Giving a windows machine a public ip address is a death sentence isn't it? If not now eventually? What keeps a fresh install of windows from getting blasterized the second you hook it up to download updates? (assuming not everyone has a nice copy of sp2 with their windows xp)
I'm no expert and the only "real" (used lightly) security for my home is a box running pat.
I was looking for the correct option to mod you, but the "wrong" option just wasn't there.
From the Online Writing Lab at purdue:
"Use a pair of commas in the middle of a sentence to set off clauses, phrases, and words that are not essential to the meaning of the sentence. Use one comma before to indicate the beginning of the pause and one at the end to indicate the end of the pause.
Here are some clues to help you decide whether the sentence element is essential:
* If you leave out the clause, phrase, or word, does the sentence still make sense?
* Does the clause, phrase, or word interrupt the flow of words in the original sentence?
* If you move the element to a different position in the sentence, does the sentence still make sense?
If you answer "yes" to one or more of these questions, then the element in question is nonessential and should be set off with commas. Here are some example sentences with nonessential elements:
Clause: That Tuesday, which happens to be my birthday, is the only day when I am available to meet.
Phrase: This restaurant has an exciting atmosphere. The food, on the other hand, is rather bland.
Word: I appreciate your hard work. In this case, however, you seem to have over-exerted yourself."
I don't know about you but 90% of my driving was learned from my parents. The instructor was simply there to pass you so that you could actually get a liscence. Driving in the snow is another topic alltogether, which is not even a part of driving cirriculum/testing.
Some people are just not ready to drive as well, which is sad considering the lack of public transportation in america.
If you have ever had a relative with alzheimers the answer is pretty clear. They slowly decay to a point where they don't even remember who you are (My grandpa has to ask who I am). If cancer is at one end and loss of mental capacity/ability to remember is at the other then I'll take cancer please.
Meh I semi agree, I think the age should be 16, the driving age.
Once somone has mobility without their parents it's time for a cell phone.
Before a child is driving, their parents and whoever that child is with's parents should know where they are at all times. No exceptions.
After a child is driving not only does it become a saftey issue (what if the car breaks down?) but it becomes a work issue etc. It's also unrealistic to expect to know where the child is at all times, which is not to say you shouldn't try.
Honestly I'm never gonne pay for my child's cellphone or their car insurance, and it will be a packaged deal. (let him/her use my car if they pay for it;)) but once they get a job, I'd certainly be willing to help.
Who knows after I become a parent someday my philosophy may change, but thats my two cents.
Personally I wouldn't be dissapointed to see real die at all. I really hate their products, and you have to download their software if you want to play real media files. It pales in comparisson to flash (which should be one of the "big 3").
Flash is by far the most bug free "just works" media player to date. Take a look at youtube or google video. Have you ever had a file not play? The client is also infinitaly better just like wmp. I absolutly hate any program that runs in the backround without serving a purpose, and both the qt player and real media player do just that, use up my system resources without giving me any benefit other then being able to look at their logo on my taskbar.
Not to mention flash works seamlessly with firefox. (I am NOT advocating real working seamlessly, the bigger the hassle it is to use the better, same with QT/endtroll)
"And after recovering the DAT tape from the safe-deposit box at the bank, they went to the ATM machine and entered their PIN numbers to get some money."
That went straight over my head.
Money is an artificial construct to allocate resources.
Exactly, so if I'm a photographer and Mr. gates the OS programmer happens to want his picture taken for a magazine cover, and I already happen to have a nice copy of his OS from one of his programmer buddies, then poor bill is sure out of luck, unless I happen to have a friend who wants it and I want something of his. Money is an artificial construct, but its used to assign value. Your pictures/time/expertise are worth $dollars to him, so instead of him giving you a product or something of his he gives you something that $god has deemed to be a note of universal value. Because its a note of value you can give it to anyone for anything, without having to have something that person wants. In that sense it is property. (if not property then potential property)
As for your need to control peoples money who have earned it, I suggest you start looking for ways to exploit the system and make your own instead of fighting it (without real analysis of the benefits of it). Anyway I'm just happy I'm in america so theres less people like you thinking you know how to spend my money better then I do. (not to say there arn't any, theres what about 50% and they mostly live in cities/cough thats another story)
As for your doing what the masses want, I would most certainly hope they do what they want, as the masses are often wrong/uninformed.
