All we need is to lose control of this system and we could have this giant microwave beam cutting trenches of death and destruction through the Earth as it turns.
Why not get a slashdot membership. Then you can see new articles before everyone else and get to the sites before they are slashdotted. The 16mb trailer downloads were very quick for me because of this.
Maybe your hardware and/or drivers are to blame. 2000/XP can run under heavy use for months or sometimes years on a stable hardware+driver setup without crashing.
Plus reinstalling Windows shouldn't involve deleting all your files.
They go to such lengths to ignore email from anyone who's not paying $150 per incident. I bet they even use a whitelist. Everyone not on the list gets blackholed. Registrars aren't going to pay them or drive to Redmond to tell them they have to renew their domains. If the people they do business with can't get heard, I doubt customers can either.
Plus there's no reason for them to be registering their sites for such short periods of time. They should be buying domains for like 10 years at a time.
Banner and popup ads have been overdone. They're very annoying and easy to block.
Why not switch to other forms of ads. Html and dhtml ads are becoming increasingly popular, look good, and usually require much less bandwidth than alternatives. You can even animate them. Imagine a little puppy running around the page, occasionally playing or going after your cursor. You click it and it takes you to an online pet store.
Macs aren't the most expensive option. When are people going to get this through their heads?
As soon as its not the most expensive option I guess.
The price argument can go either way really. I consistently find that Macs cost 50% more than similarly equipped PC's, but this may only be because I just don't care enough about some of the extras a Mac provides, like better audio, quieter operation, and working out of the box. Likewise, people often don't buy the most expensive things because of return on investment, or because they can't accomplish the same with less, they buy them because of the quality, and they can afford to not care about the price. If you demand excellence, and have money to spare, you may prefer a Mac.
As for the full unix development environment, you can achieve the same results on a PC with free downloads and a little bit of free time. And support isn't a big deal to seasoned users. While you may value your time enough to dish out the extra cash for a Mac, while a PC user may take into account all that they've learned from that extra time spent. Besides, once you've dealt with enough problems on a PC, overcoming them becomes a snap, and you can sell you skills to all the poor saps running XP home.
Don't forget that MacOS is now a BSD variant running X11, bringing it closer to Linux in terms of technology and compatibility, yet it's still the most expensive.
If part of the fines went to consumers, it would create an incentive to make false complaints. It's better to make it a big hassle to complain, with no benefit to the consumer except that warm, fuzzy feeling, and make up for it by having steep fines.
If I remember correctly, in addition to creating the do not call list, the bill also patched up some loopholes that allowed telemarketters to continue calling after being asked to stop.
As much as I hate spammers, I've never been a fan of blocklists either. From what I've heard, most of the maintainers won't remove an address once it's been added, except for sometimes in those rare cases where they accidentally block entire countries.
We can still go to GigaBlast, a high performance google-like search engine created by a single person and running on a shoestring budget. It's a really impressive piece of work.
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144,000 is a reference to the book of Revelation.
forbes.com wants to install stuff on my pc whenever I visit their site.
So much for alwayson-network
All we need is to lose control of this system and we could have this giant microwave beam cutting trenches of death and destruction through the Earth as it turns.
So you believe that censoring something that you don't like could be reasonable? Interesting.
Unreasonable to censor the North American Man-Boy Love Association?
Related South Park quote:
Stan: DUDE! I THINK THESE GUYS MEAN TO HAVE SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS WITH US!
Why not get a slashdot membership. Then you can see new articles before everyone else and get to the sites before they are slashdotted. The 16mb trailer downloads were very quick for me because of this.
The blue pill trailer has less action, just to warn you all.
You mean to say I won't get my $20 million dollars?
Maybe your hardware and/or drivers are to blame. 2000/XP can run under heavy use for months or sometimes years on a stable hardware+driver setup without crashing.
Plus reinstalling Windows shouldn't involve deleting all your files.
They go to such lengths to ignore email from anyone who's not paying $150 per incident. I bet they even use a whitelist. Everyone not on the list gets blackholed. Registrars aren't going to pay them or drive to Redmond to tell them they have to renew their domains. If the people they do business with can't get heard, I doubt customers can either.
Plus there's no reason for them to be registering their sites for such short periods of time. They should be buying domains for like 10 years at a time.
Banner and popup ads have been overdone. They're very annoying and easy to block.
Why not switch to other forms of ads. Html and dhtml ads are becoming increasingly popular, look good, and usually require much less bandwidth than alternatives. You can even animate them. Imagine a little puppy running around the page, occasionally playing or going after your cursor. You click it and it takes you to an online pet store.
Text ads have a much better bandwidth per click ratio, and are much harder to block than banner ads.
Lets see...
1) Write a virus.
2) Frame someone.
3) Profit!!!
Macs aren't the most expensive option. When are people going to get this through their heads?
As soon as its not the most expensive option I guess.
The price argument can go either way really. I consistently find that Macs cost 50% more than similarly equipped PC's, but this may only be because I just don't care enough about some of the extras a Mac provides, like better audio, quieter operation, and working out of the box. Likewise, people often don't buy the most expensive things because of return on investment, or because they can't accomplish the same with less, they buy them because of the quality, and they can afford to not care about the price. If you demand excellence, and have money to spare, you may prefer a Mac.
As for the full unix development environment, you can achieve the same results on a PC with free downloads and a little bit of free time. And support isn't a big deal to seasoned users. While you may value your time enough to dish out the extra cash for a Mac, while a PC user may take into account all that they've learned from that extra time spent. Besides, once you've dealt with enough problems on a PC, overcoming them becomes a snap, and you can sell you skills to all the poor saps running XP home.
Don't forget that MacOS is now a BSD variant running X11, bringing it closer to Linux in terms of technology and compatibility, yet it's still the most expensive.
"My god, this does taste like grandma! I'll take the whole basket."
I wonder if/when we can expect to see this in stores?
If part of the fines went to consumers, it would create an incentive to make false complaints. It's better to make it a big hassle to complain, with no benefit to the consumer except that warm, fuzzy feeling, and make up for it by having steep fines.
If I remember correctly, in addition to creating the do not call list, the bill also patched up some loopholes that allowed telemarketters to continue calling after being asked to stop.
Figure that 1 out of 100 consumers who receive calls in violation of the DNC submit compaints.
Out of 300 who complained (probably slightly less, since some may have complained multiple times), 29 of them were accepted, or about 1 in 10.
So one could assume that for every violation that was reported, investigated, and verified, about 1000 went unpunished.
So the actual penalty comes out to about $10 per actual violation, reported or not.
As much as I hate spammers, I've never been a fan of blocklists either. From what I've heard, most of the maintainers won't remove an address once it's been added, except for sometimes in those rare cases where they accidentally block entire countries.
If holding down shift when inserting a CD is a violation of the DMCA, then certainly so is pressing ctrl-a-c in a pdf.
By golly you're right! More shows than ever before suck ass!
As long as you keep the source closed, patch often, and pray every night before bed.
We can still go to GigaBlast, a high performance google-like search engine created by a single person and running on a shoestring budget. It's a really impressive piece of work.
Pretty much the same here. I have Slackware 9.1, but not on by best pc.
After reading this article, I went ahead and bought a membership at fsf.org. It's $60 a year since I'm a student.