Honestly, this isn't such a bad thing. I use Google as my main search engine as do most geeks, but even after preaching the virtues of Google for years, my 24 year-old sister *insists* on using MSN Search, as she "finds it easier to access and use MSN Search" for some God forsaken reason. I guess because it's just easier to hit the "Search" button on IE's toolbar than it is to go to Favorites and click on Google.
In any case, if my sister is an example of the standard non-geek masses, getting people to switch from using MSN to Google is difficult at best. If MSN can become more handy and more useful than it currently is, where's the harm in that? It might give Google some competition, which is always good, and increase the productivity of searching the Internet for "the unwashed masses."
Damn, that would just create all kinds of new sexual perversions among the Slashdotters. I mean, people like to eat cookies, but having cookie and password managers named after Anya and Faith, the horny Slashdotters would start trying to hump Mozilla out of sexual frustration, (since we all know most Slashdotters never get any). I mean, liking Mozilla is one thing, but trying to screw Mozilla... eww.
XP Lite is complete and total vaporware. It's been promised for *years* now, and absolutely nothing new has been said or seen about it since it was originally announced in 2001.
The project probably turned out to be bigger than the software coders could chew, as removing the crud from 9x is a far easier task than removing it from 2000 & XP.
In other words, expect XP Lite to be released the same day as Duke Nukem Forever.
If anything, this just goes to show that Europe does not endorse the right of free speech. The U.S.A., despite what might be wrong with it (and there is plenty), upholds more rights of its citizens than the Eurocrats. First, Europe banned Internet "hate speech," and now this. Ronald Reagan was right to strike down the Fairness Doctrine. All it did was stifle political debate, which is necessary for a democratic system to remain democratic.
The Germans and Russians censored all forms of communication before, and for all intents and purposes people recognize that as being a bad thing. All the Eurocrats are doing now is covering the same censorship in salad dressing in hopes of making it more appealing and more tasty, but underneath it's the same old censorship.
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I know that the parent post was meant as a joke, but in reality there is discrimination against short people. Most especially against short men. I'm a 26 year-old male, and I'm only 4'10", or I believe approximately 147.4 cm, in height.
Just like everything else in life though, there are advantages and disadvantages. A disadvantage is the local Zoo wouldn't let me buy tickets when I was 21. The lady behind the ticket counter said that my "mother" (pointing to my date), would have to buy the tickets, (apparently you have to be eighteen to buy a ticket to the Zoo... who knew). Talk about embarrasing. However, an advantage is that I'm eye-to-breast level with "average" height women, and have a legitimate excuse to be staring at their breasts.:)
I had an ICQ UIN account in the six digit range, specifically below 500000. I had that number for several years, and registered various e-mail accounts with it. That was my mistake.
It turns out that low ICQ UINs have a black market, where Eastern Europeans, especially Russians, tend to "steal" UINs and then sell them off to the highest bidder through various web sites, such as this one. You can use it for a while, a year, maybe two, and then they'll steal it back from you and re-sell it.
This happened to me. I once had my primary e-mail account for my ICQ UIN be a @operamail.com address. Eventually, my @operamail.com e-mail address expired, and I switched over to e-mail with my own domain name. I made sure that this was changed with my UIN as well. However, ICQ has this lovely little feature where they'll e-mail your password to any and all e-mail addresses you have *ever* listed with your account. Thus, even though my UIN was set to use an @apparition.org e-mail address, a Russian managed to create an @operamail.com e-mail address that was the same as the one I used before, and used ICQ's password reminder feature to gain access to my account.
I found this out because one day ICQ was no longer recognizing my password, and using the same method that the Russian stealer used, I obtained the changed password, and logged on, only to find a half-dozen new contacts and several messages waiting for me, all in Russian. A few days later, I got a message in Russian that roughly translated as, "How dare you steal my UIN from me. Give it back, now!" Riiight... Soon enough, they used the ICQ password retrieval feature again and re-changed the password. This went back and forth for about a week before I gave up and let the Russians win. I e-mailed ICQ support, and received a useless generated reply, telling me how to go about changing my password.
