My dad keeps talking about how many times he was hit on his bike while in college (the 1970s), and there are far more cars now than there were then
Really? My dad commutes to work every day on bicycle (at least when it's not winter) and has yet to be hit once. His work is a 15 minute trip by car through part of downtown.
Granted, the population of the city he works in is only 110,000. But, it's not that hard, relaly.
I don't know how UNIX-land manages things, but my understanding is messing with some other process' (physical) memory will cause a segfault. ("This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" in Windows land.) So, it's a little less useful outside of singletasking embedded devices.
I'm guessing/dev/mem lets you edit your own memory space, which is nifty. But, you don't know the exact machine code ops your compiler is going to generate, so it's harder to poke replacement instructions into memory without a separate listing of what you're replacing.
Then there are languages like Visual Basic (pre-dot-net) that just need to die. And editing source and recompiling itself is completely different.
On the other hand... How'd I get modded "insightful"? Thanks for the karma, tho!
I pay my 5 bucks, and now Steve Jobs will let me download as much as I want from iTunes for free!!! Same with Amazon. Right? Or do you expect me to pay twice?
I think you may be on to something. Online stores - especially iTunes - have increasing leverage with record labels. They have millions of customers, and they're taking away business from traditional CD sales.
Makes the whole one-hour-of-crap-plus-one-good-song-on-a-shiny-piece-of-plastic model harder to sell for $10 a pop when you can get the one good song for $1. This could be a ploy just to either take away business from "legitimate" online stores, or to make those stores more expensive.
You know what else assembly can do? Self-modifying code.
After all, your program is just zeroes and ones in memory. They can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and mutilated, just like anything else digital can.
So, for speed purposes, you can write a bastard of a for loop that changes the address of the jump statement at the end rather. It's hard to find a real practical purpose, other than on the TI-83 graphing calculators that only let you have 8811 bytes of code running at a time.
So... What can a congresscritter do who knows assembly language?
Checks and balances is a poor justification on this level, because the executive should not be overwriting the legislative in my opinion. I believe a nice compromise would be if the president could send the bill to the supreme court for a constitutionality check and suspend signing the bill into law until the court decides.
The courts are not supposed to be legistlating. Never, ever, ever! That's why we have the legislative branch.
The "constitutionality check" still happens - it's called judicial review, but the way it happens, it keeps judges somewhat removed from the political process. Which is a good thing; I at least like the illusion that politics shouldn't play a role in justice.
I think that a stronger Congress and a weaker president is better, because it makes things less radical and responsibility is divided more evenly. It would also make people able to vote for representatives locally who could eventually influence things, but while the president is too powerful change is not possible if you have to gain the presidential seat to actually do anything, given the state of media and related issues.
Problem is that a direct democracy is a synonym for mob rule. They didn't want a skilled sophist or propaganda mill to convince the 51% to vote to kill the 49%. The idea was to separate the government from the people, yet still have the government accountable to them.
Originally, we elected the House of Representatives, and the House elected the Senate. (IIRC, this is how the Japanese government works.) The House was designed to be responsive to the needs of the people, the senate more deliberate and long-sighted, and the courts even more long sighted.
I look around me, and most of the people I see are idiots. Granted, I am arrogant and elitest - but the prolefeed I see when I watch television scares me. Celebrities? Al Gore? (But I repeat myself.) Crime is given more airtime than ever before - it's shocking and will get viewers and ratings, but without being controversial.
The idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H human beings and individuals at my college who will vote for Obama because "He'll give more money to teachers and I'm an education major" or the editorials in my local newspaper agonizing over the problem of choosing between black man or a white woman for president. Because, of course, superficial things like race and gender should matter in an election more than what they'll do with the office.
American Idol had better turnout than some primaries. The population as a whole has screwed up priorities, and I want those less represented in my government, thank you very much.
a religious group built around a cult of personality, where the original leader is subsequently replaced by a series of leaders chosen according to the originator's alleged principles.
Take out the word "religious", and you have the United States government. George Washington cult, anyone?
Absolutely right; upgrade treadmill is easier than ever nowadays.
