No, you take as canon what some idiotic Mac zealot rumor site says. Macrumors, Macosrumors, Spymac, they're all uninformed and seem to say whatever they want to get more readers.
Shit, Macosrumors was going on and on about the "G5 production progress" for at least a year before they were actually announced. Did they get TEH SCOOP? No. The G5 was obvious, but it turned out not to be soon. If Apple had called it something else, MOSR would have just said that the production name had changed at the end of the testing cycle blah blah blah.
It's all bunk. Don't get caught up in it or you'll just get disappointed like so many other Mac users. And you have. Of/course/ Apple is working on a 15" PowerBook G4 revision. If they could have revved it with the 12" and 17" release, I'm sure they would have.
If there's ONE thing I'd like to bring over from Windowsland, it's how no one gets really swept up in the rumour mill and either let down, pissed off, or both.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning regarding the security of Microsoft's products.
Does this seem fairly stupid to anyone else? I mean, didn't "HomeSec" (please, no catchy names for this terrible organization) just partner with these idiots?
If those article gives you an idea of what you'll find there sometimes, you'll see that the stuff DF.net posts isn't just rabid OMG APPLE RULZ!!!1 kind of stuff.
It's a Mac user talking about Macs and Mac stuff. That doesn't make it biased on that basis alone.
Can we start moderating comments in story summaries? Please?
Yeah, I read the article, but the comment in the story post was a bit . . . meh. I don't think it would be cool at all, actually. MS doesn't have the trust of Linux users now, and supplying patches to their OS isn't going to help.
People bitch about the ASPL . . . Imagine the MSPL. Or whatever it would be called.
Thought I'd note the non-market something like that would have, s'all.;-)
Not knowing much at all about how the robots.txt file works, couldn't you just stick your sensitively named directories inside commonly named directories and deny access recursively?
User-agent: * Disallow:/Users/Documents/*
And inside that directory is "Top Secret Panty Raid Plans".
Educate me, people.:-) What can one do to get around the parent's posed problem (and all of this alliteration)?
I buy a thousand batteries in my lifetime, each one of them going into a landfill somewhere. Make up whatever happens at this point when the landfill's bladder breaks and water seeps into the areas with the batteries. Water table, here I come!
I buy a significantly smaller amount of batteries which are rechargeable, reusing them as much as I can until they don't hold a charge anymore. Then what do I do? I contact people who can help me recycle my used rechargeable batteries and keep each one from hitting the landfill.
I use a tiny bit of electricity instead of filling with old, rust-greedy batteries a piece of land someone's bound to turn into a playground one day.
I signed up for the DNC list because I have no intention of buying anything from a telemarketer, ever, period. I imagine others are the same way--if they wanted telemarketers to give them information on exciting new opportunities and products, they wouldn't have signed up for the DNC list. Telemarketers are not losing the business of the uninterested and annoyed, because they never had it.
This has nothing to do with DRM, the DCMA, or whatever the hell you think you're talking about. Not everything defined limit on technology in the world is.
In fact, this is legislation that defines appropriate maximum volumes for noise-emitting consumer devices in public or workplace areas in different countries in the EU.
It's a little different than being told by some protecting-its-assets company what you can and can't do with the product you bought (like Microsoft stepping on Xbox modding, and using the widely abused DMCA to do it). If you use a stereo in public in some EU countries, and you crank it up over 100dB, you are breaking the law. They don't really care about your possessions and what you want to do with it, and they have no reason to.
I LOVE this, actually, and wish they'd implement it where I live (Virginia). I'm trying to watch a movie in my house, for example, with my girlfriend, and we want to sit and enjoy the movie. We DON'T want some asshat sitting at the stop light with his BIG FAT SPEAKERS going insane and making our drinks ripple from a hundred feet away.
I'm not a programmer, so please don't flame me if I'm off-base here.
Isn't this a rather bad idea? What if you add something and somehow miss what you added, killing 30 minutes of your day tracking down the problem? What if something else goes wrong somehow? (Strange shit happens, says the Mikey-San, half-1337 IT worker.)
They're not, you troll. It's about once a year, as a matter of fact, and you get your money's worth. 10.1 to 10.2 wasn't only a bunch of big fixes, the jump added a ton of new features and technologies.
As for MS giving you three or four years between charging for updates, that's simply because they--
Say it with me--
Tend to wait that long before providing Windows users with little more than bug fixes and security fixes.
It's easy as hell to look good by only charging for an upgrade every few years when you don't do jack shit in the meantime.
If anything, Sendmail is less secure than Postfix, bro. And not part of the OS? Well, get ready for Postfix, 'cause it's in Panther in the place of Sendmail.;-)
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, come on.
/ever/ wash clothes.
You're a Slashdotter, I'm a Slashdotter. We can be honest with each other. We don't
It's broken in IE, but fine in Mozilla.
So you're saying there's no problem, then, right?
No, you take as canon what some idiotic Mac zealot rumor site says. Macrumors, Macosrumors, Spymac, they're all uninformed and seem to say whatever they want to get more readers.
/course/ Apple is working on a 15" PowerBook G4 revision. If they could have revved it with the 12" and 17" release, I'm sure they would have.
Shit, Macosrumors was going on and on about the "G5 production progress" for at least a year before they were actually announced. Did they get TEH SCOOP? No. The G5 was obvious, but it turned out not to be soon. If Apple had called it something else, MOSR would have just said that the production name had changed at the end of the testing cycle blah blah blah.
It's all bunk. Don't get caught up in it or you'll just get disappointed like so many other Mac users. And you have. Of
If there's ONE thing I'd like to bring over from Windowsland, it's how no one gets really swept up in the rumour mill and either let down, pissed off, or both.
So let's see what's up here.
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A rumour site keeps stringing you along . .
