Every one of my classes has an online counterpart--message board, syllabus, announcements, grades. Overall grades are viewable online, tuition is payable online, registration is done SOLEY online, communication with professors is often easiest done online.
You seem to be missing the point. They aren't looking for a portable music player. They are looking for connecting their music on their hard drives with their regular stereo. Setting an ipod on top of the living room stereo fills this niche just about as well as setting a discman on top of one did... In other words, not very well. (or cheaply!)
I saw an interview with a few police officers on the local news channel here in Milwaukee, WI. The officers were neither for nor against these speed trap websites. They basically said as long as people slow down in the problem areas, they don't have a problem with it.
I'm sure no one is surprised that Microsoft would want to do this. It's clearly in their own best interests.
However to go ahead and perform this extreme level of censorship, in a blatantly public form, is quite unbelievable.
After witnessing something like this, how could anyone trust Microsoft? Especially a group like the government of a country, etc. Is it any wonder that the government of China is concerned about what's contained in Windows?
Clearly a tin foil hat attitude towards Microsoft should be encouraged by this simple proof that even the most uneducated person should be able to understand.
You know, I think you're on to something here. I'm also the type of person that is so sick of greedy companies and their bloodthirsty ways, that I'd be more likely to pay for this freely obtainable product, than a non-free product.
So they are using limewire to share legally
distributable files?
Other than that, I agree about donating. I plan on joining the EFF and donating to Moz, but I'm waiting until I can quit my part time job for a full-time.
This is an honest question, as I'm not sure if this works or not, but it sure does on win32 since forever now.
1. highlight a block of text.
2. cut.
3. paste it in another window.
Seems pretty useless unless this works properly.
Can you reset your 2nd computer to it's snapshot state from yesterday (fully booted and everything, mind you) with one click? I think not.
I can destroy my OS image by deleting files, installing spyware, etc, but then I click one button, and it's right back where I started.
Surely you can see the advantage this brings over having another computer. It is not a speed advantage, but a testing environment advantage.
Well that's not gonna work at all. LOL! To me that looks like they hardly even made an effort. There's no way I could have put a simple bag on the ground in the alley at my old house in Milwaukee. The raccoons get into the full size cans, so a bag on the ground would just be asking for it.
I can't comment on stuff ending up in landfills... I do know that we have recycling centers, but that's all I know about that.
And if you live something other than an apartment or condo, you can only set stuff out once a week. And every neighborhood has different days, and so forth, so it's really a pain.
Isn't this the same way it works with regular garbage? Why should this be any different? We put out our garbage + recyling bin all at once. This doesn't add any difficulty at all.
and put them in plastic bags, not nice neat bins or anything.
By this do you mean that they don't provide bins or they don't allow them? Because if it's just that they don't provide them, it's easily solved. Do they provide garbage cans? Ideally, they should provide recycling bins as well. Maybe Wisconsin just has more environmentalists pushing this stuff through? I don't know, but it does work and it really is as commonly done as taking out regular garbage. People don't even think about it anymore, they just do it. On the other hand I would rather throw out everything than deal with Michigan's flawed system.
Most critics agree that *both* Alien and Aliens are a toss up for best in series. Alien is a sci-fi "haunted house style" horror and Aliens is an action/sci-fi.
Rent a copy of "Aliens Special Edition" and watch the directors cut. It might be the only version on the disc in fact...I forget. It includes a few key scenes that make the story so much better, such as seeing the LV426 colony settling in on the planet and the first crew (Newt's parents) going out to the derelict spacecraft, which marks the beginning of the end of the colony.
In the theatrical release, you never even see the colony before it's devastated, so there's never any suspense of hundreds of people unknowingly living right next door to the aliens, seeing what the colony looks like before the aliens arrive and after, and being able to identify with Newt pre and post alien encounter.
But, these provide -total- anonymity if you use cash.
As it has been pointed out above, no they don't. They can still be tracked and tapped.
I guess you are of the opinion that pgp-signed email should not be allowed? What about chainsaws? What about cars and airplanes? They can all be used inapproriately. I guess we should ban all knives as well. Give me a break.
