If the government tries to make that happen, the ISPs and users of the world will shout out a resounding "Fuck You". Not only is that invasion of privacy, it is technologically very difficult to store such a massive amount of information.
I just love it when people try to regulate something that they know nothing about.
Word 2003 opens in about 5 seconds on my 400mhz Pentium 2 box with 384mb ram... in under 2 on my Athlon 64 system.
I've always noticed that OpenOffice.org is even slower on both of those systems (under Fedora Core 2, I don't use it on Windows). Perhaps your computer could use a bit of maintenance?
Nonetheless, those results contradict common logic. Microsoft has the source code to Windows XP; they know *all* the methods to speed up applications in use on it. I certainly don't hate OpenOffice.org, I think it's awesome that an open source project is challenging Microsoft - competition is good for all of us. But, we must remember, OpenOffice.org is based on Sun's StarOffice which was often seen as bloated and slow.
I have a right to listen to my music on whatever player, in whatever format I want to. Many of Sony's new discs are "incompatible" with Apple iPods, because the music is only available in DRM protected WMA format right off the CD (they are burned in CD Extra mode). There are many ways to defeat such protection, sometimes as simple as holding down the shift key.
If all else fails, I play the cd in a standard cd player, while recording it on my computer. I break apart the tracks later, and have the music in whatever format I want.
If only the record industry would realize that such actions are futile, and could just give up. Most people aren't evil pirates, I just want to be able to play back music that I pay money for on whatever medium I want to.
I don't drink either... I sure as hell don't want to be on the road with a bunch of drunks who may run into me.
I don't care if someone is a liberal or a conservative, if they are drunk, they have given up the right to drive. Any technology that can be put in place to ensure that they don't drive should be used, if it is reasonable and effective. Anybody who is a threat to my safety on the road doesn't deserve to have privacy... when you are driving drunk, it's not just your business, but the business of all of your passengers and everyone you come near on the road.
This is an absolutely brilliant idea. Hundreds of people die each year as a result of alcohol-related automobile crashes. Of course it could be bypassed by having a non-drunk passenger touch the wheel first, but then again, if there was a passenger present that's sober enough to drive, they should be driving in the first place.
$600 per car is not a lot to spend to ensure road safety. Perhaps this should become required by law. I'm no fan of big-brotherly ideas, but this wouldn't necessarily *have* to report someone to the police just for attempting to drive a car drunk, and could still manage to save countless lives.
People still read phrak?
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I thought that the entire community of real hackers moved on to more intelligent, less "omfg 1337 lol" material, like 2600. For every interesting article in Phrak, there are 2 uninformative or just-plain-dumb articles.
Mozilla isn't obligated to offer you support. You are an idiot for firing an employee simply over a small software issue. Plus, any reasonable IT person would give users a CHOICE of IE or FireFox for quite a while, until people adjusted to the new software and the IT staff were certain that it would not conflict with existing systems (such as your intranet).
However, I'd like to note that Mr. Goodger should really learn how to develop websites for cross-browser compatibility. It looks like crap here at work, where we use IE. Being the lead-developer of a competing browser is no excuse for not having a website that looks good on ALL platforms.
Just so you know, just being a nerd/geek doesn't mean you have Asperger's syndrome. It is not a "disease" that you can get, you either have it or you don't. Even when I was an infant, people noticed that I had a ridiculously long attention span. I don't hate the fact that I have AS... it can be incredibly annoying at times, as I still have issues interpreting body gestures or figures of speech not laid out in scientific terms. At times I wish I didn't have this affliction. Then I remind myself that I can sit in front of my computer for 14 hours straight writing code without getting bored, assuming that I am interested in what I am writing. I proceed to laugh, and profit.
I prefer to buy my music from better legal sites, that are 1/10th the cost of iTunes and use no DRM. Anybody heard of allofmp3.com or mp3search.ru? They both are legal, and have great libraries.
I will admit that I have bought a few songs off of iTunes simply because I wanted a high quality copy before the song was released on CD... but in general, why would I want to pay 10x more for something that I can get legally much cheaper?
99.9% of admins who know how to do their jobs correctly didn't go out and buy Tiger the first day, but chose to wait until a few bugs were worked out and the OS was generally seen as in good condition for mass-use.
99.9% of admins are casually going about their job instead of frantically trying to fix a problem that didn't need to be created in the first place.
I always thought that the idea of a price-fixing scheme was to drive prices *up*. What they have said makes absolutely no sense. Free software is causing prices to go up? I think not...
If anything, free software drives prices down (remember when IE was released for free, while Netscape was still selling for $30?). Oh, the commercial software industry is dying too. Then why is Windows still the most popular operating system in existance?
I'm going to get paid $2 million to transfer $14,000,000 worth of money from the All-Super Bank of Nigeria to an undisclosed location? Sounds too good to be true! Oh, wait...
Linux can look great with modification (Gnome is your friend); Windows can be modified as well... I'm just talking about the default "out of the box" look. It is a fact that most linux distros simply don't look good by default. It is stupid to criticize the look of a pre-release version of Windows just because it is Windows and is "evil".
Looks like a very nice unit, but isn't that a little overkill for a PDA? I know I would love to have it to show off, but it really doesn't do *that* much more than my $199 Dell Axim.
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The same story is linked to in both posts on Slashdot. Somebody explain to me how that does *not* indicate a dupe?
Read your own fucking site: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/04/1115235.shtml ?tid=149&tid=17
If the government tries to make that happen, the ISPs and users of the world will shout out a resounding "Fuck You". Not only is that invasion of privacy, it is technologically very difficult to store such a massive amount of information.
I just love it when people try to regulate something that they know nothing about.
