What's wrong with "targeted" advertising? The last thing I want to see ads for are for things like tampons and cheap lite beer. If there are too many ads for a program in general, then I stop watching, but I don't see the problem with them showing me ads for things I might want to buy. Now, if the MS service is more pricey than regular CATV then I'd ignore it just on those grounds.
I'd hate to assist in the clobbering of an FTP server -- I'm suprised such a popular software project (particularly one with not-so-small files) isn't using Bittorrent yet.
Well the only way to be TOTALLY sure you don't have spyware is periodically remove your hard drive(s) regardless of your OS, and run a disassembler on every file and check for anything suspicious. I doubt most Debian users eyeball-examine the source and subsequent binary for apt-get, so who knows, maybe apt-get has spyware on it? Yes, 3rd party stuff could install spyware, but I doubt that my install of Unreal Tournament 2K4 has anything highly damaging installing with it, else there'd be a rather large rucus (and the same goes for apt-get).
Agreed! (this from a current Gentoo user;) I also run a WinXP Pro box at home, and I'm quite confident that I don't have any spyware because I DON'T DO STUPID THINGS like blindly install binaries from nefarious sources. I have it behind a (linux) firewall, and I pretty much never run IE. If you are smart about it, you won't get spyware. It is as simple as that.
If it was widely known that 95% of ads on Slashdot didn't make it to the screens of their intended audience, then advertisers wouldn't send their dollars here, ultimately making it really, really difficult for you to RTFA.
If people are going out of their way to block ads on Slashdot, don't you think that in a way lets Slashdot know their readership's opinion of them? Browsing some of the comments in this thread (and elsewhere) makes it pretty clear that the general opinion of Slashdot is dropping, so lots of people don't really have much incentive to let ads thru. Besides, a fair bit of the ads that I do end up seeing on Slashdot are *for* Microsoft, which just makes me wonder sometimes...
What I meant was: The shuttle design/tech is a few decades old *now*. The ISS is still not finished, and should hopefully be up there in orbit for a long time. So it seems foolish to assume that the shuttle(s) will still be a viable vehicle for a long time to come when there may be a better approach, just that it needs to be looked into *now*.
I'd guess that if the clerk kept a calculator on her then it wasn't "user error". It is pretty sad when stuff like that gets to a production environment with blatent problems.
The last time I was in the grocery store I passed one of those "Turn all your spare change in here!" machines with a BSOD displayed. I also managed to crash the self checkout scanner one time -- It gave a windows-looking dialog error.
For businesses, they run the risk of any Joe Shmoe putting libelous or illegal material on company wikis. Browse thru Wikipedia's Slashdot page history to see various defacements.
Geez, at least put up a sensible message like "To reduce traffic load non-US visitors will see blah blah blah". Despite the fact that non-Americans aren't voting you should at least have some half decent PR.
Don't know, actually the only site that comes to mind that I've seen not render properly (at times) is Slashdot (kind of ironic). I've seen Mozilla do small things like minor text overlapping on images for some bigwig sites, but no huge problems.
I don't know about some of those other sites, but have you validated the HTML? Slashdot may not render properly due to, ahem, pretty lousy output from Slashcode (do a View Source and see for yourself).
I usually have a fan pointed at me at my desk. Sometimes I even need a light jacket with it on, but I like the cool breeze. Cool room and hot coffee makes for good coding.
I wouldn't mention the speed factor. Even if people install it, unless they activate the QuickStart thing, they'll generally notice that IE loads a lot quicker than Mozilla/Firefox (obvious to techies as IE is partially loaded on boot anyways). Just noticing the difference in load time may cause some suspicion to otherwise openminded web surfers.
I think the whole "experience" thing was really aimed for web newbies, grandparents who just got AOL and the sort. I'm glad the whole "experience" nonsense has for the most part drifted away, now most marketing just seems to be based around convienence.
I generally buy Matrox cards for non-gaming boxes anyways, so I have a dual head card already (only ran something like $110 at the time, why not?). I don't get any of the heavy-duty 3D stuff I don't need and excellent 2D performance. Now I'm just debating on LCD vs CRT for monitor #2.
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And if you do a WHOIS on the domain, you'll see his name as the registrant as well.
Granted 2 monitors costs twice as much as one, but getting a good Matrox dual-head card is typically cheaper than lots of the 3D cards out there. I don't game much, so I'm tempted to buy a second monitor for my box with a Matrox G550 in it.
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You get ads anyways with CATV or satelite. Nobody is offering ad-free TV in any form, so it's either ads or no programming whatsoever.
