No, but certainly an optomist if you think it will shut someone up around here. "This book is pure hogshit! How can you sleep at night, rating it a three?!?!"
Using the same little scenario, say some terrorist groups were sending bombs all over the world via the postal system. The return address was always from someone you know, or a friend of a friend, but the handwriting was off. The package looked kinda suspicious, things were spelled wrong, and you weren't expecting it.
But you open it anyway, knowing full well that there are madmen running around shipping bombs in the mail. You open it and it explodes in your face.
I say that you got what you deserved, it's just a shame that it levelled your whole fucking apartment building.
Perhaps Microsoft should stick by the rules that if the damned file ends in.bat, it should be plain text, not say that the user screwed up and we'll just execute the code anyways.
It is Microsoft's fault for how they decided to deal with executable code. They have gone too far in their ease-of-use campaign, and should be admonished for it, not lauded for it. It is time to stop coddling the end user. If they want a computer, they should have to learn to use it. I don't buy a jet because I don't fly and do not want to learn. I don't expect Boeing to make a jet that I could fly because I don't want to put the effort into using it properly. That would be stupid. And that's what the computer industry has become.
For Chrissakes, my grandmother can learn to use a computer properly, which is more than just connecting to the Internet and checking e-mail. If she couldn't, she wouldn't have a computer.
Microsoft: Media Player, Real Player, Apple Quicktime,...
Open Source: Mplayer, XMMS, Xine,...
Microsoft: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera,... Open Source: Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror,...
Microsoft: Word (and to a lesser extent, Works Writer), OpenOffice, WordPerfect,... Open Source: OpenOffice Writer, AbiWord, KOffice,...
There's shitloads of products for both platforms. Unless you want to talk companies, then even in the linux world, it's a one to one relation, one to two for some some projects if you want to count Open Source and Proprietary offerings.
Connected to www.memphismaulers.com. Escape character is '^]'. get HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:44:21 GMT Content-Type: text/html
And history as well. If the sun is acting up frequently and cyclically, then some of the old religious and cultural stories may be explained and verified.
I am not ready to start a war that China could win by sheer numbers alone. If the USA and Europe leaned on China, then the US and European economy would get hurt as well, and China would just sell munitions to foreign countries to make up the losses. Lean on them, yes. Lean on them hard, no. I don't care if they're a militaristic socialist state, as long as they treat their people better. And with industrialization, opening their borders to foreign trade, and competing on the world market, many lives will get better. Maybe not at first, but it will happen. Once you leave the agrarian portions of China, the people are well educated, respected, and content. They might not be completely happy, they may not have all of the toys we have, but they will, once their economy starts picking up. Sway the new generation, and in twenty years, you'll have made China, and the world, a much better place. Nationalistic economies which are allowed to make a profit are just as viable as a free-market economy. Less competition means bad things in the U.S., but it means good things in China. And isn't less competition the goal of a majority of U.S. companies, as well as multi-nationals now?
Good effin' luck on that one, too. You can't attack them into becoming a democracy. You can't sanction them into it. You can only start by persuading the younger members of the political party and wait for the old hardliners to die off. Befriend the country, help it grow on the international market, and be very vocal about it treating its people better. Don't go beating your chest over it, because then they'll just shoot a hundred prisoners right in front of your diplomats to prove a point.
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Or the same vulnerability...
Hell, if I wanted to hit a target, that's the one I'd go for. One crack and you have rooted hundreds of machines.
Because he didn't grow one like this!
I'm not sure, but I think that was the inference.
Oh man, that's creepy. I'm going to have to lock my front door before I go to bed from now on...
My guess is I'm just an ass...
No, but certainly an optomist if you think it will shut someone up around here.
"This book is pure hogshit! How can you sleep at night, rating it a three?!?!"
"The perfect gift for any computer user!" points obviously to "A new computer".
This should be a "Perfect gift for people who read computer books".
Using the same little scenario, say some terrorist groups were sending bombs all over the world via the postal system. The return address was always from someone you know, or a friend of a friend, but the handwriting was off. The package looked kinda suspicious, things were spelled wrong, and you weren't expecting it.
But you open it anyway, knowing full well that there are madmen running around shipping bombs in the mail. You open it and it explodes in your face.
I say that you got what you deserved, it's just a shame that it levelled your whole fucking apartment building.
