It sounds like someone might be using your servers for sending/forwarding spam. Your system might be telling us all how we can "improve ur p3n1s size" or "help Dr. mbongo from Burkina-faso move $99999999 into your account".
I don't know where he got those charts from but they're very informative, assuming they are accurate. They're going to be great input into our cube discussions at work (that occur while we're meant to be working).
Further to DVD Jon etc, the industry has already decided that someone who produces and spreads tools to enable illegal ripping is far worse than someone who just rips a few tracks.
Instead of just picking on soft targets like poor families, I'd like to see the RIAA litigate against Microsoft for including the "rip music from audio CDs" button in Windows Media player. Mostly because Microsoft and the RIAA both have enough money to fruitlessly hack lumps out of each other for years.
They won't do it though because they know Microsoft have enough attorneys to hand the RIAA's balls back to them on a plate.
As a parent, it sounds like Jackson is just another spoiled little brat, and he's acting that way because he has bad parents, not because of any genetic difference.
During the Japanese electronics invasion in the 80's I first noticed a radical decline in warm-sounding tones in music everywhere...I figured out what was happening, it seemed most amps/speakers made in Japan had a very unnatural sound response profile to western ears. In comparison, they are very sharp, sort of high and tinny, with hardly any warm tonal response at all.
Apprently it is a fact that Japanese use the other side of their brain to hear music than western cultures. Perhaps that accounts for why they like harsh-sounding speakers.
Unfortunately it also seems western standards of what is good-sounding has changed to fit the proliferation of Japanese electronics, rather than the electronics being tailored for western ears. Just go find and listen to an old American or European-made stereo (say from the 1960's or 70's.. mostly pre Jap influence) It will blow your mind.
>> It's "okay" for a dog to piss on the street because no one has figured out a good alternative yet.
Sounds like the Chinese government have made a good start to me. Now they just need to ban all dogs.
Gradually my neighborhood here in the US has been taken over by irresponsible dog owners. Now my 3 year old son can't play in the park across the street any more because its is filled with dog shit everywhere and every night I'm kept awake or woken at 3am because of all the barking around the neighborhood.
Dog owners should have to pass a test to get a licence, then can have it taken away if they screw up.
The light CFLs give off is dimmer, colder light and flickers at some frequency which gives me a headache and a sense of unease, and is horrible to read under. After time it gives me a migraine. I haven't tried LED bulbs yet because they're so expensive, but I just hope those don't oscillate. I wish the government would stop playing nanny and stick to what they're meant to do (tax everything and start wars).
Very scary that the Apple lawyers listed all his assets including mortgage, kids college funds etc. with values on their last letter to him. How can they even get this info? Aren't your financial details meant to be private, even in the US? If I was him I'd be looking a suing Apple for threats/blackmail and also suing the investment comapnies for releasing that info to strangers. At least I'd move the money to someone else.
>> It's a police state when the police arrest someone for breaking the law?
No you missed my point. Its a police state when someone is looking at 20 years and a $250,000 fine for an (admittedly stupid and possibly innocent) act that didn't actually cause any damage.
I say possibly innocent because they claim they wree just shining it around the night sky looking at the beam. It could have been possible that they caught the helicopter momentarily without even knowing it was up there.
The USA has become a police state. If even the stupid pranks normal kids do now has become a "terroristic" (sic) activity, punishable by close to life imprisonment.
This is what happens when the sheeple believe the governments blatant fearmongering of imaginary threats everywhere in order to justify giving themselves and the police ultimate power. Its the Salem Witch trials and the McCarthy era all over again except this time its terrorists under the bed not commies or witches.
Its time the american people grew some balls and stood up together to end this shit.
OK except DOS and Windows 3 together did most of what people want from an operating system, albeint not so graphically prettily, but they did have all the basics covered, yet they hardly appear as a blip compared to the vast resources Vista uses. Yes Vista runs a ludicrously large number of services, but that is not an answer in itself to what I was asking. I wasn't asking about the type of components, but what they are really doing for the user. Again... what is Vista _really_ doing with all those resources? Nothing that most people need or want probably.
Short-sighted? I think not. As opposed to just charging ahead ignoring risk serious enough to permanently damage or even destroy mankind? now that is REALLY short-sighted.