Get a nVidia chipset that can support SLI. Buy one "second-from-the-top" video card for today (8800 GTS or GTX) and when it becomes obsolete, pick up a second one from the bargain bin. 2x videocards doesn't necessarily mean 2x the framerate, but it helps.
Intel just switched to a 45nm process and is rolling out their new architecture, so I doubt any new CPU sockets are going to crop up. Heck, I heard a lot of existing motherboards may support Nehalem with a BIOS patch. Plus, Intel's low-end dual- and quad-core chips overclock extremely well - instead of upgrading, overclock until you burn the shi*t out of it. By the time that happens, what you were originally going to upgrade to will be dirt cheap.
DDR3 memory is coming out, but probably won't supplant DDR2 for quite a while yet. If your motherboard doesn't support DDR3, you'll still be good for a long time. <baselessprophecy/> Memory is cheap - $120 last year got you 1GB; nowadays, that'll get you 4, at least according to Maximum PC.
Storage is cheap, and the new terabyte drives will eventually come down in price. $1500 can get you a "no compromises" PC, and with planning, will be upgradeable for a long way to come. My little brother's gaming rig was purchased January of 2001 for <$2000 and has had no work done to it other than a vid card upgrade (nVidia 8600 something-or-other.) But, it does just fine on everything but Crysis.
Interestingly enough, I play Team Fortress 2 on a LCD HDTV through the component out dongle on my 8800 GTX video card. It kicks the pants off of the Xbox 360 version. Oh well for console superiority.
Funny how it's "society" that came up with the idea of IP. But I digress.
Nobody outside of Mickey Mouse has ever argued that you should keep "perpetual right" on inventions.
The fact that nobody does anything "on their own" is a non sequitor. Let's see where Ford's family, society, and Greek philosophers would have been without the assembly line and the Model A.
If you discount the value of the individual, you will, one by one, discount society.
I download a song that I will never buy anyway, they've lost nothing by that download, unlike someone stealing a car, or a dvd off the shelf, or any of the other ridiculous bullshit analogies that they use.
I submit to you, sir, that "I wasn't going to buy it anyway" is equally bullshit.
If you couldn't get it for free, would you still listen to music? I'm guessing you would, but maybe you'd have to compensate the artist instead. Although I'd like to see a lot of them starving, I wouldn't want to see every artist a starving artist.
If their work isn't worth paying for, don't buy it. Don't finger-quote-bunny "steal" it. If a tune isn't worth $.99 to you, it's obviously not worth listening to. So why are you torrenting it, and then being self-righteous about your laziness?
The scarcity's in the time and talent of the artist. Rick Astley put time and effort into his songs, and he's considerably more talented than most singers. If he wrote the music and lyrics, then that's even more time that was put into the song. It's not property in the tangible sense.
...which the artist doesn't get paid for. Because what that time and talent produces is not tangible. But, that intangible good is more value than the tangible one - yet you don't feel he and others have a right to get paid for their work?
Real property - exclusion can be accomplished without involving 3rd parties.
Intellectual property - exclusion can only occur with the aid of 3rd parties (i.e. law enforcement).
Really? If me, and 6 of my friends, and a few dozen of their friends, decide we want to use your backyard, can you stop us without using third parties? Hell, you'd have every right to - but it's that "i.e. law enforcement" 3rd party that makes it all possible without you hiring a private army and fighting force with force. Maybe we want to torch your garage while we're at it - think "real" property rights are any more enforceable without government?
Real property - control does not require 3rd parties.
Intellectual property - control requires 3rd parties (i.e. law enforcement)
Same problem as above - "Real" property is no more of an intellectual arbitrage than "intellectual" property.
The only difference? Ideas are easier to "trespass" upon. You can keep others off of your "real" property with a fence. Your decade of market research is infinitely more valuable, yet infinitely less protectable.
And generally, what is hard for the individual to do, we expect the government to do - roads, law enforcement, and even utilities are perfect examples. Why is making research profitable such a heinous idea? If you think you can keep others off your backyard, think of how much greater the need is to protect the "useful sciences."
