I honestly don't see what the problem would be if someone wrote a page about their cat (unless they somehow used it to slander other people, or linked to their cat's article in articles where it'd be inappropriate - pretty much all of 'em).
Is it server space? I suppose a million pages at 20kb apiece add up. The amount of traffic wouldn't be much of a concern.
Is that still true? I've never grown but I thought indica was preferred (at least for growing domestically, and outdoors) because it's much shorter and therefore harder to see aerially (and probably faster to grow).
Maybe. But I still think something fishy is going on here. Investors (good and bad ones) lose money on what turn out to be bad investments all the time - they don't sulk like the amateurs who fall for spam schemes. And really, at the initial onset I could see it making sense to buy some SCO stock. Most major corporations pay money to make lawsuits like this just go away. Even if there's only a 10% shot at it, the rise on stock afterwards may be worth it. Now it's just weird. I hate bashing Microsoft just for the sake of doing it, but are they, or is someone else, trying to work something behind the scenes?
They forgot about IBM's legal history and how they particularly enjoy crushing people who mess with them.
You're preaching to the choir on all of the smoke and mirrors, but I really do think that they can make another version (maybe just a point upgrade, but so was Windows 95 to Windows 98) out of all of the stuff that didn't quite make it into Vista. Whether or not it'd be any good remains to be seen.
Personally I think they would have been better off releasing some cheap XP-based placeholder (again, like Windows 95 to 98) last year and just getting all the crazy experimental stuff into Vista. Release Vista this year or next, let it break everything and piss everyone off for a couple months, and then once the debris is cleared they'd hopefully have a new base of an OS to work off of.
Like someone said earlier, I think what most people do is type the name of a company and then slap a.com on it. I need furniture - I typed in ikea.com, not acouchamattressandmaybesomelamps.com.
On a somewhat unrelated note, what's up with movies having bizarre URLs? If you watch a commercial for an upcoming horror movie, for example, instead of advertising saw3.com or sonypictures.com or whatever, it'll be like nobodycanhearyouscream.com. Useless.
Exactly. Besides, I really remember stories on here and elsewhere about how Windows 7 was being developed parallel to Vista. They might be putting more resources behind it and rushing it out the door more because of Vista's unforeseen suckitude, but I would have expected a new version in 2010 anyway.
It seems to me that 7 is going to have all of the stuff (new file system, etc) that was mostly-but-not-quite ready for Vista, development that was mostly completed a year ago anyway.
This is why I love Soulseek. Besides being fast as hell, I can search for a band I know I like, and I can browse the user's files to see the other bands he/she has. 90% of them, I've never heard of. 80% of what I end up getting is okay or better. Because there's a high international presence, I end up finding a bunch of Canadian, Australian, Irish, German, Japanese, etc bands of the genres I like. And Soulseek easily lets you download entire albums into a folder, so it's easy to get an entire collection going. It's not a filter in the way the radio is/was. It's better. I'm the filter now.
Plus, I end up buying way more t-shirts, obscure splits that are even hard to find on Soulseek, I go to more shows, and so on. Win-win-win, as Michael Scott would say.
All of the airports I've ever been to, the security screening area is an open room with several galley-style lines that all of the guards are standing along. You put your laptop, separately, into the x-ray machine, and you're standing at the other end of the x-ray machine waiting for it to come out.
If you're able to get your laptop stolen in that environment, you shouldn't have been using a computer.
So, there's a difference between stock price and revenues. Usually if you're doing well in one, you're doing well in the other, but it doesn't have to work that way, and as others have noted, the stock is transitioning. If they're raking in dough, they're raking in dough. Microsoft is doing well. We're not talking about MSFT (which, again, is doing just fine because it's akin to buying a CD or investing in a money market).
