Mac Observer is running a piece by John Martellaro looking at why Apple isn't into gaming [CC]. It's just one man's opinion, but he makes some interesting arguments.
Maybe game designers don't see any reason for them to even investigate putting their efforts into releasing games for macs with people always talking about how hostile Apple is to game developers over and over again?
WHERE ARE THE PARENTS in this equation? Don't they have some responsibility?
Isn't it obvious? They were too frazzled by having to work such long hours to keep the family above water financially. Thanks to the slow rollback of workers rights and a landscape of low-paying jobs created by the governnment's sellout to big business and handling of the economy. They didn't have much choice that allowed them more time to be with their children.
An article today on space.com discusses the discovery of 6 objects [CC] by the European Southern Observatory [CC] in Chile that are smaller than typical brown dwarfs, larger than Jupiter, and not orbiting any stars.... In addition to presenting astronomers with a new group of objects to study, the finding also deepens the debate over what makes a planet. "You humans, when're you gonna learn that size doesn't matter? Just 'cause something's important doesn't mean it's not very, very small."
I agree. It's bad enough we have to put up with "Best _______ of [Year]" every December, but in June? Is this the start of a biannual trend for everything?
(That said, the article is far too short on detail to understand exactly what prompted and triggered the change in plans for Apple.)
This may sound utopian, but I like to think it was feedback from customers.
News Apple was outsourcing support to India promted a lot of compaisions to Dell and expectations of similar lousy tech support to come from Apple. This caused even more cries of "And what am I getting for the Apple markeup now compared to buying a regular PC?" that have increased with since Macs began using more common components and Intel processors.
However, they still did not know whether these stem cells actually resided in the heart or had merely migrated there from another tissue, such as bone marrow.
Well, bone marrow is reponsible for the production of blood cells, so having stem cells migrate into the blood stream and end up in the organ every ounce of one's blood eventually passes through makes sense to me.
Informative? That's rediculous! He didn't tell us if it was one of those old-fashioned ones with all the yarn strands or the ones with the sponge bar with the scrubby edge.
Yeah, often at *substantially* higher costs than what is available from the independent VoIP providers, and with no guarantee that QoS can be maintained once the packets leave your provider's network.
And independant VoIP providers can gaurantee QoS? Nope. They can't even gaurantee the service within your own network since they don't control the transport lines. The extra cost from cablecos is that little convienence fee of having it appear on the same bill as your cable TV and data and having the phone service under a company that you've actually heard of and don't think will go disappear in a.bubble
Also, it depends on the provider. Time-Warner may run their phone service over the consumer's own TW HSD service, but many run on dedicated bandwidth and connect into the regular telco switch from their network.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (x) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (x) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems (x) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually (x) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
I've been having enough luck that lots of stuff I'm intreested in I go looking for on EMusic before I look on iTunes. After all, it's better quality and I don't have to pay a 99 with my subscription.
We'd end up having microsoft.xxx, slashdot.xxx, digg.xxx. It would be ridiculous..xxx domain are only a good idea if existing registered domain holder can get the.xxx version locked to them for free and for life.
Microsoft.xxx - We have plugs for ALL the holes!
Slashdot.xxx - Plenty of hot pics of geeky babes spread out on PCB schematics, coming soon: the Women of MIT shoot!
Label the archive "Kiddie Porn" and have it install a program that sends your personal information to the FBI. I can hear it already "Well if you weren't looking for kiddie porn why did you download that archive?"
We can go when we want to The night is young and the bandwidth high And we can dress unneat from our hats to our feet And no one will be the wise Say, we can act if want to If we don't nobody will You can act real rude and be totally booted from IRC like an imbecile
[Refrain] I say, We can browse. We can browse. Our machines are out of control. We can browse. We can browse. From firewall to firewall We can browse. We can browse. Everyone clear out your cache! We can browse. We can browse. Taking the spyware chaaance....
Safety browse Is it safe to browse Is it safe to browse
For the current matter, I would guess that some domestic PC maker is trying to take advantage of the situation, *cough*Dell*cough*HP*cough, pardon me!