Since then, I've realized that ICQ is as secure as a box of Cheerios, and have moved on to different instant messengers.
Only on Slashdot can you find someone this cheap. Free operating systems, and now they want free Internet access. Nothing in the world is free, kid. Absolutely *nothing*.
Borg-style implants might not be so bad. I wouldn't mind my significant other getting Borg-style implants. They obviously did wonders for Jeri Ryan's career. Now if only my significant other would agree to wearing a catsuit to show off her new Borg-style implants...
You mean that people are releasing operating systems based on Lindows, but calling them Linux instead? Huh. How about that. Learn something new every day I suppose. Is Michael Robertson backing them too, or are they bastardizing Lindows and trying to get a free ride off of its good name? I mean Lindows, Linux... they're so similar in name.
If that's the case, is IBM Charles Bronson? And if so, is this whole scenario just a plausibility test for "Death Wish VI: Revenge of SCO?" This whole thing does reek of a Charles Bronson film plotline...
The quick and easy solution to the problem of spam is to declare Nigeria as a member of the Axis of Evil, and list it among the countries that need liberation. After Syria of course.
No such beast here. Every DVD rental store within 15 miles of my house is either a Blockbuster or Hollywood Video. There used to be a couple about fifteen to twenty years ago, but they've both long since closed up shop, since they weren't able to complete with Blockbuster.
Gee, just what I always wanted! A censored DVD rental company! Sigh. I have lost complete and total respect for Wal-Mart over the years. First they started flexing their muscles to censor the video game industry and made it plain that any video game they didn't like wouldn't be sold by Wal-Mart, thus making game companies cave and self-edit their games. Then they pulled some men's magazines off their shelves that had less female skin than most women's magazines these days. Now they want to start renting out DVDs, which I'm quite sure are censored? Heh, good luck.
It's a shame they're the largest employer in Pennsylvania.:( In the meantime, I'll stick to Target, at least they seem to let consumers decide for theirselves, instead of deciding for the consumers what's right and what's not.
That's fine with me, considering I *still* haven't gotten a replacement for the defective ReplayTV 5040 I shipped to SonicBlue back in January. Five months later, and I haven't heard a peep out of 'em. Oh well. I guess I got screwed out of the $300. After that, I could never recommend a PVR to anybody, as I know I'll never use PVR again.
Everytime I hear people suggest going to concerts to support their favorite artists instead of buying CDs, I laugh. It's not the answer for every situation.
Most of my favorite music are '70s music, ranging from pop to rock to disco, and British and Australian music ranging from pop to opera. Most of the '70s music stars are retired or semi-retired and no longer tour, so the only way I can hear their music and support the artist is to buy their CDs.
For the British and Australian music, since I live in America, it's all but impossible to go to the concerts of British and Australian musicians I like. Again, the only way I can hear their music and support the artist is to buy their CDs.
The current American music, the ones I can go to their concerts, are complete and utter crap, including both the "top 5" music labels and the independents. I can't stand most of it at all, and the rest I'll tolerate at best. So what am I to do? I don't want to support the RIAA, but if I want to hear the music I like and support the artists I like, the only option I have *is* to buy CDs issued by the "top 5" music labels.
And exactly *where* in the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights are we guaranteed the right of keeping our mobile telephone number forever? I don't see the big deal here. People have changed telephone numbers for the past one hundred years, and society as we know it has moved along just fine.
People keep thinking they're entitled to more and more when they're only entitled to three basic fundamental things: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nothing more, nothing less.
I know this is completely off-topic, but such as? I have never P2Ped in my computing life, and I've been using computers for fourteen years. Most of them are slow, crappy, and virus-ridden, which is why I've stayed away. But if you happen to know of some ones that aren't like that, do share.
