Seems more like Microsoft releasing the service pack for Windows XP via Windows Update/Automatic Update.
SP2 has been available for a week or two (there was a link posted on Slashdot to the download page) to (I think) business and netadmins. My guess is that black hat hackers have found some holes and are perched to launch new exploits. That's the only meltdown I can conceive at the moment.
Well... no proof or evidence provided in either post, but 50% are dumber than the average where median defined as average, instead of mean which I assume is what you meant - in a normal distribution mean=median(=mode) (well, if n is odd (0.5-1/n) are dumber.
I don't think it's valid to say average is interpreted as mean, and if you say most people do, that just means most people are dumber than me.
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It's cool to see E is still alive.
But why is it? All the X-WMs look shabby, slapdash and incomplete compared to MacOSX and even, dare I say it... WinXP.
To be fair, I thing E does better than most... more attuned to my taste than KDE or GNOME. But why must we have hundreds of hours of development hours go into something which is inferior to the two market leaders? Sure there are Lunix/BSD vs Windows/Mac arguments/fests all time time, but no Linux/BSD WM looks or functions as polished as WinXP/MacOSX (note I am walking WM/GUI here, not OS in general).
Divide and conquer...
As long as the X-Windows system is divided with no clear objective (WTF are GNOME up to with those massive icons and lack of flexibility everyone hates, why do KDE have to make it so difficult to make something doable, etc) and no clear purpose it seems inable to get the critical mass behind it to make a decent desktop. Perhaps we need some skill regarding graphical design to be recognized and give this tired uber |337n355 superiority regarding the(se) technical, and none too important to the finished project (what does the user care if it was created in C, C++, Assembly), difference(s) a rest.
I want a straightforward window system which is flexible and adaptable with graphics what don't look slapdash. All Linux/BSD WMs are good for is keeping several CLIs in the same 'desktop'... and for this E is best.
That is because he likes to give hot lovin' to CowboyKneel which Michael looks on masturbating. He takes FP as payment... it would be illegal but they film it and claim they are making a porno. CmdrTaco does the tax and gets a 20% cut.
Everything in Smalltalk is an object too. It also has a clean and clear syntax. It has been around for DECADES! Why not use that if everything being an object, and clean and clear syntax, are so revolutionary?
People travel from other countries, invest seven years of their life to become citizens in order to obtain the privilege
Yeah and the earning big bucks to send back to home has nothing to do with it does it? One vote doesn't count, that is a fact - can you accept it, no matter how much you want it to matter if you had a couple more hours in bed it would make no difference to an election result - if you spent some time doing something you'd get a whole load more results?
The US: land of the deceived, land of the passive, land of the buck. You seem like an ideal citizen: someone for government and mega-corp to shunt around in political processes, someone to govern rather than someone who controls the government, someone easy to keep happy - someone who has bought into the propoganda and fraudulent dream.
You just contradicted your self; by not choosing fast food or soft drinks you are, in a sense voting FOR some alternative (unless you plan to starve yourself
Are you tripping from the sweetners and sugars? I can eat just fine without either 'softdrinks' or 'fast food', I am not 'voting', I am pleasing myself. Yes this is weight of my consumption, but I care little about my individual 'vote'. I encourage others to eat well, suggest alternatives to something I enjoy - this is not voting, it is activism.
You know, if there was an election, and it was decided by a SINGLE vote I would kick myself in the foot! But I have faith this will never be the case - voting takes at least 2 hours from doing something else, if instead of voting, a passive for of election of someone that may not seem a bad as the incumbant (or endorseent of the incumbant for fear of the alternative), you went to protest for 30 mins outside the office of your local representative it'd make a sure lot more difference. Imagine all the voters doing that? Voting is dominated (functionally and practically) by other forms of representation, yet they are not exercised... if they were we'd have chaos and the value would be devalued, but instead we have a system where many 'do their bit' passively, get disappointed, complain, and vote for the 2nd not-worse option.
One vote doesn't count... realise that doesn't mean one voice doesn't count.
