When they stop making internet adds obtuse, gaudy and annoying, i'll stop using adblock. Google banners are nice, plain and don't attempt to infiltrate your browsing experience. It's the huge flash adds the blink and give you seizures that annoy the hades out of me.
Also, i've NEVER clicked on an add since i started using the internet. If they're not going to get a click-through on the add anyway, why does it hurt if i just block it? Never have, never will click the things...
IMO, most adds are just as annoying as popups. Mr. doubleclick up there needs to reform the way advertising is done instead of flaming people for getting rid of his ridiculous garbage...
Call it a flamebait or troll, but i'm sick of how stupid online advertisers have become...
Hacking (in the illegal sense) is just asking for trouble. IMO anyone who does it deserves a few years in solitary... Maybe if they just outright hacked anyones head off who did it, then the others would get a clue and stop.:-P
Anyone wanna take a gander at what percentage of bittorrent traffic really is legal? I guarantee no one will be switching to MS over bittorrent if avalanche is controlled in the legality sense...
That's great in theory , but when they realize that they don't have any of the MS codecs and can't play any video from the msnbc news site, they're going to be FORCED to get the player. And per the previous reply....they should definatley have been forced to lower the price as well...
I figured this would happen... All the EU did is waste millions in taxpayer money tracking down the evil microsoft for something that no one even really gives a rip about. Not to mention the people who DO get XP N will likely go to the MS site and download the media player as soon as they realize it's not there...
lol safer? you think in a hundred years the people on mars arent going to go all new england colonies on us and revolt? You're dreaming... That's problems waiting to happen...
...I think it's just called "covering all ends." They don't want the chance out there that something they release to the public is going to somehow come back to bite them in the butt. If someone DOES find out that they're using "something" that's not as good as "something else," there could be a marketing blitz to undermine that company... That's just one of a lot of scenarios.
Anyone with a computer that takes 8 seconds to close word has major computer problems in the first place. A Celery 2.2 with 512mb of ram shouldnt take NEAR that long to do that sort of thing. I used it at work on a 1.6ghz p4 w/ 256mb of ram and it opens and closes literally almost instantly. i can guarantee that it definatley takes no more than 3-4 seconds to open OR close word. I regularly save words docs that are hundreds of pages long and it has never taken more than 1-2 seconds to save any of them.
While i don't favor MS over open source, this guy's story is utter bullcrap.
There are zealots on both sides who will argue until they are absolutely blue in the face over what is better than what. However, how does anyone ever plan on being able to prove it? Mac Zealots evangelize Mac just as much as Linux users do Linux....But while linux may be ridiculously stable and open source....try getting any ported game to run as fast on it as it runs on windows.
My point is that there will never be a "winner" in this debate. They're all here to stay, and the more griping and screaming that's done about how much better one product is than the other, the more people won't want to use those products simply because everyone supporting them seems like a blathering idiot... They all have good and ad points and all this screaming is retarded.
hmmmm, some of us have more important things to do than sit around and watch the stars for something that will never come.
If you would like to take over my job and do all my duties so i can go help via volutary work, i'd be glad to drop everything right now...
Volunteering time is very different from "volunteering money" anyway. Every single penny spent on SETI is a total and complete waste and when people get sick of waiting for nothing to happen, they will drop their private funding and realize they just spent millions of dollars on something that had NO return for them at all, or ANYONE for that matter. At that point they'll probably wish they'd given their money away to someone who really needed it instead of wasting it on a cause that benefitted no one. All they're doing is dumping money into the pockets of the people who work at SETI in the form of a paycheck...
Microsoft copying off someone else? Imagine that??!! Seriously, mod me down if you want, but does MS EVER do anything first or on their own? This is so pathetic is makes me wanna spit...
so why don't these private funders give the money to something worth giving it to, not some worthless waste of time and resources? There are plenty of impoverished people in the world that would likely enjoy a chunk of the millions...
Universities are rife with buerocrats who can't make up their minds as to what they want. You'll end up going the same project 14 times before you finally get it approved by all doubtless 87 people who have to decide that it works for them. And the bottom line is that they probably won't end up using what you develop anyway.
I think SETI is one of the most serious wastes of resources ever dreamed up. All that ridiculous funding could go to something much more important than trying to find something that probably wouldnt contact us even if it could...if it even exists...
nail this as flamebait if you want, but if "ET" wanted to let us know he was there, he'd find a way to get around our cell phone signals.;)
This is just a bunch of wacko's griping because they're bored waiting for....nothing.....to happen.
I've been using it for about 5 years now and love it to death. Mucho Bueno! there is no more seamless interface to a mySQL database than that of PHP (IMHO)
sure, they have been sued....but has anyone ever won?
