I don't think it sucks its just being abused and newsgroup was not designed to handle some of the large sized files out there. Ever since really the DVD burner came out the DVD groups have become huge and you cannot expect the ISP's free newsgroups to keep up in that way(not much of an argument).
Specificallly TW/Road Runner has like a 2-4 day retention of posts than they start becoming corrupt fast. Sometimes it almost seems like in the DVD ones they block it intentionally so that it is missing a couple of PAR2 blocks just short of recovery. The coastal elite seem to have better newsgroups as compared to those in the in the middle region of the U.S..
I was thinking and to take in effect that IE7 was released on Vista a long time ago; they have probably had time to work on the bug since beta of IE7 or got it off RC1 on Vista. The headline is just screaming for attention though.
Dont you think the programs out there made it too easy for users to get the illegal files and doesn't present any challenge like we used to get 'in the old days'. I liked the private days when things were kept small and it was a little more time consuming or challenging to get the file. See we used to sneak into our local $2 cinema and the guys would not care who were standing way at the other end; the only reason they set a guy up there and later secured the doors even more was because everybody started abusing it and sneaking in.
I have no pity for torrent users who blatently use it to trade illegal files on ridiculous scale but this is the internet of course. Yah I know call me a hypocrite but I am looking at cold-hard reality here and things have just gotten too large and easy for the average user. Used to involve like 20 clicks now it takes two simple clicks to get the file; terrible example I know.
You are so right but I think Microsoft will hopefully be forgiving and not be that restrictive. From what I can tell you would really just have to call them up and have a little patience on the phone; while they maybe give you a new key or reset the original one as you can give them a simple honest explanation. I know you can do that with XP if you ever had serious problems and have the original package or proof of purchase. Virtual Machine worries me though because they are basically forcing you to use Remote Desktop feature available in the upgrade packages only.
*Whoosh!!!* that was the sound of a past show flying right past your head.
I know there are a lot of new viewers with the Bush admin; but if you do not remember the famous call year or so ago where some politician/expert accused John Daily and the Daily Show of being factual news reliance such as CNN, FOX, MSNBC... and than John made the call of something similar to "theres a freakin puppet show before our show"
He is right though; Germany had dedicated large amounts of money to their 1000 year army during WW2 until Russia and U.S. built up theirs.
U.S and Russian industry caught up during the war; their rocket programs were nowhere near since they had a late catchup and Germany rounding up every scientiest(slaves?).
Might want to check your prices again and not some guy in middle of nowhere. Here in Southern California they have 'The Triple Play' package; which consist of Digital Cable, VOIP phone(unlimited) and Broadband for only $100 a month; for $8 more a month you can get the premium package of broadband which is 10down/1up. I don't understand your beef with the digital cable; I now have like 150 more channels that I didn't have before with analogue. Only problem I have is I cannot use my black box anymore on the digital.
Time Warner has some killer deals especially 'The Triple Play' package for Cable, Phone and Broadband for $100 a month only. They recently just upgraded all their packages in the huge area of Southern California and the premium for $8 extra gets you 10/1; cable will be able to compete as I think for fiber is only to the curb in most places and still unable to get into most apartments(NY?).
That is great that they fix it quicker; but is the average user actually going to update their Firefox?
I know auto-update was not working as intended when first released but hopefully it has improved for the common user; I checked up on a copy of Firefox I had installed on a buddies computer and it was still the oldest version a year ago when I installed it(grrrr user error).
No they earned it and were still kicking the X-Boxs ass in sales besides 1 month I think. When the sales figures come out after 2 weeks of release day; I think everyone here might re-adjust their attitude of the giant failure PS3 is gonna be.
stoll? hyporcrate? Nice spelling there. Dictionary.com and maybe next time you will have some credibility.
Thanks for the laugh but I am not a hypocrite and I am just pointing out the realities and facts about the WGA/MSupdate to get past all the FUD. Way to put an argument up a sensible argument on me being a hypocrite.
Well watching the local news channel and some quotes by the officals up there in state. They said it was "password protected" and the FBI was getting involved. The governor said he likes to record some of his speeches to look back on and they must have been for only Republican officals with a password for them only is what I am thinking more.
Local Sheriff offical Local Sewer/Water district offical City Council/Mayor School Superintendent/etc It gets a little confusing with the minor stuff.
Than about a dozen different state inititaves for bonds and other funding. Most people just look for the R/D next to the name most of the time, not everything here is socialized.
I will say it again but it was modded up a long time ago by another user. By the open source advocates saying for MS to open up they are already admitting defeat.
Personally I have never payed for windows 1.0,3.0, 95, 98, 2k and now XP. It has given me access to the world and lots of people who use it; it has had its trouble in the days but with good user care the OS works wonders and has provided unlimited time to do millions of different things. As much as Slashdot plays the fear-mongering card of DRM/BSOD/Bugged it has really not been invasive and a great majority of Windows users go on with their lives enjoying the over all good that outweighs the bad.
