While I'm all for the further development of spam filters and blocking spammers, our inboxes will not be free of it till people stop BUYING from their advertisements.
People say this all the time, but obviously it is an unworkable solution. What really needs to be done is to penalize companies that use the services of spammers. Clearly in order for spam to be effective the company selling the product must be accessible. The law, (and/or those practicing vigilante justice) need to insure that those trying to use spam pay more than they make from it. Once it becomes impractical to use spammers, the spammers will go out of business, fall into deal depression and hopefully take their own lives.
The justice dept really blew it, they made a huge mistake of going after an unrealistic break up when instead they should have gone after full disclosure and forcing M$ to insure and help with interoperablility. Instead Billy, Steve and the boys got of Scott free.
I just finished Quicksilver and enjoyed it alot. I read it a chapter or two at a time over the course of a few months and savoured every page. You have to approach it like a long cross country car trip, don't sit there whining "Are we there yet?", sit back and enjoy the ride.
I've got about 10k songs in my database and we listnen to it on random almost all of the time. It's like having your own radio station. The weird thing is that the player seems to get into moods where it only plays songs of a certain genre or flavour. It's pretty cool and no doubt just our own perception of what is being played. Has anyone else experienced this?
This only works if you already have a key, so you aren't stealing anything, it just makes it possible to get better use out of music you paid for. Such as putting it on your slimserver etc. I don't think that the availability of such a tool is going to cause people to go hunting for protected aac files to crack, and if you are going share them, you could just rip them as mp3 (yes i know lesser quality yada yada). I think this tool is useful for people that do buy iTunes an i for one will probably buy more now that i can get better use out of them.
Think of it as the same thing as cracking a game you already bought so that you don't have to put the CD in the drive every time you want to play it.
In Bill's world every box shipped will come with a license for windows that will allow you to use it for a finite period of time or as long as you pay your subscription. Since he is not capable of envisioning anyone else's software (o/s or application) running on the box, it is conceivable that he thinks that a some point the hardware will come bundled with not software, not the otherway around. This is the best possible scenario for him as it allows M$ to exert absolute control and insure that people only run properly supported (and locked) hardware.
Less is better. I'd like to see/. tone down their page as well, particularily that big honking ad on the right hand side. (yeah i know, subscribe if you don't want to see it, or block it, yada yada). What ever, it's a waste of both space and bandwidth.
What would be cool is if you could configure a web site to use your one stylesheet.
Since forcing them out of business seems to be unfortulately out of the question. The only realistic control is to force them to do full disclosure on all file formats, protocols and api's. This will give other platforms a chance to try to compete at some level.
Uhm, why would MS do this?.NET is designed to be and sold as a "cross platform" solution--a real way to do Java's "write once, run anywhere" line.
Bullshit,.NET is touted as being an open standard, which is true for the c# language and various portions of the framework. The the truth is that it is intented largely to be scripting language for legacy and propietary dlls. M$ can blow sunshine up that asses of gulible IT managers saying it's open and potentially crossplatform but the fact of the matter is that unless someone ports the propietary interfaces to other platforms, it ain't gonna happen. M$ knows this and if anyoen makes a really serious attempt to do it, they will step in and slap them down (but only after someone like Ximain expends an enormous amount of money and energy doing it). I think that Miguel know this and that this is the main reason that Forms are not a high priority for them.
Remember it is not in M$'s interest for.NET to actively take off on Linux, as a matter of fact it is very much against their interest. They are tolerating it only because they want.NET development to spread knowing that most of it will end up having to be run on windows systems due to the fact the main core components are net available on other platforms.
Creating a market for tv's imported from countries that don't have the restrictions and a black market for chipping sets.
As someone who cares not about the license
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Whats new in 4.4, the site seems to be/.ed. Can a Karma whore please post come release notes.
