Especially considering that many of the rabidly pro-MS posts are posted as AC
Are you kidding me? Any pro-MS post is an instant karma killer. That accounts for the AC posts. I'll probably get modded down just because I didn't spell it M$.
I bought my Model M at a thrift store for $2 Canadian. It weighs 6 pounds and was produced in 1984. No crummy Windows key of course. It takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I'll never go back to another keyboard.
...but some of his comments ("never intended to break any regulations"...had me wondering if he and other spammers are as really naive as the article makes out.
I guess I must be naive too because I didn't know there were any regulations against spam. I guess I should inform the people spamming me that they are breaking the law. Thanks for the tip.
Because the whole point of photography is to print the pictures. What good is a high end digital camera if the pics can't be printed in a newspaper or magazine?
...why buy longhorn when you can get Linux for free?
Because Longhorn will work out of the box. Linux is 'free' if your time has no value and you don't pay for your own bandwidth. Do you really think Joe Sixpack is in the mood to be d/ling 1.5 gigs of OS on his 56K modem? The only other way to get it is off your friend with the cable modem but Joe Sixpack isn't friends with the type of person who uses Linux. What I'm trying to say is that Linux is a very esoteric OS to the average joe. He's simply not interested and won't be until he can buy a Compaq pre-loaded with a version of Linux that looks like Windows. Also, he has to be able to go to his local Best Buy, pick up any software package on the racks and know it will just work. I have a Windows box and I buy games like they're going out of style. I've never once had to check the system requirements because I run Windows. That's how I like it. It's all about the software people. And by software, I mean games.
Look at Apple. A beautiful OS that's been around for 20 years. And yet they're stuck at 3-5% market share depending who you ask. Why is that? When it came time for me to finally upgrade my 486 two years ago I wanted a Mac but I didn't get one because none of my friends had one and there are like two games for it. A Linux box didn't even enter my mind. And why should it? By the time I got my Windows machine home I had it up and running in 10 minutes. I was surfing the web. Once the average user is at that point the furthest thing from his mind is d/ling a new OS to replace the one that's already working fine.
This is totally true. Take a look at small offices that don't have or can't afford an IT department and you'll see they normally use Macs. Why? Because if you have a company with 12 people running Macs you don't need an IT department. Look at Vice Magazine for an example of what I'm talking about. I'm moving into the realm of home business and you know I'll be making the switch. Then again, I'm in graphic arts and all the labs at my school are Mac labs.
But I will grant you that even if we were nuked by terrorists I don't see what the use of having our own nuclear arsenal would be in that we wouldn't have a target. It seems that the new mission of the US military is to stop attacks before they happen and not to be able to defend the US from an attack which has already started. One could say that this was always their mission. Indeed, in the Cold War the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction kept the Russians in line. Something that wouldn't have happened if we didn't have the arsenal. Unfortunately, terrorists just want to get a hit in and couldn't care less if they die as a result. So other than revenge, nukes may have outlived their usefulness. Better to spend the money on black ops.
Unless the random-number generator is built outside of our Universe, it can't generate truly random numbers. Only pseudo-random ones. As it stands, there will always be something influencing the result. Fortunately for us, pseudo-random numbers are impossible to differentiate from random ones and are random enough to serve our purposes anyway.
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I don't have to anymore because the whole world decided to start speaking broken English.
After all, isn't a search engine supposed to be for finding relevant data, not as an indirect and sometimes slimy method of advertising?
The only search engine I ever use is Google and it seems to find relevant data just fine. And the ads are small, discrete, and actually useful. What's the problem?
I've been running XP ever since it was released and I've maybe seen it crash twice. And yeah, it's XP Home. Now I know that the first time it crashed it was the fault of MS and the second time was the fault of someone else. At any rate it's not a big deal and you'll be hard pressed to find XP users who will think that it is.
Homer: Well, let's see. There was the Picasso, my collection of fine wines, one or two Rolexes.
Insurance Agent: I'm sorry sir. This policy only covers real damage. Not made up damage.
Homer: D'oh!
There are a lot of people who try to scam the insurance companies and I end up paying for it through higher premiums. These are private companies and if you don't want to deal with one that uses lie detection don't. But I'll be the first in line to sign up with a company that does.
