If this comes off as kind of troll, I apologize, but why would version number matter so much? Depending on who updates the magic update number, it could increase in a lot of different ways.
Software Group A could have many small updates and never inrease the version number while Software Group B could change by a whole number if they wished just for something trivial.
They covered this on NPR today (for whatever reason, I don't know). They said that often times in folklore, that when a Troll disguises itself as a human you can still see its tail.
They went on for a few minutes talking about various different trolls of which you already mentioned, but what I found most interesting is that they're supposedly good luck if you see one.
Rebooting is overated... Kind of... But yes, if you're on a box that needs to reboot daily, something is up. Even my Windows box I don't have to restart often, maybe once every two weeks or so.
I know it's not a glorious x months/years like some can do, but I could care less, as long as it's not constant.
Sure, GAIM has came a long way... But what you said is one of the major reasons. There are a lot of features that are lacking that people are used to and they don't want to leave behind.
I really enjoy MSN messenger, they have a good voice chat system and I really like their fish theme you can use. I am not a fan of AIM, but I like it for their great file transfers and direct connection, it's simpler than just setting up an FTP server etc.
All of those services, without proper firewall configuration and port forwarding if those apply to you, along with the person on the other end are most likely not usable using the Linux clients. The newer AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! clients have their own proxy servers for getting around firewall/LAN blockage.
Bone structures change over time, especially from child to adult. I think they would have been able to tell easily if it were. The main controversy here that I see from the article is that some people believe that the bones found have been that of a person who suffered from microencephaly or dwarfism.
This guy sounds like he's just full of hot air because of a bad Norton AV installation. If one program causes something "devastating" to happen, who is to decide that it's not the user's fault, the compiler's fault, the programmer's fault, the OS creator's fault (and if it's OSS, who's package etc?), or the hardware's fault?
The computer world if full of many variables and I don't see this happening anytime soon, though with recent laws you never know.
I agree, in fact I was going to post the same thing. In my opinion, I think it's wrong for the phone companies to shaft its consumers.
Often times in order to get these cool new phones, there must be a contract in place to get them at low or no cost, but what's the point if half of the features are locked anyways?
Is anyone else having trouble going to problogger? Ever since that whole Cogent/Level 3 article, I've noticed quite a lot of sites I visit haven't been working. Doing a third party trace route on them shows that a lot of them are on cogent... This sucks ]:
The Science Channel has recently (by coincidence?) been showing a lot of programs talking about stars and the sun, and a very common topic has been Gamma Ray Bursts.
I just think it's weird how some things seem like a trend some times.
The idea of neutron stars colliding is a very old theory but this seems to shed new light on the possibility of it being the main cause.
A rhinovirus is a virus member of the family Picornaviridae. The rhinoviruses are single stranded positive sense RNA viruses. They are the most common viral infective agents in humans. The most well known disease caused by rhinoviruses is the common cold. There are over 100 serologic virus types which cause cold symptoms and rhinoviruses are responsible for around 50% of all cases.
The name comes from the Greek rhin, which means "nose".
I have said in previous articles that I think if someone buys a DRMed CD without prior knowledge to it being DRMed, that they should blatantly return it. I think a lot of people agree that it's not right for the consumer to be shafted and to be uninformed or even misinformed by the company that is trying to sell their product to them.
About suing, I think it would be great if someone with a lot of power did it. It would be absolutely wonderful!
It does seem like the recording companies don't want to really sell any of their music online, but why? What is the profit margin for a music download versus a produced CD? It really does seem like the recording companies do have their heads up their ass but who knows, maybe all of the blows they have been receiving lately will knock some sense into them.
People fly because they want to go somewhere as fast as possible. With recent rules and regulations regarding airports, it's been becoming slower and slower to fly anywhere. Perhaps with the advancement in technology such as this, we can slowly relieve the stress of having to fly somewhere.
If you look at the location of most of those fake paypal URL's, you'll notice most of them come from a specific region, which is easy to block.
On the other hand, if you restrict yourself or others from those particular regions then it makes it hard to "poke around" on whatever server they may be using... Not that I would condone such behavior!
I get them as well on my old hotmail account as well, you'd think more of the major ESPs would do something about it.
Doesn't most spam come from the United States? It sounds like this is a British ISP, so I really wouldn't worry about it that much if you truely are concerned.
Wouldn't it be kind of ironic if they test this with an asteroid or similar object that is not on a collision path with our planet, it messes up, then it IS on course torwards Earth?
That would kind of suck, atleast I think so anyways.
