Why download pixilated 700 meg pirate rips to bypass the disc nonsense? I just rip my DVDs to divX files using AutoGK set at 100% quality and store them on my media PC. Two or three clicks and you're done. Someone who actually knows what they're doing can do much better than this, but I'm lazy and dumb and that's good enough for me. This also has the added benefit of making it ridiculously simple to set up double features with cartoons, previews, and whatever other added content you want - just click the first file in the series and let the PC do the rest. As with CDs, I use the disc once just to rip it and put it away forever after that.
Your children participate in Scouts and 4H, which are voluntary organizations and it is agreed ahead of time that this is part of the "cost" of admission. I fail to see how this justifies involuntary servitude imposed by the Federal government. And yes, that is unconstitutional as hell, as previously pointed out by others. Which is not to suggest that service is not a noble and desirable thing. "Noble and desirable" and "mandatory" are not identical concepts.
aka "The Reproductive System"... I used to think it was a funny book until I saw this. His wasn't the first use of this idea but it's still my favorite.
You mean, like all those students in the audience sitting on their hands while he got tased? Yeah, thank god we haven't reached that point yet... why is my captcha "censored?" Are the irony police on patrol tonight?
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http://www.monroeworld.com/operafilter/index.php Kind of a pain to use at first but after a few days of adding servers as I caught them I have never felt the need to fire it up again. It must work nicely because when I use someone else's machine I'm shocked at how many ads I see.
Why no mention of Opera? To my knowledge, it's just as safe as Mozilla and its relatives and in my experience it's easier for a newbie to configure and learn. The only thing I can think of is that MS would rather promote the free project than the commercial competitor, especially seeing how Opera could kick their asses in areas other than the desktop. Or am I missing a point, as usual?
Which is why I go with Opera when "fixing" someone's "broken" computer. It's much more newbie friendly - I just sit there with them getting rid of clutter and things they won't need/don't understand (EVERYTHING is on by default and it looks like hell out of the box), show them how to find and install skins, and they're off and running. Whether or not it's the better browser, to someone who neither knows or cares about security, Opera "feels" more finished and polished and you need no technical knowledge to modify it - just some time and patience in poking through all the options.
Which is why (I thought) I live in a democratic republic - one where the people have a voice but within strictly defined limits of what the government can't get away with, no matter how many idiots think that individual rights are a dangerous thing.
A democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
A republic: The sheep has a gun.
21st century America: The sheep makes enough noise that the wolves find themselves on the menu.
It was made for the average user: It's easier for a newbie to right-click and remove a button he finds he doesn't need than it is to expect him to find out how to add one - in that case it's a "broken" browser and he runs back to IE. Or have you not been around a new computer user lately? Try it sometime and you'll see why it's the only way to go if you want the average granny to even THINK about switching. "No, grandma, you have to download this extension, install this, right-click and configure that, and... shit, let me Google for instructions... where are you going?"
Actually, that's a reference to the "Bork" edition of Opera, released around 7.21 or so. When it became known what MSN was doing to Opera users, Opera retaliated with a version that translated the MSN page into Bork language. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. It may still be available somewhere... Since 7.5 is so cool I have little interest in looking for older versions but I'm sure a Google search would help the curious.
I don't get it. I copy and paste sentences into Google all the time, either to find out if something's been plagiarized or to show someone that the garbage they just sent me is yet another urban legend or internet scam. If you're using Opera (or IE with a Google toolbar, I suppose, or whatever cool new search thing is used in Mozilla), you can do it in two moves and it opens in a new tab. What am I missing here? Besides a new way for the marketing trolls to try to grab my eyeballs?
I hate to come to Real's defense but the newer RealOne player is much clearer in the setup routine about what connects to the internet, gives private information, etc.
Of course, the default settings are the most invasive and that's what most people will leave it at, but if you run through the preferences nothing is hidden anymore. I have yet to have my firewall complain and it never runs anything without me telling it to.
Having said that, I hope Real dies a horrible, agonizing death anyway and I pray my local news outlets will switch to some other streaming media so I can perform an exorcism.
