Who finds it humourous that MS is changing from an Intel based CPU to a PowerPC type CPU for their game console at the same time there's rumours that Mac is going to start using Intel based CPUs in place of PowerPC CPUs in their systems?
You'll notice the webpage mentions it's tested to work for up to 20 million keystrokes.
That's not exactly a lot when you think about it -- especially for a real geek.
100wpm == 500cpm. 500cpm x 1 hour == 30,000 keypresses. Hitting 20 million won't take *that* long. Then there's nerds like me who type 130wpm or so, and are known to sit in front of a computer talking on msn with friends and family for upwards of 4 hours at a time some weekends, or having online business meetings...
Spammers should be forced to provide absolute PROOF that you signed up (and verified) that you wanted marketing mail. No selling of email lists. Ever get spams that claim "You're getting this because you subscribed from 207.92.115.25 on $date" at all? they should be able to *prove* that *I* subscribed.
Sadly, yes, I do get those messages. And a lot of the time, they still have $date or %date in them, signifying to me the spammer didn't read the instructions on his spam software correctly.
While that is a wonderful idea, I can only imagine the crackers who'd find a way to screw with it, and cause DoS to sites by just listing people they don't like/were paid to enter/ in the service...
Aside from that, every single pirated movie I've ever heard of came from a screener or some other source, and never from some Joe Blow with a video camera in the theatre.
I'm assuming they mean the company's spokesman or CEO, Norman Kohlberger, or something to that effect?... or does every company have a Norman Kohlberger that I don't know about?:O
...It's going to mostly penalize and restrict the rights of legitimate and honest viewers...
But hasn't that always been the issue with such nonsense laws?
They make it illegal to redistribute DeCSS code so people can't copy DVDs, when most people being hurt by it are the opensource people who just want to watch their damned DVDs in Linux.
They've suggested charging small amounts of money per e-mail to curb spammers, when the people most hurt by it will be those of us who e-mail a lot for legitimate, useful reasons.
They run those obnoxious commercials before movies at the theatres telling us why pirating is bad, and wasting our time, despite the people guilty of these acts are the ones at home watching the movies on their computers, not the ones who paid $11 so they can sit through the movie.
One bad apple spoils the bunch.
Either that, or the people passing these laws desperately need to give their heads a shake.
Many other projects have had large corporations buy them up, fork them, and ignore the free version.
But as the article plainly says -- and where the real beauty in open-source lies -- if the free version is good ENOUGH, someone else will come along, pick up the pieces, and continue making a better product out of it.
I'm not talking about PDF files. I'm talking about Acrobat's WEB plugin. You know, for all those braindead web designers who think it's OK to put web content in the form of PDF or Flash.
While I agree that a site should NOT have flash for its content or for regular site navigation, and should be still 100% useable without it, there's still the issue of some online cartoons, jokes, games, videos, etc that require flash.
http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/ is one of the funniest cartoons I've ever read, and without flash, I wouldn't be able to read it.
Because backwards compatibility of a large basis of the Internet as it exists?
Imagine all those automated devices out there that can send e-mail now? Devices that don't have controlling terminals, only firmware. You're talking BILLIONS. Maybe even TRILLIONS of dollars in software development time to make them support any new system.
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I absolutely agree. To this point, I have had no interest in the PSP. I've seen it as nothing more than an overpriced handheld.
If I were able to play all my favourite old SNES, NES, GBC, GBA, TGFX16, or any other old system's games via a memory stick, I'd buy it in a second.
...that IIS users must go out hunting on google and actually pay for new modules for IIS that are compeletely free...
And stupidly trivial to write. (At least in its simplest form; I understand that mod_rewrite is infinitely powerful.)
Who finds it humourous that MS is changing from an Intel based CPU to a PowerPC type CPU for their game console at the same time there's rumours that Mac is going to start using Intel based CPUs in place of PowerPC CPUs in their systems?
You'll notice the webpage mentions it's tested to work for up to 20 million keystrokes.
That's not exactly a lot when you think about it -- especially for a real geek.
100wpm == 500cpm. 500cpm x 1 hour == 30,000 keypresses. Hitting 20 million won't take *that* long. Then there's nerds like me who type 130wpm or so, and are known to sit in front of a computer talking on msn with friends and family for upwards of 4 hours at a time some weekends, or having online business meetings...
Spammers should be forced to provide absolute PROOF that you signed up (and verified) that you wanted marketing mail. No selling of email lists. Ever get spams that claim "You're getting this because you subscribed from 207.92.115.25 on $date" at all? they should be able to *prove* that *I* subscribed.
Sadly, yes, I do get those messages. And a lot of the time, they still have $date or %date in them, signifying to me the spammer didn't read the instructions on his spam software correctly.
While that is a wonderful idea, I can only imagine the crackers who'd find a way to screw with it, and cause DoS to sites by just listing people they don't like/were paid to enter/ in the service...
Aside from that, every single pirated movie I've ever heard of came from a screener or some other source, and never from some Joe Blow with a video camera in the theatre.
The company's Norman Kohlberger said the main
... or does every company have a Norman Kohlberger that I don't know about? :O
I'm assuming they mean the company's spokesman or CEO, Norman Kohlberger, or something to that effect?
But hasn't that always been the issue with such nonsense laws?
One bad apple spoils the bunch.
Either that, or the people passing these laws desperately need to give their heads a shake.
At last, a win for you poor Americans.
What the hell is flexible concrete going to prove when CA is under water? ;)
Take New Orleans for example, which has some of the worst paved roads in the US if not the world.
I have two words for you my friend: Newfoundland, Canada. Worst. Roads. Ever.
I have always thought their cables were overpriced lampcord, but this just gave me more reason not to buy their outragously priced copper.
I realise I'm off-topic, but amen sir, amen.
Monster cable is overpriced GARBAGE.
And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Many other projects have had large corporations buy them up, fork them, and ignore the free version.
But as the article plainly says -- and where the real beauty in open-source lies -- if the free version is good ENOUGH, someone else will come along, pick up the pieces, and continue making a better product out of it.
I'm not talking about PDF files. I'm talking about Acrobat's WEB plugin. You know, for all those braindead web designers who think it's OK to put web content in the form of PDF or Flash.
Look here.
What does it mean when the two most instrusive web browser plugin makers merge?
While I agree that a site should NOT have flash for its content or for regular site navigation, and should be still 100% useable without it, there's still the issue of some online cartoons, jokes, games, videos, etc that require flash.
http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/ is one of the funniest cartoons I've ever read, and without flash, I wouldn't be able to read it.
Would now be a bad time to remind you today is April 1st?
Because backwards compatibility of a large basis of the Internet as it exists?
Imagine all those automated devices out there that can send e-mail now? Devices that don't have controlling terminals, only firmware. You're talking BILLIONS. Maybe even TRILLIONS of dollars in software development time to make them support any new system.
Polydeuce bigalow.
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It was (perhaps bad) tongue-in-cheek/mockery of the kind of person who would say/do such a thing.
Where's your sense of humour? (Or perhaps mine...)
I can see it now. New bar pick up lines:
"No baby, we don't need to use a rubber, I gots da ANECDOTE in there, baby!" *zip*
*shudder*
Maybe he was joking about me joking about him joking about the joke?
Would now be a good time to mention that he was joking, and you completely missed the boat on that one? *cough*
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Hopefully this competition means lower prices and more goodies.
And better open-source support?