I agree the problem's not the speed. I travel at least once a month for my job, flying from a small airport with practically no TSA staff, or from Houston Intercontinental. I do this exclusively during business trip periods - the busiest time for airports. I think the longest I've ever waited in line was 20 minutes, and it was actually probably more like fifteen. Usually on my way to the WorldPerks lounge even within fifteen minutes of leaving the car. Have I just been exceedingly lucky?
I can't understand what you're saying now, and it's damn quiet here. Could it be that the end of your sentence never has to do with the beginning part of it?
True. But asking for permission implies you'd have to receive it in order to actually change altitude. You're kidding me if you think I'm going to let some jackass in a Hummer hoverpod cut in front of me every time.
It is a cool idea, but even Blockbuster's purely online service has pretty crappy selection, and getting a movie that wasn't released in the last year will usually involve a wait. With Netflix, unless it's a truly obscure movie, my turnaround is 48 hours at the most.
We're also talking about distributing copyrighted material, not possessing it. Statutory damages for downloading copyrighted material would only be $1 per track. This is high but a fine of a few hundred dollars per song wouldn't have been out of line here.
True, but why not just have Google refer all reported sites over to Symantec instead? Symantec probably gets fewer reports of these sites because reporting sites would involve wading through their app (Maybe the newer versions are better, but it always seemed odd that whatever sits in the system tray won't actually get you to anything administrative)
There's probably a way to report a site through symantec.com, but the site's also relatively hard to get into (compared to Google, I mean) if you're not planning on buying anything today.
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I honestly don't see what the problem would be if someone wrote a page about their cat (unless they somehow used it to slander other people, or linked to their cat's article in articles where it'd be inappropriate - pretty much all of 'em).
Is it server space? I suppose a million pages at 20kb apiece add up. The amount of traffic wouldn't be much of a concern.
Is that still true? I've never grown but I thought indica was preferred (at least for growing domestically, and outdoors) because it's much shorter and therefore harder to see aerially (and probably faster to grow).
Do you not know people with moms? People's moms (never "people" themselves) love scrapbooking.
No, but those companies shouldn't be faulted for not doing so. If a manufacturer deems its own stuff obsolete, I'm inclined to believe it.
Me either. Jack Thompson grew from spores, and so would any of his offspring.
That's true, but why keep coming back? Surely nobody out there has realistic expectations of gain here.
Maybe. But I still think something fishy is going on here. Investors (good and bad ones) lose money on what turn out to be bad investments all the time - they don't sulk like the amateurs who fall for spam schemes. And really, at the initial onset I could see it making sense to buy some SCO stock. Most major corporations pay money to make lawsuits like this just go away. Even if there's only a 10% shot at it, the rise on stock afterwards may be worth it. Now it's just weird. I hate bashing Microsoft just for the sake of doing it, but are they, or is someone else, trying to work something behind the scenes?
They forgot about IBM's legal history and how they particularly enjoy crushing people who mess with them.
You're preaching to the choir on all of the smoke and mirrors, but I really do think that they can make another version (maybe just a point upgrade, but so was Windows 95 to Windows 98) out of all of the stuff that didn't quite make it into Vista. Whether or not it'd be any good remains to be seen.
Personally I think they would have been better off releasing some cheap XP-based placeholder (again, like Windows 95 to 98) last year and just getting all the crazy experimental stuff into Vista. Release Vista this year or next, let it break everything and piss everyone off for a couple months, and then once the debris is cleared they'd hopefully have a new base of an OS to work off of.
Like someone said earlier, I think what most people do is type the name of a company and then slap a .com on it. I need furniture - I typed in ikea.com, not acouchamattressandmaybesomelamps.com.
On a somewhat unrelated note, what's up with movies having bizarre URLs? If you watch a commercial for an upcoming horror movie, for example, instead of advertising saw3.com or sonypictures.com or whatever, it'll be like nobodycanhearyouscream.com. Useless.
