are now collectors and warehouses of child pron? I'm just curious, when is it legal to obtain, retain, collect and warehouse something illegal? Oh ya, when you are the law. Only then can you break the law.
Now that is even better, the queer leather guy doing security. Which brings up the whole closet community using UNIX from the early 90s to now. Great place for them to hide out. I still find the whole thing entertainingly funny, and very amateurish of them, which still stands. NOBODY can take Opera seriously with photos like that in their online help. If Opera promises speed, and ease of use, they also need to promise the close minded midgets in Corp world that they are not playing with a browser made by ravers, crackers, or the Village People.
down to 50 or less megs, even if the markets are driving the size of bloatware or there is actually a market for a phat DSL distro. One of the cool things about it is the size, not its functionality (other than it is fully functional for more than say 90% of the user's needs in the world). Its also a really cool little tool to install on used computers that folks are thinking of tossing away, or have tossed away. I have made inroads with folks using Linux as their major OS with DSL (for size) and Knoppix (for its ease of install and wonderful GUI experience). Bottomline, keep it small, fast and wonderful.
Ok, first off, the DL for OSX was simple and quick, total time to install and relaunch was less than 1 min. Can't beat that... Features, it is pretty extensive, I don't necessarily care for integrated BitTorrent clients in my browser, yet it is forethinking of Opera to include it since BT seems to be the #1 traffic on the Net by about 4:1 ratio. Now for the weird part, who are these "lifestyle" models they have photoed for the browser's new help and information? The Features shows two girls, looking like they are college crack whores gotten at the 9.0 release party's rave.:) Just some thought here, maybe Opera could actually consult a professional modeling agency for its photo shoots.
cause last time I checked the percentage of power book owners in the laptop sector was less than 7%, and on top of it the people interested in making their PowerBook do flipflops and 'interesting' things with motion sectors and light sensors has to be about 1-2% (at best, maybe).
shout it out. I for one can't believe I would pay even 2.99 for an iPod resolutioned movie, let alone the "convenience" to squint and have substandard playback/quality of a movie on a small device. 9.99 USD, Steve-o must be in such a position of power now with 80% marketshare of downloaded music in the US, 50% in EU, that he wants to take it to the industry of movies. I suspect the Hollywood types want more than the 75% or so he is offering on the purchase price. And what tier system may the movie studios want? BTW, if I buy it for the iPod, I don't get it in HD for my home theatre system, I'm stuck with an 'upgrade' path (tier) for my home entertainment should I want to share it with my family or my friends at home on my iPod docking station? I somehow think that a movie via Jobs is going to cost the consumer much more than the flat rate in the end, and the studios know this. They want to get the aftermarket upgrade path money, and Jobs doesn't want to make the collection or purchase path complex. Once again, both are showing their greed, and the consumer is going to bite hard, paying 2-3 times what they would get from a visit to the local Cineplex, or even your local download site and BitTorrent-ville.
the ship needs to sail faster. I find this statement of Ozzie a bit amusing, since to toss out code/functionality and make things simpler now would destroy what has made Microsoft so popular with the masses. People buy functionality, they buy complexity, entire industry (help desk, online and inhouse education, so forth) has been developed around it. Not to mention the 'Service Pack' and virus offerings that make Microsoft the very best of the best of the best. What does Ozzie think he is doing, saying? Toss out the bad stuff first, like all the projects that don't make money for Microsoft, and what is left... XBox. Microsoft and the apps suite, becomes a gaming company while you wait for complex spreadsheets to recalculate.
well not quite the only guy in the US without a TV. I didn't expect you or Google to really give a "crap" one way or the other what I think, however that fact or your opinion certainly doesn't discount or negate what I said.
but isn't the 400+ million you sold in stock in 2003/4 enough? As a former seller (and God what a life it has been after eBay's promises) and no-longer-buyer of eBay garbage I'm sooooo overly excited to hear that eBay is going to be bending over the buyer and seller again. This time with crap that has nothing to do with the Seller of the item at hand, but somebody else's shlock. I guess I'm getting really jaded with consumerism, and eBay's shotgun approach to marketing using other's paying pages to do it is why.
