So I tells the library "I lost that book." Next things I knows, the librarian looks into the screen, starts typing, then tells me, "It's in the bedroom, under your nightstand." So I goes home and there it is! That lady, wotta dish and smart to boot! Thanks RFID!
The overall position of the US at this time is that people and dinosaurs lived together in harmony and that soon George the idiot and all his money-grubbing pals will fly into the sky up to heaven. Global warming and the changing environment is a problem for those of us LEFT BEHIND to deal with. So as dubya says "What me worry?"
Testify, the most incompetent people who manage to never get fired until the whole shebang is in flames is management and HR. Especially mid-level managers....
While I'm a fan of Firefly I didn't think that Serenity lived up to the magic of the series. It has a lot going on but there was something lacking, something sorta flat in comparison to the quirks of Firefly. However in no way can I see this as better than Bladerunner and Star Wars which are iconic in a way Serenity will never be. Just a buncha fanboys hunkering of the latest thing. Which ain't so latest at this point.
I've been waiting for the jokes concerning overclocking this chip on an ubuntu linux box but they haven't been forthcoming.......or maybe they have.....
"Until July 2003, a computer security researcher Jan Krzysztof Rutkowski used his school-provided e-mail account at Warsaw University of Technology (jkrutkowski@elka.pw.edu.pl) to publish various security materials on Windows kernel rootkit hiding and detection...This person had ceased all public security research mid-2003.
Within less than two months, a previously unknown researcher named Joanna Rutkowska began to publish papers on Windows rootkit detection and hiding techniques (Concepts for the Stealth Windows Rootkit, first paper by Joanna Rutkowska) that were very closely related to earlier contributions by Jan and extended some of his ideas, referencing previous work (e.g., Detecting Windows Server Compromises with Patchfinder 2).
This is rich:
"Apple is expanding its share of the market by building its own, smaller retail stores where users get a better buying experience and better support. "
The cheerleading chumps in my local Apple store are dimwits who spend more time chasing their female co-workers around the register than digging up useful information. So far the simplest information has to be double-checked before confirmed. Mostly they look like future aerobics instructors and act like it too. I guess that's show Microsoft good!
However, if Apple delivers a 12" Intel based Macbook Pro like rumours say, I'll probably buy one and run Solaris and Windows via Parallels. It's just too bad that Apple's initial warranty on their goods is so skimpy. They really wanna jack you with their over-priced and under resourced AppleCare bs. Which isn't that great from what my pro-Mac pals say. Though of course those same people evangelize Apple at the drop of a hat.......still it isn't like Dell is any better at customer service. As someone else here pointed out it would seem that article should pit Dell and Gateway vs Apple......
My recent encounters with OS X Tiger is that it reminded me of Gnome only prettier......
On the one hand I think that the idea that bad information can have good results is pretty rose-tinted to say the least. On the other hand the internet has consolidated access to alternative media which is a good thing and can lead to a more informed populace. Of course the internet is full of the same slanted and opinionated crap that you see everywhere else so it can lead to an utterly mis-informed populace. And your statements about the mainstream media are pretty spot on, of course since I would tend to read those online I don't really see a difference there in medium. Same lies different venue. In the end one can get the inside scoop from either Rush Limbaugh's blog or Al Franken's depending on the already formed predilections. Or better yet, CowboyNeal's.......
There sure is a lot of Microsoft ass-kissing getting put up on this site these days.....I would say this story misses the point. The point wasn't what consumers wanted the point was unfair advantage in the industry. It's not surprising that a bunch of companies that are in microshafts pocket aren't gonna bundle XPN, I'm sure they're all scared of having their prices go up the next time they negotiate a deal.
I do think that the penalty misses the point as well. Unbundling Media Player doesn't seem to solve the problem. Opening up the interface data that Sun wanted seemed to be the point. Personally I can't see anything wrong with Media Player, now Internet Explorer, that's a different can of worms........
There's one born every minute. It's pretty hilarious that after how utterly terrible the first two movies were that the idiot geekboy have nothing better to do than get suckered by that chump Lucas for a third go round. I bet that ass is laughing all the way to the bank. I know the distibutor is........It's pretty pathetic when people's lives are so small and utterly desire filled that they can't wait to see this and skip work. Not that there's anything wrong with missing work, but this is a pretty lame reason......
I thought football was the modern replacement of Gladiator games as well as being the most popular sport. It's the most watched on TV. Baseball is number two. The closest baseball gets to Gladiator Games is when a pitcher brushes back a batter and hits him. Boring.
However the Senate and the House should be turned into Gladiator Games, give Orrin Hatch a sword and let him fight out with some pro-file sharing guy for top dog.....
More specifically, stop buying CD's with copy protection. I wouldn't have this problem since I don't buy mainstream music. However if this passes it will be easy to see who does since so many of 'em will be in jail! I guess it becomes a bad-taste tax.
