Yep, all too easy to do with any email app. You MUST read the entire email before you click send! I make it a point to read the content, the subject and then finally a check of who's going to get it, especially double check if your using email groups! Groups can mask people you might not want to see the email content. How can you blame the software? "Sorry I cut my fingers playing with the knives you guys make at your factory. Can't you stop making them so sharp?". Sorry, but regardless of how it happened, it's simply the senders fault, no one else to blame.
I read the FUD, the anti-FUD, the BS. In the end I simply state "Vista, is simply not right for what I want to do, right now." I prefer my Ubuntu, it does me just right. I like the fact that I have everything I need for free. I'll be honest, when I was running Windows, if wanted to do something I would simply fire up uTorrent and a browser and keep ripping stuff off from torrent sites until I found something that worked. I filled HDDs full of shite, for good reason other than being lazy. Now I have an O/S that I need to work a little harder with, but I know when I download software, the local Polizia won't be banging my door down. My missus now uses a Mac for much the same reason, if she wanted to do something, I would rip stuff off for her too.
I'm not trying to be all full of Linux or Apple righteousness, it's a free world (mostly), pays yer money makes yer choice, Lin and Mac just work for me at the moment. Maybe I'll change with "Windows 7", but right now it has helped me kick my addictive pirating habit, which Windows fostered in me.
My old man is very stuck in his ways, has worshipped MS since year dot, but after 6 months on Vista on a new PC, drivers crashing and stuff failing he said stuff-it and went straight out and bought an Apple imac! Shocked the hell out of all us! He wanted real stability and safe phone supported software. I don't have time to attempt an Ubuntu brainwashing exercise, but when he went out and just bought an Apple and has stuck to it to the point of almost boxing up his PC ready for eBay, that says something about the average appliance-centric PC user getting fed up with MS and their BS.
As a an IT engineer, I decided long ago to join the Tooting Popular Front! Come the glorious day citizens, which I don't think you'll find too glorious. Up against the wall. Blindfold. Last Fag. Bop! Bop! Cheers Harry, bop!
As I have said a dozen times before, the biggest thing is that 20 years ago, we had radio and TV and the odd magazine to tell us what's going in the world of entertainment, so we got force fed a paid for diet of trash that the big corps wanted to feed us. Now with the web explosion, I can jump across a dozen music sites using RSS/Atom and find out what the latest big underground thing is in my favourite music genre.
Sorry Paul, mate! The cat is out of the bag. I have way too many things vying for my attention and with the vast amount of information available to me, I can hone in on exactly what I like, very, very quickly. I don't don't need your corp BS rammed down my throat, I can often speak direct to the members of my favourite bands, buy their stuff direct from them, knowing I am getting a great product as they let me sample a few tracks for free legally, and I know the cash I send them will be used by them to help them to keep entertaining me. I might only buy them a few strings or a few gallons of petrol/gas, but I know it's got direct to them.
The day the majors finally realise that honest artists treated with care and consumers treated with respect, Old Nick will be skating to work!
The Gem'Hadar! Weren't they battle field troops totally dependent upon a drug that only their masters could produce? These masters used the drug to ensure loyalty of their troops, then denied it when they no longer wanted the troops to function.
My little one, under 6, loves playing the old Humungous Enterainment titles, Pajama Sam, Freddi Fish and Putt-Putt. Also loves the Find and Seeks from Reflexive and the old I-Spy from the 90's. Today's games all about grpahics and so little gameplay, kids are notoriously difficult to please. They see right through the glitz and want something to challange them, especially creatively. Little one has sat in front to Tux Paint for over an hour with a mouse and stylus just doodling, much like she does on paper, would have sat there longer but a max of an hour a day on the machine and a max of 1 hour TV a day. I always check the games myself, when she's not about to make sure I can leave her with them, nothing unpleasant too scary ( as muggins has to get up and deal with the nightmares! ), sometimes she wants help and someone to play them with other times she wants to be left alone to fathom it out herself. When you have kids you have to be adaptable to want they want, bend here and there but other times you lay down the law.