(as a side note I would encourage you to look up such fallicious arguments types such as: Ad hominem, ad populum, and card stacking.)
Not to support the RIAA which I don't, but I really do have a hard time believing that. If its a niched program you have a specific audience. Photoshop being a great example, not everyone wants it. There is a specific crowd who are looking for it and will pirate it for personal use (probably pretty computer literate people). Assuming they take a hobby professional they will most likly have to get a legal copy for a business.
Downloading music on the other hand is a different story. EVERYONE wants music, and EVERYONE can download it easily. I've got some pretty computer illiterate friends and if they can download kazaa, and stuff their drives with $XX gigs of music then there obviously isn't that entry barrier. Not to mention once its downloaded it just works. The ease of use, not having to leave your home, not having to spend any money, getting entire compilations of artists works plus extras in one package, decent sound quality, relativly fast, the lack of money kids have and the lack of money their parents do to afford $xxxxx thousand dollars of music, coupled with everyone enjoying music and the simplicity of it, I would hate to be the RIAA up against that.
On the other hand they arn't going to defeat it, and they're a group of idiots for not trying to come up with a new way to make money as the world has change.
Santa Clause... Santa Cruz, They're not that far off.
At least we know what santa does with his elves in the off season. (puts them hard at work in nix machines)
While in a theoretical world, this makes sense, in reality this isn't what's happened. When you look at the distribution of wealth (or knowledge, or access, or whatever), you find that since the internet these gaps have grown bigger, and while the big players may be new, the truth is out of the billions of sites online, the top thousand sites get 99.99% of the traffic. How's the democracy? How's that "power to the people"? While new technologies may come out that gives the "little guy" a voice for a while, this period goes away quickly as either entrenched companies jump into the fray (i.e. Microsoft/Apple/Dell) or new companies spring up (i.e. Google/Ebay/Amazon).
Yeah but there is a fair playing ground. If people want to see it then they can. You don't think myspace was put up and it just got popular. People found it interesting people wanted to go to that site. They wanted to put up their page on the internet.(Sorry for using mysapce but its a good exmaple) People are controlling themselves, no one is being told you can only go to x sites.
Anyone can make a site, anyone can put what they want on that site (I think we can all agree there are limits to everything) Any site can get popular. When anyone can succeed, and everyone has their own power that is democracy.
Where do you think google, yahoo, craigslist, microsoft, slashdot, digg, apple and dell started from. If I'm not mistaken a couple of those started in a garage. Remember that the american paradigm of opportunity is not guarunteed success, but the chance to be succesful with hard work.
"You can pass all the laws and restrictions you desire, but kids will find a way to purchase/play violent games."
Yeah, but what happens when the companies cater to whatever restrictions there are and dont produce those games. People may not abide by laws, but companies will. Granted, there are always foreign counties and they could produce games but that could just incur more legeslation in other areas(such as the internet and I dont enjoy giving politicians more reason to mess with the internet then they already have). I agree with the author, trying to appeal to politicians as a potential vote will get you farther then saying "this is stupid" on some forum some where.
I wish politicians would quit their moral masturbation.
Slashdot Mirror
no NAT, no firewall
WHY?!?!?!
Giving a windows machine a public ip address is a death sentence isn't it? If not now eventually? What keeps a fresh install of windows from getting blasterized the second you hook it up to download updates? (assuming not everyone has a nice copy of sp2 with their windows xp)
I'm no expert and the only "real" (used lightly) security for my home is a box running pat.
I was looking for the correct option to mod you, but the "wrong" option just wasn't there.