Since so many here get so serious and freak out if a post makes the slightest attempt at humour or an alternative opinion (especially those rabid iPod heads, sheesh, wotta buncha losers! Oops, there I go again!)I will disclaim the above by saying that I understand that there is plenty of good music on major labels and I was just funnin' around though I don't know anyone that would be threatened by this if it was implemented in America since I don't know anyone that buys stuff likely to be copy protected.
Of course the Companies all hail this legislation and thereby show why consumers seek alternatives from their clueless lockdown on their "product".
actually I have never felt the need to inundate myself with music on the go. I listen to tons at home and don't accept it as wallpaper for my daily errands. Perhaps being a fan of John Cage means that I find interesting sounds all around me. If I was gonna listen to music on the go I'd buck up and get real audiophile stack:
and Pair it with some Sennheiser headphones and simply play CD's through a discman. Screw that low res iPod baloney. I'd rather wait and listen to the real thing than the shadows of the handpuppets on the wall that is MP3's........
Friggin' moderators. Hey, read the damn article before you start slinging flamebait around idjit! It's very relevant to the thread and the post it's attached to.
Perhaps you don't know much about audio but here's a rip:
"When you buy a tune from iTunes, you should probably be aware that you're not getting quite what you think you are"
"Ah, for simpler times, when we never had reason to look up the bit rate at which music is digitally sampled for CD's: 1,378 kilobits per second. The bit rate for iTunes, 128, is so low that when played side by side against the original, the difference is audible not only to audio enthusiasts, but also to mortals with ordinary hearing. Wes Phillips, contributing editor at Stereophile, says "128 is like an eight-track," and he describes the combination of iPod and iTunes as "buying a 21st-century device to live in the 1970's."
So though the guys at Stereophile and other audio mags think that the iPod is pretty slick they sure as hell don't think that you're getting great sound quality out of those things. And let's face it, even CD quality inherently sucks which is why there is up and oversampling and DSD to try and get better sound out of the digital medium.
Just because most people don't have the knowledge to know any better doesn't mean that something ain't so.
So I guess you read the "Left Behind" book series and are hoping that we are speeding towards the apocalypse? Those are the best selling books in America and being et up by the Religious Right that makes up the typical Republicans.......Here's Bill Moyers making a good statement about why these environmental fiascos are encouraged by the Republicans......ready for the rapture?:
and then Apple will release a piece of tinfoil tied to a string and all the magpies will line up to chase the shiny things around and get one for themselves.
They might as well get with radio, the shitty 8-track like sound quality of an iPod would be uber-retro if satellite could capture the sweet tinny sounds of AM.....
Since it seems that every fourth news story is about Google......and it used to seem that M$FT were the borg but I think there's a new assimilator in town. Wait till the Gmarketing strategy kicks in and they fill Wiki with ads and online stores start adding their own entries to the encyclopedia and get ranked.....keep generating those long revenue dollars!
that works. One that doesn't rank bullshit shopping sites at top. If I look for my brother's workplace (a car dealership in Detroit) the actual web site for the company appears low on the 2nd page and sometimes on the 3rd page. It's pretty bad when the actual item itself is buried in favor of crappy link networks.......
That's the thing that the conspiracy theorists don't want to admit, that there are limits to free speech and this includes common sense and things that we enter into contractually like NDA's. Personally I think this guy is a total idiot for posting any of this nonsense about a company that he just started working for, but definitely some of the details seemed like "too much". The wide-eyed way he plays it off on his blog like "wow, I can't believe people pay this much attention to the internet" shows either a scary lack of common sense or worse, very little knowledge of the internet. EVERYONE reads everything.
Someone I know works at a big corporation and sent me something they were going to post on an online journal mentioning work that was fairly innocuous but I told them to edit it out. Other than the endless blather that the internet has given us all a ridiculous forum for, I asked if it was really necessary to mention that? Could it be seen by the company as disclosing information in violation of your NDA? What do you get from posting that? In the end they were just posting to blab and it was meaningless to them but consideration made them realize that it was disclosing information about the company.
While people will want to make Google the bad guy, I feel that when you accept a contract for employment that you are responsible to not violate any NDA which may be in place and more than that, use some common sense about what you convey to the world. And when you post on the internet you post for every single person in the world with a computer. When you post for your friends do they really need to know insider details about your job? Or are you posting them because you think that a larger audience will find it interesting that you work at Google?
Hell if I was lucky enough to get a job at Google I'd be too busy to be blogging. And if I did I sure wouldn't mention Google. Not because I feel that they want to quell my free speech but because I joined a high-profile company that I would feel responsible to not only respect ALL information that I was working with but also because as an employee I would want to protect the company itself. The last thing any company I work for needs is me shooting off my mouth about what they do there.
