The second it becomes myspace or livejournal is the second lots of people stop using it and stop donating to it.
I like the policies they have. Searching it can be difficult as is. If the haters had their way a search for abe lincoln would bring up:
1. 10,000 abe lincoln halloween costumes over the years with "hilarious" commentary and "amusing" travia sections with discussion sections used as a personal blog.
2. 1,000 bands named abe lincoln. many which only existed for a peroid of 3 days sometime in college.
3. 10,000 guys named abe lincoln with personal "portal" pages with colorful html and embedded music. discussion page is also a person blog.
No thanks. Keep it like an encyclopedia. Stick to myspace/livejournal/facebook/etc kiddies.
This isnt automation, this is the same basic technologies. It looks like:
1. They were able to get rid of their ActiveX & Java developers because their web developers, through ajaxy goodness, made them obsolete.
They can just find new jobs or retool themselves to learn a new language.
I dont think this is a threat to IT as a whole (someone still needs to keep the network and server and clients running), but I fully expect slashdot to turn this into another mindless bitchfest about how much their IT department sucks.
Well put. The alternative to the wikipedia isnt going out and buying an encyclopedia. For most people its just googling up some usually inaccurate information. I recently have been doing some research on buddhism and found most "one-man" pages to be incredibly inaccurate. The wikipedia entries arent perfect, but they're good enough as a begninners reference. If the wikipedia destroys the "one-man" usually agenda driven or ignorance-driven pages then all the better.
Im not defending this guy, but its possible to be pro-linux and against the politics of groklaw and PJ, the same way there are a lot of people who like microsoft products but arent defenders of microsoft politics. Too much groupthink around these parts lately.
In the real world it doesnt matter who did what. Its your car. Youre liable. When my car was stolen i had to pay for towing and storage after they found it. If my car explodes because some malicious third party put a bomb into it, I'm still liable for damages, especially if this happened on or near my property. That's how liability works in the US. My metaphor still stands.
Even though I think this idea is basically wrong, I'm intrigued by the potential consequences.
What so wrong about it? If my car is pumping out noxious fumes then the state takes away my license. Thus people maintain their emissions. Or if I park by as hydrant I get a ticket. I dont see why computers should be immune from this kind of policing.
They're not being "frank and honest." They purposely used a bad methodology of figuring out the composition of the iphone to create an alarmist report so guys like you can believe it and donate more money to them. If you read TFA you would know this.
Yes, they are being purposly disingenuous.
Personally, Greenpeace and PETA are on my list of unethical extremist organizations that are successful only because our media is so terrible it almost never corrects them.
Wow, its the American version of the Great Firewall. RST packets sent when the authority wants.
Whats amazing here is that here in Chicago Comcast is 3x more expensive than DSL. Their ads and salespeople keep pushing the "we're faster line." So now theyre slower for many applications and cost more. Christ, talk about market suicide. i hope this really hurts them.
They might go the route of the sidekick and make all apps pre-approved and limit distribution to apple. I dont see why they wouldnt. Apple fans are used to central control and this item is so hot that they'll put up with anything. Its like going to a nice restaurant where the waitstaff is somewhat rude. You expect them to be rude. If they were nice you would think less of the place as it would seem they need you as customers.
Apple has the added incentive of not pounding AT&T's EDGE network too hard either. I imagine theres a contract or two that specifies that iphone users will be light data users not 'phone as modem' users. Considering the pricepoint AT&T offers it makes sense. I wouldnt be surprised if apps get rejected if theyre deemed to be too network intensive.
I think its funny and very telling about americans that you can get voip, email, and IP records but they say hell no to your tv watching habits. Incredible.
rather than a committee of PHBs and marketdroids taking input from a focus group.
Right, because at Apple they dont do marketing and all their managers are geniuses. Wow, talk about fanboyism. Its just a company, mind you, and up until recently a pretty terrible one.
Why should it work well at all? This is the wolf guarding the henhouse. If google truly removed all copyrighted items from youtube then youtube would collapse. It would be only home videos, cat montages, and vlogs. The only reason I have ever visited youtube is to watch copyrighted stuff I couldnt find anywhere else.
Prison should be for violent or repeat offenders only.
