Thats essentially the problem here. XP was released in 2001. Expecting it to have all the kludges to run past 4GB or ram is ridiculous. Thats like criticizing Ford for not putting ABS and air bags in a '64 Mustang.
If people want to access more RAM then they should upgrade to a 64bit OS and be done with it.
Well, I dont know what he is laughing about exactly but I see a few major flaws here:
1. Firefox has vulnerabilities too. Any user running as root/admin with any browser is really taking a huge chance.
2. This post is really a lot of fanboy nonsense. You cant turn a negative like having a worse phishing filter into a positive. The fact that he is getting mod points shows the ridiculous fanboyism that defines slashdot.
3. This is a PHISHING FILTER. So it doesnt matter if you cant hack grandmas Firefox, shes already typed in her social security number and credit card number.
>. Since the browser is more secuire, it can let it more attacks and trust Firefox to protect itself to a large extent.
There are mostly phishing filters, so what you just wrote doesnt matter. Yeah, its great grandma's firefox isnt taken by some IE-only exploit, but she just typed in her social security number and credit card numbers at www.macys-apparel-0459593-discount.com.
He got taken, but acording to Poe's law sometimes satire and the thing being mocked are impossible to differentiate because its adherents are so extreme.
>I can appreciate the point of the message and liked the impact, but I would have preferred it to not be so simplistic in it's worldview.
Right and I agree with everything you wrote, but I feel film is usually a compromise between art and commerce. You need big bad characters. You need melodrama. You need explosions. You need simple archtypes. etc. Movies arent usually profitable without these things and Hollywood knows it. Thats why I avoid movies or walk in with a very, very low set of expectations.
I think the economy of scale determines the artist's flexibility. Big Budget Movies: low. Books: better. Comics: good. Self-produced/published: excellent. The amount of expected profit and initual investment really determines how original something can be. This is also why early sci-fi was so damn original. No one expected to sell very many books and the authors just gave in to their ideas and produced some incredible stuff. As the genre became more popular and more profitable, people stopped taking chances, and it all culminates with a cut and paste storyline fitted into a new summer blockbuster every year. Or another movie based on a comic, because originality still exists in comic books now and again.
So are we now judging a book by its cover? Thanks but no thanks, I'll wait until I see all the reviews on rottentomatoes before making judgement. Something tells me critics who have actually seen the movie and know how to write and think about film might be a better barometer than random nerd on the internet.
Funny how the synopsis mocks teenage girls, but we dont mock teenage fanboys who loudly declare "FAIL" after just seeing a teaser trailer. Seems thats the more odious habit.
Ironically, the teaser trailer has done its job: its got everyone talking. So little an investment for so much publicity.
Because the real world implications of losing your Eve account is going back to playing your level 80 druid on WoW. The real world implications of letting a few thousands companies collapse, a few dozen big banks collapse, and a few hundred thousand people lose their homes is a bit more serious.
No they didnt. I love these new machines, instead of begging shopkeepers for quarters I just swipe my debit card and walk away. I did experience one broken machine. Some smart ass vandal covered it in white paint. So I called the number on the machine. Unlike calling any city services a human answered the phone, called me sir, and told me to just park and if I got a ticket they have it logged in their database that the machine was defective. Haha, imagine service like that from the city!
Some things are better privatized. The city had no incentive to take credit cards and shopkeepers have no incentive to give away quarters. In fact, the city has a huge disincentive to taking credit cards: the more people without quarters the more tickets written. The corrupt city officals and corrupt unions that run the city couldnt give a shit about fixing the meter system until their own corruption led to them being unprofitable.
As far as batteries go, Ive yet to see a dead machine and considering they all have solar panels on their tops, its unlikely to see one very often. I dont mind paying a little more for better service and credit card support. If anything this proves to me that the internet's ability to being out childish whiners in people is infinite.
>Nor is his name on a list of gifts of $1 million or more compiled by Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy.
Did you bother to read the entire article? Two paragraphs later:
Of course, Jobs and his wife may be giving enormous sums of money to charity anonymously. If they are funneling cash to various causes in private, their names wouldn't show up on any lists, regardless of the size of their gifts.
For a person as private as Jobs, who shuns any publicity about his family life, this seems credible.
