What's important is that Apple expects that people are going to treat their gadgets as disposable and replace them every few years. That's absurd and gives a new meaning to the word "wasteful". And yes, it's shocking to me that so many people buy into this hook, line, and sinker. I buy things to last for a long time. I wouldn't expect a gizmo to last 40 years, but if I have to fix/replace a gizmo, especially an obscenely overpriced one, within a few years, I'm either returning it or not buying another from that company. I just bought a brand new stereo receiver. I expect that to last me, if not for the rest of my life, then for a very long time. I shouldn't have to replace a stereo receiver every few years. If it conks out in 5 years, I'm gonna be pissed. I shouldn't have to replace a telephone every few years, either.
But then again, maybe I'm just out of touch with the average consumer/lemming that enjoys wasting their money on anything disposable.
It's fraud, the same way it's fraud if you buy a music "CD" and it doesn't play in your computer due to some stupid copyright thing. A "cell phone" or even a "PDA" is understood to have a removable battery. Unless the package says in large, clear letters "battery is not replaceable by user", an average person would have no idea and no reason to think that they couldn't replace the battery. That's pretty unheard of in any kind of consumer electronic devices, especially in a cell phone. I think that Apple has screwed up on this one. If I bought one of these things, then found out I couldn't replace the battery, I'd either return it, or join a class action suit. $600 for a phone that you have to send back to the damn company every year? What kind of idiot would buy one of these things knowing that?
It's a nice idea, but badly implemented. Search doesn't even work (I've tried it before, and it's never worked), and on top of that, today, search throws a bunch of mySQL errors (mySQL? for a search engine?!?!). It's a nice idea, and maybe this group will breathe some life into it, but right now, grub is doa, as far as I'm concerned.
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I'll be excited if they make a working search engine. I'll be even more excited if they do work on the searching algorithms, which is what makes or breaks search engines, not the amount of content they have. It's what you do with the info. Anybody can spider lots and lots of information. Providing relevant results is why Google is #1 now, and those results are the results of some heavy, heavy math that is done by lots of pHD's. Spidering, which seems to be the focus of Grub, isn't a big limitation for most search engines these days.
I don't bother with blacklists. It's easier to just eliminate all traffic from whole countries. I get a spam from China. I look up the ISP. I block all traffic to/from that entire ISP's block. Done. Same thing for former Soviet states, and other such places. It works amazingly well. Of course, this doesn't help with zombified PC's, but neither does a DNS black list.
I love it. I won't buy it.
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As much as I love the Starcraft/Command and Conquer games, I won't buy them. At least not for several years. I was sorely disappointed that Command and Conquer 3 wouldn't run on a one year old top of the line computer (and I returned it to the store). PC games are ridiculous, as far as requirements go. I'm looking forward to buying Starcraft 2 from the bargain bin in a few years when I own a PC capable of playing it.
I just turned off adblock for a second to see the ads that Slashdot trys to show me. The one main ad at the top of the page is creating Fear in me by indicating that integrating Tomcat, Axis, and other things may be too complicated for me to "get stuff done". FUD is a geek phrase. It means nothing. FUD = marketing. Yawn.
I agree. I'm actually happy with my cellphone and what I pay for it. I could care less about all of the neat-o features that Japanese people and European people apparently love. I pay Sprint something like $100/month for essentially unlimited phone calls anywhere, and I'm cool with that.
That's too bad. Seagate makes some decent drives. I only hope that this doesn't apply to Maxtor, now that Seagate owns them. I looooove me some Maxtor drives.
I'd like to point out that in this list, there was exactly one company "killed" by Microsoft. Foxpro was acquired by them. More importantly MS is still keeping the project alive after all of this time. Microsoft most certainly is not the company killer that the Slashdot Groupthink make it out to be.
Netscape simply stopped releasing products for a few years and their most recent products were trash. They attempted to open source it as a last resort, but even that flopped. They most certainly did deserve to die. They killed themselves through bad management.
It's called your eyeball. You can "see" if there is an "advertisement" in your own web page! Yeah, it's pretty revolutionary, but stick with me here.... you have your own or manage a web site... you "look" at the web page using your own, built-in eyeball. Then, you can use the image acquired using your eyeball to "analyze" the page and "see" if there is an ad in there that's not yours.
Yes, you're right. Thousands and thousands of people are making it up. Craigslist is down now, and has been down for the past hour or so. So was Gamespot. It's not "FUD".
Don't these large sites have failover capable, redundant servers in multiple physical locations? Why should a failure in one rack, one room, or heck, even one state for the giant sites, effect them?
My biggest frustration with Linux is the notion that Linux systems must emulate Windows to be acceptable (e.g. Mono), and that the Unix interface is a priori incomprehensible, for no other reason than that it doesn't look and feel like Windows.
