Remember in the dotboom when household word named domains like pets.com sold for 6-figures? People paid the money for having an easy to remember word that they thought would guarantee them massive sales. Fast foward on to now and all the big sites (eg Google) are made-up words that were probably bought a few dollars. Funny how it works out isn't it?
Completely right. It's not even so subtle once you get used to their tricks. Nobody seems to question aspects of the story and are happy to trust the CIA . Basically nothing happened this week apart from a lot of people were very inconvienced and everyone was told something very bad nearly happened but we stopped it because of monitoring. The majority seem to think this is proof or justification of the methods and then carry on slowly accepting the ceaseless curtailment of their (hard fought for) liberties. In a few short years we will be living in a genuine police state and it will all be too late.
if MS can maintain a monopoly with arguably the worst OS currently available in computer space, Apple can maintain a monopoly with the arguably the best music store/player combo with ease. There will be no iTunes killer - that's just not possible right now.
Norton was once an essential application. Is it turning into a joke?
Ans: Yes.
However, Norton seems to be playing catch up with its OSX counterpart. Norton Systemworks (Utilities) became a joke for Mac users years ago now at the start of OSX having been an essential app for OS7/8/9. In fact there is no surer way of guaranteeing an OSX 'nuke&pave' situation than running Nortons and getting it to fix something. It's kind of like a medecine that kills.... (AZT anyone?)
that's funny but I think it's true. There can only really be 2 reasons this is happening (based on my knowledge of miltary planning ahem)
1. As you said, it's a bluff
2. They've got something much much better built now and are going to it.
The administration is busy commissioning more nuke weapons and Russia is becoming more threatening by the day. WW3 is near to breaking out all over the ME. No way are the military winding anything down.
This is genetic in basis too. Small populations tend to have smaller gene pools leading to potential genetic problems so a good source of 'foreign' genes would be seen as attractive. Men think the same way I believe.
The conspiratorial part of me could even see at being part of the larger assault against public services in general.
The conspiratorial part of me thinks that it's an assault against the freedom of the internet in general. Once this is in place it will be the turn of political websites etc. Eventually all you'll be able to do from a public access terminal is watch Fox and CNN and send fanmail to Bill O'Reilly.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: This time is the golden age of the internet. That period is at its twilight now I would say.
That's the first thing I thought. Apple, I hope, will buy it if only to protect their quartz extreme investment. What would be the coolest thing would be for them to buy it, continue using as normal, and keep it open and free for anyone else that wanted to use it. The kudos from that would easily be worth the money they paid for it.
Exactly. I can remember as a child seeing a cassette player and wondering what on Earth 'Fast Foward' could mean. I had absolutely no framework for understanding tape transport.
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Remember in the dotboom when household word named domains like pets.com sold for 6-figures? People paid the money for having an easy to remember word that they thought would guarantee them massive sales. Fast foward on to now and all the big sites (eg Google) are made-up words that were probably bought a few dollars. Funny how it works out isn't it?
There seems to some possiblity for the creation of a superhero here. Wonder what his ability would be?
Completely right. It's not even so subtle once you get used to their tricks. Nobody seems to question aspects of the story and are happy to trust the CIA . Basically nothing happened this week apart from a lot of people were very inconvienced and everyone was told something very bad nearly happened but we stopped it because of monitoring. The majority seem to think this is proof or justification of the methods and then carry on slowly accepting the ceaseless curtailment of their (hard fought for) liberties. In a few short years we will be living in a genuine police state and it will all be too late.
if MS can maintain a monopoly with arguably the worst OS currently available in computer space, Apple can maintain a monopoly with the arguably the best music store/player combo with ease. There will be no iTunes killer - that's just not possible right now.
That's my favourite quote from Fawlty Towers.
I think you put foward some interesting points. Sorry about the typical /. argumentative reaction.
Currently, Bittorrent traffic is suffering from bandwidth throttling ISP's that claim that Bittorrent traffic is cluttering their pipes.
Jeez, who writes this stuff? Must be clueless because everyone knows the internet uses tubes. Sheesh.
Is it just me that remembers Rewind by Power On?
l ?item=140
http://www.overstockelectrical.net/cgi-bin/item.p
Better cancel my order then.....
You forget they have many more blue LEDs now - things will be *just fine* ;)
Norton was once an essential application. Is it turning into a joke?
.... (AZT anyone?)
Ans: Yes.
However, Norton seems to be playing catch up with its OSX counterpart. Norton Systemworks (Utilities) became a joke for Mac users years ago now at the start of OSX having been an essential app for OS7/8/9. In fact there is no surer way of guaranteeing an OSX 'nuke&pave' situation than running Nortons and getting it to fix something. It's kind of like a medecine that kills
Sorry, there's a rounding error - should be 3/14/15 9.26:54.
9 37510.....
This is the most geeky thing I've ever done - please believe me.
Pi=3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939
And there's supposed underground cities capable of sheltering 250k people in Russia afaik.
This is sarcasm right?
/. (or the rest of the World)
No one comes out in favor of Vista on
that's funny but I think it's true. There can only really be 2 reasons this is happening (based on my knowledge of miltary planning ahem)
1. As you said, it's a bluff
2. They've got something much much better built now and are going to it.
The administration is busy commissioning more nuke weapons and Russia is becoming more threatening by the day. WW3 is near to breaking out all over the ME. No way are the military winding anything down.
Women dig out-of-towners
This is genetic in basis too. Small populations tend to have smaller gene pools leading to potential genetic problems so a good source of 'foreign' genes would be seen as attractive. Men think the same way I believe.
MS Security Guru
[snigger]
I was wondering what that RJ45 socket on my head was for. My kids will probably be wireless.
The conspiratorial part of me could even see at being part of the larger assault against public services in general.
The conspiratorial part of me thinks that it's an assault against the freedom of the internet in general. Once this is in place it will be the turn of political websites etc. Eventually all you'll be able to do from a public access terminal is watch Fox and CNN and send fanmail to Bill O'Reilly.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: This time is the golden age of the internet. That period is at its twilight now I would say.
sporatic is not a word. Sorry for whining.
Or just the bubble bubble ;-)
(Or two rival fusion researchers going bust: double bubble trouble)
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Tell you what, I'll stick to playing MP3s and doing WP locally then.
That's the first thing I thought. Apple, I hope, will buy it if only to protect their quartz extreme investment. What would be the coolest thing would be for them to buy it, continue using as normal, and keep it open and free for anyone else that wanted to use it. The kudos from that would easily be worth the money they paid for it.
i thought it was funny.
the mods round here seem to have gone insane.
thirded - I really did LOL
Exactly. I can remember as a child seeing a cassette player and wondering what on Earth 'Fast Foward' could mean. I had absolutely no framework for understanding tape transport.