do you honestly believe that someone would use a movie (like this) as a ploy to get into politics?
He's already well known. He's already liked (I suppose). I can't imagine that T3 (which sounds like it blows) could boost his campaign anymore than any other traditional method.
why not install SpamAssassin or create your own filters and block addresses that frequently contain Spam?
I use server side blocking, I use procmail blocking with my own blacklist, and I have recently been playing with Squirrelmail which offers a SHITLOAD of options for fending off spam.
It's their right to send it to you, it's your right to block it.
Have you been to a job interview for a NON-TECH job in the past year? (I am saying a year b/c that's when most of my job interviews were).
100% of the interviewers asked "do you know MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Access."
If I told them, no I use Emacs and OpenOffice they would have blinked at me and marked something on the clipboard that wasn't good.
Companies do NOT use Free Software (for the most part, the small minority does NOT count). Companies probably aren't going to move to free alternatives anytime soon.
Whereas a company that is using free alternatives would understand that a MS Word user would use StarOffice/OpenOffice just fine, it doesn't work the other way around.
Please don't take this as a troll, I am just trying to go with the other side...
Why shouldn't they be hooked early? Do you think that businesses are just going to magically stop using MS Office in the near future?
So we are going to have these kids learn Linux and OpenOffice or maybe StarOffice or maybe KOffice and they are going to go about their daily duties with those applications...
They get to an interview... "Do you have experience with MS Excel, MS Word, and MS Access?" "No sir, but I have used Kblah, OOBlah, and StarBlah."
I would LOVE to see interviewers more tech. savvy and understand what those applications are. I doubt that day will come anytime soon. They are just too entrenched.
I think using Linux in schools is a great idea. I also think that MS offering hardware/software to schools is also great. Whereever they can save the money that I end up paying in the end is good for me.
I have recently been listening to Shoutcasts at work (of mostly live, allowed, recordings). The three major ones I listen to are at 128k. 1 of the shoutcasts boasts a # in the 100s at 128k. They also offer a bunch of live shows for shoutcast at 128k in addition to their random one.
I find that the server is CONSTANTLY having me rebuffer the stream making it increasingly difficult to listen to (I have a broadband connection at home and at work).
I switched to a shoutcast stream that has only 10-15 people at 128k and it seems to handle it much better.
Radio doesn't sound like 128k to me, what's the difference if MP3.com isn't offering that to it's listeners?
What happened to the trilogies that have become so popular?
Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars (I refuse to count the three "newest" ones), etc.
While I am midly excited to see that this film is going to be released I don't see it as being popular. They are going to concentrate on large-scale special effects and less on the content (just like all recent films and sequels/pre).
I have found that the IM forwarding feature on some of the more recent betas of AOL Instant Messenger to be quite handy.
GF could message me from AIM and I could call her back without her or I incurring any charges (incoming SMSs are free).
So now I am going to get spammed by SMS because it has to be EXTREMELY easy to send to number@mobile.att.net. Great.
What I am more worried about is my phone auto-answering. I was at work and heard a voice coming out of my phone. It was a telemarketer. The phone actually picked this call up by itself. Great. I had to call AT&T and have them investigate to remove the minute charges...
agreed except for the point of it NOT being quite as powerful in the media department (tv-out, etc).
I have been quite happy w/Linux on my E-machine 1.8Ghz. It's fast, it's stable, and it was cheap as hell.
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I am saying that due to the widespread use of Windows (and development of applications made SOLELY for Windows that are REQUIRED for everyday use) we are FORCED to use it.
I would love to say that there are acceptable amounts of quality software available for "free" OSs, but there's not.
Until the day comes when we can run all software regardless of OS we are going to continue to be forced to use Windows software.
Not EVERYONE can just drop Windows.
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"This technology can make our country more secure and prevent the nightmare vision of George Orwell at the same time," Gates said. "Orwell didn't anticipate how technology can be used to protect privacy. The fact that technology can protect both security and privacy by protecting the computer systems and the information on them is a positive thing."
