Next internet: Freenet mebbe? But the problem then becomes, it runs on top of the existing internet...and that's not good. That makes it controllable, even if it can't be spied on...
I don't have a DVR or video-on-demand. Actually, the TV I watch most gets two channels: Fox 8 and NBC. I don't even have a cable line hooked up to it. And that's more than I want...I actually hate that I brought it up here because I spend too much time watching it.
I have XP SP0. It's NEVER allowed me to update, and I've never wanted to. I have 4 firewalls, and two NATs. How exactly do they plan to get this WGA onto my computer?
Oh, and wouldn't some virus scanners pick this up? I mean, come on, a program trying to disable your entire computer...sounds like something Norton's Bloodhound would pick up pretty easily...
http://www.barryloewy.com/ Just look at that site...they know nothing about the internet obviously, and it's not just obvious from this lawsuit. They have a contact form on their site, but guess what? It doesn't work.
Here's my question. I have 5 gmail accounts. Only one of them uses my real name and stuff. Why aren't these guys suing Google, too? I'd like to see how far they'd get with that one... Oh, speaking of which, you need a valid email to join myspace...and most email providers require you to be over 13. I bet she lied on that one, too, so how is it myspace's fault?
If Java is any indication of how interpreted languages will work...then they can all go screw themselves. There are times when just the Java VM takes more memory and CPU power than freakin' Command and Conquer: Generals! It's currently using 370,000K of memory and about 30% CPU usage...and my CPU's bad but it's not THAT bad...AMD Athlon XP 2200 running at 2 GHz. And keep in mind, that's just Java. The programs you run under it suck up even more!
It's about time! I HATE how I always lose all that crap every time winblows decides to be gay and crash. Also will be nice for those of us that use multiple OSes...
Put a giant magnetic/EMP field through all the entrances to the buildings. Anything capable of storing data will be wiped and/or fried before it makes it in.
I really wanted to play this...and I was willing to download.Net to do it...but I had to download some other microshaft POS software to install.Net, and I had to install something else before installing that, so I just gave up. I'll wait for the linux port:-P
...What happens when one of those cameras on the street just happens to be positioned so everyone watching it can see right into someone's bedroom? Or worse.
This would be great for me. Generally, when fixing someone else's computer, I have to pull parts out of an older one of my own comps! The closest thing this town has to a computer shop is Staples, but we got a friggin' walmart supercenter bigger than our entire friggin' mall! Sure, my entire family refuses to shop there, but....
Sure we do!
I'm 15 and currently know the basics of C++ and I'm taking AP Computer Science in school, which is programming in Java, and isn't even offered to my grade level.
I dunno, but I'm not gonna be one of the testers for the Brain Linux Project....
Geez, hacking it would be a bitch....new meaning to frying your brains....
And what if it gets a virus?
See, I would buy the music I like...but...since most of the bands I like I'd have to mail a check to the band in the netherlands and wait for them to mail me back a record (yes, record, not CD)...it just doesn't seem worth it...
Besides, the RIAA don't care about those bands anyways...lol
My latest favorite band I can find on last.fm and some russian pay-to-download site...and that's it. And it's REALLY quite annoying. Maybe that's the reason the RIAA is getting less money now...people realize there's better music out there and they can get it...from other countries...and before the internet (which also happens to be before P2P...hmmm...) they were stuck with US bands...so they had no other choice for music really.
Could the bugs not hide INSIDE the meteor? Who needs an atmosphere when you're surrounded by solid rock? And can't spores survive some pretty harsh conditions?
I've gotta argue with that one. The radioactive thing is supposed to bounce up and get stuck on Homer's jacket thing. Then when he throws it out the window note that it never shows it bounce and bart grab it...and it doesn't spend nearly enough time on Maggie during the driving scene...
Pathetic...they cosider THAT detail!
"are people really going to look for photos of London in the same place they'd try and find recipes and free web hosting?"
Um...that's what google is. That's what ALL of google is. One place to find anything you're looking for. So yes, yes they will. Where else would they look?
Wait a minute...you seem to be implying that there aren't any apps to do this stuff in Winblows already, and that just ain't true. I mean, I prefer Linux, but you can do this stuff in Win, Lin, Mac, whatever...The question is not 'is it available', the question is 'does it come with it' or 'is it integrated'
Security: Norton. Mcafee. ZoneAlarm.
IE 7: Firefox. Opera. IE 7.
Looks: Litestep. Project Looking Glass. Aston.
Search: Google desktop
Updates: Meh...I guess there's no way around that, but who trusts M$ updates anyways???:P
Media: Winamp. iTunes. MediaMonkey. Picasa. Nero.
Parental Controln: Belkin routers. Novell. Cybersitter.
Backups: Norton's got something. Not one of those things I ever look into.
P2P collaboration: Doesn't seem to me to be any different than the programs Windoze already has...
