I'll agree with you to some exent, there is a problem with the system that/. uses, but perhaps it is the best of the bad systems we have to choose from. The things I like about it include that it is harder to get mod points, meaning by the time people get them they should "get" how things should be and achieve a level of maturity within the system. One thing that I really dislike though is what I will call the "mod flame war", I've had comments modded up to 5 by people who agreed with me and then down to 0 by people who disagreed. What should matter should be the quality of the arguement (regardless of if you agree/disagree). The this though is a problem with anything though, we will never have a system of objectivity and I don't think the digg system comes anywhere close to addressing that problem. Maybe if people had more of an opportunity to talk about how they think the system could be made better, perchance a suggestions box system and the editors pick out the best ideas and arrange something resembling a referendum? Further I think a problem far worse is the people who post anonomously just so they can say something idiotic or racist, they post at 0 and then a moderator rightly mods them down to -1, which wastes a point, would getting rid of anonamous posting (or making them always post at -1) and then make modding pretty much only a possitive thing (aside from an option for things that are openly offensive in the extreme with no merit as a logical arguement) and introducting a system of karma as a number that will disapate on its own after not being modded up for a while (to a point of equalibria at about 1) be a better system?
Anyway, thats just my considered response to you...
I can't help but wonder with the amount of people registering in the GB, 257,368 at present, if this is meaning people are becoming more accepting of the idea of Britian being considered a part of europe. Normally people really try to avoid any connection between their company and europe because people just don't like to deal with anything from "there"... is the net leading the way towards a greater intergration?...
...phishing is still going to be a serious problem... although the bar is important for users it shouldn't be the only source that they look for to see if a site is authentic, it should be based on all the factors which can give some inclination that the site is either legitimate or not and we need to create a culture where people look with caution on websites. See the register article on this topic with an interesting article on how people deal with these website http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/31/phishing_s tudy/... worryingly the amount of time spent on a computer doesn't seem to have any effect on how much at risk people are.
this should also serve as a reminder that people who get fooled with this aren't just stupid fools who don't know what a computer is.
When I first clicked on this it said "nothing for you to see here, please move along"... I felt a bit like one of the completely marginalised Fedora people now they have a lovely minority and no veto power
You know, there are some cultures in which they don't measure how intelligent you are by what you know or how clear your arguement is, but by how good you are at getting out of looking stupid when you've made a mistake... so here goes... although I was completely wrong and you are completely right, you might be inclined to read what i wrote in such a way that I was saying that the Wifi wouldn't be fast enough for a full time connection unless you bought the upgrade, in which case it does very little to address the ballence... second thoughts... that's what I meant all along
This will cost about $20 a month (based on there other pricing settings) so I don't really see this doing anything to address the "have and have nots" viz-a-viz the internet and Wifi. It probably won't be good enough to replace your home net connection and for $20 I would think you could get an ok net connection and a cheap rooter so how does it address the problem?
Is this not a good thing... letting people who are on faster connections have priority seems like it will drive companies to provide a better service faster and might also reduce the cost of slower connections... or am I wrong?
Vista will probably have a lifespan comparable to XP, something like 5-6 years
Actually I seem to remember them saying that they felt XP had gone on too long and that from now on they would be releasing new OS' every 4 years-ish... I can't find the actual info though.
good way to show how much you know about the UK.... firstly, we do not have an American flag as a representation of our government (that's only for a section of North America), secondly due to British summer time (that's right, we made a system of time that the rest of the world falls around and then opted out) its gone 12 noon and as such april fools day jokes are redundant (owing to the custom of stopping at noon)... tut tut tut.
you mean that they weren't already adult films... now I know I'm your average evangelical puritan, but I'm pretty sure that when Han Solo kissed the Princess THAT WAS A SIN... did we see a marriage before hand... hell worth almost... and don't even get me started on the possible incest situation, the killing (outside of an official, state designated, war) and the wife beating / strangling
According to the TV series it was "what do you get when you multiply seven by nine?"... Arthur always thought that there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
... would be a better place to launch all space missions from. It's far easier and cheaper to set off (because of less gravity and no atmosphere). The only problem is that the moon itself is actually in space, although i read about a giant elevator which might be built up into space (if it's possible) which would make getting there a lot easier... also it'd be a bitchin' place to stay the night.