Vista has basically the same functionality as windows 3.1. Its a graphical program launcher, thats all. Yet vista takes 11GB of disk space, uses nearly 1GB of ram and upto 30% of my CPU time even when I haven't even launched an app yet. Vista uses more resources than most of my apps. I mean what the fuck is it doing?
Mankind isn't smart enough to predict every possible effect of this kind of thing. Name me one case where mankind has meddled with nature and it hasn't become a total screw-up. This technology can only lead to trouble. Probably waay more trouble than any previous meddling with nature that mankind has so far done as it the first technology to directly manipulate our core mechanisms in a unreversible and potentially uncontrollable way as genetically modified people also have a right to have kids, so passing genetic modifications on. Why aren't governments strictly enforcing a complete ban on this technology? To all you short-sighted do-gooders arguing that this will find cures for every possible disease, PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE of something. Get over it.
The whole drive to do this seems to be only to facilitate comapnies in making more profit. What about the users interests? Honestly it seems very clear to me that suddenly having to be connected to the internet (with all its associated performance and security issues) just to do do something like write or store a document would be a giant step backwards.
"Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.'."
What gates said is true and entirely consistent with Microsoft's approach even though Microsoft don't listen to customers, as they just don't innovate either.
In order to get proper results it can only be done by a double-bliund experiment. The fact that the diners and servers both know they are part of an experiement will surely throw the results off a lot, so basically this is an invalid experiment.
No you're missing my point. I should just be able to install a browser and tell the OS to use it as the default browser. Just like you can under XP. Its this new thing in vista that sucks where the app also has to call some new vista API even before the user can tell the OS to use it as a default browser.
exactly. Why should an app have to do that before the user can ask for it to be used as an alternative? Surely the user should be able to do what they like and choose whatever app they like, even one that doesn't have to know about new vista APIs.
This isn't a bug in firefox, its at least bad design of windows, and at more likely a devious form of anticompetetive behavior given Microsoft's track record. Why should a program have to do anything 'special' in order to get an OS to allow users to choose it as an alternative? Answer: it shouldn't. I mean who the hell should have more say over what I want to run on my computer? me or Microsoft?
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It sounds like someone might be using your servers for sending/forwarding spam. Your system might be telling us all how we can "improve ur p3n1s size" or "help Dr. mbongo from Burkina-faso move $99999999 into your account".
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I don't know where he got those charts from but they're very informative, assuming they are accurate.
They're going to be great input into our cube discussions at work (that occur while we're meant to be working).
Further to DVD Jon etc, the industry has already decided that someone who produces and spreads tools to enable illegal ripping is far worse than someone who just rips a few tracks.
Instead of just picking on soft targets like poor families, I'd like to see the RIAA litigate against Microsoft for including the "rip music from audio CDs" button in Windows Media player. Mostly because Microsoft and the RIAA both have enough money to fruitlessly hack lumps out of each other for years.
They won't do it though because they know Microsoft have enough attorneys to hand the RIAA's balls back to them on a plate.
As a parent, it sounds like Jackson is just another spoiled little brat, and he's acting that way because he has bad parents, not because of any genetic difference.
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During the Japanese electronics invasion in the 80's I first noticed a radical decline in warm-sounding tones in music everywhere...I figured out what was happening, it seemed most amps/speakers made in Japan had a very unnatural sound response profile to western ears. In comparison, they are very sharp, sort of high and tinny, with hardly any warm tonal response at all.
Apprently it is a fact that Japanese use the other side of their brain to hear music than western cultures. Perhaps that accounts for why they like harsh-sounding speakers.
Unfortunately it also seems western standards of what is good-sounding has changed to fit the proliferation of Japanese electronics, rather than the electronics being tailored for western ears. Just go find and listen to an old American or European-made stereo (say from the 1960's or 70's.. mostly pre Jap influence) It will blow your mind.
...and guess what.. still the best sound by far comes from those old 70's speakers.
>> barring any dog over 14 inches high and restricting each family to only one dog.
thats not much...a large family would starve over a holiday when the dog stores are closed.
>> It's "okay" for a dog to piss on the street because no one has figured out a good alternative yet.
Sounds like the Chinese government have made a good start to me. Now they just need to ban all dogs.
Gradually my neighborhood here in the US has been taken over by irresponsible dog owners. Now my 3 year old son can't play in the park across the street any more because its is filled with dog shit everywhere and every night I'm kept awake or woken at 3am because of all the barking around the neighborhood.