I dont think the solution is less people in prison. Fraud, in my book, is a very serious crime. It sends senior citizens into the poorhouse. The problem is that society as a whole has given up the the idea of a debtors prison, where you work at something to slowly pay your way out of debt. In this case we can imagine every one of their transactions as fraud. They ripped off thousands of people. They owe them.
In real life, debtors prison is a horrible idea, as is capital punishment. So that leaves lots of people with short jail sentences and oddball stuff like community service and jail-at-home.
In my world, I think my tax dollars are used correctly to catch fraudsters. The money these guys are wasting is something in the neighbiorhood of one second of project time of some military porkbarrel crap that always runs through congress. I'd rather see pot heads released and fraudsters put in. America is wealthy enough to put fraudsters away.
Download the image for an SP2 disc and install. Its 90 something patches last I tried and about 60-80 megabytes at most (ignoring IE which is a 17 meg installer). Its three reboots last time I did it. once for windows installer/windows update and then again for the rpc fix and then a whole bunch.
You can also get the admin installer for SP2 and run it immediatly after your SP1 (or sp0) install. Then the above process.
If youve been doing your windows updates then you have 99% of it. Im not seeing any big stability fix here, just lots of hotfixes rolled into one and some vista stuff tossed in.
This is absolutely true. These kinds of fix-it cheap shops are served by low-skilled people who obviously dont have the skills to move to a corporate 9-5 IT position. You get a lot of students and well-meaning but inexperienced techs, as well as your occasional scammer. Considering how rare RAM goes bad, I wouldnt be surprised if none of these techs have ever witnessed it. Bad ram often leads to non-obvious symptoms like data corruption, crashing apps, etc. FWIW, out of the last 5 times ive tested bad ram with memtest it only caught it once.
A bit sexist to say this, but women seem to be especially targetted by "discount marketing" of this sort. Mainly with shoes
Yeah and theyre terrible drivers too? AMIRITE? *crickets*
I would say dudes fall for this more. Theres no shortage of "deal hunters" who see the paid-for Dell ads on a deal site and buy a laptop thinking they got some great deal, when theyre pretty much paying Dell's everyday prices. Heck, this "deal" means they bought a dell isntead of an HP, so even if there's a loss on the margins a little, it sure beats zero.
Even then you have deal sites just doing the wishes of marketing. Many "clearance" items arent clearance at all, theyre just over-priced to begin with. Every brick and mortar electronics store is always having sales. Your grocery store gives you "discount" when you use a purchase tracking card. The incredible scam that is the cell phone industry works in a similiar way.
Sorry, but this is unisex, if not male-dominated. Women arent usually afraid to pay full price for fashion.
>to achieve acceptable quality for 18 hours of content. And I don't know if it'll look good still.
Why would anyone need 18 hours of content on a budget medium? Knock it down to 3.5 hours or so and you've got a nice mpeg-4 disc that plays in your machine. Only a few movies are over 3.5 hours. That leaves plenty of room for extras.
According to one article i read, owning a gps device is a pretty much a shoot on sight offense. How the hell do you think peopel in this kind of government are going to "lobby" it for ham radio rights? Heck, its shoot on sight for technology that they cant control. I am sick of people like you who see something horrible in the news and then recast it to fit your your own pathetic acitivism. If youre biggest concern is "selling off RF rights" then you've lead an incredibly pampered life and have nothing in common with the people of Burma and what is going on. Youre like a rich guy saying 'this ethnic cleansing is as bad as that caviar from last night.'
It boils down to the fact that XP is simply not mature enough yet. I run 2000 Pro and am happy with it and I have no intentions of switching to XP anytime soon. Now in a year or two when it's up to service pack 4 AND you can run DOSBox AND software compatibilities are a thing of the past because XP is the target not 2000 then I'll upgrade. And this old 2000 machine will probably become a Mandrake box then.
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The second it becomes myspace or livejournal is the second lots of people stop using it and stop donating to it.
I like the policies they have. Searching it can be difficult as is. If the haters had their way a search for abe lincoln would bring up:
1. 10,000 abe lincoln halloween costumes over the years with "hilarious" commentary and "amusing" travia sections with discussion sections used as a personal blog.
2. 1,000 bands named abe lincoln. many which only existed for a peroid of 3 days sometime in college.