So you're saying that you owe society nothing for providing the stimulus to your amazing brain? That everything that comes out of my brain is MINE MINE MINE and has nothing to do with the world I live in? You know this kind of bullshit thinking harks back to Aristotle right? and that even he decided it was wrong.
You're saying that because other people existed, you can't do anything new? Can't add anything to the pool of knowledge? Can't do something revolutionary? Can't do something small?
Even the tiniest contribution to human knowledge has value. Even if you surmise that only 1/10 of an idea is original "MINEMINEMINE", man has every right to be proud of the 10% that wasn't there before.
The last mile can be the most important one; if people are willing to pay you for your work, great. But, attributing everything to others because because they're older is anti-knowledge. (Maybe I'm new here.)
Windows Update patched the Sasser vulnerability seventeen days before the virus was released. Reason why sheep need automatic updates on by default. Even on dial-up, I managed to hit update every Tuesday.
I have never run into a VBA virus, despite working with some rather unintelligent people over the years. Virusscanner nails most of them, as does setting whatever security settings the older versions of Office came with. Unless you're in a business environment with some crazy need for it, the default security settings will generally keep the nastier stuff from operating.
I installed AOL on my microwave, on high for 8 seconds. The 1100 watt DUN client was still fine for food cooking, as the disc had yet to smoke.
I have always built my own computer, or instructed my parents to buy their machine from a systems builder. The first thing I do to family computers when they buy a new one is wipe the drive clean, although that's nigh impossible on machines that don't come with an actual Windows disc.
It's by luck that I haven't put a Sony CD in my computer, although I would have formatted the drive afterwards. I keep everything difficult to replace - music, movies, anime, homework assignments, code, etc - on a separate partition, and backed up. I can format C at any time without even losing my Outlook PST.
Simple thing is - don't install crappy software! Cheap scanners will find VBA and macro viruses, and just don't enable that feature in Word! XP SP2 comes with a decent enough firewall; ZoneAlarm is free for everything else. Vanilla XP machines should be behind a NATed router until patching, or should have a firewall installed from a CD or a flash drive prior to lighting up the ether.
I know how easy it is to get junk on a computer - most come with it. Have someone technically inclined remove it for you - most are happy if you phrase it in terms of negative future opportunity cost.
My Vista machine didn't have any virusscanner software on it for a long time, but I got into a beta test program for what turned into Windows Live OneCare, and got an offer for a discounted subscription when the product was released, so I said, "eh, why not" and put the other two licenses on my parents machines (you get 3.) And if you have to browse porn, at least use Firefox, or use a patched IE7. (Vista will update itself during the install if you're connected to the internet, solving the "vanilla XP" problem, too.
Do we have the same understanding of the time needed to compile a 60Mb+ file / You are using Distcc on a Top500 cluster / I really should upgrade my personnal server)
How do people do this to their computers? You're reading/posting to slashdot, so I assume you're technically competent.
Even when I was using Internet Explorer 6, I never had this problem. I've had one virus the entire time I've used Windows (since 3.11) - and that was some file infecting virus I got on Windows 98 from who-knows-where. (Although I suspect my younger brother-knows-where, but I digress.)
Never had toolbars, and pop-ups stopped when I got IE7 (beta 1.) But, somehow, people manage to trash their Windows boxes, and trash them regularly.
How did you manage this? What sites did/do you browse? What horrible Bonzi-buddy software do you use on your computer? I'd like to know what the rest of my extended family (the ones who think I'm free 24-hour technical support) is doing.
you are funny, but seriously, did anyone think that microsoft was going to release a beta version of ie8 to anyone other than certified testers (common people)?
They did, and they do. The x86 download links for Windows XP and Windows Sever 2003 are working as of the time of this post. IE7 Beta1 was closed (I got my copy from a developers conference), IE7 Beta2 was public registration IIRC, and IE7 Beta3 was public.
Looks like they're doing the same thing - the alpha versions are given to their closed-circle testers who can do meaningful debugging, later Beta versions are given to people at large.
