actually, i have to agree, i often simply forget that my domains are going to expire, and the emails have saved my ass more than once. as opposed to other registrars who have been constant causes of nightmare scenarios where domains suddenly stop working and i have people screaming that their email has stopped working (and then they have to endure my little "well, you should have used a better registrar" speech.
i wouldnt say that, i always found googles ads unobtrusive and well targeted. i very rarely click on any ads online (mostly because konqueror is bloody good at blocking them), but i dont block the google ads because they are targeted towards things i am actually interested in, not just stupid "free ipod" pyramid schemes.
in all honesty, i doubt even a big-ass protest march would work. if the government wants to get off scot free, they can, they make the rules. you can march and vote and do whatever you like, but in the end, i bet damn sure they can have this pushed through into law before it comes time to vote them out.
i think you misunderstood my comments, i don't equate your EU theory with that of creationism or religous zealotry, i was using the creationism theory as an example. i was pointing out that, to put it as simply as possible, we can only send a limited amount or material to mars. as such it is only possible to perform a limited number of experiments, and test a limited number of theories. your comments were that we should test *ALL* theories, proving or disproving them, my reply was "that's just not possible, there are too many theories, many of which are unprovable". i am sure you would like us all to push your EU theory to the forefront of scientific discovery, but a lot of other people would like us to push their theories forward too.
as it is, i have no need or desire to believe or disbelieve your EU theory, the onus is on you to promote your theory until it gains mass acceptance. the fact that it has not leads me to believe the nasa guys have the right idea. i am not an geologist and really have no idea what makes lumps of rock on mars, but i am pretty sure that if nasa is spending billions of dollars on it, they might just believe they are onto the right track, whether that eventually proves correct or not is irrelevant. nasa can only support a limited number of experiments, to simply state they should prove or disprove *ALL* theories is a nonsense, it is simply not possible to do so.
on a completely unrelated note, i looked at the image you referenced and cant actually see any "geysers". i can see some squarish rocks and maybe some hilly things, but like i said, i'm not a geologist. can you provide conclusive proof to disprove all other theories (including the current tectonic theory, FSM, and my own personal theory that this is all a warped creatures personal experiment and prove your "electron beams from space sharks with frikken lasers!" theory?
i am curious, surely all this electricity must be harmfull to those robots? oddly, i would have thought a big metal object sticking up from the ground would become effectively the same as a lightning conductor here on earth?
oh, and before you post some more of your pretty pictures.......
i've seen some pretty startling Mars Orbital Camera images from the South Pole that could be interpreted to be showing proton beams that are so powerful that they are excavating material from beneath the ice, throwing it up into the air, and then that material falls back onto the ice.
yeah, i saw some pretty impressive images of a face on mars, so does that provide conclusive proof that there are little green men on mars trying to make contact? see, the funny thing is, any picture *could* be interpreted to prove anything, given the right theory.
At some point in time, they need to start getting serious about ruling out *all* interpretations of the observations.
... EU ramblings...
all of this stuff needs to be refuted and ruled out before we send people there. We can agree on that, right?
actually, i quite strongly disagree. we can *only* prove or disprove a limited subset of possibilities. by your logic, ruling out *all* interpretations would require definitive and undeniable proof that god does not exist, cause i can sure find some guys who will swear it isn't water or EU, but god who made those surface formations to give us something to play with.
due to the massive difficulty in obtaining *any* data from mars, we cannot prove or disprove *every*single*possibility*, we can only proceed to prove or disprove the theories we think are most likely. the ultimate aim is to put people there, so lets figure out if we can do that before we start theorising about the fundamental concepts of the universe.
although this was quite common in the uk, with the introduction of waste recycling law, it has fallen out of practice and now most books are returned whole for recycling. i suspect it does continue in areas without such law, in several books i have read (i am an avid reader) i have seen warning messages on the fist few cover pagers stating that if the cover is missing from the book, you have baught a copy that should have been disposed of and to call the publisher to report it.
on the quicktime download site, look on the right column, under the 'upgrade now' section, just above the ipod ad.
oh, and as far as i am aware, itunes is provided as the upload software for your ipod, to enable you to transfer music to your device, unless of course you would prefer to buy a £200 music player and not have the ability to put music on it.
i suspect the important point is that they do allow competition. as far as i am aware, an ipod can play just about any mp3 you put on it, using itunes or any other means (for example, amarok can also talk to ipods).
oh, and the other companies do appear to have provided the support, or at least accessibility. nullsoft are very helpfull in providing documentation to plugin and skin developers, and there doesnt seem to be much trouble talking to ipods either.
fyi i neither love nor hate apple, i'm a linux user, i just hate misinformed opinions. oh, and i suspect MS will magicly produce the documents at the last moment, just to provide maximum hassle and cost to the EU, just because they can.
im `Zidane from Bit-Tech, who posted this over there.
in response to those people who think i "cheated" somehow, i didnt, and im sure just about anyone with wine can do the same thing. i just ran the checker exe in wine and copy-pasted the code into the site, and it worked.
is it news? i'd have thought so, its checking if i have a valid copy of windows, and i dont, im completely linux based here.
as for the windows updates, i dont think you could use this method because the windowsupdate site doesnt like firefox, it demands IE, although, you could probably forge IE's useragent to appear as IE, but iirc the windowsupdate site needs activex to run for the updater thingie.
is it an uber-31337 haxx0rizing of microsoft? hell no, its just a funny thing i noticed whilst trying to get Black&White to run on my nix box.
