Microsoft seems to twiddle their thumbs when security issues are found. Apple has been pretty good with security issues, even in their beta software like Safari.
Imagine, for a moment, someone as brilliant as David Finch, Darren Aronofsky, Mark Romanek, Sam Mendes, Chris Cunningham or Terry Gilliam directing Star Wars films (or the Wachowski Brothers!). Too bad Lucas didn't hire another director to film Episodes 1-3, while he remained on board in control of everything else. The new films would have been a lot better had he done that. With that said, Episodes 4-6 are still brilliant and quite innovative (except for the Ewoks, whom I generally loathe) and the Darth Tyranus/Obi-Wan/Anakin/Yoda fight at the end of Episode 2 made up for the fact that Episode 1 and 2 were less than stellar. Hell, even the Darth Maul/Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn battle was awesome. I'm a sucker for Jedi/Sith battles though.
The first one was innovative in what way? While I admit I loved the movie, I feel too many people overlook William Gibson's "Neuromancer" and believe the Wachowski brothers were the first ones to talk about cyberspace in that way. Granted, "Neuromancer" is a lot different but it paved the way for "The Matrix" in many ways, most notably philosophically. Just my two cents.
Sorry I offended. I must admit that as an atheist I harbor a lot of resentment for organized religion (specifically Christianity and Islam, most of the other organized religions are peaceful, where Christianity and Islam as a whole have a very long lineage of war and destruction). I shouldn't have mentioned some of the things I did perhaps, and I do apologize if it offended you, but I was reacting more towards the original poster's ignorance than anything (with a healthy does of my own anti-Religion bias). For the record, I'm not against faith or belief in something as long as you don't impose your belief on others.:)
Those kooky Christians. I would be tempted to think this is an elaborate joke, but the person went to great pains to write this which would lead me to believe he's genuinely retarded, I mean, screwed up. Believe what you will, but read this if you want an explanation where the Daemon thing came from. It's funny to see to what lengths Christians (and other Religious fanatics) will go to in order to justify their paranoid delusions. Hell, billions of people have died in various Holy Wars over Religion (most of them over Christianity). I think that speaks volumes for Christianity/Religion right there.
Remember, it's okay to break the ten commandments/"Thou Shall Not Kill" if it's for your God.
In reference to the audio programs, that's what Mac OS X is for, methinks.
Someone had a sig that read like this:
Unix for servers
Macs for productivity, graphics and audio
Windows for games
Something to that effect, and I agree. Windows is useless to me, except for game playing. But for high end audio and graphics I'd choose Mac OS X every time. So does 99% of the design and recording studios as well. Linux/BSD/Unix is great, but I think its strength is firmly entrenched in the server market, and not the desktop market. At least that's my opinion.
Of course, one could argue that Mac OS X is unix, so one could do all the server duties, graphics and so on altogether on that one machine. The GUI is rather memory intensive so for high traffic sites it'd probably be better to run Darwin or *BSD, without the GUI front-end.
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"What the hell is a 'finder'?"
Unfortunately no one can be told what the finder is... you have to experience it for yourself.
Before you state your position, would you provide facts (links) to how NAMBLA tells visitors "which music to listen to", "what gay porn to watch" and "what kind of stuff in your house to get underage boys to have sex with you"? Otherwise it would seem you're exaggerating since you provide no evidence of this alleged behavior.
Granted, I haven't been to the NAMBLA site until just now (in order to see if they were offering what you described) and I saw nothing there to back up your claim. I (and obviously you) don't agree with the site, but the reason the ACLU fought for them was because an individual killed a child and they were blamed. NAMBLA was sued because this individual had apparently visited their site before the killing. The ACLU wasn't agreeing with NAMBLA's point of view, or the fact that it's a pedophile group, but rather that they weren't responsible for the tragic death of a child, at the hands of an individual. It was a witch hunt, basically, due to the actions of one sick individual.
The closest analogy would be if you killed someone, and somehow the authorities knew you visited slashdot.org and tried to get a list of everyone who visited slashdot.org and prosecute them. Which I would assume even yourself would find ludicrous. Whether you agree with NAMBLA or not, they weren't responsible for the death and that was the crux of the situation. All other details are largely moot, as far as I'm concerned. The ACLU could have just as easily been fighting for a gun manufacturer's right to manufacture weapons without the fear of being prosecuted for an individual's actions.
Here's the full details I found while looking all this up (as I was unaware the ACLU defended NAMBLA before reading this thread):
BOSTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union will represent a group that advocates sex between men and boys in a lawsuit brought by the family of a slain 10-year-old.
The family of Jeffrey Curley of Cambridge said the North American Man/Boy Love Association and its web site which is now off-line incited the attempted molestation and murder of the boy on Oct. 1, 1997.
