I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's a software experience. Ballmer has some serious issues..
I was thinking the same kind of thing, but then realised that he meant something like "don't ask why I needed to install firewire into these machines". At least I hope he meant that.
Aberdeen, at the other end of the UK, gets sun from 04:12 to 22:08 on the longest day. On the shortest day it's 08:46 to 15:27.
Yep:) I remember it still being bright around 10-11PM at a beach BBQ a few years ago. Weird that there's a whole hour less light down in the south..
You're talking about filtering for convenience rather than protection then. I'm talking about the fact that people need to be educated rather than just protected from threats, then when one does slip through the servant's fingers, they're not going to fall for it.
No they're not. They're meant to be tools for us to use, rather than things that are meant to think for us. People need to try to think more themselves. The internet isn't as virtual as people may think, you can lose real cold hard cash if you aren't careful (or sometimes, even if you are). Anyway, computers that can live your life for you would be nice to some people, but at the moment, a computer isn't going to know if that scam email is actually from your brother Fred who needs money again, or from prince Fred in Nigeria who needs you to deposit the small sum of $100 to reclaim his spaceship containing Martian cocaine extracts before he deals it out on the streets of Manchester while driving around in his wooden boat.
I don't get why we need tools for 'fighting phishing'. I wonder if some people use servants to check their snailmail for scams.. some people should just be sent away to live on farms. I'm of course meaning as livestock rather than workers. They'd probably be able to live a happy life just chewing on hay and rolling around in fields.
Yeah...ditch these people now. AV on the client is a scam. Effective management and AV at the chokepoints can often provide enough protection I've found. Sure it's enough if your clients are semi computer literate.. but some people just aren't, sadly.
It can't be that hard - today's chips are only fabbed using 2D construction, so you just need to get a magnifying glass and a light, and look for the reflections coming off the little door handle or knocker.
What's stopping you from getting rid of the unwanted icons on your desktop? I'm not an MS fan but I dunno what you're complaining about here - no OS that I've ever seen (well, apart from cut down stuff like the EEE PC) just has application icons and nothing else - you generally would have either the drives or a 'my computer' equivalent showing.
Most people generally find the ability to browse the internet, see pictures, play music etc quite useful. How exactly do you propose getting new apps onto your computer if you don't have some basic form of web browser anyway? Are you going to order everything on CD? Way to be traveling in the wrong direction..!
Oh, and Mac OS actually includes very good built in software for almost everything you said up there, apart from the drawing pictures (AFAIK). Personally I don't like iTunes though, so as well as Firefox and the GIMP, I downloaded VLC. I see no problem with any OS distribution including applications that can make the thing more useful though. If you don't want all that stuff in Windows, remove it in the Windows configuration bit in add/remove programs.
I didn't say improve, I said change:p The moment a big company gets their paws on the idea they're going to be able to mass produce them a lot easier than any individual. Hand crafted stuff is often better quality, but the mass produced stuff is going to be cheaper and take the lion's share of the market. I think the original copyright and patent systems had it right, it's the stupid extensions that are causing issues here. It's not 'fair' if someone spends years inventing say a flying car, then GM buys one, reverse engineers it, puts a GM badge on it and claims it all as its own without paying any licensing fees. That's not much of an incentive to be an inventor IMO, though it benefits society if they have cheap flying cars (mainly because all the idiots will crash and burn I schpose)
So then someone can come along, change 1% of the design and sell it as their own? I'm thinking of cars as usual. In software's case, the final product is protected by copyright rather than patents. Individual methods are protected by patents. AFAIK America only introduced software patents in the 90s and things have gone downhill over there since then.
I've heard she loves to be cable tied in place, and prefers any peripherals to be plugged in from behind. You need to be earthed if you're going to work on her internals though.
Poss'blee because it's another thing to get in the way of causing too much mischief if someone is trying to break into your box. If they already have restricted access, having a compiler available probably makes it a lot easier to root it (IANAcracker but the reasoning seems pretty straightforward). That was the reasoning I read before anyway - not for Ubuntu specifically, just for only installing what you actually need onto your system to reduce possible attack vectors.
Uh.. I did fine in school thanks, 7 1s and a 2 in standard grade, only an A and 3 Bs in higher but that was more than I needed to get into Uni, and then I got my degree despite mitigating circumstances. I don't want to plan any lessons cuz I don't want to be a teacher. I don't need to lie about banging anyone, I'm a virgin, you think I'd lie about that?:p You have some serious issues, either that or you just try too hard with your trolling. I have this uncanny feeling that I make a lot more money than you, and while I do love my cars, I don't have any car mechanic friends, sorry. I hope if I ever have kids that they aren't taught by an arrogant, inflammatory little potty mouth like you.. o_0
Sir! It's those robotic holidaymakers again! They're being held by those darned robotic pirate-terrorists! They're asking for 10000 lithium polymer batteries and 30 copies of that issue of Roboman weekly featuring Natalie Portscan!
PS I'm the IT 'manager' where I work, but in an IT department of 2.. there's not much people management involved, and the guy who is my assistant is actually more suited to a management role than me IMO. I'm just far more knowledgeable when it comes to technical stuff, plus I can code. It's nice to have him doing most of the tech support stuff while I get to do me coding! I enjoy the coding, right up until the point where the client (generally another department within the company) decides it wants to modify the originally agreed on spec. Lots of little incremental updates generally mean ripples that move out through the whole code, meaning little things tend to get overlooked. It's much easier when you know all the exact specs first and can code everything with all features in mind from the start.
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Are you trying to say that there's a negative side to porn?
