This is China we're speaking about, so it doesn't necessarily have to be good political satire to land someone in prison. I would actually imagine it wasn't very good since they only kept her a year.
Are you talking about Yahoo's Spam? In the email they sent out yesterday there was a link straight to your prefrences page so you could click No to everything. It takes about 30 seconds total. Sure it kinda sucks that you have to do anything to not get spam from them, but at least it's easy to stop.
As far as other spam, yahoo has a pretty good filter. I use my yahoo email when I give out my address online and pretty close to 100% of unwanted stuff gets blocked (about 400 a day), while I have very rarely had a false positive (which is easily correctable).
MIT already have computers that can recognize different emotional expressions by examining a face.
So, what if I'm not feeling the correct emotion at the time of a purchase? Will I be declined then? Will you have to be happy to get money out of an ATM?
1. Steal finger 2. Put on fake smile... you know the rest.
Both allow for 'Alive-And-Well' checks, to circumvent the problems of both lopping off someone's finger and holding them at gunpoint (pulse checkers).
Pulse checkers? What if I am really anxious because I'm in a hurry? Or what if I just got done running and stopped to buy some water? Would my finger be declined?
So, in that case, it can quite easily be classified as evil as it strictly deals with instant, responsibility free pleasure and not with the finer more complex points in life like relationships with other people (which is pretty much what life is all about).
Maybe that's what your life is about, but not everybody's. Some people like porn (even women), others don't. And how can you possibly consider instant, responsibility free pleasure evil?
Most people don't even install XP, and even when they do it's not always the installer that they use. Recently I reinstalled XP on my box (eMachines) and I had to use the eMachines Recover disk to do it, which just uses Symantec's Ghost and not the Windows Installer. It shure wasn't a difficuly UI either; my only option was to type "Yes" to erase everything on my hard drive and start over, or type "No" to abort.
Personally I was a little dissapointed that I couldn't just install Windows on the NTFS partition, instead I had to clear the entire hard drive. But, at least it gave me an oppotunity to try new Linux distros which I was going to do eventually anyways.
I use Windows Blinds when I run XP. I wish I didn't have to because my computer is pretty slow already without the extras, but I can't stand anything that comes standard on XP. Luckiliy I don't run XP very often anyways, but with the sudden death of free software it looks like I'll have no choice now.
until either most current users are replaced with people that didn't learn Windows as their first OS
Computers will need to come with Linux for this to be a possibility. Personally I think that if a person went to buy a computer and the salesperson told them it would be cheaper to get a computer with Linux, a lot of people would do that. Although knowing how computer illiterate some people are a lot of them would probably still think they had Windows anyways.
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Ummm... I which version are you thinking of? Personally I have used 98, 2000, ME, and XP, and all of them started me as root by default.
Shouldn't users be expected to posess at least a rudimentry understanding of just how a computer works?
In my opinion, no. Don't get me wrong, it would be great if everybody that used a computer knew WTF they were doing, but I don't think it's realistic, and I don't think somebody should not be able to use a computer just because they don't know how to do anything but point and click (and a lot of people even have problems with that).
One of the major things holding people back is that most people are not very good at thinking logically, and using a computer well involves logic. Other things holding people back are time and interest. Many people just don't care how to do anything accept the narrow list of things that they want to accomplish on their computer. Developers need to make OSs and applications that cater to these people (while staying secure at the same time), but they also should not forget about the people who do want to do more.
Eventually when computers are *intelligent* most of this won't matter because you'll be able to just speak your native language to your computer to get tasks done. (Although a command line would still be faster in a lot of cases)
I am pretty friggin' poor right now. So, anything above free is not really cheap. Also, as I said the ads don't really bother me; I just tune them out. I don't have anything against somebody buying a subscription though (and I probably would to if I wasn't broke).
That said, my original post was more about all websites in general, as there are plenty of sites that I would *never* pay to use, but that I do use because they are free.
What type of ads are you talking about exactly. If you RTFA you would realize this thing blocks all ads. Personally, I don't mind seeing an ad here and there on/. to pay for the costs. I would rather that than there be no/.