Some people just think they can leave kids alone all the time and they will simply pick stuff up, like manners, hygene, etc., they don't you have to get involved most of the time, but sometimes you back off and leave them to it, when you know it's safe to do so.
It's called being a responsible parent, something that is sadly amiss today.
May have the fewest flaws, but that doesn't mean it doesn't fall flat on it's arse every time some rank old win95 software has to be run. No amount of reports will recover the damage to it's reputation. So many firms here in the City of London are refusing to touch Vista, they want XP due to still having to run very old bits of Windows kit. Nothing to do with actual software flaws, but pure reputation and inability to run required apps.
Too right. Art is appreciated by many for so many reasons. Your interpretation is very personal you. This is the perfect way to express that appreciation. "No Mr Art Critic I can't understand why you are so pompous about this piece or that. This is what I see, this is what it means to me.". I didn't find any of the work offensive, maybe a little funny in places, may be a little too silly in others, but it seemed very heartfelt. So what! If you enjoy it great, if not forget about it and move along.
Fantastic! Sorry lads, the indie labels realised years and years ago that to cut it, they have to be honest with the CD buyers, else they will go down. So honest niche music labels get off their arses and get to the clubs, listen on the grapevines. Then they know that what they are promoting will sell, 'cos they have already spoken to the fans in said clubs and bars. They are not a bunch of MBA, suit wearing posuers who know that just 'cos a bunch of target group 9 years olds like some old pap that played to them, then 50 million bored housewives will buy it in TESCO/Wal-Mart on a Saturday weekly shop!
..., listening to spped, death, thrash, etc, both live and recorded, my hearing is so shot, that it could be recorded on wax cyclinders and I still wouldn't be able to tell the difference! I do all my CD's at 192kps and for the kind of "dog-music" ( my wife's term, not mine ), it's good enough. I listen to most of my music rumbling around the London Underground system to work, so with that almost cutting through my ear-buds, MP3 is good enough and 192 is probably too good. LOL!
A lot of this is simply boasting rights, "Oh I use FLAC/Vynyl/MiniDisc,Reel-to-reel 'cos it's far better, without question.". You have convinced yourself it's better, sometimes, I'm sure it does make a difference, but face it most of us just like music for the pleasure of the sound and vibe, not just so we can sit and say "Oh you know if you listen really hard and I crank it up to 230 db, you can hear Bono fart at the end of this track."!
I think all sex offenders and their ilk are scum and should be locked up for good, but tagging is so very wrong. As has already been said, a very slippery slope to "1984". What of the criminal who has it removed and forcibly reinserted into an innocent? That innocent cannot protest, the chip is and server are all seeing and cannot be wrong, they cannot lie. Next thing, we have the latest version of a Guildford Four style case. Innocents locked up to 20 years when they did nothing wrong, their word against the "justice computer".
I hate Clarkson. I think he's a complete twat, but having a said that he does have the guts to admit he made a complete prick of himself in public. Some other public figures might do well to follow that lead if nothing else.
That could have been me writing. I too kept messing about with various distros while staying on XP, until I played with Ubuntu. The final straw came 3 months ago, XP was fresh on from OEM rebuild, one patch set and it started crashing apps and throwing errors again, I just gave up and flipped Ubuntu up to the top in the GRUB list and I now use Ubuntu all the time. I bought UT3 recently which has to run on Win, but once those Lin binaries are available.
The very fact that MS want to get their oar in, says it all. They are "trying" to get XP working? Well perhaps if it wasn't so frigging bloated, it would work off the bat, much like...now what's that other O/S that can still be squeezed on to a single floppy image and still be usable?
My biggest fear if they lock these countries into Windows, for free, MS are not monsters after all, but then the virus' come and other not so wonderful companies come along and say well for a "reduced" rate we will "give" you some security software for all the kiddies laptops. Oh don't worry it won't be that expensive, maybe the odd diamond mine or first born of every family to work in that new sweat-shop....sorry booming manufacturing installtion on the east side...