Yeah, why do we even have all this internet stuff in the first place? Why don't we all just sit round a really big table and talk to each other?
I was thinking the same kind of thing, but then realised that he meant something like "don't ask why I needed to install firewire into these machines". At least I hope he meant that.
Yep
Chair: Reclinatron
TP: Wipatron
Cup: Slurpatron
Lightcycle: Tronatron
You're talking about filtering for convenience rather than protection then. I'm talking about the fact that people need to be educated rather than just protected from threats, then when one does slip through the servant's fingers, they're not going to fall for it.
No they're not. They're meant to be tools for us to use, rather than things that are meant to think for us. People need to try to think more themselves. The internet isn't as virtual as people may think, you can lose real cold hard cash if you aren't careful (or sometimes, even if you are). Anyway, computers that can live your life for you would be nice to some people, but at the moment, a computer isn't going to know if that scam email is actually from your brother Fred who needs money again, or from prince Fred in Nigeria who needs you to deposit the small sum of $100 to reclaim his spaceship containing Martian cocaine extracts before he deals it out on the streets of Manchester while driving around in his wooden boat.
I don't get why we need tools for 'fighting phishing'. I wonder if some people use servants to check their snailmail for scams.. some people should just be sent away to live on farms. I'm of course meaning as livestock rather than workers. They'd probably be able to live a happy life just chewing on hay and rolling around in fields.
Well, it is Trent Reznor after all..?
Well, the upside is that we don't spend 7 hours everyday peeing!
It can't be that hard - today's chips are only fabbed using 2D construction, so you just need to get a magnifying glass and a light, and look for the reflections coming off the little door handle or knocker.
What's stopping you from getting rid of the unwanted icons on your desktop? I'm not an MS fan but I dunno what you're complaining about here - no OS that I've ever seen (well, apart from cut down stuff like the EEE PC) just has application icons and nothing else - you generally would have either the drives or a 'my computer' equivalent showing.
Most people generally find the ability to browse the internet, see pictures, play music etc quite useful. How exactly do you propose getting new apps onto your computer if you don't have some basic form of web browser anyway? Are you going to order everything on CD? Way to be traveling in the wrong direction..!
Oh, and Mac OS actually includes very good built in software for almost everything you said up there, apart from the drawing pictures (AFAIK). Personally I don't like iTunes though, so as well as Firefox and the GIMP, I downloaded VLC. I see no problem with any OS distribution including applications that can make the thing more useful though. If you don't want all that stuff in Windows, remove it in the Windows configuration bit in add/remove programs.
I didn't say improve, I said change :p The moment a big company gets their paws on the idea they're going to be able to mass produce them a lot easier than any individual. Hand crafted stuff is often better quality, but the mass produced stuff is going to be cheaper and take the lion's share of the market. I think the original copyright and patent systems had it right, it's the stupid extensions that are causing issues here. It's not 'fair' if someone spends years inventing say a flying car, then GM buys one, reverse engineers it, puts a GM badge on it and claims it all as its own without paying any licensing fees. That's not much of an incentive to be an inventor IMO, though it benefits society if they have cheap flying cars (mainly because all the idiots will crash and burn I schpose)
So then someone can come along, change 1% of the design and sell it as their own? I'm thinking of cars as usual. In software's case, the final product is protected by copyright rather than patents. Individual methods are protected by patents. AFAIK America only introduced software patents in the 90s and things have gone downhill over there since then.
I've heard she loves to be cable tied in place, and prefers any peripherals to be plugged in from behind. You need to be earthed if you're going to work on her internals though.
Poss'blee because it's another thing to get in the way of causing too much mischief if someone is trying to break into your box. If they already have restricted access, having a compiler available probably makes it a lot easier to root it (IANAcracker but the reasoning seems pretty straightforward). That was the reasoning I read before anyway - not for Ubuntu specifically, just for only installing what you actually need onto your system to reduce possible attack vectors.
Uh.. I did fine in school thanks, 7 1s and a 2 in standard grade, only an A and 3 Bs in higher but that was more than I needed to get into Uni, and then I got my degree despite mitigating circumstances. I don't want to plan any lessons cuz I don't want to be a teacher. I don't need to lie about banging anyone, I'm a virgin, you think I'd lie about that? :p You have some serious issues, either that or you just try too hard with your trolling. I have this uncanny feeling that I make a lot more money than you, and while I do love my cars, I don't have any car mechanic friends, sorry. I hope if I ever have kids that they aren't taught by an arrogant, inflammatory little potty mouth like you.. o_0
Probably would be easier just to replace your keyboard with a special keylogger version than to club you on the back of the head :P
Uh.. yeah sure http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/validify
http://s8.invisionfree.com/weaselwords/ar/t167.htm
Pretty common usage *shrug*
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Sir! It's those robotic holidaymakers again! They're being held by those darned robotic pirate-terrorists! They're asking for 10000 lithium polymer batteries and 30 copies of that issue of Roboman weekly featuring Natalie Portscan!
Amen brutha :)
PS I'm the IT 'manager' where I work, but in an IT department of 2.. there's not much people management involved, and the guy who is my assistant is actually more suited to a management role than me IMO. I'm just far more knowledgeable when it comes to technical stuff, plus I can code. It's nice to have him doing most of the tech support stuff while I get to do me coding! I enjoy the coding, right up until the point where the client (generally another department within the company) decides it wants to modify the originally agreed on spec. Lots of little incremental updates generally mean ripples that move out through the whole code, meaning little things tend to get overlooked. It's much easier when you know all the exact specs first and can code everything with all features in mind from the start.
It's Captain Antartica!
I agree! It's always best to blow everything out of all proportion and start an arms race!