I'm amazed that you can actually find a computer that comes with anything other than Windows pre-installed. This has to be at least one step in the right direction though. Even if people are only buying them to put windows on the effect on the market will be the same as if they were going to become hard-core open source supporters. It still gives a bigger market share to this stuff, and with bigger market shares bigger companies want to get in on the action... then it snowballs
then she can't also be monarch - The People won't stand for that
Interesting point, but I think you over estimate how much people like the government and under estimate how much people like the queen. My friend how joined the army, as well as most of his friends how are there would be prepared to fight a war for the queen against Parliament if asked - after all it is her army. There are also some secret organisations who are fiercely loyal to the monarchy, I'm pretty saure the masons wouldn't be happy if parliament tried to go against the queen; and they contain many of the senior people in the country. If push came to shove it could be a civil war, only this time parliament wouldn't have many people fighting for them... oh, and God is on her side...
is there anything that you can't patent now? yesterday I read about someone patenting all thoughts connecting two things, now they have words which (regardless of who originally created them) which are used commonly by the public and are not associated in the public mind with any particular company or "intellectual property"... should I begin patenting words before they get into the dictionary so that when they become commonly used I can do this kind of thing... where will it end... come to think of it I should patent the phrase "It's the end of civilisation" and then I can annoy people as our society is crumbling because of things like this
what can I do to get this series brought back, I've already bought *legally* all 4 DVD box sets! it was a fantastic series, and the DVD sales have been going well... why would they kill really good shows just to stick crap on. I remember the joke at the start of the newest series of family when they went through all the crap shows which have gone down the tiolet since it was cancelled...
This won't work, but we should all know that already know that. You can't just stick all the available technology into something and hope it all works out, this will end up being as big as origami with about 2 hours of battery life. I like things to be seperate, which is why I have an MP3 player, and a DS (and a camera and phone and whatever else they'll probably try and throw in it) I like things to be excellent at the one thing that they do, not just "acceptable" at everything under the sun
You should NEVER be an early adopter of anything... technology has shown that enough over the years. Look at the first TV's, there were two standards and eventually the BBC stopped showing the standard which used hundereds of lenses, so people who went for that lost out... now the same thing is happening again with the HD-DVD/blu ray thing... and even if you do get past that then you have to deal with bugs which haven't been worked out yet. So never adopt early, but convince others to do because early adopters are the drivers of technology and push for better products which work well... so tell your friends and family, ADOPT EARLY!
You can spend all the money in the world creating DRM, but within a month of it being released someone will break it... the 360 seemed to be getting cracked without too much trouble and the same will happen to the PS3. The fact is very few people copy console games and there isn't a huge market for them. Most piracy is done by people in their own homes and if you make it slightly difficult to download an ISO and then burn it (just with the most simple protection) then the average user won't be bothered to spend the 5 mins it would take to break it. The best solution for Sony would be to have a very lax DRM, bring down the price of the games to around £25 for a new game (which they could probably fund partly through not having to waste loads on DRM). I bet their sales woul;d increase dramatically and their efficiency also.
more information about the security for mac. I think the security is good enough, but (and I know I sound mental) I feel more secure on windows, because even because i might get a virus/spyware I've got pretty good at knowing how to deal with it if I get it and not get it. If I was on mac and got any security problem I'd never know and so it could run for ages...