You get angry at Apple for not releasing unannounced products . .
Yeah, go buy a Windows machine.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning regarding the security of Microsoft's products.
Does this seem fairly stupid to anyone else? I mean, didn't "HomeSec" (please, no catchy names for this terrible organization) just partner with these idiots?
Ignoring the heavy anti-MS bias here on Slashdot, why the fuck was Daring Fireball mentioned? Looks like a cheap and perhaps biased shot to me.
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http://daringfireball.net/2003/03/antiantialias
http://daringfireball.net/2003/07/grab_htm
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If those article gives you an idea of what you'll find there sometimes, you'll see that the stuff DF.net posts isn't just rabid OMG APPLE RULZ!!!1 kind of stuff.
It's a Mac user talking about Macs and Mac stuff. That doesn't make it biased on that basis alone.
Can we start moderating comments in story summaries? Please?
Yeah, I read the article, but the comment in the story post was a bit . . . meh. I don't think it would be cool at all, actually. MS doesn't have the trust of Linux users now, and supplying patches to their OS isn't going to help.
;-)
People bitch about the ASPL . . . Imagine the MSPL. Or whatever it would be called.
Thought I'd note the non-market something like that would have, s'all.
Actually, it's here.
Flame on!
Unless I'm /that/ tired, it looks like the post is talking about MS deploying Linux patches.
If that happened and (as one would assume) the source were available, would anyone still trust it?
I'm not sure if I'd want to run MS code on my Linux box.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
If it's important, lock it the Hell up.
Not knowing much at all about how the robots.txt file works, couldn't you just stick your sensitively named directories inside commonly named directories and deny access recursively?
/Users/Documents/*
:-) What can one do to get around the parent's posed problem (and all of this alliteration)?
User-agent: *
Disallow:
And inside that directory is "Top Secret Panty Raid Plans".
Educate me, people.
Most porn sites already use AVS (adult verification system) technology . . . China's going to use AVS . . . SCORE! More Asian pr0n!
This is indeed a great day for geeks everywhere.
I sense a great disturbance in the force, as a result of this, as though a million kittens cried out at once and then were silenced.
(Or whatever the hell the actual quote is. It's early.)
The Earth revolves around the Sun.
;-)
Birds can fly.
There is still no cure for cancer.
And a bunch of other painfully obvious stuff happened.
Raise your hand if any of this surprised you. If so, please move to the back of the classroom. Thank you.
Yeah, but compare the two:
I buy a thousand batteries in my lifetime, each one of them going into a landfill somewhere. Make up whatever happens at this point when the landfill's bladder breaks and water seeps into the areas with the batteries. Water table, here I come!
I buy a significantly smaller amount of batteries which are rechargeable, reusing them as much as I can until they don't hold a charge anymore. Then what do I do? I contact people who can help me recycle my used rechargeable batteries and keep each one from hitting the landfill.
I use a tiny bit of electricity instead of filling with old, rust-greedy batteries a piece of land someone's bound to turn into a playground one day.
Recall the spat between Activision and Viacom over the Star Trek francise, and how Gabe and Tycho were there for us, then, too:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20030704l. gif
These guys deserve a medal.
I signed up for the DNC list because I have no intention of buying anything from a telemarketer, ever, period. I imagine others are the same way--if they wanted telemarketers to give them information on exciting new opportunities and products, they wouldn't have signed up for the DNC list. Telemarketers are not losing the business of the uninterested and annoyed, because they never had it.
This has nothing to do with DRM, the DCMA, or whatever the hell you think you're talking about. Not everything defined limit on technology in the world is.
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In fact, this is legislation that defines appropriate maximum volumes for noise-emitting consumer devices in public or workplace areas in different countries in the EU.
http://www.econsumer.konsumentverket.se/mallar/
It's a little different than being told by some protecting-its-assets company what you can and can't do with the product you bought (like Microsoft stepping on Xbox modding, and using the widely abused DMCA to do it). If you use a stereo in public in some EU countries, and you crank it up over 100dB, you are breaking the law. They don't really care about your possessions and what you want to do with it, and they have no reason to.
I LOVE this, actually, and wish they'd implement it where I live (Virginia). I'm trying to watch a movie in my house, for example, with my girlfriend, and we want to sit and enjoy the movie. We DON'T want some asshat sitting at the stop light with his BIG FAT SPEAKERS going insane and making our drinks ripple from a hundred feet away.
Do a little reading next time, please.
Re: Nuclear waste:
Socrates takes a look at the issue
While the debate doesn't end with that article, it's nevertheless interesting.
I'm not a programmer, so please don't flame me if I'm off-base here.
Isn't this a rather bad idea? What if you add something and somehow miss what you added, killing 30 minutes of your day tracking down the problem? What if something else goes wrong somehow? (Strange shit happens, says the Mikey-San, half-1337 IT worker.)
They're not, you troll. It's about once a year, as a matter of fact, and you get your money's worth. 10.1 to 10.2 wasn't only a bunch of big fixes, the jump added a ton of new features and technologies.
As for MS giving you three or four years between charging for updates, that's simply because they--
Say it with me--
Tend to wait that long before providing Windows users with little more than bug fixes and security fixes.
It's easy as hell to look good by only charging for an upgrade every few years when you don't do jack shit in the meantime.
If anything, Sendmail is less secure than Postfix, bro. And not part of the OS? Well, get ready for Postfix, 'cause it's in Panther in the place of Sendmail. ;-)
Huh? What the fuck does this have to do with BuyMusic.com? The flaw, as the article says, affects MIDI, not WMA.
I don't like Windows or BuyMusic.com, either, but this flaw doesn't seem to affect BuyMusic.com directly.
What'd I miss? (Seriously. If I missed something, tell me.)
Yeah, well you're their biggest seller!
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