One of two men convicted in the killing, Charles Jaynes, 25, reportedly viewed the group's web site shortly before the killing, and also had in his possession some of NAMBLA's publications. Also convicted in the killing was 24-year-old Salvatore Sicari.
The ACLU said the case, filed in federal court in mid-May, involves issues of freedom of speech and association.
"For us, it is a fundamental First Amendment case," John Roberts, executive director of the Massachusetts branch of the ACLU, told Boston Globe Wednesday. "It has to do with communications on a web site, and material that does not promote any kind of criminal behavior whatsoever."
ACLU officials said NAMBLA members deny encouraging coercion, rape or violence.
Attorney Lawrence Frisoli, who represents the Curleys, said he is glad the ACLU is defending NAMBLA, because he has had trouble locating the group's members.
Harvey Silverglate, an ACLU board member, said Wednesday that the group's attorneys will try to block any attempt by the Curleys to get NAMBLA's membership lists, or other materials identifying members.
The ACLU also will act as a surrogate for NAMBLA, allowing its members to defend themselves in court while remaining anonymous.
According to the Globe, NAMBLA officials in the past have said their main goal is the abolition of age-of-consent laws that classify sex with children as rape.
At two separate trials last year, prosecutors said Jaynes and Sicari were sexually obsessed with the boy, lured him from his Cambridge neighborhood with the promise of a new bike, and then smothered him with a gasoline-soaked rag when he resisted their sexual advances. They then stuffed him into a concrete-filled container and dumped it into a Maine river.
Sicari, convicted of first-degree murder, is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Jaynes' second-degree murder and kidnapping convictions enable him to seek parole in 23 years.
The Curleys last week were awarded $328 million by a superior court jury in a civil suit against Jaynes and Sicari.
Not that I agree with NAMBLA (I don't) but you're misconstruing the facts of the matter. They defended NAMBLA's right to exist as a free entity, and to exercise their free speech rights concerning this topic, even as unpopular as it may be. The ACLU was not condoning child molestation , or the group themselves. They were fighting to protect free speech. It was the principle, removed from the facts of the matter. Read the following statement and see if it makes sense as juxtoposed with the aforementioned:
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire
You forgot one of the best ones of all:
"See this? This... is... MY BOOM STICK"
Another fantastic movie in the Evil Dead/Army Of Darkness vein was Dead Alive. Highly recommended.
"I KICK ASS FOR THE LORD!!!"
Oops, I was thinking of Microsoft's proprietary video format. But the topic remains, why in the hell did you use WMA? Mp3 or Ogg Vorbis is clearly the best way. If it doesn't have DRM built-in already, WMA most assuredly WILL have DRM built-in at some point. That might make your precious audio hard to transfer to a portable at a later date, without some sort of annoying authorization process (or worse, you might have to PAY to encode and transfer the cd's you ALREADY OWN to a portable device -- don't trust proprietary Microsoft technologies... EVER. Especially in light of their upcoming DRM methods).
"I could not buy one of their players because they would not support WMA files. Over 5gb of my collection is in that format."
Ouch. I can't believe anyone uses the WMA format. It's practically impossible -- at least in my experience -- to transfer it, edit it, or render it into another format. Why wouldn't you use mpg (mpeg-4) or mov files?
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Microsoft seems to twiddle their thumbs when security issues are found. Apple has been pretty good with security issues, even in their beta software like Safari.
Imagine, for a moment, someone as brilliant as David Finch, Darren Aronofsky, Mark Romanek, Sam Mendes, Chris Cunningham or Terry Gilliam directing Star Wars films (or the Wachowski Brothers!). Too bad Lucas didn't hire another director to film Episodes 1-3, while he remained on board in control of everything else. The new films would have been a lot better had he done that. With that said, Episodes 4-6 are still brilliant and quite innovative (except for the Ewoks, whom I generally loathe) and the Darth Tyranus/Obi-Wan/Anakin/Yoda fight at the end of Episode 2 made up for the fact that Episode 1 and 2 were less than stellar. Hell, even the Darth Maul/Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn battle was awesome. I'm a sucker for Jedi/Sith battles though.
Here is the even easier way to do it in OS X if you have StuffIt installed: Doubleclick. :D
The first one was innovative in what way? While I admit I loved the movie, I feel too many people overlook William Gibson's "Neuromancer" and believe the Wachowski brothers were the first ones to talk about cyberspace in that way. Granted, "Neuromancer" is a lot different but it paved the way for "The Matrix" in many ways, most notably philosophically. Just my two cents.
People start using Eudora or some other email client that isn't so susceptable to macrovirus infestation. Case closed...?
Better yet, don't use Windows. Windows IS a virus as far as I'm concerned.
Good point. Steganography certainly is an interesting subject.
You forgot MECHAMOZILLA! :D
I think they should personally name everything after dinosaurs to go along with the icon's motif.