I know in the age of facebook, spyware, and blogging about your menstraul cycle, privacy has fallen out of fashion, but some people still appreciate it.
>but here is a pretty good explanation of why I don't think Jobs is giving hardly anything.
No, its bullshit character attacks based on a lack of evidence.
Unlike you, I worked in a large well-known national non-profit. I would see multi-million dollar donations come in via anonymous. Because of my position at the time I could see who they really came from. Lots of millionaires who just want some privacy in their lives. People like Jobs.
Turning privacy and modesty into "ZOMG HE DOESNT GIVE" is a dick move and I'm calling you out on it.
While I am at it, I think its incredibly tacky to brag about ones donations. "LOOK I AM GIVING!!" is a low move. Lots of people like Jobs like to give without putting their name on something or having some pet charity. Lots of starts with pet charities do it almost soley for the publicity. Criticizing someone because he doesnt play the PR game is 100% ridiculous in my book.
A private life should be respected and lauded not turned into a hit piece on wired and all the little geeks reflexively agreeing with it.
Logic 101: absense of proof is not proof of absense. Lots of rich people give anonymously, especially private people like Jobs. From the exact article you linked but evidently did not bother to fully read or comprehend:
Jobs' wife is also absent from these philanthropic lists, although she has made dozens of political donations totaling tens of thousands of dollars to the Democrats, according to the Open Secrets database.
Of course, Jobs and his wife may be giving enormous sums of money to charity anonymously. If they are funneling cash to various causes in private, their names wouldn't show up on any lists, regardless of the size of their gifts.
For a person as private as Jobs, who shuns any publicity about his family life, this seems credible. If so, however, this would make Jobs virtually unique among moguls. Richard Jolly, chairman of Giving USA Foundation, said not all billionaires give their money away, but a lot do, and most do not do it quietly.
"We see it over and over again," he said. "Very wealthy individuals do support the organizations and institutions they believe in."
Using your logic I can say, "Ive never seen him shit, so he must be a robot or an alien, as all humans need to shit."
>the difference being that at least Gates gives to charity daily, where as Jobs does not.
What? I dont even like Jobs, but I wouldnt say that. Do you have his tax records or something? People who make past a certain amount of money give quite a bit to charity because:
1. They want to. 2. Tax incentives to do so.
You can smear Jobs, but he's given more than you ever will. He may not run a massive charity, but then again he doesnt have the money Gates has.
Only because the things the cons like are already over-represented to the tune of 650 billion in military spending. It didnt get that way because the cons thought that the miiltary was big enough, but over decades of demanding more defense spending, pork, etc.
Now that the cons have situated themselves well you cant sit back and say "See, theyre fiscally responsible and want smaller government." No, they are not. In fact it took Obama to stop the production of F-22s we didnt need to fight an enemy that no longer exists.
Not to mention when liberals spend we get the GI Bill and FHA. When cons spend we get f-22s we dont need and on top of it they cut taxes for their rich pals, thus guaranteeing a deficit.
>Most conservatives I know, believe that the parts of government that do the certain things they want the government to do are big enough and don't need expanding.
Right, like all those conservatives who want a smaller military.
Its kind sad the people automatically mod up mindless negativity like this.
Look, scifi movies are the low hanging fruit of Hollywood. This looks much better than GI Joe or Transformers. We should be thankful someone is trying an actual story. Cameron has some real talent and deserves a little more respect than this. I mean, you barely saw anything. Youre pretty much judging a book by its cover. I thought geeks were smarter than this.
There's no doubt Iraq hasn't fully complied with its disarmament obligations as set forth by the Security Council in its resolution. But on the other hand, since 1998 Iraq has been fundamentally disarmed: 90-95% of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capacity has been verifiably eliminated... We have to remember that this missing 5-10% doesn't necessarily constitute a threat... It constitutes bits and pieces of a weapons program which in its totality doesn't amount to much, but which is still prohibited... We can't give Iraq a clean bill of health, therefore we can't close the book on their weapons of mass destruction. But simultaneously, we can't reasonably talk about Iraqi non-compliance as representing a de-facto retention of a prohibited capacity worthy of war. (page 28)
We eliminated the nuclear program, and for Iraq to have reconstituted it would require undertaking activities that would have been eminently detectable by intelligence services. (page 32)
If Iraq were producing [chemical] weapons today, we'd have proof, pure and simple. (page 37)
[A]s of December 1998 we had no evidence Iraq had retained biological weapons, nor that they were working on any. In fact, we had a lot of evidence to suggest Iraq was in compliance. (page 46)[8]
Again, youre wrong as usual. Your purposely mentioning pre 1998 intel and taking that last 5-10% uknown as valiating the Bush claim of weaponized WMDs. Youre a liar and shill for the worst administration in history.