Now, if slashdot started using Flash ads that follow the screen until you hit "close ad" then I would want to block them, but that would be my choice! On the other hand, Semantec wants to block all ads and have that be the default, and most average users don't change the defaults on there systems (even the ones that realize they can change the defaults often don't). Now, I would imagine that for the most part these are the same people buying stuff from most ads on the internet. I say, let them. If they want to pay for the websites I access, then great!
Keep in mind, I have nothing against Semantec putting an ad-blocking option in there software. But, it should be off by default, and it should be customizeable (ie popup blocking, banner blocking, etc. should all be seperate options and should be able to be used on a per-site basis).
Emotions are a sum of billions of chemical reations, and firing neurons. I do not believe it is possible to feel the exact same emotion twice. As for the difference in "Westerners" or "Easterners," well I don't really get the grandparent's motivation on that one.
And for my thoughts on the movie, I think that when some people saw M2 they came to the conclusion that the real world was just another matrix, while others came to the conclusion that Neo had cracked the network that controlls the machines (or something to that affect). Personally, I thought the latter, but if I hadn't I probably would've been just as dissapointed as many of the other people posting comments.
i have *never* had a computer virus or worm on my win95, wind98 or win2k boxes, and i don't bother with antivirus software.
Ummm... have you at least used a anti-virus utility to scan your computer and back up your claim. Personally I've gotten about 4 different viruses on my Windows box. None of them were from email attatchments (as I never open them) and none of them showed any obvious signs of infection. If I had never scanned my computer, I would probably think I never had any either.
It's also at the bottom of the article, but I suppose a lot of people reading these comments probably didn't RTFA. If you're into psychotic rants it would be a great read.
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This is China we're speaking about, so it doesn't necessarily have to be good political satire to land someone in prison. I would actually imagine it wasn't very good since they only kept her a year.
There are many possible meanings behind poetry.
I wish somebody would tell that to my English professor.
What about BSD?
But like you said, who's counting? Certainly not the majority of Windows users.
It isn't really just for educational institutions, but they are a big part of it.
Here's some links from google.
Why aren't the submitted articles in italics? Personally I would prefer that to quotes, but maybe that's just me.
Are you talking about Yahoo's Spam? In the email they sent out yesterday there was a link straight to your prefrences page so you could click No to everything. It takes about 30 seconds total. Sure it kinda sucks that you have to do anything to not get spam from them, but at least it's easy to stop.
As far as other spam, yahoo has a pretty good filter. I use my yahoo email when I give out my address online and pretty close to 100% of unwanted stuff gets blocked (about 400 a day), while I have very rarely had a false positive (which is easily correctable).
It's copyright infringement.
Anyone else click this article thinking Apple was claiming a patent on shareware?
Yes.
But then again I also thought the article about the 20" imacs was about imacs with G5s.
MIT already have computers that can recognize different emotional expressions by examining a face.
So, what if I'm not feeling the correct emotion at the time of a purchase? Will I be declined then? Will you have to be happy to get money out of an ATM?
1. Steal finger
2. Put on fake smile... you know the rest.
Both allow for 'Alive-And-Well' checks, to circumvent the problems of both lopping off someone's finger and holding them at gunpoint (pulse checkers).
Pulse checkers? What if I am really anxious because I'm in a hurry? Or what if I just got done running and stopped to buy some water? Would my finger be declined?
So, in that case, it can quite easily be classified as evil as it strictly deals with instant, responsibility free pleasure and not with the finer more complex points in life like relationships with other people (which is pretty much what life is all about).
Maybe that's what your life is about, but not everybody's. Some people like porn (even women), others don't. And how can you possibly consider instant, responsibility free pleasure evil?
Most people don't even install XP, and even when they do it's not always the installer that they use. Recently I reinstalled XP on my box (eMachines) and I had to use the eMachines Recover disk to do it, which just uses Symantec's Ghost and not the Windows Installer. It shure wasn't a difficuly UI either; my only option was to type "Yes" to erase everything on my hard drive and start over, or type "No" to abort.
Personally I was a little dissapointed that I couldn't just install Windows on the NTFS partition, instead I had to clear the entire hard drive. But, at least it gave me an oppotunity to try new Linux distros which I was going to do eventually anyways.
