I'm tired of malware being differentiated just because it comes from a commercial entity. When you're replacing things that are practically system components (assuming most people have adobe pdf reader installed) then as far as I'm concerned this is a trojan, not some innocent advertising software.
Companies that make this software are getting too easy a ride on this and should be taken to court the same way someone who writes an Internet Worm would.
an entirely new vehicle capable of carrying up to 6 passenger astronauts and up to 2 pilot astronauts into space on a sub-orbital flight.
No offense... but only 6 passengers? That's not not really that impressive. In my opinion you need at least 20 to 30 passengers before you can start saying it's really mass-market space tourism.
That aside, it's an interesting craft, and I'll be watching the launch.
Once you start adding fancy features, the site starts becoming responsible for the content. The atmosphere on craigslist is one that, if you get screwed over, it's entirely your own fault. On eBay, people can run to customer support if there's a scam. On craigslist it's such a basic site that it gives a real atmosphere of all responsibility being placed on the users.
Even if it didn't harm any living animals, eating meat would still feel plain weird.
Quite a lot of comments against veggies here and how we have nothing to complain about but it's still an odd situation I think.
The closest way I can think of describing it, is say that every time you ate an apple, someone kicked your best friend in the face. Scientists invent an apple that doesn't kick your best friend in the face. There's still that negative association there that makes you feel bad about ever wanting pleasure from an apple, even the non-face-kicking variety.
I used it back in the days of SuSE 6.3 and really liked it then. It had the most eye candy and "slickness" at the time (1999 or so), blowing other WMs and Win98 out the water, I mean who couldn't love the semi-transparent "eTerm" windows?
Other WMs have caught up now with the eye candy, but enlightenment is and was one of the few window managers that actually displayed innovation instead of simply tailing after windows and mac. It's nice to see it getting recognition.
they were very well known for replying to takedown notices with public replies that usually amounted to "go shove it".
Yes, because they don't host any content to take down. Most of the replies are poking fun at the companies for being dumb enough to think the content itself is actually on TPB's servers, and their failure to understand bittorrent.
Surprising nobody's mentioned Acorn Computers, the British company that actually gave us ARM. At the time Acorn simply used ARM to compete with Intel chips, in 1995 when the StrongARM Risc PC came out it was 233MHz, where as the latest Intel Pentium was 200Mhz or so. The advantages of the RISC architecture were also clearly present, with a higher MIPS rate. But of course the Windows beast could not be slain, and ARM went into portable devices, and became the most successful legacy of the Acorn era.
Acorn is still around today in the form of Castle, Advantage Six and others, but it lives only really through enthusiast support. With ARM changing their focus to low power consumption (the reason they were able to step into the portable market in the first place), speed became less of an issue. The fastest ARM processors today are only 806mhz (in the form of the XScale), and so building an Acorn today that was realistically comparable to a modern PC is simply impossible.
I'm just here hoping somebody ports Risc OS Open to x86, Apple managed it after all.
Regardless of soundcard, and regardless of settings, Windows Vista and the last Windows 7 beta I used (though this was some time ago now, around December last year) had absolutely awful sound quality, when compared to XP or Linux. It seems that the mixer and all the other parts of the sound engine interfere with the sound causing it to lose fidelity and bass to the point where I could identify a Vista machine in a blind listening test. Has this been fixed? As a musician it's kind of important...
"My Iphone shot out a flame and all they wanted to do was to get it back in their possession! I got nothing from them. No refund, no discount, nothing! And because I had just signed a 2 year contract, i was only able to repurchase that same phone!"
"I called Apple and they said they would send me a box for me to send it back to them. They said a fuse inside popped! I had to go a buy a new one, no refund, not even a discount!!"
The comments on the times article regarding people having problems with their iPhone's are slightly bewildering. There are at least two where people say their iPhone exploded, and apple asked them to put it in a box and send it back, and then they go out and buy another phone. Who would buy from the same company after such an experience?
My suggestion would be, in one of the breif moments when he's off the game, get him to just come and talk to you, heck maybe even get some of your other friends to join, and keep him occupied in a social discussion for an hour or two to at least break the cycle once in a while. If that doesn't have a lasting effect, just talk to him by himself and say you're concerned about his wellbeing, ask him if he wants to spend all his life eating ready meals and sitting in front of a computer like a zombie.