Mozilla Allosaurs Mail
Mozilla Stegosaurus Web Browser
Mozilla Coelophysis Usenet client
If not, then maybe stick to the lizard theme (i.e. Gecko):
Mozilla Chameleon?
Mozilla Iguana?
Mozilla Salamander?
Etcetera.
C:\> deltree \Windows
Sorry I offended. I must admit that as an atheist I harbor a lot of resentment for organized religion (specifically Christianity and Islam, most of the other organized religions are peaceful, where Christianity and Islam as a whole have a very long lineage of war and destruction). I shouldn't have mentioned some of the things I did perhaps, and I do apologize if it offended you, but I was reacting more towards the original poster's ignorance than anything (with a healthy does of my own anti-Religion bias). For the record, I'm not against faith or belief in something as long as you don't impose your belief on others. :)
Hail Satan!
Those kooky Christians. I would be tempted to think this is an elaborate joke, but the person went to great pains to write this which would lead me to believe he's genuinely retarded, I mean, screwed up. Believe what you will, but read this if you want an explanation where the Daemon thing came from. It's funny to see to what lengths Christians (and other Religious fanatics) will go to in order to justify their paranoid delusions. Hell, billions of people have died in various Holy Wars over Religion (most of them over Christianity). I think that speaks volumes for Christianity/Religion right there.
Remember, it's okay to break the ten commandments/"Thou Shall Not Kill" if it's for your God.
In reference to the audio programs, that's what Mac OS X is for, methinks.
Someone had a sig that read like this:
Unix for servers
Macs for productivity, graphics and audio
Windows for games
Something to that effect, and I agree. Windows is useless to me, except for game playing. But for high end audio and graphics I'd choose Mac OS X every time. So does 99% of the design and recording studios as well. Linux/BSD/Unix is great, but I think its strength is firmly entrenched in the server market, and not the desktop market. At least that's my opinion.
Of course, one could argue that Mac OS X is unix, so one could do all the server duties, graphics and so on altogether on that one machine. The GUI is rather memory intensive so for high traffic sites it'd probably be better to run Darwin or *BSD, without the GUI front-end.
"What the hell is a 'finder'?"
Unfortunately no one can be told what the finder is... you have to experience it for yourself.
Granted, I haven't been to the NAMBLA site until just now (in order to see if they were offering what you described) and I saw nothing there to back up your claim. I (and obviously you) don't agree with the site, but the reason the ACLU fought for them was because an individual killed a child and they were blamed. NAMBLA was sued because this individual had apparently visited their site before the killing. The ACLU wasn't agreeing with NAMBLA's point of view, or the fact that it's a pedophile group, but rather that they weren't responsible for the tragic death of a child, at the hands of an individual. It was a witch hunt, basically, due to the actions of one sick individual.
The closest analogy would be if you killed someone, and somehow the authorities knew you visited slashdot.org and tried to get a list of everyone who visited slashdot.org and prosecute them. Which I would assume even yourself would find ludicrous. Whether you agree with NAMBLA or not, they weren't responsible for the death and that was the crux of the situation. All other details are largely moot, as far as I'm concerned. The ACLU could have just as easily been fighting for a gun manufacturer's right to manufacture weapons without the fear of being prosecuted for an individual's actions.
Here's the full details I found while looking all this up (as I was unaware the ACLU defended NAMBLA before reading this thread):
Not that I agree with NAMBLA (I don't) but you're misconstruing the facts of the matter. They defended NAMBLA's right to exist as a free entity, and to exercise their free speech rights concerning this topic, even as unpopular as it may be. The ACLU was not condoning child molestation , or the group themselves. They were fighting to protect free speech. It was the principle, removed from the facts of the matter. Read the following statement and see if it makes sense as juxtoposed with the aforementioned: "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire
You forgot one of the best ones of all: "See this? This... is... MY BOOM STICK" Another fantastic movie in the Evil Dead/Army Of Darkness vein was Dead Alive. Highly recommended. "I KICK ASS FOR THE LORD!!!"
Oops, I was thinking of Microsoft's proprietary video format. But the topic remains, why in the hell did you use WMA? Mp3 or Ogg Vorbis is clearly the best way. If it doesn't have DRM built-in already, WMA most assuredly WILL have DRM built-in at some point. That might make your precious audio hard to transfer to a portable at a later date, without some sort of annoying authorization process (or worse, you might have to PAY to encode and transfer the cd's you ALREADY OWN to a portable device -- don't trust proprietary Microsoft technologies... EVER. Especially in light of their upcoming DRM methods).
"I could not buy one of their players because they would not support WMA files. Over 5gb of my collection is in that format."
Ouch. I can't believe anyone uses the WMA format. It's practically impossible -- at least in my experience -- to transfer it, edit it, or render it into another format. Why wouldn't you use mpg (mpeg-4) or mov files?