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Couldn't agree more with garcia. Windows 95/98 sucked and crashed all the time. Once I started using NT in '98 then 2000, now XP I have a system that is rock solid. My laptop with all sorts of crazy stuff on it runs XP and I haven't rebooted it, well since installing SP2, but prior to that, I go for weeks at a time with no reboot. My PC running 2000 has been up and running for 84 days with no reboot and the reboot before that was caused by a power outage. Sorry, no UPS. I have another PC running Mandrake and is stable too, but no more stable than my 2000 or XP boxes. Time to quit spinning MS for their products. As a company they might seem dictatorial which bleeds onto their products, their products are solid. I can't remember the last time IE rendered a page poorly. While I love and use Firefox, there are plenty of pages that look crappy on it (probably the page not conforming to the consortium, but IE displays them fine), WMP works great, Office is worlds better than StarOffice or OpenOffice, Developer studio is great.
Just as sick of hearing about how bad IE is and insecure. Perhaps it might be that a tiny fraction of people use other browsers, and once said browsers become more popular then they will be focused on by attackers. Everyone raises a stink when IE has leaky JPEGs, but it isn't as criticized when FireFox has same such leaks. Time to get over it.
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten hooked on the Mozilla...or Opera for that matter. I still love IE. I have all three installed on my compy, but only use IE. I guess for me, Moz and O seem like they are just way bloated...my ideal browser is slim, fast, but still works on 99% of the pages out there. Whenever I open O or Moz, I sit there for a while while they display their banner, and finally load. IE, I double-click, and it is open (helps when it is integrated w/ the OS:) ) Almost all the web pages that I browse look great on IE, and there isn't any clutter, in the IE frame. That being said, I *do* like the idea of tabbed browsing, but I rarely really use it, especially with XP since they group multiple instances of apps on the task bar. I do like the ideas that O has (the mouse gestures) and Moz has (type in text to select a link), but I just never really USE them... I guess this has to do with OTHER features that are embedded in Windows, that probably aren't considered features of IE. For example, on my laptop, if I run my finger on the top edge from center to left, it goes backwards a page in my history (but only on IE). From center to right, goes forward. When I use my mouse, I use the 6th and 7th buttons (on Windows explorer mouse) to go forward and back... I guess that is IEs equivalent of gestures.
Anyway, I feel like I *should* like Opera or Moz more, because I hear a lot of people (especially/.ers) bash IE for not being innovative, but for me, I guess there are some applications that I just want to be simple. Like winamp...the newer versions of winamp play videos, have a minibrowser, have very customizable interfaces, make ramen noodles, and walk the dog. Unfortunately, it is no longer a tiny little bar at the top of my screen, and it takes a long time to load. Not like before when I double-click an mp3 and it instantly plays, even if Winamp wasn't preloaded. I go out of my way to find old copies of Winamp so I don't have to bother with the bloat...
Fileservers are good. See one here (good, not great) or just build yourself a cheap box and put massive storage in it, and attach it to your 100Mb network.
were how realistic it was, and how hard the codes were to break.
dripping sarcasm. Still better than daVinci Code, not quite Angels and Demons. Dan Brown has a great talent for writing FICTION. Enjoyable, fast read, and boy does it exercise your suspension of disbelief!!
We pay when we get flogged by pop-ups. I pay for my connection. It's the same gripe I have about going to a movie theatre, paying $8.50 for a ticket, then being plastered with Coke and Nokia and car ads before the previews. And yes, previews ARE ads, but at least they are something we WANT to see, since most of the time they are exclusive, pre-TV release ads. I would have no problem with those ads if they took several $$ off the price of my ticket.
If I have to pay to access sites that I am already paying to have the ability to connect to, that also is ridiculous.
However, this was supposed to be a discussion about micropayments, not a rant, so if micropayments are a must, the solution is easy. Do the same thing that EZPass (and other) tollbooths do. Have a $30 account credited. When you use that up, another $30 is automatically charged. EZPass would never work if each time you went through the tollbooth it charged your credit card $1.
Not sure on any exact figures, but I know that it IS indeed a lot cheaper to ship phone calls offshore. For example, one of my good friends is the manager of a Penske rent-a-truck store. Their 800 number that you call for reserving trucks, getting directions, etc is out-sourced to India. It is cheaper to pay overseas long distance, and pay an Indian cents an hour than it is to have cheaper local phone, but pay them minimum wage. Just fantastic when you have to call for directions, and you have someone who doesn't speak great english and doesn't know our country try to give directions...
heh...actually, the way their schools go, they are probably BETTER at our geography than we are:)
Paypal sucks too. Don't use them. They aren't secure at all...I almost got robbed, but luckily I sleuthed it in time, and contacted the seller and she refunded my money.
until they encrypt the data being sent to the speaker itself, and the speaker coil has to decrypt the signal. then i will have to go back to using a microphone held up to the speaker to rip CDs...
