Ummm... Isn't that what the automatic update thing does? You can set it to automatically download and install critical updates, or warn you when they are available. Am I missing something? It seems like windows has had this for a long time now.
That's what we have speaker phones for! I would totally laugh my ass off if Bob's robot showed up to a meeting without instead of Bob. And who's going to sit around a table talking to Bob's robot like it's really Bob sitting there?
On second thought, I could use one of these, just program it to say "Sure, that will take 3 weeks" every five min or so. Then I could totally skip out on all of my meetings.
Well, I'd be willing to bet that MOST people won't take a 30 min round trip a week to the recycle place.
And frankly, if or if not laziness is not an "inherent part of the system" is irrelevant since it is (IMHO) directly responsible for the lack of recycling in the US. So the solution should accomodate it, or it won't work.
Where I live, we used to have recycle bins that we sit out next to the curb on trash day. I usually had a full bin of glass containers, pop cans, and plastic items every week. Then one day, the city stopped doing that. So now I just toss all that stuff in the trash, because I am surly not going to take a 15 minute drive to the recycle place once a week.
Let's face it. We're too lazy to go out of our way to recycle our trash, and rightfully so, a lot of us have better things to do. So make it easy to recycle and I'm all over that. Make it difficult, and nobody will recycle. Pretty simple.
T
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There's nothing to stop you except for your own morals and ethics. As far as they go, I can't begin to explain that to you.
There will always be people who steal (people steal beer all the time). Beer companies and stores don't make money off the people who steal beer. They make money off the people who are of high enough ethical quality to pay for their beer. It's other peoples job to take care of the people who steal beer.
So the question isn't about what apple can do to stop you from stealing music at all. They can't and shouldn't do anything. That's up to you or law enforcement.
I've been saying for some time that the record industry NEEDS to basically innovate or die. Use technology to boost their sales rather than fighting in a losing battle. They never heeded the words of the great Capt_Troy...
Nice to see someone doing this. Too bad for those involved with the RIAA that it's not one of them. I give iTunes a year in which it will grow and prosper. Then, the recording industry will finally give up and begin their own knockoffs (which will be nowhere near as good). One year...
I had the same problem. So I just went out and joined a nice gym. I've never enjoyed working out much, but I must say that I particually enjoy going to the gym. There's something to be said for the willpower that 80 bucks a month generates. I go at least 4 times a week and I've trimmed down by about 25 pounds. I have some nice tone now too. Here are my milestones (I've already reached milestone 1 and am working on 2).
1) Toby Mcguire (Cider house Rules): get rid of excess flab. 2) Toby McGuide (Spiderman): Fill my cloths back in with some muscle. 3) VIN Freakin DESIEL.
There's a lot of "clench your buttocks while your sitting on your ass" advise going around here. There is only one good way to lose weight, work out, increase your cardiovascular abilities, turn that metabolism back up where it is supposed to be. Otherwise, one twinky and your shot to hell again.
You should check out some gyms, there are a lot of cheap ones there, but I like the fancy locker-rooms and in house nutritionists and health professionals that you get if you can afford it...
Im my experience, snail mail is far more effective in getting your point heard and something done about it. I ALWAYS write a letter if I have a problem, and 90% of the time, the situation is adequatly dealt with.
I have never had any luck with email complaints, and only marginal success with phone complaints.
Just last night in fact, I heard back from AT&T wireless because I sent the CEO a letter about how his company was attempting to defraud me on my bill. Fixed, no problem. And a free month to boot. I had previously called 5 times and had been told that is was "impossible" to fix.
So use email for normal communications, but when you need something done, write a letter and fork over 37 cents for a stamp. The results are well worth the cost. I imagine that a letter to the president has a much higher chance of actually being read by someone than an email does, especially now.
I'm just curious, what would be a legal use for a smart card writer? What devices other that DTV use the card? I'm not familiar with these smartcards (basic cable user) but i would imagine that there are plenty of legitimate reasons to purchase one.
Is the purchase of a writer illegal in and of itself regardless of the intentions of the buyer (seems to be what DTV is claiming)? It seems to me that they would have to prove that they are suffering damages though. So you could have DTV and be using your smart card writer to hack your cell phone or something. DTV can't claim a loss can they? IANAL...
Well, from what I know about FileVault (from watching wwdc coverage) it simply encrypts your home directory when you log out, and unencrypts it when you log back in (I assume similar functionality exists when your box goes to sleep or screensaver or something). It sounds an aweful lot like your method. I would truly hope that Apple would recognize you for the idea (if they implemented it some other way) at least!
