1 - for $35 an employee, it would a wiser decision for such a company to simply ban the use of aim, and either use else, or develop their own, in house.
2 - i see this as a bottom of the barrel effort by aol to generate some revenue. hopefully, this signals the beginning of a near end for aol.
i do hope i get the prize bug! i can already see myself buying a special petroleum free casing for my moz 1.0 cd to preserve it. it will look so nice next to my baseball cards and sealed copy of windows xp.
just between you and me, i'm really bettin the farm that the xp collectible value takes off!
please let me be number one!!! i dont really care about dvd burners. useless if you ask me. how often do you really need to burn like 8 cds for one project anyway?
does anyone know any fun details about what is new to longhorn other than a design of the ui? i could be wrong, but isnt multiple desktops a unix invented thing? i can't believe that ms is actually using ui tidbits from unix enviros!
i can sue tobacco because i have no willpower. i can sue mcdonalds because i'm a lazy slob. i might as well be able to sue my isp because i dont know how to write a check for my isp bill!
that we give microsoft credit for actually doing something right. service pack whatever. how many security updates have you had to do to keep your linux box up-to-speed with the security issues?
i run primarily linux, and i'm not a big fan of the microsoft way. but dammit, if they deserve credit, give it to em!
2 things.
- i cant believe lovebyte's post got modded "insightful"
- i hope to god you are kidding about os choice being at all relative to divorce. honestly, if there is even a flicker of valid concern there, you need to wake up. life IS more than computers believe it or not.
is it just me or does this computer/human chess thing seem just slightly overrated? i'd love to say this is a good test of the advancement of ai techniques, but in reality given that hardware keeps getting better, it is only a matter of time before this is not a big deal at all.
ok, so MS may not be the most popular of the bunch, but i get the feeling that most of the resentment is about MS and not the actual issue. with that in mind, i point you to...
http://www.actsofgord.com/Annoy/chapter07.html you see. if you want a mod chip to play stolen/copied games, you hurt the gaming business in general. so chill out about it and realize that your dishonesty is wrong!
... that the school can institute whatever policy it wants on free speech and what not so long as the medium for this speech is provided and maintained by school resources?
now, if i am running my own server and my isp says, "do whatever you want" in the contract but then try to say, "no links for you!" i would say that is a violation of free speech. however, i think the school may have some hidden rights in this case.
if you dont have anything to hide, whats the big deal? privacy? i doubt your renting of that porn at the movie store is going to throw a flag. now if you happened to be incarcerated for say, porn with a 12 year old, then it serves you just fine by me.
in short, get over it. if your freaked, you probably did something wrong.
maybe this is naive, but who cares if your phone is tapped? you should be ok with it so long as you have nothing to hide. i know all you paranoid folk out there believe the govt will frame you, but jees. give me a break. if you are clean, just let it go.
some people were bitching about how osdn is using this "sacrifice" as a way to become a commercial hero. quite frankly, i think it is a nice gesture. what do people expect? them to save the world?
yo may want to take the time to actually check out some theme sites. there are more aqua look-a-likes than anyone cares to see. so i doubt that apple had a real big effect on the aqua copying. for that matter, there are lots of xp themes out there as well. i speak of themes for the gnome and kde desktops.
obviously we disagree on the whole issue. thats just fine. everyone has their own view. i still stand by my view that aol is entitled to do whatever they want with THEIR stuff. i think that the folk who reverse engineered aol's stuff screwed them over. just because you really want to use the stuff doesn't always mean you get to. and while it may be unfortunate, it is nothing more than their business philosophy.
for 1, yes it is. simply because they had to "cheat" to do it. quite frankly, if it was reverse engineered, its bound to have flaws. flaws are the primary concern for actual AOL users in that they could be comprimised.
for 2, they aren't part of the issue so move on.
for 3, "They do not..." who is they? clear this up. i can't respond to this sort of ambiguity.
for 4, we are talking about chat here. if you have some serious fetish with buddy icons, i'm sorry. but they are a waste of animation most of the time.
for 5, yes it has limitations, but i'm willing to bet that if you really wanted to put in the effort you could create your own version of direct connect and what not yourself.
for 6, this is remarkably unfounded. thats cute that you can come up with this remark on your own, but my bet lies on that if you obey the lisence its released under, you'll be fine.
this can actually be summed up rather simply. if you need all the features, use aim or aol. quit crying because you want to use their toys for free.
why would they want their customers' (AOL in particular) passwords and usernames floating around and being messed with by (mostly) second rate software? Its not in their best interests. They gain nothing by having programs like trillian and gaim use their protocols. If you are peeved by not being able to chat with your buddies, write your own chat program using AOLs OPEN SOURCE protocol, TOC!!! They have provided the tools. Now back off.
a couple of things...
first, we can all quit with the "nothing is unbreakable yadda yadda," stuff. its old news. thanks for filling us in the 90th time.
on another note, didn't dell already try shipping linux on some of its pcs and end up having to go back to windows? i don't remeber for sure but maybe someone else knows. also, i want to say that they were basically "suggested" by microsoft to do so. can anyone back this up?