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I'll agree with you to some exent, there is a problem with the system that /. uses, but perhaps it is the best of the bad systems we have to choose from. The things I like about it include that it is harder to get mod points, meaning by the time people get them they should "get" how things should be and achieve a level of maturity within the system. One thing that I really dislike though is what I will call the "mod flame war", I've had comments modded up to 5 by people who agreed with me and then down to 0 by people who disagreed. What should matter should be the quality of the arguement (regardless of if you agree/disagree). The this though is a problem with anything though, we will never have a system of objectivity and I don't think the digg system comes anywhere close to addressing that problem. Maybe if people had more of an opportunity to talk about how they think the system could be made better, perchance a suggestions box system and the editors pick out the best ideas and arrange something resembling a referendum? Further I think a problem far worse is the people who post anonomously just so they can say something idiotic or racist, they post at 0 and then a moderator rightly mods them down to -1, which wastes a point, would getting rid of anonamous posting (or making them always post at -1) and then make modding pretty much only a possitive thing (aside from an option for things that are openly offensive in the extreme with no merit as a logical arguement) and introducting a system of karma as a number that will disapate on its own after not being modded up for a while (to a point of equalibria at about 1) be a better system?
Anyway, thats just my considered response to you...
I can't help but wonder with the amount of people registering in the GB, 257,368 at present, if this is meaning people are becoming more accepting of the idea of Britian being considered a part of europe. Normally people really try to avoid any connection between their company and europe because people just don't like to deal with anything from "there"... is the net leading the way towards a greater intergration?...
If you like that you'll love being able to register ".co.ck"... I always found that one funny, not exactly shure which country it is though
...phishing is still going to be a serious problem... although the bar is important for users it shouldn't be the only source that they look for to see if a site is authentic, it should be based on all the factors which can give some inclination that the site is either legitimate or not and we need to create a culture where people look with caution on websites. See the register article on this topic with an interesting article on how people deal with these website http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/31/phishing_s tudy/... worryingly the amount of time spent on a computer doesn't seem to have any effect on how much at risk people are.
this should also serve as a reminder that people who get fooled with this aren't just stupid fools who don't know what a computer is.
When I first clicked on this it said "nothing for you to see here, please move along"... I felt a bit like one of the completely marginalised Fedora people now they have a lovely minority and no veto power
You know, there are some cultures in which they don't measure how intelligent you are by what you know or how clear your arguement is, but by how good you are at getting out of looking stupid when you've made a mistake... so here goes... although I was completely wrong and you are completely right, you might be inclined to read what i wrote in such a way that I was saying that the Wifi wouldn't be fast enough for a full time connection unless you bought the upgrade, in which case it does very little to address the ballence... second thoughts... that's what I meant all along
This will cost about $20 a month (based on there other pricing settings) so I don't really see this doing anything to address the "have and have nots" viz-a-viz the internet and Wifi. It probably won't be good enough to replace your home net connection and for $20 I would think you could get an ok net connection and a cheap rooter so how does it address the problem?
Is this not a good thing... letting people who are on faster connections have priority seems like it will drive companies to provide a better service faster and might also reduce the cost of slower connections... or am I wrong?
Vista will probably have a lifespan comparable to XP, something like 5-6 years
Actually I seem to remember them saying that they felt XP had gone on too long and that from now on they would be releasing new OS' every 4 years-ish... I can't find the actual info though.
from dictionary.com
entries found for redundant: Chiefly British. Dismissed or laid off from work, as for being no longer needed.
good way to show how much you know about the UK.... firstly, we do not have an American flag as a representation of our government (that's only for a section of North America), secondly due to British summer time (that's right, we made a system of time that the rest of the world falls around and then opted out) its gone 12 noon and as such april fools day jokes are redundant (owing to the custom of stopping at noon)... tut tut tut.
you mean that they weren't already adult films... now I know I'm your average evangelical puritan, but I'm pretty sure that when Han Solo kissed the Princess THAT WAS A SIN... did we see a marriage before hand... hell worth almost... and don't even get me started on the possible incest situation, the killing (outside of an official, state designated, war) and the wife beating / strangling
that's a good idea... although I think I'll wait for its 100th anniversary, maybe then I'll also manage to blag that (free beer!)