After the little fiasco with WindowsUpdate which WGA was the only problem because I had a pirated version. I am now ready to actually buy Windows because of what NT/XP have shown to be a good product as much hating goes on here about it. Other users who paid for it legally enjoyed the OS even with WGA they went on using it like they regulary did and got their updates on time except for me and many other pirates. Not that non-tech people care about updates anyway, I just kind of wish I had paid for XP in the beginning and not have to go through the hassle of getting an on-time update from MSupdate.
I think the majority over time will move on and updgrade their OS to Vista; although the minority will put up a very vocal fight on the message boards.
I remember reading a modded up post awhile ago where the user said that "by the Open Source advocates telling Microsoft to open up its source code that they are already admitting defeat of their precious".
Considering that most cable company ads I see on (SoCal-TW) tv are for their service and reliability; than the price factor is not the best incentive.
Time Warner's Triple Play package is very attractive to people in price and it includes broadband and voip phone; it suckers them into buying the whole package ditching the phone companies. Satellite may not have phone and broadband; but I think they make up that in more quality content and options.
The product can do all it wants but when you do not have a guy knocking on your door the next day because the night before something went wrong, well than that leaves a bad stain. Especially trying to phone order a UFC/PPV fight and not being able to get it in time can dissapoint a whole audience who came over with lots of alcohol.
We are hard coded from the start of elementary school to use Windows. I am sorry but you have an entire generation that has used nothing but Windows since they were in elementary school(maybe a little Mac use in early days); here is a piece of the list that the school shows as required material for the new year in Elementary school....Pencils, Paper, Calculator(errr), 2 subject notebooks...USB Flash drive(that is right they dont even ask for floppys anymore)...MS Office at home...Donations for the art class
Linux is doing better on the desktop but it is still just has some weird ways about approaching things; I feel for them on the hardware and drivers(open?) as I think they will never be able to keep up to Windows in that class.
He accepted U.S. money; end of story. They have been stopping felons/mentally unstable and people with warrants all the time from flying for ages. 'Flight Risk' might be a new term for you.
Old news and no need to fear monger with the terrorist and privacy.
Study your history and it will open your eyes. Have some common sense when comparing thing from hundreds of years ago and noticing that the world was not settled down yet and borders were not defined.
Crusade has no meaning to it today and is not backed up by force/radicals like it was in history.
Jihad does have force to back it up today and plenty of radical misinformed people to follow the movement.
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I don't think it sucks its just being abused and newsgroup was not designed to handle some of the large sized files out there. Ever since really the DVD burner came out the DVD groups have become huge and you cannot expect the ISP's free newsgroups to keep up in that way(not much of an argument).
Specificallly TW/Road Runner has like a 2-4 day retention of posts than they start becoming corrupt fast. Sometimes it almost seems like in the DVD ones they block it intentionally so that it is missing a couple of PAR2 blocks just short of recovery. The coastal elite seem to have better newsgroups as compared to those in the in the middle region of the U.S..
I was thinking and to take in effect that IE7 was released on Vista a long time ago; they have probably had time to work on the bug since beta of IE7 or got it off RC1 on Vista. The headline is just screaming for attention though.
Dont you think the programs out there made it too easy for users to get the illegal files and doesn't present any challenge like we used to get 'in the old days'. I liked the private days when things were kept small and it was a little more time consuming or challenging to get the file.
See we used to sneak into our local $2 cinema and the guys would not care who were standing way at the other end; the only reason they set a guy up there and later secured the doors even more was because everybody started abusing it and sneaking in.
I have no pity for torrent users who blatently use it to trade illegal files on ridiculous scale but this is the internet of course. Yah I know call me a hypocrite but I am looking at cold-hard reality here and things have just gotten too large and easy for the average user. Used to involve like 20 clicks now it takes two simple clicks to get the file; terrible example I know.
Does IE7 not render Slashdot right.
I sometimes get the comments overlapping eachother.
Only reason I have FF loaded is for Slashdot.
You are so right but I think Microsoft will hopefully be forgiving and not be that restrictive. From what I can tell you would really just have to call them up and have a little patience on the phone; while they maybe give you a new key or reset the original one as you can give them a simple honest explanation. I know you can do that with XP if you ever had serious problems and have the original package or proof of purchase.
Virtual Machine worries me though because they are basically forcing you to use Remote Desktop feature available in the upgrade packages only.
He is very right and somebody made a reference to it in an earlier in the 'Google Youtube Purchase'; it was the On-Demand feature.
On-Demand is a very popular feature and people want the news brought to them as soon as possible and love to have control over it.
*Whoosh!!!* that was the sound of a past show flying right past your head.
I know there are a lot of new viewers with the Bush admin; but if you do not remember the famous call year or so ago where some politician/expert accused John Daily and the Daily Show of being factual news reliance such as CNN, FOX, MSNBC... and than John made the call of something similar to "theres a freakin puppet show before our show"
are before the show for godsake!
He is right though; Germany had dedicated large amounts of money to their 1000 year army during WW2 until Russia and U.S. built up theirs.
U.S and Russian industry caught up during the war; their rocket programs were nowhere near since they had a late catchup and Germany rounding up every scientiest(slaves?).