Dear Mr. Bullshit Artist Premiere:
Explain to me how the technology you are pushing for will protect my privacy? Your current pushes seem to be towards forwarding my information about EVERYTHING on my computer (including what hardware I am using when XP shuts itself off), stopping me from running what I want in my fucking house, on my fucking computer, and forcing me to "sign" draconian agreements to use software YOU force me to use.
So, not only is my privacy signed away, my freedom to use software *I* want to use is toast, and you get to dictate the OS of the future by allowing companies to see the "benefits" of developing for your shit.
Once your pushes for these "protection schemes" goes away I will again feel a bit safer running your systems.
Please refrain from future attempts at dictating to me what I can and can't do with software and hardware I purchased.
it doesn't matter, it will take three months after you sign up for it to go into effect.
The State of MN's DNC list has saved me quite a few calls. I still get a couple recordings on my answering machine though without phone #s to call back and yell at.
I am hoping that using this will stop ALL attempts at using my answering machine as a billboard.
One of AOLs attempts to abolish spam is by refusing (supposed) dynamic IPs from sending in email to their servers.
Amazingly enough this just stops her from receiving my email but she still had 200 fucking emails YESTERDAY alone from V*I*A*G*R*A S*A*M*P*L*E*S, New Homeowners?, and Need Cash Fast?
and would it matter to them if we did end up boycotting them? I highly doubt it. They are not interested in the small, insignificant groups that complain about them.
99% of the population has NO idea what the RIAA/MPAA is until they get busted for downloading Spiderman Divx.
Amazingly enough The Grateful Dead (The OtherOnes and now The Dead), Phish, and Neil Young/Crazyhorse) allow the free taping/trading of their music and look how popular they are and how long they have been around.
I want to see the day when we are still listening to Alanis 40 years from now while she's on tour.
because it doesn't take nearly the skill that hitting and throwing the ball (nevermind aerial flips and catches) does.
Let's pay a fat man $320k to stand behind two ATHLETES to watch a third ATHLETE throw a ball at 90+ mph into a zone that most of us couldn't consistantly throw at if we tried.
I do pay that man's salary with my ticket prices and having to sit through the fucking commercials.
He gets free games, front row seats, and to watch up close what he most likely loves.
I would do it for my CURRENT salary and be happy as a fucking lark. Nevermind the fact that he works like 4 or 5 hours a day only a couple days a year.
I already hate the fact that seatbelts are too tight and that there are laws mandating their use (especially here in MN where you can be ticketed for not wearing one while having no other violations).
So at 300 ft the car is going to start hitting the breaks? What about freaking rush hour or the morons that slam on their breaks in front of me? Isn't this going to hinder my already exceptional response skills?
Concentrate on getting the car to drive for us not deciding when I am tailgating.
but there was a choice of another product. They want to make it so that there is no other choice. You buy what they offer or you don't buy anything at all.
The market can't do much talking when you MUST buy a DRM product.
Windows is supporting it thus ALL other OSs will have to support it in order to compete.
Digital piracy might always exist but how's that to say that DRM enabled *machines* will allow it to be played?
ok so you don't buy it and then you don't watch the movies either... Sorry but once all DVDs are re-released under DRM no classics will be able to be used.
Excuse me but I would prefer not to live in a world without entertainment.
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do you honestly believe that someone would use a movie (like this) as a ploy to get into politics?
He's already well known. He's already liked (I suppose). I can't imagine that T3 (which sounds like it blows) could boost his campaign anymore than any other traditional method.
maybe the machines aren't as smart as everyone thinks that they are.
They are TOO methodical?
I'll give it a hand gesture all right...
Watch for the neon middle finger to pop up from my truck.
why not install SpamAssassin or create your own filters and block addresses that frequently contain Spam?
I use server side blocking, I use procmail blocking with my own blacklist, and I have recently been playing with Squirrelmail which offers a SHITLOAD of options for fending off spam.
It's their right to send it to you, it's your right to block it.
for $1200 more, yeah, I think I got my money's worth.
What the fuck is the Apple made out of gold?