What's wrong with "targeted" advertising? The last thing I want to see ads for are for things like tampons and cheap lite beer. If there are too many ads for a program in general, then I stop watching, but I don't see the problem with them showing me ads for things I might want to buy. Now, if the MS service is more pricey than regular CATV then I'd ignore it just on those grounds.
Have it push around a vacuum cleaner while it's on patrol.
I think the point of Bluetooth is that you don't see the wires. ;)
I'd hate to assist in the clobbering of an FTP server -- I'm suprised such a popular software project (particularly one with not-so-small files) isn't using Bittorrent yet.
Well the only way to be TOTALLY sure you don't have spyware is periodically remove your hard drive(s) regardless of your OS, and run a disassembler on every file and check for anything suspicious. I doubt most Debian users eyeball-examine the source and subsequent binary for apt-get, so who knows, maybe apt-get has spyware on it? Yes, 3rd party stuff could install spyware, but I doubt that my install of Unreal Tournament 2K4 has anything highly damaging installing with it, else there'd be a rather large rucus (and the same goes for apt-get).
Agreed! (this from a current Gentoo user ;) I also run a WinXP Pro box at home, and I'm quite confident that I don't have any spyware because I DON'T DO STUPID THINGS like blindly install binaries from nefarious sources. I have it behind a (linux) firewall, and I pretty much never run IE. If you are smart about it, you won't get spyware. It is as simple as that.
If it was widely known that 95% of ads on Slashdot didn't make it to the screens of their intended audience, then advertisers wouldn't send their dollars here, ultimately making it really, really difficult for you to RTFA.
If people are going out of their way to block ads on Slashdot, don't you think that in a way lets Slashdot know their readership's opinion of them? Browsing some of the comments in this thread (and elsewhere) makes it pretty clear that the general opinion of Slashdot is dropping, so lots of people don't really have much incentive to let ads thru. Besides, a fair bit of the ads that I do end up seeing on Slashdot are *for* Microsoft, which just makes me wonder sometimes...
What I meant was: The shuttle design/tech is a few decades old *now*. The ISS is still not finished, and should hopefully be up there in orbit for a long time. So it seems foolish to assume that the shuttle(s) will still be a viable vehicle for a long time to come when there may be a better approach, just that it needs to be looked into *now*.
Why rely on several decades old tech for long term dependancies? Some R&D never hurt anyone (except the budget, but that's a separate discussion).
I'd guess that if the clerk kept a calculator on her then it wasn't "user error". It is pretty sad when stuff like that gets to a production environment with blatent problems.
The last time I was in the grocery store I passed one of those "Turn all your spare change in here!" machines with a BSOD displayed. I also managed to crash the self checkout scanner one time -- It gave a windows-looking dialog error.
For businesses, they run the risk of any Joe Shmoe putting libelous or illegal material on company wikis. Browse thru Wikipedia's Slashdot page history to see various defacements.
Geez, at least put up a sensible message like "To reduce traffic load non-US visitors will see blah blah blah". Despite the fact that non-Americans aren't voting you should at least have some half decent PR.
Don't know, actually the only site that comes to mind that I've seen not render properly (at times) is Slashdot (kind of ironic). I've seen Mozilla do small things like minor text overlapping on images for some bigwig sites, but no huge problems.
I don't know about some of those other sites, but have you validated the HTML? Slashdot may not render properly due to, ahem, pretty lousy output from Slashcode (do a View Source and see for yourself).
"Wicked sick!"
You could give Ruby a shot.
I usually have a fan pointed at me at my desk. Sometimes I even need a light jacket with it on, but I like the cool breeze. Cool room and hot coffee makes for good coding.
Personally, I am terribly annoyed by TVs in restaurants
Then don't eat there. It's not your TV to turn off, and maybe other people want to watch it.
I wouldn't mention the speed factor. Even if people install it, unless they activate the QuickStart thing, they'll generally notice that IE loads a lot quicker than Mozilla/Firefox (obvious to techies as IE is partially loaded on boot anyways). Just noticing the difference in load time may cause some suspicion to otherwise openminded web surfers.
I think the whole "experience" thing was really aimed for web newbies, grandparents who just got AOL and the sort. I'm glad the whole "experience" nonsense has for the most part drifted away, now most marketing just seems to be based around convienence.
I generally buy Matrox cards for non-gaming boxes anyways, so I have a dual head card already (only ran something like $110 at the time, why not?). I don't get any of the heavy-duty 3D stuff I don't need and excellent 2D performance. Now I'm just debating on LCD vs CRT for monitor #2.
And if you do a WHOIS on the domain, you'll see his name as the registrant as well.
Granted 2 monitors costs twice as much as one, but getting a good Matrox dual-head card is typically cheaper than lots of the 3D cards out there. I don't game much, so I'm tempted to buy a second monitor for my box with a Matrox G550 in it.