The ironic part here is, those aren't really "domestic" PC's either. A Dell is just as Chinese as a Lenovo on the inside.
There are no American PC manufacturers. There were all put out of business or had to move overseas to compete on margins with those machines. All outsourced labor and tech with the past three administrations' approval, for the good of the U.S. economy.
Looks like we're reaching that point were we realize that being a country that doesn't make anything anymore is actually a bad thing. Especially if we're going to piss off/be paranoid of the international community on a regular basis.
Because they weren't legally required to do it. They were merely pressured to do it.
Lately there have been a lot of mergers going on in the Telecom (both wired and wireless) Industry. People have been asking why the FTC keeps approving these when the original AT&T was broken up in the eighties for abusing its monopoly power.
The going excuse has been "well it's the Bush Administration FTC, and Bush is big on big business" but maybe some of the pieces are falling into place here.
From the latest press, it seems AT&T has been the most "cooperative" with the NSA's wiretapping and infogathering requests. All these telecom mergers have been companies being swallowed up by AT&T. Obviouly the more comapnies that get merged into AT&T the larger the snoopable piece of Americans' total communications the NSA gains access to.
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It's more than a mere suppository!
Mac Observer is running a piece by John Martellaro looking at why Apple isn't into gaming [CC]. It's just one man's opinion, but he makes some interesting arguments.
Maybe game designers don't see any reason for them to even investigate putting their efforts into releasing games for macs with people always talking about how hostile Apple is to game developers over and over again?
WHERE ARE THE PARENTS in this equation? Don't they have some responsibility?
Isn't it obvious? They were too frazzled by having to work such long hours to keep the family above water financially. Thanks to the slow rollback of workers rights and a landscape of low-paying jobs created by the governnment's sellout to big business and handling of the economy. They didn't have much choice that allowed them more time to be with their children.
An article today on space.com discusses the discovery of 6 objects [CC] by the European Southern Observatory [CC] in Chile that are smaller than typical brown dwarfs, larger than Jupiter, and not orbiting any stars. ...
In addition to presenting astronomers with a new group of objects to study, the finding also deepens the debate over what makes a planet.
"You humans, when're you gonna learn that size doesn't matter? Just 'cause something's important doesn't mean it's not very, very small."
I agree. It's bad enough we have to put up with "Best _______ of [Year]" every December, but in June? Is this the start of a biannual trend for everything?
(That said, the article is far too short on detail to understand exactly what prompted and triggered the change in plans for Apple.)
This may sound utopian, but I like to think it was feedback from customers.
News Apple was outsourcing support to India promted a lot of compaisions to Dell and expectations of similar lousy tech support to come from Apple. This caused even more cries of "And what am I getting for the Apple markeup now compared to buying a regular PC?" that have increased with since Macs began using more common components and Intel processors.
What do slashdotters think: does America need more slack or more work?
Man, do we have to think about this right now?!?
Can't we contemplate it later after my nap?
However, they still did not know whether these stem cells actually resided in the heart or had merely migrated there from another tissue, such as bone marrow.
Well, bone marrow is reponsible for the production of blood cells, so having stem cells migrate into the blood stream and end up in the organ every ounce of one's blood eventually passes through makes sense to me.
Ah, yes. I was trying to remember whether it was an X or W. I guess I could have said it was under a giant T like in the Simpson's spoof of the chase.
Also, for all you know I was talking about the big X on treasure maps.
With fresh ideas on income generation and a $200,000 top prize to whomever finds the real life buried treasure...
It's buried under a big 'X'!
Informative? That's rediculous! He didn't tell us if it was one of those old-fashioned ones with all the yarn strands or the ones with the sponge bar with the scrubby edge.
Gee, would you want your bank account directly accessable by a company with the security and privacy record of Microsoft?
If they acquired PayPal, they would convert it over ot MS servers, just like they did Hotmail.
Does Cthulhu drive KARR in this game?
Just a few days after it was discovered, Symantec has posted a fix to a critical flaw [CC] with its Antivirus software.