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Klibido, if all you want to do is leech binaries (i do), then klibido is quite simply the single best piece of software i have ever found for it.
actually, i have to agree, i often simply forget that my domains are going to expire, and the emails have saved my ass more than once. as opposed to other registrars who have been constant causes of nightmare scenarios where domains suddenly stop working and i have people screaming that their email has stopped working (and then they have to endure my little "well, you should have used a better registrar" speech.
inspiringly good reading, Mr Roadkill
hey, i bet nobody thought of this......
in soviet russia, cables untangle you!
i wouldnt say that, i always found googles ads unobtrusive and well targeted. i very rarely click on any ads online (mostly because konqueror is bloody good at blocking them), but i dont block the google ads because they are targeted towards things i am actually interested in, not just stupid "free ipod" pyramid schemes.
in all honesty, i doubt even a big-ass protest march would work. if the government wants to get off scot free, they can, they make the rules. you can march and vote and do whatever you like, but in the end, i bet damn sure they can have this pushed through into law before it comes time to vote them out.
yeah, there was this one guy who tried.... fawkes, his name was...
microsoft releasing an *Evil* patch?
so *thats* where vista came from.....
(yes, i know, pure blatant ms bashing, but hey, i'm in a good mood today!)
as it is, i have no need or desire to believe or disbelieve your EU theory, the onus is on you to promote your theory until it gains mass acceptance. the fact that it has not leads me to believe the nasa guys have the right idea. i am not an geologist and really have no idea what makes lumps of rock on mars, but i am pretty sure that if nasa is spending billions of dollars on it, they might just believe they are onto the right track, whether that eventually proves correct or not is irrelevant. nasa can only support a limited number of experiments, to simply state they should prove or disprove *ALL* theories is a nonsense, it is simply not possible to do so.
on a completely unrelated note, i looked at the image you referenced and cant actually see any "geysers". i can see some squarish rocks and maybe some hilly things, but like i said, i'm not a geologist. can you provide conclusive proof to disprove all other theories (including the current tectonic theory, FSM, and my own personal theory that this is all a warped creatures personal experiment and prove your "electron beams from space sharks with frikken lasers!" theory?
i am curious, surely all this electricity must be harmfull to those robots? oddly, i would have thought a big metal object sticking up from the ground would become effectively the same as a lightning conductor here on earth?
oh, and before you post some more of your pretty pictures.......
yeah, i saw some pretty impressive images of a face on mars, so does that provide conclusive proof that there are little green men on mars trying to make contact? see, the funny thing is, any picture *could* be interpreted to prove anything, given the right theory.
due to the massive difficulty in obtaining *any* data from mars, we cannot prove or disprove *every*single*possibility*, we can only proceed to prove or disprove the theories we think are most likely. the ultimate aim is to put people there, so lets figure out if we can do that before we start theorising about the fundamental concepts of the universe.
sir, if i had mod points today, they would be yours. well done.
although this was quite common in the uk, with the introduction of waste recycling law, it has fallen out of practice and now most books are returned whole for recycling. i suspect it does continue in areas without such law, in several books i have read (i am an avid reader) i have seen warning messages on the fist few cover pagers stating that if the cover is missing from the book, you have baught a copy that should have been disposed of and to call the publisher to report it.
itunes is not a 'required download' to get quicktime, apple have a stand-alone quicktime player available, here http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone .html
on the quicktime download site, look on the right column, under the 'upgrade now' section, just above the ipod ad.
oh, and as far as i am aware, itunes is provided as the upload software for your ipod, to enable you to transfer music to your device, unless of course you would prefer to buy a £200 music player and not have the ability to put music on it.
i suspect the important point is that they do allow competition. as far as i am aware, an ipod can play just about any mp3 you put on it, using itunes or any other means (for example, amarok can also talk to ipods).
oh, and the other companies do appear to have provided the support, or at least accessibility. nullsoft are very helpfull in providing documentation to plugin and skin developers, and there doesnt seem to be much trouble talking to ipods either.
fyi i neither love nor hate apple, i'm a linux user, i just hate misinformed opinions. oh, and i suspect MS will magicly produce the documents at the last moment, just to provide maximum hassle and cost to the EU, just because they can.
you mean SCO actually make stuff?
damn, i thought all they had was an office full of angry lawyers.
im `Zidane from Bit-Tech, who posted this over there. in response to those people who think i "cheated" somehow, i didnt, and im sure just about anyone with wine can do the same thing. i just ran the checker exe in wine and copy-pasted the code into the site, and it worked. is it news? i'd have thought so, its checking if i have a valid copy of windows, and i dont, im completely linux based here. as for the windows updates, i dont think you could use this method because the windowsupdate site doesnt like firefox, it demands IE, although, you could probably forge IE's useragent to appear as IE, but iirc the windowsupdate site needs activex to run for the updater thingie. is it an uber-31337 haxx0rizing of microsoft? hell no, its just a funny thing i noticed whilst trying to get Black&White to run on my nix box.