Good guess, but wrong. The red banner and the small editor-on-duty note are for subscribers only. They last for 20 or 30 minutes (I forget exactly), until the story becomes public, in which case the banner becomes green and the editor-on-duty note is removed. This has been the case for each and every Slashdot story posted for at least a few months now.
Somehow, something went wrong and non-subscribers were able to see the story and post before they should have been able to.
Yeah, they could, and then they also could shove Tivo out an airlock and get a seven-year royalty-free license to service media onto XBox 2s and 3s across America. Microsoft would win again.
Honestly, what did the guy expect? You only own your own work when you either do it and provide it on your own time and space, or if you own your own company. When you work for a company, and make something on company time and put it up using company resources, guess what? It's owned by the company. If they like it, it stays up. If they don't, it comes down, as was the case with WASTE. You have very little or no say in the matter once you finished creating it.
Mouthing off in his blog doesn't help matters either. Honestly, to me this just displays immaturity. Not a good thing, not a bad thing either. Just stating it as I see it. He's still young, he'll probably eventually mature and realize the world works on different terms than his, and not vice versa. It would be naive and immature otherwise, and naivety and immaturity is what Justin Frankel has displayed in spades the past few weeks. Welcome to the real world, it's called "growing up and accepting responsibility."
Your wish was already granted. Take a look at Blue Eyed OS, a relatively new take on BeOS. It uses the Linux kernel with BeOS APIs. BeOS apps will run on it, so long as they are re-compiled. It combines the best of both worlds... Linux's stability, network capabilities, and far better device driver support, and BeOS's user interface, among other things.
A bootable CD was recently released a month or two ago. You can get it from the web site if you want to try it out.
This just keeps getting nastier and nastier. Now, let's say in 2006 if your dear old Uncle Bill wants to use AOL 10, which just happens to use IE 7 as its browser, he's going to have to upgrade his Windows OS to do so. Nice going, Microsoft! Just yet one more avenue to force people to upgrade.
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Honestly, this isn't such a bad thing. I use Google as my main search engine as do most geeks, but even after preaching the virtues of Google for years, my 24 year-old sister *insists* on using MSN Search, as she "finds it easier to access and use MSN Search" for some God forsaken reason. I guess because it's just easier to hit the "Search" button on IE's toolbar than it is to go to Favorites and click on Google.
In any case, if my sister is an example of the standard non-geek masses, getting people to switch from using MSN to Google is difficult at best. If MSN can become more handy and more useful than it currently is, where's the harm in that? It might give Google some competition, which is always good, and increase the productivity of searching the Internet for "the unwashed masses."
Damn, that would just create all kinds of new sexual perversions among the Slashdotters. I mean, people like to eat cookies, but having cookie and password managers named after Anya and Faith, the horny Slashdotters would start trying to hump Mozilla out of sexual frustration, (since we all know most Slashdotters never get any). I mean, liking Mozilla is one thing, but trying to screw Mozilla... eww.
You mean there are other uses for electricity other than sho... *Bzzt*. Damn it, that hurt! *Bzzt*. Ow, quit it! *Bzzt*.
XP Lite is complete and total vaporware. It's been promised for *years* now, and absolutely nothing new has been said or seen about it since it was originally announced in 2001.
The project probably turned out to be bigger than the software coders could chew, as removing the crud from 9x is a far easier task than removing it from 2000 & XP.
In other words, expect XP Lite to be released the same day as Duke Nukem Forever.
So, is this operating system from outer space as well?
If anything, this just goes to show that Europe does not endorse the right of free speech. The U.S.A., despite what might be wrong with it (and there is plenty), upholds more rights of its citizens than the Eurocrats. First, Europe banned Internet "hate speech," and now this. Ronald Reagan was right to strike down the Fairness Doctrine. All it did was stifle political debate, which is necessary for a democratic system to remain democratic.
The Germans and Russians censored all forms of communication before, and for all intents and purposes people recognize that as being a bad thing. All the Eurocrats are doing now is covering the same censorship in salad dressing in hopes of making it more appealing and more tasty, but underneath it's the same old censorship.