Just because something CAN be used by criminals doesn't make it bad itself!
In Wisconsin we don't have a mandatory deposit per bottle/can, but everyone still recycles. It's really simple. All of the inconvenient things like taking leaking bags full of smelly cans to the dirty "can bank" are taken away by the government. Every home has a city owned "recycle bin" that is either a small garbage can, or in some cases, a regular garbage can that's a different color. They usually instruct you to put all of your recycleables in there such as paper/cardboard, glass, certain plastics, and aluminum. You put it out with your regular garbage and they take it away. It's so simple and effective that I don't know anyone that doesn't recycle here.
We have recycle bins in public, on school campuses, everywhere. It is not unusual to see a garbage can and a recycling-specific garbage can next to each other.
Now I've also lived in Michigan where they charge and extra 10 cents per can/bottle! Now only is that extremely annoying when you're paying for it, but you have to lug all your *uncrushed* cans to the the store in leaky bags, and watch them feed EACH can into the huge machine, one-by-one, to get your money back. And they only will accept approved brands. So you take all your cans there, then they give you back the ones that they won't accept. And you know what you do with those? Throw them in the trash! What a bass ackwards system that is.
Slashdot Mirror
Every one of my classes has an online counterpart--message board, syllabus, announcements, grades. Overall grades are viewable online, tuition is payable online, registration is done SOLEY online, communication with professors is often easiest done online.
At just what point would you consider it "vital?"
You seem to be missing the point. They aren't looking for a portable music player. They are looking for connecting their music on their hard drives with their regular stereo. Setting an ipod on top of the living room stereo fills this niche just about as well as setting a discman on top of one did... In other words, not very well. (or cheaply!)
Then get an iPod and have a portable as well.
40gb iPod: $499.
160gb drive plus wireless squeezebox: $450.
Does that settle any doubts for you?
Yes, it involves a computer, but you don't need a whole new computer for that. (And you'll need a computer for the iPod to sync with as well, anyway.)
I saw an interview with a few police officers on the local news channel here in Milwaukee, WI. The officers were neither for nor against these speed trap websites. They basically said as long as people slow down in the problem areas, they don't have a problem with it.
I'm sure no one is surprised that Microsoft would want to do this. It's clearly in their own best interests.
However to go ahead and perform this extreme level of censorship, in a blatantly public form, is quite unbelievable.
After witnessing something like this, how could anyone trust Microsoft? Especially a group like the government of a country, etc. Is it any wonder that the government of China is concerned about what's contained in Windows?
Clearly a tin foil hat attitude towards Microsoft should be encouraged by this simple proof that even the most uneducated person should be able to understand.
Perhaps you didn't pay attention to the verdict when the Supreme Court judged MS an illegal monopoly...
But I suppose you know more than the Supreme Court about what does and does not constitute a monopoly.
Comparing WMP to MusicMatch is like comparing a baby's diaper to a freshly-clogged public toilet.
One is slightly more pleasant, but they're both equally filled with shit.
You know, I think you're on to something here. I'm also the type of person that is so sick of greedy companies and their bloodthirsty ways, that I'd be more likely to pay for this freely obtainable product, than a non-free product.
Plus samba is great!
check it out
You mean like when I install a new XP box and it gets infected with nachi before I login the first time ? That's a real great feature!
(Yes, I now install the RPC patch before connecting to the network for the rest of the patches.)
It feels GOOD to pay for good software.
So they are using limewire to share legally distributable files?
Other than that, I agree about donating. I plan on joining the EFF and donating to Moz, but I'm waiting until I can quit my part time job for a full-time.
The point is I don't want to skip step two... Then I have to go back and delete it.
This is an honest question, as I'm not sure if this works or not, but it sure does on win32 since forever now. 1. highlight a block of text. 2. cut. 3. paste it in another window. Seems pretty useless unless this works properly.
Can you reset your 2nd computer to it's snapshot state from yesterday (fully booted and everything, mind you) with one click? I think not.
I can destroy my OS image by deleting files, installing spyware, etc, but then I click one button, and it's right back where I started. Surely you can see the advantage this brings over having another computer. It is not a speed advantage, but a testing environment advantage.