Lol! Good to see you back! Although I may disagree with a vast many of you're thoughts, at least you have opinions, have a consistent line of argument, and put some thought into what you say: more than many/most slashdotters/people generally.
You (along with a large chunk of America) vote for political candidates...
Incorrect. I do not vote. If I voted it would make ZERO difference - one vote has never counted except on the smallest elections. BTW, I do not choose a soft drink or fast food either, because I do not eat such junk.
American democracy is not a strong system. Economic success - in the form of increasing incomes and crip-feeding the 'American dream' and the idea dream-like success can be achieved has been the success of the American political system.
the total inability for many people in this country to discern the difference between the fictional characters played by an actor and the actual person underneath. So essentially people are voting for fictional characters
I sure know I voted for Arnie because I knew that he was a machine sent from the future and could get shit done while realising his bad side and thus-forth protecting minors. I am also keen on colonising Mars while eliminating the mind-police that may begin to operate there, as well as killing an alien hunting humans in South America.
Perhaps you could not assume you are magically superior and realise people voted for him because they thought he was not a career politician (Kerry... ahem... wannabe shadow of Kennedy... ahem) and actually cared about getting it done. The American dream - what all Americans are forced to repeat every morning despite how laughable it is - Arnie is the epitomy of it. Sure there are a heck of a load of 'stupid' people out there, but that is democracy, unless you'd prefer a system where some are more equal than others... like how the Soviet system turned out - in that case unless you can become an uber-mathematician or ultra-military hob-knobber you are a whole lot more stupid than you realise.
Why run Linux etc on a Mac when you can run them on a commodity PC - that is a cheap PC.
Now if Apple were to offer OS X on a commodity PC... could you imagine the scramble of customers getting OS X pre-installed in their Dell?! That surely would be competition to Windows, more so than the slapdash GUIs that make up Linux: why have multiple GUIs when they all suck? Linux is good for CLI only: the max it can stretch to is multiple CLIs in boxes.
Python is not the kind of language that lands you a job like Java
And boy am I glad of that! I've seen it suggested Java is a bit like Playskool(TM) programming, and I agree. Java? No thanks. My trial of Java made me feel a bit like a destitute banging my head against a wall for hours... except banging my head against a wall would have been more productive
Python... a decent procedural language. TCL/TK my choice for getting [the front end of] a job done. VB: No way, although it barely gets the job done it is better than Java. I am an real programmer, I want to get something done in the minimum amount of time to get the job done to a high standard... something like TCL/TK for my GUI controls etc and a proper language/backend (some custom C++, some other languages regarded as 'obscure' because intelligence, rather than script-kiddieness, is needed to use them) that gets the job done quickly, something I can program quickly and easily (rather than obstuficating myself into some bizarre bastardisation, like spending tens of hours doing manipulating some _basic_ n-dimensional arrays through a series of loops, error checks, non-transparent processes).
Java is nothing to look up to, but in the end the script-kiddie language, the language which makes us think like a computer and work to the lowest common denominator, appears in dominance.
The US and the rest of the world would boycott the living daylights out of them, and after we have killed 10 million prc troops with our advanced technology, sank 90% of all prc ships, and wiped their airforce out, they'd have a hard time containing the internal backlash.
Notice how there are so many intelligent, dillegent, hardworking Chinese babes and dudes moving into high positions over the past 20 years? And how China reorganised it's domestic and foreign policy to open to world trade/policy 20 years ago? This is no co-incidence! These Chinese in powerful businesses the world over are infact SPIES AND AGENTS. They either came over in their youth, assigned from the PRC and underground agents in what was British Hong Kong, or their parents and grandparents were communist sleepers waiting for the signal.
Be afraid, Chinese agents already control key positions in multinational companies, including the bulk of technology companies, and the US government. If America ever acts aggressively towards China these agents will pull out the knives and use their Kung Fu skills to kill all top US officials, thus claiming the US for China.
You have been warned. I recommend heading into the hills, building a nice bunker and stockpiling a few beans and guns.
You touch on a good point here. The original point of stock and debt markets was to allow companies to raise money for investment... in an IPO, debt issue, whatever. These days private equity houses provide finance to embryonic companies, IPOs and debt issues are priced similar to expectations, so what is the point of a stock market?
