Didn't you hear the CEO of Verizon? He says we're number one! That's us in the US, not some Vikings of the north.
He ain't no dummy, he know that AMERICA is the best country on earth!!! We don't need no commie Sweden universal healthcare, vacation time, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, or high speed web conneckshuns, cause we're number 1!!!! Start saying it, then repeat, over and over, repeatedly, with great repetition and redundancy, and you'll believe it too! Unless you hate America and freedom, you know we're NUMBER 1!!!!
PS: Don't forget that Verizon, GM, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Microsoft, Anheuser Busch, and Fox News have what you want and are AMERICAN - trust them, no matter what they say, and give them money. Unless u r a gay-loving commie terrorist. You do love your country,right????
I don't think this was a deliberate attempt to defraud customers as much as it was a poor choice of verb. People use the term "sync" when it has nothing to do with synchronization.
No, when a huge corporation markets a service and says "sync" when they mean "plug in," there is definitely an attempt to defraud consumers by selling them a useless or non-existent service that they do not need. They do not accidentally do things like that, and they have been doing it for years.
A friend of mine paid a bunch of money for Best Buy* to "calibrate" his HDTV. What did they do? Play with the color settings until he said "good," and plug it into his receiver. He is decidedly a non-geek, but they didn't do anything he wouldn't have been more than capable of doing if they had not pushed this "service" on him and been so nice as to finance it with the cost of the TV, making it even more attractive (or less unattractive maybe?). Even that ol' country boy wondered if he had been ripped off. I was nice and told him "If you're happy, it was worth it, right?. But next time you buy something, take it with you, call me when you get home, and I'll walk you through the setup, and you'll only owe me a beer."
*I do not endorse their name as factually accurate
You call that hefty? My Cell phone bill is $411 a month without overages.
I do have 2 Blackberries and 3 data lines (Verizon) but I'd still love a $80-$100 a month bill.
Did you ever consider that just maybe you have a little more than you can use, or that you're being ripped off? Just wondering. And you are probably not a student, or operating on a student-sized budget. Just guessing.
So basically, they are licensing Windows stuff. Nothing to see here. Also, while Novell did a patent deal wit Microsoft, it did NOT do a deal wrt linux, as there's no Microsoft code in linux (and most of us are smart enough to remove the potentially-encumbered mono-base from opensuse).
Actually, most of us are smart enough to not use opensuse in the first place. Not trying to be facetious, just noting that opensuse's market share is not large enough for this to really be a concern, is it?
...manufacture their junk in their home country and largest market if they want to enforce US standards? Oh wait, they don't want to meet us pay standards, just appear that they give a crap.
If people who want to provide open access become prohibited from doing so, the workaround will be to sort of standardize on a universally-known password, meaning users would know to try a particular password anywhere, any time when looking for otherwise-open access. I suppose this wink-and-a-nod method might cause problems, since users would then technically be using a network without authorization, but it could work.
BTW, I'm sure WE paid for it, too. It is massive and huge in scale, so I sincerely doubt the artist footed the cost out of pocket and just donated it all. So should I insist on retaining rights to all work I do, even when someone else pays me to do it and I do not negotiate such rights beforehand?
Silly me... I thought the point of a memorial was for it to be placed in the trust of (or outright given to) the public... That being the case, how does this decision affect other images of public art?
Scary, or perhaps stupid, or even ridiculous. This was commissioned by Congress and occupies space in a public park. It belongs to the United States, so we should be able to use images of it just as we do with the other public buildings and monuments we own. It is a beautiful monument to those who risked and gave their lives for us. If some blowhard "artist" wants to retain all image rights to his work, then he should keep a piece for himself, not expect us to build a setting for it and maintain it. Plenty of artists could have created something as significant without being assholes about it.
