'unborn' said: Which makes me think, isn't this an abuse on Microsoft's part to force people to use Outlook, hence Windows, by creating this secret feature that allows Outlook to download hotmail?
You mean the secret protocol everybody knows about? The secret Web-DAV protocol?! The secret protocol used by a bunch of non-Microsoft apps to access hotmail?!?! Ohmygod, how did you find out about The Secret Protocol!?
Howwwwww!??!?!??!???!??!1/1/
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Overdesigned websites are a problem, but I wonder... are they a bigger or smaller problem than the legion of nerds who think constantly going on about overdesigned websites confers upon them some sort of wisdom. Conficious say: parroting a truism maketh not a wise man.
I'm not a 'yank-hater'. I just dont like this "outside the usa is a great big void" attitude.
Nah, the way I see it you went off the deep end at the damn yanks. Typical anti-yank tendency. Of course you'd deny it. Nobody who reflexively rants against Americans will admit that they're anti-american. A well-adjusted person would accept that a lot of/.'s readership are americans, and stop whinging like a big angry kid.
and a rover is an _english_ car, not american; i drive one because it was cheap to get.
Exactly. I found it humorous to see a German driving a crap English car, what with the high quality of home-grown teutonic engineering - Skoda, Seat, MG, Rolls Royce, und so weiter;-)
I was taking 'too high' to mean higher than people will be prepared to pay for it. If somebody pays for something, it implies that the price isnt 'too high'.
I'm not sure, but you seem to think 'too high' means 'higher than I think it ought to be sold for'. I dont agree with that definition, because it's too subjective.
Real estate people... setting the market price for space
But if they charge too high nobody will buy what they're selling. If they charge too low somebody will, and they'll sell it on for the correct price (what people are prepared to pay for it). How do they manage to set the price too high?
Seems like a lot of people are pessimistically jumping to conclusions about rampaging hordes of killer robots.
Prepare to be insightfulled.
Law Zero: It is generally not a good idea to give away the 'twist' in the trailer.
Law 1: All movies produced post '6th Sense' have some sort of a twist.
Law 2: (getting into conjecture here) No law of robotics will be broken unless evil employee(s) of USR mess around.
Law 3: Sometimes evil employees of mega corps do bad things to cover things up, such as murders which were commited because bla bla bla. (see more or less every movie featuring robots or thinking computers).
Law 3: Will Smith will always play Will Smith. (This should probably be down as Law Zero)
99% of these lawsuits that people file against doctors that supposedly caused 'brain damage' to children when they were born are completly bogus. The fact that you child was born with down syndrome has just about as much to do with the doctor that delivered him\her as the sex of that child does.
Is it really true that in 99% of these cases the doctors are being accused of giving children genetic defects during childbirth??
So the CIA sabotaging and assassinating Russian targets was ok because it was "an evil repressive regime" and Sept.11 wasn't because they were "religious nutters"?
You summarise my post so eloquently. Of course, the thousands of people deliberately killed in the latter incident are irrelevant to my point, so it was right of you to cut that bit out, the Soviet Union was indeed a fluffy and cute regime, and Al Quaida are level-headed secularists. To call them anything else would be cultural imperialism of the worst sort. Thanks for the very reasonable and balanced precis.
Great justification.
Absolutely. I only wish I could have framed such a rock solid argument without your editorial assistance.
Im sure the Sept.11 bombers thought that the US was "an evil repressive regime" and probably "religious nutters" as well. Damn I forgot - everyone's opinion is equally valid, even suicidal plane hijackers. Thanks for pointing that out.
Since to you being "an evil repressive regime" is justification for taking otherwise illegal actions against a country, you justify the Sept.11 attackers - since that was more or less their motivation as well.Once again the logic is impeccable. I didnt actually mean to convey that, but you have 'interpreted' my words so well. It was very unfair of the CIA to do bad things to the USSR, since the USSR was so nice and lovely. And the CIA sabotaging the USSR is indeed the same as Al Quaida's Sept. 11 attacks.
I am merely stating that 'declaring war' is something of a quaint anachronism these days.
If you are equating the duping of an evil repressive regime into stealing some broken software with religious nutters flying multiple planes full of people into multiple buildings full of people then, frankly you must be f***ed in the head. Try and get a little perspective.