Quick Setup: It's about time...but the average user can't figure out the Windoze installer anyways, so what's it matter if it runs faster?
You want a newer article?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20060217/1510213_F.sh tml
Google's a company. They wouldn't be fighting this JUST for privacy. If they cared that much they wouldn't be in China...though I fully support that move, I'm just saying that if they cared about their users that much they either wouldn't have censored in the first place or they'd be listening to all the people protesting.
"These are fearful times for Americans who value freedom from government snooping, and it's a clear measure of that mood that Google's fight with the federal government is persistently taken as a struggle over personal privacy. It is not.
In its subpoena for a week's worth of search results, the Justice Department is specifically not asking for the identities of the searchers. In response, Google is specifically not citing its users' privacy as justification for declining to comply.
Rather, it is defending its own trade secrets -- proprietary details of the workings of its Web-searching software that it says would be revealed in those endless lists of addresses."
http://www.startribune.com/561/story/222963.html
Google doesn't claim to be doing this to protect privacy, that's just what the media's saying. The main reason they're fighting this is because it just takes too much effort.
I gotta say, I've used both Gimp and Photoshop, and I actually much prefer Gimp. It seems to me that, while Photoshop has a lot more options for enhanching photos, it doesn't come CLOSE to Gimp for making an image from scratch. Between the masses of Script-Fu and the large amounts of Filters, Gimp's got that covered. I was playing with Photoshop at school the other day, looking for a render lava, or perhaps circuit board, and found that it seems to only have variation of cloud! I mean, it might be nice for refinishing those old pics you found in the attic, but you can't get any cool pictures straight from Photoshop... And I gotta say, I HATE Photoshop's interface...I HATE it! The Gimp's just seems so much smoother and nicer...I spent, like, 10 minutes looking for a bucket fill on Photoshop, only to just give up and use a brush...And when you select something you have to manually go into the move selection thing...I dunno, I just like Gimp's interface...it's a lot smaller and easier to work with. I don't want all those buttons, I don't NEED all those buttons, and there's absolutely no reason to have the friggin' thing take up the whole screen when I'm only working with a 50x50 image or something. Gimp only takes the space you need...so your AIM and Winamp and whatever isn't blocked out by this massive bloated ugly-ass program window.
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Next internet: Freenet mebbe?
But the problem then becomes, it runs on top of the existing internet...and that's not good. That makes it controllable, even if it can't be spied on...
Haven't you heard? Jets help stop global warming! They're just doing their part to save the planet ;)
I don't have a DVR or video-on-demand.
Actually, the TV I watch most gets two channels: Fox 8 and NBC. I don't even have a cable line hooked up to it. And that's more than I want...I actually hate that I brought it up here because I spend too much time watching it.
I have XP SP0. It's NEVER allowed me to update, and I've never wanted to. I have 4 firewalls, and two NATs. How exactly do they plan to get this WGA onto my computer? Oh, and wouldn't some virus scanners pick this up? I mean, come on, a program trying to disable your entire computer...sounds like something Norton's Bloodhound would pick up pretty easily...
http://www.barryloewy.com/
Just look at that site...they know nothing about the internet obviously, and it's not just obvious from this lawsuit. They have a contact form on their site, but guess what? It doesn't work.
Here's my question. I have 5 gmail accounts. Only one of them uses my real name and stuff. Why aren't these guys suing Google, too? I'd like to see how far they'd get with that one...
Oh, speaking of which, you need a valid email to join myspace...and most email providers require you to be over 13. I bet she lied on that one, too, so how is it myspace's fault?
If Java is any indication of how interpreted languages will work...then they can all go screw themselves. There are times when just the Java VM takes more memory and CPU power than freakin' Command and Conquer: Generals! It's currently using 370,000K of memory and about 30% CPU usage...and my CPU's bad but it's not THAT bad...AMD Athlon XP 2200 running at 2 GHz. And keep in mind, that's just Java. The programs you run under it suck up even more!
It's about time! I HATE how I always lose all that crap every time winblows decides to be gay and crash. Also will be nice for those of us that use multiple OSes...
Put a giant magnetic/EMP field through all the entrances to the buildings. Anything capable of storing data will be wiped and/or fried before it makes it in.
I really wanted to play this...and I was willing to download .Net to do it...but I had to download some other microshaft POS software to install .Net, and I had to install something else before installing that, so I just gave up. I'll wait for the linux port :-P
...What happens when one of those cameras on the street just happens to be positioned so everyone watching it can see right into someone's bedroom? Or worse.
This would be great for me. Generally, when fixing someone else's computer, I have to pull parts out of an older one of my own comps! The closest thing this town has to a computer shop is Staples, but we got a friggin' walmart supercenter bigger than our entire friggin' mall! Sure, my entire family refuses to shop there, but....
