I live in Chicago. We here (including the suburbs) are about as densely packed as Japan is. Japan gets 30-50 Mbps synchronous (actual speeds, not advertised peak speeds) for about $20-30 a month. In Chicago, we can get 8M/768k (advertised; actual will dip up and down depending on how many people in your neighbourhood are also online) for about $80 a month. What the fuck.
Also, $200-300 per month for just 1.5M synchronous (T1) is a fucking ripoff. We already paid the telcos billions of dollars to fucking build us a good Internet infrastructure, but instead we've got overpriced shit and overpaid telco execs. We don't even have competition that would squash this, and the government doesn't seem to care that they were ripped off of several billion dollars by these sleazy telcos.
Microsoft used to release as and when. They got slated on Slashdot for it. O RLY? Let's see some actual references rather than bullshit. Lazy sysadmins slated Microsoft over the "release patches when they're ready". Also, I believe it has something to do with CYA: "it's Microsoft's fault, not mine! It's not Patch Tuesday yet, so there's nothing I could have done about that security hole!" Which is of course bullshit, but PHBs like bullshit.
Microsoft released some important patches outside of the monthly cycle since they switched to it. They got slated on Slashdot for it. You mean that one time where they released an immediate fix for their broken Windows Media DRM? I can understand why they were slated; if Microsoft thinks that pleasing the MAFIAA is more important than fixing critical 0-day bugs that are affecting millions of users worldwide, then they deserve the hearty "fuck you" they received.
If that's the case, then those smart enough to figure out how to use commercial skip are obviously not the ones who will be buying shit from ads. In this case, however, Cox is forcing those who are not going to watch ads to watch them.
Agreed. We don't even need ESPN due to other companies like News Corp (Fox and co.), Comcast (CSN), CBS, NBC, XM (some sports), Sirius (the other sports), Dish, DirecTV, etc.
Find me a bank that uses IIS and I'll make sure not to use them. IIS is an insecure piece of shit that has only recently upgraded its security in version 6.0, and many IIS administrators don't know how to secure it properly anyhow.
What about ISP webmail? Or the millions of SquirrelMail and other webmail apps strewn across the intarwebs? Hotmail had lots of competition, but Yahoo! was probably one of the few (if any) large enough to be considered a competitor.
This is why Apple computers still come with only one mouse button (mighty mouse needs to enable extra buttons): Apple is able to "incentivize" developers to make absolutely sure that the UI is fully usable without a right click button. Microsoft can't force this, hence millions of context menus.
The fact that Microsoft aren't even following their own UI guidelines is pretty stupid, though.
By "extensive documentation", are you speaking of man pages (which there is a sore lack of in the Linux world when compared to BSD-based systems for example), info pages (which are quite well documented in most GNU software), or what? There are a lot of man pages on my Debian system for example that note that they were written for the Debian distribution because the original software didn't include any documentation. I can admit that I've neglected to write manpages for software/scripts that I've written, but once I found out how easy it was to write troff man pages (especially compared to the verbose docbook standard), I've written some man pages for software that doesn't even have them. Sometimes I don't even bother to type "man foo" and instead try "foo --help" first due to this lack of documentation effort.
I wouldn't be able to consider you a musician without instruments. Instruments do include a MIDI-compatible keyboard that has like 8000 different instrument synthesisers. Music composition also requires use of an instrument usually.
It's almost as high as it's going to get quality-wise for just listening to. When you're remixing and editting audio, it's always good to have much higher quality than you'd get on CD. Besides, the only way to get higher fidelity audio is to get DRM-infected discs from a format war that neither won. That or record it yourself.;p
This is also a good method for solving many other password-based issues. You can also use things like stunnel to encrypt any generic service via SSL/TLS/IPsec/etc.
Well, you obviously aren't a professional because all the professionals I know use keyboard shortcuts extensively. The mouse is only for moving stuff around and using the tools they've selected using a keyboard shortcut.
I'm sorry that Blender (or any other 3d modeling application) can't be easy for neophytes (or n00bs), but that's just how it is. If you don't like it, either learn the shortcuts or find a different hobby. Clicking on pretty widgets to kill time is not what professional graphic artists do...
Maybe if you made a derivative work of it that wasn't fair use, sure. Otherwise, yes, they can try to sue you, but the case would be laughed out of court.
You see, it's this sort of advice that is preventing the year of Windows on the desktop. Once you say, "open a command line", you've failed as an operating system.;p
I don't remember if this was before or after the situation you describe, but there was a huge discussion on the PHP developer mailing lists on what to name the class. I believe it ended up being called DateTime.
Of course sysadmins have an autoupdate system! We have APT (Debian and co.), yum (Red Hat and co.), emerge (Gentoo), and various other autoupdate package managers. I believe there are even tools like XAMPP for Windows that include autoupdate features.
Shot down? I was under the impression that namespaces were going to be in PHP 6, but the discussions over the syntax were pretty scary (should we use ":::" or "\"? they're the only two symbols left).
I'd rather follow carefully written instructions by copy/pasting some text into a terminal than blindly click on pretty widgets until I find the configuration dialogue(s) for my particular problem.
Of course, that's just me (and many, many other people). This is especially true on a laptop when you have the choice of a touchpad (meh), clit mouse (meh), another mouse (kinda makes it a little less portable), or using its keyboard so conveniently placed for you. If you're a hunt'n'peck typist who types at 5 WPM, I can understand preferring to click on pretty widgets, but for us real folk who can actually type, it's usually faster and more efficient to just type what we want the computer to do rather than blindly click pretty widgets.
The only "good" corporations are ones controlled by good people without the influence of share-whores you have with public corporations. Generally, this means that most "good" corporations are very small businesses where pretty much everyone in the business is good. Have fun trying to find one...