What are you on about? Who cares if DirecTV is suing Canadian citizens? It's not them you have to worry about. It's the CRTC. If you are receiving television signals from the US you are breaking the law. You say it yourself: DirecTV is not licensed to broadcast in Canada. Conversely, Canadian citizens are not permitted to view those signals because they do not carry the required amount of Canadian content.
When they find the Linux users who did this I hope they lock them up and throw away the key. There must be better ways to vent your anger towards Microsoft.
What kind of privacy should school children expect? I mean, they're in a public building. And what does a six year old need to keep private from her teacher?
...but it is an offense and an affront to everything our founding fathers stood for, and it is categorically unamerican
I'm so tired of hearing what the Founding Fathers would find offensive because 9 times out of 10 it's wrong anyway. I'd bet my life that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be much more offended by a tentacle-rape comic named Demon Beast Invasion then they ever would be by having that comic banned from sale. When the Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment they were thinking "How can we be sure that the government won't be able to stop us from printing our pamphlet 'Why the Stamp Act is a Bad Thing.'" They certainly weren't thinking "How can we protect depictions of rape and murder in popular culture?" The Founding Fathers would probably barf at what's available on the supermarket magazine rack. So all I'm saying is don't tell me what they would or would not have found offensive or what the One True Meaning of the Constitution is. If it was that clear there wouldn't be any constitutional lawyers.
Real >>>buffering 34%>>> Player is some >>>buffering 46%>>> of the >>>buffering 54%>>> finest >>>buffering 60%>>> software I've ever >>>buffering 70%>>> come across.
This goes against an older article on Wired that said that spammers aren't interested in actually selling anything at all other than e-mail addresses to each other.
Here is a great article about how the labels rip off their artists. Scroll down to see a breakdown of where the money goes. It doesn't go to the bands. On the other hand, it also shows how much a CD costs to produce. Everyone thinks that a CD costs only a few cents to dupe forgetting that the real price of a CD includes all the production, promotion, lawyers, etc. The Problem With Music
On Thursday, the company is unveiling a new technology it calls "Glossmark," which can use ordinary office printers to superimpose a glossy image on an ordinary printed document in a way that can't be photocopied or otherwise easily reproduced.
It can't be reproduced or copied. Unless you own a Xerox printer I guess:
Can be produced by existing Xerox printing solutions.
I don't really see how this works. If there's a document I want to fake I just whip out Quark and reproduce the Glossmark on my Xerox printer. Wha?
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Are you kidding me? Any pro-MS post is an instant karma killer. That accounts for the AC posts. I'll probably get modded down just because I didn't spell it M$.
Try again tough guy. It's 'all intents and purposes.'
I bought my Model M at a thrift store for $2 Canadian. It weighs 6 pounds and was produced in 1984. No crummy Windows key of course. It takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I'll never go back to another keyboard.
I guess I must be naive too because I didn't know there were any regulations against spam. I guess I should inform the people spamming me that they are breaking the law. Thanks for the tip.
Because the whole point of photography is to print the pictures. What good is a high end digital camera if the pics can't be printed in a newspaper or magazine?
Because Longhorn will work out of the box. Linux is 'free' if your time has no value and you don't pay for your own bandwidth. Do you really think Joe Sixpack is in the mood to be d/ling 1.5 gigs of OS on his 56K modem? The only other way to get it is off your friend with the cable modem but Joe Sixpack isn't friends with the type of person who uses Linux. What I'm trying to say is that Linux is a very esoteric OS to the average joe. He's simply not interested and won't be until he can buy a Compaq pre-loaded with a version of Linux that looks like Windows. Also, he has to be able to go to his local Best Buy, pick up any software package on the racks and know it will just work. I have a Windows box and I buy games like they're going out of style. I've never once had to check the system requirements because I run Windows. That's how I like it. It's all about the software people. And by software, I mean games.
Look at Apple. A beautiful OS that's been around for 20 years. And yet they're stuck at 3-5% market share depending who you ask. Why is that? When it came time for me to finally upgrade my 486 two years ago I wanted a Mac but I didn't get one because none of my friends had one and there are like two games for it. A Linux box didn't even enter my mind. And why should it? By the time I got my Windows machine home I had it up and running in 10 minutes. I was surfing the web. Once the average user is at that point the furthest thing from his mind is d/ling a new OS to replace the one that's already working fine.