I have not owned a TV for 17 years, so Google subcontracting or farming out to their own sub-conglomerate-company 'researching' the use patterns of TV viewers is in no way going to directly affect me getting spam calls to find out what I'm watching, and then sell me more spam calls or directed advertising on based on use. Is Google really that determined to become the next M$, just as invasive and just as annoying? I had hopes they were not.
My fiancee and I have been living together with her two kids for 2.5 years now. She is a teacher, and I choose to pick up odd jobs here and there, and occasionally take a long term position (meaning 3-6 months these days) for 20-25 an hour. She makes 40K as a teacher. She is expected to work 10-12 hours a day with grading the biggest issue. We argue about money all the time, mostly cause we don't have it. Kids are expensive as most know, and I have learned. We spend loads of time with the kids, yet as they are both entering their teen years, they want to spend more time out of the house than in. Vacations are not really a reality for us, at least the kind that you take overseas or even out of this country into Canada or Mexico. Sadly, the US economy is pushing a majority of the well educated into the poorhouse, sucking us constantly dry either thru petrol based companies (electricty [airconditioning and lights], gasoline for our cars), and the taxes that kills us even though we have two dependants. Its tough, 3 jobs here are not enough, the kids are actually applying for work now, further dilluting the workforce and thus earning power of all parties. In many ways, it is sadly enslavement. A long time ago I swore I would not partake any more, then found my love and was coaxed back to the workforce. I'm very tempted to just shut down the ratrace again and move back to the hills and live off the land once more. Its so much simpler to just buy some property, a gun and ammo, learn how to survive off the land, and pretty much live a peaceful wonderful existance. Just my two cents, hope others are doing better.
In fact they simply encourage it. The reality of a tier system is that those with resources and can afford it will use it and pay more, and those without will suffer. The result is a system that will bifurcate again and again into a class based net system that will leave the poor behind and the rich to be free and clear of the burdeons of the net as it is now. What this all means is the Net Tier System (NTS) will encourage discrimination. I do hope that this guy is wrong in his assessment, I find it flawed.
the magic carpet, the spellbounding wand, and of course the idea of a wizard. Too bad they don't have any of these things in their bag of tricks which would help them have a chance in hell of winning their case. SCO, when will you just go away?
That the technology transfer was not happening as smoothly as they thought it would, and the costs became an issue too. Having worked for Apple, then NeXT, then Apple/NeXT and finally Apple again, I have seen this problem long before it became fashionable to outsource oversees. It was true stateside between regions of this country, and even more so with language/cultural barriers in this global market. The axe swings many ways, this time back to another country, possibly back to the US.
Ok, so someone has to have mentioned it is insane to purchase one for 300 just to have it, giving 200 to the cause to have 2 for some other saps less fortunate (I'm out of work too), and then eventually compete for the same job I want. I think I'll pass on this offering. Last time I checked Walmart was offering higher quality systems for 387 USD prior to Xmas last year, I'll wait until xmas this year to wait in line for such an offering. I do have to say, the colors and flippy up ears on the machine are attractive to rab(bi)d(t) programmers like me:)
It is my limited understanding all but US carriers are selling serious pipe to customers for about what the US consumer pays for limited 256/64 or less IDSL or DSL? This seems to be a marketing gimmick to delay the dialup/migration to broadband, or the extinction of the old-school-isp. The big companies, particularly AOL, DarthLink and others seem to have some lock on the US consumer. Its sick IMHO that folks in the US think paying 19.95 for dialup is acceptable, and 199.00 for 'broadband' is typical.
lead compliance lawyer for M$ on this antitrust settlement. Now, I have hated microsoft since I was first offered and turned down a job in the early 80s, and turned down offers from M$ in 84 and 87. I'd be rich by now, yes. I made a 'bad' decision financially. However socially I can sleep well, knowing that the evil empire doesn't utilize my brain cells for its domination. The real kicker is not only are they evil, I'm not rich, but my best friend from 6 months old onward thru high school is their lead compliance lawyer brought in to make sure they are 'legally compliant'. We can't talk shop, about anything work related at all, nor can we really talk at all, and thus I hold microsoft responsible for destroying my friendship with my best and longest friend (of some 35+ years now). Bill Gates, you got yours coming dude, the gates of Hell are awaiting for your soul. The song burn baby burn, with lyrics like, "a Microsoft inferno..." comes to mind.
