Symantec makes a great product as well. Sure it's a memory hog, but to me, I'd rather take a slower system if it means I have "better" protection.
Dude, you obviously haven't tried other A/V solutions out there. Not only is Symantec/Norton a memory hog, it also doesn't catch a lot of stuff that other programs can, and in my experience other products like AVG are updated more rapidly. Then there's that bit about Symantec products having major vulnerabilities themselves and being an entry point for exploitation. Then there's the "Symantec mafia" subscription scheme, not to mention the x day trials they sneak into new machines misleading consumers into thinking that they have "free" antivirus software installed when they don't really. Then there's the loads of nightmares from people who tried to uninstall Symantec products and had their system crippled.... the list goes on and on. You really need to explore other options because Symantec is a giant dinosaur that has become more of a liability than a benefit to any user of any level of sophistication.
I switched from Norton to AVG and it's like I upgraded my CPU I have so much better performance, so I could really care less if both programs delete each other in a steel cage death match. Actually, that would be fun to watch.
Seriously, I don't have a problem with MS deleting Symantec. Whether people want to admit it or not, it's probably an improvement.
Just because 1 scientist out of 200+ in the field doesn't believe in global warming does NOT mean that the notion of global warming being a myth deserves equal consideration. I'd submit that the ratio of qualified people to comment on the effects of global warming who believe it is a real issue, with those who believe differently is proportional to the same amount of people who believe/don't believe that we landed on the moon.
This new breed of "conservative logic" seeks to destroy the fabric of science. Just because you can find one well-degreed idiot out of 1000 who thinks dinosaurs walked the earth 6000 years ago, does not mean that theory deserves anywhere near as much consideration or attention.
Stop promoting this destructive and bone-headed idea. You're hurting science and progress.
I find it amusing that genetically-modified plants, food and other animals are perfectly ok, but the administration draws the line at humans? It seems very inconsistent. Then again, we're talking about... oh, nevermind. Maybe this GM people thing might cut into profits from the diet, plastic surgery and healthcare industries? We wouldn't want that.
As I've said; as others have said. More IP space = more problems. This isn't speculation; it's common sense.
I don't know what tests you've done, but I'd suspect you work for someone who has a vested interest in not seeing RBLs work, because they do, and they're far more reliable than content-based filtering.
SA is not much of a solution without the use of RBLs within it, or any spam filter. However content-based spam filtering is counterproductive. I do not want to have to pay more of my own money for more resources than is necessary to handle legit mail because I need to analyze the contents of spam. RBLs work best; they don't waste system resources and bandwidth. IPv6 will make things a zillion times worse until the authorities take action against the small number of spam gangs that are responsible for about 70% of the spam online.
We can't move to IPv6 until the spam problem is solved. With the additional address space that IPv6 offers, spam will increase by a googol if the spam gangs are not stopped. More spam is stopped because of RBLs now than any other method. IPv6 would make that obsolete.
For those who actually enjoy wine, the ability to recreate the aging process rapidly is a sort of holy grail.
Aged wine is not necessarily the "holy grail" of winedom, getting wine to taste great and not cost a small fortune is. Aging is only a small part of this. It also has to do with the type of oak used and the quality of the grapes.
This device is bogus. I've tried many of the so-called "aging devices" and they don't work. Tasting Notes don't lie. You cannot take cheap wine and make it good. Wine is only as good as the grapes, care and resources that went into producing it.
That's not to say you can't make wine taste different, and it's well known that even marginal red wine, if "aged" will change its taste and sensory profile. Sometimes this is better, sometimes it is worse. But thousands of years has shown that a wine's aging potential is related to its initial quality and care.
This doesn't stop people from trying to come up with goofy devices though. However, if you want to "age" wine, just leave it in your car for a little while. I won't promise it will taste better, but it will have more mileage on it.
His e-mail is from the Netherlands, which undoubtedly explains the extremely high quality of mind altering substances he was under the influence of when writing that rambling tripe.
This isn't spamming. It's directly related to the topic. Every day you have people asking the Slashdot community for assistance regarding things that cost or make them money. You can't look in any story where there aren't posts like this. Get over it.