So how long after they confidentially reported the problem to Symantec (as I'm sure they did) did it take them to fix it?
Yeah, often at *substantially* higher costs than what is available from the independent VoIP providers, and with no guarantee that QoS can be maintained once the packets leave your provider's network.
.bubble
And independant VoIP providers can gaurantee QoS? Nope. They can't even gaurantee the service within your own network since they don't control the transport lines. The extra cost from cablecos is that little convienence fee of having it appear on the same bill as your cable TV and data and having the phone service under a company that you've actually heard of and don't think will go disappear in a
Also, it depends on the provider. Time-Warner may run their phone service over the consumer's own TW HSD service, but many run on dedicated bandwidth and connect into the regular telco switch from their network.
This article advocates a
( ) technical (x) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.
(One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may
have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal
law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential
employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(x) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
(x) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been
shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(x) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
No, the catch is you have to have a brain. That should lower the uptake on this thing.
emusic cant 'fix' this unless they get in bed with the corrupt labels & become equally corrupt themseleves.
It depends on what the artist is, there have been a surprising number of albums added just recently by some very mainstream artists:
Creedance Clearwater Revival
Moby
Ladytron
the White Stripes
Cat Power
Blackalicious
I've been having enough luck that lots of stuff I'm intreested in I go looking for on EMusic before I look on iTunes. After all, it's better quality and I don't have to pay a 99 with my subscription.
We'd end up having microsoft.xxx, slashdot.xxx, digg.xxx. It would be ridiculous. .xxx domain are only a good idea if existing registered domain holder can get the .xxx version locked to them for free and for life.
... (nah, too easy)
Microsoft.xxx - We have plugs for ALL the holes!
Slashdot.xxx - Plenty of hot pics of geeky babes spread out on PCB schematics, coming soon: the Women of MIT shoot!
digg.xxx -
How about this...
Label the archive "Kiddie Porn" and have it install a program that sends your personal information to the FBI. I can hear it already "Well if you weren't looking for kiddie porn why did you download that archive?"
Yup, you can almost heard it overdubbed in a soft-spoken male voice on top of muzak and footage of offices....
as part of a sales pitch.
We can go when we want to
The night is young and the bandwidth high
And we can dress unneat from our hats to our feet
And no one will be the wise
Say, we can act if want to
If we don't nobody will
You can act real rude and be totally booted
from IRC like an imbecile
[Refrain]
I say, We can browse. We can browse.
Our machines are out of control.
We can browse. We can browse.
From firewall to firewall
We can browse. We can browse.
Everyone clear out your cache!
We can browse. We can browse.
Taking the spyware chaaance....
Safety browse
Is it safe to browse
Is it safe to browse
For the current matter, I would guess that some domestic PC maker is trying to take advantage of the situation, *cough*Dell*cough*HP*cough, pardon me!
The ironic part here is, those aren't really "domestic" PC's either. A Dell is just as Chinese as a Lenovo on the inside.
There are no American PC manufacturers. There were all put out of business or had to move overseas to compete on margins with those machines. All outsourced labor and tech with the past three administrations' approval, for the good of the U.S. economy.
Looks like we're reaching that point were we realize that being a country that doesn't make anything anymore is actually a bad thing. Especially if we're going to piss off/be paranoid of the international community on a regular basis.
I think a bigger question has been raised - is the Internet really that fragile?
Yup, so by all means lets heap some HD Video on top of it.
Because they weren't legally required to do it. They were merely pressured to do it.
Lately there have been a lot of mergers going on in the Telecom (both wired and wireless) Industry. People have been asking why the FTC keeps approving these when the original AT&T was broken up in the eighties for abusing its monopoly power.
The going excuse has been "well it's the Bush Administration FTC, and Bush is big on big business" but maybe some of the pieces are falling into place here.
From the latest press, it seems AT&T has been the most "cooperative" with the NSA's wiretapping and infogathering requests. All these telecom mergers have been companies being swallowed up by AT&T. Obviouly the more comapnies that get merged into AT&T the larger the snoopable piece of Americans' total communications the NSA gains access to.