This type of site, along with many others like it (ww.com for instance) loses its luster rather quickly with me. I went to youtube.com, and within minutes I was totally bored out of my mind. Maybe it is me, but don't folks have something better to do with all their overtime-off-now-I'm-at-home hours? Like posting my drivel about this 'story', I'm pathetic.
The inclusion of a 'sample.avi' in bittorrent packages, with checksum verification and the torrent sites that 'Hose' or 'Nuke' packages that are poor quality or contain virus along with all the people who DL/Seed these files, pretty much guarentee a level of quality that will be equal or surpass that of any Film Studio releases. Someone doesn't have to DL the entire package, just the sample, see the.nfo files, and determine if they want to DL the entire.torrent package. I find it funny that nobody even mentioned the possibility of prosecution as a result of using BitTorrent for illegal or shoddy quality DL/Seeding. It seems anonimity on BitTorrent is pretty much a foregone conclusion, and the studios are in deep deep kaka regarding their play-it-like-an-osterich approach to new tech and distribution channels. BT is wonderful, convenient and the studios had better get on with their reality check sooner than later.
Walmart should be held to a higher level of truthfulness in their advertising and thus their grocery bags. I have never really seen associates or customers of Walmart smile. In fact, I see them frown a lot, or just have blank overconsumered looks on their faces. Whether in the returns line, the check out lines (sans human clerks now), or interacting with live clerks, a smile at Walmart is as plastic as the bags they are printed upon. Maybe they should copyright a frowning face, one that clearly captures the truth of the Walmart Experience (tm):)
I read somewhere here on Slashdot as I recall about clockless CPUs and system designs. Why are people still working with clocked computers and technology if clockless holds so much promise?
I dropped out of HS 2 times, earned a GED, entered a local CC for a quarter, aced the system and moved on to a 4 year school. 3 years later, many 1000s of dollars I had a 4 year degree in 3 years (fulltime summers included) time. I then went to another college for graduate work, and finished in 2 more. All the while I took Engrish classes over and over only to have to finally pay my way to a passing grade after 5 attempts. Motivation, to get out and earn a living. My writing skills still suck, however I'm one of the best code monkeys I know, and the pay is proof. It is almost completely irrelavent if someone has the ability to even communicate well if they write code. One reason, most code doesn't live longer than 18 months in today's cycle turn into trash release system. My advice to anyone that is looking to be a software engineer, get out and get experience writing, debugging and doing it in less time than the next guy can graduating next semester. 20 years of coding, and I still don't no how to spell or pronuncieight properly.:)
And if the ink contains radio active isotopes, of say some easily ID'ed radiation level? Or say when doing the tatoo the guy who happens to be short on money this month decides to take the extra 200 from some dude visiting the shop yesterday, impregnates you with something like a chip or even some nanotech tools? I mean, at some point it makes no sense at all to let anyone touch ya, hospital staff included. Its a tough call where to draw the line, and for each person it is their individual choice. Mine, never let anyone insert anything into or onto my body, certainly not for decorative purposes. However, the art on you, it worth a look. Post a photo of your work, hoping here it is not a heartogram:)
I certainly won't even consider it. Nazi Germany comes to mind, marking folks for reasons of ID'ing them for whatever reason is not a good idea. SS is another thing that creeps me out, a system of identification, now illegally used all the time to limit people's freedoms. Business all the time limit doing business with someone if they don't provide a SS, yet that is illegal. When will it come down to the same with a RFID? I suspect sooner than later, especially if the government gets involved in the process, and it already has... FDA anyone?
