I miss Trillian, Gaim is a mediocre substitute IMHO
Unless things have changed recently, I always hated that Trillian lagged behind GAIM when updates broke compatability. IIRC, the Trillian group got their fixes from the GAIM guys. I don't need my IM client to be pretty, I just need it to work, and that's GAIM.
You forgot that Bush, and much of the people he's got surrounding him are all fundamentalist Christians who are basically hoping like crazy that the apocalypse will happen on their watch, so World War 3 isn't exactly "off-limits" to their way of thinking.
Man, that's funny! Just using Donald Rumsfeld as an example, we can see that being part of the dominant power structure does indeed grant you a tremendous amount of job security.
Put more simply: The president may be a tool, but that doesn't mean that the people he's railing against aren't also tools, or even much worse than he is. That's the biggest problem I have with "progressives" in this country -- they think evil or incompetence is a kind of zero sum game. If the president of the US is bad, his enemies can't *really* be all that bad, which is totally untrue.
Any references for that sweeping generalisation? Let me clue you in. Your average progresssive spends most of his time bitching about Bush and not bitching about, say, Osama Bin Laden, because unless you're a complete retard, it's common knowledge that OBL is a scumfuck of the highest order, whereas Bush is nominally not supposed to invade sovereign countries, spy on his citizens, etc.
I missed out on that. I'll definitely have to start trying it. However, once one of your addresses (ex. foo@bar.example.com) gets on a spam list, what's to stop them from sending mail to foo2@bar.example.com,jsmith@bar.example.com and other randomly generated addresses?
Probably nothing, but the subdomain created was theoretically expendable, so instead of bills.domain.com, just use accounts.domain.com or something instead. (Unless I'm also missing something.)
Although it's rare for a first post to be on topic, this one is. "It's a trap!" refers to the statement made by Admiral Akbar in Star Wars and is a catchphrase often employed on Fark.
I see your "Get moderators attention to fix egregious moderation" and raise you one pedantry: they call it a cliche on Fark
Except the difference between yours and GP's post is that his test is a more reliable way of seeing how these will sell, not how well the poeple that get one enjoy it.
On that note I'm going for IE, versions 4 thru 7 (the only ones I have experience with.)
And before MS fans get all pissy, I'll admit up front that I'm completely and totally biased. See, I was introduced to the 'net in the Netscape 2.0 days (yeah, I'm not very l33t, sorry) and that was the context wthin which I learned what a browser, the internet, WWW and email is. In fact, if memory serves, pretty much everybody I knew in those days who had a PC and a 'net connection was running Netscape. I'm not even sure if they were even bothering with such stupid shit as "browser market share" yet.
Anyway, it was a good year or so before I even touched IE, because Netscape started crashing a whole hell of a lot. And I just plain didn't like it. It did nothing special that Netscape didn't do, and there were plenty of things it didn't do that Netscape did. Hell, it even crashed on a regular basis. Oh, and it was slow as shit, which was hilarious considering how it was tied into the OS.
Page rendering was a joke. The menus were typical MS WTF? It was bland. I hated it.
There were a few lean years there. Even with NS 4.79, it was still flaky on both Mac and PC. iCab was cute but twitchy, then Mozilla gave hope then Firefox released their non-crashy version and everything was muuuuuch better.
I looked in on IE from time to time, as circumstances warranted, and even with its belated tabness is still does shit that irritates from way earlier versions.
I have no doubt that IE can one day be a good and even great browser, a thousand monkeys and all that. But so far, it represents years of stagnation, which is sad considering the clout and the talent behind it.
It's always been true for retailers with limited space.
Again, I see what you're saying, but I can't help chuckle when I think about these enormous boxes the BBs and CCs live in. Hell, the last time I was in Circuit City, I was struck by how much dead space there was in there. I'm not even talking about the ridiculously high ceiling, either (seriously, there's room for a whole freaking second floor there), but how "loosely packed" the store was with merchandise. BB seems to be better at store layouts, but these places have always struck me as having been designed by kindergarteners.
Now they get to see how many identical computers they can assemble and ship, by filling up a Wal-Mart warehouse or three.
Somebody please mod parent up, it's the first interesting speculation I've read in this thread as to why Dell is doing this. Mind you, they probably already know exactly what that number is (what? another vanilla order? Why doesn't anybody want a custom box, whaaa!).
It doesn't make sense for Best Buy, for example, to add another brand to its PC section.
I (kinda) understand what you're saying here, but how the hell did we get to the point where it's better for a major retailer to have less diversity in the products he's selling than more?
I'm not sure who pissed in your cornflakes this morning, but I'll ask them to refrain in the future.
LOL thanks, about time somebody used that line on me for a change.
The point is that even if people want to deny something happend in history you shouldn't erase it from the history books.
And I read, understood, and agree wholeheartedly with that point. I was't disagreeing with or refuting it. The point I was trying to make, albeit clumsily, is that all these people raging against the teachers should just STFU. If it was an institutional thing, have at it. But if it's a few persons doing it because they don't get paid enough to deal with that shit, then just lay off them. It's easy to rag on them, but you walk home alone from work one night after pissing off your neighbourhood's idiots.
