Yes! M$ saw how Novell came in and scuppered the SCO suit, and realised that they needed to neturalise Novell before M$ launches SCO Shakedown Round 2.
This means that the next threat for M$ is IBM... What makes M$ so confident that IBM will not unleash its patent arsenal against M$? Mutually Assured Destruction?
Woo! Someone who agrees with me about Creative! I think they are scum who mismarket their products, and sell products that only function properly when 3rd parties take it upon themselves to write drivers for them! (c.f. kxproject)
OT I know! But drawing attention to Creative's unethical practices can never be a bad thing.
Is it a good idea to expect that whenever and wherever a mobile computing device connects to a network, there will be a properly configured firewall ready to protect it, or should computers and other networked devices be able to function securely without an external firewall to protect them?
Its a nonsensical situation that operating systems in general cannot be relied upon for the security of their own network interfaces - after all it is down to the operating system to accept or reject user logins. In the same way it should be the operating system that sets policy about whether to accept or reject packets from arbitrary locations.
A firewall is roughly equivalent to a plaster on an open wound - it serves a useful purpose, but nobody should expect to walk around with an open wound on a long term basis.
There is little if anything that a firewall can do that an operating system can't.
"Why don't you read the papers as well and then come back with some sensible comments? They are rather hard to find, so I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader"
If you had really read the papers yourself, you would be able to provide links or at least remember the journal that they had been peer-reviewed in. As you haven't done this, having merely provided unsubstantiated statements that my position is false without providing any evidence to back up your assertion, I would be willing to bet money that you haven't read the papers yourself and are just repeating an argument you've heard elsewhere - probably from someone who likewise hasn't read any/many papers himself...
PS my source for the claim that CO2 levels are higher now than at any point in the last 20 million years or so was wikipedia. However reliable wikipedia is or isn't, its got to be a more reliable source than an anonymous coward claiming "I'm right and you're wrong"...
The BBC has concluded that global warming is man made, and does not care to address other ideas.
Given that the climate has been more or less stable since the last ice age and given that CO2 levels are higher than they have been at any point in the last 20 million years or so, its a bit of a coincidence that during the last 50 years the earth is getting so hot at the same time as the world has gone through massive industrial development. Of course its possible that its not due to man made events. Its also possible that aliens were visiting earth during the nineties. Hey - maybe, just maybe, its ALIENS warming our atmosphere.....
They're probably sitting in their spacecraft right now, emailing each other "LOLZ I ARE IN THERE PLANET, HEATINGS THEIR ATMUSFEER"
HA! I used to use trillian (free) about 4 years but it was quite buggy, so I switched to GAIM 1.x which was much more stable (if a little feature-sparse).
I stayed with GAIM until 2.0beta 2 or 3 and then got so fed up with it being updated so infrequently (specifically taking a while to fix the MSN protocol when M$ broke it), and not even noticeably improving when they did update it, that I moved back to Trillian which in the meantime had had quite a bit of work done to it and was much more stable than it used to be (apart from the ridiculous useless and slow "mouse over a word to look up on wikipedia" feature which has a tendency to crash).
Probably in about 2011 I'll be so pissed off with trillian that I'll switch back to pidgin, but by then everyone will have moved to jabber!
In my experience with GAIM (from behind NAT and I stopped using it after beta 2 or so), you will always get the shittest possible transfer type - i.e. the one that goes through the MSN servers and restricts you to about 2kB/s download speed.
Nonetheless when I briefly made the mistake of installing the MSN client, it would consistently crash my router if someone sent me a file, so mayve a slower protocol isn't all bad!!
The world doesn't owe you a particular feature - if you want it, write it. If you can't/won't write it, then pay someone to write it for you. If you are not prepared to do that, then quit bitching and uninstall it.
Your reading's not accurate. As I said I've not used it for about 6 months, maybe more. I'd be surprised if they HADN'T fixed it in that kind of timescale, slowness of beta releases notwithstanding.
I stopped using and recommending it 6 months ago, because I was fed up with the lack of progress on the project. Specifically, it stopped connecting to the msn network. Back then it was clearly a dead project, as 2 months would go by without the next beta version being released.
Often opens corrupted documents that word/excel refuse to open. Usually with no dataloss, and often the size of the resultant.doc is as little as 1/10 of the original.
While I understand your line of reasoning, I do not think it is valid.
Given that any crime victim (lets say a victim of burglary, or perhaps a rape victim) will always gain DIRECTLY by accusing their attacker - by knowing that their attacker will face prison, by knowing that they will feel safe on the streets or in their house, by knowing they can get their own back and perhaps receive compensation for the injuries sustained or the loss suffered - does that mean that a police officer should automatically mistrust their accusation? Of course not!!