1. Have several levels of your Developer Suite. Have cheapy "educational" versions for students, or personal use, and more pricy commercial versions for business who need more support. I don't necessairly support making it FREE, but make at least a compiler/linker etc available for free, and then resonably priced Suites. Reminds me of the Visual C++ Studio that I was able to buy for $180 or 200 because I was a student. I would make it cheaper than that, tho, because students are typically cheap:)
2. Have the ability to NOT rely on your Developer Suite to use the rest of your product. It is kind of old fashioned, I guess, but probably 85-90% of the work that I do at my job is using vi and a gcc-esque compiler.
3. Make sure that using your Developer Suite will not make the code produced in it obsolete elsewhere. Use ready-available, modular code for your add-ons, and make them available and usable for the people who decide not to use the Suite.
4. Good documentation, also available for free. Provide good, solid, documentation for several levels. I think the Ruby Documentation (or download)is a good example of this because it starts out very low level for a newbie or student, but the end is a close to exhaustive set of built in libraries and methods. Publish the book for those that want to have a hard copy, but also make it available to read online. 9 times out of 10, developers will want to have a hard copy that they can put sticky notes in and page marks, but the information should be there for free.
a level 4 turbo or something. yea, parking it is a bitch, but damn, come on...at least get me there quickly...
reminds me of the scene in office space where the old man w/ the walker is kicking all the traffic's ass. i would put $5 on the old man vs. that thing..
Not in this application, you can't use Win2k or iMac boxes. 1st of all, we are assuming you want $100 disposable machines. OK, I would like to know how you are going to customize a Win2k or iMac load to boot a Dreamcast system...Of course Linux will be used because you can port it to pretty much whatever you want. Not necessairly bad press, mr paranoid:)
Obviously...it hides easily, is bare bones, is cheap, is fairly quick (faster than cheap PDAs)...the point isn't to leave it sitting out where someone would see it. Point is to shove it behind someone's desk, bookcase, etc. The thing is only 3" thick, not like a whole lot of space is needed. And if it were placed behind a desk, the jumble of wires and office noise would more than mask its power, ethernet, and fan noise...
Been there twice. Hiked the cliffs twice. Nothing beats Guinness after a long day o' hiking. Assuming you are smart and actually drink water through the day. Then trad music and dancing and Guinness after you get back... Key is to drink water during your hike, not AFTER.
I have taken two trips to Ireland, and both time have stayed for a couple nights in Doolin. This is GREAT... check out my Cliffs of Moher page for pics and info about the cliffs just outside Doolin.
When in Doolin go to McDermotts!!! It is THE BEST pub in Doolin, and maybe all of Ireland. They have the absolute best trad music I have ever heard. I have links to maps and info about McDermotts on the above link
Oh yea, Linux rules too!! I would love to see a penguin hiking up the cliffs...
Who cares if you index more? Google rules. They have the best results. GM sells more cars than Porsche, but there isn't a GM that I would take over any Porsche any day...
All this whole mess is doing is fanning the fire of piracy/sharing. If they think that this will stop the copying of music, they aren't thinking straight. And if the music is MORE difficult to play, and lower quality, then people are going to be looking for alternate sources to get it, and the easiest source is, indeed, the Internet. Just because something is copy protected, doesn't mean it is copy proof. It might be more difficult to copy, but not impossible. Just like copying videos that are copy protected is fairly simple, so will this process. All there needs to be is ONE person who takes the time to copy a protected CD, and it is available to all...
Never ^ 1024 EVER use Paypal to make any transactions. They lie about their security. They claim that they keep their passwords and information on seperate machines that are detached from the Internet, yet my strong password protected account was hacked and almost $2000 was stolen from me. Luckily, I know what I am doing, and tracked down the vendor that they were purchasing from, got their phone #, and called them before they shipped, and THEY refunded my money. If you absolutely have to use Paypal to receive transactions, I would suggest opening a checking account, get no overdraft protection on it, and keep only the minimum amount required in the account. Then as soon as you receive the transaction, move the money from that account to your real account, leaving the minimum amount in. THIS is the only secure way you can protect your money.
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"Sauce" has nothing to do with The Register's punny spellings. It has everything to do with being the fonetical[sic] spelling of the Austrialian pronunciation of the word "Source".
Or you can just set the Firefox option "Allow sites to set cookies" and "for the originating web site only". This will allow slashdot.org to set a cookie when you visit slashdot.org, but not the ads that are on the page from mediaplex or whatever...