Why do you pay for limewire pro instead of the free kazaa lite (k++ or whatever it is now)?
Is it really that much better than kazaa lite?
You consider "built on IE" as pretty good? What about the numerous unpatched security vulnerabilities?
This one has worked on 2 of the 3 fully patched windows machines that I've tried it on. In IE only, of course.
Well that's not gonna work at all. LOL! To me that looks like they hardly even made an effort. There's no way I could have put a simple bag on the ground in the alley at my old house in Milwaukee. The raccoons get into the full size cans, so a bag on the ground would just be asking for it.
I can't comment on stuff ending up in landfills... I do know that we have recycling centers, but that's all I know about that.
And if you live something other than an apartment or condo, you can only set stuff out once a week.
And every neighborhood has different days, and so forth, so it's really a pain.
Isn't this the same way it works with regular garbage? Why should this be any different? We put out our garbage + recyling bin all at once. This doesn't add any difficulty at all.
and put them in plastic bags, not nice neat bins or anything.
By this do you mean that they don't provide bins or they don't allow them? Because if it's just that they don't provide them, it's easily solved. Do they provide garbage cans? Ideally, they should provide recycling bins as well. Maybe Wisconsin just has more environmentalists pushing this stuff through? I don't know, but it does work and it really is as commonly done as taking out regular garbage. People don't even think about it anymore, they just do it. On the other hand I would rather throw out everything than deal with Michigan's flawed system.
Actually, I replied to the wrong post... *doh*
I meant to reply to the guy who said:
Not to mention terrorists. Like the kind that flew into the WTC
Because that does make it look like they're saying "Oh the horror!"
I would agree. I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone bring this point up before...
Most critics agree that *both* Alien and Aliens are a toss up for best in series. Alien is a sci-fi "haunted house style" horror and Aliens is an action/sci-fi.
Rent a copy of "Aliens Special Edition" and watch the directors cut. It might be the only version on the disc in fact...I forget. It includes a few key scenes that make the story so much better, such as seeing the LV426 colony settling in on the planet and the first crew (Newt's parents) going out to the derelict spacecraft, which marks the beginning of the end of the colony.
In the theatrical release, you never even see the colony before it's devastated, so there's never any suspense of hundreds of people unknowingly living right next door to the aliens, seeing what the colony looks like before the aliens arrive and after, and being able to identify with Newt pre and post alien encounter.
You listed Ghostbusters 2 and therefore I can't really listen to anything else you have to say.
One wonders, if Echelon worked as advertised, would the hi-jackers of the planes on September 11, 2001 have been as succesful?
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
But, these provide -total- anonymity if you use cash. As it has been pointed out above, no they don't. They can still be tracked and tapped.
I guess you are of the opinion that pgp-signed email should not be allowed? What about chainsaws? What about cars and airplanes? They can all be used inapproriately. I guess we should ban all knives as well. Give me a break.
Just because something CAN be used by criminals doesn't make it bad itself!
In Wisconsin we don't have a mandatory deposit per bottle/can, but everyone still recycles. It's really simple. All of the inconvenient things like taking leaking bags full of smelly cans to the dirty "can bank" are taken away by the government. Every home has a city owned "recycle bin" that is either a small garbage can, or in some cases, a regular garbage can that's a different color. They usually instruct you to put all of your recycleables in there such as paper/cardboard, glass, certain plastics, and aluminum. You put it out with your regular garbage and they take it away. It's so simple and effective that I don't know anyone that doesn't recycle here.
We have recycle bins in public, on school campuses, everywhere. It is not unusual to see a garbage can and a recycling-specific garbage can next to each other.
Now I've also lived in Michigan where they charge and extra 10 cents per can/bottle! Now only is that extremely annoying when you're paying for it, but you have to lug all your *uncrushed* cans to the the store in leaky bags, and watch them feed EACH can into the huge machine, one-by-one, to get your money back. And they only will accept approved brands. So you take all your cans there, then they give you back the ones that they won't accept. And you know what you do with those? Throw them in the trash! What a bass ackwards system that is.