That was a feature I thought was really an innovative in Panther, one of those, "Why didn't I think of that" ideas. Of course, you did think of it!
How will FileVault effect your current encryption method? Will you switch to use FileVault when Panther comes out? What is your opinion of FV? And this is a great idea, you should get credit since Apple implemented this as well.
I've been fortunate enough that even in the downturn and the current economy, I was only unemployed for 3 months. I feel for those who are out of work now because I know that there are many many excellent programmers who can't find anything.
The problem?
Let's face it, a lot of people went to programming without experience and talent durring the dot-com years when they could get 60K without a college degree and a little experience in visual basic.
Those people along with the legitimate programmers lost their jobs and now they are all mixed together out there in the hiring pool.
To make matters worse, there is a corporate reality now that one programmer is as good as any other (and in my experience, the people doing the hiring have no facilities to tell if an applicant is qualified), so they hire the cheap guy or the fancy talker our outsouce to another country. I know a lot of really excellent unemployed programmers that have been passed up for inexperienced and untalented programmers.
So they continue to hire the cheapest workers and outsource to countries with an abundance of low wage workers and then they complain about the quality of software these days. It's ironic, but they can't seem to get that stigma out of their eyes...
"Well, yea, you know that foam we said couldn't have caused any problems? Well, it caused the shuttle to fall apart. BUT! We couldn't have fixed it anyway!"
There is always a solution. Apollo 13 was doomed, everyone knew that, but they got their shit together and got things taken care of. They could have potentially fixed this if they had tried. They didn't even try, so now they are making excuses.
I for one, would feel better about the state of affairs at NASA if the had at least tried to fix the problem, or payed attention to the existance of a potentially serious problem in the first place (we've all read the concerned engineer emails posted on/. after it happened).
What happened to the NASA that wasn't afraid to take risks to make sure it's astronauts came home safely? Couldn't these foam tests been done while the shuttle was still in orbit to study the damage the impact (everyone knew occured) could have caused? And couldn't that data support a risky move (I won't even conjecture what move that might have been) to save the lives of these people?
Maybe it's time for NASA to get out of the space business and let private industry do a better job of it...
First, don't have a passage way that lets people cross from the passenger compartment to the cockpit. Hijacker's can't take over the plane if they can't get into the pilot's seat... the only way to access the cockpit should be from an exterior door (and therefore only accessable then the plane is on the ground)
What if the pilot has to pee??? Or if.. um the stewardess needs to... um.. you know.. "assist" the captain?
Sounds like he hasn't programmed in C++ for quite some time that's for sure. I was away in java land for a few years and then came back, low and behold, all the STL stuff was standard now. Hurray!
Another doubt casting problem is that he never mentions what a suitable substitution to C and C++ is... He says java is good for the server side, but you can't replace all C++ apps with server side Java. So if "C/C++" isn't viable, what is?
And he seems to consider C and C++ almost the same language which they most definity are not...
So many email apps out there include filters. Outlook includes a crappy one, and Outlook express includes none (out of the box so to speak). So what's wrong with MS building in better spam filtering? Is it wrong for them to make their products better? Some of you are absolute bigots. competition drives innovation, and if MS wants to enter the field, that just means we'll have better filters.
I guarentee that if this was a memo from Steve Jobs, all the posts would say...
"I though he was Jesus!"
"Steve is the greatest human being to walk on the face of the earth, he's such an innovator!"
"Apple is leaps and bounds ahead of M$ Go apple. I'm buying one as soon as my student loans come though."
Oh, but wait... It's MS so type out the generic MS sucks crap.
I spoke to an FBI agent about this once. She told me that their computer crimes division is so extreemly busy that they only concerntrate on the cases involving about 250K or more since they don't have the resources to investigate everything. Additionally, she told me that when making a case to the FBI, that including your time and expenses in the initial investigation are valid monitary losses and can be included in the net loss resulting from the hack. However, you need to have suffered serious losses to get your case looked at by the FBI.
My question is simple, and I'm not a netscape user so maybe someone can enlighten me,
But what's the point of Netscape taking the latest mozilla code, as they have done for quite a while now, and creating their own browser? Are there some added features that Mozilla doesn't include? Seems like taking one thing and calling it another, unless there is some compelling reason to use netscape over mozilla.
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Ummm... Isn't that what the automatic update thing does? You can set it to automatically download and install critical updates, or warn you when they are available. Am I missing something? It seems like windows has had this for a long time now.
T.
That's what we have speaker phones for! I would totally laugh my ass off if Bob's robot showed up to a meeting without instead of Bob. And who's going to sit around a table talking to Bob's robot like it's really Bob sitting there?
