> Every time some spammer sends me scam bait, it costs me.10.
I still don't understand why people use phone companies who charge you to receive spam. It just doesn't happen in the UK at all.
Surely the simplest way to prevent most of the stuff you mentioned is to defer payment for 3 months (from the phone companies to the spammers) so you have ample time to check and dispute items on your bill. Word would go out for other customers to check their bills, and if a company is found to be doing this wrongfully they'd simply not get paid by the phone company; the customer wouldn't have to do anything. Genuine companies can either wait the 3 months for their money, or find a different business model.
No-one's explained -why would I want to fund the post office?
I just get spam and bills and rubbish. If it cost loads for these clowns to post me rubbish perhaps it would dissuade them and they'd have to actually provide value. The post office should be helping me by preventing it; instead they've stated they need all the spam to survive. Well, I'd rather they not survive.
Freenet might work as an officially sanctioned solution; the slow speed and challenging search system would minimize any actual downloading to a minimum while keeping it available for those who are compelled to attempt to obtain it.
Yeah, no laptop, but a monitor, keyboard, mouse, wifi connection plus a usb wifi, plus some power for all this, oh and a case, and an sd card, and a hub to connect all the usb peripherals, and postage from one of those clueless companies supplying it (who in the beginning weren't sure if they were selling it, or if they were selling to businesses only (odd, as no businesses are going to touch it) etc).
I liked the idea, back in the day, but if you want a target device to program, get a cheap Android phone. If you want an all in one dev kit, get a cheap netbook and Visual Studio express. I don't see the point in inflicting any more pain on newcomers to development than they're already going to receive!
Won't pirates simply remove the online check and play offline though? Perhaps you can point me at a single example, since the start of video gaming, where a game couldn't be modified in this way. Come to that, can you point me at a single example of any game, ever, which has had it's copying prevented via any copy protection system?
In reality, nobody uses most of the browsers Microsoft made available as an option (well, except for a 14 month period). The only possible ones anyone with a clue might use on a Windows box would be Firefox and Chrome. Given that practically everyone uses Google's search engine (does anyone actually use Bing?), they're always one click away from installing Chrome anyway. Firefox is still popular amongst developers (but practically no-one else).
Their browser wasn't a 'minority browser' back when this obligation was established; it's taken Microsoft a long time to go from `crappy browser everyone has to use` to `average browser which is still a requirement for older, crappier websites`.
No, the legal system needs to be ridiculous enough that you can win millions on some spurious bullshit but not so ridiculous that people begin to see through it.
> Are people still crying about this? The rest of us spent a few days finding the stuff > we use, which is not hard since now it's categorized, and went on with our lives
No we didn't - we stayed with the version we were already using, and just missed out on the other new features like.. uh..you know, the new stuff that was really worth the effort and expense of upgrading.
No, we're using Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive and email with Truecrypt files. I tend to not use email for secure comms now; just edit a text file in a folder dropbox is configured to watch and as soon as you unmount the file it gets synced up and the recipient notified. I'd use Drive except it doesn't understand the concept of only syncing the part of the Truecrypt file which has changed, uploading instead the whole Truecrypt file. Even that would work for small files though.
I think that's what he's saying, though. Use it, but stop pretending it's the solution. It's the solution to a decreasingly important part of the overall picture.
You have the option of starting your own company and operating it that way. But it's a little bit..`entitled` to lie in your bed and dribble silly ideas into your tablet about how other people's companies should be run, because it's none of your business.
I've never, ever shut down a computer by pressing the power button. One of the first things I do is change the behaviour of the power button to `ask` or one of the `hibernate/sleep/suspend` type options if `ask` isn't available, in case it gets pressed by accident.
Are they getting involved? Perhaps share a copyright-free file, get people to download it, get reports raised against it, get complaint, ignore complaint, get to 6 strikes, then ask the ISP to take further steps against them. A few million people doing that at the same time should be fun.
> 1. Click the lower left of your screen (Windows 7 and 8) > 2. Type the first 3 or 4 letters of the program you want to run (Windows 7 and 8) > 3. Hit Enter to launch it (Windows 7 and 8)
I don't want to type anything. I want to click, like I did before..like I've done on every operating system ever.
Get over assuming that people don't like Windows 8 because they've not used it. Some people are complaining because they've used it and don't like it, because it requires you to think, and change - two things people don't want to have to do when they're just doing basic stuff like loading apps, turning a PC off etc.
What could be done is expecting Cisco to pay back the difference between what they got and what they should have got next time a contract comes up somewhere...they have to be $x cheaper than their rivals charge for the same spec kit. There has to be a price otherwise they won't change.
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> Every time some spammer sends me scam bait, it costs me .10.
I still don't understand why people use phone companies who charge you to receive spam. It just doesn't happen in the UK at all.
Surely the simplest way to prevent most of the stuff you mentioned is to defer payment for 3 months (from the phone companies to the spammers) so you have ample time to check and dispute items on your bill. Word would go out for other customers to check their bills, and if a company is found to be doing this wrongfully they'd simply not get paid by the phone company; the customer wouldn't have to do anything. Genuine companies can either wait the 3 months for their money, or find a different business model.