If your a teacher I don't care if your underpaid your underpaid to teach.
That's just asinine. It's not like it's a hermetic group composed of only teachers and students. There's administrators, local and national school bodies, ministers, politicians, and most importantly, parents all involved in this little thing we call education, and you're going to single out a few teachers? Do you think they get support from their bosses or parents with unruly children? You know the answer to that one.
Tell me something I don't know. Seriously, the minute nukes showed up on the scene, our time here was put on a strict leash. Russians, Chinese, Muslims, doesn't make a difference.
Get in line. We've been clamoring for this on the SC longer than you have! You'd think with the massive popularity of the game that either some hacker would have figured out how to mod it, or Blizzard would have tweaked it to support higher resolutions by now.
Or you could say that a bunch of companies who buy bandwidth in bulk, and sell it in small pieces can't cut their margins too tight without going out of business. Either way, it's a matter of perception.
Not really a problem. I've been thinking this for a little while: ISPs need to raise their rates. This "illusion" they're fostering can be as damaging for them as it can be annoying for their customers, but marketing doesn't want to charge above some magic figure they've conceived because they think everybody will ditch them for the alternative (or just ditch broadband, a thought gives them cold sweats.) Seriously, capitalism means charging a reasonable rate for a reasonable service, not position a multi-million dollar company on the bleeding edge of survivability.
I think the average joe will go for it, too. A variety of services, such as phone , entertainment on demand, and information all can be had through one pipe, yet we're really paying for a lot less.
Before I get flamed to hell, yes I understand that most ISPs are money-grubbing idiots who want to protect a shitty business model. I still think most of us are paying a lot less than what we're really getting.
Weren't there at least a dozen comments in the last OLPC story that pretty much debunked this idea that Intel's offering was in any way comparable to OLPC's? Oh wait, I forgot to look up and to the left...
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Ever try removing Norton from a system? It's like pulling wisdom teeth!
Not really. You just have to remember to uninstall LiveReg last.
I miss Trillian, Gaim is a mediocre substitute IMHO
Unless things have changed recently, I always hated that Trillian lagged behind GAIM when updates broke compatability. IIRC, the Trillian group got their fixes from the GAIM guys. I don't need my IM client to be pretty, I just need it to work, and that's GAIM.
This dates back to at least the 50's, and is probably an outgrowth of our nation's racist past. Popular black music was re-recorded by a white artist.
Hey, man, don't harsh the mellow! Otherwise, talentless shlubs like Pat Boone would have had to resort to giving handjobs at truck stops to get by.
You forgot that Bush, and much of the people he's got surrounding him are all fundamentalist Christians who are basically hoping like crazy that the apocalypse will happen on their watch, so World War 3 isn't exactly "off-limits" to their way of thinking.
job security
Man, that's funny! Just using Donald Rumsfeld as an example, we can see that being part of the dominant power structure does indeed grant you a tremendous amount of job security.
Put more simply: The president may be a tool, but that doesn't mean that the people he's railing against aren't also tools, or even much worse than he is. That's the biggest problem I have with "progressives" in this country -- they think evil or incompetence is a kind of zero sum game. If the president of the US is bad, his enemies can't *really* be all that bad, which is totally untrue.
Any references for that sweeping generalisation? Let me clue you in. Your average progresssive spends most of his time bitching about Bush and not bitching about, say, Osama Bin Laden, because unless you're a complete retard, it's common knowledge that OBL is a scumfuck of the highest order, whereas Bush is nominally not supposed to invade sovereign countries, spy on his citizens, etc.
That's why it seems to you to be that way.
- 1. Find p2p users, because they're more likely to run unpatched and vulnerable
- 2. Zombify said PC
- 3. Profit!
So what's new about this?I missed out on that. I'll definitely have to start trying it. However, once one of your addresses (ex. foo@bar.example.com) gets on a spam list, what's to stop them from sending mail to foo2@bar.example.com,jsmith@bar.example.com and other randomly generated addresses?
Probably nothing, but the subdomain created was theoretically expendable, so instead of bills.domain.com, just use accounts.domain.com or something instead. (Unless I'm also missing something.)
2 cents,
I want a refund.
Although it's rare for a first post to be on topic, this one is. "It's a trap!" refers to the statement made by Admiral Akbar in Star Wars and is a catchphrase often employed on Fark.
I see your "Get moderators attention to fix egregious moderation" and raise you one pedantry: they call it a cliche on Fark
Except the difference between yours and GP's post is that his test is a more reliable way of seeing how these will sell, not how well the poeple that get one enjoy it.
On that note I'm going for IE, versions 4 thru 7 (the only ones I have experience with.)
And before MS fans get all pissy, I'll admit up front that I'm completely and totally biased. See, I was introduced to the 'net in the Netscape 2.0 days (yeah, I'm not very l33t, sorry) and that was the context wthin which I learned what a browser, the internet, WWW and email is. In fact, if memory serves, pretty much everybody I knew in those days who had a PC and a 'net connection was running Netscape. I'm not even sure if they were even bothering with such stupid shit as "browser market share" yet.
