Yes, but McAfee could do a lot better to make their point. (I was referring to them mainly, I probably should have made a new post rather than replying to a thread. Sorry!) The full-page ad and everything comes off as petulant, pinting at MS and saying "they want to own everything and that's bad!" Joe Public isn't going to come off any wiser as to why the way they're going about it is bad. Most people, however dense, tend to take comments about any company or person made by their competition with a grain of salt.
How many nerds remember getting their first 1-gigabyte hard disk, and being amazed at ever having to use so much space? Or finally being able to burn your own 700 meg CD-roms? How many older nerds remember enthusiastically upgrading to a 40 meg hard drive after a lifetime of using floppies? As the tech grows, the platform supports more infrastructure (data) to drive it, which eventually outgrows the platform and forces the tech to grow further, and so on.
I like MS-bashing as much as the next basher, but this is just a cheap shot. When you get down to it, isn't virtually every company in every trade envisioning a world in which they eventually snuff out all the competition and grow to become the only source for whatever it is they do? Even if you know it won't logically happen, it's still the general goal that's paraphrased into the "mission statement" posters in every corporate breakroom.
1. Summary and condition of infection virus
The virus of Troy wooden horse type, the worm and the spy wear were discovered.
As a phenomenon, the occasion where this prize is connected to the personal computer, on that personal computer "the Chinese memo pad stands up", "message of virus inspection was made", and so on you question and 7 cases have received wooden pail communication in as of 12 days.
"Wooden pail communication" is the best phrase ever. Is that Japanese for spam?
Starting on Wednesday, Reuters plans to begin publishing text, photo and video news from the outside world for Second Life members
Does this seem bleak to anyone else? I don't play SL, but I do get heavily into the games I play, and I don't quite see stuff like "Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle. In other news, spinach may kill you, a baseball player just crashed his airplane into a building, and Adam Sandler is working on a hot new romantic comedy. Now, here's Luigi with the latest updates from the Iraq war..." doing wonders for game immersion.
That's what Firefox needs, a generic bollocks filter! Adjustable settings could include stuff like "corporate press release," "mainstream news," and "emo livejournal." Somebody, write a plugin!
But I always eat cookies when browsing Slashdot... hey, that explains the huge pile of overhyped LED keyboards, novelty mice, Futurama DVDs, Phantom lapboards, and iPod accesories in my office!
No kidding! I have enough spares of all my PC parts lying around to build an entire spare computer or two, and I'm just a tinkering hacker. None of my possible gadgetry falures threaten me with exposure to the cold, unforgiving vacuum of space... at least not today.. not before lunch, anyhow.
These regulations provides exceptions for appliances that need parts that can only be built with toxic material for which there is no functional substitute; but there is a clear incentive to use non-toxic materials whenever possible.
That's a relief. I was worried I'd have to stock the shelves of my 24-hour Poison-Mart with nothing but non-toxic poisons from now on.
Good idea. But despite my cheap joke above, if it's really that much of a "right thing" you generally don't even need to pay people to do it. Just make it simple.
While aluminum cans are ubiquitous enough to warrant small-scale bribery (anyone who remembers when that started can probably tell you how ridiculously huge a portion of the public litter was drink cans and bottles beforehand,) other recycling programs have generally worked well without charging the public. In many areas of the US including mine, people separate recyclables from their normal trash. It took a while to catch on, but once the standard suburban "butbutbut my routines!" grumbling died down, it became standard procedure, and where I live we even get the recycling bins from the town at no charge. It's now been something like 15-20 years, and nobody even takes notice of it anymore, we just do it.
If there were, say, one day a month set aside for the garbage trucks to collect old electronics, I'm sure people would appreciate it. I know I would, and so would the owners of my local Dumpsters.
The governator passed legislation that requires special disposal of the afforementioned products and of course, that disposal requires a fee that the consumer must pay.
Unless of course you do what everyone else does, and chuck it in some business' Dumpster in the middle of the night, like a ninja janitor.
