Because if you are still using IE after all this time - and all these vulnerabilities, obviously someone in your IT chain is incompetent.
Whether it's the CEO, the IT manager, or you personally, someone isn't doing their job. The typical lame excuses of incorrect rendering or ActiveX or the fact that people can't visit their favorite game sites are all solvable. Obviously someone just doesn't care enough.
I don't think anyone is bound to coddle you, in any event.
Early attempts at marketing paper money, particularly the 'shinplasters' of the American Civil War, were marked by the same disdain you show for plastic now.
This was conquered over the long term by assuring the general public that they could turn in their dollar bills for real silver or gold, in the form of gold and silver certificates. By the time the Federal Reserve started issuing notes which weren't directly backed by gold or silver in 1914 or thereabouts, everyone had grown accustomed to using paper currency. Now, finding a silver certificate in your change is almost impossible, and even if you did, it won't be redeemed for a 90% silver dollar any longer. Yet people trust the paper. It's just paper!
In regards the fragility of magnetic cards - you can burn paper currency, right? Yet I don't see every person with a gas range (or smokers) losing their cash. This is analogous to the magnetic issue.
Oh yawn. You're such a typical/. leftist. Assuming you know something about history when you don't. You cannot answer the question directly, so you resort to ad hominem. That's the first sign of a weak argument.
You enhance the impression of a bad argument by then proceeding to play word games. The holiday was 'in honor of' him.
Your weak argument is 'in honor of' your lefty slashdot buddies, in the exact same respect as MLK's holiday is for U.S. blacks. A disservice.
Of course, once we identify what MLK actually did besides screw around on his wife a lot, (to truly Clintonesque proportions, mind you) - you can get back to me.
Politicians give speeches every day and we don't have national holidays for them.
Both JFK and Bobby got shot, and neither of them got holidays.
1. Ogg Vorbis is not believed to be patent encumbered. The jury is still out on that.
2. If you don't think Apple cares about the piracy landscape...you're being disingenuous. Of course they do. Why do you think they made an mp3 player in the first place?
...a standard that doesn't have a lot of real-world support? I mean, if you go onto one of the p2p systems, you find that everything is still pretty much mp3. So there is some incentive there for Apple to provide mp3 support. Why would they want to promote an alternative standard that they aren't selling, though?
Seems to me that Apple wouldn't benefit much from ogg or flac support. So why bother - besides, the article makes it clear that the processor in the older ipods probably won't even support the decoding of ogg due to cpu limitations.
Barking up the wrong tree here, sadly. Ogg has to get some critical mass before Apple would even consider it.
Pfft, the UN. Right. After how they managed the Iraqi Oil-for-food program (Kofi Annan's family is doing very well from all that, thank you) - no thanks.
I'll stick with the US government. At least they are accountable to _someone_.
Maybe if MoveOn or Adbusters weren't so far from the mainstream, they might not prompt people to shut off their television sets or change channels.
As it stands, the message of either group would prompt me to change the channel. Listening to inane bullshit isn't something I like to spend much time doing.
That kind of marketplace has existed since the early 1980s (obviously not for DVDs - VHS tapes). I was in Fresno, CA once at a flea market and saw a bunch of stands selling this type of stuff. Every so often you hear of a big bust of distributors of such things, usually when they get just a little too large and too profitable.
If that is the target...I can't help but think this is lame. I'm into capitalism, but this is like trying to rip off old people on medications (woops, we already do that!) or taking away ice cream from a little kid. The people that would buy this stuff aren't going to do so by choice. I mean that if they had the real studio DVD or VHS tape available they'd buy that, assuredly, but it's probably not because this type of pirate specializes in new releases. They aren't going to turn into a groundswell of new theater customers. Some bean counter probably thinks so, though.
I don't doubt you are right, but I can't think well of the tactic or the goal. As long as the content producers keep doing stuff like this, they are going to be perceived as evil.