Right before the war they had free run. Scott Ritter was on TV telling the world that there is no proof WMDs have been made again.
"I've said that no one has backed up any allegations that Iraq has reconstituted WMD capability with anything that remotely resembles substantive fact."
Bush and his cronies said the opposite, pulled them, and went to war.
In the end there was no nuclear program. The yellowcake was a lie. The aluminum tubes was a lie. The plutonium was a lie. Sadadms connection with 9/11 was a lie. The smallpox factories was a lie. There were NO WMDs IN IRAQ.
There are liars here but its not me. Its Bush defenders like you.
The original voice of R2D2 died of heat exhaustion while wearing the suit. In his honor they used digital beeps.
>C3P0 and mincing gay man
This is because C3P0 is a gay robot. Its a shame Scalzi is such a bigot that he cannot accept homosexual robots. Someday, 3P0, someday you'll be accepted and you can marry that nice medical robot who has been checking you out.
>Lighsaber guards
With the guard up all lightsaber fights ended in a stalemate. The jedi council of 4922 banned them for the sake of "sport and honor."
>Blasters
In the star wars world, lead bullets are useless against storm trooper armor. So everyone needs to use blasters which are slower and noisier. Blasters also release a mint scent which is an added bonus.
>Luke's lack of seatbelts
Luke was originally told his father died asphyxiating from a seatbelt after an accident that flipped his speeder. Luke vowed to never take that chance and removed his.
>Stormtrooper armor
In a sophisticated universe, style is very important. "The path to defeat, an unstylish military is. - Yoda"
>Death star
The empire has always been a good sport and has left vulnerabilities in all its designs.
>a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room.
To be fair, this was put in so the emperor could toss people down it as he pleased. He knew it was a risk someone could toss him down it too, but he was crazy that way.
Considering the mess that is userland and the desktop, you should be thankful they even exist. I mean, shaving off.0000002 ms off kernel loading time is great too, but perhaps someone should be focused on the desktop experience and maintaining a good distro without too much worrying about the kernel.
"Late last night... I was advised by the U.S. government to pull out our inspectors from Baghdad," ElBaradei told the IAEA's board of governors. He said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Security Council were informed and that the council would take up the issue later Monday.
"I should note that in recent weeks, possibly as a result of increasing pressure by the international community, Iraq has been more forthcoming in its cooperation with the IAEA," he said, adding that inspectors still have found no evidence that Saddam Hussein has revived his nuclear program.
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Thats essentially the problem here. XP was released in 2001. Expecting it to have all the kludges to run past 4GB or ram is ridiculous. Thats like criticizing Ford for not putting ABS and air bags in a '64 Mustang.
If people want to access more RAM then they should upgrade to a 64bit OS and be done with it.
Well, I dont know what he is laughing about exactly but I see a few major flaws here:
1. Firefox has vulnerabilities too. Any user running as root/admin with any browser is really taking a huge chance.
2. This post is really a lot of fanboy nonsense. You cant turn a negative like having a worse phishing filter into a positive. The fact that he is getting mod points shows the ridiculous fanboyism that defines slashdot.
3. This is a PHISHING FILTER. So it doesnt matter if you cant hack grandmas Firefox, shes already typed in her social security number and credit card number.
>. Since the browser is more secuire, it can let it more attacks and trust Firefox to protect itself to a large extent.
There are mostly phishing filters, so what you just wrote doesnt matter. Yeah, its great grandma's firefox isnt taken by some IE-only exploit, but she just typed in her social security number and credit card numbers at www.macys-apparel-0459593-discount.com.
He got taken, but acording to Poe's law sometimes satire and the thing being mocked are impossible to differentiate because its adherents are so extreme.
