Saw this schooltrip in the train the other day. One kid started to point at the windows and screamed 'grafiti!' - another kid joined in, stammering on the word, and soon the whole coach was full of kids pointing and screaming 'grapitti!', without understanding what they were pointing at and what a 'grafiti/grapiti' was.
Digg is a corporation, not a country, so free speech doesn't apply. They are allowed to ban / delete whatever the hell they feel like. YouTube and MySpace do it all the time, but because these companies have more PR dollars than digg, they get away with it.
The juvenile behavior of users posting the same number over and over again really goes to prove digg's audience is a just a raving mob of 15 years old. 99.99% have no use for that number anyway, they wouldn't know what to do with it. Lame.
Errr - I'm 29, and I clearly remember watching 3D movies using polarized glasses back when I was a teen. Someone please explain to me how is that different from what Imax and Disneyworld have done for the past 15 years.
No actually, I'm pretty sure I didn't miss the point at all. It's an ad. An advertisement. A corporate message. Sure it's presented all cutesy and faux-naive, but that's part of the corporate message, too. An advertisement is rarely factual and never newsworthy.
So, I'll ask the question again, but with more geeky angle. Why no similarly-presented (read: introduced in a positive 'isn't this delightful' kinda way') links to Microsoft ads?
People, for God's sake please RTFA! They are talking about an 'experiment' deployed 'in a very few select places' - right now there are *only* 100 (one hundred) such users.
You can't buy it, it's not on sale, it's not announced as a product. Someone should at the very least re-title this misleading slashdot entry.
The real problem is that what is considered 'successful' Lasik might be seen (pun intended) as a 'failure' for a lot of people. Reading the comments show that most people here are not aware of the *common* side effects from having a PRK or LASIK...
I used to work next to an eye clinic and it's talking to the 'successful' patient that turned me away from it. You hear things like "Yeah every light at night look like big stars but that doesn't bother me" - well it would bother ME, thank you very much. I'd rather not risk my perfectly good eyes just because I don't want to have to remember where I put my glasses in the morning.
And as for those who say 'but my contacts can fall etc', you're not wearing the right type of contacts or you're not maintaining them properly. I've been wearing contacts for 10 years and never once did they fall (and I swim, run and shower with contact on).
Very simple proof: I got a PATA cdrom, a SATA hdd and a firewire dvd burner. Bought a starforce game (never again I might add), installed it on a clean xp pro image.
From then on the firewire dvd burner started disappearing from the list of drives at random and the machine would take forever to boot. I ended up having to reboot my machine everytime I wanted to burn a cd, and pray the drive would reappear - after a 5 minute wait for the login screen to go away.
Removed the game, removed the starforce drivers (a utility is available from their site)
My firewire drive came back to life and it no longer takes 5 minutes to boot.
Where do you think your mp3 comes from? You're forgetting to mention that your 256K VBR mp3 was compressed from the same smashed-up-against-the-noise-ceiling modern CD. The copy cannot be of a better quality than the original!
FLAC all the way. With modern hard drives and bandwith, they are well worth the extra weight.
Paul Thurott said that 'Windows Vista had the markings of a shipwreck' because he went and reviewed the look and feel of a build which had no UI improvment in yet. The build he reviewed was meant for developers (and by developers I mean drivers, system developers) - no designers or even end-users. No wonder it 'didn't look good'.
Am I the only one to actually read the article before posting? 3 bullet points you should consult before drawing conclusions:
- it states that the got caught because he downloaded a 'hacking program called Remotely Anywhere'. Uh? since when? - Quoted from the article: "Q: What were the [UFO] ship names? A: I can't remember, I was smoking a lot of dope at the time." - finally, the secret, l33t command he's using to hack in the pentagon is called 'netstat'
That article sounds flimsy and unresearched at best - in fact it has been doing the round of the free newspapers in england... you see it popping back from time to time. If the editor had taken the time to read it, it would have saved 30 minutes of everyone's life.
http://www.67cshdocs.com/ was not critical of the war in Iraq nor the US army. To the contrary it brought operations over there in a positive light.
It was shut down because it violated military regulations, just like a blog about your workplace may or may not violate your company's regulations (YMMV).
Actually, there many players out there that play ogg, and they are certainly not 'rare'. Flac support on the other hand... So yes, the parent parent is right, this is yet again another slashvertisement.
You cannot, I repeat cannot install Win XP from scratch with the ethernet plugged in if you are on Telewest Broadband (aka 'blueyonder'). The machine gets owned in 20 seconds or less after the first boot. Try it if you don't believe me, it's quite an experience.
Here's how it works: first boot. A few seconds after you log in you start to get the first spam netsends. You go on windows update to get SP2 and while it updates you get the 'rpc server error, machine will reboot in 60 seconds'.
Once you reboot your machines is infected with several hundreds trojans. It's incredible, I've been in IT for 12+ years and I've never seen something like this.
The only way around it is to use a good router, or buy the sp2 CD and a firewall and install those BEFORE connecting to the net.
My router registered 98,000 intrusions attempts in just the past two weeks... I can't imagine a non-techie managing a windows install on this network, or even maintaining one. Their network is toasted.