I fail to see how this could ever reduce the viewership of a good movie. It'll certainly reduce the viewership of a crappy movie. Then again, isn't that the ultimate goal?
I'm not welfare for bad directors or bad scripts. I don't want to pay for crappy films.
Can you say "waste of time and money"? Who is going to choose a camcorder copy of a film over actually seeing it? That's right - those who weren't going to see it in the first place anyway.
If I can't at least check out the film beforehand i'm probably not going to pay at the box office either. Hollywood has pretty much set themselves up for this, with all the crappy movies they let out the door yearly.
I'll wait for the DVD and rent. They get minimum $$ out of my pocket, which is my goal. Most of the sheeple don't have the willpower to do so, sadly. Things might change if they did.
If you weren't computing at the time of CP/M you probably wouldn't be interested:-)
Actually the BBS I used back in the late 80's and early 90's (the lamented Searchlight BBS) had an editor that was full-screen and had all Wordstar command sequences, so Joe is like coming home for me.
Nonetheless, nowadays I use vi for all serious work on Linux. If you use it right, it pretty much immunizes you from ssh connectivity problems.
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Because if you are still using IE after all this time - and all these vulnerabilities, obviously someone in your IT chain is incompetent.
Whether it's the CEO, the IT manager, or you personally, someone isn't doing their job. The typical lame excuses of incorrect rendering or ActiveX or the fact that people can't visit their favorite game sites are all solvable. Obviously someone just doesn't care enough.
I don't think anyone is bound to coddle you, in any event.
Early attempts at marketing paper money, particularly the 'shinplasters' of the American Civil War, were marked by the same disdain you show for plastic now.
This was conquered over the long term by assuring the general public that they could turn in their dollar bills for real silver or gold, in the form of gold and silver certificates. By the time the Federal Reserve started issuing notes which weren't directly backed by gold or silver in 1914 or thereabouts, everyone had grown accustomed to using paper currency. Now, finding a silver certificate in your change is almost impossible, and even if you did, it won't be redeemed for a 90% silver dollar any longer. Yet people trust the paper. It's just paper!
In regards the fragility of magnetic cards - you can burn paper currency, right? Yet I don't see every person with a gas range (or smokers) losing their cash. This is analogous to the magnetic issue.
Exactly how do I recall the UN?
No thanks!
You did give one brief answer, but I think you probably need to look in the mirror regarding trollish natures.
You come off as a pretty huge asshole. And all because someone didn't agree with you and punctured a sacred cow.
Ah yes, more moderation based upon leftist principles.
I hope this makes you feel better when you lose in November.
Oh yawn. You're such a typical /. leftist. Assuming you know something about history when you don't. You cannot answer the question directly, so you resort to ad hominem. That's the first sign of a weak argument.
You enhance the impression of a bad argument by then proceeding to play word games. The holiday was 'in honor of' him.
Your weak argument is 'in honor of' your lefty slashdot buddies, in the exact same respect as MLK's holiday is for U.S. blacks. A disservice.
Of course, once we identify what MLK actually did besides screw around on his wife a lot, (to truly Clintonesque proportions, mind you) - you can get back to me.
Politicians give speeches every day and we don't have national holidays for them.
Both JFK and Bobby got shot, and neither of them got holidays.
Two corrections:
1. Ogg Vorbis is not believed to be patent encumbered. The jury is still out on that.
2. If you don't think Apple cares about the piracy landscape...you're being disingenuous. Of course they do. Why do you think they made an mp3 player in the first place?
Microsoft did almost the same thing by giving away their operating system throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Piracy is a business strategy.
WMA is the Microsoft solution.
It doesn't have any particular merit, it's just their solution, so people support it sometimes. I note that sometimes they don't, too.
...a standard that doesn't have a lot of real-world support? I mean, if you go onto one of the p2p systems, you find that everything is still pretty much mp3. So there is some incentive there for Apple to provide mp3 support. Why would they want to promote an alternative standard that they aren't selling, though?
