How is this different from any other contract you sign? You have to put your signature on things all the time, and people almost never read it. But still, somehow, the system works.
First off, it is a nice application when it works right, and when you have the time to download such a huge beast.
~100M isn't much for an entire office suite, considering what you get. Is MS office still on one CD?
I guess if all you use is the word processor, might be nice to be able to download just parts of it rather than the entire package, but IMHO they have more important things to develop.
No crashes for me either using 1.0.7 on MS Win at work. I'll check Ubuntu at home. The pages are mostly a bunch of garbage inserted into HTML tags. I assume it just strips it out as nonsense.
Someone was saying that you could crash by calling a 1,000,000x1,000,000 table. There must be some safeguards in browsers to protect against that kind of thing aside from failed memory allocation from the OS, otherwise it would be simple to bring a system to its knees (not that it's really that hard already).
I work for a Canadian Telco that's just making the move into digital TV. The reason we're in the middle of implementing DRM on our network is so that we can expand the content we can provide. Most of the larger providers won't sell to us unless we sign a contract with them saying that their content locked and managed when it is sent out to customers. If Google goes DRM-free it would seriously limit what they would be able to provide...
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All I can think about is security. With viruses and malware being spread through other mobile devices, what's going to happen if your car gets infected?
This is nothing but a list of vague semi-technology related stories. They're not particularly funny either. This looks more like a lame email forward than a slashdot story...
I am sick to death of waiting for fileplanet/etc downloads. Or the dreaded "Sorry there are already 500 users logged into this ftp server. Im like, dude... wheres the torrent???
FilePlanet and others like them won't switch to torrents. If they make you wait in a queue they not only get to put ads on your screen for the entire time you wait, but they hope to get you to pay for instant member access. If the torrents could just be distributed without their strict control their business model would fail.
That's simple. It costs essentially the same amount to clone 100000 copies of Windows as it does for 100 copies of FreeDOS. Thus there is a greater profit on the Windows install, and that means it can be sold cheaper.
This is one of the most common misconceptions about software and is a major factor in why it is so widely pirated.
Yes the actual production of the disks with the software on it costs next to nothing, but the data isn't something that the company just found, the software has to be written and maintained. When you buy a closed source application you're not paying for the CD and a colorful box, you're paying for the hundreds/thousands hours of development time.
However, despite not updating my Windows install for months, I still have yet to be infected with one virus, spyware/adware program, or have my machine hacked. Maybe it has more to do with the fact that I browse the Internet with care, rather than update with every stupid patch M$ puts out...
I don't think it's fair to say that you're too smart to get viruses/malware like everything else, it's probably a few other factors that you take for granted. Using Firefox is one of them. You have the major Windows patches so that protects you from most of it right there. Think of the MSBLAST traffic that's still out there, meaning that each of those machines is still pre-SP2. Also, being behind a router/NAT/firewall helps (again, I'm assuming). A good number of zombie machines are the direct to DSL or cable modem kind of one computer households.
Actually, it's the other day around. This is Microsoft Tuesday, patch day for them every month. It's the F/OSS world that is releasing patches at the same time as MS.
Is there any other reason for businesses to sell hydrogen by the tank load like that? Like most gas stations have propane tanks but 99 times out of 100 they're for filling BBQ tanks and not propane vehicles.
I'm really not trying to be a troll, but how many front page articles are there going to be about this in a week? I understand it's big news, but is it really this big? Half the articles are opinions or speculation. Think of all the flames about Googledot...
You can never un-invent weapons. There are somethings that should not be created. Look at atomic bombs. They were created, used, and now for the rest of our existence we have to deal with the repercussions. Knowing that a war could easily level most of the civilized world, or that a single weapon in the hands of the wrong people could kill millions. This is discussed in great detail in The Tragedy of the Commons (Hardin, 1968). If you haven't read it, then do.
Nobody here uses AOL. I know it's available because I've gotten the CDs in the mail, but I've never had a single AOL email address in my address book. The only exception is when I do eBay business with the US, then it seems every third person is using AOL.
I live in Canada so have never used AIM. I am, however, an avid user of Trillian and GAIM over ICQ and MSN. Now I'm not sure if it's just me, but offering tabbed chatting and logging features doesn't seem that impressive to me. Honestly, I wouldn't use a client that didn't log conversations and offer some type of window control.
I didn't RTFM, but I hope that those aren't the best features that Triton has to offer...
I agree. I installed google search to see what all the huff was about. I never use it. Then I realized that there are probably lots of people out there who don't have it together enough to keep their files in places where they should be so they can find them later.
Besides, isn't it way easier to just navigate to the folder containing all files relevant to what you're trying to do than it is to open the search tool, build a search, then sift through results to locate your file? Not to mention all the time/effort/money put into making these search tools. Just keep s**t under control! Easy...
