What's interesting is that my fully patched XP Home box picked up Sober when I inadvertently clicked an e-mail spoofing my ISP's address. At least TrendMicro's online scan said it removed Sober. I was in an unpriviledged user account at the time.
How did this get marked troll while the grandparent, an obvious and funny example of the real thing (love the Gentoo touch!) gets modded up? Balmer, quit surfing and get back to your desk!
Perhaps not Nazi, but many here are old enough to remember when the Soviet requirement of identity papers for internal travel was held up to all as an example of tyranny in action. In some ways the collapse of the Soviet regime was the worst thing to happen to America in the second half of the twentieth.
"So you're saying it's exactly like office except free? I don't trust it. I'll just pirate Microsoft's instead."
Not quite. What they think is "I already got my copy of Office free, why should I replace it something lesser?" Watch the success of OO closely track the effectiveness of Microsoft's anti-piracy measures.
"The worst part is the completely machine-readable/automatic nature of the thing -- you might not even know you're giving your information away.
Um. Huh? With the exception of RFID, how in the living hell would you not know you're "giving your information away"?"
Wait! I know , I know! You'll always know you're broadcasting, you'll just have no way to know when someone's receiving, or who they are. Is that simple and obvious enough for you?
Shhhh! Ix-nay on the uality-quay talk! I like Usenet just the way it is, a fountain of the bizarre and unfamiliar. Last thing I want is for it to become another Britney bucket.
And the procedure is clearly "on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'." Do you really expect a student to be conversant enough in the DCMA to defend against Walmart? That's the dampening effect on free speech. Sure you have it, if you also have the time, funds and expertise to excerise it against other private citizens who just happen to own capital.
Then trumpet it. Be proud, proclaim MSN Search Engine as the Microsoft-centric search engine. But they won't do that, will they? It's not what people want from a search engine. To most English speakers this disconnect between portrayal and reality is called dishonest. Being accustomed to and accepting of dishonest practices will never make them honest, no matter how common.
"We don't want courts or legislation dictating how we provide our content."
They already do. People don't got to Sony or Warner jails for breaking DRM. The goverment dictates, at the behest of corporations, how we - the real 'we', the we who elect supposed representatives to political positons - what can be done with content. Now if you're arguing to remove both interventions and return to no government intrusion I'm right behind you.
The Dock and Taskbar are two completely different things. The Dock can be very useful depending on setup, ArsTech should stick to games. If you want a real example of a useability nightmare, try deviating the slightest bit from MS's 'One True Way' and run a hidden Taskbar in XP. Bar none the most intrusive, inefficient, infuriating notification model I've seen in any computer product, interupting and stealing focus from things I'm doing now to tell me things I don't need to know. But hey, it's a feature.
What a load. When tiling, completely key driven desktops like Ion, tab-based versions such as Fluxbox, or heaven forbid the Gimp's interface are mentioned, Linux is being held back through the lack of standards driven by the egotism and elitism of OSS developers. When the topic swings to innovation, OSX and MS now become the source of all OSS inspiration even though, to pick the latter example, no Linux desktops closely emulate XP save for one or two very unpopular products specifically designed to do so.
The editors shoulds consider a 'Hypocritical' moderation option.
Wrong analogy, no one 'shoplifts' anything by making a copy of a movie. Copying is not the same as theft, no matter how much people here like to bang their shoe on the table and pontificate otherwise. The original media remains untouched. Think more along the lines of selling home-made Mars bars.
"I mean, would somethign that was perfectly healthy and able to succed in life be dormant for no reason?"
RTFA. The eggs were dormant to survive the winter and normally hatched the following spring. These scientists revived eggs too deep in sediment to have hatched as intended a century ago. Not only was this creature 'perfectly healthy', this is an astounding example of fitness for survival. So the anser is 'yes', at least to the extent that I can understand such a bizarre and loaded question.