Several years ago I witnessed a restaurant developer's Samsung flip phone fall out of his shirt pocket and into a deep fryer. It took a few seconds to fish it out, and the pull-out antenna was a bit mangled, but the phone still worked! He continued to use that phone for quite sometime, though it has since been retired due to old age, I think.
well youre tricked into thinking your actually logging on the real twitter, so when you log you GIVE them your password, so its not really like they are stealing it, just receiving it
I think if you commit a crime (copyright fraud counts) and use deception in an attempt to obtain something you should not have and do not have a right to have (someone else's login info), and can not use, that is stealing. If you leave a laptop out in public with a text editor open, and someone types in their password for no reason, you are merely receiving it, and they should be bitch-smacked. This misuse of networks is stealing. The vast majority of slashdotters probably wouldn't fall for it, but most people are not techies or especially suspicious by nature.
Don't go with KDE3.5 just for that reason or anything stupid like that.
Are any major distros still using KDE 3.5? I know it works, but it is pretty old now, and the newest 4.x versions looks and works great.
Which one do you go for? Ubuntu. Why? It's the biggest, easiest to find support for, and it works really well.
Mint. It is based on Ubuntu but is designed to provide a better, more complete out-of-the-box experience. I have to say, it delivers. Supporting it is pretty much like supporting Ubuntu, though the Mint support community is also very friendly and helpful. The software manager, updater, and some other little things are really nice, and simple. There are 32 and 64-bit versions with Gnome, KDE versions, and more.
Well, just because they are used to windows doesn't mean it is working well for them or that they do not need constant help with it. XP is beginning to look dated and has always been a security problem. We all know Vista is crap, so if they're using that, switching to anything would be a reasonable upgrade. And if they are good enough with Windows that they don't need help with it, switching to Ubuntu (or Mint, even better) should not be difficult and will provide some peace of mind in terms of security. It didn't sound to me like the OP was just going in and fixing things that weren't broken just to piss people off - he maintains their computers, they care about what they can do rather than who makes their OS, and their are reasonable alternatives to XP and Vista.
I'd say Mint is a good choice, though I'm certainly biased from using it for years now. It is easy to install, comes with everything most users need, and is Ubuntu-based, meaning anything you don't find should be easy to add. The included software manager makes it super easy to pick and choose optional software. At least give this one a look, as it has become quite popular, according to distrowatch.com and some other linux reviewers.
So will this make Yahoo suck like Bing, or Bing actually find pages (I'm interested in) just like Yahoo?
I refuse to RTFA, and the summary makes it sound like bing technology will power Yahoo, I think. So Yoohoo will suck even more than it does now, and I will never use it, instead of using it as a tool of last resort.
The plan is to take the best and brightest students and send them to community colleges? Great plan you've come up with there, National Association of Community Colleges.
If that machine is made entirely of legos, then I can build a car entirely out of sticks found in my yard. If you don't count the bits in the cube-solver that actually do the work, the computer, then I won't count the engine, drivetrain, and tube frame of my car. Terribly, utterly, and entirely unremarkable. But good job to the builders anyway, I guess.
When I was a small child of 4 or 5 in the early 80's, my Dad got a Rubik's Cube for Christmas. He found it amusing. A few days later I brought it to him, completely solved. He was amazed! Not only had his genius son shown remarkable problem solving skills at such a young age, I had even managed to put a few of the stickers back on straight.
You are ridiculous, and have worked so hard to corrupt the very spirit of the once-wonderful games that you oversee (as if so many other decisions, like holding the games in China, did not do this well enough). So, take this, and you will NOT receive any royalties:
IOC IOC
Olympic Games! Olympic Games! Olympic Games! Olympic Games! Olympic Games!
IOC IOC!!!!
Olympic Games! Olympic Games! Olympic Games!
You suck. Aside from hockey, the families of the athletes, and old people watching figure skating for the music, no one gives a damn about the Winter Olympics(tm) anyway. You can't carry the World Cup's jock (that's an athletic supporter device, slashdotters). By holding your games (yes games, not sports, mostly) the same year as the World Cup, you have the second most important international athletic tournament of the year, meaning you probably shouldn't even bother. Way to go IOC!
No disrespect to Vancouver, an interesting and wonderfully eclectic city, or any other previous or future hosts. I'm sorry for the mockery you endure and the outrageous sums of money you spend in hopes of experiencing something in the same class as the real olympics. Your children will remember it far into the future, when they are living in the shoddy public housing that was built to house foreigners for two weeks instead of providing for good educations that might prevent them from needing such a thing.