So if I stick all my copied movies in a folder called "My Private Folder" is that legal?
I use Windows Blinds when I run XP. I wish I didn't have to because my computer is pretty slow already without the extras, but I can't stand anything that comes standard on XP. Luckiliy I don't run XP very often anyways, but with the sudden death of free software it looks like I'll have no choice now.
until either most current users are replaced with people that didn't learn Windows as their first OS
Computers will need to come with Linux for this to be a possibility. Personally I think that if a person went to buy a computer and the salesperson told them it would be cheaper to get a computer with Linux, a lot of people would do that. Although knowing how computer illiterate some people are a lot of them would probably still think they had Windows anyways.
Ummm... I which version are you thinking of?
Personally I have used 98, 2000, ME, and XP, and all of them started me as root by default.
Note the company profile doesn't mention ANY connection to Microsoft. But note the font. Note the logo. Note the colors.
Noted. I don't think there's a connection.
Yes, but these kids will grow up and eventually hear of linux. Maybe some of them will chose it over Windows for that very reason.
Shouldn't users be expected to posess at least a rudimentry understanding of just how a computer works?
In my opinion, no. Don't get me wrong, it would be great if everybody that used a computer knew WTF they were doing, but I don't think it's realistic, and I don't think somebody should not be able to use a computer just because they don't know how to do anything but point and click (and a lot of people even have problems with that).
One of the major things holding people back is that most people are not very good at thinking logically, and using a computer well involves logic. Other things holding people back are time and interest. Many people just don't care how to do anything accept the narrow list of things that they want to accomplish on their computer. Developers need to make OSs and applications that cater to these people (while staying secure at the same time), but they also should not forget about the people who do want to do more.
Eventually when computers are *intelligent* most of this won't matter because you'll be able to just speak your native language to your computer to get tasks done. (Although a command line would still be faster in a lot of cases)
I am pretty friggin' poor right now. So, anything above free is not really cheap. Also, as I said the ads don't really bother me; I just tune them out. I don't have anything against somebody buying a subscription though (and I probably would to if I wasn't broke).
That said, my original post was more about all websites in general, as there are plenty of sites that I would *never* pay to use, but that I do use because they are free.
What type of ads are you talking about exactly. If you RTFA you would realize this thing blocks all ads. Personally, I don't mind seeing an ad here and there on /. to pay for the costs. I would rather that than there be no /.
Now, if slashdot started using Flash ads that follow the screen until you hit "close ad" then I would want to block them, but that would be my choice! On the other hand, Semantec wants to block all ads and have that be the default, and most average users don't change the defaults on there systems (even the ones that realize they can change the defaults often don't). Now, I would imagine that for the most part these are the same people buying stuff from most ads on the internet. I say, let them. If they want to pay for the websites I access, then great!
Keep in mind, I have nothing against Semantec putting an ad-blocking option in there software. But, it should be off by default, and it should be customizeable (ie popup blocking, banner blocking, etc. should all be seperate options and should be able to be used on a per-site basis).
Emotions are a sum of billions of chemical reations, and firing neurons. I do not believe it is possible to feel the exact same emotion twice. As for the difference in "Westerners" or "Easterners," well I don't really get the grandparent's motivation on that one.
And for my thoughts on the movie, I think that when some people saw M2 they came to the conclusion that the real world was just another matrix, while others came to the conclusion that Neo had cracked the network that controlls the machines (or something to that affect). Personally, I thought the latter, but if I hadn't I probably would've been just as dissapointed as many of the other people posting comments.
i have *never* had a computer virus or worm on my win95, wind98 or win2k boxes, and i don't bother with antivirus software.
Ummm... have you at least used a anti-virus utility to scan your computer and back up your claim. Personally I've gotten about 4 different viruses on my Windows box. None of them were from email attatchments (as I never open them) and none of them showed any obvious signs of infection. If I had never scanned my computer, I would probably think I never had any either.
"I am not sure what is happening (about astrological readings) but something is happening."
Wow. That sounds really scientific.
It's also at the bottom of the article, but I suppose a lot of people reading these comments probably didn't RTFA. If you're into psychotic rants it would be a great read.