Couldn't agree more with garcia. Windows 95/98 sucked and crashed all the time. Once I started using NT in '98 then 2000, now XP I have a system that is rock solid. My laptop with all sorts of crazy stuff on it runs XP and I haven't rebooted it, well since installing SP2, but prior to that, I go for weeks at a time with no reboot. My PC running 2000 has been up and running for 84 days with no reboot and the reboot before that was caused by a power outage. Sorry, no UPS. I have another PC running Mandrake and is stable too, but no more stable than my 2000 or XP boxes. Time to quit spinning MS for their products. As a company they might seem dictatorial which bleeds onto their products, their products are solid. I can't remember the last time IE rendered a page poorly. While I love and use Firefox, there are plenty of pages that look crappy on it (probably the page not conforming to the consortium, but IE displays them fine), WMP works great, Office is worlds better than StarOffice or OpenOffice, Developer studio is great.
Just as sick of hearing about how bad IE is and insecure. Perhaps it might be that a tiny fraction of people use other browsers, and once said browsers become more popular then they will be focused on by attackers. Everyone raises a stink when IE has leaky JPEGs, but it isn't as criticized when FireFox has same such leaks. Time to get over it.
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten hooked on the Mozilla...or Opera for that matter. I still love IE. I have all three installed on my compy, but only use IE. I guess for me, Moz and O seem like they are just way bloated...my ideal browser is slim, fast, but still works on 99% of the pages out there. Whenever I open O or Moz, I sit there for a while while they display their banner, and finally load. IE, I double-click, and it is open (helps when it is integrated w/ the OS :) ) Almost all the web pages that I browse look great on IE, and there isn't any clutter, in the IE frame. That being said, I *do* like the idea of tabbed browsing, but I rarely really use it, especially with XP since they group multiple instances of apps on the task bar. I do like the ideas that O has (the mouse gestures) and Moz has (type in text to select a link), but I just never really USE them... I guess this has to do with OTHER features that are embedded in Windows, that probably aren't considered features of IE. For example, on my laptop, if I run my finger on the top edge from center to left, it goes backwards a page in my history (but only on IE). From center to right, goes forward. When I use my mouse, I use the 6th and 7th buttons (on Windows explorer mouse) to go forward and back... I guess that is IEs equivalent of gestures.
/.ers) bash IE for not being innovative, but for me, I guess there are some applications that I just want to be simple. Like winamp...the newer versions of winamp play videos, have a minibrowser, have very customizable interfaces, make ramen noodles, and walk the dog. Unfortunately, it is no longer a tiny little bar at the top of my screen, and it takes a long time to load. Not like before when I double-click an mp3 and it instantly plays, even if Winamp wasn't preloaded. I go out of my way to find old copies of Winamp so I don't have to bother with the bloat...
Anyway, I feel like I *should* like Opera or Moz more, because I hear a lot of people (especially
Ok, I think I have ranted about this enough...
Fileservers are good. See one here (good, not great) or just build yourself a cheap box and put massive storage in it, and attach it to your 100Mb network.
were how realistic it was, and how hard the codes were to break. dripping sarcasm. Still better than daVinci Code, not quite Angels and Demons. Dan Brown has a great talent for writing FICTION. Enjoyable, fast read, and boy does it exercise your suspension of disbelief!!
Count again. There are 64.
OK, now count again...yup...still 64
We pay when we get flogged by pop-ups. I pay for my connection. It's the same gripe I have about going to a movie theatre, paying $8.50 for a ticket, then being plastered with Coke and Nokia and car ads before the previews. And yes, previews ARE ads, but at least they are something we WANT to see, since most of the time they are exclusive, pre-TV release ads. I would have no problem with those ads if they took several $$ off the price of my ticket.
If I have to pay to access sites that I am already paying to have the ability to connect to, that also is ridiculous.
However, this was supposed to be a discussion about micropayments, not a rant, so if micropayments are a must, the solution is easy. Do the same thing that EZPass (and other) tollbooths do. Have a $30 account credited. When you use that up, another $30 is automatically charged. EZPass would never work if each time you went through the tollbooth it charged your credit card $1.
done.
I pay $6.50/month for 6GB/month bandwidth...that comes out to be around 1.083e-2 cents/page.
Not sure on any exact figures, but I know that it IS indeed a lot cheaper to ship phone calls offshore. For example, one of my good friends is the manager of a Penske rent-a-truck store. Their 800 number that you call for reserving trucks, getting directions, etc is out-sourced to India. It is cheaper to pay overseas long distance, and pay an Indian cents an hour than it is to have cheaper local phone, but pay them minimum wage. Just fantastic when you have to call for directions, and you have someone who doesn't speak great english and doesn't know our country try to give directions...