>What do you mean I can't write about 'Zords in Power Rangers: Jungle Fury' because they weren't mentioned in a Journal of Popular Culture article?"
No, you can mention Zords in the article for Zero under the heading Trivia: Other things I like that start with Z.
>I can appreciate the point of the message and liked the impact, but I would have preferred it to not be so simplistic in it's worldview.
Right and I agree with everything you wrote, but I feel film is usually a compromise between art and commerce. You need big bad characters. You need melodrama. You need explosions. You need simple archtypes. etc. Movies arent usually profitable without these things and Hollywood knows it. Thats why I avoid movies or walk in with a very, very low set of expectations.
I think the economy of scale determines the artist's flexibility. Big Budget Movies: low. Books: better. Comics: good. Self-produced/published: excellent. The amount of expected profit and initual investment really determines how original something can be. This is also why early sci-fi was so damn original. No one expected to sell very many books and the authors just gave in to their ideas and produced some incredible stuff. As the genre became more popular and more profitable, people stopped taking chances, and it all culminates with a cut and paste storyline fitted into a new summer blockbuster every year. Or another movie based on a comic, because originality still exists in comic books now and again.
>third-rate fantasy masturbatory session for furries and other WoW-playing losers.
Err, you do know youre posting on slashdot, right?
So are we now judging a book by its cover? Thanks but no thanks, I'll wait until I see all the reviews on rottentomatoes before making judgement. Something tells me critics who have actually seen the movie and know how to write and think about film might be a better barometer than random nerd on the internet.
Funny how the synopsis mocks teenage girls, but we dont mock teenage fanboys who loudly declare "FAIL" after just seeing a teaser trailer. Seems thats the more odious habit.
Ironically, the teaser trailer has done its job: its got everyone talking. So little an investment for so much publicity.
Because the real world implications of losing your Eve account is going back to playing your level 80 druid on WoW. The real world implications of letting a few thousands companies collapse, a few dozen big banks collapse, and a few hundred thousand people lose their homes is a bit more serious.
No they didnt. I love these new machines, instead of begging shopkeepers for quarters I just swipe my debit card and walk away. I did experience one broken machine. Some smart ass vandal covered it in white paint. So I called the number on the machine. Unlike calling any city services a human answered the phone, called me sir, and told me to just park and if I got a ticket they have it logged in their database that the machine was defective. Haha, imagine service like that from the city!
Some things are better privatized. The city had no incentive to take credit cards and shopkeepers have no incentive to give away quarters. In fact, the city has a huge disincentive to taking credit cards: the more people without quarters the more tickets written. The corrupt city officals and corrupt unions that run the city couldnt give a shit about fixing the meter system until their own corruption led to them being unprofitable.
As far as batteries go, Ive yet to see a dead machine and considering they all have solar panels on their tops, its unlikely to see one very often. I dont mind paying a little more for better service and credit card support. If anything this proves to me that the internet's ability to being out childish whiners in people is infinite.
>Nor is his name on a list of gifts of $1 million or more compiled by Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy.
Did you bother to read the entire article? Two paragraphs later:
I know in the age of facebook, spyware, and blogging about your menstraul cycle, privacy has fallen out of fashion, but some people still appreciate it.
>but here is a pretty good explanation of why I don't think Jobs is giving hardly anything.
No, its bullshit character attacks based on a lack of evidence.
Unlike you, I worked in a large well-known national non-profit. I would see multi-million dollar donations come in via anonymous. Because of my position at the time I could see who they really came from. Lots of millionaires who just want some privacy in their lives. People like Jobs.
Turning privacy and modesty into "ZOMG HE DOESNT GIVE" is a dick move and I'm calling you out on it.
While I am at it, I think its incredibly tacky to brag about ones donations. "LOOK I AM GIVING!!" is a low move. Lots of people like Jobs like to give without putting their name on something or having some pet charity. Lots of starts with pet charities do it almost soley for the publicity. Criticizing someone because he doesnt play the PR game is 100% ridiculous in my book.
A private life should be respected and lauded not turned into a hit piece on wired and all the little geeks reflexively agreeing with it.
Logic 101: absense of proof is not proof of absense. Lots of rich people give anonymously, especially private people like Jobs. From the exact article you linked but evidently did not bother to fully read or comprehend:
Using your logic I can say, "Ive never seen him shit, so he must be a robot or an alien, as all humans need to shit."