3. 10,000 guys named abe lincoln with personal "portal" pages with colorful html and embedded music. discussion page is also a person blog.
No thanks. Keep it like an encyclopedia. Stick to myspace/livejournal/facebook/etc kiddies.
This isnt automation, this is the same basic technologies. It looks like:
1. They were able to get rid of their ActiveX & Java developers because their web developers, through ajaxy goodness, made them obsolete.
They can just find new jobs or retool themselves to learn a new language.
I dont think this is a threat to IT as a whole (someone still needs to keep the network and server and clients running), but I fully expect slashdot to turn this into another mindless bitchfest about how much their IT department sucks.
Well put. The alternative to the wikipedia isnt going out and buying an encyclopedia. For most people its just googling up some usually inaccurate information. I recently have been doing some research on buddhism and found most "one-man" pages to be incredibly inaccurate. The wikipedia entries arent perfect, but they're good enough as a begninners reference. If the wikipedia destroys the "one-man" usually agenda driven or ignorance-driven pages then all the better.
Im not defending this guy, but its possible to be pro-linux and against the politics of groklaw and PJ, the same way there are a lot of people who like microsoft products but arent defenders of microsoft politics. Too much groupthink around these parts lately.
In the real world it doesnt matter who did what. Its your car. Youre liable. When my car was stolen i had to pay for towing and storage after they found it. If my car explodes because some malicious third party put a bomb into it, I'm still liable for damages, especially if this happened on or near my property. That's how liability works in the US. My metaphor still stands.
Even though I think this idea is basically wrong, I'm intrigued by the potential consequences.
What so wrong about it? If my car is pumping out noxious fumes then the state takes away my license. Thus people maintain their emissions. Or if I park by as hydrant I get a ticket. I dont see why computers should be immune from this kind of policing.
They're not being "frank and honest." They purposely used a bad methodology of figuring out the composition of the iphone to create an alarmist report so guys like you can believe it and donate more money to them. If you read TFA you would know this.
Yes, they are being purposly disingenuous.
Personally, Greenpeace and PETA are on my list of unethical extremist organizations that are successful only because our media is so terrible it almost never corrects them.
and I associate the name Roland Piquepaille with "whoa wtf, does that guy just submit articles all day long?"
Well, the article is bullshit. These are just new fonts. No one has to use them.
They look pretty great. I have them on XP because I installed the Office 2007 compatibility pack.
Wow, its the American version of the Great Firewall. RST packets sent when the authority wants.
Whats amazing here is that here in Chicago Comcast is 3x more expensive than DSL. Their ads and salespeople keep pushing the "we're faster line." So now theyre slower for many applications and cost more. Christ, talk about market suicide. i hope this really hurts them.
They might go the route of the sidekick and make all apps pre-approved and limit distribution to apple. I dont see why they wouldnt. Apple fans are used to central control and this item is so hot that they'll put up with anything. Its like going to a nice restaurant where the waitstaff is somewhat rude. You expect them to be rude. If they were nice you would think less of the place as it would seem they need you as customers.
Apple has the added incentive of not pounding AT&T's EDGE network too hard either. I imagine theres a contract or two that specifies that iphone users will be light data users not 'phone as modem' users. Considering the pricepoint AT&T offers it makes sense. I wouldnt be surprised if apps get rejected if theyre deemed to be too network intensive.
>Let me guess: You don't run a business.
Or his business uses a, you know, web form for contacting him with a captcha. Once they pass that stage they get whitelisted.
I think its funny and very telling about americans that you can get voip, email, and IP records but they say hell no to your tv watching habits. Incredible.
rather than a committee of PHBs and marketdroids taking input from a focus group.
Right, because at Apple they dont do marketing and all their managers are geniuses. Wow, talk about fanboyism. Its just a company, mind you, and up until recently a pretty terrible one.
Why should it work well at all? This is the wolf guarding the henhouse. If google truly removed all copyrighted items from youtube then youtube would collapse. It would be only home videos, cat montages, and vlogs. The only reason I have ever visited youtube is to watch copyrighted stuff I couldnt find anywhere else.
Prison should be for violent or repeat offenders only.