It wouldn't work. The spammer would only have to send out a single email to every address, then remove all of the addresses which returned an undeliverable message.
That's about the only way to effectively stop spam to your account. Remove it from your mail server for about a month, then most automated mailing systems will remove you after x-number of errors.
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But how are you going to search the web if you don't know how to use Firefox yet!?
How is this different from any other contract you sign? You have to put your signature on things all the time, and people almost never read it. But still, somehow, the system works.
First off, it is a nice application when it works right, and when you have the time to download such a huge beast.
~100M isn't much for an entire office suite, considering what you get. Is MS office still on one CD?
I guess if all you use is the word processor, might be nice to be able to download just parts of it rather than the entire package, but IMHO they have more important things to develop.
The text ads made Google different. I don't want to have to adblock Google. They've done so much good...
No crashes for me either using 1.0.7 on MS Win at work. I'll check Ubuntu at home. The pages are mostly a bunch of garbage inserted into HTML tags. I assume it just strips it out as nonsense.
Someone was saying that you could crash by calling a 1,000,000x1,000,000 table. There must be some safeguards in browsers to protect against that kind of thing aside from failed memory allocation from the OS, otherwise it would be simple to bring a system to its knees (not that it's really that hard already).
Maybe it's just not a Canada thing, but we call them backpacks...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rucksack
I work for a Canadian Telco that's just making the move into digital TV. The reason we're in the middle of implementing DRM on our network is so that we can expand the content we can provide. Most of the larger providers won't sell to us unless we sign a contract with them saying that their content locked and managed when it is sent out to customers. If Google goes DRM-free it would seriously limit what they would be able to provide...
Links to said Mozilla/Firefox extensions:
AdBlock Plus
BugMeNot
CustomizeGoogle
DictionarySearch
Farkit
Gmail Notifier
Nuke Anything
Plain Text Links
Switch Proxy Tool
Greasemonkey
All I can think about is security. With viruses and malware being spread through other mobile devices, what's going to happen if your car gets infected?
This is nothing but a list of vague semi-technology related stories. They're not particularly funny either. This looks more like a lame email forward than a slashdot story...
This is one of the most common misconceptions about software and is a major factor in why it is so widely pirated.
Yes the actual production of the disks with the software on it costs next to nothing, but the data isn't something that the company just found, the software has to be written and maintained. When you buy a closed source application you're not paying for the CD and a colorful box, you're paying for the hundreds/thousands hours of development time.
Actually, it's the other day around. This is Microsoft Tuesday, patch day for them every month. It's the F/OSS world that is releasing patches at the same time as MS.
Is there any other reason for businesses to sell hydrogen by the tank load like that? Like most gas stations have propane tanks but 99 times out of 100 they're for filling BBQ tanks and not propane vehicles.
I'm really not trying to be a troll, but how many front page articles are there going to be about this in a week? I understand it's big news, but is it really this big? Half the articles are opinions or speculation. Think of all the flames about Googledot...
Mod parent up. Very good point...
You can never un-invent weapons. There are somethings that should not be created. Look at atomic bombs. They were created, used, and now for the rest of our existence we have to deal with the repercussions. Knowing that a war could easily level most of the civilized world, or that a single weapon in the hands of the wrong people could kill millions. This is discussed in great detail in The Tragedy of the Commons (Hardin, 1968). If you haven't read it, then do.
Nobody here uses AOL. I know it's available because I've gotten the CDs in the mail, but I've never had a single AOL email address in my address book. The only exception is when I do eBay business with the US, then it seems every third person is using AOL.
I live in Canada so have never used AIM. I am, however, an avid user of Trillian and GAIM over ICQ and MSN. Now I'm not sure if it's just me, but offering tabbed chatting and logging features doesn't seem that impressive to me. Honestly, I wouldn't use a client that didn't log conversations and offer some type of window control.
I didn't RTFM, but I hope that those aren't the best features that Triton has to offer...
Now we need to find a way to black-hole all of the AOL CDs being spamed to my snail mail address!
I agree. I installed google search to see what all the huff was about. I never use it. Then I realized that there are probably lots of people out there who don't have it together enough to keep their files in places where they should be so they can find them later.
Besides, isn't it way easier to just navigate to the folder containing all files relevant to what you're trying to do than it is to open the search tool, build a search, then sift through results to locate your file? Not to mention all the time/effort/money put into making these search tools. Just keep s**t under control! Easy...
It wouldn't work. The spammer would only have to send out a single email to every address, then remove all of the addresses which returned an undeliverable message.
That's about the only way to effectively stop spam to your account. Remove it from your mail server for about a month, then most automated mailing systems will remove you after x-number of errors.