Might want to check your prices again and not some guy in middle of nowhere. Here in Southern California they have 'The Triple Play' package; which consist of Digital Cable, VOIP phone(unlimited) and Broadband for only $100 a month; for $8 more a month you can get the premium package of broadband which is 10down/1up.
I don't understand your beef with the digital cable; I now have like 150 more channels that I didn't have before with analogue. Only problem I have is I cannot use my black box anymore on the digital.
Time Warner has some killer deals especially 'The Triple Play' package for Cable, Phone and Broadband for $100 a month only. They recently just upgraded all their packages in the huge area of Southern California and the premium for $8 extra gets you 10/1; cable will be able to compete as I think for fiber is only to the curb in most places and still unable to get into most apartments(NY?).
That is great that they fix it quicker; but is the average user actually going to update their Firefox?
I know auto-update was not working as intended when first released but hopefully it has improved for the common user; I checked up on a copy of Firefox I had installed on a buddies computer and it was still the oldest version a year ago when I installed it(grrrr user error).
So what you are trying to say is that Slashdot is the church, we have Rev. Taco and the Pope is Linus?
huge advantage by default?
No they earned it and were still kicking the X-Boxs ass in sales besides 1 month I think. When the sales figures come out after 2 weeks of release day; I think everyone here might re-adjust their attitude of the giant failure PS3 is gonna be.
stoll?
hyporcrate?
Nice spelling there. Dictionary.com and maybe next time you will have some credibility.
Thanks for the laugh but I am not a hypocrite and I am just pointing out the realities and facts about the WGA/MSupdate to get past all the FUD. Way to put an argument up a sensible argument on me being a hypocrite.
Well watching the local news channel and some quotes by the officals up there in state. They said it was "password protected" and the FBI was getting involved. The governor said he likes to record some of his speeches to look back on and they must have been for only Republican officals with a password for them only is what I am thinking more.
Local Sheriff offical
Local Sewer/Water district offical
City Council/Mayor
School Superintendent/etc
It gets a little confusing with the minor stuff.
Than about a dozen different state inititaves for bonds and other funding. Most people just look for the R/D next to the name most of the time, not everything here is socialized.
I will say it again but it was modded up a long time ago by another user. By the open source advocates saying for MS to open up they are already admitting defeat.
Personally I have never payed for windows 1.0,3.0, 95, 98, 2k and now XP. It has given me access to the world and lots of people who use it; it has had its trouble in the days but with good user care the OS works wonders and has provided unlimited time to do millions of different things. As much as Slashdot plays the fear-mongering card of DRM/BSOD/Bugged it has really not been invasive and a great majority of Windows users go on with their lives enjoying the over all good that outweighs the bad.
After the little fiasco with WindowsUpdate which WGA was the only problem because I had a pirated version. I am now ready to actually buy Windows because of what NT/XP have shown to be a good product as much hating goes on here about it. Other users who paid for it legally enjoyed the OS even with WGA they went on using it like they regulary did and got their updates on time except for me and many other pirates. Not that non-tech people care about updates anyway, I just kind of wish I had paid for XP in the beginning and not have to go through the hassle of getting an on-time update from MSupdate.
I think the majority over time will move on and updgrade their OS to Vista; although the minority will put up a very vocal fight on the message boards.
I remember reading a modded up post awhile ago where the user said that "by the Open Source advocates telling Microsoft to open up its source code that they are already admitting defeat of their precious".
Considering that most cable company ads I see on (SoCal-TW) tv are for their service and reliability; than the price factor is not the best incentive.
Time Warner's Triple Play package is very attractive to people in price and it includes broadband and voip phone; it suckers them into buying the whole package ditching the phone companies. Satellite may not have phone and broadband; but I think they make up that in more quality content and options.
The product can do all it wants but when you do not have a guy knocking on your door the next day because the night before something went wrong, well than that leaves a bad stain. Especially trying to phone order a UFC/PPV fight and not being able to get it in time can dissapoint a whole audience who came over with lots of alcohol.
We are hard coded from the start of elementary school to use Windows. I am sorry but you have an entire generation that has used nothing but Windows since they were in elementary school(maybe a little Mac use in early days); here is a piece of the list that the school shows as required material for the new year in Elementary school. ...Pencils, Paper, Calculator(errr), 2 subject notebooks ...USB Flash drive(that is right they dont even ask for floppys anymore) ...MS Office at home ...Donations for the art class
Linux is doing better on the desktop but it is still just has some weird ways about approaching things; I feel for them on the hardware and drivers(open?) as I think they will never be able to keep up to Windows in that class.
So what it came down to is someone not doing the proper procedure.
Grab your shovels boys and watch your step on those hypodermic needles!
He accepted U.S. money; end of story.
They have been stopping felons/mentally unstable and people with warrants all the time from flying for ages. 'Flight Risk' might be a new term for you.
Old news and no need to fear monger with the terrorist and privacy.
Study your history and it will open your eyes. Have some common sense when comparing thing from hundreds of years ago and noticing that the world was not settled down yet and borders were not defined.
Crusade has no meaning to it today and is not backed up by force/radicals like it was in history.
Jihad does have force to back it up today and plenty of radical misinformed people to follow the movement.