Have you been to a job interview for a NON-TECH job in the past year? (I am saying a year b/c that's when most of my job interviews were).
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100% of the interviewers asked "do you know MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Access."
If I told them, no I use Emacs and OpenOffice they would have blinked at me and marked something on the clipboard that wasn't good.
Companies do NOT use Free Software (for the most part, the small minority does NOT count). Companies probably aren't going to move to free alternatives anytime soon.
Whereas a company that is using free alternatives would understand that a MS Word user would use StarOffice/OpenOffice just fine, it doesn't work the other way around.
Just my worthless
Please don't take this as a troll, I am just trying to go with the other side...
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Why shouldn't they be hooked early? Do you think that businesses are just going to magically stop using MS Office in the near future?
So we are going to have these kids learn Linux and OpenOffice or maybe StarOffice or maybe KOffice and they are going to go about their daily duties with those applications...
They get to an interview... "Do you have experience with MS Excel, MS Word, and MS Access?" "No sir, but I have used Kblah, OOBlah, and StarBlah."
I would LOVE to see interviewers more tech. savvy and understand what those applications are. I doubt that day will come anytime soon. They are just too entrenched.
I think using Linux in schools is a great idea. I also think that MS offering hardware/software to schools is also great. Whereever they can save the money that I end up paying in the end is good for me.
Just my
I have recently been listening to Shoutcasts at work (of mostly live, allowed, recordings). The three major ones I listen to are at 128k. 1 of the shoutcasts boasts a # in the 100s at 128k. They also offer a bunch of live shows for shoutcast at 128k in addition to their random one.
I find that the server is CONSTANTLY having me rebuffer the stream making it increasingly difficult to listen to (I have a broadband connection at home and at work).
I switched to a shoutcast stream that has only 10-15 people at 128k and it seems to handle it much better.
Radio doesn't sound like 128k to me, what's the difference if MP3.com isn't offering that to it's listeners?
I am VERY annoyed with AIM doing the same thing on Install.
Click here to DE-SELECT Netscape.com as your homepage.
Do you want AIM icons on your desktop and start menu (check here for no (each)).
Yet the fucking installer STILL puts AIM icons (AOL for Broadband) on my Desktop and an AIM icon in the quick launch tray...
Maybe if they stop this horseshit for AOL I will think about it. Until then I will stick with IE on my Windows machine.
What happened to the trilogies that have become so popular?
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Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars (I refuse to count the three "newest" ones), etc.
While I am midly excited to see that this film is going to be released I don't see it as being popular. They are going to concentrate on large-scale special effects and less on the content (just like all recent films and sequels/pre).
That's my worthless
see, the cell phone companies don't want that. They want people to become addicted to SMS like they are addicted to Instant Messaging.
They want SMSs to cost money so that they can make more.
How many plans do you see have free SMS outgoing? Exactly.
I have found that the IM forwarding feature on some of the more recent betas of AOL Instant Messenger to be quite handy.
GF could message me from AIM and I could call her back without her or I incurring any charges (incoming SMSs are free).
So now I am going to get spammed by SMS because it has to be EXTREMELY easy to send to number@mobile.att.net. Great.
What I am more worried about is my phone auto-answering. I was at work and heard a voice coming out of my phone. It was a telemarketer. The phone actually picked this call up by itself. Great. I had to call AT&T and have them investigate to remove the minute charges...
agreed except for the point of it NOT being quite as powerful in the media department (tv-out, etc).
I have been quite happy w/Linux on my E-machine 1.8Ghz. It's fast, it's stable, and it was cheap as hell.
I am saying that due to the widespread use of Windows (and development of applications made SOLELY for Windows that are REQUIRED for everyday use) we are FORCED to use it.
I would love to say that there are acceptable amounts of quality software available for "free" OSs, but there's not.
Until the day comes when we can run all software regardless of OS we are going to continue to be forced to use Windows software.
Not EVERYONE can just drop Windows.