On second thought, I could use one of these, just program it to say "Sure, that will take 3 weeks" every five min or so. Then I could totally skip out on all of my meetings.
T
Yes, you're right. I'll tell you what...
I'll do what you suggest...
Thanks.
Well, I'd be willing to bet that MOST people won't take a 30 min round trip a week to the recycle place.
And frankly, if or if not laziness is not an "inherent part of the system" is irrelevant since it is (IMHO) directly responsible for the lack of recycling in the US. So the solution should accomodate it, or it won't work.
Where I live, we used to have recycle bins that we sit out next to the curb on trash day. I usually had a full bin of glass containers, pop cans, and plastic items every week. Then one day, the city stopped doing that. So now I just toss all that stuff in the trash, because I am surly not going to take a 15 minute drive to the recycle place once a week.
Let's face it. We're too lazy to go out of our way to recycle our trash, and rightfully so, a lot of us have better things to do. So make it easy to recycle and I'm all over that. Make it difficult, and nobody will recycle. Pretty simple.
T
Here Here. Very interesting.
There's nothing to stop you except for your own morals and ethics. As far as they go, I can't begin to explain that to you.
There will always be people who steal (people steal beer all the time). Beer companies and stores don't make money off the people who steal beer. They make money off the people who are of high enough ethical quality to pay for their beer. It's other peoples job to take care of the people who steal beer.
So the question isn't about what apple can do to stop you from stealing music at all. They can't and shouldn't do anything. That's up to you or law enforcement.
I've been saying for some time that the record industry NEEDS to basically innovate or die. Use technology to boost their sales rather than fighting in a losing battle. They never heeded the words of the great Capt_Troy...
Nice to see someone doing this. Too bad for those involved with the RIAA that it's not one of them. I give iTunes a year in which it will grow and prosper. Then, the recording industry will finally give up and begin their own knockoffs (which will be nowhere near as good). One year...
Troy
I had the same problem. So I just went out and joined a nice gym. I've never enjoyed working out much, but I must say that I particually enjoy going to the gym. There's something to be said for the willpower that 80 bucks a month generates. I go at least 4 times a week and I've trimmed down by about 25 pounds. I have some nice tone now too. Here are my milestones (I've already reached milestone 1 and am working on 2).
1) Toby Mcguire (Cider house Rules): get rid of excess flab.
2) Toby McGuide (Spiderman): Fill my cloths back in with some muscle.
3) VIN Freakin DESIEL.
There's a lot of "clench your buttocks while your sitting on your ass" advise going around here. There is only one good way to lose weight, work out, increase your cardiovascular abilities, turn that metabolism back up where it is supposed to be. Otherwise, one twinky and your shot to hell again.
You should check out some gyms, there are a lot of cheap ones there, but I like the fancy locker-rooms and in house nutritionists and health professionals that you get if you can afford it...
Troy
Can we put these on Zombies so I can keep those bastards out of my house!
Shit...
Does anyone know where I can get a pirated copy of Linux?
Im my experience, snail mail is far more effective in getting your point heard and something done about it. I ALWAYS write a letter if I have a problem, and 90% of the time, the situation is adequatly dealt with.
I have never had any luck with email complaints, and only marginal success with phone complaints.
Just last night in fact, I heard back from AT&T wireless because I sent the CEO a letter about how his company was attempting to defraud me on my bill. Fixed, no problem. And a free month to boot. I had previously called 5 times and had been told that is was "impossible" to fix.
So use email for normal communications, but when you need something done, write a letter and fork over 37 cents for a stamp. The results are well worth the cost. I imagine that a letter to the president has a much higher chance of actually being read by someone than an email does, especially now.
T
I'm just curious, what would be a legal use for a smart card writer? What devices other that DTV use the card? I'm not familiar with these smartcards (basic cable user) but i would imagine that there are plenty of legitimate reasons to purchase one.
Is the purchase of a writer illegal in and of itself regardless of the intentions of the buyer (seems to be what DTV is claiming)? It seems to me that they would have to prove that they are suffering damages though. So you could have DTV and be using your smart card writer to hack your cell phone or something. DTV can't claim a loss can they? IANAL...
Thanks!
troy
Well, from what I know about FileVault (from watching wwdc coverage) it simply encrypts your home directory when you log out, and unencrypts it when you log back in (I assume similar functionality exists when your box goes to sleep or screensaver or something). It sounds an aweful lot like your method. I would truly hope that Apple would recognize you for the idea (if they implemented it some other way) at least!
That was a feature I thought was really an innovative in Panther, one of those, "Why didn't I think of that" ideas. Of course, you did think of it!