Interestingly enough, back when they did the public betas of Vista, they only let people who filed bug reports using the included tool get a copy of the next beta/RTM. I wonder if they'll do the same thing for IE8, or if the next release will be the full-blown "critical update" release.
I wonder why there are any broken links, but the links for the XP and Server 2003 x86 versions are working. I, with x64 Vista, will have to wait for Windows 7 in 2009 for anything resembling OS support >.<
If you believe that everything contradicting a literal interpretation of the Bible is a lie, you're missing even more.
That's exactly the point I was trying to make. They're creation stories, not docu-dramas. Ask, "what insight is the author of this text trying to convey?" not "How can I rationalize a story to fit a literal history I want to believe in."
Please disseminate this knowledge across my campus.
I live in a dorm that has two wings - one for the men, one for the women, and a common lounge/entrance/exit in the middle connecting them. Makes sense, right?
The dorm is U-shaped, (Men-> |_| <-Women from the Google satellite view) and the women never seem to close their shades.
Not that I mind, of course, but it's bad if I forget to close my blinds when friends or parents visit. The view can be interesting at certain times...
The damage isn't economic. The **AA does the PR damage to themselves with their frivolous lawsuits.
PR damage -> Economic damage. How many/.ers quit buying music CDs because of the seething rage at the star-star-ay-ay they feel deep within the tumultuous passions of their souls??!
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My dad keeps talking about how many times he was hit on his bike while in college (the 1970s), and there are far more cars now than there were then
Really? My dad commutes to work every day on bicycle (at least when it's not winter) and has yet to be hit once. His work is a 15 minute trip by car through part of downtown.
Granted, the population of the city he works in is only 110,000. But, it's not that hard, relaly.
Maturity... On Slashdot? Do I ask if you're new here?
The nuclear cat is out of the bag, and as long as the US has a single nuke, they have no place to lecture others about non-proliferation.
Zomg Bush nazi 1984 "jokes" aside, can you circle the differences between these pictures:
Having nukes is fine. Who can be trusted not to use them, hm?
I don't know how UNIX-land manages things, but my understanding is messing with some other process' (physical) memory will cause a segfault. ("This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" in Windows land.) So, it's a little less useful outside of singletasking embedded devices.
I'm guessing /dev/mem lets you edit your own memory space, which is nifty. But, you don't know the exact machine code ops your compiler is going to generate, so it's harder to poke replacement instructions into memory without a separate listing of what you're replacing.
Then there are languages like Visual Basic (pre-dot-net) that just need to die. And editing source and recompiling itself is completely different.
On the other hand... How'd I get modded "insightful"? Thanks for the karma, tho!
I pay my 5 bucks, and now Steve Jobs will let me download as much as I want from iTunes for free!!! Same with Amazon. Right? Or do you expect me to pay twice?
I think you may be on to something. Online stores - especially iTunes - have increasing leverage with record labels. They have millions of customers, and they're taking away business from traditional CD sales.
Makes the whole one-hour-of-crap-plus-one-good-song-on-a-shiny-piece-of-plastic model harder to sell for $10 a pop when you can get the one good song for $1. This could be a ploy just to either take away business from "legitimate" online stores, or to make those stores more expensive.
You know what else assembly can do? Self-modifying code.
After all, your program is just zeroes and ones in memory. They can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and mutilated, just like anything else digital can.
So, for speed purposes, you can write a bastard of a for loop that changes the address of the jump statement at the end rather. It's hard to find a real practical purpose, other than on the TI-83 graphing calculators that only let you have 8811 bytes of code running at a time.
So... What can a congresscritter do who knows assembly language?
He can write self-modifying legislature!
Checks and balances is a poor justification on this level, because the executive should not be overwriting the legislative in my opinion. I believe a nice compromise would be if the president could send the bill to the supreme court for a constitutionality check and suspend signing the bill into law until the court decides.
The courts are not supposed to be legistlating. Never, ever, ever! That's why we have the legislative branch.
The "constitutionality check" still happens - it's called judicial review, but the way it happens, it keeps judges somewhat removed from the political process. Which is a good thing; I at least like the illusion that politics shouldn't play a role in justice.