Erm NEWS for nerds, not ADS for nerd. The editor was tricked in publishing the story. The noble piece prize does not exist (duh), it was created by the author of the submission, Phil Shapiro.
The whole purpose of this submission was for the author to get attention from Slashdot for his freeware program. That software in itself is nothing special, and there are many identical programs out there.
Please Please... you obviously are unaware of the possible complication of a PRK or LASIK...
When I read some of the posts here it seems that for them money is the only issue... WRONG!! So before you take any risk, at least read this: (and follow ALL the links!!)
"A technology genius has Silicon Valley drooling - by doing things the natural way," writes Douglas Rushkoff.
"Another idiot certainly claiming to be an 'IT professional' writes a pointless article full of cliches, maybe trying to reproduce the style of Wired magazine, father of all the hype in this world" writes Stephan Tual.
About the hotmail hack... my understanding is that right now, the street is saying that there was no real hack, and that indeed, it was all about a backdoor left open. Now some claims it was passport, some other talk about a simple cgi script. Whatever the truth is, hole or not, the bashing started on this forums BEFORE people were even aware about NT server, passport, or whatever.
At the end of the day, the only thing I notice is that I'm myself confused by all the information that comes out of this forums, and that most of it is generated by fanatics who should know better...
Exactly. I think the Linux community is just hurting itself with its now constant Microsoft bashing. What was a couple of Bill Gates jokes is now becoming a political agenda, from which no one benefits. This permanent immature attitude is making Linux fans looks like real morons, I take for example the Redhat fiasco, and now the disinformation on the compatibility of the Merced.
When Hotmail crash, 90% of the post are MS bashing. When someone mention any MS product, he get bashed. Anyting actually posted here is always compared to Microsoft, then bashed, no matter how related it is. A post about Pentiums? 3Dfx? Hard drives? It always comes back to MS bashing.
I think Rob once pointed out to those who were sending 'hate mail' to Mindcraft were making a mistake. Maybe it's time some of the people here listen a bit.
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Saw this schooltrip in the train the other day. One kid started to point at the windows and screamed 'grafiti!' - another kid joined in, stammering on the word, and soon the whole coach was full of kids pointing and screaming 'grapitti!', without understanding what they were pointing at and what a 'grafiti/grapiti' was.
Digg is a corporation, not a country, so free speech doesn't apply. They are allowed to ban / delete whatever the hell they feel like. YouTube and MySpace do it all the time, but because these companies have more PR dollars than digg, they get away with it.
The juvenile behavior of users posting the same number over and over again really goes to prove digg's audience is a just a raving mob of 15 years old. 99.99% have no use for that number anyway, they wouldn't know what to do with it. Lame.
Errr - I'm 29, and I clearly remember watching 3D movies using polarized glasses back when I was a teen. Someone please explain to me how is that different from what Imax and Disneyworld have done for the past 15 years.
No actually, I'm pretty sure I didn't miss the point at all. It's an ad. An advertisement. A corporate message. Sure it's presented all cutesy and faux-naive, but that's part of the corporate message, too. An advertisement is rarely factual and never newsworthy.
So, I'll ask the question again, but with more geeky angle. Why no similarly-presented (read: introduced in a positive 'isn't this delightful' kinda way') links to Microsoft ads?
What's so newsworthy about this? Would have linked to an Nike ad if it had Mitchell and Webb in it? Didn't think so.
People, for God's sake please RTFA! They are talking about an 'experiment' deployed 'in a very few select places' - right now there are *only* 100 (one hundred) such users.
You can't buy it, it's not on sale, it's not announced as a product. Someone should at the very least re-title this misleading slashdot entry.
The real problem is that what is considered 'successful' Lasik might be seen (pun intended) as a 'failure' for a lot of people. Reading the comments show that most people here are not aware of the *common* side effects from having a PRK or LASIK...
t mortem/
I used to work next to an eye clinic and it's talking to the 'successful' patient that turned me away from it. You hear things like "Yeah every light at night look like big stars but that doesn't bother me" - well it would bother ME, thank you very much. I'd rather not risk my perfectly good eyes just because I don't want to have to remember where I put my glasses in the morning.
And as for those who say 'but my contacts can fall etc', you're not wearing the right type of contacts or you're not maintaining them properly. I've been wearing contacts for 10 years and never once did they fall (and I swim, run and shower with contact on).
I therefore strongly recommend anyone considering LASIK or PRK reads this first:
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/specials/eye.series/pos
And silly me who thought the world had moved on from counting 'eyeballs' and discussing 'burn rate' at lunch time.
I think the really shocking news here, is that a broken, slow, ugly, user-unfriendly website is actually worth 3 BILLION dollars.
So much for spending nights and weekend perfecting code.
Very simple proof: I got a PATA cdrom, a SATA hdd and a firewire dvd burner.
Bought a starforce game (never again I might add), installed it on a clean xp pro image.
From then on the firewire dvd burner started disappearing from the list of drives at random and the machine would take forever to boot. I ended up having to reboot my machine everytime I wanted to burn a cd, and pray the drive would reappear - after a 5 minute wait for the login screen to go away.