Usually any addiction is a sign of something missing from the persons life, if you can find out what that is, maybe you can help him get over the cause rather than the effect.
I originally installed the 6936 x64 beta and was very impressed, however, I then made the mistake of upgrading the beta to 7000. After that everything was sluggish and slow and unbearable (worse than Vista). My own fault, but it didn't really make a great deal of sense. If they don't sort out upgrading by release, they'll have a lot of angry users who tried upgrading from Vista.
Asides from that the main pet peeve I had was sound quality. For some reason sound quality on Windows 7 and Vista is just plain awful, lacking fidelity and bass. It's not a driver issue either as it's the same with 3 different soundcards I've tried on both Vista and XP.
At any rate I'm back on Windows XP now with Windows Fundamentals. Fastest version of XP I've ever used and isn't crippled like the tinyXP homebrew isos. When you use an OS for some time you realise that shinyness doesn't matter, and responsiveness does. Starting your computer, loading programs and switching between tasks needs to go as quickly as possible, otherwise it becomes a frustrating barrier on your creativity.
The thing about this whole database, is that it will only be able to log activity of people who don't think they have anything to hide, in other words, you and me. The average person.
Criminals can just SSH tunnel everything through a server in some far away country. They will have no idea what those people are doing.
So forgive me for seeing this as just an invasion of privacy as opposed to any serious way of fighting crime.
Sure, being sexually attracted to children isn't normal, the thoughts themselves are not a crime. While it certainly isn't the most appealing thing to talk about, a way they can get a release is from drawings of pedophilia. Actual child pornography is wrong because children are harmed in the making of it, but with a drawing, nobody is harmed.
Do we really want the possibility of MORE sexually frustrated pedophiles?
I'm still on their 8MBit package and it's great, always solidly at the max speed with no throttling, but costs a bit over the average at £20 + £10 line rental. They were recently bought out by Pipex/Tiscali but so far nothing has changed, hopefully it'll stay this way! Unfortunately it means you can no longer sign up for a new account with them.
a UK site that aims to improve government-citizen interactions, Hahahaha. Have you ever read any of the replies to the petitions on the no.10 e-petitions site? I don't know of a single one that actually worked. Usually it's either "we're already doing this, honest" or "you don't understand the benefits of what you're signing against!"
It really serves no other purpose other than to make people think they're doing something when really they're not.
They actually sued an artist over using his OWN song on his OWN website, cause the artist had a contract with them Not that unreasonable, if they gave him an advance and told him to write music for them, it usually means they own everything he writes to be used in a possible album. If he put a song on his site he actually recorded for the label, such action is even more expected, e.g. Who paid for the recording studio time? Who paid for the session musicians? Who paid to have it produced?
I always assumed the reason behind.org,.net,.com and country TLDs was to keep things organized and consistent. Why have they decided to do what appears to me as simply going back on themselves?
The fact is that because open source is open, if someone tries to put some hostile code inside it, it will be seen and stopped there and then. With closed source, if hostile code gets put in, you're relying on a much smaller bunch of people to spot it, and there is always the possibility they will all collude together to put something in.
With open source, you can evaluate it.
People use the same argument against wikipedia, "anyone can edit it, therefore it cannot be trusted", but the same counter argument can be applied to that as well.
Judging from that picture, it looks *bigger* than the any Archos media player plus the DVR dock. I have an Archos myself and it is a great gadget and very useful in this respect.
I don't know why they're calling this the "smallest PVR" when there are smaller ones around.
One of the reasons I loved Risc OS so much (non-brits may have to google). There's a lot to be said for instant on, especially for creative types (like myself) where inspiration may suddenly appear and the need to save it is urgent.
Waiting for windows to boot (especially an old installation) can take so long you can lose that "spark", so I'm all in favour of this.
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I'm tired of malware being differentiated just because it comes from a commercial entity. When you're replacing things that are practically system components (assuming most people have adobe pdf reader installed) then as far as I'm concerned this is a trojan, not some innocent advertising software.