I think that a stronger Congress and a weaker president is better, because it makes things less radical and responsibility is divided more evenly. It would also make people able to vote for representatives locally who could eventually influence things, but while the president is too powerful change is not possible if you have to gain the presidential seat to actually do anything, given the state of media and related issues.
Problem is that a direct democracy is a synonym for mob rule. They didn't want a skilled sophist or propaganda mill to convince the 51% to vote to kill the 49%. The idea was to separate the government from the people, yet still have the government accountable to them.
Originally, we elected the House of Representatives, and the House elected the Senate. (IIRC, this is how the Japanese government works.) The House was designed to be responsive to the needs of the people, the senate more deliberate and long-sighted, and the courts even more long sighted.
I look around me, and most of the people I see are idiots. Granted, I am arrogant and elitest - but the prolefeed I see when I watch television scares me. Celebrities? Al Gore? (But I repeat myself.) Crime is given more airtime than ever before - it's shocking and will get viewers and ratings, but without being controversial.
The idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H human beings and individuals at my college who will vote for Obama because "He'll give more money to teachers and I'm an education major" or the editorials in my local newspaper agonizing over the problem of choosing between black man or a white woman for president. Because, of course, superficial things like race and gender should matter in an election more than what they'll do with the office.
American Idol had better turnout than some primaries. The population as a whole has screwed up priorities, and I want those less represented in my government, thank you very much.
a religious group built around a cult of personality, where the original leader is subsequently replaced by a series of leaders chosen according to the originator's alleged principles.
Take out the word "religious", and you have the United States government. George Washington cult, anyone?
Absolutely right; upgrade treadmill is easier than ever nowadays.
Get a nVidia chipset that can support SLI. Buy one "second-from-the-top" video card for today (8800 GTS or GTX) and when it becomes obsolete, pick up a second one from the bargain bin. 2x videocards doesn't necessarily mean 2x the framerate, but it helps.
Intel just switched to a 45nm process and is rolling out their new architecture, so I doubt any new CPU sockets are going to crop up. Heck, I heard a lot of existing motherboards may support Nehalem with a BIOS patch. Plus, Intel's low-end dual- and quad-core chips overclock extremely well - instead of upgrading, overclock until you burn the shi*t out of it. By the time that happens, what you were originally going to upgrade to will be dirt cheap.
DDR3 memory is coming out, but probably won't supplant DDR2 for quite a while yet. If your motherboard doesn't support DDR3, you'll still be good for a long time. <baselessprophecy/> Memory is cheap - $120 last year got you 1GB; nowadays, that'll get you 4, at least according to Maximum PC.
Storage is cheap, and the new terabyte drives will eventually come down in price. $1500 can get you a "no compromises" PC, and with planning, will be upgradeable for a long way to come. My little brother's gaming rig was purchased January of 2001 for <$2000 and has had no work done to it other than a vid card upgrade (nVidia 8600 something-or-other.) But, it does just fine on everything but Crysis.
Interestingly enough, I play Team Fortress 2 on a LCD HDTV through the component out dongle on my 8800 GTX video card. It kicks the pants off of the Xbox 360 version. Oh well for console superiority.
Cats suck, because they use emacs. Dogs rule because they use vi.
Actually, cats use cat. Maybe some echo redirection.
Funny how it's "society" that came up with the idea of IP. But I digress.
Nobody outside of Mickey Mouse has ever argued that you should keep "perpetual right" on inventions.
The fact that nobody does anything "on their own" is a non sequitor. Let's see where Ford's family, society, and Greek philosophers would have been without the assembly line and the Model A.
If you discount the value of the individual, you will, one by one, discount society.
I download a song that I will never buy anyway, they've lost nothing by that download, unlike someone stealing a car, or a dvd off the shelf, or any of the other ridiculous bullshit analogies that they use.
I submit to you, sir, that "I wasn't going to buy it anyway" is equally bullshit.