It sounds like, even though Crossfire might not be the glorious thing everyone has been waiting for, that in the future it might prove better than SLI. I for one though, feel that it would be better to just wait for that one graphics card than to get two at the moment, considering how fast they become obsolete.
Anyways, from what I've read and been told, SLI requires special profiles to be taken advantage of in games, while crossfire simulates 1 graphics card and doesn't require anything but the default drivers to be taken advantage of.
I'm sure, with the amount of time they'll be spending on this licensed material BS they could come up with something. Even if its embedded keyword filtering/point system. I am sure something could work atleast a bit, deter a few people atleast.
I don't know, maybe I'm just dreaming. But people's ideas seem so flawed sometimes of what to focus on. I guess money does talk more than it should.
OT: I know it's an old idea, but I think it's a great idea. Spread the signature virus!
Perhaps the creators of Limewire should focus more on preventing the sharing of photographs and videos that exploit small children instead of going Lordy Lordy over copyrighted music.
If they spent the same amount of time preventing Child pornography instead of music that is under RIAA's domain... well, I'm sure you get my point. What I'd like to know is why is the country that I live in more concerned about someone downloading copyrighted music than child pornography?
I know people are arrested all of the time for it, but music makes more news, it's kind of sad I think.
1984, by George Orwell, is an excellent book and I suggest that everyone reads it. Reading 1984 would probably give you a good insight on what is happening in today's world with all of this security and propaganda that is going on.
It's actually kind of scary, I know they say if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, but that's just bull shit. The way things work, they make everyone who is innocent feel guilty.
By the way, if you're too lazy to read the book, there's a movie version of it that isn't bad and will give you the same ideas.
If you buy a DRMed CD that does not appear to be DRMed before you even play it, return it. I don't care if it hurts the stores initially, the RIAA will eventually feel it. We have to fight this utter bullshit.
I know we can just boycott whatever these mega-corps push out, but that doesn't tell them our exact meaning, who even says they're listening? I personally think it would be better to be selective on what to not purcahse, if it's DRMed, return it, if it's not DRMed and you want it, let them know.
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I wasn't questioning the parent. I was questioning why a lot of people feel the version # is important.
If this comes off as kind of troll, I apologize, but why would version number matter so much? Depending on who updates the magic update number, it could increase in a lot of different ways.
Software Group A could have many small updates and never inrease the version number while Software Group B could change by a whole number if they wished just for something trivial.
They covered this on NPR today (for whatever reason, I don't know). They said that often times in folklore, that when a Troll disguises itself as a human you can still see its tail.
They went on for a few minutes talking about various different trolls of which you already mentioned, but what I found most interesting is that they're supposedly good luck if you see one.
Rebooting is overated ... Kind of... But yes, if you're on a box that needs to reboot daily, something is up. Even my Windows box I don't have to restart often, maybe once every two weeks or so.
I know it's not a glorious x months/years like some can do, but I could care less, as long as it's not constant.
If anyone missed that particular article parent is talking about, it can be found here:
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/
Maybe this will help relieve the stigma people have about a lot of MS employees that are well known. Not every person there is a microsoft recording.
Sure, GAIM has came a long way... But what you said is one of the major reasons. There are a lot of features that are lacking that people are used to and they don't want to leave behind.
I really enjoy MSN messenger, they have a good voice chat system and I really like their fish theme you can use. I am not a fan of AIM, but I like it for their great file transfers and direct connection, it's simpler than just setting up an FTP server etc.
All of those services, without proper firewall configuration and port forwarding if those apply to you, along with the person on the other end are most likely not usable using the Linux clients. The newer AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! clients have their own proxy servers for getting around firewall/LAN blockage.
Bone structures change over time, especially from child to adult. I think they would have been able to tell easily if it were. The main controversy here that I see from the article is that some people believe that the bones found have been that of a person who suffered from microencephaly or dwarfism.
This guy sounds like he's just full of hot air because of a bad Norton AV installation. If one program causes something "devastating" to happen, who is to decide that it's not the user's fault, the compiler's fault, the programmer's fault, the OS creator's fault (and if it's OSS, who's package etc?), or the hardware's fault?
The computer world if full of many variables and I don't see this happening anytime soon, though with recent laws you never know.
I agree, in fact I was going to post the same thing. In my opinion, I think it's wrong for the phone companies to shaft its consumers.
Often times in order to get these cool new phones, there must be a contract in place to get them at low or no cost, but what's the point if half of the features are locked anyways?
