I don't know why everyone keeps saying this. Sure, if I apt-get Postfix on my local box it's going to be flooded with spam, but throw SpamAssasin on there, use the spamhause blocklists, and you get just about none. There are only so many servers that should be sending mail. Just block the rest and you're done. Sure that's a bit complicated, but so is all this talk of Email 2.0.
"This newly reported area of 'dark matter' (translation: uh, we don't know what it is), is a billion light years across..."
The whole point of the story is that there is _no_ dark matter in the thing.
I understand that people here think all DRM is always bad, but I don't have a problem with Netflix DRM, apart from it making me boot up Windows in a VM. I don't want to buy the damn movie, I just want to watch it once. Now if I was paying $10-20 for the thing I'd be pissed and want to hack it, but I'm paying 13-something a month for DVDs and these downloads. Why someone thinks they are entitled to own a movie they paid about a buck for (depending on how much you value these "free" downloads as part of your account) is beyond me.
Every piece of technology is a tradeoff. I'm getting an iPhone because it makes all the compromises in MY favor. When I'm out and about I want a full browser. I want to see the actual web-page and not some unusable bastardized version. I want great battery life and a tiny form factor that can live in my pocket for days without bothering me. I want a pretty screen and I don't want to carry around a damn stylus. I don't need to open up an SSH terminal on my phone or install a bunch of crappy third-party software or stream my television to me on the other side of the country. You can sit in a restaurant or a bar with your Nokia browsing/. at lightning 3G speeds while monitoring your home server, or whatever it is you feel the iPhone doesn't allow you to do. I just need to browse Wikipedia to settle and argument, or look up a phonenumber, or get directions or movie times.
I don't know why/.ers get all pissed at CDMA. It seems to me that CDMA is much better suited to data transfer then GSM, even if you only take into account it's ability to soak up as much bandwidth on the network as it needs for one client. For voice, which is generally a fixed bitrate, that's not important, but don't us geeks care about data more then voice?
Have you really now? I wonder who these Canadians are who spend all thier time racing down to the US and badmouthing Canadian health care. I'm Canadian, my whole familly is Canadian, and I've never known anyone who got anything less then the best care. Even my American-citizen ex-girlfriend, who needed medical care once while we were in Canada, got everything she needed very quickly (paying out-of-pocket though, of course). I'll be the first to admit that Canadian health care has it's problems, but at least they don't let their citizens die horrible, bloody deaths in a hospital waiting room.
Well, faith is a belief in something without evidence and reason is the belief in something because of evidence. That makes them opposites. The more faithful you are, the less reasonable you are, and vice versa. How is that difficult to wrap your head around?
But, it really is cute how you religious types try to claim the faith exists in other contexts. I probably do have "faith" (an unreasoned belief) in something. It seems to be part of human nature. And if I do, it's a fault of mine. But at least I admit it's a fault.
I like how this guy is pretending like he's busting some giant myth, when really he's just peddling the standard low-market-share-equals-security myth.
"People are stupid... right now the best technology we can implement for the batteries only suggest a life of 3 years and the battery is the majority of the value of the car"
"Toyota have lab data showing the Prius battery can do 180,000 miles (290,000km) of normal driving with absolutely no degradation of the battery's performance."
"[T]he price of a replacement battery is... NZ$4000.00 for a Generation II Prius and NZ$2750 for a Generation III Prius."
"Of course, at 1.30 per song, iTunes' DRM-free AAC cost about 6 times as much as eMusic DRM-free MP3"
Why does everyone keep forgetting that all albums are still 9.99? I don't buy individual songs, so there's no price hike for me. And let's knock off the indie snobiness, mmm kay? There's a lot of great bands who aren't with the major labels, but there's also a hell of a lot who are.
Why does the author complain about OSX's positioning of menu bars? They are at the top of the screen in OSX because a window is NOT the application: something not made clear with Windows. This makes more sense when you consider apps, like IM clients, that may have very small windows. How are you going to fit 10 drop downs on top of Adium's contacts or chat window? Look at Trillium if you need an example of what devs have to go through in that situation on Windows.
I was going to reply that a compromised user account couldn't be set up as a bot-net, but now that I think about it, you don't need admin privileges to open up port 25 and start spewing out a million messages an hour, do you? So really, what's to stop this from happening in Mac OS or Linux?
It's not the zip attachment in this one email that's the issue, it's the huge Windows bot-net. And I don't think they were formed with social engineering.
"Of course it is interesting to note that the DRM-less tracks from iTunes will be in AAC format which, while other players can support it, will tend to keep most people in the iPod fold since converting to other formats like MP3 is a hassle most consumers would prefer not to be bothered with."
Well, even the Zune supports AAC. It's more the _next_ format then Apple's format.
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I don't know why everyone keeps saying this. Sure, if I apt-get Postfix on my local box it's going to be flooded with spam, but throw SpamAssasin on there, use the spamhause blocklists, and you get just about none. There are only so many servers that should be sending mail. Just block the rest and you're done. Sure that's a bit complicated, but so is all this talk of Email 2.0.
"This newly reported area of 'dark matter' (translation: uh, we don't know what it is), is a billion light years across..." The whole point of the story is that there is _no_ dark matter in the thing.