The performance is far from being on the same stage as Nvidia's official Unix driver.
Excuse me for not being an expert on drivers for hardware I don't own, but does this mean the new driver is better than the official driver, or not nearly as good? If it is not "on the same stage," meaning not nearly as good, why is Red Hat using it, and why is this news? Do some people really use markedly inferior software simply because it is open source, even if a better competitor is available at no cost? This seems silly to me. I use linux because it works perfectly well for me. If it were a pile of crap in comparison to Windows, I'd use Windows (I can get that for free too, so there is no effective cost difference), even though I have a casual dislike for Microsoft. (please no Macintosh osx comments here, I don't care)
There's no such thing as just "a bit unconstitutional." If it is unconstitutional at all, it is prohibited, and probably a bad, bad thing. This is all a silly idea to begin with, and you are right, there is no way it can possibly constitutional to legally require "subversives" to do anything. This appears to violate the 1st amendment, just off the top of my head, and one might argue that it violates the 5th, 8th, and 9th amendments, just to name a few. Not good.
..te shitstorm is coming. And as this is 4chan so yes the shit in shitstorm is litteral.
Litteral? Literal? So when te shitstorm comes, te kidz from 4chan (whatever that is) will literally be using feces for some purpose? Or does the misspelling of the word literal some how change its meaning in some way that I am not yet aware of? Te internet is litterally confusing te shit out of me. I'm so scared I can't build a bunker!
I doubt any widely-relevant conclusions at all can be drawn from this analysis. It is somewhat interesting, but the hundreds of samples (which is not really that many) are probably created by a mere handful of individuals, most all of whom belong to a particular group - male undergraduate students, 18-24, residing in or near a certain Chicago neighborhood. So certainly there is no way to apply any findings to any larger group. A fun exercise for statistics nerds, perhaps, but of little scientific value.
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Didn't you hear the CEO of Verizon? He says we're number one! That's us in the US, not some Vikings of the north.
He ain't no dummy, he know that AMERICA is the best country on earth!!! We don't need no commie Sweden universal healthcare, vacation time, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, or high speed web conneckshuns, cause we're number 1!!!! Start saying it, then repeat, over and over, repeatedly, with great repetition and redundancy, and you'll believe it too! Unless you hate America and freedom, you know we're NUMBER 1!!!!
PS: Don't forget that Verizon, GM, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Microsoft, Anheuser Busch, and Fox News have what you want and are AMERICAN - trust them, no matter what they say, and give them money. Unless u r a gay-loving commie terrorist. You do love your country,right????
I don't think this was a deliberate attempt to defraud customers as much as it was a poor choice of verb. People use the term "sync" when it has nothing to do with synchronization.
No, when a huge corporation markets a service and says "sync" when they mean "plug in," there is definitely an attempt to defraud consumers by selling them a useless or non-existent service that they do not need. They do not accidentally do things like that, and they have been doing it for years.
A friend of mine paid a bunch of money for Best Buy* to "calibrate" his HDTV. What did they do? Play with the color settings until he said "good," and plug it into his receiver. He is decidedly a non-geek, but they didn't do anything he wouldn't have been more than capable of doing if they had not pushed this "service" on him and been so nice as to finance it with the cost of the TV, making it even more attractive (or less unattractive maybe?). Even that ol' country boy wondered if he had been ripped off. I was nice and told him "If you're happy, it was worth it, right?. But next time you buy something, take it with you, call me when you get home, and I'll walk you through the setup, and you'll only owe me a beer."
*I do not endorse their name as factually accurate
> The article says it was "Posted on 3 Sep 2010 at 15:47". Unless I've missed something, we're still in March 2010...
You need to spend more time looking into the info available on the darknets then, clearly. You have missed something. The truth is out there.
You call that hefty? My Cell phone bill is $411 a month without overages. I do have 2 Blackberries and 3 data lines (Verizon) but I'd still love a $80-$100 a month bill.
Did you ever consider that just maybe you have a little more than you can use, or that you're being ripped off? Just wondering. And you are probably not a student, or operating on a student-sized budget. Just guessing.
Thank you Valve; a nice follow up to the game of the decade.