Exactly. Besides, I really remember stories on here and elsewhere about how Windows 7 was being developed parallel to Vista. They might be putting more resources behind it and rushing it out the door more because of Vista's unforeseen suckitude, but I would have expected a new version in 2010 anyway.
It seems to me that 7 is going to have all of the stuff (new file system, etc) that was mostly-but-not-quite ready for Vista, development that was mostly completed a year ago anyway.
This is why I love Soulseek. Besides being fast as hell, I can search for a band I know I like, and I can browse the user's files to see the other bands he/she has. 90% of them, I've never heard of. 80% of what I end up getting is okay or better. Because there's a high international presence, I end up finding a bunch of Canadian, Australian, Irish, German, Japanese, etc bands of the genres I like. And Soulseek easily lets you download entire albums into a folder, so it's easy to get an entire collection going. It's not a filter in the way the radio is/was. It's better. I'm the filter now.
Plus, I end up buying way more t-shirts, obscure splits that are even hard to find on Soulseek, I go to more shows, and so on. Win-win-win, as Michael Scott would say.
All of the airports I've ever been to, the security screening area is an open room with several galley-style lines that all of the guards are standing along. You put your laptop, separately, into the x-ray machine, and you're standing at the other end of the x-ray machine waiting for it to come out.
If you're able to get your laptop stolen in that environment, you shouldn't have been using a computer.
So, there's a difference between stock price and revenues. Usually if you're doing well in one, you're doing well in the other, but it doesn't have to work that way, and as others have noted, the stock is transitioning. If they're raking in dough, they're raking in dough. Microsoft is doing well. We're not talking about MSFT (which, again, is doing just fine because it's akin to buying a CD or investing in a money market).
I agree the problem's not the speed. I travel at least once a month for my job, flying from a small airport with practically no TSA staff, or from Houston Intercontinental. I do this exclusively during business trip periods - the busiest time for airports. I think the longest I've ever waited in line was 20 minutes, and it was actually probably more like fifteen. Usually on my way to the WorldPerks lounge even within fifteen minutes of leaving the car. Have I just been exceedingly lucky?
Make it a gliding aircraft, AKA a landing one. Not a big deal. As long as the wings are still attached, the pilot will manage.
It's also not their career, it's a hobby. I pirate with the best of 'em but your analogy is disingenuous.
I can't understand what you're saying now, and it's damn quiet here. Could it be that the end of your sentence never has to do with the beginning part of it?
True. But asking for permission implies you'd have to receive it in order to actually change altitude. You're kidding me if you think I'm going to let some jackass in a Hummer hoverpod cut in front of me every time.
Except for when you have to change your altitude, based on your own needs, without notifying anyone.
That'll happen at least twice per trip. Currently, I only have to worry about idiots doing bad things in two dimensions.
In this scenario, I'd have to worry about sane people doing reasonable things in a third dimension.
It is a cool idea, but even Blockbuster's purely online service has pretty crappy selection, and getting a movie that wasn't released in the last year will usually involve a wait. With Netflix, unless it's a truly obscure movie, my turnaround is 48 hours at the most.
No shit. I rememorized all of the keyboard shortcuts because I don't have five minutes to find out where "Replace" went.
Unfortunately, there's no workaround for the five-minute wait to load the software. Or open a 1mb file.
True, but is it even debatable that there was intent to distribute?
We're also talking about distributing copyrighted material, not possessing it. Statutory damages for downloading copyrighted material would only be $1 per track. This is high but a fine of a few hundred dollars per song wouldn't have been out of line here.
True, but why not just have Google refer all reported sites over to Symantec instead? Symantec probably gets fewer reports of these sites because reporting sites would involve wading through their app (Maybe the newer versions are better, but it always seemed odd that whatever sits in the system tray won't actually get you to anything administrative)
There's probably a way to report a site through symantec.com, but the site's also relatively hard to get into (compared to Google, I mean) if you're not planning on buying anything today.
THIS is what makes you miss your '65 Mustang?