I know I'll get flamed for this, but I have some money to blow on a toy for Christmas. Why should I buy an iPod over any of the other MP3 players out there like the Creative Zen? People seem to treat the iPod like the end-all-be-all of MP3 players, yet there seems to be dozens of different models out there. Why does anyone buy an iPod when they're more expensive than other models with similar specs?
Actually, now that I think of it, should I blow money on an MP3 player at all if I don't listen to music other than a single FM station and a handful of CDs in my car? I need a fun gadget to spend my money on or else it's just going to go towards paying off credit card debt.:-(
I don't even understand why people continue to buy newer versions. What's wrong with the football game from 2001 for your game system? The players' names are wrong? Who cares? The gameplay itself doesn't improve much between versions. Hell, my favorite version is still Joe Montana's Football for the PC and that is relatively obsolete compared to the newer 3D versions of football games. I like it because I could always score a touchdown on demand because I knew how the AI moved so I racked up a hundred points or more a game and always won the Super Bowl.:-)
I rather thought that's what "sysadmin-imposed policies" was refering to, as per this quote from the article:
Nope, they prohibit users from *installing* software. i.e. letting users install stuff into the system libraries directories and the registry, etc. Nothing would stop them from using something if it only needed user privileges to install and run, say from a CD or their home directory.
The big problem, however, is for those of us with assymetric connections (like Cable and DSL). Basically, it uses all of your upload, and chokes your download, which seems to be your problem, so I'd recommend getting a different client (pretty much every client save the Official Client has upload limiting), my personal favorite is Azureus.
Thanks, I'll give that a try. It's not that I want to eliminate it completely, it's just that it chokes the hell out of my connection making doing anything else virtually impossible. The "official" Bittorrent client seems really lacking in any kind of support for rate limiting.
Some would call it "artistic". But yes, the graphics do suck.
Artistic? If I want to play a tank game I'll go play DesertCombat. That's a free Windows mod for BF1942 and they seemed to have been able to come up with graphics that blow this away.
BT doesn't seem fast to me. Everything I ever try to download comes down at around 2KB/sec and I end up uploading at 70KB/sec to other people. I need to find a BT client that lets you disable uploading because it kills my upstream bandwidth and I get horrible latency while gaming. I just want to download, not share for both legal and performance reasons.
The Internet will replace all print media anyway. I don't understand people that still pay for a daily paper. It's just a massive waste of money when you can get the same information, even more actually, online on the web and it's updated within minutes vs. waiting around until the next day for your "news". If I had to rely on the newspaper to learn about the attacks on 9/11 I would've been clueless until 7am the following morning. With TV and the Internet I knew about it as the planes were hitting the building. Fabulous!
He's just trolling. "Beating" your child to the point of abuse is not acceptable, but spanking is not child abuse unless you're some hippy freak. Children should have no expectation of privacy. When I have children they will be monitored at all times. It is a parent's responsibility to care for their children not just let them go off willy-nilly and do whatever they want.
Do they really need to hijack the windows API to prevent themselves from being killed/removed?
On the plus side, you can't get in trouble anymore for making a virus, worm, or trojan horse. All you have to do is claim it was adware and the user consented to installing it. Afterall, when it comes down to it, these things are basically just malicious viruses.
Not to mention the cost of a Windows license on top of that. Why bother unbundling it when users can get Windows through a major manufacturer like HP MUCH cheaper than they could get it at the retail stores? Ooohhh, right, this is China. It's probably about $2 for Windows 2003 Server there in the average store.
But if you're living with your parents and working 2 days a week part time and not paying rent then you most certainly can save that money. That's just fiscal irresponsibility.
Clicking on the image on the Citibank page didn't do anything for me. It looks like I have to turn on javascript for this exploit to work. Next thing you know they're going to want me to allow Java applets and images to load automatically! WTF? Does anyone browse the web with that shit enabled? If it's not text, I'm not interested.
Thanks. I also found a nice extension called AniDisable that does just that from a menu so I can turn it off and on as needed easier when I actually WANT to see animated GIFs (rarely).:-)
My general principle with ads is the following: If the ad is not intrusive, and is not flash, (I.e. it doesn't have lots of motion, doesn't eat up cpu cycles, and doesn't flash horrendous colors at me), I will not block it. Otherwise, I will.