In the wake of the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, my company has decided to put a few old-school domains we've had up for sale. It will be interesting to see what we can get. We registered these domains in 1995 and never intended to sell them as property themselves, but we need resources now to rebuild our networks and business after the destruction of New Orleans.
Among others, we're trying to determine what kind of price we might get for domains like: NERD.COM, FOLK.COM, IBL.COM, PROMARKETING.COM, and a few others.
Ironically, I submitted an "Ask Slashdot" story on this issue with more details yesterday that was rejected. It is boggling the prices these domains are going for now. We sold WISDOM.COM for $475k around 2000 and at the time that was one of the top three highest cash sales of a domain name. Now it looks like nothing.
So, if anyone thinks they can help us with the sale of some of these domains, there's a form on the site. The company who brokered the last sale we did walked away with $47,000 in commission. Can NERD or FOLK go for six figures?
I think you're right on the mark. GoDaddy is making excuses. You're either RFC compliant or you're not. It's your responsibility to choose vendors that do what you need them to do.
Then again, you get what you pay for when you use GoDaddy's crappy, CHEAP services. I have no sympathy for people who think that all registrars are the same and therefore the lowest price is all that matters. They're idiots. They should be driving Yugos and eating generic food.
Godaddy has a long history of screwing their customers over. They prematurely shut down domains and demand renewals way early of their expiration. They hold peoples' domains hostage in very inappropriate ways. They've implemented sleazy redirects and hidden frames and webbots; they use misleading advertising practices to hook users in with seemingly cheap prices and then nickle and dime them to death. Godaddy is THE WORST registrar on the Internet. And I do NOT work for them nor their competitors, but I advise all my clients to NEVER do business with them. They are a total and complete nightmare. I cringe when I come across someone who is foolish enough to use them as a registrar because I know it will make my and the client's life miserable at one point or another. It's inevitable. If it hasn't happened to you, it will. It's as certain as death and taxes. Godaddy sucks.
It really pisses me off that armchair scientist wankers such as yourself want to dismiss the overwhelming amount of evidence that the climate is going through major changes.
Meanwhile, weeks after hurricane season has ended, tropical storm DELTA is brewing.
Ever since they updated the Zend engine after 4.3.6 things have been going wrong. There are still bugs with variable references and memory management that appear in obscure scenarios that are hard to replicate but they're definitely there. I'm starting to lose hope in PHP as a stable platform in the wake of recent developments.
Historically, both "nerd" and "geek" were used as insults.
However, "nerds" were the technically-talented. Geeks have never been characterized as such in a manner as consistent as "nerds".
In our popular culture, you can see examples of both in the media and movies:
Revenge of the Nerds: nerds (obviously) Napoleon Dynamite: geek Matthrew Broaderick in War Games: nerd Anthony Michael Hall in the Breakfast Club: geek Ralph Macchio in Crossroads: nerd Dumb and Dumber: geeks
The two terms may be used interchangably, but in our popular culture, you can see differences. Some may say a "geek" may also be technically talented, but "nerds" have always been primarily characterized as those with superlative intelligence, while geeks have not.
If you visit iSuppli's site, you find out two things:
1. IBM is their client 2. IBM is a key component manufacturer for the XBox360
Then stuff like this makes sense:
A dissection of Microsoft's new Xbox 360 Premium video-game console conducted by iSuppli Corp.'s Teardown Analysis Service indicates that IBM silicon is a key factor driving the cost and functionality of the product. Beyond the Xbox 360, IBM chips are also at the heart of two other next-generation game consoles set to hit the market in the coming months. Thus, while it's too early to say whether Microsoft's Xbox 360 will prevail in the gaming market, IBM is a sure winner in consoles due to its across-the-board design wins.
"A lot of people ask me which company will win in the video-game console market: Microsoft or Sony? I reply, 'IBM,'" said Chris Crotty, senior analyst for consumer electronics at iSuppli.
Well, isn't that a surprise. iSuppli doesn't bite the hand that feeds them. Surely their "objective analysis" of the value of the XBox360 is sound.
