I can picture the IE team around the watercooler...
Bob: I can't wait to release the benchmarks on IE8. Clippy: Eh, everyone will ignore them and complain about that acid test. Bob: Eh, I looked better than that stupid face YEARS ago.
Yeah, because Google's anti-scam heuristics is so good that I won't end up paying for any of this. I can't wait to have my entire ad budget spent on shithead/.'rs with the greasemonkey script running... fighting the MAN!
Hey, at least keeping our business running is nice and easy in this fantastic economy. Why WOULDN'T they choose NOW to run some fucked-up "civil disobedience campaign" that messes with small businesses.
I expect it's like any other kind of crime "service". You generally don't pay someone to just rob some random people for you and give you the money. You pay someone to kill a specific person, or help blackmail a specific person/company, threaten someone in particular or knock off a target you have specific requisite knowledge of. In any case, even if they could rip off their clients, they'd have a hard time marketing their "service" again.
I can't see it usually being people taking $450 to "just get some money from a bunch of people". If that were the job, and possible, they'd be doing it without the paid request from a client.
I generally run all of mine, but it's about a 1 in 5 shot that when I run all the updates, my video drivers are going to be completely trashed and I'm going to have to spend a whole day trying to get back to where I was before the update.
Dunno, maybe I bought the 'wrong' nvidia card? But I'd guess that's where his warning came from.
Seems to me everyone between about 10 and 30 now is at least: Web w/flash, IM, email, Office, Wifi, Music shopping, Ipod/Iphone, Games, DVD and making YouTube Videos
Add a decent app store in place of the average package manager and the only real "EPIC FAIL" left seems to be in the ipod and games departments.
Unfortunately those are things that require the most help from specific vendors.:(
Games vendors might begin to play nice at some point, but Apple never will.
I hope it is some kind of omen that this is the third post where I've seen someone make reference to the App Store.
What a fantastic idea as a replacement for synaptic. We could really use a pretty, well-designed app store for Ubuntu, run by Canonical, with app specific user threads for noobs, a search, a rating system that helps me find the popular stuff, screenshots, explore new apps just for fun......all of it COMPLETELY FREE.
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That's a pretty neat little creative thinking exercise, until they send you into combat.
I want to know why someone doesn't rudely stand up, interrupt him, and yell, "Don't you have ANYTHING important you could be doing right now?!"
Congrats, that's like 6 levels deep in a /. thread without it degrading into a ridiculous, irrational argument.
World of Goo is head-and-shoulders above all of these games. No idea why it didn't make the list.
They were just trying to feed their kids. Victims of a war they had nothing to do with.
What if I use that bot net to distribute the load of rendering animated gaping anal gay midget porn movies?
Then you have my permission. I GOTTA see that episode.
I've been asking this question on /. for some time now. Why don't people do this more often, stealing and disabling botnets?
Aw shit, that guy was from the BBC? I guess I should have offered him tea or something.
omg.
Please don't feed the trolls.
I can picture the IE team around the watercooler...
Bob: I can't wait to release the benchmarks on IE8.
Clippy: Eh, everyone will ignore them and complain about that acid test.
Bob: Eh, I looked better than that stupid face YEARS ago.
Or you flush DNS in the OS and hit refresh in your browser and you get the result from the last resolution?
A lot of printing companies do this with ink cartridges.
Didn't Epson or HP get slammed with a nasty class action over this?
My work does this... and I'm pretty sure it's working.
Yeah, because Google's anti-scam heuristics is so good that I won't end up paying for any of this. I can't wait to have my entire ad budget spent on shithead /.'rs with the greasemonkey script running... fighting the MAN!
Hey, at least keeping our business running is nice and easy in this fantastic economy. Why WOULDN'T they choose NOW to run some fucked-up "civil disobedience campaign" that messes with small businesses.
Thanks Adbusters, you worthless fucks.
I expect it's like any other kind of crime "service". You generally don't pay someone to just rob some random people for you and give you the money. You pay someone to kill a specific person, or help blackmail a specific person/company, threaten someone in particular or knock off a target you have specific requisite knowledge of. In any case, even if they could rip off their clients, they'd have a hard time marketing their "service" again.
I can't see it usually being people taking $450 to "just get some money from a bunch of people". If that were the job, and possible, they'd be doing it without the paid request from a client.
I love Whedon and all, loved Firefly and kinda like Dollhouse, but what an ass.
"When asked about returning to Fox, Whedon stated, 'These are different people [...] they didn't do to me what was done to Firefly.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon#Television_work
"You can't identify the illegitimate cards. Each individual card isn't kept track of."
Why not?
I generally run all of mine, but it's about a 1 in 5 shot that when I run all the updates, my video drivers are going to be completely trashed and I'm going to have to spend a whole day trying to get back to where I was before the update.
Dunno, maybe I bought the 'wrong' nvidia card? But I'd guess that's where his warning came from.
Fresh install of ubuntu leaves you needing a crapload of updates.
I expect there's some reason they don't get rolled in regularly, but I have no idea what it is.
Seems to me everyone between about 10 and 30 now is at least: Web w/flash, IM, email, Office, Wifi, Music shopping, Ipod/Iphone, Games, DVD and making YouTube Videos
Add a decent app store in place of the average package manager and the only real "EPIC FAIL" left seems to be in the ipod and games departments.
Unfortunately those are things that require the most help from specific vendors. :(
Games vendors might begin to play nice at some point, but Apple never will.
My question is, who stole "install"?
I hope it is some kind of omen that this is the third post where I've seen someone make reference to the App Store.
What a fantastic idea as a replacement for synaptic. We could really use a pretty, well-designed app store for Ubuntu, run by Canonical, with app specific user threads for noobs, a search, a rating system that helps me find the popular stuff, screenshots, explore new apps just for fun... ...all of it COMPLETELY FREE.
You forgot to do that mysterious "su" thing first!
You'd NEVER guess it, but you'll need those letters first to make everything work. ;)
This might go well with an idea someone posted earlier. I think an itunes/app store interface would work GREAT in place of UI's like Synaptic.
Of course, for this to be at all useful, it'd have to be web based and managed by someone for each distro.
Just a thought, but I'd love an environment that points me in the right direction when I want the software people think is best.