If you couldn't get it for free, would you still listen to music? I'm guessing you would, but maybe you'd have to compensate the artist instead. Although I'd like to see a lot of them starving, I wouldn't want to see every artist a starving artist.
If their work isn't worth paying for, don't buy it. Don't finger-quote-bunny "steal" it. If a tune isn't worth $.99 to you, it's obviously not worth listening to. So why are you torrenting it, and then being self-righteous about your laziness?
The scarcity's in the time and talent of the artist. Rick Astley put time and effort into his songs, and he's considerably more talented than most singers. If he wrote the music and lyrics, then that's even more time that was put into the song. It's not property in the tangible sense.
...which the artist doesn't get paid for. Because what that time and talent produces is not tangible. But, that intangible good is more value than the tangible one - yet you don't feel he and others have a right to get paid for their work?
Real property - exclusion can be accomplished without involving 3rd parties.
Intellectual property - exclusion can only occur with the aid of 3rd parties (i.e. law enforcement).
Really? If me, and 6 of my friends, and a few dozen of their friends, decide we want to use your backyard, can you stop us without using third parties? Hell, you'd have every right to - but it's that "i.e. law enforcement" 3rd party that makes it all possible without you hiring a private army and fighting force with force. Maybe we want to torch your garage while we're at it - think "real" property rights are any more enforceable without government?Real property - control does not require 3rd parties.
Intellectual property - control requires 3rd parties (i.e. law enforcement)
Same problem as above - "Real" property is no more of an intellectual arbitrage than "intellectual" property.
The only difference? Ideas are easier to "trespass" upon. You can keep others off of your "real" property with a fence. Your decade of market research is infinitely more valuable, yet infinitely less protectable.
And generally, what is hard for the individual to do, we expect the government to do - roads, law enforcement, and even utilities are perfect examples. Why is making research profitable such a heinous idea? If you think you can keep others off your backyard, think of how much greater the need is to protect the "useful sciences."
there's nothing stopping them copying ideas EXCEPT the law
Is that a bad thing? In all cases?
Revolutionary, fun, tube-filled things of sparkles and sunshine take research. Research takes money. Without IP law, a company has two options:
Which one do you think will happen more often?
Why do the research to begin with if, by "stealing" someone else's lets you make the same product on the cheap? You have no sunk costs to recover!
Imagine a world of only generic drugs... except there are no longer brand-name drugs to turn into generics.
So you're saying that you owe society nothing for providing the stimulus to your amazing brain? That everything that comes out of my brain is MINE MINE MINE and has nothing to do with the world I live in? You know this kind of bullshit thinking harks back to Aristotle right? and that even he decided it was wrong.
You're saying that because other people existed, you can't do anything new? Can't add anything to the pool of knowledge? Can't do something revolutionary? Can't do something small?
Even the tiniest contribution to human knowledge has value. Even if you surmise that only 1/10 of an idea is original "MINEMINEMINE", man has every right to be proud of the 10% that wasn't there before.
The last mile can be the most important one; if people are willing to pay you for your work, great. But, attributing everything to others because because they're older is anti-knowledge. (Maybe I'm new here.)
Windows Update patched the Sasser vulnerability seventeen days before the virus was released. Reason why sheep need automatic updates on by default. Even on dial-up, I managed to hit update every Tuesday.
I have never run into a VBA virus, despite working with some rather unintelligent people over the years. Virusscanner nails most of them, as does setting whatever security settings the older versions of Office came with. Unless you're in a business environment with some crazy need for it, the default security settings will generally keep the nastier stuff from operating.
I installed AOL on my microwave, on high for 8 seconds. The 1100 watt DUN client was still fine for food cooking, as the disc had yet to smoke.
I have always built my own computer, or instructed my parents to buy their machine from a systems builder. The first thing I do to family computers when they buy a new one is wipe the drive clean, although that's nigh impossible on machines that don't come with an actual Windows disc.
It's by luck that I haven't put a Sony CD in my computer, although I would have formatted the drive afterwards. I keep everything difficult to replace - music, movies, anime, homework assignments, code, etc - on a separate partition, and backed up. I can format C at any time without even losing my Outlook PST.