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What's interesting is that my fully patched XP Home box picked up Sober when I inadvertently clicked an e-mail spoofing my ISP's address. At least TrendMicro's online scan said it removed Sober. I was in an unpriviledged user account at the time.
How did this get marked troll while the grandparent, an obvious and funny example of the real thing (love the Gentoo touch!) gets modded up? Balmer, quit surfing and get back to your desk!
Perhaps not Nazi, but many here are old enough to remember when the Soviet requirement of identity papers for internal travel was held up to all as an example of tyranny in action. In some ways the collapse of the Soviet regime was the worst thing to happen to America in the second half of the twentieth.
"So you're saying it's exactly like office except free? I don't trust it. I'll just pirate Microsoft's instead."
Not quite. What they think is "I already got my copy of Office free, why should I replace it something lesser?" Watch the success of OO closely track the effectiveness of Microsoft's anti-piracy measures.
You mean enterprise waited for Win 2000?
Um. Huh? With the exception of RFID, how in the living hell would you not know you're "giving your information away"?"
Wait! I know , I know! You'll always know you're broadcasting, you'll just have no way to know when someone's receiving, or who they are. Is that simple and obvious enough for you?
Was leaving the 'do things well' part out when refering to Gates intentional? Not that I disagree.
Kids still care about Star Wars?
Shhhh! Ix-nay on the uality-quay talk! I like Usenet just the way it is, a fountain of the bizarre and unfamiliar. Last thing I want is for it to become another Britney bucket.
What was meant as an off-hand joke to counter the notion of stupid moderators marked flamebait by a clueless moderator. Irony meltdown in process....
Mod up!
And the procedure is clearly "on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'." Do you really expect a student to be conversant enough in the DCMA to defend against Walmart? That's the dampening effect on free speech. Sure you have it, if you also have the time, funds and expertise to excerise it against other private citizens who just happen to own capital.
Then trumpet it. Be proud, proclaim MSN Search Engine as the Microsoft-centric search engine. But they won't do that, will they? It's not what people want from a search engine. To most English speakers this disconnect between portrayal and reality is called dishonest. Being accustomed to and accepting of dishonest practices will never make them honest, no matter how common.
Funny, just installed another touchscreen system today running under XP and it seems to be fine. You sure it's not your one button touch screen? ;)
They already do. People don't got to Sony or Warner jails for breaking DRM. The goverment dictates, at the behest of corporations, how we - the real 'we', the we who elect supposed representatives to political positons - what can be done with content. Now if you're arguing to remove both interventions and return to no government intrusion I'm right behind you.
Let me see you record with it.
The Dock and Taskbar are two completely different things. The Dock can be very useful depending on setup, ArsTech should stick to games. If you want a real example of a useability nightmare, try deviating the slightest bit from MS's 'One True Way' and run a hidden Taskbar in XP. Bar none the most intrusive, inefficient, infuriating notification model I've seen in any computer product, interupting and stealing focus from things I'm doing now to tell me things I don't need to know. But hey, it's a feature.
The editors shoulds consider a 'Hypocritical' moderation option.
Hmmmmmm, Big Macs. ;)
Wrong analogy, no one 'shoplifts' anything by making a copy of a movie. Copying is not the same as theft, no matter how much people here like to bang their shoe on the table and pontificate otherwise. The original media remains untouched. Think more along the lines of selling home-made Mars bars.
Quebec French != France French. Similar, but no longer exact.
Rest your forearms or elbows on the table, problem solved. The movie provides an illustrative example, not the sole operational parameters.
RTFA. The eggs were dormant to survive the winter and normally hatched the following spring. These scientists revived eggs too deep in sediment to have hatched as intended a century ago. Not only was this creature 'perfectly healthy', this is an astounding example of fitness for survival. So the anser is 'yes', at least to the extent that I can understand such a bizarre and loaded question.
If that's the bar for proof I'ld be interested to hear how you think Creationism can be proved. Witnessing a repeatable miracle?
While at the same time generally supporting universal government surveillance. America ver. 1776, stood on its head.