From the Online Writing Lab at purdue:
"Use a pair of commas in the middle of a sentence to set off clauses, phrases, and words that are not essential to the meaning of the sentence. Use one comma before to indicate the beginning of the pause and one at the end to indicate the end of the pause.
Here are some clues to help you decide whether the sentence element is essential:
* If you leave out the clause, phrase, or word, does the sentence still make sense?
* Does the clause, phrase, or word interrupt the flow of words in the original sentence?
* If you move the element to a different position in the sentence, does the sentence still make sense?
If you answer "yes" to one or more of these questions, then the element in question is nonessential and should be set off with commas. Here are some example sentences with nonessential elements:
Clause: That Tuesday, which happens to be my birthday, is the only day when I am available to meet.
Phrase: This restaurant has an exciting atmosphere. The food, on the other hand, is rather bland.
Word: I appreciate your hard work. In this case, however, you seem to have over-exerted yourself."
I think I speak for all star wars fans when I say "What prequels."
I don't know about you but 90% of my driving was learned from my parents. The instructor was simply there to pass you so that you could actually get a liscence. Driving in the snow is another topic alltogether, which is not even a part of driving cirriculum/testing.
Some people are just not ready to drive as well, which is sad considering the lack of public transportation in america.
I'm sorry did you think that the governments power flows from "the people" or that the highest level of law is "the constitution?"
Now-a-days law is created/disregarded in the republican branch of the government. Call me when we get a real judicial one.
funny... it's orange but it doesnt taste like oranges.
If you have ever had a relative with alzheimers the answer is pretty clear. They slowly decay to a point where they don't even remember who you are (My grandpa has to ask who I am). If cancer is at one end and loss of mental capacity/ability to remember is at the other then I'll take cancer please.
"Altogether, the six series comprise a total of 726 episodes and thirty seasons worth of television." according to wikipedia
Meh I semi agree, I think the age should be 16, the driving age.
;)) but once they get a job, I'd certainly be willing to help.
Once somone has mobility without their parents it's time for a cell phone.
Before a child is driving, their parents and whoever that child is with's parents should know where they are at all times. No exceptions.
After a child is driving not only does it become a saftey issue (what if the car breaks down?) but it becomes a work issue etc. It's also unrealistic to expect to know where the child is at all times, which is not to say you shouldn't try.
Honestly I'm never gonne pay for my child's cellphone or their car insurance, and it will be a packaged deal. (let him/her use my car if they pay for it
Who knows after I become a parent someday my philosophy may change, but thats my two cents.
Personally I wouldn't be dissapointed to see real die at all. I really hate their products, and you have to download their software if you want to play real media files. It pales in comparisson to flash (which should be one of the "big 3").
/endtroll)
Flash is by far the most bug free "just works" media player to date. Take a look at youtube or google video. Have you ever had a file not play? The client is also infinitaly better just like wmp. I absolutly hate any program that runs in the backround without serving a purpose, and both the qt player and real media player do just that, use up my system resources without giving me any benefit other then being able to look at their logo on my taskbar.
Not to mention flash works seamlessly with firefox. (I am NOT advocating real working seamlessly, the bigger the hassle it is to use the better, same with QT
I think its fair as long as microsoft has legal recourse against those who use their product in eu's playground when they cannot sell there.
"And after recovering the DAT tape from the safe-deposit box at the bank, they went to the ATM machine and entered their PIN numbers to get some money." That went straight over my head.
Isn't quicktime dead yet :(
(In other news at first i read that as hardon collider)
The term you are looking for is "Moral Masturbation."
Indeed any list of the greatest years in gaming without starcraft or ff7 have no credibility period.