People churn and shuffle money around. The risk of equity and debt can be priced in a pretty straigtforward way without a market. Most investors are pretty honest about their job - they bet on a share/bond/CFD/etc... hoping it is a good bet. The market is now not some grandoise solution for allocating resources... it is mechanism of churning. The market does not need improving... it is the residual of the way to effect a need - that need is to determine the price of risk. Now risk can and is in the most 'important' cases, like a company restructuring or startup, priced by other, usually more cost effective means, what is the point of a market other than a mechanism to bet?
HST"="Hubble Space Telescope." Thanks to Chris Johansen for pointing out the overloaded acryonym
Do you mean acronym, which please note is derived from the Greek: acro [head] and nym [word]. Opposing views beow, there is no requirement that this acro-nym be pronounceable as a normal word, this is a restriction imosed very much in recent times.
But I think it depends on what you are using your domain for; wildcard spam is minor/rare compared to targetted spam:
If it is a personal domain with perhaps a couple of description pages and even a blog then, like me, you will get no more (from personal experience) than 10+ random (random in the way they are sent to webmaster/admin or anything that * catches other than regular) messages/week. No big deal
A better known site seems to get a greater ranking in auto-traffic (let me generate logos, banners, security, etc for your website). But an email address listed on the site (my site) gets far more spam than a generic catch-all (e.g., I have "email webmonster@....com" as the auto admin address, more emails come to that than webmaster coz it's googled/harvested on those lists).
But the original statement said "I decided to pay the extra money to have email for the domain I registered"WFT?! Go to something like directnic.com, get your domain for $15/yr and get mail forwarding included (including wildcard)!
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The Telescope did NOT find this planet. The Software did.
Seems more like Microsoft releasing the service pack for Windows XP via Windows Update/Automatic Update.
SP2 has been available for a week or two (there was a link posted on Slashdot to the download page) to (I think) business and netadmins. My guess is that black hat hackers have found some holes and are perched to launch new exploits. That's the only meltdown I can conceive at the moment.
Hey... no need to worry, just download the intraweb onto a couple of CDs. I just used PKZIP and managed to fit it only my MP3 player.
Well... no proof or evidence provided in either post, but 50% are dumber than the average where median defined as average, instead of mean which I assume is what you meant - in a normal distribution mean=median(=mode) (well, if n is odd (0.5-1/n) are dumber.
I don't think it's valid to say average is interpreted as mean, and if you say most people do, that just means most people are dumber than me.
It's cool to see E is still alive.
But why is it? All the X-WMs look shabby, slapdash and incomplete compared to MacOSX and even, dare I say it... WinXP.
To be fair, I thing E does better than most... more attuned to my taste than KDE or GNOME. But why must we have hundreds of hours of development hours go into something which is inferior to the two market leaders? Sure there are Lunix/BSD vs Windows/Mac arguments/fests all time time, but no Linux/BSD WM looks or functions as polished as WinXP/MacOSX (note I am walking WM/GUI here, not OS in general).
Divide and conquer...
As long as the X-Windows system is divided with no clear objective (WTF are GNOME up to with those massive icons and lack of flexibility everyone hates, why do KDE have to make it so difficult to make something doable, etc) and no clear purpose it seems inable to get the critical mass behind it to make a decent desktop. Perhaps we need some skill regarding graphical design to be recognized and give this tired uber |337n355 superiority regarding the(se) technical, and none too important to the finished project (what does the user care if it was created in C, C++, Assembly), difference(s) a rest.
I want a straightforward window system which is flexible and adaptable with graphics what don't look slapdash. All Linux/BSD WMs are good for is keeping several CLIs in the same 'desktop'... and for this E is best.
That is because he likes to give hot lovin' to CowboyKneel which Michael looks on masturbating. He takes FP as payment... it would be illegal but they film it and claim they are making a porno. CmdrTaco does the tax and gets a 20% cut.
Fuck You
I don't get it.