From a CNET article about the timing of the lawsuit:
"Maybe Real has seen something in the beta code, and they don't want to see the playing field tilted unfairly... Imagine if SP2 were to decide in the name of security that a RealNetworks stream or a QuickTime stream was suspect, and Windows needed to inspect it every couple of minutes. That would probably degrade the experience significantly for people using those formats."
Or... Maybe the new firewall settings might keep their crappy player from calling home every five seconds? Or maybe users will start realizing what's happening when the firewall constantly whines about it? That could cause problems... even my mom would call me asking how to uninstall Real player. But knowing her she would just ask how to disable the firewall, come to think of it.
Haven't you run into spyware that will hose a system if it's removed by Ad-Aware or Spybot? New.net comes to mind and I'm sure there are others. There are so many different kinds of spyware out there, how can Dell be expected to make itself responsible for each and every one and the ramifications of removing it? As people become smarter about spyware (even my mom runs Ad-Aware and Sypbot), the scum are becoming smarter about making it harder to remove. I'll bet someone already pointed this out...
Not a big help, but I pay for and use netaddress. I think it is about $30 for a year and is worth it to me. I've had it for three years and have never received a single spam in that whole time. And I think it's been down for maybe two hours total during that time.
And I've never had a problem using hotmail for a junk account. Regardless of the accusations made against hotmail, if you don't use a name that will be hit by a dictionary attack, you'll never get a spam until you give the address to the wrong person. I've had the same hotmail address for two years now and haven't seen a spam in over a month. I don't know if Mailwasher deserves the credit or if it's just my girlfriend keeping me off porn sites...
Or get medieval on his ass and run this:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Gone for good. I do this before doing anything else whenever I install XP for personal use. No one has ever missed it.
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Why download pixilated 700 meg pirate rips to bypass the disc nonsense? I just rip my DVDs to divX files using AutoGK set at 100% quality and store them on my media PC. Two or three clicks and you're done. Someone who actually knows what they're doing can do much better than this, but I'm lazy and dumb and that's good enough for me. This also has the added benefit of making it ridiculously simple to set up double features with cartoons, previews, and whatever other added content you want - just click the first file in the series and let the PC do the rest. As with CDs, I use the disc once just to rip it and put it away forever after that.
Did anyone else get this cool popup from TFA?
"Internet Explorer does not support MathML (used here for equations) and has severely broken support for other Web Standards like CSS2 and XHTML.
Most Web designers have bent over backwards to shelter you from the failings of this wretched browser. We have not.
Aside from the equations, many things on these pages will render poorly or not at all in IE. If they do, We're sorry, but we aren't going to "fix it."
MathML support can be obtained with the aid of a new plugin. For the rest, you need to get yourself a Standards-Compliant browser, like Mozilla."
And it's not my fault. I'm at work and can't install a real brower.
Your children participate in Scouts and 4H, which are voluntary organizations and it is agreed ahead of time that this is part of the "cost" of admission. I fail to see how this justifies involuntary servitude imposed by the Federal government. And yes, that is unconstitutional as hell, as previously pointed out by others. Which is not to suggest that service is not a noble and desirable thing. "Noble and desirable" and "mandatory" are not identical concepts.
I'm a libertarian, you insensitive clod!
aka "The Reproductive System" ... I used to think it was a funny book until I saw this. His wasn't the first use of this idea but it's still my favorite.
You mean, like all those students in the audience sitting on their hands while he got tased? Yeah, thank god we haven't reached that point yet... why is my captcha "censored?" Are the irony police on patrol tonight?
http://www.monroeworld.com/operafilter/index.php
Kind of a pain to use at first but after a few days of adding servers as I caught them I have never felt the need to fire it up again. It must work nicely because when I use someone else's machine I'm shocked at how many ads I see.
Why no mention of Opera? To my knowledge, it's just as safe as Mozilla and its relatives and in my experience it's easier for a newbie to configure and learn. The only thing I can think of is that MS would rather promote the free project than the commercial competitor, especially seeing how Opera could kick their asses in areas other than the desktop. Or am I missing a point, as usual?