Congrats Slashdot, you've been socially-engineered by some PR firm promoting Microsoft. There's no way the numbers are legitimate.
As many here have pointed out, the highly-speculative costs of the XBox360 are only slightly more competitive than what a smart consumer might expect, and this doesn't take into account Microsoft's tremendous buying power. Anyone with any amount of knowledge of the market knows the numbers are completely phony, and likely a PR plant to encourage consumers to snap up this console as if it were a "bargain."
To illustrate what I mean, everyone should watch The PBS Frontline special on Wal-Mart. Microsoft, like Wal-Mart is a pseudo-monopolist in its industry. As such, it doesn't have to play by the rules normal manufacturers, distributors or retailers play by. PBS has documented cases where Wal-Mart tells manufacturers what price they will pay, and in some cases, manufacturers are threatened with going out of business if they don't comply. Microsoft has done this same thing in the past with its suppliers and you can bet they play this game with XBox components. What they're paying is likely a fraction of what this article states. They have the power to tell manufacturers what to charge.
Why is all of a sudden the term "geek" being predmoninently used?
A Geek is generally regarded as someone who is anti-social, yet lacking any complimentary talents or skills.
WHEREAS, a Nerd is someone who may exhibit anti-social tendencies, but it's usually due to being absorbed in some sort of passionate, technical pursuit.
Slashdot's motto indicates and understanding of the distinction between "geeks" and "nerds" and it would be nice if they didn't run stories clouding the definition of these terms. A geek is someone who isn't necessarily talented or skillful at ANYTHING. Geeks read comic books. Nerds read novels and tech manuals.
Yes, back in those days, the notion of meeting someone in real life whom you met virtually was quite scary. You'd chat, then you'd move it to snail mail where you exchanged pictures. I do feel old!
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But I'm curious, since you've used SymNRT: Does it bug you that Symantec felt that they needed to include a CAPTCHA with their uninstaller tool?
That's obviously to keep MS Anti-spyware from invoking it!
Symantec makes a great product as well. Sure it's a memory hog, but to me, I'd rather take a slower system if it means I have "better" protection.
Dude, you obviously haven't tried other A/V solutions out there. Not only is Symantec/Norton a memory hog, it also doesn't catch a lot of stuff that other programs can, and in my experience other products like AVG are updated more rapidly. Then there's that bit about Symantec products having major vulnerabilities themselves and being an entry point for exploitation. Then there's the "Symantec mafia" subscription scheme, not to mention the x day trials they sneak into new machines misleading consumers into thinking that they have "free" antivirus software installed when they don't really. Then there's the loads of nightmares from people who tried to uninstall Symantec products and had their system crippled.... the list goes on and on. You really need to explore other options because Symantec is a giant dinosaur that has become more of a liability than a benefit to any user of any level of sophistication.
I switched from Norton to AVG and it's like I upgraded my CPU I have so much better performance, so I could really care less if both programs delete each other in a steel cage death match. Actually, that would be fun to watch.
Seriously, I don't have a problem with MS deleting Symantec. Whether people want to admit it or not, it's probably an improvement.
With all due respect, I call BS.
Just because 1 scientist out of 200+ in the field doesn't believe in global warming does NOT mean that the notion of global warming being a myth deserves equal consideration. I'd submit that the ratio of qualified people to comment on the effects of global warming who believe it is a real issue, with those who believe differently is proportional to the same amount of people who believe/don't believe that we landed on the moon.
This new breed of "conservative logic" seeks to destroy the fabric of science. Just because you can find one well-degreed idiot out of 1000 who thinks dinosaurs walked the earth 6000 years ago, does not mean that theory deserves anywhere near as much consideration or attention.
Stop promoting this destructive and bone-headed idea. You're hurting science and progress.
I find it amusing that genetically-modified plants, food and other animals are perfectly ok, but the administration draws the line at humans? It seems very inconsistent. Then again, we're talking about... oh, nevermind. Maybe this GM people thing might cut into profits from the diet, plastic surgery and healthcare industries? We wouldn't want that.
As I've said; as others have said. More IP space = more problems. This isn't speculation; it's common sense.
