hopefully this bullshit blows up in posters face. tries to make some referral bucks, instead starts flame war about how much slashdotters hate alienware.
my friend lives in an apartment complex that blocks you if you start pinging like mad. whenever you open a browser, you are given a page with information to get back online.
it has a set of procedures and a phone number to call when you're done. they make you give some information that most of these noobs couldn't fake that proves that they ran updated virus scans.
it's a pain in the ass to go through (i helped one girl get back online) and it is just enough to motivate someone to watch their ass.
well actually, this wired article suggests that they are spending $150 per john doe to file the suit. i'm sure there are some other related legal fees, but the process is fairly automated now.
my friend reviews cds for her school paper and she gets advance copies from labels all the time.
the cds don't have the normal art on them usually though. instead, they have a stern warning about the watermark the cd is supposedly encoded with, and of the consequences of leaking it.
while i think that it's kind of a crappy thing for parents to rely on, some (or most) parents are technology-tarded. it could really help some of these parents.
a kid could easily borrow a friend's cd or download an iso or w/e and install a game his parents wouldn't want him playing, and this would help.
while parents shouldn't use this as an excuse to be lazy, but it could help while they are off at work maybe?
911: "Welcome to the 911 help system. Please say your search terms now."
Caller: "....... FIRE!"
911: "MSN Shopping has the widest TIRE selection available online! Please wait while we access the TIRE product database...";
i gree with the first part, this will help a lot. it will help small biz purchases (i.e. buying software suites)
photoshop and fireworks will never be merged hopefully.
adobe knows they should never drastically change the way photoshop works, there is an industry of designers used to working a certain way and they will cater to them. (if you think that sounds rediculous, check out pagemaker)
nothing on your computer will replace tv for quite a long time. as sad as it is to say, television is a way of LIFE for an insane percentage of america.
these people don't just watch tv, or have a favorite show, tv owns them. they wake up, read the newspaper, eat breakfast, do housework, eat lunch, do homework, eat dinner, chill out, and fall asleep with the tv on.
back in the day i had mindspring dial up, and they would let us know when i had like 300 mb downloaded in a month or something like that, and made sure that we knew i couldn't have a server running hahahaha.
but more commonly now, i end up helping kids in apartment complex's get their computers back online. when they get a nasty worm, the complex shuts them off. then they have to go through a pretty complicated (to them) process of removal and verifying the removal to the company that services them.
rofl this is the most rediculous thing i've seen so far.
who owns your computer? it is really just atoms mashed together to form some plastic, some metal, some silicon and probably some neon atoms in a tube of glass atoms behind the half-life lambda logo shaped group of glass window atoms on the side of it. so yeah, you don't own your computer, no one does.
I wasn't trying to start a fight here, I'm just trying to show how we all adapt to using different shortened versions of words.
The last time I clocked myself was when I was 16 (I'm 19 now) and I was typing 106 words per minute easy then. Going by what you say, I have no excuse to type AIM instead of America OnLine Instant Messenger, since it only takes me but a few seconds or less. I'm sure a good percentage of Slashdotters type even faster than me and use more abbreviations or ejeet sp34k than I do.
these are truly non-steve-approved and will never see the shelves of an apple store. i don't even like this article really, it seems like it is just b2.0 and brunner trying to get some attention.
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hopefully this bullshit blows up in posters face. tries to make some referral bucks, instead starts flame war about how much slashdotters hate alienware.
too many replies to read, but anyway
my friend lives in an apartment complex that blocks you if you start pinging like mad. whenever you open a browser, you are given a page with information to get back online.
it has a set of procedures and a phone number to call when you're done. they make you give some information that most of these noobs couldn't fake that proves that they ran updated virus scans.
it's a pain in the ass to go through (i helped one girl get back online) and it is just enough to motivate someone to watch their ass.
well actually, this wired article suggests that they are spending $150 per john doe to file the suit. i'm sure there are some other related legal fees, but the process is fairly automated now.
i guess the longer you work at microsoft, the more you think that your ideas represent everyone else's.
my friend reviews cds for her school paper and she gets advance copies from labels all the time.
the cds don't have the normal art on them usually though. instead, they have a stern warning about the watermark the cd is supposedly encoded with, and of the consequences of leaking it.
i thought he was just making them defrag, not fdisk ?
while i think that it's kind of a crappy thing for parents to rely on, some (or most) parents are technology-tarded. it could really help some of these parents.
a kid could easily borrow a friend's cd or download an iso or w/e and install a game his parents wouldn't want him playing, and this would help.
while parents shouldn't use this as an excuse to be lazy, but it could help while they are off at work maybe?
"They hate google!"
i take attacks on google very personally.
911: "Welcome to the 911 help system. Please say your search terms now." Caller: "....... FIRE!" 911: "MSN Shopping has the widest TIRE selection available online! Please wait while we access the TIRE product database...";
i gree with the first part, this will help a lot. it will help small biz purchases (i.e. buying software suites)
photoshop and fireworks will never be merged hopefully.
adobe knows they should never drastically change the way photoshop works, there is an industry of designers used to working a certain way and they will cater to them. (if you think that sounds rediculous, check out pagemaker)
i agree completely.
nothing on your computer will replace tv for quite a long time. as sad as it is to say, television is a way of LIFE for an insane percentage of america.
these people don't just watch tv, or have a favorite show, tv owns them. they wake up, read the newspaper, eat breakfast, do housework, eat lunch, do homework, eat dinner, chill out, and fall asleep with the tv on.
pretty disgusting to me really..
true, this has happened for a while.
back in the day i had mindspring dial up, and they would let us know when i had like 300 mb downloaded in a month or something like that, and made sure that we knew i couldn't have a server running hahahaha.
but more commonly now, i end up helping kids in apartment complex's get their computers back online. when they get a nasty worm, the complex shuts them off. then they have to go through a pretty complicated (to them) process of removal and verifying the removal to the company that services them.
rofl this is the most rediculous thing i've seen so far. who owns your computer? it is really just atoms mashed together to form some plastic, some metal, some silicon and probably some neon atoms in a tube of glass atoms behind the half-life lambda logo shaped group of glass window atoms on the side of it. so yeah, you don't own your computer, no one does.
in mother russia, the internet hacks YOU
...to make The Matrix game seem fun to the user
get ready for speakeasy and friends to take over the dsl market (hopefully)
if i were the original author i would be pissed that this script kiddie got so much fame.
i visited my friend in england a few summers ago. i was "the guy from miami" though, since "people get shot in the streets there!"
i would have said that, but i'm at work and "[I] do not have the proper privelage level to change the System Time."
jack thompson is NOT going to be happy about this.
I wasn't trying to start a fight here, I'm just trying to show how we all adapt to using different shortened versions of words.
The last time I clocked myself was when I was 16 (I'm 19 now) and I was typing 106 words per minute easy then. Going by what you say, I have no excuse to type AIM instead of America OnLine Instant Messenger, since it only takes me but a few seconds or less. I'm sure a good percentage of Slashdotters type even faster than me and use more abbreviations or ejeet sp34k than I do.
Or in mean girls..
..or i guesss would be even MORE appropriate..
principal: Did your teacher ever try to sell you marijuana or ecstasy tablets?
student: What are marijuana tablets?
principal: Did your teacher ever try to sell you marijuana or ecstasy tablets?
student: lol wtf?/
Isn't AIM an abbreviation for AOL Instant Messenger? (or America OnLine Instant Messenger, in its full form)
these are truly non-steve-approved and will never see the shelves of an apple store. i don't even like this article really, it seems like it is just b2.0 and brunner trying to get some attention.