In addition to writing software for the company I work for, I am also the system administrator. And I have been working in the IT world for about 6 years now. In that time, I have never read another persons email. I have never gone through their personal files. This is, of course, unless asked to do so by the owner of said objects. And to this day, I still find it completely ridiculous that anybody would find it necessary to spy on their users/employees by means of logging all keystrokes.
I believe that if a person cannot be trusted to perform the operations (s)he was assigned to, that they have no business working in the same company as me, in the first place. Maybe I'm too trusting. I don't know. But what I do know is that I am respected by my coworkers for being fair and not letting my power go to my head.
Having said that, I wish key logging were illegal in all states. IMHO, certain people need to lighten up.
So it detects it as spyware; but, the recommendation is to ignore it. In a survey I read a while back, most users go with the default or suggested settings.
Spyware is spyware and there's no if's, and's or but's about it. If Claria doesn't like its software being displayed as spyware, it should be up to Claria to clean up their act. If we didn't care about being spyed on, we wouldn't be running anti-spyware software in the first place. Would we?
This is exactly why Microsoft should stay out of this market. If they're not going to stand their ground and defend the simple fact that Claria IS spyware and SHOULD be removed for ALL computers, than we should be using software developed by a company that will defend itself.
Hehe, I hear ya. We did the same thing with cat-5 cable all through my parents house when it was being built. Meant to wire the house for a home theater, but the walls were put up before we had time. Hopefully I'll be able to buy a house and do the same thing after I finish college.
"Add to that the fact that it takes ages to learn morse and only a few minutes to learn standard texting or T9 predictive text, I think you'll find that the take up on morse on phones would be pretty much zero."
Now I learned as a kid (about 7 or 8), so your results may vary, but it didn't take me more than a month or so to learn morse code. And that wasn't studying very hard.
But I tend to agree with you. I would expect only a very select few people to actually be interested in morse code on a cell phone. I admit, I wouldn't personally use it.
Lets not forget that some people might actually have the room to set up a decent sized home theater that could accommodate the 14 speakers. That being said, most of those people probably have enough money to buy movie theater quality audio equipment; however, what I don't think most of these people are able to buy is the media (DVD's?) which supports this many channels.
By making a 13.1 channel receiver available to the public, the wealthy will finally be able to build the home theater they've always wanted (assuming future DVD formats include the ability to encode 13.1 surround sound).
Keep in mind that I am not super rich, so it's entirely possible that the wealthy can already buy the exact same media/equipment that the movie theaters use. If that's the case and this format is directed to the general (middle class) public, I must say that 13.1 is a wee bit on the excessive side for most of us.
I don't think you're idea is the best solution. For instance, dial-up users use enough of their available bandwidth, as it is. I'm sure most dial-up users would rather not be downloading all that content without even benefiting from it.
I didn't read the article, but from the Slashdot post, I got the idea that they were upset that Firefox had ad-blocking turned on in its default configuration. If that were the case, developers could simply turn it off by default and provide us with the ability to turn it on. Alternatively, I believe it would be fair enough to ask the user whether they prefer to have ad-blocking on/off, the first time they launch the browser.
I don't, however, believe that they have a case because consumers that don't mind pop-ups (are there any?) can still turn off Firefox's AdBlocking feature. We could argue that consumers haven't turned off ad-blocking because we would simply rather not be annoyed by the ads.
But what their reports failed to acknowledge originally is the number of songs that were downloaded illegally, but resulted in the sale of a CD. Lets face it, downloading a single song here and there isn't too bad with P2P. But trying to download an entire album is a pain. Personally (and along with many others) I'd rather go out to my local Best Buy and purchase it.
I have to admit that I have yet to use iTunes or a similar interface because I don't have an iPod or an MP3 player in my truck so I still prefer CD's. I do, however, imagine that it's still just as difficult to do an entire album for a particular artist.
So yeah, the music industry will see this as a positive step in the right direction, which is a good reason that I personally believe that very little, if anything, will convince the RIAA/MPAA to back off.
I'm simply amazed at how great the Blender artwork and movies have become. I tried Blender over 5 years ago as a hobby. Unfortunately, as I already knew, I was probably the worst artist in the entire world and couldn't produce anything that the software didn't create for me. But that doesn't keep me from admiring the hard work and amazing abilities of those that posses much greater skill than I do.
Anybody know if any major motion picture studios are using Blender? I know Pixar has their own proprietary software that they use. I'm not sure about any of the others.
No offense, but who wants to be with a person that sits around all day and reads book and sit behind a computer?
"Uh... how about another person who reads books and sits behind the computer all day?"
I'll be the first to admit that I do a lot of reading and sitting behind a computer. But if that was the only thing I did, my girlfriend would leave me in a second. I'd leave her for the same reason. We're entirely too active. You can't argue that Christina wants a guy that sits around and reads all day. Take a look at the guys mentioned and you should notice that they're all metrosexual. And I'm refering to the people in the discussion. Not you and your girlfriend (assuming you're male and have a girlfriend;-) ).