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are now collectors and warehouses of child pron? I'm just curious, when is it legal to obtain, retain, collect and warehouse something illegal? Oh ya, when you are the law. Only then can you break the law.
Now that is even better, the queer leather guy doing security. Which brings up the whole closet community using UNIX from the early 90s to now. Great place for them to hide out. I still find the whole thing entertainingly funny, and very amateurish of them, which still stands. NOBODY can take Opera seriously with photos like that in their online help. If Opera promises speed, and ease of use, they also need to promise the close minded midgets in Corp world that they are not playing with a browser made by ravers, crackers, or the Village People.
down to 50 or less megs, even if the markets are driving the size of bloatware or there is actually a market for a phat DSL distro. One of the cool things about it is the size, not its functionality (other than it is fully functional for more than say 90% of the user's needs in the world). Its also a really cool little tool to install on used computers that folks are thinking of tossing away, or have tossed away. I have made inroads with folks using Linux as their major OS with DSL (for size) and Knoppix (for its ease of install and wonderful GUI experience). Bottomline, keep it small, fast and wonderful.
Ok, first off, the DL for OSX was simple and quick, total time to install and relaunch was less than 1 min. Can't beat that... Features, it is pretty extensive, I don't necessarily care for integrated BitTorrent clients in my browser, yet it is forethinking of Opera to include it since BT seems to be the #1 traffic on the Net by about 4:1 ratio. Now for the weird part, who are these "lifestyle" models they have photoed for the browser's new help and information? The Features shows two girls, looking like they are college crack whores gotten at the 9.0 release party's rave. :) Just some thought here, maybe Opera could actually consult a professional modeling agency for its photo shoots.
cause last time I checked the percentage of power book owners in the laptop sector was less than 7%, and on top of it the people interested in making their PowerBook do flipflops and 'interesting' things with motion sectors and light sensors has to be about 1-2% (at best, maybe).
shout it out. I for one can't believe I would pay even 2.99 for an iPod resolutioned movie, let alone the "convenience" to squint and have substandard playback/quality of a movie on a small device. 9.99 USD, Steve-o must be in such a position of power now with 80% marketshare of downloaded music in the US, 50% in EU, that he wants to take it to the industry of movies. I suspect the Hollywood types want more than the 75% or so he is offering on the purchase price. And what tier system may the movie studios want? BTW, if I buy it for the iPod, I don't get it in HD for my home theatre system, I'm stuck with an 'upgrade' path (tier) for my home entertainment should I want to share it with my family or my friends at home on my iPod docking station? I somehow think that a movie via Jobs is going to cost the consumer much more than the flat rate in the end, and the studios know this. They want to get the aftermarket upgrade path money, and Jobs doesn't want to make the collection or purchase path complex. Once again, both are showing their greed, and the consumer is going to bite hard, paying 2-3 times what they would get from a visit to the local Cineplex, or even your local download site and BitTorrent-ville.
the ship needs to sail faster. I find this statement of Ozzie a bit amusing, since to toss out code/functionality and make things simpler now would destroy what has made Microsoft so popular with the masses. People buy functionality, they buy complexity, entire industry (help desk, online and inhouse education, so forth) has been developed around it. Not to mention the 'Service Pack' and virus offerings that make Microsoft the very best of the best of the best. What does Ozzie think he is doing, saying? Toss out the bad stuff first, like all the projects that don't make money for Microsoft, and what is left... XBox. Microsoft and the apps suite, becomes a gaming company while you wait for complex spreadsheets to recalculate.
well not quite the only guy in the US without a TV. I didn't expect you or Google to really give a "crap" one way or the other what I think, however that fact or your opinion certainly doesn't discount or negate what I said.
but isn't the 400+ million you sold in stock in 2003/4 enough? As a former seller (and God what a life it has been after eBay's promises) and no-longer-buyer of eBay garbage I'm sooooo overly excited to hear that eBay is going to be bending over the buyer and seller again. This time with crap that has nothing to do with the Seller of the item at hand, but somebody else's shlock. I guess I'm getting really jaded with consumerism, and eBay's shotgun approach to marketing using other's paying pages to do it is why.