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Split it with me and i will go peacefully:)
It's not really a bad thing
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I know some people think this virus makes the linux community look bad, but that's not really the case. It's just another windows virus in a long line of windows viruses, written somewhere by some asshole for whatever reason they see fit. Even if it turns out that the writter is a Linux fanatic, you can't hold the whole community responsibe for the actions of one individual. Personally i think it's a good thing because it does serve three useful functions (no i did not write it:)).
It forces somes asshole companies of the net for a while.
It raises awareness of the whole SCO fiasco and I'm not seeing much in the way if sympathy for them in the press.
It shows once again that windows is a virus ridden insecure platform.
is that is positioned to sell as many as they can to people that will pay $249 for them. When those people run out they can drop the price to $199 and maybe even introduce a 2G at $149. And sell a shit load more.
I was there on Thursday, dropped by the M$ booth hoping to see some ex-Softway employees. M$ was giving out a reasonably cool little fm radio thing. I avoid their software like the plague, but have to admit that a long time ago i got a decent lunch bag from them at a trade show (the only M$ product i've ever had that was worth anything). So I grabbed the radio. Unfortunately like most things Microsoft, when i got home i found out that it was junk, missing the little door that holds the batteries in. I guess they don't do QA on anything.
You are so very right (or at least you used to be before the CDN$ started to rise). I'm a Canadian living in the states and have always loved going home because things in Canada are so much cheaper. Case in point, a shirt at the Gap (or where ever) is $29 in Canadan and $29 in the states. Why? because it's what poeple will pay.
It doesn't always work out that way, the worse case is that you will pay the same price after exchange.
Unfortunately there is one other thing that you have to consider. The fucking GST, (and PST) so something must be 7-15% cheaper in Canada before it's a bargin.
I've done it, currently my C/C++ is fairly rusty and i'd say it takes me about 10 times as long to develop and debug something in C++ than it would take in Java. If my C++ skills were equal to my Java skills, i'd imagine that this ratio would drop to maybe 5 times as long.
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Shortly after they installed nt, all the rats on the ship disappeared.
While I'm all for the further development of spam filters and blocking spammers, our inboxes will not be free of it till people stop BUYING from their advertisements.
People say this all the time, but obviously it is an unworkable solution. What really needs to be done is to penalize companies that use the services of spammers. Clearly in order for spam to be effective the company selling the product must be accessible. The law, (and/or those practicing vigilante justice) need to insure that those trying to use spam pay more than they make from it. Once it becomes impractical to use spammers, the spammers will go out of business, fall into deal depression and hopefully take their own lives.
The justice dept really blew it, they made a huge mistake of going after an unrealistic break up when instead they should have gone after full disclosure and forcing M$ to insure and help with interoperablility. Instead Billy, Steve and the boys got of Scott free.
I just finished Quicksilver and enjoyed it alot. I read it a chapter or two at a time over the course of a few months and savoured every page. You have to approach it like a long cross country car trip, don't sit there whining "Are we there yet?", sit back and enjoy the ride.
Say it isn't so, Linux doesn't support his on board sound chip set. We're fucked now!
On the other hand, one usually looks into these sort of things before one purchases one's hardware.
I've got about 10k songs in my database and we listnen to it on random almost all of the time. It's like having your own radio station. The weird thing is that the player seems to get into moods where it only plays songs of a certain genre or flavour. It's pretty cool and no doubt just our own perception of what is being played. Has anyone else experienced this?
This only works if you already have a key, so you aren't stealing anything, it just makes it possible to get better use out of music you paid for. Such as putting it on your slimserver etc. I don't think that the availability of such a tool is going to cause people to go hunting for protected aac files to crack, and if you are going share them, you could just rip them as mp3 (yes i know lesser quality yada yada). I think this tool is useful for people that do buy iTunes an i for one will probably buy more now that i can get better use out of them.
Think of it as the same thing as cracking a game you already bought so that you don't have to put the CD in the drive every time you want to play it.
