This is a flawed analogy because in my case it was the content that was being compared, not the vehicle of the content (in your case the book/waste paper). A better analogy would be killing the fly by reading aloud to it from these respective texts.
I'm replying to your sig because I see this a lot.
Free speech is being able to speak anonymously, and there are a lot of great anonymous comments posted, some anonymous because the poster is fearful of their job. You're only hurting yourself by not listening.
I think it shows a lot that they were able to do that. In a corporate environment mistakes are simply not allowed, and so lots of failures get beat to death repeatedly, costing the company a lot of money in development and a lot of consumer credibility. To be able to admit that their product was a mistake and move on will do them a lot of good in the long term, even if they suffer in the market a little.
I don't know about Windows laptops, but in Mac OS X you can set it so that the track-pad deactivates while you're typing. I don't use it because I've honestly never had the problem of highlighting text and then typing over it, but I tried it out and it works pretty well.
I really want to clear this up because the likes of Jay Leno have really twisted the story.
The McDonalds in question had repeated complaints about the temperature of their coffee, and the woman burned wasn't just burned a little. She recieved third degree burns on her thighs. They knew their coffee was too hot and they didn't do anything about it.
When I take notes in my music history class my spell checker borks on almost all of the names and most of the terms. The problem is that a lot of the time I'm switching into german or italian. A spell checker with any warning more severe than a red underline needs to be a lot smarter than anything we have now.
Adobe will ship you a CD of the equivalent version for your new platform and ask that you destroy your old one. Your serial number still works.
I would not be surprised if other companies did this, too, so switching isn't a big deal after all as far as software costs.
Actually, that's how they're starting. The first things to have intel chips will actually be low end machines and portables. The G5 tower rocks and will continue to rock for a while, and it be on sale for another year or so.
There probably isn't a law against rootkits, and there shouldn't be. There should be a law against using them to break into systems that you are not authorized to enter, and there is a law against that.
A law against rootkits would be very problematic. Is VNC a rootkit? If there's a bug in SSH that is exploitable to gain root access I bet it would suddenly fall under the domain of being labeled a rootkit by any law banning them, should the mainatainers of SSH be prosecuted because of that?
It really comes down to liberty though. If I want to hack my own computer I should be allowed to do so. If I want to write a virus I should be allowed to do so, but I should not be allowed to release it into the wild.
The thing that I notice about Windows security in corporate environments is that even when it's so restrictive that using your computer becomes almost impossible, there are still ways around it.
I've seen very secure corporate environments using OS X where everything works splendidly (including roaming profiles actually carrying _all_ of your settings with you). Also, the security manages not to get in the way of day-to-day activity.
As I'm not sure of the southpark reference, I don't know if you were being funny or not, but global warming can cause an iceage.
Imagine just a little bit of the northern icecaps melting into the pacific ocean. Suddenly the North-Atlantic drift (the flow of warm water from the gulf of mexico to northern europe) ceases to warm norway and sweden. Norway and sweeden are pretty far north. The only thing that keeps them from freezing over is the north-atlantic drift. So if that doesn't keep them warm anymore then they freeze over, turn white, and reflect more sun away from the earth. This starts an iceage.
Of course none of this is a guarantee, but that's one way it could happen.
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This is a flawed analogy because in my case it was the content that was being compared, not the vehicle of the content (in your case the book/waste paper). A better analogy would be killing the fly by reading aloud to it from these respective texts.
Pot, meet Kettle...
As a classical musician and theorist I'm really offended that you put Celine and John Tesh on the same list as classical music.
I'm really really fucking offended, actually.
Get some taste.
I don't think we should program anything to play ANYTHING by Trabsiberian Orchestra.
They fucking suck.
I'm replying to your sig because I see this a lot.
Free speech is being able to speak anonymously, and there are a lot of great anonymous comments posted, some anonymous because the poster is fearful of their job. You're only hurting yourself by not listening.
I think it shows a lot that they were able to do that. In a corporate environment mistakes are simply not allowed, and so lots of failures get beat to death repeatedly, costing the company a lot of money in development and a lot of consumer credibility. To be able to admit that their product was a mistake and move on will do them a lot of good in the long term, even if they suffer in the market a little.
Slashdot has ads!? You could have fooled me.
I don't know about Windows laptops, but in Mac OS X you can set it so that the track-pad deactivates while you're typing. I don't use it because I've honestly never had the problem of highlighting text and then typing over it, but I tried it out and it works pretty well.
You enjoyed Black Hawk Down?
Why?
I know this seems antagonistic, but I'm legitimately curious. I thought it was total rubbish.
I'm leaving it open to interpretation, but personally I think LeGuin is better.
Ayn Rand is nothing like LeGuin.
I really want to clear this up because the likes of Jay Leno have really twisted the story.
The McDonalds in question had repeated complaints about the temperature of their coffee, and the woman burned wasn't just burned a little. She recieved third degree burns on her thighs. They knew their coffee was too hot and they didn't do anything about it.
I know you were joking, but seriously...
When I take notes in my music history class my spell checker borks on almost all of the names and most of the terms. The problem is that a lot of the time I'm switching into german or italian. A spell checker with any warning more severe than a red underline needs to be a lot smarter than anything we have now.
Adobe will ship you a CD of the equivalent version for your new platform and ask that you destroy your old one. Your serial number still works. I would not be surprised if other companies did this, too, so switching isn't a big deal after all as far as software costs.
Smart people are mute. Gotcha.
Actually, that's how they're starting. The first things to have intel chips will actually be low end machines and portables. The G5 tower rocks and will continue to rock for a while, and it be on sale for another year or so.
That excerpt from the song was featured in Verizon's early V-Cast comercials.
There probably isn't a law against rootkits, and there shouldn't be. There should be a law against using them to break into systems that you are not authorized to enter, and there is a law against that.
A law against rootkits would be very problematic. Is VNC a rootkit? If there's a bug in SSH that is exploitable to gain root access I bet it would suddenly fall under the domain of being labeled a rootkit by any law banning them, should the mainatainers of SSH be prosecuted because of that?
It really comes down to liberty though. If I want to hack my own computer I should be allowed to do so. If I want to write a virus I should be allowed to do so, but I should not be allowed to release it into the wild.
Congrats on getting an interesting mod for that one. My hat is off to you and your clearly FUNNY post.
The thing that I notice about Windows security in corporate environments is that even when it's so restrictive that using your computer becomes almost impossible, there are still ways around it.
I've seen very secure corporate environments using OS X where everything works splendidly (including roaming profiles actually carrying _all_ of your settings with you). Also, the security manages not to get in the way of day-to-day activity.
As I'm not sure of the southpark reference, I don't know if you were being funny or not, but global warming can cause an iceage.
Imagine just a little bit of the northern icecaps melting into the pacific ocean. Suddenly the North-Atlantic drift (the flow of warm water from the gulf of mexico to northern europe) ceases to warm norway and sweden. Norway and sweeden are pretty far north. The only thing that keeps them from freezing over is the north-atlantic drift. So if that doesn't keep them warm anymore then they freeze over, turn white, and reflect more sun away from the earth. This starts an iceage.
Of course none of this is a guarantee, but that's one way it could happen.
Don't underestimate them. They really are that smart. These aren't machines working for them, these are people. People like you.
To be fair, there is no QuickTime format. .mov files are just wrappers for other formats.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is what Apple intends to put in some of their machines this spring. I really hope it's something good.
I went to the site, and some very shocking statistics flashed up. Then 'identity theft doubled from 1999 to 2000' and I stopped reading right there.
It sounds like the book is just statistical abuse and horror stories. Yes, there's a problem, but sensationalism is not the way to address it.