I hope he never takes a "clue" from either of them. Design Eye took a minute to load over a fast calbe connection, and Reuseit fills almost half of my browser window with crap that I just need to scroll past.
I, too, am getting very tired of the spanked spammers, customers of spam-supportiing ISPs, governments that refuse to do anything about fraud, and just general black hats of all kinds getting whiles published on Slashdot. I wish there was a filter to turn these stories off. I wish even more that Slashdot wouldn't give them what they want most of all -- attention and a positive spin.
I think I'll add a Macedonia block to my site. I already block email from a number of countries, why not web access as well?At least some of them are spamming/phsing me by crawling my web site.
Until/unless these cesspools of fraud are taken care of, I will never interact with anyone in these countries.
I almost posted that question anon, because I figured someone would think I was trolling. But that was a great explanation, and exactly what I was hoping for.:)
I have a Windows XP PC and a Mac. I think it's safe to say that the only reason I don't have a Linux PC is because of the Mac. I get my Unixy-flavored geeky goodness from the Terminal there.:)
I agree with you that the Windows PC takes a long time to download updates, but most of that is not time that you need to supervise it. I'm really wondering how much of a mental puzzle Linux is to install vs. Windows. Windows makes setup fairly easy, if nto (as you say) fast. (I just went through it again after upgrading motherboards.) For instance, how easy is it to find a driver for video card abc, built in audo chipset def, a DVD player compatible with DVD ghi, etc?
It's my experience that when someone says "nuff said," they've admitted they can't actually back up their argument.
In this case, it comes down to total cost of ownership. While I'll grant you Microsoft's server ads are bunk (I make sure to click them to feed Slashdot $$$), I'm less convinced it really costs that much less on the desktop. After all, even at the low rate of $10/hour, $185 is only 18.5 hours. Is there an 18.5 hour difference between setting up XP Home and a Linux desktop distro? What is the current Linux desktop experience like with respect to file install, drive setup, and basic accessories?
No, they won't. Because here, I can quite easily refuse a phone bill that represents a stolen cell phone. That costs them a lot more than two seconds of a thread sleeping.
You don't seem to understand. That extra two seconds for my connection is sleep time, nothing else. I'll grant you this becomes more complicated when roaming, but on my home network it should be possible. (My provider even said it was a common request and they were working on it when I asked.)
I just got back from it. It was so fantastic. I've been reading the newspaper strip on the Internet since the first movie (it's actually written by Stan Lee, the comic books aren't), and it made it that much sweeter. Not to spoil the movie, but the final line of dialogue is a catch phrase in the strip.
But both Peter Parker and Spiderman came alive in a way they never had to me before.
No, I'm not actually. Most users would not have any entries. And when you roam, it all tracks back to your phone company anyway.
How long a delay do you think it would add? One second, mostly of waiting for a response? Maybe two seconds? I'm willing to wait an extra two seconds. It already takes 30+ seconds to connect to the Philippines. 32 seconds won't kill me.
My cell phone provider defaults to having international dialing completely disabled. You need to call and go through a verification process to enable it.
There's a catch, though: It's either all on or all off. You can't say "I've got my wife overseas in the Philippines for a few months, and a friend in the UK. I'd like to be able to call those two countries, but please leave everyone else blocked."
No good excuse for that, either. It's hard to believe they can't have that level of granularity. What I'd really like to do, of course, is enable only specific phone numbers.
One more thing... yeah, I wouldn't mind if Apple paid Arlo & Perry a bit of cash. I don't think they're required to by any means, but it would be nice. A small amount of cash for Apple would be a lot of cash for them.
Arlo used to work for Apple. I presume one or the other is unwilling to work with the other.
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I hope he never takes a "clue" from either of them. Design Eye took a minute to load over a fast calbe connection, and Reuseit fills almost half of my browser window with crap that I just need to scroll past.
Actually, I just sent off a nasty email to the article author: He never mentioned the difference either! So your mistake was totally understandable.
Hopefully you won't be, but for some reasons Apple stories are always heavily moderated...
I'd expect them to be roughly equal to 160 bit MP3s, but I'd expect 192 bit MP3s to be superior. That's just opinion, though.
1. I don't live in the States, and
2. If there was not a significant percentage of email from the states that I was actually interested in, I would block the US without hesitation.
