I'm trying to think of how I can reply to this without being marked troll...
Dear Joe, I have read your letter and carefully considered your statements.
First of all, my grandma does not speak English, so no amount of easiness will let her use an English-made PC. As far as other people's grandmas, you can use a Windows PC right out of the box with no problems.
When it comes to security, the only reason that Apple PC's are not compromised daily is that only 3% of computer users use them. If there was a larger target, believe me, virus makers would attack Apples so fast it wouldn't be funny.
Now let's take packet A. Do an MD5 sum (or similar) on it. Send it to the end user. Have the end user's browser do a similar check on it and send it to the server. IF the server green flags it, then show the page.
This shouldn't become a speed problem on broadband machines because it'll only mean 2 or 3 times more packets (but you can always increase packet size).
I went to Latvia in December and many people use pirated software for everything at home. It's basically because they barely make a percentage of our salaries. They only use official versions in workplaces. IT's also because they know (correctly) that there's nobody to come after them.
Don't take this as flamebait but I have the feeling that nobody's really trying hard enough to protect us. We stand an hour longer in the security line just so that people can bring explosives through in their shoes? Now they make us take our shoes off. What if someone brings explosives through in their pants?
Same here...they pretend to try to catch terorists when in reality the next power failiure could knock the whole list out.
only if you shot it with the purpose of getting as far away from earth as possible. Otherwise it doesn't help as you would be going in a totally random direction.
it seems as if you are speaking of EXACTLY the same bug I am talking of. And my MBR was fixed after I did a Win98 HD scan. If you are right and the bug was fixed I would REALLY love to install Debian on my PC (maybe it'll be the only Linux to support my wireless card)
Last time I tried to install any debian I had major problems:
Debian Woody's graphics drivers didn't work w/ my card
Debian Sarge screwed up my partitions causing me to lose ALL of my data (from my Windows Partition). I dunno if their partitioning tool has improved, but I don't want to risk it.
The atomic clock tells us what time it is, so no longer does time dictate what time it is, the atomic clock does. So, of course we never really now what time it really is. Especially because it's all relative to the Earth's orbit around the sun which, for all we know, could be decaying.
The 360 also will have WiFi out of the box, and I don't have a DS, so I couldn't care less about that. Plus, Everyone's already heard of Live, while this Nintendo feature could be crap for all we know.
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I'm trying to think of how I can reply to this without being marked troll...
Dear Joe,
I have read your letter and carefully considered your statements.
First of all, my grandma does not speak English, so no amount of easiness will let her use an English-made PC. As far as other people's grandmas, you can use a Windows PC right out of the box with no problems.
When it comes to security, the only reason that Apple PC's are not compromised daily is that only 3% of computer users use them. If there was a larger target, believe me, virus makers would attack Apples so fast it wouldn't be funny.
Glad to have answered your concerns
Slashdot! Today's front page has had at least 3-5 apple-related stores and maybe even less of anything else. I don't care!
There was just an article about how OS 10.4 was leaked and now they got it to run on a PC. here
Search = More leechers = More seeders = More health. That means less dead torrents. It's that simple.
Now let's take packet A. Do an MD5 sum (or similar) on it. Send it to the end user. Have the end user's browser do a similar check on it and send it to the server. IF the server green flags it, then show the page.
This shouldn't become a speed problem on broadband machines because it'll only mean 2 or 3 times more packets (but you can always increase packet size).
Call the new standard something like HTTPS 2.0.
I went to Latvia in December and many people use pirated software for everything at home. It's basically because they barely make a percentage of our salaries. They only use official versions in workplaces. IT's also because they know (correctly) that there's nobody to come after them.
A mini cell on each plane that could play back a message saying something like "We told you not to use your cell phone, so turn it off!"
Don't take this as flamebait but I have the feeling that nobody's really trying hard enough to protect us. We stand an hour longer in the security line just so that people can bring explosives through in their shoes? Now they make us take our shoes off. What if someone brings explosives through in their pants?
Same here...they pretend to try to catch terorists when in reality the next power failiure could knock the whole list out.
only if you shot it with the purpose of getting as far away from earth as possible. Otherwise it doesn't help as you would be going in a totally random direction.
It can also move on its own accord, enabling it to help elderly or handicapped people walk, developers said.
Coming soon to theatres, Terminator 4: Rise of the Suits
What about BitTorrent? Last I heard...there was a huge problem with that. Or is that not counted as a p2p site?
A camcorder that records onto a digital card is disposable...how? Does it just die after 20 minutes? Who needs a camcorder like that?
If longhorn is going to be the ultimate god of an OS...why would we supposedly want to run another OS?
Now...take how many bugs have been exposed in Firfox and how many have been exploited.
How many bugs have been exposed in IE and exploited? (Especially because for IE it's almost a 1:1 ratio)
Perhaps, but in a more MMORPG environment
it seems as if you are speaking of EXACTLY the same bug I am talking of. And my MBR was fixed after I did a Win98 HD scan. If you are right and the bug was fixed I would REALLY love to install Debian on my PC (maybe it'll be the only Linux to support my wireless card)
Last time I tried to install any debian I had major problems:
Debian Woody's graphics drivers didn't work w/ my card
Debian Sarge screwed up my partitions causing me to lose ALL of my data (from my Windows Partition). I dunno if their partitioning tool has improved, but I don't want to risk it.
Well you can't expect to decode anything Bush says with a single-core P4.
Perhaps there'll be a game in which players need to learn a new language? Talk about replay value. That'd be awesome though.
So...what are you downloading on bt that you'd need to bypass a firewall? ;)
That's too big for a music player, too small for a video player.
The atomic clock tells us what time it is, so no longer does time dictate what time it is, the atomic clock does. So, of course we never really now what time it really is. Especially because it's all relative to the Earth's orbit around the sun which, for all we know, could be decaying.
A ship that has the flimsiness of a vulture droid and the bad design of the Jedi fighters. Fuuun.
So now...what advantage will Mac hold over the PC?
The 360 also will have WiFi out of the box, and I don't have a DS, so I couldn't care less about that. Plus, Everyone's already heard of Live, while this Nintendo feature could be crap for all we know.