People's right to diarrhea of the mouth ends when they join a larger group. If they don't like the Leviathan they can start their own company and shoot off their mouth to their heart's content.
Such as whether you mean IE is a better browser for pr0n viewing than Firefox or Opera or something.
Perhaps your question is whether or not Window's Media Player is the best movie viewer? You might want to suggest what's better.
Or whether under the OS if say, Apple's Quicktime is a better jpg viewer than MS's . Compare it to whatever you use under Linux....
Or whether those sweet, tricked out, fancy-pants Apple Displays are awesome to squeeze the most out of those low res freebies you downloaded, in which case MS doesn't have an alternative not being a hardware company.
Surfing Pr0n minds might want to know, but need to be more specific with the questions.
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So I tells the library "I lost that book." Next things I knows, the librarian looks into the screen, starts typing, then tells me, "It's in the bedroom, under your nightstand." So I goes home and there it is! That lady, wotta dish and smart to boot! Thanks RFID!
The overall position of the US at this time is that people and dinosaurs lived together in harmony and that soon George the idiot and all his money-grubbing pals will fly into the sky up to heaven. Global warming and the changing environment is a problem for those of us LEFT BEHIND to deal with. So as dubya says "What me worry?"
Testify, the most incompetent people who manage to never get fired until the whole shebang is in flames is management and HR. Especially mid-level managers....
Perhaps stiffer penalties would help. In class essay writing tests would be valuable for comparison against papers written during the semester.
While I'm a fan of Firefly I didn't think that Serenity lived up to the magic of the series. It has a lot going on but there was something lacking, something sorta flat in comparison to the quirks of Firefly. However in no way can I see this as better than Bladerunner and Star Wars which are iconic in a way Serenity will never be. Just a buncha fanboys hunkering of the latest thing. Which ain't so latest at this point.
I've been waiting for the jokes concerning overclocking this chip on an ubuntu linux box but they haven't been forthcoming.......or maybe they have.....
"Until July 2003, a computer security researcher Jan Krzysztof Rutkowski used his school-provided e-mail account at Warsaw University of Technology (jkrutkowski@elka.pw.edu.pl) to publish various security materials on Windows kernel rootkit hiding and detection...This person had ceased all public security research mid-2003.
Within less than two months, a previously unknown researcher named Joanna Rutkowska began to publish papers on Windows rootkit detection and hiding techniques (Concepts for the Stealth Windows Rootkit, first paper by Joanna Rutkowska) that were very closely related to earlier contributions by Jan and extended some of his ideas, referencing previous work (e.g., Detecting Windows Server Compromises with Patchfinder 2).
The cheerleading chumps in my local Apple store are dimwits who spend more time chasing their female co-workers around the register than digging up useful information. So far the simplest information has to be double-checked before confirmed. Mostly they look like future aerobics instructors and act like it too. I guess that's show Microsoft good!
However, if Apple delivers a 12" Intel based Macbook Pro like rumours say, I'll probably buy one and run Solaris and Windows via Parallels. It's just too bad that Apple's initial warranty on their goods is so skimpy. They really wanna jack you with their over-priced and under resourced AppleCare bs. Which isn't that great from what my pro-Mac pals say. Though of course those same people evangelize Apple at the drop of a hat.......still it isn't like Dell is any better at customer service. As someone else here pointed out it would seem that article should pit Dell and Gateway vs Apple......
My recent encounters with OS X Tiger is that it reminded me of Gnome only prettier......
On the one hand I think that the idea that bad information can have good results is pretty rose-tinted to say the least. On the other hand the internet has consolidated access to alternative media which is a good thing and can lead to a more informed populace. Of course the internet is full of the same slanted and opinionated crap that you see everywhere else so it can lead to an utterly mis-informed populace. And your statements about the mainstream media are pretty spot on, of course since I would tend to read those online I don't really see a difference there in medium. Same lies different venue. In the end one can get the inside scoop from either Rush Limbaugh's blog or Al Franken's depending on the already formed predilections. Or better yet, CowboyNeal's.......
The Google-Borg
There sure is a lot of Microsoft ass-kissing getting put up on this site these days.....I would say this story misses the point. The point wasn't what consumers wanted the point was unfair advantage in the industry. It's not surprising that a bunch of companies that are in microshafts pocket aren't gonna bundle XPN, I'm sure they're all scared of having their prices go up the next time they negotiate a deal. I do think that the penalty misses the point as well. Unbundling Media Player doesn't seem to solve the problem. Opening up the interface data that Sun wanted seemed to be the point. Personally I can't see anything wrong with Media Player, now Internet Explorer, that's a different can of worms........
Now I'm off to get me a Krusty's partially gelatinated, non-dairy, gum-based beverage......
I don't understand, by your reasoning doesn't this mean that Hanna Barbera are going to lose their trademarked characters?