Is anyone else having trouble going to problogger? Ever since that whole Cogent/Level 3 article, I've noticed quite a lot of sites I visit haven't been working. Doing a third party trace route on them shows that a lot of them are on cogent... This sucks ]:
The Science Channel has recently (by coincidence?) been showing a lot of programs talking about stars and the sun, and a very common topic has been Gamma Ray Bursts.
I just think it's weird how some things seem like a trend some times.
The idea of neutron stars colliding is a very old theory but this seems to shed new light on the possibility of it being the main cause.
A rhinovirus is a virus member of the family Picornaviridae. The rhinoviruses are single stranded positive sense RNA viruses. They are the most common viral infective agents in humans. The most well known disease caused by rhinoviruses is the common cold. There are over 100 serologic virus types which cause cold symptoms and rhinoviruses are responsible for around 50% of all cases.
The name comes from the Greek rhin, which means "nose".
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinovirus
I have said in previous articles that I think if someone buys a DRMed CD without prior knowledge to it being DRMed, that they should blatantly return it. I think a lot of people agree that it's not right for the consumer to be shafted and to be uninformed or even misinformed by the company that is trying to sell their product to them.
About suing, I think it would be great if someone with a lot of power did it. It would be absolutely wonderful!
It does seem like the recording companies don't want to really sell any of their music online, but why? What is the profit margin for a music download versus a produced CD? It really does seem like the recording companies do have their heads up their ass but who knows, maybe all of the blows they have been receiving lately will knock some sense into them.
People fly because they want to go somewhere as fast as possible. With recent rules and regulations regarding airports, it's been becoming slower and slower to fly anywhere. Perhaps with the advancement in technology such as this, we can slowly relieve the stress of having to fly somewhere.
If you look at the location of most of those fake paypal URL's, you'll notice most of them come from a specific region, which is easy to block.
On the other hand, if you restrict yourself or others from those particular regions then it makes it hard to "poke around" on whatever server they may be using... Not that I would condone such behavior!
I get them as well on my old hotmail account as well, you'd think more of the major ESPs would do something about it.
Doesn't most spam come from the United States? It sounds like this is a British ISP, so I really wouldn't worry about it that much if you truely are concerned.
Wouldn't it be kind of ironic if they test this with an asteroid or similar object that is not on a collision path with our planet, it messes up, then it IS on course torwards Earth?
That would kind of suck, atleast I think so anyways.
It sounds like, even though Crossfire might not be the glorious thing everyone has been waiting for, that in the future it might prove better than SLI. I for one though, feel that it would be better to just wait for that one graphics card than to get two at the moment, considering how fast they become obsolete.
Anyways, from what I've read and been told, SLI requires special profiles to be taken advantage of in games, while crossfire simulates 1 graphics card and doesn't require anything but the default drivers to be taken advantage of.
I'm sure, with the amount of time they'll be spending on this licensed material BS they could come up with something. Even if its embedded keyword filtering/point system. I am sure something could work atleast a bit, deter a few people atleast.
I don't know, maybe I'm just dreaming. But people's ideas seem so flawed sometimes of what to focus on. I guess money does talk more than it should.
OT: I know it's an old idea, but I think it's a great idea. Spread the signature virus!
Perhaps the creators of Limewire should focus more on preventing the sharing of photographs and videos that exploit small children instead of going Lordy Lordy over copyrighted music.
If they spent the same amount of time preventing Child pornography instead of music that is under RIAA's domain... well, I'm sure you get my point. What I'd like to know is why is the country that I live in more concerned about someone downloading copyrighted music than child pornography?
I know people are arrested all of the time for it, but music makes more news, it's kind of sad I think.
Has anyone else had a friend that works in an office enviroment that is extremely paranoid call you up screaming that the hackers have their port?
1984, by George Orwell, is an excellent book and I suggest that everyone reads it. Reading 1984 would probably give you a good insight on what is happening in today's world with all of this security and propaganda that is going on.
It's actually kind of scary, I know they say if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, but that's just bull shit. The way things work, they make everyone who is innocent feel guilty.
By the way, if you're too lazy to read the book, there's a movie version of it that isn't bad and will give you the same ideas.
If you buy a DRMed CD that does not appear to be DRMed before you even play it, return it. I don't care if it hurts the stores initially, the RIAA will eventually feel it. We have to fight this utter bullshit.
I know we can just boycott whatever these mega-corps push out, but that doesn't tell them our exact meaning, who even says they're listening? I personally think it would be better to be selective on what to not purcahse, if it's DRMed, return it, if it's not DRMed and you want it, let them know.