When it comes down to it the 3rd world is the most scary techno market going. Look at how the tech market in places like India has grown over the last 25 years, the talent that they bring to us in the West. The third world people have a real drive and determination to make it out of the poverty traps. If that massive potential market, far bigger than the fat 1st world, grow up on an alternative to Windows, what will happen when they finally break out and come to the 1st world countries? They will be spreading the gospel of a different tech, it will most likley not be one that involves locked down software that cannot be adapted. They will come with ideas for open source that we never dreamed of. When it comes down to it, having to make do is an incredible motiviator to get the best out of what little you have.
So a bit like the average dopey IT manager then. BANG sting you into buying XP PCs, to hook you in, then BANG sting you again when they want 150 quid for an upgrade on each desktop, you have so much invested into it you have no choice but to follow "like a dog on a leash"!
For ****'s sake! Can't we just have a break from advertising being rammed down our throats every 2 secs? Come the glorious day Comrades, first against the wall will be the ad company execs, bop, bop, "cheers for the hard work, lads", BOP!
I too used to rip stuff off, loads of rare metal bands, then it dawned on me, these guys get very little anyway being in a niche market. So I too simply stopped knocking it off. I now only pull down demos and free CDs from mags and I pick and choose carefully, what i want to spend the money on.
The biggest problem for me was I would pull down bucket loads of MP3s and listen to 30 secs, then throw it in the pile, it lost all it's value. Now I buy carefully and I actually listen to the stuff I buy and I enjoy it ten times more. I'm not preaching for everyone to change, but it works for me. You can have too much of a good thing sometimes, to the point where it's worth nothing.
I remember many years ago, my old man said that I could use our old 8bit micro for set period of time, then it was time to get off. I ignored the rule and carried on. He patiently waited for me to finish, reminded me of the rule and then took the PSU to work for a week, to teach me a lesson. No shouting, no moaning just a simple lesson in revoking privileges when rules are broken. I always stuck to the rule after that. Apparently his grandad had done the same to him, but with his bicycle when when my old man stayed out too late one night, cept hi grandad had locked the bike up right outside my old man's house, so he was reminded every day for week, whenever he went out.
That's just it. I see parents constantly threatening kids with things in the supermarket and never doing it. They mess about, mum says no sweets. Next thing, you see kid out side shop with sweets! Me and my wife, we remind our kids if they mess about and don't what they are told, they will lose something special. After a few times losing ice-cream privs, console/PC game time or no toy-shop visit that weekend, they soon stick to the rule on whatever it is. Nothing nasty, but a simple life lession, rules are rules, if you break the rules you suffer a punishment. You steal from a shop, you end up speaking to Mr Plod down the cop-shop or in court speaking to the beak. It's quite a simple premise, which works on kids from about the age of 18 months onward, do wrong, lose something you want.
I distinctly remember the 80's TV series Tripods, where humans where "tagged" by having a giant barcode tattooed on their head ( scared me even at the age of 10 ), that way the Tripod masters could locate and identify the humans.
Jeez, my kids don't behave as bad as these sploit brats. "Boo hoo, his toys are better than mine!". "I want that one! No not the blue one, the green one that XXXX has!". As my Nan would say, you lot need your heads knocking together to get some sense into those thick skulls of yours.
What I would like to see are alternatives in schools, so kids are not brain-washed to think that MS=PC O/S. Don't give me that crub about, "Oh well MS Office is used in the office workplace, so kids have to know it.". Balls! How many options does the typical student use on a word processor, spreadsheet, presenation package? Probably about 5% at most? Heavens, I've seen kids hand in work that looks like a 5 year old put it together using vi! So therefore it makes no difference who makes the office suite, providing has save, load,print and font formatting. With mail and office suites moving server-side/web-enabled, there certainly are no excuses why MS should dominate the desktop any more, get out and get Linux, Apple, BSD and freaking Plan9 in for heavens sake.
Once those insidious creationists get their claws even deeper into the education system, all that good science stuff will be put on the back burner in favour of other more "suitable" topics for today's troubled youth.