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I live in Chicago. We here (including the suburbs) are about as densely packed as Japan is. Japan gets 30-50 Mbps synchronous (actual speeds, not advertised peak speeds) for about $20-30 a month. In Chicago, we can get 8M/768k (advertised; actual will dip up and down depending on how many people in your neighbourhood are also online) for about $80 a month. What the fuck.
Also, $200-300 per month for just 1.5M synchronous (T1) is a fucking ripoff. We already paid the telcos billions of dollars to fucking build us a good Internet infrastructure, but instead we've got overpriced shit and overpaid telco execs. We don't even have competition that would squash this, and the government doesn't seem to care that they were ripped off of several billion dollars by these sleazy telcos.
Every 2.6.x release is posted on Slashdot. These fix security bugs as well most of the time. Think harder next time.
Not a single XPI in existence is signed. I don't think Mozilla has even documented how to sign XPI files.
If that's the case, then those smart enough to figure out how to use commercial skip are obviously not the ones who will be buying shit from ads. In this case, however, Cox is forcing those who are not going to watch ads to watch them.
Agreed. We don't even need ESPN due to other companies like News Corp (Fox and co.), Comcast (CSN), CBS, NBC, XM (some sports), Sirius (the other sports), Dish, DirecTV, etc.
I know! That analogy is an insult to Slashdot posters and trolls everywhere!
Find me a bank that uses IIS and I'll make sure not to use them. IIS is an insecure piece of shit that has only recently upgraded its security in version 6.0, and many IIS administrators don't know how to secure it properly anyhow.
What about ISP webmail? Or the millions of SquirrelMail and other webmail apps strewn across the intarwebs? Hotmail had lots of competition, but Yahoo! was probably one of the few (if any) large enough to be considered a competitor.
This is why Apple computers still come with only one mouse button (mighty mouse needs to enable extra buttons): Apple is able to "incentivize" developers to make absolutely sure that the UI is fully usable without a right click button. Microsoft can't force this, hence millions of context menus.
The fact that Microsoft aren't even following their own UI guidelines is pretty stupid, though.
By "extensive documentation", are you speaking of man pages (which there is a sore lack of in the Linux world when compared to BSD-based systems for example), info pages (which are quite well documented in most GNU software), or what? There are a lot of man pages on my Debian system for example that note that they were written for the Debian distribution because the original software didn't include any documentation. I can admit that I've neglected to write manpages for software/scripts that I've written, but once I found out how easy it was to write troff man pages (especially compared to the verbose docbook standard), I've written some man pages for software that doesn't even have them. Sometimes I don't even bother to type "man foo" and instead try "foo --help" first due to this lack of documentation effort.
Judging by the number of cancer cure stories we have here every month or so, I think we're on that path. ;)
I wouldn't be able to consider you a musician without instruments. Instruments do include a MIDI-compatible keyboard that has like 8000 different instrument synthesisers. Music composition also requires use of an instrument usually.
Is this only for artists signed up with RIAA labels or even the independents that usually split the revenue 50-50?
It's almost as high as it's going to get quality-wise for just listening to. When you're remixing and editting audio, it's always good to have much higher quality than you'd get on CD. Besides, the only way to get higher fidelity audio is to get DRM-infected discs from a format war that neither won. That or record it yourself. ;p
Tunnel VNC over SSH. Problem solved.
This is also a good method for solving many other password-based issues. You can also use things like stunnel to encrypt any generic service via SSL/TLS/IPsec/etc.
Well, you obviously aren't a professional because all the professionals I know use keyboard shortcuts extensively. The mouse is only for moving stuff around and using the tools they've selected using a keyboard shortcut.
I'm sorry that Blender (or any other 3d modeling application) can't be easy for neophytes (or n00bs), but that's just how it is. If you don't like it, either learn the shortcuts or find a different hobby. Clicking on pretty widgets to kill time is not what professional graphic artists do...
Maybe if you made a derivative work of it that wasn't fair use, sure. Otherwise, yes, they can try to sue you, but the case would be laughed out of court.
You see, it's this sort of advice that is preventing the year of Windows on the desktop. Once you say, "open a command line", you've failed as an operating system. ;p
I don't remember if this was before or after the situation you describe, but there was a huge discussion on the PHP developer mailing lists on what to name the class. I believe it ended up being called DateTime.
Of course sysadmins have an autoupdate system! We have APT (Debian and co.), yum (Red Hat and co.), emerge (Gentoo), and various other autoupdate package managers. I believe there are even tools like XAMPP for Windows that include autoupdate features.
Don't you mean:
$msg = preg_replace('/register_globals/', 'php', $msg);
Shot down? I was under the impression that namespaces were going to be in PHP 6, but the discussions over the syntax were pretty scary (should we use ":::" or "\"? they're the only two symbols left).
I'd rather follow carefully written instructions by copy/pasting some text into a terminal than blindly click on pretty widgets until I find the configuration dialogue(s) for my particular problem.
Of course, that's just me (and many, many other people). This is especially true on a laptop when you have the choice of a touchpad (meh), clit mouse (meh), another mouse (kinda makes it a little less portable), or using its keyboard so conveniently placed for you. If you're a hunt'n'peck typist who types at 5 WPM, I can understand preferring to click on pretty widgets, but for us real folk who can actually type, it's usually faster and more efficient to just type what we want the computer to do rather than blindly click pretty widgets.
The only "good" corporations are ones controlled by good people without the influence of share-whores you have with public corporations. Generally, this means that most "good" corporations are very small businesses where pretty much everyone in the business is good. Have fun trying to find one...