Any competent, unbiased police officer will examine the evidence and see if it corroborates the accusation and then make his mind up whether to proceed further with the investigation.
Rather than accusing me of bias, you would be better served by examining the evidence.
I know you shouldn't feed the trolls, but Mr AC - you are an imbecile if you cannot see that we are going through a repeat of what happened a few years ago.
* GWB is talking up how Iran might soon have nuclear weapons. c.f. Saddam's fabled WMDs.
* Dodgy evidence is appearing (this laptop which contains plans for a nuclear device ENTIRELY IN ENGLISH with no notes in farsi!) c.f. dodgy stories about Saddam trying to obtain yellowcake from Niger which subsequently turned out to be BS.
* He is drawing different conclusions from intelligence than his own intelligence agencies (for example saying that the Iranian government is providing weapons to "insurgents" in Iraq)
* Troops are moving to the gulf despite no war having (yet) been declared. c.f. Iraq buildup.
I wouldn't pay 5$ for a 128kbps mp3 album when I could down 192kbps VBR for free. 128kbps mp3 isn't even worth listening to, unless you're into poetry/other spoken material
I would however pay £5 for a high- or very high- quality mp3 album.
Do you not find that the first chamber tends to vote along party lines on most of the votes, and only vote against their own party on the most egregious issues? For example, voting with their party to changes to health service funding, but voting with their conscience about whether to send/withdraw troops to/from iraq?
I've often thought that the country should be run by randomly-selected academics (or at least they should make the decisions based on the evidence available to them). However creation of an elite of academics would obviously create a lot of problems such as social injustice, disenfranchisement etc. I'm probably just biased because I have a degree:)
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Yes! M$ saw how Novell came in and scuppered the SCO suit, and realised that they needed to neturalise Novell before M$ launches SCO Shakedown Round 2.
This means that the next threat for M$ is IBM... What makes M$ so confident that IBM will not unleash its patent arsenal against M$? Mutually Assured Destruction?
Does marking a comment as Flamebait mean it isn't true?
Woo! Someone who agrees with me about Creative! I think they are scum who mismarket their products, and sell products that only function properly when 3rd parties take it upon themselves to write drivers for them! (c.f. kxproject)
OT I know! But drawing attention to Creative's unethical practices can never be a bad thing.
Is it a good idea to expect that whenever and wherever a mobile computing device connects to a network, there will be a properly configured firewall ready to protect it, or should computers and other networked devices be able to function securely without an external firewall to protect them?
Its a nonsensical situation that operating systems in general cannot be relied upon for the security of their own network interfaces - after all it is down to the operating system to accept or reject user logins. In the same way it should be the operating system that sets policy about whether to accept or reject packets from arbitrary locations.
A firewall is roughly equivalent to a plaster on an open wound - it serves a useful purpose, but nobody should expect to walk around with an open wound on a long term basis.
There is little if anything that a firewall can do that an operating system can't.
"Why don't you read the papers as well and then come back with some sensible comments? They are rather hard to find, so I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader"
If you had really read the papers yourself, you would be able to provide links or at least remember the journal that they had been peer-reviewed in. As you haven't done this, having merely provided unsubstantiated statements that my position is false without providing any evidence to back up your assertion, I would be willing to bet money that you haven't read the papers yourself and are just repeating an argument you've heard elsewhere - probably from someone who likewise hasn't read any/many papers himself...
PS my source for the claim that CO2 levels are higher now than at any point in the last 20 million years or so was wikipedia. However reliable wikipedia is or isn't, its got to be a more reliable source than an anonymous coward claiming "I'm right and you're wrong"...
The BBC has concluded that global warming is man made, and does not care to address other ideas.
Given that the climate has been more or less stable since the last ice age and given that CO2 levels are higher than they have been at any point in the last 20 million years or so, its a bit of a coincidence that during the last 50 years the earth is getting so hot at the same time as the world has gone through massive industrial development. Of course its possible that its not due to man made events. Its also possible that aliens were visiting earth during the nineties. Hey - maybe, just maybe, its ALIENS warming our atmosphere.....
They're probably sitting in their spacecraft right now, emailing each other "LOLZ I ARE IN THERE PLANET, HEATINGS THEIR ATMUSFEER"
"I switched TO Gaim from Trillian at 2.0 Beta6"
HA! I used to use trillian (free) about 4 years but it was quite buggy, so I switched to GAIM 1.x which was much more stable (if a little feature-sparse).