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Yep, all too easy to do with any email app. You MUST read the entire email before you click send! I make it a point to read the content, the subject and then finally a check of who's going to get it, especially double check if your using email groups! Groups can mask people you might not want to see the email content. How can you blame the software? "Sorry I cut my fingers playing with the knives you guys make at your factory. Can't you stop making them so sharp?". Sorry, but regardless of how it happened, it's simply the senders fault, no one else to blame.
I read the FUD, the anti-FUD, the BS. In the end I simply state "Vista, is simply not right for what I want to do, right now." I prefer my Ubuntu, it does me just right. I like the fact that I have everything I need for free. I'll be honest, when I was running Windows, if wanted to do something I would simply fire up uTorrent and a browser and keep ripping stuff off from torrent sites until I found something that worked. I filled HDDs full of shite, for good reason other than being lazy. Now I have an O/S that I need to work a little harder with, but I know when I download software, the local Polizia won't be banging my door down. My missus now uses a Mac for much the same reason, if she wanted to do something, I would rip stuff off for her too.
I'm not trying to be all full of Linux or Apple righteousness, it's a free world (mostly), pays yer money makes yer choice, Lin and Mac just work for me at the moment. Maybe I'll change with "Windows 7", but right now it has helped me kick my addictive pirating habit, which Windows fostered in me.
My old man is very stuck in his ways, has worshipped MS since year dot, but after 6 months on Vista on a new PC, drivers crashing and stuff failing he said stuff-it and went straight out and bought an Apple imac! Shocked the hell out of all us! He wanted real stability and safe phone supported software. I don't have time to attempt an Ubuntu brainwashing exercise, but when he went out and just bought an Apple and has stuck to it to the point of almost boxing up his PC ready for eBay, that says something about the average appliance-centric PC user getting fed up with MS and their BS.
As a an IT engineer, I decided long ago to join the Tooting Popular Front! Come the glorious day citizens, which I don't think you'll find too glorious. Up against the wall. Blindfold. Last Fag. Bop! Bop! Cheers Harry, bop!
POWER To THE PEOPLE!
As I have said a dozen times before, the biggest thing is that 20 years ago, we had radio and TV and the odd magazine to tell us what's going in the world of entertainment, so we got force fed a paid for diet of trash that the big corps wanted to feed us. Now with the web explosion, I can jump across a dozen music sites using RSS/Atom and find out what the latest big underground thing is in my favourite music genre.
Sorry Paul, mate! The cat is out of the bag. I have way too many things vying for my attention and with the vast amount of information available to me, I can hone in on exactly what I like, very, very quickly. I don't don't need your corp BS rammed down my throat, I can often speak direct to the members of my favourite bands, buy their stuff direct from them, knowing I am getting a great product as they let me sample a few tracks for free legally, and I know the cash I send them will be used by them to help them to keep entertaining me. I might only buy them a few strings or a few gallons of petrol/gas, but I know it's got direct to them.
The day the majors finally realise that honest artists treated with care and consumers treated with respect, Old Nick will be skating to work!
The Gem'Hadar! Weren't they battle field troops totally dependent upon a drug that only their masters could produce? These masters used the drug to ensure loyalty of their troops, then denied it when they no longer wanted the troops to function.
My little one, under 6, loves playing the old Humungous Enterainment titles, Pajama Sam, Freddi Fish and Putt-Putt. Also loves the Find and Seeks from Reflexive and the old I-Spy from the 90's. Today's games all about grpahics and so little gameplay, kids are notoriously difficult to please. They see right through the glitz and want something to challange them, especially creatively. Little one has sat in front to Tux Paint for over an hour with a mouse and stylus just doodling, much like she does on paper, would have sat there longer but a max of an hour a day on the machine and a max of 1 hour TV a day. I always check the games myself, when she's not about to make sure I can leave her with them, nothing unpleasant too scary ( as muggins has to get up and deal with the nightmares! ), sometimes she wants help and someone to play them with other times she wants to be left alone to fathom it out herself. When you have kids you have to be adaptable to want they want, bend here and there but other times you lay down the law.
Some people just think they can leave kids alone all the time and they will simply pick stuff up, like manners, hygene, etc., they don't you have to get involved most of the time, but sometimes you back off and leave them to it, when you know it's safe to do so.