I know that the parent post was meant as a joke, but in reality there is discrimination against short people. Most especially against short men. I'm a 26 year-old male, and I'm only 4'10", or I believe approximately 147.4 cm, in height.
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Just like everything else in life though, there are advantages and disadvantages. A disadvantage is the local Zoo wouldn't let me buy tickets when I was 21. The lady behind the ticket counter said that my "mother" (pointing to my date), would have to buy the tickets, (apparently you have to be eighteen to buy a ticket to the Zoo... who knew). Talk about embarrasing. However, an advantage is that I'm eye-to-breast level with "average" height women, and have a legitimate excuse to be staring at their breasts.
I had an ICQ UIN account in the six digit range, specifically below 500000. I had that number for several years, and registered various e-mail accounts with it. That was my mistake. It turns out that low ICQ UINs have a black market, where Eastern Europeans, especially Russians, tend to "steal" UINs and then sell them off to the highest bidder through various web sites, such as this one. You can use it for a while, a year, maybe two, and then they'll steal it back from you and re-sell it. This happened to me. I once had my primary e-mail account for my ICQ UIN be a @operamail.com address. Eventually, my @operamail.com e-mail address expired, and I switched over to e-mail with my own domain name. I made sure that this was changed with my UIN as well. However, ICQ has this lovely little feature where they'll e-mail your password to any and all e-mail addresses you have *ever* listed with your account. Thus, even though my UIN was set to use an @apparition.org e-mail address, a Russian managed to create an @operamail.com e-mail address that was the same as the one I used before, and used ICQ's password reminder feature to gain access to my account. I found this out because one day ICQ was no longer recognizing my password, and using the same method that the Russian stealer used, I obtained the changed password, and logged on, only to find a half-dozen new contacts and several messages waiting for me, all in Russian. A few days later, I got a message in Russian that roughly translated as, "How dare you steal my UIN from me. Give it back, now!" Riiight... Soon enough, they used the ICQ password retrieval feature again and re-changed the password. This went back and forth for about a week before I gave up and let the Russians win. I e-mailed ICQ support, and received a useless generated reply, telling me how to go about changing my password. Since then, I've realized that ICQ is as secure as a box of Cheerios, and have moved on to different instant messengers.
Only on Slashdot can you find someone this cheap. Free operating systems, and now they want free Internet access. Nothing in the world is free, kid. Absolutely *nothing*.
Borg-style implants might not be so bad. I wouldn't mind my significant other getting Borg-style implants. They obviously did wonders for Jeri Ryan's career. Now if only my significant other would agree to wearing a catsuit to show off her new Borg-style implants...
You mean that people are releasing operating systems based on Lindows, but calling them Linux instead? Huh. How about that. Learn something new every day I suppose. Is Michael Robertson backing them too, or are they bastardizing Lindows and trying to get a free ride off of its good name? I mean Lindows, Linux... they're so similar in name.
If that's the case, is IBM Charles Bronson? And if so, is this whole scenario just a plausibility test for "Death Wish VI: Revenge of SCO?" This whole thing does reek of a Charles Bronson film plotline...
Go get 'em, Chuck!
The quick and easy solution to the problem of spam is to declare Nigeria as a member of the Axis of Evil, and list it among the countries that need liberation. After Syria of course.
No such beast here. Every DVD rental store within 15 miles of my house is either a Blockbuster or Hollywood Video. There used to be a couple about fifteen to twenty years ago, but they've both long since closed up shop, since they weren't able to complete with Blockbuster.
Gee, just what I always wanted! A censored DVD rental company! Sigh. I have lost complete and total respect for Wal-Mart over the years. First they started flexing their muscles to censor the video game industry and made it plain that any video game they didn't like wouldn't be sold by Wal-Mart, thus making game companies cave and self-edit their games. Then they pulled some men's magazines off their shelves that had less female skin than most women's magazines these days. Now they want to start renting out DVDs, which I'm quite sure are censored? Heh, good luck.