I have not owned a TV for 17 years, so Google subcontracting or farming out to their own sub-conglomerate-company 'researching' the use patterns of TV viewers is in no way going to directly affect me getting spam calls to find out what I'm watching, and then sell me more spam calls or directed advertising on based on use. Is Google really that determined to become the next M$, just as invasive and just as annoying? I had hopes they were not.
My fiancee and I have been living together with her two kids for 2.5 years now. She is a teacher, and I choose to pick up odd jobs here and there, and occasionally take a long term position (meaning 3-6 months these days) for 20-25 an hour. She makes 40K as a teacher. She is expected to work 10-12 hours a day with grading the biggest issue. We argue about money all the time, mostly cause we don't have it. Kids are expensive as most know, and I have learned. We spend loads of time with the kids, yet as they are both entering their teen years, they want to spend more time out of the house than in. Vacations are not really a reality for us, at least the kind that you take overseas or even out of this country into Canada or Mexico. Sadly, the US economy is pushing a majority of the well educated into the poorhouse, sucking us constantly dry either thru petrol based companies (electricty [airconditioning and lights], gasoline for our cars), and the taxes that kills us even though we have two dependants. Its tough, 3 jobs here are not enough, the kids are actually applying for work now, further dilluting the workforce and thus earning power of all parties. In many ways, it is sadly enslavement. A long time ago I swore I would not partake any more, then found my love and was coaxed back to the workforce. I'm very tempted to just shut down the ratrace again and move back to the hills and live off the land once more. Its so much simpler to just buy some property, a gun and ammo, learn how to survive off the land, and pretty much live a peaceful wonderful existance. Just my two cents, hope others are doing better.
In fact they simply encourage it. The reality of a tier system is that those with resources and can afford it will use it and pay more, and those without will suffer. The result is a system that will bifurcate again and again into a class based net system that will leave the poor behind and the rich to be free and clear of the burdeons of the net as it is now. What this all means is the Net Tier System (NTS) will encourage discrimination. I do hope that this guy is wrong in his assessment, I find it flawed.
the magic carpet, the spellbounding wand, and of course the idea of a wizard. Too bad they don't have any of these things in their bag of tricks which would help them have a chance in hell of winning their case. SCO, when will you just go away?
That the technology transfer was not happening as smoothly as they thought it would, and the costs became an issue too. Having worked for Apple, then NeXT, then Apple/NeXT and finally Apple again, I have seen this problem long before it became fashionable to outsource oversees. It was true stateside between regions of this country, and even more so with language/cultural barriers in this global market. The axe swings many ways, this time back to another country, possibly back to the US.
Ok, so someone has to have mentioned it is insane to purchase one for 300 just to have it, giving 200 to the cause to have 2 for some other saps less fortunate (I'm out of work too), and then eventually compete for the same job I want. I think I'll pass on this offering. Last time I checked Walmart was offering higher quality systems for 387 USD prior to Xmas last year, I'll wait until xmas this year to wait in line for such an offering. I do have to say, the colors and flippy up ears on the machine are attractive to rab(bi)d(t) programmers like me :)
It is my limited understanding all but US carriers are selling serious pipe to customers for about what the US consumer pays for limited 256/64 or less IDSL or DSL? This seems to be a marketing gimmick to delay the dialup/migration to broadband, or the extinction of the old-school-isp. The big companies, particularly AOL, DarthLink and others seem to have some lock on the US consumer. Its sick IMHO that folks in the US think paying 19.95 for dialup is acceptable, and 199.00 for 'broadband' is typical.
lead compliance lawyer for M$ on this antitrust settlement. Now, I have hated microsoft since I was first offered and turned down a job in the early 80s, and turned down offers from M$ in 84 and 87. I'd be rich by now, yes. I made a 'bad' decision financially. However socially I can sleep well, knowing that the evil empire doesn't utilize my brain cells for its domination. The real kicker is not only are they evil, I'm not rich, but my best friend from 6 months old onward thru high school is their lead compliance lawyer brought in to make sure they are 'legally compliant'. We can't talk shop, about anything work related at all, nor can we really talk at all, and thus I hold microsoft responsible for destroying my friendship with my best and longest friend (of some 35+ years now). Bill Gates, you got yours coming dude, the gates of Hell are awaiting for your soul. The song burn baby burn, with lyrics like, "a Microsoft inferno..." comes to mind.