No-one's explained -why would I want to fund the post office?
I just get spam and bills and rubbish. If it cost loads for these clowns to post me rubbish perhaps it would dissuade them and they'd have to actually provide value. The post office should be helping me by preventing it; instead they've stated they need all the spam to survive. Well, I'd rather they not survive.
> plainly obvious to everyone the browser ballot disappeared and the EU obviously
> monitors compliance with its rulings
Wasn't it missing for 14 months?
Freenet might work as an officially sanctioned solution; the slow speed and challenging search system would minimize any actual downloading to a minimum while keeping it available for those who are compelled to attempt to obtain it.
Yeah, no laptop, but a monitor, keyboard, mouse, wifi connection plus a usb wifi, plus some power for all this, oh and a case, and an sd card, and a hub to connect all the usb peripherals, and postage from one of those clueless companies supplying it (who in the beginning weren't sure if they were selling it, or if they were selling to businesses only (odd, as no businesses are going to touch it) etc).
I liked the idea, back in the day, but if you want a target device to program, get a cheap Android phone. If you want an all in one dev kit, get a cheap netbook and Visual Studio express. I don't see the point in inflicting any more pain on newcomers to development than they're already going to receive!
Thanks, but I'd rather get a laptop (on eBay if need be) that f*** about with silly little boards, external keyboards, wifi etc etc.
Won't pirates simply remove the online check and play offline though? Perhaps you can point me at a single example, since the start of video gaming, where a game couldn't be modified in this way. Come to that, can you point me at a single example of any game, ever, which has had it's copying prevented via any copy protection system?
How can they allow software which doesn't exist to run on they're operating system? You'd probably have been better off attempting a car analogy.
In reality, nobody uses most of the browsers Microsoft made available as an option (well, except for a 14 month period). The only possible ones anyone with a clue might use on a Windows box would be Firefox and Chrome. Given that practically everyone uses Google's search engine (does anyone actually use Bing?), they're always one click away from installing Chrome anyway. Firefox is still popular amongst developers (but practically no-one else).
Their browser wasn't a 'minority browser' back when this obligation was established; it's taken Microsoft a long time to go from `crappy browser everyone has to use` to `average browser which is still a requirement for older, crappier websites`.
Please do the needful - I need this asap.
No, the legal system needs to be ridiculous enough that you can win millions on some spurious bullshit but not so ridiculous that people begin to see through it.
> Are people still crying about this? The rest of us spent a few days finding the stuff
> we use, which is not hard since now it's categorized, and went on with our lives
No we didn't - we stayed with the version we were already using, and just missed out on the other new features like.. uh..you know, the new stuff that was really worth the effort and expense of upgrading.
No, we're using Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive and email with Truecrypt files. I tend to not use email for secure comms now; just edit a text file in a folder dropbox is configured to watch and as soon as you unmount the file it gets synced up and the recipient notified. I'd use Drive except it doesn't understand the concept of only syncing the part of the Truecrypt file which has changed, uploading instead the whole Truecrypt file. Even that would work for small files though.
I just deleted my account, and had to reset my password first - no problem.
Or between politicians and journalists, which has described as being similar to that of a dog and a lamppost.
Some Linux distros don't include it because they're not happy with its license.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/distributions/2008-October/000276.html
That'll be the `six strikes then you get an email from your ISP` system in the USA kicking in!
I designed my statement to be practically correct.
> to Palmer, who stopped short of calling the vessel unsinkable.
Also like the original Titanic then, which was also never called unsinkable until after it had sunk.
I think that's what he's saying, though. Use it, but stop pretending it's the solution. It's the solution to a decreasingly important part of the overall picture.
You have the option of starting your own company and operating it that way. But it's a little bit..`entitled` to lie in your bed and dribble silly ideas into your tablet about how other people's companies should be run, because it's none of your business.
I've never, ever shut down a computer by pressing the power button. One of the first things I do is change the behaviour of the power button to `ask` or one of the `hibernate/sleep/suspend` type options if `ask` isn't available, in case it gets pressed by accident.
Are they getting involved? Perhaps share a copyright-free file, get people to download it, get reports raised against it, get complaint, ignore complaint, get to 6 strikes, then ask the ISP to take further steps against them. A few million people doing that at the same time should be fun.
> 1. Click the lower left of your screen (Windows 7 and 8)
> 2. Type the first 3 or 4 letters of the program you want to run (Windows 7 and 8)
> 3. Hit Enter to launch it (Windows 7 and 8)
I don't want to type anything. I want to click, like I did before..like I've done on every operating system ever.
Get over assuming that people don't like Windows 8 because they've not used it. Some people are complaining because they've used it and don't like it, because it requires you to think, and change - two things people don't want to have to do when they're just doing basic stuff like loading apps, turning a PC off etc.
What could be done is expecting Cisco to pay back the difference between what they got and what they should have got next time a contract comes up somewhere...they have to be $x cheaper than their rivals charge for the same spec kit. There has to be a price otherwise they won't change.