I must say that i had yet to actualy read the artical before today , This is not journalism its a cheap dirty smeer campaign. As of today i am blacklisting all of O'Garas Advertisers in protest , that will allow me to stay informed and not fund this filth. I suggest we all do the same.
Personaly i dont care what Pamela Richards gets up to in her free time She does alot of good work and has Ethics , and for that i respect her. O'Gara ethics are on par with the Given reasons for the recent Iraqi conflict.
If i read a linux news site i want News on linux , I dont want to have to read tabloid grade personal attacks on individuals.
O'Gara will continue to get press and fame over this and the only way we can send a message (as i see it) is to blacklist her sponsers and make that fact known to the sponsers.
To fill out that a bit, I should note that it was a joke , I don't begrude the editors or Mr Piquapaille for this . Slashdot and Piquepailles (gonna call him roland from now on , god thats a tricky name to type)blog are both comercial sites and as such this is how they garner revenue (Advertising).
I don't know if the rumours of Timothy pushing the blogs for financial gain are true or if it just so happens its a coincidence , It dosn't really matter to me. If the story holds some intrest , then fair play if they can make a little on the side from this.
Im betting that Roland submits a hell of alot of storys that dont get through aswell.
Sites suporting each other is nothing new , They pass clients/customers between each other all the time.
All i would say though , is if this is an AD aswell as a story if it could be a bit more blatent with the fact its an AD .
The first thing i did when i opened up safari in tiger was to uncheck the "Open Safe files after downloading" option , visted the site in safari and it just automaticaly downloaded the file and did nothing more.So theres a quick workaround till a patch is out
I have no idea how this potential exploit slipped past , bad show indeed and rather disapointing. But clearly it is a bug not poor judgment.
;) Im a slightly younger old fart i guess heh, I Actualy prefer to read on the screen as i can zoom and filter colours with the but the typing of a command, Add to that the space argument as i have enough books laying around as it is , so for me a digital soloution works
Though i can totaly understand an aversion to reading on the screem,I know a few people who just can't do it for a sustained length or time(/Head-aches or eye-strain)
As for the "Another box to keep runing" thing , Well...I am a bti of a masochistic geek;)
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a good LP player is a quality device.I still have alot of my music on lp(unfortunatly i still have to have my LP player shipped to me) so yes , the music quality can be rather high. I do have alot of respect for the designs of the era. I love some of the stuff i have from back then
Im fidel Catsro,im his feline contemprary Mewhahhahahaah.I dictate the small nation state of cbua Our plan to dominate the world via shrewed bussines acumin is in full effect.
heh , Ofcourse imore ment as in the shape of the case( i know you probably got that heh), What i look for in a console has never really been design(its a nice bonus , Its been functionality. If you want to compete you must have the games.
Design is such a subjective issue,You can't really expect to make a design that everyone will love , Custom cases are a way around this i guess;). knowing alot of folks tastes it could end in some frightening results(some grand ones too).
I did have an idea for some "assorted shape" based slot designs ( a selection of add-ons with odd shapes and colours that you could use to customise your computer, ) never got around to padding out the idea though (a kind of building blocks type lego idea but with larger more colourfull designs, i called it spludgeio).
I did infact have a wood trimed atari 2600 which caught fire once , well it melted a bit of the plastic.
If you fit in, your insulted for being a clone or a sheap. If your diffrent,then you get insulted and called a freak. You cant really win bar not giving a flying monkey what people care.
I couldn't tell you if the people are just following the trend , or if they are deliberatly going against it.Or are just having thier own opinions which fit in or go against the grain.
People with similar views and ideals tend to get together and become freinds , so no wonder alot of folks agree here , Still as they say oposites also atract so we get some folks who totaly disagree with the standerd sentiment.
Could work , but with the laptop you can also cary it around and have a read when your not at the desk and you wouldnt be tied down as much.Its a flexability thing realy.
I like apple designs of late (some of the old g3 imacs were truely crap colours, though i like my grayish green one). Some of the MS mice from 2003-2004 are wonderfully designed (i dont use MS software but i do have an MS mouse as it was a very comfy well designed product). It is truely a matter of tastes and i wouldnt think less of someone because they liked the design. Hating something just because it comes from a suposed nemisis is really cheap,.
Sony did the oposite , They moved from gray/white(playstation and ps1) to black (psp and ps2/playstation 2) , Whilst i really didnt like the ps2/playstations design(far too 1980s for my tastes) The PSP is a really sleak device and they have learnt their design leasons.
Microsoft make very atractive looking mice (which makes me wonder why they didn't get the people behind those desings to work on the xbox s60, if they did then im at a loss). Though this console really does not apeal to me atall.to me the console looks a bit like an old Slim client and shows no real design flair beyond some cruvy bits.However it is a great improvment over the old Xbox. This is not an issue of MS vs Apple
Of course if your talking a large manual which can run into the hundreds of pages (i have seen them at 800 or more) you could be talking about as much as 5.00+( 0.08*800.00)=69 USD (chuckle). I also assume that this would not be a one off so over the course of a year you could be talking several hundread Cold green. Even for a slim 150 page manual your talking 17 USD . For those types of prices you cant get some nice reference books.
