Seriously, line by line, I thought I had written your post. I'd quote what part I was talking about, but I'd be quoting the whole thing (except for the caffeine part, you'll pry my Mountain Dew from my cold dead hands). Is what you have ADHD? How do you know? Were you diagnosed? Whatever you have, that's what I have. More importantly, if coping with it means losing that creative edge, is it really worth it, or should I just deal? I kinda like my quirks, consequences and all. I feel more in tune to the things I care about, while the things I don't care about, I just don't care.
I don't mean to stomp on your parade, but we Americans really like to feel good about ourselves. I think all people should do this. How much unhappiness exists in the world because of pessimism?
I sense the world attitude might be growing toward "the US isn't all that great". Why do you feel the need to keep telling us this? Please keep your opinions to yourself. I don't go to your house and say "I don't think your living room is as nice as you think it is". Your house is your castle, and you should be proud of it. Same goes for your country. (I'm sure your living room is very nice)
So manufacturers don't want to give away design specs. They don't want to maintain 2 versions of a driver either. What kind of effort would it take to abstract the driver model to be OS independent? I'm not talking about overnight stuff here, but why should a driver care about who is talking to it? We have NTFS support on non-MS operating systems due to a virtual file system layer. You can tell me why it can't be done now, but why can't we overcome those obstacles? Maybe it will always just be a matter of speed/code efficiency talking to the hardware...
What if it were shown that original GPL'ed Linux code has been borrowed and incorporated into Unix. GPL'ed Unix? Given the history and relationships of these OSs, surely there must be some potential of this?
But spammers have found ways to defeat them and spam accounts for 40 percent of all e-mail
Is this true?
Of all my email accounts, the only one I ever get spam on is my yahoo account, which I set up pretty much to get spam on, since any websites I visit that require registration, I always give them the "spam" address I got for free. I don't even check that email for anything. Human beings are the only recipients of my paid email addresses. I am for measures like this though, because even though I'm not affected directly by spam, increased traffic on the net is bad for everyone.
We need to punish the sensless posting of one's own email address to anonymous sources. These are the same people that give out their address and phone numbers when they buy batteries from radio shack. Use your head, they don't want to know where you live so they can send you a case of scotch. They want to drink your beer, crash on your couch, sleep with your daughter, and have you pay them for the privelege.
Here is the real problem. If I buy a cd, I am using my money to hire that band for their services(playing music that I want to hear). With a system like this, if I pay $10 a month, I figure $8.50 is going to people who, in my opinion, should actually be paying me for having to listen to the same shit 50 times a day, on tv, radio, walking down the street, whatever. It is not even music, in my opinion, and no one can reasonably claim its art. The invisible hand of a free market is supposed to support goods and services people actually want, but when my funds are diverted inevitably towards bands I would not download for free, let alone pay for, its because some corporate god decided that this crap-factory "pop" group is going to be the money maker this year. They want me to pay for that??? Don't tell me who I'm allowed to pay. Oh, and while I'm at it, screw that Simon guy from American Idol, he's part of the problem.
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I forgot to mention (shoot me). That two things that help me with this are (GASP!) sunlight, and excercise.
Seriously, line by line, I thought I had written your post. I'd quote what part I was talking about, but I'd be quoting the whole thing (except for the caffeine part, you'll pry my Mountain Dew from my cold dead hands). Is what you have ADHD? How do you know? Were you diagnosed? Whatever you have, that's what I have. More importantly, if coping with it means losing that creative edge, is it really worth it, or should I just deal? I kinda like my quirks, consequences and all. I feel more in tune to the things I care about, while the things I don't care about, I just don't care.
They're yelling "Quit", because there are no jobs out there. This guy quits, a job opens up, some slashdotter takes his job.
This sounds like jealousy.
I don't mean to stomp on your parade, but we Americans really like to feel good about ourselves. I think all people should do this. How much unhappiness exists in the world because of pessimism?
I sense the world attitude might be growing toward "the US isn't all that great". Why do you feel the need to keep telling us this? Please keep your opinions to yourself. I don't go to your house and say "I don't think your living room is as nice as you think it is". Your house is your castle, and you should be proud of it. Same goes for your country. (I'm sure your living room is very nice)
That's funny, I'm 22... not all of us listen to Avril Lavigne(sp?)
Filling out forms, standing in line...
Is suing Sprint for violation of its IP. ;)
Wow, Back in March, SCO was 2 bucks a share, now they're up around 8. I guess no publicity is bad publicity...
So manufacturers don't want to give away design specs. They don't want to maintain 2 versions of a driver either. What kind of effort would it take to abstract the driver model to be OS independent? I'm not talking about overnight stuff here, but why should a driver care about who is talking to it? We have NTFS support on non-MS operating systems due to a virtual file system layer. You can tell me why it can't be done now, but why can't we overcome those obstacles? Maybe it will always just be a matter of speed/code efficiency talking to the hardware...
What if it were shown that original GPL'ed Linux code has been borrowed and incorporated into Unix. GPL'ed Unix? Given the history and relationships of these OSs, surely there must be some potential of this?
But spammers have found ways to defeat them and spam accounts for 40 percent of all e-mail
Is this true?
Of all my email accounts, the only one I ever get spam on is my yahoo account, which I set up pretty much to get spam on, since any websites I visit that require registration, I always give them the "spam" address I got for free. I don't even check that email for anything. Human beings are the only recipients of my paid email addresses. I am for measures like this though, because even though I'm not affected directly by spam, increased traffic on the net is bad for everyone.
We need to punish the sensless posting of one's own email address to anonymous sources. These are the same people that give out their address and phone numbers when they buy batteries from radio shack. Use your head, they don't want to know where you live so they can send you a case of scotch. They want to drink your beer, crash on your couch, sleep with your daughter, and have you pay them for the privelege.
You want an omlette? You gotta break some eggs.
"User banned by Metallica" dialog boxes, as well as a scare that "they" knew who you were, and had your name, email, and whatever else logged.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.html#durati on Sorry dude, its expired
Ooh, a sarcasm detector, that's real useful. - the comic book guy
Here is the real problem. If I buy a cd, I am using my money to hire that band for their services(playing music that I want to hear). With a system like this, if I pay $10 a month, I figure $8.50 is going to people who, in my opinion, should actually be paying me for having to listen to the same shit 50 times a day, on tv, radio, walking down the street, whatever. It is not even music, in my opinion, and no one can reasonably claim its art. The invisible hand of a free market is supposed to support goods and services people actually want, but when my funds are diverted inevitably towards bands I would not download for free, let alone pay for, its because some corporate god decided that this crap-factory "pop" group is going to be the money maker this year. They want me to pay for that??? Don't tell me who I'm allowed to pay. Oh, and while I'm at it, screw that Simon guy from American Idol, he's part of the problem.