I 've seen the "buy" flashing today and it was on outlook. Too slow to be subliminal (score one for windows bloat and poor performance, it is a 3ghz desktop).
Did anybody wrote that the error must propagate through the end user? Not me. It's not even the Unix way, since many things can be done with standard error and return codes to deal with errors without needing the user to know.
I also think you chose a bad analogy with dropped packets. First, the DNS error is part of the Internet, proof is that the "Earthlink way" is prone to break existing INTERNET client/server apps that rely on such errors. Second, the earthlink way with dropped packets would be to return you a dummy packet full of ads instead of the missing one. (not that it's feasible, luckily)
This is not about the unix way or the apple way. This is about the Computer Science way: returning an error when an error occurs. Dealing with the error is an user agent, not an ISP responsibility. Earthlink should have made this opt-in (they can spare a coupe IPs for a couple more DNS servers, can't they).
I run PPC linux and mac on linux over it occasionally, so I know what you probably meant, it still does not apply here.
Animals kill when they need to eat or practice their predatory skills (cats playing with mice). Maybe some sociopathy is present in the animal kingdom too, but on average they are well above us. We kill other humans for propaganda induced hate, or for a soccer match. I am theoretically not against hunting: it's better to live wild and die young instead of ending like chicken in farms who get eaten anyway. But you must eat what you kill, and you must not further pollute the environment as some lead ammunition does. That makes most hunters worth shooting at themselves.
Back to topic, i feel neither much sympathy for scientist doing evil things to animals, nor those who harm him which are doing the same.
The hypocrisy is on the currents scientific methods, too, they claim they need to harm animals to speed up discovery, then corporations bury those discoveries with industrial secrets, patents, market strategies if they are bad for their agenda. Fuck you, leave animals alone until you replace your occultism masked as progress with good ol' real, peer-reviewed, open Science.
And what a pyrrich victory, too. The incorporation of closed source codecs means getting many disadvantages other than losing the aura of freedom fighters. Undisclosable bugs, functionality and performance decided by corporate PHBs instead of an open source development effort, and probably, having to pay or register your linux installation, with the headaches I thought i'd leave behind forever when switching to linux.
Why not staying the course and keep eroding marketshare where proprietary drivers and codecs mean very little, and security, adaptability and performance are much sought after? I mean corporate desktops and servers. That's how microsoft got its monopoly too, btw. Once people get used to the ease of use (yep you hear me right) of linux in an office environment and load it at home, drivers and codecs makers will have two choices: not work with linux and say goodbye to 20% or more of the installed base or be compatible, which doesn't even strictly involve opening up the code (even if I believe being open under linux gives an edge)
It's stupid, in the strategy above, to start paying software makers for codecs and stuff which is almost always designed to give the owner marketshare, not to give the user a better computing experience.
How come a security guy doesn't mention live CDs. I seem to recall somebody did a live windows cd. Personally i'd go for a free live distro, I'd boot from it and download clam or similar stuff to scan the HD.
Unless the guy meant there could always a rootkit not detectable by a current anti virus. But, this level of paranoia should make you reinstall your OS every time you use your PC... and never install closed stuff like windows, anyway.
I would add: why bother getting a 3rd party device if the built-in wireless were vulnerable? They'd have scored many more geek points 0wning a plain mac on stage and then saying "BTW also PCs are vulnerable".
Except that the EULA specifically forbids you any act of reverse engineering, on windows and all closed source. So even if consumers wew able to do that, which is ridiculous, they couldn't: so, the only conclusion of your reasoning is, nobody should ever buy windows. Fine for me.
First assumption: that I have an opinion on the moon landing. Second, that whatever is presented to me and to all the others, can't make me or them change opinion. Third, and worse one, that the x axis for the IQ bell curve must be oriented left to right. Three arbitrary assumptions in three phrases, wow. What are you, a philosopher?
Do you realize your post is just a categorization of people not believing to the moon landing with no concrete arguments whatsoever? Btw, most people attacking conspiracy theorists do just like that, and that's precisely why I was prompted to investigate into some of the theories. But my opinion is off topic to the point I want to make, that is: the only way to deal with conspiracy theorists is to take some of the assertions they use to back their opinion and confute it, post links if you are lazy.
And to burn some karma, baby: Moderation to your post is most moronic.
How to export messages from outlook or migrate them to other accounts? M$ answer, get exchange or some shareware to do it (with free shareware screens and reminders, cool). Linux answer: backup one or two in evolution (WTF, evo guys?) and have them in an open and parseable format. Who's complex?
I smell bullshit. Any 14 year old with 2 months experience could have made a better job. And now you say such photo made through the editors AND another guy who, as distracted as he could be, failed to notice an obvious fake? Also, wasn't there enough smoke already?
Maybe such pics are meant to spread a kind of FUD about the carnage? Or meant to make people speak about doctored photos instead of current events?