My soloution (which i use myself and which i stated in an earlyer post) was to get an older laptop with a nice screen to use as a glorified book reader. I paid 200 for a P3-600mhz with 256MB ram(a really good price at the time, so perhaps it will cost you a little more. Though a 600mhz p3 is overkill for just a pdf reader, but i use it for other things aswell) with a nice 15" screen . It has served me well and works great as a glorified book reader.
In an incredibly geeky style here i go... magneto was not really a bad guy , He was the one who ultimatly stoped Apocolypse allowing Bishop to resotre the proper timeline and saving the world from the Nuclear holocost... Magneto was more of a anti-hero he was really good but just a bit hardline due to the mistreatment of mutants.
So i guess this shows us that microsoft thinks of its mobile devices as mistreated mutants who will save the world from Apocolypse...
Its a good idea perhaps,It should be limited to Security patches(incompatabilites could arise if its not carefull). What would also be a good idea , is to drum into the users head the fact that updates are a nessecity. Too much distrust has been garnerd by MS so people are rather warey of it , It needs to be done carefully to avoid such outcomes.
I must say cheers for that one , i don't know how that could of slipped me by. I will give it a test on one of my machines and see what i can do with it. Again thanks
On a related note here.. the German police are just as bad . Most of the time i see them is not patroling but setting up rader traps or checking trafic violations. Infact the only time i ever see them outside of "road traffic accidents" is at the airport.
The problem here , is some smart arse thought they could motivate the police to reduce the crimne-rate by giving them quotas . So instead of conducting there normal investigations they have to allocate a certain ammount of time to meeting those quotas . Violant crime and robbery take time to solve , Random drunks being a bit loud , speeders and dangerous drivers are like shooting fish in a barrel.
Its the same in the UK , its the same in Germany and im fairly sure its true in most other EU nations (probably also true in the USA , Canada , Australia , newzeland... etc etc)
On the issue of wireless mics , 90% of the recorded stuff (bar random noise ), will be pissed teenagers and 20 somethings Shouting "F**Ck off Pigs" directly at the mics which get found and are not in a position to vandalise. Its a waste of money and a waste of time.Not to mention the tin-foil hat arguments
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I must say that i had yet to actualy read the artical before today , This is not journalism its a cheap dirty smeer campaign . .
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As of today i am blacklisting all of O'Garas Advertisers in protest , that will allow me to stay informed and not fund this filth.
I suggest we all do the same
Personaly i dont care what Pamela Richards gets up to in her free time
She does alot of good work and has Ethics , and for that i respect her.
O'Gara ethics are on par with the Given reasons for the recent Iraqi conflict.
If i read a linux news site i want News on linux , I dont want to have to read tabloid grade personal attacks on individuals
O'Gara will continue to get press and fame over this and the only way we can send a message (as i see it) is to blacklist her sponsers and make that fact known to the sponsers.
3rd degree burns and a skin graft most likely.
To fill out that a bit ,
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I should note that it was a joke , I don't begrude the editors or Mr Piquapaille for this . Slashdot and Piquepailles (gonna call him roland from now on , god thats a tricky name to type)blog are both comercial sites and as such this is how they garner revenue (Advertising).
I don't know if the rumours of Timothy pushing the blogs for financial gain are true or if it just so happens its a coincidence , It dosn't really matter to me.
If the story holds some intrest , then fair play if they can make a little on the side from this
Im betting that Roland submits a hell of alot of storys that dont get through aswell
Sites suporting each other is nothing new , They pass clients/customers between each other all the time
All i would say though , is if this is an AD aswell as a story if it could be a bit more blatent with the fact its an AD .
It is ment to read
Rejected Scientific Paper Recycled as an Ad for Roland Piquepailles Blog
The first thing i did when i opened up safari in tiger was to uncheck the "Open Safe files after downloading" option , visted the site in safari and it just automaticaly downloaded the file and did nothing more .So theres a quick workaround till a patch is out
I have no idea how this potential exploit slipped past , bad show indeed and rather disapointing.
But clearly it is a bug not poor judgment.
;) Im a slightly younger old fart i guess heh, I Actualy prefer to read on the screen as i can zoom and filter colours with the but the typing of a command, Add to that the space argument as i have enough books laying around as it is , so for me a digital soloution works
,I know a few people who just can't do it for a sustained length or time(/Head-aches or eye-strain)
...I am a bti of a masochistic geek ;)
Though i can totaly understand an aversion to reading on the screem
As for the "Another box to keep runing" thing , Well
If it were a communist plot for world dommination im fairly sure i would of heard about it?
"I can honestly say I haven't seen a BSOD on my screen in months"
So your monitors busted eh?
a good LP player is a quality device .I still have alot of my music on lp(unfortunatly i still have to have my LP player shipped to me) so yes , the music quality can be rather high .