Seems to me that Apple wouldn't benefit much from ogg or flac support. So why bother - besides, the article makes it clear that the processor in the older ipods probably won't even support the decoding of ogg due to cpu limitations.
Barking up the wrong tree here, sadly. Ogg has to get some critical mass before Apple would even consider it.
I don't understand why you would run a third party addon to IE rather than just using something like Mozilla.
I mean, the government is this way, but they are 3 years late to every party.
Pfft, the UN. Right. After how they managed the Iraqi Oil-for-food program (Kofi Annan's family is doing very well from all that, thank you) - no thanks.
I'll stick with the US government. At least they are accountable to _someone_.
heh heh heh
Maybe if MoveOn or Adbusters weren't so far from the mainstream, they might not prompt people to shut off their television sets or change channels.
As it stands, the message of either group would prompt me to change the channel. Listening to inane bullshit isn't something I like to spend much time doing.
Broke is right, with the child support.
Sometimes I think suicide is a valid alternative, then I realize it's only 10 more years...
That kind of marketplace has existed since the early 1980s (obviously not for DVDs - VHS tapes). I was in Fresno, CA once at a flea market and saw a bunch of stands selling this type of stuff. Every so often you hear of a big bust of distributors of such things, usually when they get just a little too large and too profitable.
If that is the target...I can't help but think this is lame. I'm into capitalism, but this is like trying to rip off old people on medications (woops, we already do that!) or taking away ice cream from a little kid. The people that would buy this stuff aren't going to do so by choice. I mean that if they had the real studio DVD or VHS tape available they'd buy that, assuredly, but it's probably not because this type of pirate specializes in new releases. They aren't going to turn into a groundswell of new theater customers. Some bean counter probably thinks so, though.
I don't doubt you are right, but I can't think well of the tactic or the goal. As long as the content producers keep doing stuff like this, they are going to be perceived as evil.
You don't shit on your customers, in other words.
I fail to see how this could ever reduce the viewership of a good movie. It'll certainly reduce the viewership of a crappy movie. Then again, isn't that the ultimate goal?
I'm not welfare for bad directors or bad scripts. I don't want to pay for crappy films.
I hope you enjoy the gum on the floor, the stale popcorn and the sticky soda mess. Also, the asshole teenagers behind you grabassing and making noise.
Besides, the sound rig in most theaters is not that great. Getting sodomized by the movie industry is an additional negative.
Neither do I, but you can put together a somewhat adequate surround sound rig for fairly cheap ( $500) today.
The difference between that and the average theater is not all that much.
Can you say "waste of time and money"? Who is going to choose a camcorder copy of a film over actually seeing it? That's right - those who weren't going to see it in the first place anyway.
If I can't at least check out the film beforehand i'm probably not going to pay at the box office either. Hollywood has pretty much set themselves up for this, with all the crappy movies they let out the door yearly.
I'll wait for the DVD and rent. They get minimum $$ out of my pocket, which is my goal. Most of the sheeple don't have the willpower to do so, sadly. Things might change if they did.
So your penis is very small. We understand.
I use an old mechanical keyswitch IBM keyboard, so I don't have window keys :-)
I heartily recommend getting one of the old Model M keyboards, they rock and they last forever.
On Gentoo it's default bound to Alt-F7.
I believe it will be the next Alt-F-key sequence after your last virtual screen though.
The Joe ctrl-key combos are Wordstar combos.
:-)
If you weren't computing at the time of CP/M you probably wouldn't be interested
Actually the BBS I used back in the late 80's and early 90's (the lamented Searchlight BBS) had an editor that was full-screen and had all Wordstar command sequences, so Joe is like coming home for me.
Nonetheless, nowadays I use vi for all serious work on Linux. If you use it right, it pretty much immunizes you from ssh connectivity problems.