Troy
How will FileVault effect your current encryption method? Will you switch to use FileVault when Panther comes out? What is your opinion of FV? And this is a great idea, you should get credit since Apple implemented this as well.
Here's what I've seen...
I've been fortunate enough that even in the downturn and the current economy, I was only unemployed for 3 months. I feel for those who are out of work now because I know that there are many many excellent programmers who can't find anything.
The problem?
Let's face it, a lot of people went to programming without experience and talent durring the dot-com years when they could get 60K without a college degree and a little experience in visual basic.
Those people along with the legitimate programmers lost their jobs and now they are all mixed together out there in the hiring pool.
To make matters worse, there is a corporate reality now that one programmer is as good as any other (and in my experience, the people doing the hiring have no facilities to tell if an applicant is qualified), so they hire the cheap guy or the fancy talker our outsouce to another country. I know a lot of really excellent unemployed programmers that have been passed up for inexperienced and untalented programmers.
So they continue to hire the cheapest workers and outsource to countries with an abundance of low wage workers and then they complain about the quality of software these days. It's ironic, but they can't seem to get that stigma out of their eyes...
T
What BS!!! Way to rationalize it...
/. after it happened).
"Well, yea, you know that foam we said couldn't have caused any problems? Well, it caused the shuttle to fall apart. BUT! We couldn't have fixed it anyway!"
There is always a solution. Apollo 13 was doomed, everyone knew that, but they got their shit together and got things taken care of. They could have potentially fixed this if they had tried. They didn't even try, so now they are making excuses.
I for one, would feel better about the state of affairs at NASA if the had at least tried to fix the problem, or payed attention to the existance of a potentially serious problem in the first place (we've all read the concerned engineer emails posted on
What happened to the NASA that wasn't afraid to take risks to make sure it's astronauts came home safely? Couldn't these foam tests been done while the shuttle was still in orbit to study the damage the impact (everyone knew occured) could have caused? And couldn't that data support a risky move (I won't even conjecture what move that might have been) to save the lives of these people?
Maybe it's time for NASA to get out of the space business and let private industry do a better job of it...
In slashdot green text if you will...
"I submitted a story to slashdot and all I got was this stupid T-shirt."
First, don't have a passage way that lets people cross from the passenger compartment to the cockpit. Hijacker's can't take over the plane if they can't get into the pilot's seat... the only way to access the cockpit should be from an exterior door (and therefore only accessable then the plane is on the ground)
What if the pilot has to pee??? Or if.. um the stewardess needs to... um.. you know.. "assist" the captain?
In the past, we have used squid proxy running on a server at home to bypass the filters at our work so we could read Penny-Arcade...
you might want to check that out...
Sounds like he hasn't programmed in C++ for quite some time that's for sure. I was away in java land for a few years and then came back, low and behold, all the STL stuff was standard now. Hurray!
Another doubt casting problem is that he never mentions what a suitable substitution to C and C++ is... He says java is good for the server side, but you can't replace all C++ apps with server side Java. So if "C/C++" isn't viable, what is?
And he seems to consider C and C++ almost the same language which they most definity are not...
Oh well.
Whoever modded this down proves my point exactly.
Thanks!
So many email apps out there include filters. Outlook includes a crappy one, and Outlook express includes none (out of the box so to speak). So what's wrong with MS building in better spam filtering? Is it wrong for them to make their products better? Some of you are absolute bigots. competition drives innovation, and if MS wants to enter the field, that just means we'll have better filters.
I guarentee that if this was a memo from Steve Jobs, all the posts would say...
"I though he was Jesus!"
"Steve is the greatest human being to walk on the face of the earth, he's such an innovator!"
"Apple is leaps and bounds ahead of M$ Go apple. I'm buying one as soon as my student loans come though."
Oh, but wait... It's MS so type out the generic MS sucks crap.
I spoke to an FBI agent about this once. She told me that their computer crimes division is so extreemly busy that they only concerntrate on the cases involving about 250K or more since they don't have the resources to investigate everything. Additionally, she told me that when making a case to the FBI, that including your time and expenses in the initial investigation are valid monitary losses and can be included in the net loss resulting from the hack. However, you need to have suffered serious losses to get your case looked at by the FBI.
Sorry. But they are busy.
Troy
My question is simple, and I'm not a netscape user so maybe someone can enlighten me,
But what's the point of Netscape taking the latest mozilla code, as they have done for quite a while now, and creating their own browser? Are there some added features that Mozilla doesn't include? Seems like taking one thing and calling it another, unless there is some compelling reason to use netscape over mozilla.
Thanks!