The Inq is right and thats the bottom line. It makes me think twice about using Firefox in the future...
And as far as a reputable media source... Yaknow, everyone with no clue says this. EVERYONE. The bottom line is that the inq largely posts only real news and when they do post their predictions and rumors....99% of the time they come true... So not only are they a good media source, they're almost prophetic in content....not to mention their wit is hilarious. They have my vote.
this is really the next step towards the star trek "padd" device IMO. something we can use to access a lot, but not too much. extremely easy to use and something you will likely keep around the house or on the kitchen counter, by the bed, in the bathroom reading material, etc. I'm impressed and i can guarantee you i'll own one...
I think it'dd be back to its former glory in size, etc, but as for speed of growth, i highly doubt it. I think The problem is that last time people got all excted about this new fun stuff, and then didnt know how to handle it. I think it will definalty be as big and bigger than it was, but it will be a slower and more controlled expansion that will be more like a gum bubble slowly expanding instead of a gum bubble forced full of air faster than it can expand. I feel that a lot of people have learned now how to do things properly. there's my $0.02.
Now would seem like the ideal time for anyone investing in SCO to sell everything they have in it because i fear it's probably not going to be going back up...
well, if i were a spammer, i'd be trying to make a living my clogging up the mailboxes of millions of people with useless garbage that it's obvious they don't want. If spam was something worth making a living on, they wouldnt have big companies that do nothing but come up with software to fight it. It's awful and any spammers out there deserve to have laws made against their actions. At the very LEAST, governments should enact a national no-spam email list. People hate spam and no crying from any lame spammer is going to make ANYONE feel sorry for them. Most people cheer when they hear some has been prosecuted for violating the (somewhat overrated) can-spam law....
About that patent reform... Isn't it about time? The lamebrains behind awarding patents must really not understand these things. I remember when a person had to spend weeks or months proving that they should get a patent and that it's valid. Now i think they employ a bunch of 6th graders to stand around and stamp reams of applications with "Awarded" or something...
you might want to take longhorn as an example of microsoft meeting their release dates and withdraw your bet of $20...
I highly doubt MS will have their console out on time. I can just see the/. article in november: "Microsoft Delays Release of XBOX 360."
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When they stop making internet adds obtuse, gaudy and annoying, i'll stop using adblock. Google banners are nice, plain and don't attempt to infiltrate your browsing experience. It's the huge flash adds the blink and give you seizures that annoy the hades out of me.
Also, i've NEVER clicked on an add since i started using the internet. If they're not going to get a click-through on the add anyway, why does it hurt if i just block it? Never have, never will click the things...
IMO, most adds are just as annoying as popups. Mr. doubleclick up there needs to reform the way advertising is done instead of flaming people for getting rid of his ridiculous garbage...
Call it a flamebait or troll, but i'm sick of how stupid online advertisers have become...
Hacking (in the illegal sense) is just asking for trouble. IMO anyone who does it deserves a few years in solitary... Maybe if they just outright hacked anyones head off who did it, then the others would get a clue and stop. :-P
I like the idea but it would been better to use 802.11 instead of bluetooth for a little more range around the house....
Anyone wanna take a gander at what percentage of bittorrent traffic really is legal? I guarantee no one will be switching to MS over bittorrent if avalanche is controlled in the legality sense...
That's great in theory , but when they realize that they don't have any of the MS codecs and can't play any video from the msnbc news site, they're going to be FORCED to get the player. And per the previous reply....they should definatley have been forced to lower the price as well...
I figured this would happen... All the EU did is waste millions in taxpayer money tracking down the evil microsoft for something that no one even really gives a rip about. Not to mention the people who DO get XP N will likely go to the MS site and download the media player as soon as they realize it's not there...
lol safer? you think in a hundred years the people on mars arent going to go all new england colonies on us and revolt? You're dreaming... That's problems waiting to happen...
...I think it's just called "covering all ends." They don't want the chance out there that something they release to the public is going to somehow come back to bite them in the butt. If someone DOES find out that they're using "something" that's not as good as "something else," there could be a marketing blitz to undermine that company... That's just one of a lot of scenarios.
Anyone with a computer that takes 8 seconds to close word has major computer problems in the first place. A Celery 2.2 with 512mb of ram shouldnt take NEAR that long to do that sort of thing. I used it at work on a 1.6ghz p4 w/ 256mb of ram and it opens and closes literally almost instantly. i can guarantee that it definatley takes no more than 3-4 seconds to open OR close word. I regularly save words docs that are hundreds of pages long and it has never taken more than 1-2 seconds to save any of them.
While i don't favor MS over open source, this guy's story is utter bullcrap.
you proving me wrong would be you showing me a site with benchmarks of linux vs windows in gaming where linux is the winner....
