computers that have the same stats, can run the "same" programs, and one of them costs $300 less because it doesn't have to bother with MS, then you have a winner.
The real issue isn't what MS does to combat open source, the only people who understand the arguments about OSS are people already involved. The average computer user just wants something to run Office and get on the web...
Unless you have some magic printer-ready toilet paper the results of that could be pretty ghastly.
Somebody fill me in on this...
The contradiction to the Super-Jedi argument would be Superman's apprent inability to save falling Statues of Liberty by manipulation of the Force.
I haven't read any comics in years, and it's been even longer since I read a Superman book (probably back to his "death")... Anyone care to shed some light?
I just hope hyperthreading is the real deal, not a load of hyperhype.
It would look so much more elegant with a square cord. :)
It depends on how you define hacking... if they had no inside information about the URL, then yeah, guessing the URL would be a type of hacking but, I don't believe, one that could be punishable by law. For example, if I put an object I own in a public place... say, some place where the object is hidden but could be found if somebody was looking for it. Then a couple days later it's gone... is that theft? Sure, but, again, I don't think it can be punished. One of those "you should have known better," examples.
I imagine this will be similar to the catastrophic Y2K bug. :)
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I've read on a couple sites that during the video Gates showed at the MSN8 release he was in a butterfly costume doing something... anyone have a link to this?
The article doesn't seem to say... their own special flavor or something standard?
It's not a system that just anyone can use, which is what I was suggestting.
Why didn't they just make a client program for distributed computing so the entire country/world could help out?
I'm just using the drivers that came with my Matrox G450. Works wonderfully...
I'm a real estate whore... I'm currently running 2 19" monitors at 1600x1200 (3200x1200) and I'm seriously considering getting a third. I've looked at LCD's every once in a while and I've never been pleased with what I've found, I can get a very decent 19" for under $200, Viewsonic PF790's are what I'm using now. Lower cost, higher res, I could even get three of these and be right in the middle of the pack pricewise. Apart from the Apple Cinema HD (which I wouldn't mind getting four of) I can't think of an LCD that cuts it.
I can't read japanese, but I believe this is a picture of what the article talks about.