I agree, except mine extends to ANY movement. Animated banner advertisements are the devil and totally break my concentration when reading articles. I adblock anything that moves as for some stupid reason Firefox doesn't have an option to turn off animated GIFs. I should see if there's an extension since Mozilla can do it.
I still remember times when spywares and trojans were hacker-only. Greedy corps brought it to the masses, and now it's become an accepted part of the "Internet experience."
I love Windows. I just spent 4 hours yesterday cleaning up my mother's computer of all the spyware, trojans, and viruses. She swears she doesn't download anything either, just uses it for Yahoo Messenger voice and video chatting, playing Java-based games on Yahoo's site, and reading her e-mail with Thunderbird and browsing the web with Mozilla Firefox. Spybot Search and Destroy has immunized her system, she runs it regularly along with Adaware (although apparently doesn't know how to update it so her signatures are a month out of date) and has an up-to-date virus scanner.
Now tell me, how the hell does she get hundreds of pieces of spyware on her computer? She doesn't know and I can't figure it out either. The only thing I can think of is IE was her default browser although she says she never used it and only browsed the web with Firefox. IE is required due to Yahoo Messenger tying into it so it can display users' profile pages, otherwise it shoots up an error about site not found (probably some jackass ActiveX tie-in).
The funny thing is, I would buy her a brand new eMac in a second if Yahoo put out a decent version of their messenger product for Macs that included voice support and chat rooms (she visits some lame music chat rooms where they talk and everyone plays a song from their collection all night long.. did I mention she's collected 65 gigs of ripped MP3s by borrowing CDs from the library since July to build up her collection?). Unfortunately it doesn't support voice so she is completely uninterested. I told her about iChat and interfacing to AOL voice and video chat, but she says all her friends are on Yahoo. I hate Yahoo. I hate it with a fscking passion. Sorry for ranting, but I just really hate Windows and Yahoo and Spyware and viruses.
I browse the web every single day with my Mac, including some pretty questionable sites, and have zero viruses, zero spyware, and zero headaches!
RTFA yourself. They're not getting out of the server business, they're just rumored to be abandoning the DESKTOP market. They'll still make their Bladecenter and expensive PC server line (that runs Linux perfectly fine BTW).
I don't think it'll happen though.. they're in too many service contracts and having a hardware division in house makes much more sense than trying to procur another vendor's equipment and supporting it while maintaining their level of service. Think of all the government and business contracts that outsource to IBM who in turn provides the hardware, software, and people to make their business work. IBM would be essentially saying "well, we're going to buy generic white box PCs from China instead of supplying our quality systems from now on." Pooof, they'd lose all their federal government contracts overnight as they find someone that supports HP or Dell.
Suppose, for the sake of simplicity, that both A and B have the same bandwith as the server, and that everyone has the same up- and downstream bandwith.
Of course, we all know that's never true which is the problem with other P2P software. ADSL and cable modems unfairly favor downloading (consuming) content rather than uploading (serving). This is just another example of the corporate world trying to control the dissemination of information. There's no good technical reason they couldn't run a symmetrical DSL signal over your voice line like they do ADSL, they just don't want to. It's the same reason many of these ISPs still require you to login via PPPoE and get a dynamic IP for your "always on, high speed dedicated connection". They're stuck in a 1995 mentality of dialup users consuming content rather than sharing information. Dynamic IPs on cable and DSL really bug me. You can get one plan with dynamic IP and PPPoE from SBC for $29/month, but add in a static IP and suddenly you're looking at $75/month. WTF? You need to account for that customer using an IP address whether you assign it dynamically or whether it is static... why the rape on static prices?
there's some neocon advantage. like they insist on making your credit easily available to the individual, and a nice side effect is it's very easy for them to get a copy too, which will tie in nicely with all the other records they have on you.
Watch out, there's an eeeeevil neocon behind you!!! Boogaboogabooga!!!! rofl. You neocoms make me laugh.
This is scary stuff. If the terrorists got their hands on weather reports in the USA there is no telling what trouble they could stir up. I imagine this kind of thing should remain secret and proprietary.
No actually the goal would be to eliminate the need to even outsource at all, as you don't need that many people. It will eventually be achieved, just look at how farming and manufacturing has moved. Always towards higher efficiancy. Simply outsourcing isn't exactly efficient.
Besides, this is a GOOD thing. This will free up more of our time to devote to entertainment and learning. Granted, we will need a major cultural and economic shift towards a system where the state provides equal access to resources for all whether you are employed or not, but that is not a big deal. Imagine a world where the only people that have to work are those that WANT to work and the rest of us can sit and play games or read books or watch TV all day and not worry about where the food will come from or the housing will come from. It will be provided by the government.