There are zealots on both sides who will argue until they are absolutely blue in the face over what is better than what. However, how does anyone ever plan on being able to prove it? Mac Zealots evangelize Mac just as much as Linux users do Linux....But while linux may be ridiculously stable and open source....try getting any ported game to run as fast on it as it runs on windows.
My point is that there will never be a "winner" in this debate. They're all here to stay, and the more griping and screaming that's done about how much better one product is than the other, the more people won't want to use those products simply because everyone supporting them seems like a blathering idiot... They all have good and ad points and all this screaming is retarded.
Neg Mod away...
hmmmm, some of us have more important things to do than sit around and watch the stars for something that will never come.
If you would like to take over my job and do all my duties so i can go help via volutary work, i'd be glad to drop everything right now...
Volunteering time is very different from "volunteering money" anyway. Every single penny spent on SETI is a total and complete waste and when people get sick of waiting for nothing to happen, they will drop their private funding and realize they just spent millions of dollars on something that had NO return for them at all, or ANYONE for that matter. At that point they'll probably wish they'd given their money away to someone who really needed it instead of wasting it on a cause that benefitted no one. All they're doing is dumping money into the pockets of the people who work at SETI in the form of a paycheck...
Microsoft copying off someone else? Imagine that??!! Seriously, mod me down if you want, but does MS EVER do anything first or on their own? This is so pathetic is makes me wanna spit...
so why don't these private funders give the money to something worth giving it to, not some worthless waste of time and resources? There are plenty of impoverished people in the world that would likely enjoy a chunk of the millions...
Universities are rife with buerocrats who can't make up their minds as to what they want. You'll end up going the same project 14 times before you finally get it approved by all doubtless 87 people who have to decide that it works for them. And the bottom line is that they probably won't end up using what you develop anyway.
I think SETI is one of the most serious wastes of resources ever dreamed up. All that ridiculous funding could go to something much more important than trying to find something that probably wouldnt contact us even if it could...if it even exists... nail this as flamebait if you want, but if "ET" wanted to let us know he was there, he'd find a way to get around our cell phone signals. ;)
This is just a bunch of wacko's griping because they're bored waiting for....nothing.....to happen.
I've been using it for about 5 years now and love it to death. Mucho Bueno! there is no more seamless interface to a mySQL database than that of PHP (IMHO)
uh... he's talking about 12-18 months. CRT's are not going all the way out by then....
sure, they have been sued....but has anyone ever won?
The Inq is right and thats the bottom line. It makes me think twice about using Firefox in the future...
And as far as a reputable media source... Yaknow, everyone with no clue says this. EVERYONE. The bottom line is that the inq largely posts only real news and when they do post their predictions and rumors....99% of the time they come true... So not only are they a good media source, they're almost prophetic in content....not to mention their wit is hilarious. They have my vote.
this is really the next step towards the star trek "padd" device IMO. something we can use to access a lot, but not too much. extremely easy to use and something you will likely keep around the house or on the kitchen counter, by the bed, in the bathroom reading material, etc. I'm impressed and i can guarantee you i'll own one...
I think it'dd be back to its former glory in size, etc, but as for speed of growth, i highly doubt it. I think The problem is that last time people got all excted about this new fun stuff, and then didnt know how to handle it. I think it will definalty be as big and bigger than it was, but it will be a slower and more controlled expansion that will be more like a gum bubble slowly expanding instead of a gum bubble forced full of air faster than it can expand. I feel that a lot of people have learned now how to do things properly. there's my $0.02.
Now would seem like the ideal time for anyone investing in SCO to sell everything they have in it because i fear it's probably not going to be going back up...
well, if i were a spammer, i'd be trying to make a living my clogging up the mailboxes of millions of people with useless garbage that it's obvious they don't want. If spam was something worth making a living on, they wouldnt have big companies that do nothing but come up with software to fight it. It's awful and any spammers out there deserve to have laws made against their actions. At the very LEAST, governments should enact a national no-spam email list. People hate spam and no crying from any lame spammer is going to make ANYONE feel sorry for them. Most people cheer when they hear some has been prosecuted for violating the (somewhat overrated) can-spam law....
About that patent reform... Isn't it about time? The lamebrains behind awarding patents must really not understand these things. I remember when a person had to spend weeks or months proving that they should get a patent and that it's valid. Now i think they employ a bunch of 6th graders to stand around and stamp reams of applications with "Awarded" or something...
you might want to take longhorn as an example of microsoft meeting their release dates and withdraw your bet of $20... I highly doubt MS will have their console out on time. I can just see the /. article in november: "Microsoft Delays Release of XBOX 360."