Word 2003 opens in about 5 seconds on my 400mhz Pentium 2 box with 384mb ram... in under 2 on my Athlon 64 system.
I've always noticed that OpenOffice.org is even slower on both of those systems (under Fedora Core 2, I don't use it on Windows). Perhaps your computer could use a bit of maintenance?
Nonetheless, those results contradict common logic. Microsoft has the source code to Windows XP; they know *all* the methods to speed up applications in use on it. I certainly don't hate OpenOffice.org, I think it's awesome that an open source project is challenging Microsoft - competition is good for all of us. But, we must remember, OpenOffice.org is based on Sun's StarOffice which was often seen as bloated and slow.
Fully agreed. Outlook 2003 is superior to everything else I've tried.
Doesn't this now put them in the "small business" category? Hell, I've heard of "small businesses" with higher profits than that.
I have a right to listen to my music on whatever player, in whatever format I want to. Many of Sony's new discs are "incompatible" with Apple iPods, because the music is only available in DRM protected WMA format right off the CD (they are burned in CD Extra mode). There are many ways to defeat such protection, sometimes as simple as holding down the shift key.
If all else fails, I play the cd in a standard cd player, while recording it on my computer. I break apart the tracks later, and have the music in whatever format I want.
If only the record industry would realize that such actions are futile, and could just give up. Most people aren't evil pirates, I just want to be able to play back music that I pay money for on whatever medium I want to.
We need Linux games before we need linux drivers...
I was kidding... who the hell modded me informative?
Ah, the joys of confusion.
I don't drink either... I sure as hell don't want to be on the road with a bunch of drunks who may run into me.
I don't care if someone is a liberal or a conservative, if they are drunk, they have given up the right to drive. Any technology that can be put in place to ensure that they don't drive should be used, if it is reasonable and effective. Anybody who is a threat to my safety on the road doesn't deserve to have privacy... when you are driving drunk, it's not just your business, but the business of all of your passengers and everyone you come near on the road.
This is an absolutely brilliant idea. Hundreds of people die each year as a result of alcohol-related automobile crashes. Of course it could be bypassed by having a non-drunk passenger touch the wheel first, but then again, if there was a passenger present that's sober enough to drive, they should be driving in the first place.
$600 per car is not a lot to spend to ensure road safety. Perhaps this should become required by law. I'm no fan of big-brotherly ideas, but this wouldn't necessarily *have* to report someone to the police just for attempting to drive a car drunk, and could still manage to save countless lives.
I thought that the entire community of real hackers moved on to more intelligent, less "omfg 1337 lol" material, like 2600. For every interesting article in Phrak, there are 2 uninformative or just-plain-dumb articles.
Mozilla isn't obligated to offer you support. You are an idiot for firing an employee simply over a small software issue. Plus, any reasonable IT person would give users a CHOICE of IE or FireFox for quite a while, until people adjusted to the new software and the IT staff were certain that it would not conflict with existing systems (such as your intranet).
However, I'd like to note that Mr. Goodger should really learn how to develop websites for cross-browser compatibility. It looks like crap here at work, where we use IE. Being the lead-developer of a competing browser is no excuse for not having a website that looks good on ALL platforms.
Just so you know, just being a nerd/geek doesn't mean you have Asperger's syndrome. It is not a "disease" that you can get, you either have it or you don't. Even when I was an infant, people noticed that I had a ridiculously long attention span. I don't hate the fact that I have AS... it can be incredibly annoying at times, as I still have issues interpreting body gestures or figures of speech not laid out in scientific terms. At times I wish I didn't have this affliction. Then I remind myself that I can sit in front of my computer for 14 hours straight writing code without getting bored, assuming that I am interested in what I am writing. I proceed to laugh, and profit.
I prefer to buy my music from better legal sites, that are 1/10th the cost of iTunes and use no DRM. Anybody heard of allofmp3.com or mp3search.ru? They both are legal, and have great libraries.
I will admit that I have bought a few songs off of iTunes simply because I wanted a high quality copy before the song was released on CD... but in general, why would I want to pay 10x more for something that I can get legally much cheaper?
I support microsoft and it's flamebait? Then why are so many "OMFG IT IS UGLY LOLOLOL!!!11oneone" posts not modded down, even modded up?
Oh well, my karma just hit the floor faster than you can say "stalinism".
it looks perfectly fine...
99.9% of admins who know how to do their jobs correctly didn't go out and buy Tiger the first day, but chose to wait until a few bugs were worked out and the OS was generally seen as in good condition for mass-use. 99.9% of admins are casually going about their job instead of frantically trying to fix a problem that didn't need to be created in the first place.
I always thought that the idea of a price-fixing scheme was to drive prices *up*. What they have said makes absolutely no sense. Free software is causing prices to go up? I think not...
If anything, free software drives prices down (remember when IE was released for free, while Netscape was still selling for $30?). Oh, the commercial software industry is dying too. Then why is Windows still the most popular operating system in existance?
I'm going to get paid $2 million to transfer $14,000,000 worth of money from the All-Super Bank of Nigeria to an undisclosed location? Sounds too good to be true! Oh, wait...
Linux can look great with modification (Gnome is your friend); Windows can be modified as well... I'm just talking about the default "out of the box" look. It is a fact that most linux distros simply don't look good by default. It is stupid to criticize the look of a pre-release version of Windows just because it is Windows and is "evil".
I've seen a whole load of Linux distributions that don't look *near* that good, even with a final release.
Looks like a very nice unit, but isn't that a little overkill for a PDA? I know I would love to have it to show off, but it really doesn't do *that* much more than my $199 Dell Axim.
Duplicate post, see http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/13/21 59255
True... unless, of course, the access points are all on the same network (and therefore use the same DHCP server)