I thought football was the modern replacement of Gladiator games as well as being the most popular sport. It's the most watched on TV. Baseball is number two. The closest baseball gets to Gladiator Games is when a pitcher brushes back a batter and hits him. Boring. However the Senate and the House should be turned into Gladiator Games, give Orrin Hatch a sword and let him fight out with some pro-file sharing guy for top dog.....
Since so many here get so serious and freak out if a post makes the slightest attempt at humour or an alternative opinion (especially those rabid iPod heads, sheesh, wotta buncha losers! Oops, there I go again!)I will disclaim the above by saying that I understand that there is plenty of good music on major labels and I was just funnin' around though I don't know anyone that would be threatened by this if it was implemented in America since I don't know anyone that buys stuff likely to be copy protected.
Of course the Companies all hail this legislation and thereby show why consumers seek alternatives from their clueless lockdown on their "product".
http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicID=3&subT opicID=27
and Pair it with some Sennheiser headphones and simply play CD's through a discman. Screw that low res iPod baloney. I'd rather wait and listen to the real thing than the shadows of the handpuppets on the wall that is MP3's........
Friggin' moderators. Hey, read the damn article before you start slinging flamebait around idjit! It's very relevant to the thread and the post it's attached to.
"When you buy a tune from iTunes, you should probably be aware that you're not getting quite what you think you are"
"Ah, for simpler times, when we never had reason to look up the bit rate at which music is digitally sampled for CD's: 1,378 kilobits per second. The bit rate for iTunes, 128, is so low that when played side by side against the original, the difference is audible not only to audio enthusiasts, but also to mortals with ordinary hearing. Wes Phillips, contributing editor at Stereophile, says "128 is like an eight-track," and he describes the combination of iPod and iTunes as "buying a 21st-century device to live in the 1970's."
So though the guys at Stereophile and other audio mags think that the iPod is pretty slick they sure as hell don't think that you're getting great sound quality out of those things. And let's face it, even CD quality inherently sucks which is why there is up and oversampling and DSD to try and get better sound out of the digital medium.
Just because most people don't have the knowledge to know any better doesn't mean that something ain't so.
So I guess my sky is blue, what's yours?
Bill Moyers article: http://www.alternet.org/story/20666/
They might as well get with radio, the shitty 8-track like sound quality of an iPod would be uber-retro if satellite could capture the sweet tinny sounds of AM.....
Since it seems that every fourth news story is about Google......and it used to seem that M$FT were the borg but I think there's a new assimilator in town. Wait till the Gmarketing strategy kicks in and they fill Wiki with ads and online stores start adding their own entries to the encyclopedia and get ranked.....keep generating those long revenue dollars!
that works. One that doesn't rank bullshit shopping sites at top. If I look for my brother's workplace (a car dealership in Detroit) the actual web site for the company appears low on the 2nd page and sometimes on the 3rd page. It's pretty bad when the actual item itself is buried in favor of crappy link networks.......
Someone I know works at a big corporation and sent me something they were going to post on an online journal mentioning work that was fairly innocuous but I told them to edit it out. Other than the endless blather that the internet has given us all a ridiculous forum for, I asked if it was really necessary to mention that? Could it be seen by the company as disclosing information in violation of your NDA? What do you get from posting that? In the end they were just posting to blab and it was meaningless to them but consideration made them realize that it was disclosing information about the company.
While people will want to make Google the bad guy, I feel that when you accept a contract for employment that you are responsible to not violate any NDA which may be in place and more than that, use some common sense about what you convey to the world. And when you post on the internet you post for every single person in the world with a computer. When you post for your friends do they really need to know insider details about your job? Or are you posting them because you think that a larger audience will find it interesting that you work at Google?
Hell if I was lucky enough to get a job at Google I'd be too busy to be blogging. And if I did I sure wouldn't mention Google. Not because I feel that they want to quell my free speech but because I joined a high-profile company that I would feel responsible to not only respect ALL information that I was working with but also because as an employee I would want to protect the company itself. The last thing any company I work for needs is me shooting off my mouth about what they do there.
People's right to diarrhea of the mouth ends when they join a larger group. If they don't like the Leviathan they can start their own company and shoot off their mouth to their heart's content.
Such as whether you mean IE is a better browser for pr0n viewing than Firefox or Opera or something.
Perhaps your question is whether or not Window's Media Player is the best movie viewer? You might want to suggest what's better.
Or whether under the OS if say, Apple's Quicktime is a better jpg viewer than MS's . Compare it to whatever you use under Linux....
Or whether those sweet, tricked out, fancy-pants Apple Displays are awesome to squeeze the most out of those low res freebies you downloaded, in which case MS doesn't have an alternative not being a hardware company.
Surfing Pr0n minds might want to know, but need to be more specific with the questions.