:( In the meantime, I'll stick to Target, at least they seem to let consumers decide for theirselves, instead of deciding for the consumers what's right and what's not.
It's a shame they're the largest employer in Pennsylvania.
The User Friendly comic strip summed the whole SCO thing up nicely here. Funny? Hidden truth? You decide.
That's fine with me, considering I *still* haven't gotten a replacement for the defective ReplayTV 5040 I shipped to SonicBlue back in January. Five months later, and I haven't heard a peep out of 'em. Oh well. I guess I got screwed out of the $300. After that, I could never recommend a PVR to anybody, as I know I'll never use PVR again.
Everytime I hear people suggest going to concerts to support their favorite artists instead of buying CDs, I laugh. It's not the answer for every situation.
Most of my favorite music are '70s music, ranging from pop to rock to disco, and British and Australian music ranging from pop to opera. Most of the '70s music stars are retired or semi-retired and no longer tour, so the only way I can hear their music and support the artist is to buy their CDs.
For the British and Australian music, since I live in America, it's all but impossible to go to the concerts of British and Australian musicians I like. Again, the only way I can hear their music and support the artist is to buy their CDs.
The current American music, the ones I can go to their concerts, are complete and utter crap, including both the "top 5" music labels and the independents. I can't stand most of it at all, and the rest I'll tolerate at best. So what am I to do? I don't want to support the RIAA, but if I want to hear the music I like and support the artists I like, the only option I have *is* to buy CDs issued by the "top 5" music labels.
And exactly *where* in the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights are we guaranteed the right of keeping our mobile telephone number forever? I don't see the big deal here. People have changed telephone numbers for the past one hundred years, and society as we know it has moved along just fine.
People keep thinking they're entitled to more and more when they're only entitled to three basic fundamental things: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nothing more, nothing less.
I know this is completely off-topic, but such as? I have never P2Ped in my computing life, and I've been using computers for fourteen years. Most of them are slow, crappy, and virus-ridden, which is why I've stayed away. But if you happen to know of some ones that aren't like that, do share.
Good guess, but wrong. The red banner and the small editor-on-duty note are for subscribers only. They last for 20 or 30 minutes (I forget exactly), until the story becomes public, in which case the banner becomes green and the editor-on-duty note is removed. This has been the case for each and every Slashdot story posted for at least a few months now.
Somehow, something went wrong and non-subscribers were able to see the story and post before they should have been able to.
Yeah, they could, and then they also could shove Tivo out an airlock and get a seven-year royalty-free license to service media onto XBox 2s and 3s across America. Microsoft would win again.
Honestly, what did the guy expect? You only own your own work when you either do it and provide it on your own time and space, or if you own your own company. When you work for a company, and make something on company time and put it up using company resources, guess what? It's owned by the company. If they like it, it stays up. If they don't, it comes down, as was the case with WASTE. You have very little or no say in the matter once you finished creating it.
Mouthing off in his blog doesn't help matters either. Honestly, to me this just displays immaturity. Not a good thing, not a bad thing either. Just stating it as I see it. He's still young, he'll probably eventually mature and realize the world works on different terms than his, and not vice versa. It would be naive and immature otherwise, and naivety and immaturity is what Justin Frankel has displayed in spades the past few weeks. Welcome to the real world, it's called "growing up and accepting responsibility."
Your wish was already granted. Take a look at Blue Eyed OS, a relatively new take on BeOS. It uses the Linux kernel with BeOS APIs. BeOS apps will run on it, so long as they are re-compiled. It combines the best of both worlds... Linux's stability, network capabilities, and far better device driver support, and BeOS's user interface, among other things. A bootable CD was recently released a month or two ago. You can get it from the web site if you want to try it out.
This just keeps getting nastier and nastier. Now, let's say in 2006 if your dear old Uncle Bill wants to use AOL 10, which just happens to use IE 7 as its browser, he's going to have to upgrade his Windows OS to do so. Nice going, Microsoft! Just yet one more avenue to force people to upgrade.