This type of site, along with many others like it (ww.com for instance) loses its luster rather quickly with me. I went to youtube.com, and within minutes I was totally bored out of my mind. Maybe it is me, but don't folks have something better to do with all their overtime-off-now-I'm-at-home hours? Like posting my drivel about this 'story', I'm pathetic.
The inclusion of a 'sample.avi' in bittorrent packages, with checksum verification and the torrent sites that 'Hose' or 'Nuke' packages that are poor quality or contain virus along with all the people who DL/Seed these files, pretty much guarentee a level of quality that will be equal or surpass that of any Film Studio releases. Someone doesn't have to DL the entire package, just the sample, see the .nfo files, and determine if they want to DL the entire .torrent package. I find it funny that nobody even mentioned the possibility of prosecution as a result of using BitTorrent for illegal or shoddy quality DL/Seeding. It seems anonimity on BitTorrent is pretty much a foregone conclusion, and the studios are in deep deep kaka regarding their play-it-like-an-osterich approach to new tech and distribution channels. BT is wonderful, convenient and the studios had better get on with their reality check sooner than later.
Walmart should be held to a higher level of truthfulness in their advertising and thus their grocery bags. I have never really seen associates or customers of Walmart smile. In fact, I see them frown a lot, or just have blank overconsumered looks on their faces. Whether in the returns line, the check out lines (sans human clerks now), or interacting with live clerks, a smile at Walmart is as plastic as the bags they are printed upon. Maybe they should copyright a frowning face, one that clearly captures the truth of the Walmart Experience (tm) :)
I read somewhere here on Slashdot as I recall about clockless CPUs and system designs. Why are people still working with clocked computers and technology if clockless holds so much promise?
with them and they took advantage of your niceness. I speculate you will never hear from them again.
I dropped out of HS 2 times, earned a GED, entered a local CC for a quarter, aced the system and moved on to a 4 year school. 3 years later, many 1000s of dollars I had a 4 year degree in 3 years (fulltime summers included) time. I then went to another college for graduate work, and finished in 2 more. All the while I took Engrish classes over and over only to have to finally pay my way to a passing grade after 5 attempts. Motivation, to get out and earn a living. My writing skills still suck, however I'm one of the best code monkeys I know, and the pay is proof. It is almost completely irrelavent if someone has the ability to even communicate well if they write code. One reason, most code doesn't live longer than 18 months in today's cycle turn into trash release system. My advice to anyone that is looking to be a software engineer, get out and get experience writing, debugging and doing it in less time than the next guy can graduating next semester. 20 years of coding, and I still don't no how to spell or pronuncieight properly. :)
And if the ink contains radio active isotopes, of say some easily ID'ed radiation level? Or say when doing the tatoo the guy who happens to be short on money this month decides to take the extra 200 from some dude visiting the shop yesterday, impregnates you with something like a chip or even some nanotech tools? I mean, at some point it makes no sense at all to let anyone touch ya, hospital staff included. Its a tough call where to draw the line, and for each person it is their individual choice. Mine, never let anyone insert anything into or onto my body, certainly not for decorative purposes. However, the art on you, it worth a look. Post a photo of your work, hoping here it is not a heartogram :)
I certainly won't even consider it. Nazi Germany comes to mind, marking folks for reasons of ID'ing them for whatever reason is not a good idea. SS is another thing that creeps me out, a system of identification, now illegally used all the time to limit people's freedoms. Business all the time limit doing business with someone if they don't provide a SS, yet that is illegal. When will it come down to the same with a RFID? I suspect sooner than later, especially if the government gets involved in the process, and it already has... FDA anyone?