Why don't any car makers in the US make a car with the clutch on the right, and the gas on the left? There's nothing inherently wrong with that.
if you will, if a whole country suddenly went libertarian, you'd have the exact same problems as a communist country, but in reverse along the axis of human selfishness/altruism. it would fail, as miserably and as surely as communism did. for the same reasons, in mirror image reverse: the simple valid human instinct towards simple human decency towards one another, ie, altruism,
You're the one that's naive. Real world experience tells me that human beings are largely selfish assholes. I don't know where you see all of this supposed altruism, but I certainly don't. You'll find it in tiny pockets of educated people scattered up and down the Coasts of the US, for instance, but that's rare. Altruism would not rip apart a libertarian system. Turn off your TV and go outside.
I couldn't agree more. There's no way they're going to split again. They're going to continue what they're doing: same basic underlying framework, but the "Server" version has more features and services tacked on to the basic system. I can't believe that anybody who can remember 10 years ago would ever suggest going back to that again.
Well, they've conquered the consumer desktop market. They've conquered the generic office software market. Their owners (stockholders) expect them to do something new. They've got to branch out somewhere.
Well, I'd guess that MS was just following Apple's lead as far as "leaked" press releases. Steve Jobs can fart and every journalist and fan falls all over themselves to get a whiff.
The story of Paper Mario begins with an introduction to Star Haven, a place where the seven Star Spirits reside and, using the Star Rod, an item with the power to grant any wish, grant the requests of those who wish upon the stars. The story's conflict begins when Bowser and his assistant Kammy Koopa invade Star Haven, steal the Star Rod and transform the seven Star Spirits into playing cards.
Yeah, I don't understand why an adult wouldn't jump right into that riveting story!
Here's a question... do you also Tivo the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers? If not, I think there's some writing that may be equally as compelling to you as "Kammy Koopa" and the "Star Spirits".
He's doing it with the biggest PR splash he could possibly make. He's a shameless self-promoter. It's obvious that this project isn't about education. If it were, he'd be busy opening up and staffing actual schools taught by actual local people, not selling plastic gadgets to 3rd world nations. The effect of this project will be negligible, at best for the targets of this "project".
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You're right. I'm not surprised though, "The Register" is on par with Slashdot, quality-wise: completely unprofessional, and hype-driven.
What's important is that Apple expects that people are going to treat their gadgets as disposable and replace them every few years. That's absurd and gives a new meaning to the word "wasteful". And yes, it's shocking to me that so many people buy into this hook, line, and sinker. I buy things to last for a long time. I wouldn't expect a gizmo to last 40 years, but if I have to fix/replace a gizmo, especially an obscenely overpriced one, within a few years, I'm either returning it or not buying another from that company. I just bought a brand new stereo receiver. I expect that to last me, if not for the rest of my life, then for a very long time. I shouldn't have to replace a stereo receiver every few years. If it conks out in 5 years, I'm gonna be pissed. I shouldn't have to replace a telephone every few years, either.
But then again, maybe I'm just out of touch with the average consumer/lemming that enjoys wasting their money on anything disposable.
It's fraud, the same way it's fraud if you buy a music "CD" and it doesn't play in your computer due to some stupid copyright thing. A "cell phone" or even a "PDA" is understood to have a removable battery. Unless the package says in large, clear letters "battery is not replaceable by user", an average person would have no idea and no reason to think that they couldn't replace the battery. That's pretty unheard of in any kind of consumer electronic devices, especially in a cell phone. I think that Apple has screwed up on this one. If I bought one of these things, then found out I couldn't replace the battery, I'd either return it, or join a class action suit. $600 for a phone that you have to send back to the damn company every year? What kind of idiot would buy one of these things knowing that?
It's a nice idea, but badly implemented. Search doesn't even work (I've tried it before, and it's never worked), and on top of that, today, search throws a bunch of mySQL errors (mySQL? for a search engine?!?!). It's a nice idea, and maybe this group will breathe some life into it, but right now, grub is doa, as far as I'm concerned.
\ I'll be excited if they make a working search engine. I'll be even more excited if they do work on the searching algorithms, which is what makes or breaks search engines, not the amount of content they have. It's what you do with the info. Anybody can spider lots and lots of information. Providing relevant results is why Google is #1 now, and those results are the results of some heavy, heavy math that is done by lots of pHD's. Spidering, which seems to be the focus of Grub, isn't a big limitation for most search engines these days.
I don't bother with blacklists. It's easier to just eliminate all traffic from whole countries. I get a spam from China. I look up the ISP. I block all traffic to/from that entire ISP's block. Done. Same thing for former Soviet states, and other such places. It works amazingly well. Of course, this doesn't help with zombified PC's, but neither does a DNS black list.
As much as I love the Starcraft/Command and Conquer games, I won't buy them. At least not for several years. I was sorely disappointed that Command and Conquer 3 wouldn't run on a one year old top of the line computer (and I returned it to the store). PC games are ridiculous, as far as requirements go. I'm looking forward to buying Starcraft 2 from the bargain bin in a few years when I own a PC capable of playing it.