Anyway, great way to end a photographer career. Very zidanish:)
The distinction between "art" and "the latest way to use technology to impress people" is the problem. I dont really imply art cant be made that way, just as a circus number can indeed be art. But the problem is that most circus numbers are not art, it is a discovery to the extreme of human and animal capabilities.
The other problem is that I and possibly other people prefer hard-wired art, you know, the good ol' idea of art provoking emotions, not responding to them.
That's millions of dollars in stock sales. Given that the stock price skyrocketed when they announced the lawsuit, and the executive stock dumping began shortly thereafter, what do you make of this situation?
me, nothing. I already wanted to hang McBride by the balls anyway:)
Seriously, people placed their money betting on SCO success in harming free software? well too bad for them. They actually helped SCO, so If they lose money I gloat in 32-bit color.
yep but good luck trying to defeat different algorithms and still retaining some sense, let alone a convincing message. Unless people are going to trust a sender named "Honey bee furufuru", which unfortunately is still entirely possible.
Similarly no company has any obligation to support Linux...
Well if they want my money, they better do it. Even if I were forced back to use mainly a proprietary OS, Linux compatibility is great for hardware/configuration troubleshooting. Booting from linux live CDs and/or partitions literally saved me days of work. I am not giving that up.
...especially considering Linux apparently doesn't even bother trying to help them support Linux
If helping them means to go against the free software philosophy, which isn't a principle carved in stone and then given to mankind but something that evolved from being burned too many times by proprietary stuff, no help is advisable. Else I dunno what you meant, as there's nothing more helpful for harware support than an open source OS.
That's only half of the problem, to make vista prettier. The other half is that with this approach lazy microsoft has no problems but every OEM will end up with a different looking environment which will confuse people. I have seen people confused by the absence of a desktop icon, unable to launch from the app menu. On the other hand, having people learning to deal with different look and feel might increase their ability with interfaces, so when they are given a kde or gnome interface they do not immediately panic:) Go, multivista!
Then my several years old debian unstable installation should be unusable by now: a desktop moderately loaded with packages downloads 100 mb upgrades weekly (and packages are decompressed so i must have surely replaced more than 10Gb of stuff). Sure i got problems of configuration, sometimes. But no stability issues. If I reinstalled from scratch today, all I'd gain is a couple less warnings on boot, maybe.
However, in principle and especially on MS stuff parent is 100% right:)
But, if you ever came across the kind of armour and swords that they used in the middle age, you conclude that while on average they were less powerful than us, well fed individual could get very very tough.
I assure you our gunners are very disciplined and follow strict ROE
So they are quite better than the soldiers at checkpoint who killed mr Calipari. Talk about ROE. And Italians can't even talk to the guys. And they were not shown the incident scene as everything was cleaned up ASAP. Talk about dealing with friggin' allies.
Americans with weapons are no different than Africans, Islamic fighters, Nazis, Serbs.
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I 've seen the "buy" flashing today and it was on outlook. Too slow to be subliminal (score one for windows bloat and poor performance, it is a 3ghz desktop).
Did anybody wrote that the error must propagate through the end user? Not me. It's not even the Unix way, since many things can be done with standard error and return codes to deal with errors without needing the user to know.
I also think you chose a bad analogy with dropped packets. First, the DNS error is part of the Internet, proof is that the "Earthlink way" is prone to break existing INTERNET client/server apps that rely on such errors. Second, the earthlink way with dropped packets would be to return you a dummy packet full of ads instead of the missing one. (not that it's feasible, luckily)
This is not about the unix way or the apple way. This is about the Computer Science way: returning an error when an error occurs. Dealing with the error is an user agent, not an ISP responsibility. Earthlink should have made this opt-in (they can spare a coupe IPs for a couple more DNS servers, can't they). I run PPC linux and mac on linux over it occasionally, so I know what you probably meant, it still does not apply here.
Animals kill when they need to eat or practice their predatory skills (cats playing with mice). Maybe some sociopathy is present in the animal kingdom too, but on average they are well above us. We kill other humans for propaganda induced hate, or for a soccer match.
I am theoretically not against hunting: it's better to live wild and die young instead of ending like chicken in farms who get eaten anyway. But you must eat what you kill, and you must not further pollute the environment as some lead ammunition does. That makes most hunters worth shooting at themselves.
Back to topic, i feel neither much sympathy for scientist doing evil things to animals, nor those who harm him which are doing the same.
The hypocrisy is on the currents scientific methods, too, they claim they need to harm animals to speed up discovery, then corporations bury those discoveries with industrial secrets, patents, market strategies if they are bad for their agenda. Fuck you, leave animals alone until you replace your occultism masked as progress with good ol' real, peer-reviewed, open Science.
And what a pyrrich victory, too. The incorporation of closed source codecs means getting many disadvantages other than losing the aura of freedom fighters. Undisclosable bugs, functionality and performance decided by corporate PHBs instead of an open source development effort, and probably, having to pay or register your linux installation, with the headaches I thought i'd leave behind forever when switching to linux.