I tend to believe the metrosexual men are in fashion; not necessarily nerdy men. No offense, but who wants to be with a person that sits around all day and reads book and sit behind a computer? It's not exactly what most people would consider fun and exciting.
And please don't take this as flamebait because that's definitely not what I have in mind. I'm just suggesting that the men listed are more metrosexual than nerdy.
"Linus uses a Mac? Yes, he does, but he doesn't run OS-X on it. He's running Linux on it."
That's a fair argument. However, I have to wonder what made Linus switch to a completely different architecture. He's often quoted with negative remarks regarding Intel products (though I don't actually think he "dislikes" Intel, per sey). But there's still AMD. At first glance, I can't think of any one reason why he would use a Mac if he knew ahead of time that they were switching to Intel. However, I believe there's a possibility of something more than meets the eye.
A friend of mine brought up an interesting point the other day that got me thinking about Linus' switch to a Mac. He brought up the point that it's possible that Mac could possibly be interested in switching to the Linux kernel. That being the case, Mac wouldn't be a threat to Linux, at all. They could quite possibly be the biggest ally to date!
You have a valid argument in regard to the shadow copy. However, I must point out that Novell Netware had this YEARS (as far back as the mid 80's and possibly more) before Windows did in a utility known as salvage. Heck, even DOS had an undelete and MS later introduced unerase (although I must admit that those two DOS utilities really weren't that good because they were dependent on the original sectors where the files were stored, to be free.) In addition to these, various attempts have been made to *nix systems for years to implement a similar design (with decent success, I might add). I can't remember the name of any off the top of my head; but, they basically saved copies of previous versions of files, which could later be recovered. They worked similarly to a version control system.
You have a valid point. But can I ask you if you work for a company or if you're still in school. And if you do work in a company, do you schedule a lot of meetings and put together a lot of group activities? The reason I ask is because (when used for these purposes) the two are so commonly used side-by-side, that it would make sense to include the functionality of both into a single program. And I rarely argue that two functions should be included in a single piece of software because, like you, I come from a Unix background where software is most often designed to do one thing and to do it well.
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"Time to uninstall GM?"
Why not just do what the article says and "Install Greasemonkey 0.3.5"
Wouldn't a simple, "Could you please remove the archive from your server" have sufficed?
Besides that, I don't see how access to the public web site was unauthorized and/or illegal.
Slashdot is an effective way to stay on top of the world.
Impressive...But even better (for me) is that I'll be there next week to ride the thing :-)!
In addition to writing software for the company I work for, I am also the system administrator. And I have been working in the IT world for about 6 years now. In that time, I have never read another persons email. I have never gone through their personal files. This is, of course, unless asked to do so by the owner of said objects. And to this day, I still find it completely ridiculous that anybody would find it necessary to spy on their users/employees by means of logging all keystrokes.
I believe that if a person cannot be trusted to perform the operations (s)he was assigned to, that they have no business working in the same company as me, in the first place. Maybe I'm too trusting. I don't know. But what I do know is that I am respected by my coworkers for being fair and not letting my power go to my head.
Having said that, I wish key logging were illegal in all states. IMHO, certain people need to lighten up.
So it detects it as spyware; but, the recommendation is to ignore it. In a survey I read a while back, most users go with the default or suggested settings.
Spyware is spyware and there's no if's, and's or but's about it. If Claria doesn't like its software being displayed as spyware, it should be up to Claria to clean up their act. If we didn't care about being spyed on, we wouldn't be running anti-spyware software in the first place. Would we?
This is exactly why Microsoft should stay out of this market. If they're not going to stand their ground and defend the simple fact that Claria IS spyware and SHOULD be removed for ALL computers, than we should be using software developed by a company that will defend itself.
Hehe, I hear ya. We did the same thing with cat-5 cable all through my parents house when it was being built. Meant to wire the house for a home theater, but the walls were put up before we had time. Hopefully I'll be able to buy a house and do the same thing after I finish college.
"pdf presentation" linky no worky :-(.
"Add to that the fact that it takes ages to learn morse and only a few minutes to learn standard texting or T9 predictive text, I think you'll find that the take up on morse on phones would be pretty much zero."
Now I learned as a kid (about 7 or 8), so your results may vary, but it didn't take me more than a month or so to learn morse code. And that wasn't studying very hard.
But I tend to agree with you. I would expect only a very select few people to actually be interested in morse code on a cell phone. I admit, I wouldn't personally use it.
Lets not forget that some people might actually have the room to set up a decent sized home theater that could accommodate the 14 speakers. That being said, most of those people probably have enough money to buy movie theater quality audio equipment; however, what I don't think most of these people are able to buy is the media (DVD's?) which supports this many channels.