Oh and 'declaring war' isnt the difference between 'being illegal combatants and ordinary soldiers'. Where did you get that idea?
to protect us from gangs and thugs and criminals, we have to employ gangs and thugs and criminals
Tone down the theatrics a little.
This particular incident - repressive regime steals sabotaged software - seems like a flimsy reason to get one's knickers in a twist.
There are plenty of actions by the US/CIA that do actually warrant your comment, just not this one.
This brings up an interesting question... just what is an operating system?
Sadly, I think that as far as Judges are concerned the correct definition for operating system is 'whichever definition gets the biggest laugh from techies'.
Who cares, I want a computer with all the useful stuff I need on it, I dont want to spend extra time juggling CDs installing various essential apps.
The EU should really stop wasting time on this. Instead they should be reversing stupid decisions they've already made that protect price fixing and ensure a bad deal for their citizens.
The mere fact that/. is a geek site, with, as a consequence, a huge majority of people that don't understand a thing about politics, and even less to arab politics
But surely you must know that Iran is not an Arab country?
Try obtaining the basic facts before you start berating others at great length! X-D
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'unborn' said: Which makes me think, isn't this an abuse on Microsoft's part to force people to use Outlook, hence Windows, by creating this secret feature that allows Outlook to download hotmail?
You mean the secret protocol everybody knows about?
The secret Web-DAV protocol?! The secret protocol used by a bunch of non-Microsoft apps to access hotmail?!?!
Ohmygod, how did you find out about The Secret Protocol!?
Howwwwww!??!?!??!???!??!1/1/
*Yet* another flaw in XP SP2 has been found:
Even with the service pack applied, Windows does nothing to guard against the user revealing their password to a complete stranger in a train station in exchange for some crappy pen.
MICROCRAP WINBLOWS!!!!!!!
yet more "innovation" from Microsoft - have the EVER thought of ANYTHING original.
Let's see...
An MS-bashing post.
On Slashdot.
Castigating MS for stealing ideas.
How original!
Overdesigned websites are a problem, but I wonder... are they a bigger or smaller problem than the legion of nerds who think constantly going on about overdesigned websites confers upon them some sort of wisdom.
Conficious say: parroting a truism maketh not a wise man.
I'm not a 'yank-hater'. I just dont like this "outside the usa is a great big void" attitude.
/.'s readership are americans, and stop whinging like a big angry kid.
;-)
Nah, the way I see it you went off the deep end at the damn yanks. Typical anti-yank tendency. Of course you'd deny it. Nobody who reflexively rants
against Americans will admit that they're anti-american. A well-adjusted person would accept that a lot of
and a rover is an _english_ car, not american; i drive one because it was cheap to get.
Exactly. I found it humorous to see a German driving a crap English car, what with the high quality of home-grown teutonic engineering - Skoda, Seat, MG, Rolls Royce, und so weiter
...a stridently Yank-hating German - will wonders never cease?! :-)
(And, he drives a Rover 214. That's just weird)
Maybe this obscure music is available for purchase on CD - crazy idea I know! :-)
Would it work?
So there's a maximum C++ compiler lauding limit I missed hearing about, then?
I was taking 'too high' to mean higher than people will be prepared to pay for it.
If somebody pays for something, it implies that the price isnt 'too high'.
I'm not sure, but you seem to think 'too high' means 'higher than I think it ought to be sold for'. I dont agree with that definition, because it's too subjective.
Your analogy is prophetic - it should start making sense right around when they invent the semiconductor based car with no moving parts.
(new Intel chip naming convention copying BMW - could this be sooner than we think?)
Real estate people ... setting the market price for space
But if they charge too high nobody will buy what they're selling.
If they charge too low somebody will, and they'll sell it on for the correct price (what people are prepared to pay for it).
How do they manage to set the price too high?
Were We Too Hijacked On 9/11?
One can never be too hijacked, dahling.
Humor is almost always based on some exaggeration.
Indeed.
Read that again...
Honest mistakes are forgivable. But, exaggeration on the other hand, well I'm not so sure about that.
In fact, exaggeration is utterly unforgivable in all circumstances.