Dog owners should have to pass a test to get a licence, then can have it taken away if they screw up.
The light CFLs give off is dimmer, colder light and flickers at some frequency which gives me a headache and a sense of unease, and is horrible to read under. After time it gives me a migraine.
I haven't tried LED bulbs yet because they're so expensive, but I just hope those don't oscillate.
I wish the government would stop playing nanny and stick to what they're meant to do (tax everything and start wars).
Why doesn't he just go and kick their butts?? He is Chuck Norris after all.
Very scary that the Apple lawyers listed all his assets including mortgage, kids college funds etc. with values on their last letter to him.
How can they even get this info? Aren't your financial details meant to be private, even in the US?
If I was him I'd be looking a suing Apple for threats/blackmail and also suing the investment comapnies for releasing that info to strangers. At least I'd move the money to someone else.
>> It's a police state when the police arrest someone for breaking the law?
No you missed my point. Its a police state when someone is looking at 20 years and a $250,000 fine for an (admittedly stupid and possibly innocent) act that didn't actually cause any damage.
I say possibly innocent because they claim they wree just shining it around the night sky looking at the beam. It could have been possible that they caught the helicopter momentarily without even knowing it was up there.
The USA has become a police state.
If even the stupid pranks normal kids do now has become a "terroristic" (sic) activity, punishable by close to life imprisonment.
This is what happens when the sheeple believe the governments blatant fearmongering of imaginary threats everywhere in order to justify giving themselves and the police ultimate power. Its the Salem Witch trials and the McCarthy era all over again except this time its terrorists under the bed not commies or witches.
Its time the american people grew some balls and stood up together to end this shit.
OK except DOS and Windows 3 together did most of what people want from an operating system, albeint not so graphically prettily, but they did have all the basics covered, yet they hardly appear as a blip compared to the vast resources Vista uses.
Yes Vista runs a ludicrously large number of services, but that is not an answer in itself to what I was asking. I wasn't asking about the type of components, but what they are really doing for the user.
Again... what is Vista _really_ doing with all those resources? Nothing that most people need or want probably.
Short-sighted? I think not.
As opposed to just charging ahead ignoring risk serious enough to permanently damage or even destroy mankind? now that is REALLY short-sighted.
Vista has basically the same functionality as windows 3.1. Its a graphical program launcher, thats all.
Yet vista takes 11GB of disk space, uses nearly 1GB of ram and upto 30% of my CPU time even when I haven't even launched an app yet. Vista uses more resources than most of my apps.
I mean what the fuck is it doing?
Mankind isn't smart enough to predict every possible effect of this kind of thing.
Name me one case where mankind has meddled with nature and it hasn't become a total screw-up.
This technology can only lead to trouble. Probably waay more trouble than any previous meddling with nature that mankind has so far done as it the first technology to directly manipulate our core mechanisms in a unreversible and potentially uncontrollable way as genetically modified people also have a right to have kids, so passing genetic modifications on.
Why aren't governments strictly enforcing a complete ban on this technology?
To all you short-sighted do-gooders arguing that this will find cures for every possible disease, PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE of something.
Get over it.
The whole drive to do this seems to be only to facilitate comapnies in making more profit.
What about the users interests?
Honestly it seems very clear to me that suddenly having to be connected to the internet (with all its associated performance and security issues) just to do do something like write or store a document would be a giant step backwards.
"Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.'."
What gates said is true and entirely consistent with Microsoft's approach even though Microsoft don't listen to customers, as they just don't innovate either.
In order to get proper results it can only be done by a double-bliund experiment.
The fact that the diners and servers both know they are part of an experiement will surely throw the results off a lot, so basically this is an invalid experiment.
No you're missing my point.
I should just be able to install a browser and tell the OS to use it as the default browser. Just like you can under XP.
Its this new thing in vista that sucks where the app also has to call some new vista API even before the user can tell the OS to use it as a default browser.
exactly. Why should an app have to do that before the user can ask for it to be used as an alternative? Surely the user should be able to do what they like and choose whatever app they like, even one that doesn't have to know about new vista APIs.
This isn't a bug in firefox, its at least bad design of windows, and at more likely a devious form of anticompetetive behavior given Microsoft's track record.
Why should a program have to do anything 'special' in order to get an OS to allow users to choose it as an alternative? Answer: it shouldn't. I mean who the hell should have more say over what I want to run on my computer? me or Microsoft?