You're right. FUD everywhere is bad.
I just turned off adblock for a second to see the ads that Slashdot trys to show me. The one main ad at the top of the page is creating Fear in me by indicating that integrating Tomcat, Axis, and other things may be too complicated for me to "get stuff done". FUD is a geek phrase. It means nothing. FUD = marketing. Yawn.
It matters because nothing Microsoft does benefits anyone but them in the long run. You've got to have noticed this by now.
Yeah, what good has MS ever done, other than making personal computing accessible to the general public, right? Bastards.
I agree. I'm actually happy with my cellphone and what I pay for it. I could care less about all of the neat-o features that Japanese people and European people apparently love. I pay Sprint something like $100/month for essentially unlimited phone calls anywhere, and I'm cool with that.
That's too bad. Seagate makes some decent drives. I only hope that this doesn't apply to Maxtor, now that Seagate owns them. I looooove me some Maxtor drives.
I'd like to point out that in this list, there was exactly one company "killed" by Microsoft. Foxpro was acquired by them. More importantly MS is still keeping the project alive after all of this time. Microsoft most certainly is not the company killer that the Slashdot Groupthink make it out to be.
Netscape simply stopped releasing products for a few years and their most recent products were trash. They attempted to open source it as a last resort, but even that flopped. They most certainly did deserve to die. They killed themselves through bad management.
It's called your eyeball. You can "see" if there is an "advertisement" in your own web page! Yeah, it's pretty revolutionary, but stick with me here.... you have your own or manage a web site... you "look" at the web page using your own, built-in eyeball. Then, you can use the image acquired using your eyeball to "analyze" the page and "see" if there is an ad in there that's not yours.
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ISP's inserting ads into web pages?
1. What kind of moron would never look at their own web site as they develop it and not notice this?
2. What kind of moron would continue using an ISP like this? Why would an ISP that did this stay in business another day?
This whole subject doesn't make any sense to me.
Hosts NOT to use: 365main
On a side note: 365main.com is up. Good to know where their priorities lie.
Yes, you're right. Thousands and thousands of people are making it up. Craigslist is down now, and has been down for the past hour or so. So was Gamespot. It's not "FUD".
Don't these large sites have failover capable, redundant servers in multiple physical locations? Why should a failure in one rack, one room, or heck, even one state for the giant sites, effect them?
My biggest frustration with Linux is the notion that Linux systems must emulate Windows to be acceptable (e.g. Mono), and that the Unix interface is a priori incomprehensible, for no other reason than that it doesn't look and feel like Windows.
Why don't any car makers in the US make a car with the clutch on the right, and the gas on the left? There's nothing inherently wrong with that.
Wow. I'd love to live in your world.
Agreed.
if you will, if a whole country suddenly went libertarian, you'd have the exact same problems as a communist country, but in reverse along the axis of human selfishness/altruism. it would fail, as miserably and as surely as communism did. for the same reasons, in mirror image reverse: the simple valid human instinct towards simple human decency towards one another, ie, altruism,
You're the one that's naive. Real world experience tells me that human beings are largely selfish assholes. I don't know where you see all of this supposed altruism, but I certainly don't. You'll find it in tiny pockets of educated people scattered up and down the Coasts of the US, for instance, but that's rare. Altruism would not rip apart a libertarian system. Turn off your TV and go outside.
I couldn't agree more. There's no way they're going to split again. They're going to continue what they're doing: same basic underlying framework, but the "Server" version has more features and services tacked on to the basic system. I can't believe that anybody who can remember 10 years ago would ever suggest going back to that again.
Well, they've conquered the consumer desktop market. They've conquered the generic office software market. Their owners (stockholders) expect them to do something new. They've got to branch out somewhere.
Well, I'd guess that MS was just following Apple's lead as far as "leaked" press releases. Steve Jobs can fart and every journalist and fan falls all over themselves to get a whiff.
The story of Paper Mario begins with an introduction to Star Haven, a place where the seven Star Spirits reside and, using the Star Rod, an item with the power to grant any wish, grant the requests of those who wish upon the stars. The story's conflict begins when Bowser and his assistant Kammy Koopa invade Star Haven, steal the Star Rod and transform the seven Star Spirits into playing cards.
Yeah, I don't understand why an adult wouldn't jump right into that riveting story!
Here's a question... do you also Tivo the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers? If not, I think there's some writing that may be equally as compelling to you as "Kammy Koopa" and the "Star Spirits".
He's doing it with the biggest PR splash he could possibly make. He's a shameless self-promoter. It's obvious that this project isn't about education. If it were, he'd be busy opening up and staffing actual schools taught by actual local people, not selling plastic gadgets to 3rd world nations. The effect of this project will be negligible, at best for the targets of this "project".