I dont think the solution is less people in prison. Fraud, in my book, is a very serious crime. It sends senior citizens into the poorhouse. The problem is that society as a whole has given up the the idea of a debtors prison, where you work at something to slowly pay your way out of debt. In this case we can imagine every one of their transactions as fraud. They ripped off thousands of people. They owe them.
In real life, debtors prison is a horrible idea, as is capital punishment. So that leaves lots of people with short jail sentences and oddball stuff like community service and jail-at-home.
In my world, I think my tax dollars are used correctly to catch fraudsters. The money these guys are wasting is something in the neighbiorhood of one second of project time of some military porkbarrel crap that always runs through congress. I'd rather see pot heads released and fraudsters put in. America is wealthy enough to put fraudsters away.
>just re-applications of existing items and concepts.
Cars are just horseless carriages. The web is just a BBS with better graphics. Heart surgery is just hand surgery with more blood.
Reapplication of existing items and concepts it almost the definition of invention.
>want to reinstall, and those are 1000+ hotfixes
Download the image for an SP2 disc and install. Its 90 something patches last I tried and about 60-80 megabytes at most (ignoring IE which is a 17 meg installer). Its three reboots last time I did it. once for windows installer/windows update and then again for the rpc fix and then a whole bunch.
You can also get the admin installer for SP2 and run it immediatly after your SP1 (or sp0) install. Then the above process.
>I've been waiting for XP SP3 forever.
If youve been doing your windows updates then you have 99% of it. Im not seeing any big stability fix here, just lots of hotfixes rolled into one and some vista stuff tossed in.
This is absolutely true. These kinds of fix-it cheap shops are served by low-skilled people who obviously dont have the skills to move to a corporate 9-5 IT position. You get a lot of students and well-meaning but inexperienced techs, as well as your occasional scammer. Considering how rare RAM goes bad, I wouldnt be surprised if none of these techs have ever witnessed it. Bad ram often leads to non-obvious symptoms like data corruption, crashing apps, etc. FWIW, out of the last 5 times ive tested bad ram with memtest it only caught it once.
A bit sexist to say this, but women seem to be especially targetted by "discount marketing" of this sort. Mainly with shoes
Yeah and theyre terrible drivers too? AMIRITE? *crickets*
I would say dudes fall for this more. Theres no shortage of "deal hunters" who see the paid-for Dell ads on a deal site and buy a laptop thinking they got some great deal, when theyre pretty much paying Dell's everyday prices. Heck, this "deal" means they bought a dell isntead of an HP, so even if there's a loss on the margins a little, it sure beats zero.
Even then you have deal sites just doing the wishes of marketing. Many "clearance" items arent clearance at all, theyre just over-priced to begin with. Every brick and mortar electronics store is always having sales. Your grocery store gives you "discount" when you use a purchase tracking card. The incredible scam that is the cell phone industry works in a similiar way.
Sorry, but this is unisex, if not male-dominated. Women arent usually afraid to pay full price for fashion.
>to achieve acceptable quality for 18 hours of content. And I don't know if it'll look good still.
Why would anyone need 18 hours of content on a budget medium? Knock it down to 3.5 hours or so and you've got a nice mpeg-4 disc that plays in your machine. Only a few movies are over 3.5 hours. That leaves plenty of room for extras.
>Also, does any one else find it interesting that the group forming together to protest for the rights of the monks is on facebook?
Not at all. Seems obviously typical for something college students (90% of facebook) to do.
According to one article i read, owning a gps device is a pretty much a shoot on sight offense. How the hell do you think peopel in this kind of government are going to "lobby" it for ham radio rights? Heck, its shoot on sight for technology that they cant control. I am sick of people like you who see something horrible in the news and then recast it to fit your your own pathetic acitivism. If youre biggest concern is "selling off RF rights" then you've lead an incredibly pampered life and have nothing in common with the people of Burma and what is going on. Youre like a rich guy saying 'this ethnic cleansing is as bad as that caviar from last night.'
It boils down to the fact that XP is simply not mature enough yet. I run 2000 Pro and am happy with it and I have no intentions of switching to XP anytime soon. Now in a year or two when it's up to service pack 4 AND you can run DOSBox AND software compatibilities are a thing of the past because XP is the target not 2000 then I'll upgrade.
And this old 2000 machine will probably become a Mandrake box then.