I understand that people here think all DRM is always bad, but I don't have a problem with Netflix DRM, apart from it making me boot up Windows in a VM. I don't want to buy the damn movie, I just want to watch it once. Now if I was paying $10-20 for the thing I'd be pissed and want to hack it, but I'm paying 13-something a month for DVDs and these downloads. Why someone thinks they are entitled to own a movie they paid about a buck for (depending on how much you value these "free" downloads as part of your account) is beyond me.
Unless I get popcorn at my next meeting, that wasn't a "movie".
Is it 12345?
Every piece of technology is a tradeoff. I'm getting an iPhone because it makes all the compromises in MY favor. When I'm out and about I want a full browser. I want to see the actual web-page and not some unusable bastardized version. I want great battery life and a tiny form factor that can live in my pocket for days without bothering me. I want a pretty screen and I don't want to carry around a damn stylus. I don't need to open up an SSH terminal on my phone or install a bunch of crappy third-party software or stream my television to me on the other side of the country. You can sit in a restaurant or a bar with your Nokia browsing /. at lightning 3G speeds while monitoring your home server, or whatever it is you feel the iPhone doesn't allow you to do. I just need to browse Wikipedia to settle and argument, or look up a phonenumber, or get directions or movie times.
I don't know why /.ers get all pissed at CDMA. It seems to me that CDMA is much better suited to data transfer then GSM, even if you only take into account it's ability to soak up as much bandwidth on the network as it needs for one client. For voice, which is generally a fixed bitrate, that's not important, but don't us geeks care about data more then voice?
But how do you just outsource your lower-end chips? Aren't they just made with the fabs that made your high end chips 5 years ago?
Have you really now? I wonder who these Canadians are who spend all thier time racing down to the US and badmouthing Canadian health care. I'm Canadian, my whole familly is Canadian, and I've never known anyone who got anything less then the best care. Even my American-citizen ex-girlfriend, who needed medical care once while we were in Canada, got everything she needed very quickly (paying out-of-pocket though, of course). I'll be the first to admit that Canadian health care has it's problems, but at least they don't let their citizens die horrible, bloody deaths in a hospital waiting room.
Well, faith is a belief in something without evidence and reason is the belief in something because of evidence. That makes them opposites. The more faithful you are, the less reasonable you are, and vice versa. How is that difficult to wrap your head around?
But, it really is cute how you religious types try to claim the faith exists in other contexts. I probably do have "faith" (an unreasoned belief) in something. It seems to be part of human nature. And if I do, it's a fault of mine. But at least I admit it's a fault.
Faith is the opposite of reason. They can only both exist in the same mind to the detriment of each other.
It's the Jehovah's Witnesses.
I figured that out a month ago.
I like how this guy is pretending like he's busting some giant myth, when really he's just peddling the standard low-market-share-equals-security myth.
"People are stupid... right now the best technology we can implement for the batteries only suggest a life of 3 years and the battery is the majority of the value of the car"
... NZ$4000.00 for a Generation II Prius and NZ$2750 for a Generation III Prius."
Yeah, people are pretty stupid:
http://www.cleangreencar.co.nz/page/faq-prius#Q12
"Toyota have lab data showing the Prius battery can do 180,000 miles (290,000km) of normal driving with absolutely no degradation of the battery's performance."
"[T]he price of a replacement battery is
"Of course, at 1.30 per song, iTunes' DRM-free AAC cost about 6 times as much as eMusic DRM-free MP3" Why does everyone keep forgetting that all albums are still 9.99? I don't buy individual songs, so there's no price hike for me. And let's knock off the indie snobiness, mmm kay? There's a lot of great bands who aren't with the major labels, but there's also a hell of a lot who are.
Why does the author complain about OSX's positioning of menu bars? They are at the top of the screen in OSX because a window is NOT the application: something not made clear with Windows. This makes more sense when you consider apps, like IM clients, that may have very small windows. How are you going to fit 10 drop downs on top of Adium's contacts or chat window? Look at Trillium if you need an example of what devs have to go through in that situation on Windows.
Really? I didn't have any problems at all.
So then a Trojan _can_ send out mass mail on a user account? Do they spell "Canuck" different in Texas?
Well, yeah, that's what I thought at first also, but then how am I able to browse the internet and send and receive mail without sudoing?
I was going to reply that a compromised user account couldn't be set up as a bot-net, but now that I think about it, you don't need admin privileges to open up port 25 and start spewing out a million messages an hour, do you? So really, what's to stop this from happening in Mac OS or Linux?
It's not the zip attachment in this one email that's the issue, it's the huge Windows bot-net. And I don't think they were formed with social engineering.
Yeah, well, it's also never actually worth it.
If it wasn't developed by Apple, and existed and was used for years before Apple used it for anything, how is it "Apple's format"?
"Of course it is interesting to note that the DRM-less tracks from iTunes will be in AAC format which, while other players can support it, will tend to keep most people in the iPod fold since converting to other formats like MP3 is a hassle most consumers would prefer not to be bothered with."
Well, even the Zune supports AAC. It's more the _next_ format then Apple's format.