Sure we do! I'm 15 and currently know the basics of C++ and I'm taking AP Computer Science in school, which is programming in Java, and isn't even offered to my grade level.
I dunno, but I'm not gonna be one of the testers for the Brain Linux Project.... Geez, hacking it would be a bitch....new meaning to frying your brains.... And what if it gets a virus?
See, I would buy the music I like...but...since most of the bands I like I'd have to mail a check to the band in the netherlands and wait for them to mail me back a record (yes, record, not CD)...it just doesn't seem worth it... Besides, the RIAA don't care about those bands anyways...lol My latest favorite band I can find on last.fm and some russian pay-to-download site...and that's it. And it's REALLY quite annoying. Maybe that's the reason the RIAA is getting less money now...people realize there's better music out there and they can get it...from other countries...and before the internet (which also happens to be before P2P...hmmm...) they were stuck with US bands...so they had no other choice for music really.
Could the bugs not hide INSIDE the meteor? Who needs an atmosphere when you're surrounded by solid rock? And can't spores survive some pretty harsh conditions?
See...to me...he sounded like a script kiddie.
"Nothing they could've done would have stopped the 1337 xploits I used!!!1!1"
LINUX - Linus with an X.
I've gotta argue with that one. The radioactive thing is supposed to bounce up and get stuck on Homer's jacket thing. Then when he throws it out the window note that it never shows it bounce and bart grab it...and it doesn't spend nearly enough time on Maggie during the driving scene... Pathetic...they cosider THAT detail!
"are people really going to look for photos of London in the same place they'd try and find recipes and free web hosting?"
Um...that's what google is. That's what ALL of google is. One place to find anything you're looking for. So yes, yes they will. Where else would they look?
Wait a minute...you seem to be implying that there aren't any apps to do this stuff in Winblows already, and that just ain't true. I mean, I prefer Linux, but you can do this stuff in Win, Lin, Mac, whatever...The question is not 'is it available', the question is 'does it come with it' or 'is it integrated'
:P
Security: Norton. Mcafee. ZoneAlarm.
IE 7: Firefox. Opera. IE 7.
Looks: Litestep. Project Looking Glass. Aston.
Search: Google desktop
Updates: Meh...I guess there's no way around that, but who trusts M$ updates anyways???
Media: Winamp. iTunes. MediaMonkey. Picasa. Nero.
Parental Controln: Belkin routers. Novell. Cybersitter.
Backups: Norton's got something. Not one of those things I ever look into.
P2P collaboration: Doesn't seem to me to be any different than the programs Windoze already has...
Quick Setup: It's about time...but the average user can't figure out the Windoze installer anyways, so what's it matter if it runs faster?
You want a newer article? http://techdirt.com/articles/20060217/1510213_F.sh tml
Google's a company. They wouldn't be fighting this JUST for privacy. If they cared that much they wouldn't be in China...though I fully support that move, I'm just saying that if they cared about their users that much they either wouldn't have censored in the first place or they'd be listening to all the people protesting.
"These are fearful times for Americans who value freedom from government snooping, and it's a clear measure of that mood that Google's fight with the federal government is persistently taken as a struggle over personal privacy. It is not. In its subpoena for a week's worth of search results, the Justice Department is specifically not asking for the identities of the searchers. In response, Google is specifically not citing its users' privacy as justification for declining to comply. Rather, it is defending its own trade secrets -- proprietary details of the workings of its Web-searching software that it says would be revealed in those endless lists of addresses." http://www.startribune.com/561/story/222963.html
Google doesn't claim to be doing this to protect privacy, that's just what the media's saying. The main reason they're fighting this is because it just takes too much effort.
"why would anyone block news.bbc.co.uk and not cnn.com" Why? Because US news already censors itself enough!
I gotta say, I've used both Gimp and Photoshop, and I actually much prefer Gimp. It seems to me that, while Photoshop has a lot more options for enhanching photos, it doesn't come CLOSE to Gimp for making an image from scratch. Between the masses of Script-Fu and the large amounts of Filters, Gimp's got that covered. I was playing with Photoshop at school the other day, looking for a render lava, or perhaps circuit board, and found that it seems to only have variation of cloud! I mean, it might be nice for refinishing those old pics you found in the attic, but you can't get any cool pictures straight from Photoshop...
And I gotta say, I HATE Photoshop's interface...I HATE it! The Gimp's just seems so much smoother and nicer...I spent, like, 10 minutes looking for a bucket fill on Photoshop, only to just give up and use a brush...And when you select something you have to manually go into the move selection thing...I dunno, I just like Gimp's interface...it's a lot smaller and easier to work with. I don't want all those buttons, I don't NEED all those buttons, and there's absolutely no reason to have the friggin' thing take up the whole screen when I'm only working with a 50x50 image or something. Gimp only takes the space you need...so your AIM and Winamp and whatever isn't blocked out by this massive bloated ugly-ass program window.