So you mean "Portal 2" is just a working title, and the real name is "Halflife 3?" Awesome!
So basically, they are licensing Windows stuff. Nothing to see here. Also, while Novell did a patent deal wit Microsoft, it did NOT do a deal wrt linux, as there's no Microsoft code in linux (and most of us are smart enough to remove the potentially-encumbered mono-base from opensuse).
Actually, most of us are smart enough to not use opensuse in the first place. Not trying to be facetious, just noting that opensuse's market share is not large enough for this to really be a concern, is it?
...manufacture their junk in their home country and largest market if they want to enforce US standards? Oh wait, they don't want to meet us pay standards, just appear that they give a crap.
If people who want to provide open access become prohibited from doing so, the workaround will be to sort of standardize on a universally-known password, meaning users would know to try a particular password anywhere, any time when looking for otherwise-open access. I suppose this wink-and-a-nod method might cause problems, since users would then technically be using a network without authorization, but it could work.
BTW, I'm sure WE paid for it, too. It is massive and huge in scale, so I sincerely doubt the artist footed the cost out of pocket and just donated it all. So should I insist on retaining rights to all work I do, even when someone else pays me to do it and I do not negotiate such rights beforehand?
Silly me... I thought the point of a memorial was for it to be placed in the trust of (or outright given to) the public... That being the case, how does this decision affect other images of public art?
Scary, or perhaps stupid, or even ridiculous. This was commissioned by Congress and occupies space in a public park. It belongs to the United States, so we should be able to use images of it just as we do with the other public buildings and monuments we own. It is a beautiful monument to those who risked and gave their lives for us. If some blowhard "artist" wants to retain all image rights to his work, then he should keep a piece for himself, not expect us to build a setting for it and maintain it. Plenty of artists could have created something as significant without being assholes about it.
Several years ago I witnessed a restaurant developer's Samsung flip phone fall out of his shirt pocket and into a deep fryer. It took a few seconds to fish it out, and the pull-out antenna was a bit mangled, but the phone still worked! He continued to use that phone for quite sometime, though it has since been retired due to old age, I think.
That's not the question. The question is...
...why does anyone use them? Don't they know there are other hosts that don't use such tactics or resort to ridiculous tv commercials?
well youre tricked into thinking your actually logging on the real twitter, so when you log you GIVE them your password, so its not really like they are stealing it, just receiving it
I think if you commit a crime (copyright fraud counts) and use deception in an attempt to obtain something you should not have and do not have a right to have (someone else's login info), and can not use, that is stealing. If you leave a laptop out in public with a text editor open, and someone types in their password for no reason, you are merely receiving it, and they should be bitch-smacked. This misuse of networks is stealing. The vast majority of slashdotters probably wouldn't fall for it, but most people are not techies or especially suspicious by nature.
Don't go with KDE3.5 just for that reason or anything stupid like that.
Are any major distros still using KDE 3.5? I know it works, but it is pretty old now, and the newest 4.x versions looks and works great.
Which one do you go for? Ubuntu. Why? It's the biggest, easiest to find support for, and it works really well.
Mint. It is based on Ubuntu but is designed to provide a better, more complete out-of-the-box experience. I have to say, it delivers. Supporting it is pretty much like supporting Ubuntu, though the Mint support community is also very friendly and helpful. The software manager, updater, and some other little things are really nice, and simple. There are 32 and 64-bit versions with Gnome, KDE versions, and more.
Well, just because they are used to windows doesn't mean it is working well for them or that they do not need constant help with it. XP is beginning to look dated and has always been a security problem. We all know Vista is crap, so if they're using that, switching to anything would be a reasonable upgrade. And if they are good enough with Windows that they don't need help with it, switching to Ubuntu (or Mint, even better) should not be difficult and will provide some peace of mind in terms of security. It didn't sound to me like the OP was just going in and fixing things that weren't broken just to piss people off - he maintains their computers, they care about what they can do rather than who makes their OS, and their are reasonable alternatives to XP and Vista.
I'd say Mint is a good choice, though I'm certainly biased from using it for years now. It is easy to install, comes with everything most users need, and is Ubuntu-based, meaning anything you don't find should be easy to add. The included software manager makes it super easy to pick and choose optional software. At least give this one a look, as it has become quite popular, according to distrowatch.com and some other linux reviewers.