Anyway, it was a good year or so before I even touched IE, because Netscape started crashing a whole hell of a lot. And I just plain didn't like it. It did nothing special that Netscape didn't do, and there were plenty of things it didn't do that Netscape did. Hell, it even crashed on a regular basis. Oh, and it was slow as shit, which was hilarious considering how it was tied into the OS. Page rendering was a joke. The menus were typical MS WTF? It was bland. I hated it.
There were a few lean years there. Even with NS 4.79, it was still flaky on both Mac and PC. iCab was cute but twitchy, then Mozilla gave hope then Firefox released their non-crashy version and everything was muuuuuch better.
I looked in on IE from time to time, as circumstances warranted, and even with its belated tabness is still does shit that irritates from way earlier versions.
I have no doubt that IE can one day be a good and even great browser, a thousand monkeys and all that. But so far, it represents years of stagnation, which is sad considering the clout and the talent behind it.
It's always been true for retailers with limited space.
Again, I see what you're saying, but I can't help chuckle when I think about these enormous boxes the BBs and CCs live in. Hell, the last time I was in Circuit City, I was struck by how much dead space there was in there. I'm not even talking about the ridiculously high ceiling, either (seriously, there's room for a whole freaking second floor there), but how "loosely packed" the store was with merchandise. BB seems to be better at store layouts, but these places have always struck me as having been designed by kindergarteners.
Now they get to see how many identical computers they can assemble and ship, by filling up a Wal-Mart warehouse or three.
Somebody please mod parent up, it's the first interesting speculation I've read in this thread as to why Dell is doing this. Mind you, they probably already know exactly what that number is (what? another vanilla order? Why doesn't anybody want a custom box, whaaa!).
It doesn't make sense for Best Buy, for example, to add another brand to its PC section.
I (kinda) understand what you're saying here, but how the hell did we get to the point where it's better for a major retailer to have less diversity in the products he's selling than more?
I'm not sure who pissed in your cornflakes this morning, but I'll ask them to refrain in the future.
LOL thanks, about time somebody used that line on me for a change.
The point is that even if people want to deny something happend in history you shouldn't erase it from the history books.
And I read, understood, and agree wholeheartedly with that point. I was't disagreeing with or refuting it. The point I was trying to make, albeit clumsily, is that all these people raging against the teachers should just STFU. If it was an institutional thing, have at it. But if it's a few persons doing it because they don't get paid enough to deal with that shit, then just lay off them. It's easy to rag on them, but you walk home alone from work one night after pissing off your neighbourhood's idiots.
If your a teacher I don't care if your underpaid your underpaid to teach.
That's just asinine. It's not like it's a hermetic group composed of only teachers and students. There's administrators, local and national school bodies, ministers, politicians, and most importantly, parents all involved in this little thing we call education, and you're going to single out a few teachers? Do you think they get support from their bosses or parents with unruly children? You know the answer to that one.
To me, this situation is unbelievable.
Yeah, god forbid an underpaid teacher decides to concentrate on education and makes a hard to swallow decision to promote a little equilibrium.
By that logic, schools in the US shouldn't teach about slavery
No, but you have installed lots of metal detectors. Go preach somewhere else.
This WILL be a nuclear conflict
Tell me something I don't know. Seriously, the minute nukes showed up on the scene, our time here was put on a strict leash. Russians, Chinese, Muslims, doesn't make a difference.
So does this mean attorneys will be able to reproduce without sex soon?
Waddya talking about? They've always done it this way, it's called a Law Degree. Granted, sometimes sex is involved, but it's not a requirement.
I'm going to bed.
Get in line. We've been clamoring for this on the SC longer than you have! You'd think with the massive popularity of the game that either some hacker would have figured out how to mod it, or Blizzard would have tweaked it to support higher resolutions by now.
Or you could say that a bunch of companies who buy bandwidth in bulk, and sell it in small pieces can't cut their margins too tight without going out of business. Either way, it's a matter of perception.
Not really a problem. I've been thinking this for a little while: ISPs need to raise their rates. This "illusion" they're fostering can be as damaging for them as it can be annoying for their customers, but marketing doesn't want to charge above some magic figure they've conceived because they think everybody will ditch them for the alternative (or just ditch broadband, a thought gives them cold sweats.) Seriously, capitalism means charging a reasonable rate for a reasonable service, not position a multi-million dollar company on the bleeding edge of survivability.
I think the average joe will go for it, too. A variety of services, such as phone , entertainment on demand, and information all can be had through one pipe, yet we're really paying for a lot less.
Before I get flamed to hell, yes I understand that most ISPs are money-grubbing idiots who want to protect a shitty business model. I still think most of us are paying a lot less than what we're really getting.
Weren't there at least a dozen comments in the last OLPC story that pretty much debunked this idea that Intel's offering was in any way comparable to OLPC's? Oh wait, I forgot to look up and to the left...
PUTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!
In Soviet Russia, nice gesture=waaaaaaay better than a syringe full of polonium.