"This technology can make our country more secure and prevent the nightmare vision of George Orwell at the same time," Gates said. "Orwell didn't anticipate how technology can be used to protect privacy. The fact that technology can protect both security and privacy by protecting the computer systems and the information on them is a positive thing."
Dear Mr. Bullshit Artist Premiere:
Explain to me how the technology you are pushing for will protect my privacy? Your current pushes seem to be towards forwarding my information about EVERYTHING on my computer (including what hardware I am using when XP shuts itself off), stopping me from running what I want in my fucking house, on my fucking computer, and forcing me to "sign" draconian agreements to use software YOU force me to use.
So, not only is my privacy signed away, my freedom to use software *I* want to use is toast, and you get to dictate the OS of the future by allowing companies to see the "benefits" of developing for your shit.
Once your pushes for these "protection schemes" goes away I will again feel a bit safer running your systems.
Please refrain from future attempts at dictating to me what I can and can't do with software and hardware I purchased.
Thanks for listening,
it doesn't matter, it will take three months after you sign up for it to go into effect.
The State of MN's DNC list has saved me quite a few calls. I still get a couple recordings on my answering machine though without phone #s to call back and yell at.
I am hoping that using this will stop ALL attempts at using my answering machine as a billboard.
I prefer when it says 0.
you're absolutely insane. If anything, these are to better help smart bombs attack people.
Remember who is currently in office and what his goals seem to be.
It's 1/2 a billion and that's not enough to curtail bombing.
Uhh, isn't that the point? Kill the source of their files? Get rid of their major headache?
It's not going to kill P2P networks that are for ONLY trading allowed files, ie FurthurNET
One of AOLs attempts to abolish spam is by refusing (supposed) dynamic IPs from sending in email to their servers.
Amazingly enough this just stops her from receiving my email but she still had 200 fucking emails YESTERDAY alone from V*I*A*G*R*A S*A*M*P*L*E*S, New Homeowners?, and Need Cash Fast?
Yeah, way to go AOL!
and would it matter to them if we did end up boycotting them? I highly doubt it. They are not interested in the small, insignificant groups that complain about them.
99% of the population has NO idea what the RIAA/MPAA is until they get busted for downloading Spiderman Divx.
Instead of paying please support your artists that allow the free taping/trading of their music (either via P2P or other methods).
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Amazingly enough The Grateful Dead (The OtherOnes and now The Dead), Phish, and Neil Young/Crazyhorse) allow the free taping/trading of their music and look how popular they are and how long they have been around.
I want to see the day when we are still listening to Alanis 40 years from now while she's on tour.
because it doesn't take nearly the skill that hitting and throwing the ball (nevermind aerial flips and catches) does.
Let's pay a fat man $320k to stand behind two ATHLETES to watch a third ATHLETE throw a ball at 90+ mph into a zone that most of us couldn't consistantly throw at if we tried.
I do pay that man's salary with my ticket prices and having to sit through the fucking commercials.
He gets free games, front row seats, and to watch up close what he most likely loves.
I would do it for my CURRENT salary and be happy as a fucking lark. Nevermind the fact that he works like 4 or 5 hours a day only a couple days a year.
Fuck that.
I already hate the fact that seatbelts are too tight and that there are laws mandating their use (especially here in MN where you can be ticketed for not wearing one while having no other violations).
So at 300 ft the car is going to start hitting the breaks? What about freaking rush hour or the morons that slam on their breaks in front of me? Isn't this going to hinder my already exceptional response skills?
Concentrate on getting the car to drive for us not deciding when I am tailgating.
but there was a choice of another product. They want to make it so that there is no other choice. You buy what they offer or you don't buy anything at all.
The market can't do much talking when you MUST buy a DRM product.
Windows is supporting it thus ALL other OSs will have to support it in order to compete.
Digital piracy might always exist but how's that to say that DRM enabled *machines* will allow it to be played?
ok so you don't buy it and then you don't watch the movies either... Sorry but once all DVDs are re-released under DRM no classics will be able to be used.
Excuse me but I would prefer not to live in a world without entertainment.
Crawl back into your hole.