So will this make Yahoo suck like Bing, or Bing actually find pages (I'm interested in) just like Yahoo?
I refuse to RTFA, and the summary makes it sound like bing technology will power Yahoo, I think. So Yoohoo will suck even more than it does now, and I will never use it, instead of using it as a tool of last resort.
The plan is to take the best and brightest students and send them to community colleges? Great plan you've come up with there, National Association of Community Colleges.
If that machine is made entirely of legos, then I can build a car entirely out of sticks found in my yard. If you don't count the bits in the cube-solver that actually do the work, the computer, then I won't count the engine, drivetrain, and tube frame of my car. Terribly, utterly, and entirely unremarkable. But good job to the builders anyway, I guess.
When I was a small child of 4 or 5 in the early 80's, my Dad got a Rubik's Cube for Christmas. He found it amusing. A few days later I brought it to him, completely solved. He was amazed! Not only had his genius son shown remarkable problem solving skills at such a young age, I had even managed to put a few of the stickers back on straight.
You are ridiculous, and have worked so hard to corrupt the very spirit of the once-wonderful games that you oversee (as if so many other decisions, like holding the games in China, did not do this well enough). So, take this, and you will NOT receive any royalties:
IOC IOC
Olympic Games! Olympic Games! Olympic Games! Olympic Games! Olympic Games!
IOC IOC!!!!
Olympic Games! Olympic Games! Olympic Games!
You suck. Aside from hockey, the families of the athletes, and old people watching figure skating for the music, no one gives a damn about the Winter Olympics(tm) anyway. You can't carry the World Cup's jock (that's an athletic supporter device, slashdotters). By holding your games (yes games, not sports, mostly) the same year as the World Cup, you have the second most important international athletic tournament of the year, meaning you probably shouldn't even bother. Way to go IOC!
No disrespect to Vancouver, an interesting and wonderfully eclectic city, or any other previous or future hosts. I'm sorry for the mockery you endure and the outrageous sums of money you spend in hopes of experiencing something in the same class as the real olympics. Your children will remember it far into the future, when they are living in the shoddy public housing that was built to house foreigners for two weeks instead of providing for good educations that might prevent them from needing such a thing.
The performance is far from being on the same stage as Nvidia's official Unix driver.
Excuse me for not being an expert on drivers for hardware I don't own, but does this mean the new driver is better than the official driver, or not nearly as good? If it is not "on the same stage," meaning not nearly as good, why is Red Hat using it, and why is this news? Do some people really use markedly inferior software simply because it is open source, even if a better competitor is available at no cost? This seems silly to me. I use linux because it works perfectly well for me. If it were a pile of crap in comparison to Windows, I'd use Windows (I can get that for free too, so there is no effective cost difference), even though I have a casual dislike for Microsoft. (please no Macintosh osx comments here, I don't care)
There's no such thing as just "a bit unconstitutional." If it is unconstitutional at all, it is prohibited, and probably a bad, bad thing. This is all a silly idea to begin with, and you are right, there is no way it can possibly constitutional to legally require "subversives" to do anything. This appears to violate the 1st amendment, just off the top of my head, and one might argue that it violates the 5th, 8th, and 9th amendments, just to name a few. Not good.
..te shitstorm is coming. And as this is 4chan so yes the shit in shitstorm is litteral.
Litteral? Literal? So when te shitstorm comes, te kidz from 4chan (whatever that is) will literally be using feces for some purpose? Or does the misspelling of the word literal some how change its meaning in some way that I am not yet aware of? Te internet is litterally confusing te shit out of me. I'm so scared I can't build a bunker!
I doubt any widely-relevant conclusions at all can be drawn from this analysis. It is somewhat interesting, but the hundreds of samples (which is not really that many) are probably created by a mere handful of individuals, most all of whom belong to a particular group - male undergraduate students, 18-24, residing in or near a certain Chicago neighborhood. So certainly there is no way to apply any findings to any larger group. A fun exercise for statistics nerds, perhaps, but of little scientific value.