Simple thing is - don't install crappy software! Cheap scanners will find VBA and macro viruses, and just don't enable that feature in Word! XP SP2 comes with a decent enough firewall; ZoneAlarm is free for everything else. Vanilla XP machines should be behind a NATed router until patching, or should have a firewall installed from a CD or a flash drive prior to lighting up the ether.
I know how easy it is to get junk on a computer - most come with it. Have someone technically inclined remove it for you - most are happy if you phrase it in terms of negative future opportunity cost.
My Vista machine didn't have any virusscanner software on it for a long time, but I got into a beta test program for what turned into Windows Live OneCare, and got an offer for a discounted subscription when the product was released, so I said, "eh, why not" and put the other two licenses on my parents machines (you get 3.) And if you have to browse porn, at least use Firefox, or use a patched IE7. (Vista will update itself during the install if you're connected to the internet, solving the "vanilla XP" problem, too.
Do we have the same understanding of the time needed to compile a 60Mb+ file / You are using Distcc on a Top500 cluster / I really should upgrade my personnal server)
Nope, he's running Vista x64. ^.^
I'm never greeted with a new toolbar.
How do people do this to their computers? You're reading/posting to slashdot, so I assume you're technically competent.
Even when I was using Internet Explorer 6, I never had this problem. I've had one virus the entire time I've used Windows (since 3.11) - and that was some file infecting virus I got on Windows 98 from who-knows-where. (Although I suspect my younger brother-knows-where, but I digress.)
Never had toolbars, and pop-ups stopped when I got IE7 (beta 1.) But, somehow, people manage to trash their Windows boxes, and trash them regularly.
How did you manage this? What sites did/do you browse? What horrible Bonzi-buddy software do you use on your computer? I'd like to know what the rest of my extended family (the ones who think I'm free 24-hour technical support) is doing.
you are funny, but seriously, did anyone think that microsoft was going to release a beta version of ie8 to anyone other than certified testers (common people)?
They did, and they do. The x86 download links for Windows XP and Windows Sever 2003 are working as of the time of this post. IE7 Beta1 was closed (I got my copy from a developers conference), IE7 Beta2 was public registration IIRC, and IE7 Beta3 was public.
Looks like they're doing the same thing - the alpha versions are given to their closed-circle testers who can do meaningful debugging, later Beta versions are given to people at large.
Interestingly enough, back when they did the public betas of Vista, they only let people who filed bug reports using the included tool get a copy of the next beta/RTM. I wonder if they'll do the same thing for IE8, or if the next release will be the full-blown "critical update" release.
I wonder why there are any broken links, but the links for the XP and Server 2003 x86 versions are working. I, with x64 Vista, will have to wait for Windows 7 in 2009 for anything resembling OS support >.<
If you believe that everything contradicting a literal interpretation of the Bible is a lie, you're missing even more.
That's exactly the point I was trying to make. They're creation stories, not docu-dramas. Ask, "what insight is the author of this text trying to convey?" not "How can I rationalize a story to fit a literal history I want to believe in."
Whip out your concordance. The Hebrew word for "day" used in Genesis isn't meant to be metaphorical; it's a literal, 24-hour period of time.
If you assume that everything in the Bible is no deeper than a convoluted historical document, you're missing a lot.
Please disseminate this knowledge across my campus.
I live in a dorm that has two wings - one for the men, one for the women, and a common lounge/entrance/exit in the middle connecting them. Makes sense, right?
The dorm is U-shaped, (Men-> |_| <-Women from the Google satellite view) and the women never seem to close their shades.
Not that I mind, of course, but it's bad if I forget to close my blinds when friends or parents visit. The view can be interesting at certain times...
Macs always hide mice, before they were popular on IBM clones?
I also forgot - F6 in Internet Explorer sets focus to the URL bar.
The damage isn't economic. The **AA does the PR damage to themselves with their frivolous lawsuits.
PR damage -> Economic damage. How many /.ers quit buying music CDs because of the seething rage at the star-star-ay-ay they feel deep within the tumultuous passions of their souls??!