It started as a slightly different post, but by the time I was done it wasn't really connected except (in a small manner) to the last paragraph. :)
I, too, am getting very tired of the spanked spammers, customers of spam-supportiing ISPs, governments that refuse to do anything about fraud, and just general black hats of all kinds getting whiles published on Slashdot. I wish there was a filter to turn these stories off. I wish even more that Slashdot wouldn't give them what they want most of all -- attention and a positive spin.
I think I'll add a Macedonia block to my site. I already block email from a number of countries, why not web access as well?At least some of them are spamming/phsing me by crawling my web site.
Until/unless these cesspools of fraud are taken care of, I will never interact with anyone in these countries.
It's my server, just like it's my email Inbox.
Play nice or I'll kick you out of it.
Well, not all the stations obviously, but the only one that was playing a good song at the time. It got replaced by gastah crap.
I almost posted that question anon, because I figured someone would think I was trolling. But that was a great explanation, and exactly what I was hoping for. :)
I have a Windows XP PC and a Mac. I think it's safe to say that the only reason I don't have a Linux PC is because of the Mac. I get my Unixy-flavored geeky goodness from the Terminal there. :)
I agree with you that the Windows PC takes a long time to download updates, but most of that is not time that you need to supervise it. I'm really wondering how much of a mental puzzle Linux is to install vs. Windows. Windows makes setup fairly easy, if nto (as you say) fast. (I just went through it again after upgrading motherboards.) For instance, how easy is it to find a driver for video card abc, built in audo chipset def, a DVD player compatible with DVD ghi, etc?
It's my experience that when someone says "nuff said," they've admitted they can't actually back up their argument.
In this case, it comes down to total cost of ownership. While I'll grant you Microsoft's server ads are bunk (I make sure to click them to feed Slashdot $$$), I'm less convinced it really costs that much less on the desktop. After all, even at the low rate of $10/hour, $185 is only 18.5 hours. Is there an 18.5 hour difference between setting up XP Home and a Linux desktop distro? What is the current Linux desktop experience like with respect to file install, drive setup, and basic accessories?
Virtual PC 6.1.1. I wasn't aware VPC 2004 had shipped yet...
No, they won't. Because here, I can quite easily refuse a phone bill that represents a stolen cell phone. That costs them a lot more than two seconds of a thread sleeping.
You don't seem to understand. That extra two seconds for my connection is sleep time, nothing else. I'll grant you this becomes more complicated when roaming, but on my home network it should be possible. (My provider even said it was a common request and they were working on it when I asked.)
I just got back from it. It was so fantastic. I've been reading the newspaper strip on the Internet since the first movie (it's actually written by Stan Lee, the comic books aren't), and it made it that much sweeter. Not to spoil the movie, but the final line of dialogue is a catch phrase in the strip.
But both Peter Parker and Spiderman came alive in a way they never had to me before.
No, I'm not actually. Most users would not have any entries. And when you roam, it all tracks back to your phone company anyway.
How long a delay do you think it would add? One second, mostly of waiting for a response? Maybe two seconds? I'm willing to wait an extra two seconds. It already takes 30+ seconds to connect to the Philippines. 32 seconds won't kill me.
And how long it would take to search.
A binary search on a list of, say, ten items? How long do you think that would take?
Less time than to calculate the cost per minute, I bet.
My cell phone provider defaults to having international dialing completely disabled. You need to call and go through a verification process to enable it.
There's a catch, though: It's either all on or all off. You can't say "I've got my wife overseas in the Philippines for a few months, and a friend in the UK. I'd like to be able to call those two countries, but please leave everyone else blocked."
No good excuse for that, either. It's hard to believe they can't have that level of granularity. What I'd really like to do, of course, is enable only specific phone numbers.
Is it a p articular build? It crashed the emulator on mine.
Didn't work in VirtualPC last time I tried it (early February).
How about using birds?
Duck, duck, duck... goose!
Please read that again: They already have a SDK for developing Applescript applications. This means they do not need another one.
One more thing... yeah, I wouldn't mind if Apple paid Arlo & Perry a bit of cash. I don't think they're required to by any means, but it would be nice. A small amount of cash for Apple would be a lot of cash for them.
Arlo used to work for Apple. I presume one or the other is unwilling to work with the other.
I would presume its because Apple already has a SDK for developing AppleScript applications.