Removed the game, removed the starforce drivers (a utility is available from their site)
My firewire drive came back to life and it no longer takes 5 minutes to boot.
Conclusion: Starforce IS malware.
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any signature code
It works. It's all flash-based apparently, so I'll never know what it looks like.
Where do you think your mp3 comes from? You're forgetting to mention that your 256K VBR mp3 was compressed from the same smashed-up-against-the-noise-ceiling modern CD. The copy cannot be of a better quality than the original!
FLAC all the way. With modern hard drives and bandwith, they are well worth the extra weight.
... much hyped statistics like 'a new blog created every 2 seconds'.
Paul Thurott said that 'Windows Vista had the markings of a shipwreck' because he went and reviewed the look and feel of a build which had no UI improvment in yet. The build he reviewed was meant for developers (and by developers I mean drivers, system developers) - no designers or even end-users. No wonder it 'didn't look good'.
Am I the only one to actually read the article before posting? 3 bullet points you should consult before drawing conclusions:
- it states that the got caught because he downloaded a 'hacking program called Remotely Anywhere'. Uh? since when?
- Quoted from the article: "Q: What were the [UFO] ship names? A: I can't remember, I was smoking a lot of dope at the time."
- finally, the secret, l33t command he's using to hack in the pentagon is called 'netstat'
That article sounds flimsy and unresearched at best - in fact it has been doing the round of the free newspapers in england... you see it popping back from time to time. If the editor had taken the time to read it, it would have saved 30 minutes of everyone's life.
http://www.67cshdocs.com/ was not critical of the war in Iraq nor the US army. To the contrary it brought operations over there in a positive light.
It was shut down because it violated military regulations, just like a blog about your workplace may or may not violate your company's regulations (YMMV).
Is it a shame? Certainly. Is it a conspiracy? No.
Actually, there many players out there that play ogg, and they are certainly not 'rare'. Flac support on the other hand... So yes, the parent parent is right, this is yet again another slashvertisement.
You cannot, I repeat cannot install Win XP from scratch with the ethernet plugged in if you are on Telewest Broadband (aka 'blueyonder'). The machine gets owned in 20 seconds or less after the first boot. Try it if you don't believe me, it's quite an experience.
Here's how it works: first boot. A few seconds after you log in you start to get the first spam netsends. You go on windows update to get SP2 and while it updates you get the 'rpc server error, machine will reboot in 60 seconds'.
Once you reboot your machines is infected with several hundreds trojans. It's incredible, I've been in IT for 12+ years and I've never seen something like this.
The only way around it is to use a good router, or buy the sp2 CD and a firewall and install those BEFORE connecting to the net.
My router registered 98,000 intrusions attempts in just the past two weeks... I can't imagine a non-techie managing a windows install on this network, or even maintaining one. Their network is toasted.
Erm NEWS for nerds, not ADS for nerd. The editor was tricked in publishing the story. The noble piece prize does not exist (duh), it was created by the author of the submission, Phil Shapiro.
The whole purpose of this submission was for the author to get attention from Slashdot for his freeware program. That software in itself is nothing special, and there are many identical programs out there.
Please take the story down.
DB Designer by FabForce.net is also an invaluable addition to any MySQL toolkit.
Please Please... you obviously are unaware of the possible complication of a PRK or LASIK...
v aluation/
When I read some of the posts here it seems that for them money is the only issue... WRONG!! So before you take any risk, at least read this: (and follow ALL the links!!)
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/specials/eye.series/e
It will explain you everything. Remember, better safe than sorry!
Regards,
Stephan Tual.
"A technology genius has Silicon Valley drooling - by doing things the natural way," writes Douglas Rushkoff.
:-)
"Another idiot certainly claiming to be an 'IT professional' writes a pointless article full of cliches, maybe trying to reproduce the style of Wired magazine, father of all the hype in this world" writes Stephan Tual.
Oh boy I'm not in a good mood today
About the hotmail hack... my understanding is that right now, the street is saying that there was no real hack, and that indeed, it was all about a backdoor left open. Now some claims it was passport, some other talk about a simple cgi script.
Whatever the truth is, hole or not, the bashing started on this forums BEFORE people were even aware about NT server, passport, or whatever.
At the end of the day, the only thing I notice is that I'm myself confused by all the information that comes out of this forums, and that most of it is generated by fanatics who should know better...
Anyway... happy threads!
Regards,
S.Tual
Exactly. I think the Linux community is just hurting itself with its now constant Microsoft bashing. What was a couple of Bill Gates jokes is now becoming a political agenda, from which no one benefits.
This permanent immature attitude is making Linux fans looks like real morons, I take for example the Redhat fiasco, and now the disinformation on the compatibility of the Merced.
When Hotmail crash, 90% of the post are MS bashing. When someone mention any MS product, he get bashed. Anyting actually posted here is always compared to Microsoft, then bashed, no matter how related it is. A post about Pentiums? 3Dfx? Hard drives? It always comes back to MS bashing.
I think Rob once pointed out to those who were sending 'hate mail' to Mindcraft were making a mistake. Maybe it's time some of the people here listen a bit.
After all, you want your community to grow, no?
Regards,
S.Tual.