Why not staying the course and keep eroding marketshare where proprietary drivers and codecs mean very little, and security, adaptability and performance are much sought after? I mean corporate desktops and servers. That's how microsoft got its monopoly too, btw. Once people get used to the ease of use (yep you hear me right) of linux in an office environment and load it at home, drivers and codecs makers will have two choices: not work with linux and say goodbye to 20% or more of the installed base or be compatible, which doesn't even strictly involve opening up the code (even if I believe being open under linux gives an edge)
It's stupid, in the strategy above, to start paying software makers for codecs and stuff which is almost always designed to give the owner marketshare, not to give the user a better computing experience.
How come a security guy doesn't mention live CDs. I seem to recall somebody did a live windows cd. Personally i'd go for a free live distro, I'd boot from it and download clam or similar stuff to scan the HD. Unless the guy meant there could always a rootkit not detectable by a current anti virus. But, this level of paranoia should make you reinstall your OS every time you use your PC... and never install closed stuff like windows, anyway.
I would add: why bother getting a 3rd party device if the built-in wireless were vulnerable? They'd have scored many more geek points 0wning a plain mac on stage and then saying "BTW also PCs are vulnerable".
Except that the EULA specifically forbids you any act of reverse engineering, on windows and all closed source. So even if consumers wew able to do that, which is ridiculous, they couldn't: so, the only conclusion of your reasoning is, nobody should ever buy windows. Fine for me.
In fact, my leased 2.6.11-xen vserver with debian has performed well since when it was installed, 47 days ago. No X11 stuff on it, of course.
First assumption: that I have an opinion on the moon landing. Second, that whatever is presented to me and to all the others, can't make me or them change opinion. Third, and worse one, that the x axis for the IQ bell curve must be oriented left to right. Three arbitrary assumptions in three phrases, wow. What are you, a philosopher?
Do you realize your post is just a categorization of people not believing to the moon landing with no concrete arguments whatsoever? Btw, most people attacking conspiracy theorists do just like that, and that's precisely why I was prompted to investigate into some of the theories. But my opinion is off topic to the point I want to make, that is: the only way to deal with conspiracy theorists is to take some of the assertions they use to back their opinion and confute it, post links if you are lazy.
And to burn some karma, baby: Moderation to your post is most moronic.
How to export messages from outlook or migrate them to other accounts? M$ answer, get exchange or some shareware to do it (with free shareware screens and reminders, cool). Linux answer: backup one or two in evolution (WTF, evo guys?) and have them in an open and parseable format. Who's complex?
I smell bullshit. Any 14 year old with 2 months experience could have made a better job. And now you say such photo made through the editors AND another guy who, as distracted as he could be, failed to notice an obvious fake? Also, wasn't there enough smoke already? Maybe such pics are meant to spread a kind of FUD about the carnage? Or meant to make people speak about doctored photos instead of current events? Anyway, great way to end a photographer career. Very zidanish :)
The distinction between "art" and "the latest way to use technology to impress people" is the problem. I dont really imply art cant be made that way, just as a circus number can indeed be art. But the problem is that most circus numbers are not art, it is a discovery to the extreme of human and animal capabilities.
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The other problem is that I and possibly other people prefer hard-wired art, you know, the good ol' idea of art provoking emotions, not responding to them.
That's millions of dollars in stock sales. Given that the stock price skyrocketed when they announced the lawsuit, and the executive stock dumping began shortly thereafter, what do you make of this situation?
:)
me, nothing. I already wanted to hang McBride by the balls anyway
Seriously, people placed their money betting on SCO success in harming free software? well too bad for them. They actually helped SCO, so If they lose money I gloat in 32-bit color.
yep but good luck trying to defeat different algorithms and still retaining some sense, let alone a convincing message. Unless people are going to trust a sender named "Honey bee furufuru", which unfortunately is still entirely possible.
If helping them means to go against the free software philosophy, which isn't a principle carved in stone and then given to mankind but something that evolved from being burned too many times by proprietary stuff, no help is advisable. Else I dunno what you meant, as there's nothing more helpful for harware support than an open source OS.
That's only half of the problem, to make vista prettier. The other half is that with this approach lazy microsoft has no problems but every OEM will end up with a different looking environment which will confuse people. I have seen people confused by the absence of a desktop icon, unable to launch from the app menu. On the other hand, having people learning to deal with different look and feel might increase their ability with interfaces, so when they are given a kde or gnome interface they do not immediately panic :) Go, multivista!
However, in principle and especially on MS stuff parent is 100% right
But, if you ever came across the kind of armour and swords that they used in the middle age, you conclude that while on average they were less powerful than us, well fed individual could get very very tough.
So they are quite better than the soldiers at checkpoint who killed mr Calipari. Talk about ROE. And Italians can't even talk to the guys. And they were not shown the incident scene as everything was cleaned up ASAP. Talk about dealing with friggin' allies.
Americans with weapons are no different than Africans, Islamic fighters, Nazis, Serbs.
Italians.
"Vai Luca, annichiliscilo"
BTW the captcha for this post was "rebelled"