Companies that make this software are getting too easy a ride on this and should be taken to court the same way someone who writes an Internet Worm would.
an entirely new vehicle capable of carrying up to 6 passenger astronauts and up to 2 pilot astronauts into space on a sub-orbital flight.
No offense... but only 6 passengers? That's not not really that impressive. In my opinion you need at least 20 to 30 passengers before you can start saying it's really mass-market space tourism.
That aside, it's an interesting craft, and I'll be watching the launch.
Once you start adding fancy features, the site starts becoming responsible for the content. The atmosphere on craigslist is one that, if you get screwed over, it's entirely your own fault. On eBay, people can run to customer support if there's a scam. On craigslist it's such a basic site that it gives a real atmosphere of all responsibility being placed on the users.
It makes sense to me.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about this.
Even if it didn't harm any living animals, eating meat would still feel plain weird.
Quite a lot of comments against veggies here and how we have nothing to complain about but it's still an odd situation I think.
The closest way I can think of describing it, is say that every time you ate an apple, someone kicked your best friend in the face. Scientists invent an apple that doesn't kick your best friend in the face. There's still that negative association there that makes you feel bad about ever wanting pleasure from an apple, even the non-face-kicking variety.
I used it back in the days of SuSE 6.3 and really liked it then. It had the most eye candy and "slickness" at the time (1999 or so), blowing other WMs and Win98 out the water, I mean who couldn't love the semi-transparent "eTerm" windows?
Other WMs have caught up now with the eye candy, but enlightenment is and was one of the few window managers that actually displayed innovation instead of simply tailing after windows and mac. It's nice to see it getting recognition.
they were very well known for replying to takedown notices with public replies that usually amounted to "go shove it".
Yes, because they don't host any content to take down. Most of the replies are poking fun at the companies for being dumb enough to think the content itself is actually on TPB's servers, and their failure to understand bittorrent.
Surprising nobody's mentioned Acorn Computers, the British company that actually gave us ARM. At the time Acorn simply used ARM to compete with Intel chips, in 1995 when the StrongARM Risc PC came out it was 233MHz, where as the latest Intel Pentium was 200Mhz or so. The advantages of the RISC architecture were also clearly present, with a higher MIPS rate. But of course the Windows beast could not be slain, and ARM went into portable devices, and became the most successful legacy of the Acorn era.
Acorn is still around today in the form of Castle, Advantage Six and others, but it lives only really through enthusiast support. With ARM changing their focus to low power consumption (the reason they were able to step into the portable market in the first place), speed became less of an issue. The fastest ARM processors today are only 806mhz (in the form of the XScale), and so building an Acorn today that was realistically comparable to a modern PC is simply impossible.
I'm just here hoping somebody ports Risc OS Open to x86, Apple managed it after all.
From what I've read, using quantum techniques to communicate wouldn't be faster than light, but surely that would solve any line of sight issues?
Regardless of soundcard, and regardless of settings, Windows Vista and the last Windows 7 beta I used (though this was some time ago now, around December last year) had absolutely awful sound quality, when compared to XP or Linux. It seems that the mixer and all the other parts of the sound engine interfere with the sound causing it to lose fidelity and bass to the point where I could identify a Vista machine in a blind listening test. Has this been fixed? As a musician it's kind of important...
"My Iphone shot out a flame and all they wanted to do was to get it back in their possession! I got nothing from them. No refund, no discount, nothing! And because I had just signed a 2 year contract, i was only able to repurchase that same phone!"
"I called Apple and they said they would send me a box for me to send it back to them. They said a fuse inside popped! I had to go a buy a new one, no refund, not even a discount!!"
The comments on the times article regarding people having problems with their iPhone's are slightly bewildering. There are at least two where people say their iPhone exploded, and apple asked them to put it in a box and send it back, and then they go out and buy another phone. Who would buy from the same company after such an experience?
Awesome tracker artist right there, I love Satellite One.
My suggestion would be, in one of the breif moments when he's off the game, get him to just come and talk to you, heck maybe even get some of your other friends to join, and keep him occupied in a social discussion for an hour or two to at least break the cycle once in a while. If that doesn't have a lasting effect, just talk to him by himself and say you're concerned about his wellbeing, ask him if he wants to spend all his life eating ready meals and sitting in front of a computer like a zombie.