Perhaps Microsoft should stick by the rules that if the damned file ends in .bat, it should be plain text, not say that the user screwed up and we'll just execute the code anyways.
It is Microsoft's fault for how they decided to deal with executable code. They have gone too far in their ease-of-use campaign, and should be admonished for it, not lauded for it. It is time to stop coddling the end user. If they want a computer, they should have to learn to use it. I don't buy a jet because I don't fly and do not want to learn. I don't expect Boeing to make a jet that I could fly because I don't want to put the effort into using it properly. That would be stupid. And that's what the computer industry has become.
For Chrissakes, my grandmother can learn to use a computer properly, which is more than just connecting to the Internet and checking e-mail. If she couldn't, she wouldn't have a computer.
Via SMB or CIFS protocols. SAMBA does not know how to read or write NTFS. It is merely a transport.
You can mount an NT Share using Samba, not an NT filesystem.
And Mozilla is not made by the Galeon coders, who also aren't the Konqueror coders.
And the XMMS and XINE coders aren't the same people either.
When it comes to who can benefit from OSS though, there's more like Me than there are who do know linux etc inside out.
Funny, that didn't make the list...
Microsoft: Media Player, Real Player, Apple Quicktime, ...
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... ...
... ...
Open Source: Mplayer, XMMS, Xine,
Microsoft: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera,
Open Source: Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror,
Microsoft: Word (and to a lesser extent, Works Writer), OpenOffice, WordPerfect,
Open Source: OpenOffice Writer, AbiWord, KOffice,
There's shitloads of products for both platforms. Unless you want to talk companies, then even in the linux world, it's a one to one relation, one to two for some some projects if you want to count Open Source and Proprietary offerings.
from the last link...
Connected to www.memphismaulers.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
get
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:44:21 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
So go change it!
a surprisingly high amount of culture is going to vanish before it enters the public domain
Let's just hope it's Hip-hop culture that gets lost first.
Taxing murders might stop murders.
Taxing childbirth might stop overpopulation.
Give me a fucking break.
And it's built like a helicopter, so you can give them a shave whilts you upskirt them.
Karma to burn...
Take a look at how they describe Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds on that site.
Bill Gates - Businessman
Linus Torvalds - Inventor
Priceless.
And history as well. If the sun is acting up frequently and cyclically, then some of the old religious and cultural stories may be explained and verified.
No doubt the delay in this news was a public-spirited attempt to avoid the mass panic of people rushing to hide in their basements.
This is Slashdot, we ARE in the basements
Impressive until we realize that we haven't been measuring solar flares for very long.
Were these parsnips CORRECTLY MARINATED in TACO SAUCE? -- WTF is that?
I am not ready to start a war that China could win by sheer numbers alone. If the USA and Europe leaned on China, then the US and European economy would get hurt as well, and China would just sell munitions to foreign countries to make up the losses.
Lean on them, yes. Lean on them hard, no. I don't care if they're a militaristic socialist state, as long as they treat their people better. And with industrialization, opening their borders to foreign trade, and competing on the world market, many lives will get better. Maybe not at first, but it will happen.
Once you leave the agrarian portions of China, the people are well educated, respected, and content. They might not be completely happy, they may not have all of the toys we have, but they will, once their economy starts picking up.
Sway the new generation, and in twenty years, you'll have made China, and the world, a much better place. Nationalistic economies which are allowed to make a profit are just as viable as a free-market economy. Less competition means bad things in the U.S., but it means good things in China. And isn't less competition the goal of a majority of U.S. companies, as well as multi-nationals now?
And you guys sayd communism would never work...
Good effin' luck on that one, too.
You can't attack them into becoming a democracy.
You can't sanction them into it.
You can only start by persuading the younger members of the political party and wait for the old hardliners to die off. Befriend the country, help it grow on the international market, and be very vocal about it treating its people better. Don't go beating your chest over it, because then they'll just shoot a hundred prisoners right in front of your diplomats to prove a point.
Get back to work, Mr. Jobs. Roleplay time is over, and you're starting to piss off the shareholders.
Stephen King is not dead, ...
Parent is a modified Mac Troll,
goatse.cx links should never be followed, use tinyurl links with care,
Read the full 'text of article' posts for Rob Malda references,
Profit!