Everything in Smalltalk is an object too. It also has a clean and clear syntax. It has been around for DECADES! Why not use that if everything being an object, and clean and clear syntax, are so revolutionary?
For all da bitches. Aaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.
Try This.
People travel from other countries, invest seven years of their life to become citizens in order to obtain the privilege
Yeah and the earning big bucks to send back to home has nothing to do with it does it? One vote doesn't count, that is a fact - can you accept it, no matter how much you want it to matter if you had a couple more hours in bed it would make no difference to an election result - if you spent some time doing something you'd get a whole load more results?
The US: land of the deceived, land of the passive, land of the buck. You seem like an ideal citizen: someone for government and mega-corp to shunt around in political processes, someone to govern rather than someone who controls the government, someone easy to keep happy - someone who has bought into the propoganda and fraudulent dream.
You just contradicted your self; by not choosing fast food or soft drinks you are, in a sense voting FOR some alternative (unless you plan to starve yourself
Are you tripping from the sweetners and sugars? I can eat just fine without either 'softdrinks' or 'fast food', I am not 'voting', I am pleasing myself. Yes this is weight of my consumption, but I care little about my individual 'vote'. I encourage others to eat well, suggest alternatives to something I enjoy - this is not voting, it is activism.
You know, if there was an election, and it was decided by a SINGLE vote I would kick myself in the foot! But I have faith this will never be the case - voting takes at least 2 hours from doing something else, if instead of voting, a passive for of election of someone that may not seem a bad as the incumbant (or endorseent of the incumbant for fear of the alternative), you went to protest for 30 mins outside the office of your local representative it'd make a sure lot more difference. Imagine all the voters doing that? Voting is dominated (functionally and practically) by other forms of representation, yet they are not exercised... if they were we'd have chaos and the value would be devalued, but instead we have a system where many 'do their bit' passively, get disappointed, complain, and vote for the 2nd not-worse option.
One vote doesn't count... realise that doesn't mean one voice doesn't count.
between 1900 and 2000 the number of trees in the US doubled
Interesting. Do you have a link? Did a quick Google but found myself trapped between tree-huggers and tree-choppers.
Lol! Good to see you back! Although I may disagree with a vast many of you're thoughts, at least you have opinions, have a consistent line of argument, and put some thought into what you say: more than many/most slashdotters/people generally.
You (along with a large chunk of America) vote for political candidates...
Incorrect. I do not vote. If I voted it would make ZERO difference - one vote has never counted except on the smallest elections. BTW, I do not choose a soft drink or fast food either, because I do not eat such junk.
American democracy is not a strong system. Economic success - in the form of increasing incomes and crip-feeding the 'American dream' and the idea dream-like success can be achieved has been the success of the American political system.
Long time no see. I thought you had quit Slashdot. Never may anyone else have the last word in a thread again, eh?
the total inability for many people in this country to discern the difference between the fictional characters played by an actor and the actual person underneath. So essentially people are voting for fictional characters
I sure know I voted for Arnie because I knew that he was a machine sent from the future and could get shit done while realising his bad side and thus-forth protecting minors. I am also keen on colonising Mars while eliminating the mind-police that may begin to operate there, as well as killing an alien hunting humans in South America.
Perhaps you could not assume you are magically superior and realise people voted for him because they thought he was not a career politician (Kerry... ahem... wannabe shadow of Kennedy... ahem) and actually cared about getting it done. The American dream - what all Americans are forced to repeat every morning despite how laughable it is - Arnie is the epitomy of it. Sure there are a heck of a load of 'stupid' people out there, but that is democracy, unless you'd prefer a system where some are more equal than others... like how the Soviet system turned out - in that case unless you can become an uber-mathematician or ultra-military hob-knobber you are a whole lot more stupid than you realise.
Why run Linux etc on a Mac when you can run them on a commodity PC - that is a cheap PC.
Now if Apple were to offer OS X on a commodity PC... could you imagine the scramble of customers getting OS X pre-installed in their Dell?! That surely would be competition to Windows, more so than the slapdash GUIs that make up Linux: why have multiple GUIs when they all suck? Linux is good for CLI only: the max it can stretch to is multiple CLIs in boxes.