This is totally true. Take a look at small offices that don't have or can't afford an IT department and you'll see they normally use Macs. Why? Because if you have a company with 12 people running Macs you don't need an IT department. Look at Vice Magazine for an example of what I'm talking about. I'm moving into the realm of home business and you know I'll be making the switch. Then again, I'm in graphic arts and all the labs at my school are Mac labs.
Even better, search for *.eml.
But I will grant you that even if we were nuked by terrorists I don't see what the use of having our own nuclear arsenal would be in that we wouldn't have a target. It seems that the new mission of the US military is to stop attacks before they happen and not to be able to defend the US from an attack which has already started. One could say that this was always their mission. Indeed, in the Cold War the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction kept the Russians in line. Something that wouldn't have happened if we didn't have the arsenal. Unfortunately, terrorists just want to get a hit in and couldn't care less if they die as a result. So other than revenge, nukes may have outlived their usefulness. Better to spend the money on black ops.
Unless the random-number generator is built outside of our Universe, it can't generate truly random numbers. Only pseudo-random ones. As it stands, there will always be something influencing the result. Fortunately for us, pseudo-random numbers are impossible to differentiate from random ones and are random enough to serve our purposes anyway.
I don't have to anymore because the whole world decided to start speaking broken English.
The only search engine I ever use is Google and it seems to find relevant data just fine. And the ads are small, discrete, and actually useful. What's the problem?
Considering that FTP passwords are transmitted as plain text over the network it probably wasn't too hard.
I've been running XP ever since it was released and I've maybe seen it crash twice. And yeah, it's XP Home. Now I know that the first time it crashed it was the fault of MS and the second time was the fault of someone else. At any rate it's not a big deal and you'll be hard pressed to find XP users who will think that it is.
Insurance Agent: I'm sorry sir. This policy only covers real damage. Not made up damage.
Homer: D'oh!
There are a lot of people who try to scam the insurance companies and I end up paying for it through higher premiums. These are private companies and if you don't want to deal with one that uses lie detection don't. But I'll be the first in line to sign up with a company that does.
What are you on about? Who cares if DirecTV is suing Canadian citizens? It's not them you have to worry about. It's the CRTC. If you are receiving television signals from the US you are breaking the law. You say it yourself: DirecTV is not licensed to broadcast in Canada. Conversely, Canadian citizens are not permitted to view those signals because they do not carry the required amount of Canadian content.
When they find the Linux users who did this I hope they lock them up and throw away the key. There must be better ways to vent your anger towards Microsoft.
What kind of privacy should school children expect? I mean, they're in a public building. And what does a six year old need to keep private from her teacher?
You read that out of the 'Darklands' manual didn't you?
I'm so tired of hearing what the Founding Fathers would find offensive because 9 times out of 10 it's wrong anyway. I'd bet my life that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be much more offended by a tentacle-rape comic named Demon Beast Invasion then they ever would be by having that comic banned from sale. When the Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment they were thinking "How can we be sure that the government won't be able to stop us from printing our pamphlet 'Why the Stamp Act is a Bad Thing.'" They certainly weren't thinking "How can we protect depictions of rape and murder in popular culture?" The Founding Fathers would probably barf at what's available on the supermarket magazine rack. So all I'm saying is don't tell me what they would or would not have found offensive or what the One True Meaning of the Constitution is. If it was that clear there wouldn't be any constitutional lawyers.
Real >>>buffering 34%>>> Player is some >>>buffering 46%>>> of the >>>buffering 54%>>> finest >>>buffering 60%>>> software I've ever >>>buffering 70%>>> come across.
This goes against an older article on Wired that said that spammers aren't interested in actually selling anything at all other than e-mail addresses to each other.
Here is a great article about how the labels rip off their artists. Scroll down to see a breakdown of where the money goes. It doesn't go to the bands. On the other hand, it also shows how much a CD costs to produce. Everyone thinks that a CD costs only a few cents to dupe forgetting that the real price of a CD includes all the production, promotion, lawyers, etc. The Problem With Music
I remember reading that Snopes: The TV Show was in development but I never heard anything about it again. I was looking forward to that.
It can't be reproduced or copied. Unless you own a Xerox printer I guess:
Can be produced by existing Xerox printing solutions.
I don't really see how this works. If there's a document I want to fake I just whip out Quark and reproduce the Glossmark on my Xerox printer. Wha?