He sent that out a few days late.
In Bill's world every box shipped will come with a license for windows that will allow you to use it for a finite period of time or as long as you pay your subscription. Since he is not capable of envisioning anyone else's software (o/s or application) running on the box, it is conceivable that he thinks that a some point the hardware will come bundled with not software, not the otherway around. This is the best possible scenario for him as it allows M$ to exert absolute control and insure that people only run properly supported (and locked) hardware.
Less is better. I'd like to see /. tone down their page as well, particularily that big honking ad on the right hand side. (yeah i know, subscribe if you don't want to see it, or block it, yada yada). What ever, it's a waste of both space and bandwidth.
What would be cool is if you could configure a web site to use your one stylesheet.
Since forcing them out of business seems to be unfortulately out of the question. The only realistic control is to force them to do full disclosure on all file formats, protocols and api's. This will give other platforms a chance to try to compete at some level.
Uhm, why would MS do this? .NET is designed to be and sold as a "cross platform" solution--a real way to do Java's "write once, run anywhere" line.
.NET is touted as being an open standard, which is true for the c# language and various portions of the framework. The the truth is that it is intented largely to be scripting language for legacy and propietary dlls. M$ can blow sunshine up that asses of gulible IT managers saying it's open and potentially crossplatform but the fact of the matter is that unless someone ports the propietary interfaces to other platforms, it ain't gonna happen. M$ knows this and if anyoen makes a really serious attempt to do it, they will step in and slap them down (but only after someone like Ximain expends an enormous amount of money and energy doing it). I think that Miguel know this and that this is the main reason that Forms are not a high priority for them.
.NET to actively take off on Linux, as a matter of fact it is very much against their interest. They are tolerating it only because they want .NET development to spread knowing that most of it will end up having to be run on windows systems due to the fact the main core components are net available on other platforms.
Bullshit,
Remember it is not in M$'s interest for
Lets all get certificates and sign our messages. Then we can configure our mail systems to not accept unsigned messages. Simple.
Creating a market for tv's imported from countries that don't have the restrictions and a black market for chipping sets.
Whats new in 4.4, the site seems to be /.ed. Can a Karma whore please post come release notes.
Split it with me and i will go peacefully :)
Whats not to like.
I know thats where i'd be if i had to administer windows boxes.
is that is positioned to sell as many as they can to people that will pay $249 for them. When those people run out they can drop the price to $199 and maybe even introduce a 2G at $149. And sell a shit load more.
I was there on Thursday, dropped by the M$ booth hoping to see some ex-Softway employees. M$ was giving out a reasonably cool little fm radio thing. I avoid their software like the plague, but have to admit that a long time ago i got a decent lunch bag from them at a trade show (the only M$ product i've ever had that was worth anything). So I grabbed the radio. Unfortunately like most things Microsoft, when i got home i found out that it was junk, missing the little door that holds the batteries in. I guess they don't do QA on anything.
At least your window opens.
Can anyone suggest a good source for RedHat 9 RPMS? Mozilla.org has not had any since about 1.4 or so, nor do there seem to be any on the redhat site.
What do you want them to do?
I want them to go out of business. Thanks for asking.
You are so very right (or at least you used to be before the CDN$ started to rise). I'm a Canadian living in the states and have always loved going home because things in Canada are so much cheaper. Case in point, a shirt at the Gap (or where ever) is $29 in Canadan and $29 in the states. Why? because it's what poeple will pay.
It doesn't always work out that way, the worse case is that you will pay the same price after exchange.
Unfortunately there is one other thing that you have to consider. The fucking GST, (and PST) so something must be 7-15% cheaper in Canada before it's a bargin.
I've done it, currently my C/C++ is fairly rusty and i'd say it takes me about 10 times as long to develop and debug something in C++ than it would take in Java. If my C++ skills were equal to my Java skills, i'd imagine that this ratio would drop to maybe 5 times as long.