I stayed with GAIM until 2.0beta 2 or 3 and then got so fed up with it being updated so infrequently (specifically taking a while to fix the MSN protocol when M$ broke it), and not even noticeably improving when they did update it, that I moved back to Trillian which in the meantime had had quite a bit of work done to it and was much more stable than it used to be (apart from the ridiculous useless and slow "mouse over a word to look up on wikipedia" feature which has a tendency to crash).
Probably in about 2011 I'll be so pissed off with trillian that I'll switch back to pidgin, but by then everyone will have moved to jabber!
It was funny though!
In my experience with GAIM (from behind NAT and I stopped using it after beta 2 or so), you will always get the shittest possible transfer type - i.e. the one that goes through the MSN servers and restricts you to about 2kB/s download speed.
Nonetheless when I briefly made the mistake of installing the MSN client, it would consistently crash my router if someone sent me a file, so mayve a slower protocol isn't all bad!!
The world doesn't owe you a particular feature - if you want it, write it. If you can't/won't write it, then pay someone to write it for you. If you are not prepared to do that, then quit bitching and uninstall it.
Your reading's not accurate. As I said I've not used it for about 6 months, maybe more. I'd be surprised if they HADN'T fixed it in that kind of timescale, slowness of beta releases notwithstanding.
I gave up at beta 2. As I said, it was something like 6 months ago.
I stopped using and recommending it 6 months ago, because I was fed up with the lack of progress on the project. Specifically, it stopped connecting to the msn network. Back then it was clearly a dead project, as 2 months would go by without the next beta version being released.
Don't forget -
.doc is as little as 1/10 of the original.
Often opens corrupted documents that word/excel refuse to open. Usually with no dataloss, and often the size of the resultant
"The current invasion is as illegal as they get."
Oh come on!!! As soon as USAiii invaded Iraq, it was no longer a sovereign nation! Therefore not a violation of US constition! DURRRR!
lolz
While I understand your line of reasoning, I do not think it is valid.
Given that any crime victim (lets say a victim of burglary, or perhaps a rape victim) will always gain DIRECTLY by accusing their attacker - by knowing that their attacker will face prison, by knowing that they will feel safe on the streets or in their house, by knowing they can get their own back and perhaps receive compensation for the injuries sustained or the loss suffered - does that mean that a police officer should automatically mistrust their accusation? Of course not!!
Any competent, unbiased police officer will examine the evidence and see if it corroborates the accusation and then make his mind up whether to proceed further with the investigation.
Rather than accusing me of bias, you would be better served by examining the evidence.
Perhaps Mr. Kucinich's altruism would be a little less suspect if he wasn't simultaneously running for president himself?
Whether or not it is self-serving is utterly irrelevant to whether or not Cheney has abused the offices of state.
Are there any tools that perform a similar function to valgrind but on windows?
Creative now own EMU - so prepare for EMU to suck harder the more time goes on.
I know you shouldn't feed the trolls, but Mr AC - you are an imbecile if you cannot see that we are going through a repeat of what happened a few years ago.
* GWB is talking up how Iran might soon have nuclear weapons. c.f. Saddam's fabled WMDs.
* Dodgy evidence is appearing (this laptop which contains plans for a nuclear device ENTIRELY IN ENGLISH with no notes in farsi!) c.f. dodgy stories about Saddam trying to obtain yellowcake from Niger which subsequently turned out to be BS.
* He is drawing different conclusions from intelligence than his own intelligence agencies (for example saying that the Iranian government is providing weapons to "insurgents" in Iraq)
* Troops are moving to the gulf despite no war having (yet) been declared. c.f. Iraq buildup.
I wouldn't pay 5$ for a 128kbps mp3 album when I could down 192kbps VBR for free. 128kbps mp3 isn't even worth listening to, unless you're into poetry/other spoken material
I would however pay £5 for a high- or very high- quality mp3 album.
wig wearing loonies - I like it!
Do you not find that the first chamber tends to vote along party lines on most of the votes, and only vote against their own party on the most egregious issues?
For example, voting with their party to changes to health service funding, but voting with their conscience about whether to send/withdraw troops to/from iraq?
I've often thought that the country should be run by randomly-selected academics (or at least they should make the decisions based on the evidence available to them). However creation of an elite of academics would obviously create a lot of problems such as social injustice, disenfranchisement etc. I'm probably just biased because I have a degree :)
I read books, maybe you should too. :)
This scares the shit out of me to be honest!