It's called being a responsible parent, something that is sadly amiss today.
Just like a bunch of nasty, hungry rats caught in a trap together, they all start turning on each other. Bloody funny!
May have the fewest flaws, but that doesn't mean it doesn't fall flat on it's arse every time some rank old win95 software has to be run. No amount of reports will recover the damage to it's reputation. So many firms here in the City of London are refusing to touch Vista, they want XP due to still having to run very old bits of Windows kit. Nothing to do with actual software flaws, but pure reputation and inability to run required apps.
Too right. Art is appreciated by many for so many reasons. Your interpretation is very personal you. This is the perfect way to express that appreciation. "No Mr Art Critic I can't understand why you are so pompous about this piece or that. This is what I see, this is what it means to me.". I didn't find any of the work offensive, maybe a little funny in places, may be a little too silly in others, but it seemed very heartfelt. So what! If you enjoy it great, if not forget about it and move along.
Fantastic! Sorry lads, the indie labels realised years and years ago that to cut it, they have to be honest with the CD buyers, else they will go down. So honest niche music labels get off their arses and get to the clubs, listen on the grapevines. Then they know that what they are promoting will sell, 'cos they have already spoken to the fans in said clubs and bars. They are not a bunch of MBA, suit wearing posuers who know that just 'cos a bunch of target group 9 years olds like some old pap that played to them, then 50 million bored housewives will buy it in TESCO/Wal-Mart on a Saturday weekly shop!
..., listening to spped, death, thrash, etc, both live and recorded, my hearing is so shot, that it could be recorded on wax cyclinders and I still wouldn't be able to tell the difference! I do all my CD's at 192kps and for the kind of "dog-music" ( my wife's term, not mine ), it's good enough. I listen to most of my music rumbling around the London Underground system to work, so with that almost cutting through my ear-buds, MP3 is good enough and 192 is probably too good. LOL! A lot of this is simply boasting rights, "Oh I use FLAC/Vynyl/MiniDisc,Reel-to-reel 'cos it's far better, without question.". You have convinced yourself it's better, sometimes, I'm sure it does make a difference, but face it most of us just like music for the pleasure of the sound and vibe, not just so we can sit and say "Oh you know if you listen really hard and I crank it up to 230 db, you can hear Bono fart at the end of this track."!
I think all sex offenders and their ilk are scum and should be locked up for good, but tagging is so very wrong. As has already been said, a very slippery slope to "1984". What of the criminal who has it removed and forcibly reinserted into an innocent? That innocent cannot protest, the chip is and server are all seeing and cannot be wrong, they cannot lie. Next thing, we have the latest version of a Guildford Four style case. Innocents locked up to 20 years when they did nothing wrong, their word against the "justice computer".
I hate Clarkson. I think he's a complete twat, but having a said that he does have the guts to admit he made a complete prick of himself in public. Some other public figures might do well to follow that lead if nothing else.
That could have been me writing. I too kept messing about with various distros while staying on XP, until I played with Ubuntu. The final straw came 3 months ago, XP was fresh on from OEM rebuild, one patch set and it started crashing apps and throwing errors again, I just gave up and flipped Ubuntu up to the top in the GRUB list and I now use Ubuntu all the time. I bought UT3 recently which has to run on Win, but once those Lin binaries are available.
The very fact that MS want to get their oar in, says it all. They are "trying" to get XP working? Well perhaps if it wasn't so frigging bloated, it would work off the bat, much like...now what's that other O/S that can still be squeezed on to a single floppy image and still be usable?
My biggest fear if they lock these countries into Windows, for free, MS are not monsters after all, but then the virus' come and other not so wonderful companies come along and say well for a "reduced" rate we will "give" you some security software for all the kiddies laptops. Oh don't worry it won't be that expensive, maybe the odd diamond mine or first born of every family to work in that new sweat-shop....sorry booming manufacturing installtion on the east side...