I don't know what tests you've done, but I'd suspect you work for someone who has a vested interest in not seeing RBLs work, because they do, and they're far more reliable than content-based filtering.
SA is not much of a solution without the use of RBLs within it, or any spam filter. However content-based spam filtering is counterproductive. I do not want to have to pay more of my own money for more resources than is necessary to handle legit mail because I need to analyze the contents of spam. RBLs work best; they don't waste system resources and bandwidth. IPv6 will make things a zillion times worse until the authorities take action against the small number of spam gangs that are responsible for about 70% of the spam online.
We can't move to IPv6 until the spam problem is solved. With the additional address space that IPv6 offers, spam will increase by a googol if the spam gangs are not stopped. More spam is stopped because of RBLs now than any other method. IPv6 would make that obsolete.
For those who actually enjoy wine, the ability to recreate the aging process rapidly is a sort of holy grail.
Aged wine is not necessarily the "holy grail" of winedom, getting wine to taste great and not cost a small fortune is. Aging is only a small part of this. It also has to do with the type of oak used and the quality of the grapes.
This device is bogus. I've tried many of the so-called "aging devices" and they don't work. Tasting Notes don't lie. You cannot take cheap wine and make it good. Wine is only as good as the grapes, care and resources that went into producing it.
That's not to say you can't make wine taste different, and it's well known that even marginal red wine, if "aged" will change its taste and sensory profile. Sometimes this is better, sometimes it is worse. But thousands of years has shown that a wine's aging potential is related to its initial quality and care.
This doesn't stop people from trying to come up with goofy devices though. However, if you want to "age" wine, just leave it in your car for a little while. I won't promise it will taste better, but it will have more mileage on it.
His e-mail is from the Netherlands, which undoubtedly explains the extremely high quality of mind altering substances he was under the influence of when writing that rambling tripe.
This isn't spamming. It's directly related to the topic. Every day you have people asking the Slashdot community for assistance regarding things that cost or make them money. You can't look in any story where there aren't posts like this. Get over it.
Someone modded this off-topic? Obviously someone re-modded it up. It's disappointing to see this kind of weird moderation.
In the wake of the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, my company has decided to put a few old-school domains we've had up for sale. It will be interesting to see what we can get. We registered these domains in 1995 and never intended to sell them as property themselves, but we need resources now to rebuild our networks and business after the destruction of New Orleans.
Among others, we're trying to determine what kind of price we might get for domains like: NERD.COM, FOLK.COM, IBL.COM, PROMARKETING.COM, and a few others.
Ironically, I submitted an "Ask Slashdot" story on this issue with more details yesterday that was rejected. It is boggling the prices these domains are going for now. We sold WISDOM.COM for $475k around 2000 and at the time that was one of the top three highest cash sales of a domain name. Now it looks like nothing.
So, if anyone thinks they can help us with the sale of some of these domains, there's a form on the site. The company who brokered the last sale we did walked away with $47,000 in commission. Can NERD or FOLK go for six figures?
I think you're right on the mark. GoDaddy is making excuses. You're either RFC compliant or you're not. It's your responsibility to choose vendors that do what you need them to do.
Then again, you get what you pay for when you use GoDaddy's crappy, CHEAP services. I have no sympathy for people who think that all registrars are the same and therefore the lowest price is all that matters. They're idiots. They should be driving Yugos and eating generic food.
Godaddy has a long history of screwing their customers over. They prematurely shut down domains and demand renewals way early of their expiration. They hold peoples' domains hostage in very inappropriate ways. They've implemented sleazy redirects and hidden frames and webbots; they use misleading advertising practices to hook users in with seemingly cheap prices and then nickle and dime them to death. Godaddy is THE WORST registrar on the Internet. And I do NOT work for them nor their competitors, but I advise all my clients to NEVER do business with them. They are a total and complete nightmare. I cringe when I come across someone who is foolish enough to use them as a registrar because I know it will make my and the client's life miserable at one point or another. It's inevitable. If it hasn't happened to you, it will. It's as certain as death and taxes. Godaddy sucks.
The best solution to this problem is to avoid Godaddy entirely. They are fast making Verisign and ICANN look reputable.