Usually any addiction is a sign of something missing from the persons life, if you can find out what that is, maybe you can help him get over the cause rather than the effect.
I originally installed the 6936 x64 beta and was very impressed, however, I then made the mistake of upgrading the beta to 7000. After that everything was sluggish and slow and unbearable (worse than Vista). My own fault, but it didn't really make a great deal of sense. If they don't sort out upgrading by release, they'll have a lot of angry users who tried upgrading from Vista.
Asides from that the main pet peeve I had was sound quality. For some reason sound quality on Windows 7 and Vista is just plain awful, lacking fidelity and bass. It's not a driver issue either as it's the same with 3 different soundcards I've tried on both Vista and XP.
At any rate I'm back on Windows XP now with Windows Fundamentals. Fastest version of XP I've ever used and isn't crippled like the tinyXP homebrew isos. When you use an OS for some time you realise that shinyness doesn't matter, and responsiveness does. Starting your computer, loading programs and switching between tasks needs to go as quickly as possible, otherwise it becomes a frustrating barrier on your creativity.
The thing about this whole database, is that it will only be able to log activity of people who don't think they have anything to hide, in other words, you and me. The average person.
Criminals can just SSH tunnel everything through a server in some far away country. They will have no idea what those people are doing.
So forgive me for seeing this as just an invasion of privacy as opposed to any serious way of fighting crime.
Waste of time. Sorry, but that site never works, ever.
Sure, being sexually attracted to children isn't normal, the thoughts themselves are not a crime. While it certainly isn't the most appealing thing to talk about, a way they can get a release is from drawings of pedophilia. Actual child pornography is wrong because children are harmed in the making of it, but with a drawing, nobody is harmed.
Do we really want the possibility of MORE sexually frustrated pedophiles?
Didn't Facebook get sued because the creator used to work for a company that was planning to launch a very similar site?
I'm still on their 8MBit package and it's great, always solidly at the max speed with no throttling, but costs a bit over the average at £20 + £10 line rental. They were recently bought out by Pipex/Tiscali but so far nothing has changed, hopefully it'll stay this way! Unfortunately it means you can no longer sign up for a new account with them.
a UK site that aims to improve government-citizen interactions,
Hahahaha. Have you ever read any of the replies to the petitions on the no.10 e-petitions site? I don't know of a single one that actually worked. Usually it's either "we're already doing this, honest" or "you don't understand the benefits of what you're signing against!"
It really serves no other purpose other than to make people think they're doing something when really they're not.
They actually sued an artist over using his OWN song on his OWN website, cause the artist had a contract with them
Not that unreasonable, if they gave him an advance and told him to write music for them, it usually means they own everything he writes to be used in a possible album. If he put a song on his site he actually recorded for the label, such action is even more expected, e.g. Who paid for the recording studio time? Who paid for the session musicians? Who paid to have it produced?
I always assumed the reason behind .org, .net, .com and country TLDs was to keep things organized and consistent. Why have they decided to do what appears to me as simply going back on themselves?
The fact is that because open source is open, if someone tries to put some hostile code inside it, it will be seen and stopped there and then. With closed source, if hostile code gets put in, you're relying on a much smaller bunch of people to spot it, and there is always the possibility they will all collude together to put something in.
With open source, you can evaluate it.
People use the same argument against wikipedia, "anyone can edit it, therefore it cannot be trusted", but the same counter argument can be applied to that as well.
Judging from that picture, it looks *bigger* than the any Archos media player plus the DVR dock. I have an Archos myself and it is a great gadget and very useful in this respect.
I don't know why they're calling this the "smallest PVR" when there are smaller ones around.
6-7 seconds to the desktop.
One of the reasons I loved Risc OS so much (non-brits may have to google). There's a lot to be said for instant on, especially for creative types (like myself) where inspiration may suddenly appear and the need to save it is urgent.
Waiting for windows to boot (especially an old installation) can take so long you can lose that "spark", so I'm all in favour of this.
Where-as on Linux you know something has come wrong because the whole of X caves in.