Which is why I go with Opera when "fixing" someone's "broken" computer. It's much more newbie friendly - I just sit there with them getting rid of clutter and things they won't need/don't understand (EVERYTHING is on by default and it looks like hell out of the box), show them how to find and install skins, and they're off and running. Whether or not it's the better browser, to someone who neither knows or cares about security, Opera "feels" more finished and polished and you need no technical knowledge to modify it - just some time and patience in poking through all the options.
Which is why (I thought) I live in a democratic republic - one where the people have a voice but within strictly defined limits of what the government can't get away with, no matter how many idiots think that individual rights are a dangerous thing.
A democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
A republic: The sheep has a gun.
21st century America: The sheep makes enough noise that the wolves find themselves on the menu.
"We're at war." Yeah, but with who?
It was made for the average user: It's easier for a newbie to right-click and remove a button he finds he doesn't need than it is to expect him to find out how to add one - in that case it's a "broken" browser and he runs back to IE. Or have you not been around a new computer user lately? Try it sometime and you'll see why it's the only way to go if you want the average granny to even THINK about switching. "No, grandma, you have to download this extension, install this, right-click and configure that, and... shit, let me Google for instructions... where are you going?"
Actually, that's a reference to the "Bork" edition of Opera, released around 7.21 or so. When it became known what MSN was doing to Opera users, Opera retaliated with a version that translated the MSN page into Bork language. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. It may still be available somewhere... Since 7.5 is so cool I have little interest in looking for older versions but I'm sure a Google search would help the curious.
I don't get it. I copy and paste sentences into Google all the time, either to find out if something's been plagiarized or to show someone that the garbage they just sent me is yet another urban legend or internet scam. If you're using Opera (or IE with a Google toolbar, I suppose, or whatever cool new search thing is used in Mozilla), you can do it in two moves and it opens in a new tab. What am I missing here? Besides a new way for the marketing trolls to try to grab my eyeballs?
I hate to come to Real's defense but the newer RealOne player is much clearer in the setup routine about what connects to the internet, gives private information, etc.
Of course, the default settings are the most invasive and that's what most people will leave it at, but if you run through the preferences nothing is hidden anymore. I have yet to have my firewall complain and it never runs anything without me telling it to.
Having said that, I hope Real dies a horrible, agonizing death anyway and I pray my local news outlets will switch to some other streaming media so I can perform an exorcism.
From a CNET article about the timing of the lawsuit:
"Maybe Real has seen something in the beta code, and they don't want to see the playing field tilted unfairly... Imagine if SP2 were to decide in the name of security that a RealNetworks stream or a QuickTime stream was suspect, and Windows needed to inspect it every couple of minutes. That would probably degrade the experience significantly for people using those formats."
Or... Maybe the new firewall settings might keep their crappy player from calling home every five seconds? Or maybe users will start realizing what's happening when the firewall constantly whines about it? That could cause problems... even my mom would call me asking how to uninstall Real player. But knowing her she would just ask how to disable the firewall, come to think of it.
http://www.moontruth.com What else do you need?
Haven't you run into spyware that will hose a system if it's removed by Ad-Aware or Spybot? New.net comes to mind and I'm sure there are others. There are so many different kinds of spyware out there, how can Dell be expected to make itself responsible for each and every one and the ramifications of removing it? As people become smarter about spyware (even my mom runs Ad-Aware and Sypbot), the scum are becoming smarter about making it harder to remove. I'll bet someone already pointed this out...
Not a big help, but I pay for and use netaddress. I think it is about $30 for a year and is worth it to me. I've had it for three years and have never received a single spam in that whole time. And I think it's been down for maybe two hours total during that time. And I've never had a problem using hotmail for a junk account. Regardless of the accusations made against hotmail, if you don't use a name that will be hit by a dictionary attack, you'll never get a spam until you give the address to the wrong person. I've had the same hotmail address for two years now and haven't seen a spam in over a month. I don't know if Mailwasher deserves the credit or if it's just my girlfriend keeping me off porn sites...
Or get medieval on his ass and run this: RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove Gone for good. I do this before doing anything else whenever I install XP for personal use. No one has ever missed it.