Congrats, you've finally figured out a way of making Minnesota appealing.
Take a look at New Orleans before you spout off at the mouth you anonymous conservative dickwad coward.
It really pisses me off that armchair scientist wankers such as yourself want to dismiss the overwhelming amount of evidence that the climate is going through major changes.
Meanwhile, weeks after hurricane season has ended, tropical storm DELTA is brewing.
My entire home town has been reduced to rubble.
Fuck you.
Ever since they updated the Zend engine after 4.3.6 things have been going wrong. There are still bugs with variable references and memory management that appear in obscure scenarios that are hard to replicate but they're definitely there. I'm starting to lose hope in PHP as a stable platform in the wake of recent developments.
Historically, both "nerd" and "geek" were used as insults.
However, "nerds" were the technically-talented. Geeks have never been characterized as such in a manner as consistent as "nerds".
In our popular culture, you can see examples of both in the media and movies:
Revenge of the Nerds: nerds (obviously)
Napoleon Dynamite: geek
Matthrew Broaderick in War Games: nerd
Anthony Michael Hall in the Breakfast Club: geek
Ralph Macchio in Crossroads: nerd
Dumb and Dumber: geeks
The two terms may be used interchangably, but in our popular culture, you can see differences. Some may say a "geek" may also be technically talented, but "nerds" have always been primarily characterized as those with superlative intelligence, while geeks have not.
If you visit iSuppli's site, you find out two things:
1. IBM is their client
2. IBM is a key component manufacturer for the XBox360
Then stuff like this makes sense:
A dissection of Microsoft's new Xbox 360 Premium video-game console conducted by iSuppli Corp.'s Teardown Analysis Service indicates that IBM silicon is a key factor driving the cost and functionality of the product. Beyond the Xbox 360, IBM chips are also at the heart of two other next-generation game consoles set to hit the market in the coming months. Thus, while it's too early to say whether Microsoft's Xbox 360 will prevail in the gaming market, IBM is a sure winner in consoles due to its across-the-board design wins.
"A lot of people ask me which company will win in the video-game console market: Microsoft or Sony? I reply, 'IBM,'" said Chris Crotty, senior analyst for consumer electronics at iSuppli.
Well, isn't that a surprise. iSuppli doesn't bite the hand that feeds them. Surely their "objective analysis" of the value of the XBox360 is sound.
Congrats Slashdot, you've been socially-engineered by some PR firm promoting Microsoft. There's no way the numbers are legitimate.
As many here have pointed out, the highly-speculative costs of the XBox360 are only slightly more competitive than what a smart consumer might expect, and this doesn't take into account Microsoft's tremendous buying power. Anyone with any amount of knowledge of the market knows the numbers are completely phony, and likely a PR plant to encourage consumers to snap up this console as if it were a "bargain."
To illustrate what I mean, everyone should watch The PBS Frontline special on Wal-Mart. Microsoft, like Wal-Mart is a pseudo-monopolist in its industry. As such, it doesn't have to play by the rules normal manufacturers, distributors or retailers play by. PBS has documented cases where Wal-Mart tells manufacturers what price they will pay, and in some cases, manufacturers are threatened with going out of business if they don't comply. Microsoft has done this same thing in the past with its suppliers and you can bet they play this game with XBox components. What they're paying is likely a fraction of what this article states. They have the power to tell manufacturers what to charge.
Why is all of a sudden the term "geek" being predmoninently used?
A Geek is generally regarded as someone who is anti-social, yet lacking any complimentary talents or skills.
WHEREAS, a Nerd is someone who may exhibit anti-social tendencies, but it's usually due to being absorbed in some sort of passionate, technical pursuit.
Slashdot's motto indicates and understanding of the distinction between "geeks" and "nerds" and it would be nice if they didn't run stories clouding the definition of these terms. A geek is someone who isn't necessarily talented or skillful at ANYTHING. Geeks read comic books. Nerds read novels and tech manuals.
Greetings!
Yes, back in those days, the notion of meeting someone in real life whom you met virtually was quite scary. You'd chat, then you'd move it to snail mail where you exchanged pictures. I do feel old!