Blogs are the Weekly World News of journalism. For every useful piece of information you get from one there's 10,000 dorks out there flaming about how Bush is Hitler and Haliburton is running the government. They have no credibility and are just soap boxes for trolls.
Nah, for non-geeks, there are only two web browsers: AOL and Yahoo. As anyone on the street what browser they use, and I bet the vast majority would say AOL or Yahoo.
How true. I asked my mother what browser she was using and she told me Netscape. Even though she was quite clearly using Internet Explorer, her start page was http://home.netscape.com from when we transitioned her from Netscape 4.7. Now she uses Firefox and STILL says Netscape is her browser. I've half a mind to change her start page to Google and see if she says that's her browser.
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Actually, now that I think of it, should I blow money on an MP3 player at all if I don't listen to music other than a single FM station and a handful of CDs in my car? I need a fun gadget to spend my money on or else it's just going to go towards paying off credit card debt. :-(
I don't even understand why people continue to buy newer versions. What's wrong with the football game from 2001 for your game system? The players' names are wrong? Who cares? The gameplay itself doesn't improve much between versions. Hell, my favorite version is still Joe Montana's Football for the PC and that is relatively obsolete compared to the newer 3D versions of football games. I like it because I could always score a touchdown on demand because I knew how the AI moved so I racked up a hundred points or more a game and always won the Super Bowl. :-)
Nope, they prohibit users from *installing* software. i.e. letting users install stuff into the system libraries directories and the registry, etc. Nothing would stop them from using something if it only needed user privileges to install and run, say from a CD or their home directory.
Thanks, I'll give that a try. It's not that I want to eliminate it completely, it's just that it chokes the hell out of my connection making doing anything else virtually impossible. The "official" Bittorrent client seems really lacking in any kind of support for rate limiting.
Artistic? If I want to play a tank game I'll go play DesertCombat. That's a free Windows mod for BF1942 and they seemed to have been able to come up with graphics that blow this away.
BT doesn't seem fast to me. Everything I ever try to download comes down at around 2KB/sec and I end up uploading at 70KB/sec to other people. I need to find a BT client that lets you disable uploading because it kills my upstream bandwidth and I get horrible latency while gaming. I just want to download, not share for both legal and performance reasons.
The Internet will replace all print media anyway. I don't understand people that still pay for a daily paper. It's just a massive waste of money when you can get the same information, even more actually, online on the web and it's updated within minutes vs. waiting around until the next day for your "news". If I had to rely on the newspaper to learn about the attacks on 9/11 I would've been clueless until 7am the following morning. With TV and the Internet I knew about it as the planes were hitting the building. Fabulous!
He's just trolling. "Beating" your child to the point of abuse is not acceptable, but spanking is not child abuse unless you're some hippy freak. Children should have no expectation of privacy. When I have children they will be monitored at all times. It is a parent's responsibility to care for their children not just let them go off willy-nilly and do whatever they want.
On the plus side, you can't get in trouble anymore for making a virus, worm, or trojan horse. All you have to do is claim it was adware and the user consented to installing it. Afterall, when it comes down to it, these things are basically just malicious viruses.
Not to mention the cost of a Windows license on top of that. Why bother unbundling it when users can get Windows through a major manufacturer like HP MUCH cheaper than they could get it at the retail stores? Ooohhh, right, this is China. It's probably about $2 for Windows 2003 Server there in the average store.
But if you're living with your parents and working 2 days a week part time and not paying rent then you most certainly can save that money. That's just fiscal irresponsibility.
Clicking on the image on the Citibank page didn't do anything for me. It looks like I have to turn on javascript for this exploit to work. Next thing you know they're going to want me to allow Java applets and images to load automatically! WTF? Does anyone browse the web with that shit enabled? If it's not text, I'm not interested.
Neither. Nobody uses Pentium IIs anymore. If you need a low-priced, low power, low heat CPU you can just get a VIA C3 that'll run twice as fast.
Thanks. I also found a nice extension called AniDisable that does just that from a menu so I can turn it off and on as needed easier when I actually WANT to see animated GIFs (rarely). :-)
I agree, except mine extends to ANY movement. Animated banner advertisements are the devil and totally break my concentration when reading articles. I adblock anything that moves as for some stupid reason Firefox doesn't have an option to turn off animated GIFs. I should see if there's an extension since Mozilla can do it.