I do have alot of respect for the designs of the era. I love some of the stuff i have from back then
Im fidel Catsro ,im his feline contemprary Mewhahhahahaah.I dictate the small nation state of cbua Our plan to dominate the world via shrewed bussines acumin is in full effect.
heh , Ofcourse imore ment as in the shape of the case( i know you probably got that heh), What i look for in a console has never really been design(its a nice bonus , Its been functionality .
If you want to compete you must have the games.
Design is such a subjective issue ,You can't really expect to make a design that everyone will love , Custom cases are a way around this i guess ;). knowing alot of folks tastes it could end in some frightening results(some grand ones too).
.
I did have an idea for some "assorted shape" based slot designs ( a selection of add-ons with odd shapes and colours that you could use to customise your computer, ) never got around to padding out the idea though (a kind of building blocks type lego idea but with larger more colourfull designs, i called it spludgeio).
I did infact have a wood trimed atari 2600 which caught fire once , well it melted a bit of the plastic
If you fit in, your insulted for being a clone or a sheap. If your diffrent ,then you get insulted and called a freak. You cant really win bar not giving a flying monkey what people care.
.Or are just having thier own opinions which fit in or go against the grain.
I couldn't tell you if the people are just following the trend , or if they are deliberatly going against it
People with similar views and ideals tend to get together and become freinds , so no wonder alot of folks agree here , Still as they say oposites also atract so we get some folks who totaly disagree with the standerd sentiment.
Could work , but with the laptop you can also cary it around and have a read when your not at the desk and you wouldnt be tied down as much.Its a flexability thing realy.
Wood finish is due for a comeback around now . I say we all make them look like LP players from the 1970s
I like apple designs of late (some of the old g3 imacs were truely crap colours, though i like my grayish green one). Some of the MS mice from 2003-2004 are wonderfully designed (i dont use MS software but i do have an MS mouse as it was a very comfy well designed product).
It is truely a matter of tastes and i wouldnt think less of someone because they liked the design.
Hating something just because it comes from a suposed nemisis is really cheap,.
Sony did the oposite , They moved from gray/white(playstation and ps1) to black (psp and ps2/playstation 2) , Whilst i really didnt like the ps2/playstations design(far too 1980s for my tastes) The PSP is a really sleak device and they have learnt their design leasons.
Microsoft make very atractive looking mice (which makes me wonder why they didn't get the people behind those desings to work on the xbox s60, if they did then im at a loss). Though this console really does not apeal to me atall .to me the console looks a bit like an old Slim client and shows no real design flair beyond some cruvy bits .However it is a great improvment over the old Xbox.
This is not an issue of MS vs Apple
Of course if your talking a large manual which can run into the hundreds of pages (i have seen them at 800 or more) you could be talking about as much as 5.00+( 0.08*800.00)=69 USD (chuckle). I also assume that this would not be a one off so over the course of a year you could be talking several hundread Cold green.
Even for a slim 150 page manual your talking 17 USD . For those types of prices you cant get some nice reference books.
My soloution (which i use myself and which i stated in an earlyer post) was to get an older laptop with a nice screen to use as a glorified book reader.
I paid 200 for a P3-600mhz with 256MB ram(a really good price at the time, so perhaps it will cost you a little more. Though a 600mhz p3 is overkill for just a pdf reader, but i use it for other things aswell) with a nice 15" screen . It has served me well and works great as a glorified book reader.
In an incredibly geeky style here i go ... magneto was not really a bad guy , He was the one who ultimatly stoped Apocolypse allowing Bishop to resotre the proper timeline and saving the world from the Nuclear holocost...
...
Magneto was more of a anti-hero he was really good but just a bit hardline due to the mistreatment of mutants.
So i guess this shows us that microsoft thinks of its mobile devices as mistreated mutants who will save the world from Apocolypse
... Trying to resist making a smutty joke about Microsoft attacking Rims...
Its a good idea perhaps ,It should be limited to Security patches(incompatabilites could arise if its not carefull).
What would also be a good idea , is to drum into the users head the fact that updates are a nessecity. Too much distrust has been garnerd by MS so people are rather warey of it , It needs to be done carefully to avoid such outcomes.
I must say cheers for that one , i don't know how that could of slipped me by . .
I will give it a test on one of my machines and see what i can do with it
Again thanks
On a related note here .. the German police are just as bad . Most of the time i see them is not patroling but setting up rader traps or checking trafic violations. Infact the only time i ever see them outside of "road traffic accidents" is at the airport.
. .Not to mention the tin-foil hat arguments
The problem here , is some smart arse thought they could motivate the police to reduce the crimne-rate by giving them quotas . So instead of conducting there normal investigations they have to allocate a certain ammount of time to meeting those quotas . Violant crime and robbery take time to solve , Random drunks being a bit loud , speeders and dangerous drivers are like shooting fish in a barrel.
Its the same in the UK , its the same in Germany and im fairly sure its true in most other EU nations (probably also true in the USA , Canada , Australia , newzeland... etc etc)
On the issue of wireless mics , 90% of the recorded stuff (bar random noise ), will be pissed teenagers and 20 somethings Shouting "F**Ck off Pigs" directly at the mics which get found and are not in a position to vandalise
Its a waste of money and a waste of time