Exactly, so if I'm a photographer and Mr. gates the OS programmer happens to want his picture taken for a magazine cover, and I already happen to have a nice copy of his OS from one of his programmer buddies, then poor bill is sure out of luck, unless I happen to have a friend who wants it and I want something of his. Money is an artificial construct, but its used to assign value. Your pictures/time/expertise are worth $dollars to him, so instead of him giving you a product or something of his he gives you something that $god has deemed to be a note of universal value. Because its a note of value you can give it to anyone for anything, without having to have something that person wants. In that sense it is property. (if not property then potential property)
As for your need to control peoples money who have earned it, I suggest you start looking for ways to exploit the system and make your own instead of fighting it (without real analysis of the benefits of it). Anyway I'm just happy I'm in america so theres less people like you thinking you know how to spend my money better then I do. (not to say there arn't any, theres what about 50% and they mostly live in cities
As for your doing what the masses want, I would most certainly hope they do what they want, as the masses are often wrong/uninformed.
(as a side note I would encourage you to look up such fallicious arguments types such as: Ad hominem, ad populum, and card stacking.)
I find it ironic that it was spelled correctly the second time.
Not to support the RIAA which I don't, but I really do have a hard time believing that. If its a niched program you have a specific audience. Photoshop being a great example, not everyone wants it. There is a specific crowd who are looking for it and will pirate it for personal use (probably pretty computer literate people). Assuming they take a hobby professional they will most likly have to get a legal copy for a business.
Downloading music on the other hand is a different story. EVERYONE wants music, and EVERYONE can download it easily. I've got some pretty computer illiterate friends and if they can download kazaa, and stuff their drives with $XX gigs of music then there obviously isn't that entry barrier. Not to mention once its downloaded it just works. The ease of use, not having to leave your home, not having to spend any money, getting entire compilations of artists works plus extras in one package, decent sound quality, relativly fast, the lack of money kids have and the lack of money their parents do to afford $xxxxx thousand dollars of music, coupled with everyone enjoying music and the simplicity of it, I would hate to be the RIAA up against that.
On the other hand they arn't going to defeat it, and they're a group of idiots for not trying to come up with a new way to make money as the world has change.
Santa Clause... Santa Cruz, They're not that far off.
At least we know what santa does with his elves in the off season. (puts them hard at work in nix machines)
While in a theoretical world, this makes sense, in reality this isn't what's happened. When you look at the distribution of wealth (or knowledge, or access, or whatever), you find that since the internet these gaps have grown bigger, and while the big players may be new, the truth is out of the billions of sites online, the top thousand sites get 99.99% of the traffic. How's the democracy? How's that "power to the people"? While new technologies may come out that gives the "little guy" a voice for a while, this period goes away quickly as either entrenched companies jump into the fray (i.e. Microsoft/Apple/Dell) or new companies spring up (i.e. Google/Ebay/Amazon).
Yeah but there is a fair playing ground. If people want to see it then they can. You don't think myspace was put up and it just got popular. People found it interesting people wanted to go to that site. They wanted to put up their page on the internet.(Sorry for using mysapce but its a good exmaple) People are controlling themselves, no one is being told you can only go to x sites.
Anyone can make a site, anyone can put what they want on that site (I think we can all agree there are limits to everything) Any site can get popular. When anyone can succeed, and everyone has their own power that is democracy.
Where do you think google, yahoo, craigslist, microsoft, slashdot, digg, apple and dell started from. If I'm not mistaken a couple of those started in a garage. Remember that the american paradigm of opportunity is not guarunteed success, but the chance to be succesful with hard work.
"You can pass all the laws and restrictions you desire, but kids will find a way to purchase/play violent games."
Yeah, but what happens when the companies cater to whatever restrictions there are and dont produce those games. People may not abide by laws, but companies will. Granted, there are always foreign counties and they could produce games but that could just incur more legeslation in other areas(such as the internet and I dont enjoy giving politicians more reason to mess with the internet then they already have). I agree with the author, trying to appeal to politicians as a potential vote will get you farther then saying "this is stupid" on some forum some where.
I wish politicians would quit their moral masturbation.
Doesn't a website owner give up space on their server and usage of their bandwidth?
Grey Matter
Too be honest I'm not a fan of the newage big blocks and rounded edges, I like solid colors as well.
Will we be able to set it to the old design in our profiles?
In soviet russia, atoms clock movement of YOU!