By making a 13.1 channel receiver available to the public, the wealthy will finally be able to build the home theater they've always wanted (assuming future DVD formats include the ability to encode 13.1 surround sound).
Keep in mind that I am not super rich, so it's entirely possible that the wealthy can already buy the exact same media/equipment that the movie theaters use. If that's the case and this format is directed to the general (middle class) public, I must say that 13.1 is a wee bit on the excessive side for most of us.
I don't think you're idea is the best solution. For instance, dial-up users use enough of their available bandwidth, as it is. I'm sure most dial-up users would rather not be downloading all that content without even benefiting from it.
I didn't read the article, but from the Slashdot post, I got the idea that they were upset that Firefox had ad-blocking turned on in its default configuration. If that were the case, developers could simply turn it off by default and provide us with the ability to turn it on. Alternatively, I believe it would be fair enough to ask the user whether they prefer to have ad-blocking on/off, the first time they launch the browser.
I don't, however, believe that they have a case because consumers that don't mind pop-ups (are there any?) can still turn off Firefox's AdBlocking feature. We could argue that consumers haven't turned off ad-blocking because we would simply rather not be annoyed by the ads.
But what their reports failed to acknowledge originally is the number of songs that were downloaded illegally, but resulted in the sale of a CD. Lets face it, downloading a single song here and there isn't too bad with P2P. But trying to download an entire album is a pain. Personally (and along with many others) I'd rather go out to my local Best Buy and purchase it.
I have to admit that I have yet to use iTunes or a similar interface because I don't have an iPod or an MP3 player in my truck so I still prefer CD's. I do, however, imagine that it's still just as difficult to do an entire album for a particular artist.
So yeah, the music industry will see this as a positive step in the right direction, which is a good reason that I personally believe that very little, if anything, will convince the RIAA/MPAA to back off.
I'm simply amazed at how great the Blender artwork and movies have become. I tried Blender over 5 years ago as a hobby. Unfortunately, as I already knew, I was probably the worst artist in the entire world and couldn't produce anything that the software didn't create for me. But that doesn't keep me from admiring the hard work and amazing abilities of those that posses much greater skill than I do.
Anybody know if any major motion picture studios are using Blender? I know Pixar has their own proprietary software that they use. I'm not sure about any of the others.
Before somebody votes this off-topic, "In fact, it will come bundled with it" had a typo. It originally said, "In fact, it willcom bundled with it".
What on Earth does "willcom" mean?
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"Actually it isn't that complicated - he was given it for free."
;-). Oh well...A guy can dream, can't he!
Well that just changes everything now, doesn't it
I tend to believe the metrosexual men are in fashion; not necessarily nerdy men. No offense, but who wants to be with a person that sits around all day and reads book and sit behind a computer? It's not exactly what most people would consider fun and exciting.
And please don't take this as flamebait because that's definitely not what I have in mind. I'm just suggesting that the men listed are more metrosexual than nerdy.
"Linus uses a Mac? Yes, he does, but he doesn't run OS-X on it. He's running Linux on it."
That's a fair argument. However, I have to wonder what made Linus switch to a completely different architecture. He's often quoted with negative remarks regarding Intel products (though I don't actually think he "dislikes" Intel, per sey). But there's still AMD. At first glance, I can't think of any one reason why he would use a Mac if he knew ahead of time that they were switching to Intel. However, I believe there's a possibility of something more than meets the eye.
UFO Cover-up, eh? So, please do tell what he found! And if you don't know anything, feel free to make something up ;-).
A friend of mine brought up an interesting point the other day that got me thinking about Linus' switch to a Mac. He brought up the point that it's possible that Mac could possibly be interested in switching to the Linux kernel. That being the case, Mac wouldn't be a threat to Linux, at all. They could quite possibly be the biggest ally to date!
"Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming?"
No!
Well that was easy, wasn't it?
While we're at it, we need to replace the call to gets() with fgets() ;-).
You have a valid argument in regard to the shadow copy. However, I must point out that Novell Netware had this YEARS (as far back as the mid 80's and possibly more) before Windows did in a utility known as salvage. Heck, even DOS had an undelete and MS later introduced unerase (although I must admit that those two DOS utilities really weren't that good because they were dependent on the original sectors where the files were stored, to be free.) In addition to these, various attempts have been made to *nix systems for years to implement a similar design (with decent success, I might add). I can't remember the name of any off the top of my head; but, they basically saved copies of previous versions of files, which could later be recovered. They worked similarly to a version control system.
You have a valid point. But can I ask you if you work for a company or if you're still in school. And if you do work in a company, do you schedule a lot of meetings and put together a lot of group activities? The reason I ask is because (when used for these purposes) the two are so commonly used side-by-side, that it would make sense to include the functionality of both into a single program. And I rarely argue that two functions should be included in a single piece of software because, like you, I come from a Unix background where software is most often designed to do one thing and to do it well.