Python is not the kind of language that lands you a job like Java
And boy am I glad of that! I've seen it suggested Java is a bit like Playskool(TM) programming, and I agree. Java? No thanks. My trial of Java made me feel a bit like a destitute banging my head against a wall for hours... except banging my head against a wall would have been more productive
Python... a decent procedural language. TCL/TK my choice for getting [the front end of] a job done. VB: No way, although it barely gets the job done it is better than Java. I am an real programmer, I want to get something done in the minimum amount of time to get the job done to a high standard... something like TCL/TK for my GUI controls etc and a proper language/backend (some custom C++, some other languages regarded as 'obscure' because intelligence, rather than script-kiddieness, is needed to use them) that gets the job done quickly, something I can program quickly and easily (rather than obstuficating myself into some bizarre bastardisation, like spending tens of hours doing manipulating some _basic_ n-dimensional arrays through a series of loops, error checks, non-transparent processes).
Java is nothing to look up to, but in the end the script-kiddie language, the language which makes us think like a computer and work to the lowest common denominator, appears in dominance.
The US and the rest of the world would boycott the living daylights out of them, and after we have killed 10 million prc troops with our advanced technology, sank 90% of all prc ships, and wiped their airforce out, they'd have a hard time containing the internal backlash.
Notice how there are so many intelligent, dillegent, hardworking Chinese babes and dudes moving into high positions over the past 20 years? And how China reorganised it's domestic and foreign policy to open to world trade/policy 20 years ago? This is no co-incidence! These Chinese in powerful businesses the world over are infact SPIES AND AGENTS. They either came over in their youth, assigned from the PRC and underground agents in what was British Hong Kong, or their parents and grandparents were communist sleepers waiting for the signal.
Be afraid, Chinese agents already control key positions in multinational companies, including the bulk of technology companies, and the US government. If America ever acts aggressively towards China these agents will pull out the knives and use their Kung Fu skills to kill all top US officials, thus claiming the US for China.
You have been warned. I recommend heading into the hills, building a nice bunker and stockpiling a few beans and guns.
You touch on a good point here. The original point of stock and debt markets was to allow companies to raise money for investment... in an IPO, debt issue, whatever. These days private equity houses provide finance to embryonic companies, IPOs and debt issues are priced similar to expectations, so what is the point of a stock market?
People churn and shuffle money around. The risk of equity and debt can be priced in a pretty straigtforward way without a market. Most investors are pretty honest about their job - they bet on a share/bond/CFD/etc... hoping it is a good bet. The market is now not some grandoise solution for allocating resources... it is mechanism of churning. The market does not need improving... it is the residual of the way to effect a need - that need is to determine the price of risk. Now risk can and is in the most 'important' cases, like a company restructuring or startup, priced by other, usually more cost effective means, what is the point of a market other than a mechanism to bet?
HST"="Hubble Space Telescope." Thanks to Chris Johansen for pointing out the overloaded acryonym
Do you mean acronym, which please note is derived from the Greek: acro [head] and nym [word]. Opposing views beow, there is no requirement that this acro-nym be pronounceable as a normal word, this is a restriction imosed very much in recent times.
Hey n00b. Teh use of 'TEH' 15 2 D3m0n57r473 j00 r ub3r |337.
But I think it depends on what you are using your domain for; wildcard spam is minor/rare compared to targetted spam:
If it is a personal domain with perhaps a couple of description pages and even a blog then, like me, you will get no more (from personal experience) than 10+ random (random in the way they are sent to webmaster/admin or anything that * catches other than regular) messages/week. No big deal
A better known site seems to get a greater ranking in auto-traffic (let me generate logos, banners, security, etc for your website). But an email address listed on the site (my site) gets far more spam than a generic catch-all (e.g., I have "email webmonster@....com" as the auto admin address, more emails come to that than webmaster coz it's googled/harvested on those lists).
But the original statement said "I decided to pay the extra money to have email for the domain I registered" WFT?! Go to something like directnic.com, get your domain for $15/yr and get mail forwarding included (including wildcard)!