:)
heh...actually, the way their schools go, they are probably BETTER at our geography than we are
check out this list of naughty, naughty people.
Paypal sucks too. Don't use them. They aren't secure at all...I almost got robbed, but luckily I sleuthed it in time, and contacted the seller and she refunded my money.
until they encrypt the data being sent to the speaker itself, and the speaker coil has to decrypt the signal. then i will have to go back to using a microphone held up to the speaker to rip CDs...
1. Have several levels of your Developer Suite. Have cheapy "educational" versions for students, or personal use, and more pricy commercial versions for business who need more support. I don't necessairly support making it FREE, but make at least a compiler/linker etc available for free, and then resonably priced Suites. Reminds me of the Visual C++ Studio that I was able to buy for $180 or 200 because I was a student. I would make it cheaper than that, tho, because students are typically cheap :)
2. Have the ability to NOT rely on your Developer Suite to use the rest of your product. It is kind of old fashioned, I guess, but probably 85-90% of the work that I do at my job is using vi and a gcc-esque compiler.
3. Make sure that using your Developer Suite will not make the code produced in it obsolete elsewhere. Use ready-available, modular code for your add-ons, and make them available and usable for the people who decide not to use the Suite.
4. Good documentation, also available for free. Provide good, solid, documentation for several levels. I think the Ruby Documentation (or download)is a good example of this because it starts out very low level for a newbie or student, but the end is a close to exhaustive set of built in libraries and methods. Publish the book for those that want to have a hard copy, but also make it available to read online. 9 times out of 10, developers will want to have a hard copy that they can put sticky notes in and page marks, but the information should be there for free.
If it is quality, people will use it!
These are fun...made w/ muscle wire... nitinol
a level 4 turbo or something. yea, parking it is a bitch, but damn, come on...at least get me there quickly...
reminds me of the scene in office space where the old man w/ the walker is kicking all the traffic's ass. i would put $5 on the old man vs. that thing..
after they performed penetration tests...
Not in this application, you can't use Win2k or iMac boxes. 1st of all, we are assuming you want $100 disposable machines. OK, I would like to know how you are going to customize a Win2k or iMac load to boot a Dreamcast system...Of course Linux will be used because you can port it to pretty much whatever you want. Not necessairly bad press, mr paranoid :)
Obviously...it hides easily, is bare bones, is cheap, is fairly quick (faster than cheap PDAs)...the point isn't to leave it sitting out where someone would see it. Point is to shove it behind someone's desk, bookcase, etc. The thing is only 3" thick, not like a whole lot of space is needed. And if it were placed behind a desk, the jumble of wires and office noise would more than mask its power, ethernet, and fan noise...
Been there twice. Hiked the cliffs twice. Nothing beats Guinness after a long day o' hiking. Assuming you are smart and actually drink water through the day. Then trad music and dancing and Guinness after you get back... Key is to drink water during your hike, not AFTER.
I have taken two trips to Ireland, and both time have stayed for a couple nights in Doolin. This is GREAT... check out my Cliffs of Moher page for pics and info about the cliffs just outside Doolin.
When in Doolin go to McDermotts!!! It is THE BEST pub in Doolin, and maybe all of Ireland. They have the absolute best trad music I have ever heard. I have links to maps and info about McDermotts on the above link
Oh yea, Linux rules too!! I would love to see a penguin hiking up the cliffs...
Who cares if you index more? Google rules. They have the best results. GM sells more cars than Porsche, but there isn't a GM that I would take over any Porsche any day...
All this whole mess is doing is fanning the fire of piracy/sharing. If they think that this will stop the copying of music, they aren't thinking straight. And if the music is MORE difficult to play, and lower quality, then people are going to be looking for alternate sources to get it, and the easiest source is, indeed, the Internet. Just because something is copy protected, doesn't mean it is copy proof. It might be more difficult to copy, but not impossible. Just like copying videos that are copy protected is fairly simple, so will this process. All there needs to be is ONE person who takes the time to copy a protected CD, and it is available to all...
Never ^ 1024 EVER use Paypal to make any transactions. They lie about their security. They claim that they keep their passwords and information on seperate machines that are detached from the Internet, yet my strong password protected account was hacked and almost $2000 was stolen from me. Luckily, I know what I am doing, and tracked down the vendor that they were purchasing from, got their phone #, and called them before they shipped, and THEY refunded my money. If you absolutely have to use Paypal to receive transactions, I would suggest opening a checking account, get no overdraft protection on it, and keep only the minimum amount required in the account. Then as soon as you receive the transaction, move the money from that account to your real account, leaving the minimum amount in. THIS is the only secure way you can protect your money.
Enjoy