When it comes down to it the 3rd world is the most scary techno market going. Look at how the tech market in places like India has grown over the last 25 years, the talent that they bring to us in the West. The third world people have a real drive and determination to make it out of the poverty traps. If that massive potential market, far bigger than the fat 1st world, grow up on an alternative to Windows, what will happen when they finally break out and come to the 1st world countries? They will be spreading the gospel of a different tech, it will most likley not be one that involves locked down software that cannot be adapted. They will come with ideas for open source that we never dreamed of. When it comes down to it, having to make do is an incredible motiviator to get the best out of what little you have.
So a bit like the average dopey IT manager then. BANG sting you into buying XP PCs, to hook you in, then BANG sting you again when they want 150 quid for an upgrade on each desktop, you have so much invested into it you have no choice but to follow "like a dog on a leash"!
For ****'s sake! Can't we just have a break from advertising being rammed down our throats every 2 secs? Come the glorious day Comrades, first against the wall will be the ad company execs, bop, bop, "cheers for the hard work, lads", BOP!
I too used to rip stuff off, loads of rare metal bands, then it dawned on me, these guys get very little anyway being in a niche market. So I too simply stopped knocking it off. I now only pull down demos and free CDs from mags and I pick and choose carefully, what i want to spend the money on.
The biggest problem for me was I would pull down bucket loads of MP3s and listen to 30 secs, then throw it in the pile, it lost all it's value. Now I buy carefully and I actually listen to the stuff I buy and I enjoy it ten times more. I'm not preaching for everyone to change, but it works for me. You can have too much of a good thing sometimes, to the point where it's worth nothing.
I remember many years ago, my old man said that I could use our old 8bit micro for set period of time, then it was time to get off. I ignored the rule and carried on. He patiently waited for me to finish, reminded me of the rule and then took the PSU to work for a week, to teach me a lesson. No shouting, no moaning just a simple lesson in revoking privileges when rules are broken. I always stuck to the rule after that. Apparently his grandad had done the same to him, but with his bicycle when when my old man stayed out too late one night, cept hi grandad had locked the bike up right outside my old man's house, so he was reminded every day for week, whenever he went out.
That's just it. I see parents constantly threatening kids with things in the supermarket and never doing it. They mess about, mum says no sweets. Next thing, you see kid out side shop with sweets! Me and my wife, we remind our kids if they mess about and don't what they are told, they will lose something special. After a few times losing ice-cream privs, console/PC game time or no toy-shop visit that weekend, they soon stick to the rule on whatever it is. Nothing nasty, but a simple life lession, rules are rules, if you break the rules you suffer a punishment. You steal from a shop, you end up speaking to Mr Plod down the cop-shop or in court speaking to the beak. It's quite a simple premise, which works on kids from about the age of 18 months onward, do wrong, lose something you want.
...they can tag us at birth.
I distinctly remember the 80's TV series Tripods, where humans where "tagged" by having a giant barcode tattooed on their head ( scared me even at the age of 10 ), that way the Tripod masters could locate and identify the humans.
1. Download moblock/peerguardian
2. Download BISS lists
Alright, not entirely foolproof, but a start in the right direction to keeping the AD tracker dirtbags off your "front-lawn"!
Jeez, my kids don't behave as bad as these sploit brats. "Boo hoo, his toys are better than mine!". "I want that one! No not the blue one, the green one that XXXX has!". As my Nan would say, you lot need your heads knocking together to get some sense into those thick skulls of yours.
What I would like to see are alternatives in schools, so kids are not brain-washed to think that MS=PC O/S. Don't give me that crub about, "Oh well MS Office is used in the office workplace, so kids have to know it.". Balls! How many options does the typical student use on a word processor, spreadsheet, presenation package? Probably about 5% at most? Heavens, I've seen kids hand in work that looks like a 5 year old put it together using vi! So therefore it makes no difference who makes the office suite, providing has save, load ,print and font formatting. With mail and office suites moving server-side/web-enabled, there certainly are no excuses why MS should dominate the desktop any more, get out and get Linux, Apple, BSD and freaking Plan9 in for heavens sake.
Once those insidious creationists get their claws even deeper into the education system, all that good science stuff will be put on the back burner in favour of other more "suitable" topics for today's troubled youth.