Seems like a lot of people are pessimistically jumping to conclusions about rampaging hordes of killer robots.
Prepare to be insightfulled.
Law Zero: It is generally not a good idea to give away the 'twist' in the trailer.
Law 1: All movies produced post '6th Sense' have some sort of a twist.
Law 2: (getting into conjecture here) No law of robotics will be broken unless evil employee(s) of USR mess around.
Law 3: Sometimes evil employees of mega corps do bad things to cover things up, such as murders which were commited because bla bla bla. (see more or less every movie featuring robots or thinking computers).
Law 3: Will Smith will always play Will Smith. (This should probably be down as Law Zero)
Law 4: ???
Law 5: Profit!!!
99% of these lawsuits that people file against doctors that supposedly caused 'brain damage' to children when they were born are completly bogus.
The fact that you child was born with down syndrome has just about as much to do with the doctor that delivered him\her as the sex of that child does.
Is it really true that in 99% of these cases the doctors are being accused of giving children genetic defects during childbirth??
Why arent they laughed out of court!?
Oh... you're just kidding, right?
So the CIA sabotaging and assassinating Russian targets was ok because it was "an evil repressive regime" and Sept.11 wasn't because they were "religious nutters"?
You summarise my post so eloquently. Of course, the thousands of people deliberately killed in the latter incident are irrelevant to my point, so it was right of you to cut that bit out, the Soviet Union was indeed a fluffy and cute regime, and Al Quaida are level-headed secularists. To call them anything else would be cultural imperialism of the worst sort.
Thanks for the very reasonable and balanced precis.
Great justification.
Absolutely. I only wish I could have framed such a rock solid argument without your editorial assistance.
Im sure the Sept.11 bombers thought that the US was "an evil repressive regime" and probably "religious nutters" as well.
Damn I forgot - everyone's opinion is equally valid, even suicidal plane hijackers. Thanks for pointing that out.
Since to you being "an evil repressive regime" is justification for taking otherwise illegal actions against a country, you justify the Sept.11 attackers - since that was more or less their motivation as well.Once again the logic is impeccable. I didnt actually mean to convey that, but you have 'interpreted' my words so well. It was very unfair of the CIA to do bad things to the USSR, since the USSR was so nice and lovely. And the CIA sabotaging the USSR is indeed the same as Al Quaida's Sept. 11 attacks.
It's all so clear now.
I am merely stating that 'declaring war' is something of a quaint anachronism these days.
If you are equating the duping of an evil repressive regime into stealing some broken software with religious nutters flying multiple planes full of people into multiple buildings full of people then, frankly you must be f***ed in the head.
Try and get a little perspective.
Oh and 'declaring war' isnt the difference between 'being illegal combatants and ordinary soldiers'. Where did you get that idea?
to protect us from gangs and thugs and criminals, we have to employ gangs and thugs and criminals
Tone down the theatrics a little.
This particular incident - repressive regime steals sabotaged software - seems like a flimsy reason to get one's knickers in a twist.
There are plenty of actions by the US/CIA that do actually warrant your comment, just not this one.
"Declared war". How quaint.
This brings up an interesting question... just what is an operating system?
Sadly, I think that as far as Judges are concerned the correct definition for operating system is 'whichever definition gets the biggest laugh from techies'.
Who cares, I want a computer with all the useful stuff I need on it, I dont want to spend extra time juggling CDs installing various essential apps. The EU should really stop wasting time on this. Instead they should be reversing stupid decisions they've already made that protect price fixing and ensure a bad deal for their citizens.
The mere fact that /. is a geek site, with, as a consequence, a huge majority of people that don't understand a thing about politics, and even less to arab politics
But surely you must know that Iran is not an Arab country?
Try obtaining the basic facts before you start berating others at great length! X-D
Yep, that's correct. C# doesnt have java-style inner classes. It does have nested classes though. Different thing.
This was modded 5: Interesting?! FIVE!?! INTERESTING?!?!
.NET is.
:-( ]
I humbly submit, it reads like the same old reheated pseudo-wisdom from another person who doesnt really know what
[now awaits the inevitable being labelled as a troll by nasty slashdot modding system
Ignorance - it's definately a problem in all areas of programming [see: slashdot :-)]