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1 - for $35 an employee, it would a wiser decision for such a company to simply ban the use of aim, and either use else, or develop their own, in house. 2 - i see this as a bottom of the barrel effort by aol to generate some revenue. hopefully, this signals the beginning of a near end for aol.
i do hope i get the prize bug! i can already see myself buying a special petroleum free casing for my moz 1.0 cd to preserve it. it will look so nice next to my baseball cards and sealed copy of windows xp.
just between you and me, i'm really bettin the farm that the xp collectible value takes off!
please let me be number one!!! i dont really care about dvd burners. useless if you ask me. how often do you really need to burn like 8 cds for one project anyway?
does anyone know any fun details about what is new to longhorn other than a design of the ui? i could be wrong, but isnt multiple desktops a unix invented thing? i can't believe that ms is actually using ui tidbits from unix enviros!
i can sue tobacco because i have no willpower. i can sue mcdonalds because i'm a lazy slob. i might as well be able to sue my isp because i dont know how to write a check for my isp bill!
that we give microsoft credit for actually doing something right. service pack whatever. how many security updates have you had to do to keep your linux box up-to-speed with the security issues? i run primarily linux, and i'm not a big fan of the microsoft way. but dammit, if they deserve credit, give it to em!
you are right! and the things they do nowadays with internet porn, i wonder why i leave my house!
2 things.
- i cant believe lovebyte's post got modded "insightful"
- i hope to god you are kidding about os choice being at all relative to divorce. honestly, if there is even a flicker of valid concern there, you need to wake up. life IS more than computers believe it or not.
kde, evolution, any office suite...
i'm sure theres more.
is it just me or does this computer/human chess thing seem just slightly overrated? i'd love to say this is a good test of the advancement of ai techniques, but in reality given that hardware keeps getting better, it is only a matter of time before this is not a big deal at all.
ok, so MS may not be the most popular of the bunch, but i get the feeling that most of the resentment is about MS and not the actual issue. with that in mind, i point you to...
http://www.actsofgord.com/Annoy/chapter07.html
you see. if you want a mod chip to play stolen/copied games, you hurt the gaming business in general. so chill out about it and realize that your dishonesty is wrong!
... that the school can institute whatever policy it wants on free speech and what not so long as the medium for this speech is provided and maintained by school resources?
now, if i am running my own server and my isp says, "do whatever you want" in the contract but then try to say, "no links for you!" i would say that is a violation of free speech. however, i think the school may have some hidden rights in this case.
if you dont have anything to hide, whats the big deal? privacy? i doubt your renting of that porn at the movie store is going to throw a flag. now if you happened to be incarcerated for say, porn with a 12 year old, then it serves you just fine by me.
in short, get over it. if your freaked, you probably did something wrong.
maybe this is naive, but who cares if your phone is tapped? you should be ok with it so long as you have nothing to hide. i know all you paranoid folk out there believe the govt will frame you, but jees. give me a break. if you are clean, just let it go.
some people were bitching about how osdn is using this "sacrifice" as a way to become a commercial hero. quite frankly, i think it is a nice gesture. what do people expect? them to save the world?
yo may want to take the time to actually check out some theme sites. there are more aqua look-a-likes than anyone cares to see. so i doubt that apple had a real big effect on the aqua copying. for that matter, there are lots of xp themes out there as well. i speak of themes for the gnome and kde desktops.
obviously we disagree on the whole issue. thats just fine. everyone has their own view. i still stand by my view that aol is entitled to do whatever they want with THEIR stuff. i think that the folk who reverse engineered aol's stuff screwed them over. just because you really want to use the stuff doesn't always mean you get to. and while it may be unfortunate, it is nothing more than their business philosophy.
for 1, yes it is. simply because they had to "cheat" to do it. quite frankly, if it was reverse engineered, its bound to have flaws. flaws are the primary concern for actual AOL users in that they could be comprimised.
for 2, they aren't part of the issue so move on.
for 3, "They do not..." who is they? clear this up. i can't respond to this sort of ambiguity.
for 4, we are talking about chat here. if you have some serious fetish with buddy icons, i'm sorry. but they are a waste of animation most of the time.
for 5, yes it has limitations, but i'm willing to bet that if you really wanted to put in the effort you could create your own version of direct connect and what not yourself.
for 6, this is remarkably unfounded. thats cute that you can come up with this remark on your own, but my bet lies on that if you obey the lisence its released under, you'll be fine.
this can actually be summed up rather simply. if you need all the features, use aim or aol. quit crying because you want to use their toys for free.
why would they want their customers' (AOL in particular) passwords and usernames floating around and being messed with by (mostly) second rate software? Its not in their best interests. They gain nothing by having programs like trillian and gaim use their protocols. If you are peeved by not being able to chat with your buddies, write your own chat program using AOLs OPEN SOURCE protocol, TOC!!! They have provided the tools. Now back off.
a couple of things... first, we can all quit with the "nothing is unbreakable yadda yadda," stuff. its old news. thanks for filling us in the 90th time. on another note, didn't dell already try shipping linux on some of its pcs and end up having to go back to windows? i don't remeber for sure but maybe someone else knows. also, i want to say that they were basically "suggested" by microsoft to do so. can anyone back this up?
does anyone find it interesting that while kde is listed as a main component along with adobe acrobat (what?), there is no mention of gnome?