Unless you have tax records or some kind of cite, all you are doing is giving your uninformed opinion.
>the difference being that at least Gates gives to charity daily, where as Jobs does not.
What? I dont even like Jobs, but I wouldnt say that. Do you have his tax records or something? People who make past a certain amount of money give quite a bit to charity because:
1. They want to.
2. Tax incentives to do so.
You can smear Jobs, but he's given more than you ever will. He may not run a massive charity, but then again he doesnt have the money Gates has.
Only because the things the cons like are already over-represented to the tune of 650 billion in military spending. It didnt get that way because the cons thought that the miiltary was big enough, but over decades of demanding more defense spending, pork, etc.
Now that the cons have situated themselves well you cant sit back and say "See, theyre fiscally responsible and want smaller government." No, they are not. In fact it took Obama to stop the production of F-22s we didnt need to fight an enemy that no longer exists.
Every GOP presidency in past couple of decades has led to massive deficit spending. Clinton cleaned up the Bush years and Obama will have to clean up the other Bush's mess.
Not to mention when liberals spend we get the GI Bill and FHA. When cons spend we get f-22s we dont need and on top of it they cut taxes for their rich pals, thus guaranteeing a deficit.
>Most conservatives I know, believe that the parts of government that do the certain things they want the government to do are big enough and don't need expanding.
Right, like all those conservatives who want a smaller military.
>The robots don't move right.
Welcome to the uncanny valley!
Its kind sad the people automatically mod up mindless negativity like this.
Look, scifi movies are the low hanging fruit of Hollywood. This looks much better than GI Joe or Transformers. We should be thankful someone is trying an actual story. Cameron has some real talent and deserves a little more respect than this. I mean, you barely saw anything. Youre pretty much judging a book by its cover. I thought geeks were smarter than this.
More Ritter via Wikipedia:
Again, youre wrong as usual. Your purposely mentioning pre 1998 intel and taking that last 5-10% uknown as valiating the Bush claim of weaponized WMDs. Youre a liar and shill for the worst administration in history.
Right before the war they had free run. Scott Ritter was on TV telling the world that there is no proof WMDs have been made again.
"I've said that no one has backed up any allegations that Iraq has reconstituted WMD capability with anything that remotely resembles substantive fact."
Bush and his cronies said the opposite, pulled them, and went to war.
In the end there was no nuclear program. The yellowcake was a lie. The aluminum tubes was a lie. The plutonium was a lie. Sadadms connection with 9/11 was a lie. The smallpox factories was a lie. There were NO WMDs IN IRAQ.
There are liars here but its not me. Its Bush defenders like you.
>R2D2's speech
The original voice of R2D2 died of heat exhaustion while wearing the suit. In his honor they used digital beeps.
>C3P0 and mincing gay man
This is because C3P0 is a gay robot. Its a shame Scalzi is such a bigot that he cannot accept homosexual robots. Someday, 3P0, someday you'll be accepted and you can marry that nice medical robot who has been checking you out.
>Lighsaber guards
With the guard up all lightsaber fights ended in a stalemate. The jedi council of 4922 banned them for the sake of "sport and honor."
>Blasters
In the star wars world, lead bullets are useless against storm trooper armor. So everyone needs to use blasters which are slower and noisier. Blasters also release a mint scent which is an added bonus.
>Luke's lack of seatbelts
Luke was originally told his father died asphyxiating from a seatbelt after an accident that flipped his speeder. Luke vowed to never take that chance and removed his.
>Stormtrooper armor
In a sophisticated universe, style is very important. "The path to defeat, an unstylish military is. - Yoda"
>Death star
The empire has always been a good sport and has left vulnerabilities in all its designs.
>a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room.
To be fair, this was put in so the emperor could toss people down it as he pleased. He knew it was a risk someone could toss him down it too, but he was crazy that way.
Considering the mess that is userland and the desktop, you should be thankful they even exist. I mean, shaving off .0000002 ms off kernel loading time is great too, but perhaps someone should be focused on the desktop experience and maintaining a good distro without too much worrying about the kernel.
Bullshit. They had free run of the place before the war and Bush pulled them out to begin bombing.
Youre wrong again.