I love Windows. I just spent 4 hours yesterday cleaning up my mother's computer of all the spyware, trojans, and viruses. She swears she doesn't download anything either, just uses it for Yahoo Messenger voice and video chatting, playing Java-based games on Yahoo's site, and reading her e-mail with Thunderbird and browsing the web with Mozilla Firefox. Spybot Search and Destroy has immunized her system, she runs it regularly along with Adaware (although apparently doesn't know how to update it so her signatures are a month out of date) and has an up-to-date virus scanner.
Now tell me, how the hell does she get hundreds of pieces of spyware on her computer? She doesn't know and I can't figure it out either. The only thing I can think of is IE was her default browser although she says she never used it and only browsed the web with Firefox. IE is required due to Yahoo Messenger tying into it so it can display users' profile pages, otherwise it shoots up an error about site not found (probably some jackass ActiveX tie-in).
The funny thing is, I would buy her a brand new eMac in a second if Yahoo put out a decent version of their messenger product for Macs that included voice support and chat rooms (she visits some lame music chat rooms where they talk and everyone plays a song from their collection all night long.. did I mention she's collected 65 gigs of ripped MP3s by borrowing CDs from the library since July to build up her collection?). Unfortunately it doesn't support voice so she is completely uninterested. I told her about iChat and interfacing to AOL voice and video chat, but she says all her friends are on Yahoo. I hate Yahoo. I hate it with a fscking passion. Sorry for ranting, but I just really hate Windows and Yahoo and Spyware and viruses.
I browse the web every single day with my Mac, including some pretty questionable sites, and have zero viruses, zero spyware, and zero headaches!
I don't think it'll happen though.. they're in too many service contracts and having a hardware division in house makes much more sense than trying to procur another vendor's equipment and supporting it while maintaining their level of service. Think of all the government and business contracts that outsource to IBM who in turn provides the hardware, software, and people to make their business work. IBM would be essentially saying "well, we're going to buy generic white box PCs from China instead of supplying our quality systems from now on." Pooof, they'd lose all their federal government contracts overnight as they find someone that supports HP or Dell.
Of course, we all know that's never true which is the problem with other P2P software. ADSL and cable modems unfairly favor downloading (consuming) content rather than uploading (serving). This is just another example of the corporate world trying to control the dissemination of information. There's no good technical reason they couldn't run a symmetrical DSL signal over your voice line like they do ADSL, they just don't want to. It's the same reason many of these ISPs still require you to login via PPPoE and get a dynamic IP for your "always on, high speed dedicated connection". They're stuck in a 1995 mentality of dialup users consuming content rather than sharing information. Dynamic IPs on cable and DSL really bug me. You can get one plan with dynamic IP and PPPoE from SBC for $29/month, but add in a static IP and suddenly you're looking at $75/month. WTF? You need to account for that customer using an IP address whether you assign it dynamically or whether it is static... why the rape on static prices?
Watch out, there's an eeeeevil neocon behind you!!! Boogaboogabooga!!!! rofl. You neocoms make me laugh.
This is scary stuff. If the terrorists got their hands on weather reports in the USA there is no telling what trouble they could stir up. I imagine this kind of thing should remain secret and proprietary.
Besides, this is a GOOD thing. This will free up more of our time to devote to entertainment and learning. Granted, we will need a major cultural and economic shift towards a system where the state provides equal access to resources for all whether you are employed or not, but that is not a big deal. Imagine a world where the only people that have to work are those that WANT to work and the rest of us can sit and play games or read books or watch TV all day and not worry about where the food will come from or the housing will come from. It will be provided by the government.
Psssst, I got the low-down on the secret evidence sealed in the case right here.
The majority of income taxes come from individuals. The only reason we let corporations corrupt the government is because Americans are morons.
Blogs are the Weekly World News of journalism. For every useful piece of information you get from one there's 10,000 dorks out there flaming about how Bush is Hitler and Haliburton is running the government. They have no credibility and are just soap boxes for trolls.
How true. I asked my mother what browser she was using and she told me Netscape. Even though she was quite clearly using Internet Explorer, her start page was http://home.netscape.com from when we transitioned her from Netscape 4.7. Now she uses Firefox and STILL says Netscape is her browser. I've half a mind to change her start page to Google and see if she says that's her browser.