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Earthworm Jim was just another one of those early-90's games put out in promotion of a toy line.
The game came first. The success of the game then led to the cartoon, which then led to comics and toys (which IIRC were based on the cartoon much more than the game.)
And, who knew that Sun has a Chief Gaming Officer?
That job is utterly batshit ridiculous and useless. Seriously, screw that guy, and all he represents.
...where can I pick up a job application?
He said Second Life isn't a game, "It's an amazing platform for global communications."
He later went on to claim that Tetris isn't a game, but an amazing platform for geometric and statistical training, and gin rummy isn't a game, rather it's an amazing platform for incremental and heuristic arrangements, as well as artistic depictions of stereotypical royalty figures.
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Yes, but McAfee could do a lot better to make their point. (I was referring to them mainly, I probably should have made a new post rather than replying to a thread. Sorry!) The full-page ad and everything comes off as petulant, pinting at MS and saying "they want to own everything and that's bad!" Joe Public isn't going to come off any wiser as to why the way they're going about it is bad. Most people, however dense, tend to take comments about any company or person made by their competition with a grain of salt.
But they do somehow fit an awful lot of patties into a single bun. Mmmm, clownburgers...
How many nerds remember getting their first 1-gigabyte hard disk, and being amazed at ever having to use so much space? Or finally being able to burn your own 700 meg CD-roms? How many older nerds remember enthusiastically upgrading to a 40 meg hard drive after a lifetime of using floppies? As the tech grows, the platform supports more infrastructure (data) to drive it, which eventually outgrows the platform and forces the tech to grow further, and so on.
I like MS-bashing as much as the next basher, but this is just a cheap shot. When you get down to it, isn't virtually every company in every trade envisioning a world in which they eventually snuff out all the competition and grow to become the only source for whatever it is they do? Even if you know it won't logically happen, it's still the general goal that's paraphrased into the "mission statement" posters in every corporate breakroom.
The Babelfish translation is to the real translation as McDonalds' food is to real food.
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That's what Firefox needs, a generic bollocks filter! Adjustable settings could include stuff like "corporate press release," "mainstream news," and "emo livejournal." Somebody, write a plugin!
But I always eat cookies when browsing Slashdot... hey, that explains the huge pile of overhyped LED keyboards, novelty mice, Futurama DVDs, Phantom lapboards, and iPod accesories in my office!
No kidding! I have enough spares of all my PC parts lying around to build an entire spare computer or two, and I'm just a tinkering hacker. None of my possible gadgetry falures threaten me with exposure to the cold, unforgiving vacuum of space... at least not today.. not before lunch, anyhow.
Death by poorly-animated pie charts. Is there no greater indignity?
Good idea. But despite my cheap joke above, if it's really that much of a "right thing" you generally don't even need to pay people to do it. Just make it simple.
While aluminum cans are ubiquitous enough to warrant small-scale bribery (anyone who remembers when that started can probably tell you how ridiculously huge a portion of the public litter was drink cans and bottles beforehand,) other recycling programs have generally worked well without charging the public. In many areas of the US including mine, people separate recyclables from their normal trash. It took a while to catch on, but once the standard suburban "butbutbut my routines!" grumbling died down, it became standard procedure, and where I live we even get the recycling bins from the town at no charge. It's now been something like 15-20 years, and nobody even takes notice of it anymore, we just do it.
If there were, say, one day a month set aside for the garbage trucks to collect old electronics, I'm sure people would appreciate it. I know I would, and so would the owners of my local Dumpsters.
Congratulations, and condolences!
How do you take your coffee, sir?
...Microsoft and Apple do things differently from one another.
In other news.. water found to be wet, fire still a hot property, and chocolate exhibits yumminess.
...where can I pick up a job application?He later went on to claim that Tetris isn't a game, but an amazing platform for geometric and statistical training, and gin rummy isn't a game, rather it's an amazing platform for incremental and heuristic arrangements, as well as artistic depictions of stereotypical royalty figures.
I could never figure out Sneakernet protocols.