Someone's been watching too much Star Trek
First, you can never watch too much Star Trek, secondly, touche. You are indeed correct.
According to the TV series it was "what do you get when you multiply seven by nine?"... Arthur always thought that there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
... would be a better place to launch all space missions from. It's far easier and cheaper to set off (because of less gravity and no atmosphere). The only problem is that the moon itself is actually in space, although i read about a giant elevator which might be built up into space (if it's possible) which would make getting there a lot easier... also it'd be a bitchin' place to stay the night.
I'm amazed that you can actually find a computer that comes with anything other than Windows pre-installed. This has to be at least one step in the right direction though. Even if people are only buying them to put windows on the effect on the market will be the same as if they were going to become hard-core open source supporters. It still gives a bigger market share to this stuff, and with bigger market shares bigger companies want to get in on the action... then it snowballs
then she can't also be monarch - The People won't stand for that
Interesting point, but I think you over estimate how much people like the government and under estimate how much people like the queen. My friend how joined the army, as well as most of his friends how are there would be prepared to fight a war for the queen against Parliament if asked - after all it is her army. There are also some secret organisations who are fiercely loyal to the monarchy, I'm pretty saure the masons wouldn't be happy if parliament tried to go against the queen; and they contain many of the senior people in the country. If push came to shove it could be a civil war, only this time parliament wouldn't have many people fighting for them... oh, and God is on her side...
is there anything that you can't patent now? yesterday I read about someone patenting all thoughts connecting two things, now they have words which (regardless of who originally created them) which are used commonly by the public and are not associated in the public mind with any particular company or "intellectual property"... should I begin patenting words before they get into the dictionary so that when they become commonly used I can do this kind of thing... where will it end... come to think of it I should patent the phrase "It's the end of civilisation" and then I can annoy people as our society is crumbling because of things like this
/flame off
what can I do to get this series brought back, I've already bought *legally* all 4 DVD box sets! it was a fantastic series, and the DVD sales have been going well... why would they kill really good shows just to stick crap on. I remember the joke at the start of the newest series of family when they went through all the crap shows which have gone down the tiolet since it was cancelled...
This won't work, but we should all know that already know that. You can't just stick all the available technology into something and hope it all works out, this will end up being as big as origami with about 2 hours of battery life. I like things to be seperate, which is why I have an MP3 player, and a DS (and a camera and phone and whatever else they'll probably try and throw in it) I like things to be excellent at the one thing that they do, not just "acceptable" at everything under the sun
You should NEVER be an early adopter of anything... technology has shown that enough over the years. Look at the first TV's, there were two standards and eventually the BBC stopped showing the standard which used hundereds of lenses, so people who went for that lost out... now the same thing is happening again with the HD-DVD/blu ray thing ... and even if you do get past that then you have to deal with bugs which haven't been worked out yet. So never adopt early, but convince others to do because early adopters are the drivers of technology and push for better products which work well... so tell your friends and family, ADOPT EARLY!
You can spend all the money in the world creating DRM, but within a month of it being released someone will break it... the 360 seemed to be getting cracked without too much trouble and the same will happen to the PS3. The fact is very few people copy console games and there isn't a huge market for them. Most piracy is done by people in their own homes and if you make it slightly difficult to download an ISO and then burn it (just with the most simple protection) then the average user won't be bothered to spend the 5 mins it would take to break it. The best solution for Sony would be to have a very lax DRM, bring down the price of the games to around £25 for a new game (which they could probably fund partly through not having to waste loads on DRM). I bet their sales woul;d increase dramatically and their efficiency also.
Too late I realise, my children are my only real treasure...
more information about the security for mac. I think the security is good enough, but (and I know I sound mental) I feel more secure on windows, because even because i might get a virus/spyware I've got pretty good at knowing how to deal with it if I get it and not get it. If I was on mac and got any security problem I'd never know and so it could run for ages...
That said i do want to migrate...