I'm in Ohio, last I checked 3G laptop cards are $60/monthly. Blackberry/smartphone data plans are $30, Blackberry data plans with BES connectivity are $45, and Blackberry data with BES + tethering runs $60.
The $30 plan is nowhere near real "wireless data access."
So they only have to look at your config to see what porn sites you visit, instead? I'll go with a "privacy" mode, thanks.
I realize that, but that was the point I was getting at here.
I like that feature of instantly spawning a guest account, but alas I need this in Windows.
I find it funny that slashdotters are always telling me of Linux's features (esp. ones that solve a particular situation like this!) but alas I still prefer Windows for my everyday work.
If I wanted something that deep I'd probably truecrypt a virtual machine and run it as a service. I do realize I could set up a second account and RunAs my web browser as that... maybe you could do that as it seems to suit what your goal is:)
So your going to force anyone who wants to check their facebook on your computer for 5 minutes to resign on as another user? Please.
Another thing, forgot to mention in previous post, is that while account switching and logon are very fast on my machine, I don't want to go to the trouble of maintaining or securing a second account on my own computer. I already tweak enough group policy at work that I don't want to do it when I get home. I much prefer my computer never be used without my permission (within reason, if someone wants to boot a LiveCD and invade my privacy I'll just have to kick him in the dick).
Why the fuck should i be typing _anything_ into the address bar that is not a URL?
It's not that non-URL data should go into a URL box. When I'm trying to remember a site I want to go to, I might remember something about the page better than I remember a URL itself. Also, if URLs are nondescript but page titles are, they show up and can be matched against in the awesome bar. It's really helpful in many circumstances, especially for folks such as myself, as I completely fail at the bookmarking game:(
Ahh yes I know there's a plug-in that'll give you the same features as IE8's InPrivate, but what I'd rather do is just block anything that matches some keywords or domains (like "pr0n" or "*.pr0n.com") from showing up in my awesome bar/history.
Those things are right in your face when you use a browser, but if I can filter out certain things deep in a configuration setting or my registry, that'd be gold. Mainly, I want to be able to "show" someone a website without having to hammer out a URL really fast.
[rant]WRT other accounts, I've got plenty of computers that other people could (and do) use for general web browsing/what have you, but I've gotten sick of explaining to people who simply can't fathom how profiles personalize computers for their users that I don't want other people using mine and logging out of websites like myspace or facebook or igoogle and so on... It's like getting in your car and finding all the seats and mirrors moved around, but apparently I'm the only person I know who gets royally pissed off by that kind of stuff. [/rant]
For stuff like beer and tobacco, the test would be on the health risks.
I don't know if I agree with that... I firmly believe that the legal taboos placed on alcohol and tobacco significantly contribute to making them so enticing to younger people in this country.
From what I understand, minors are tried as adults in many cases because, assuming they committed the crime of which they're accused, they've taken on "adult" responsibilities by [allegedly] committing an "adult" action and should be treated as such.
Is not sex one of those actions?
I mean, I know people are becoming sexually active at younger ages (compared to the few previous generations, but certainly not humanity as a whole) but if sex is something that our laws deem fit to be an action that is defined as an adult choice, why are sexually active minors only treated like adults when their actions are considered criminal? Why is it that discovering self-made sex videos or pictures of consenting minors suddenly means that we have to treat and try them as adults, whereas the same minors would require a parent's signature to get an abortion?
I'm not one to think that everyone should be treated like an adult, but there are some things that even kids understand are adult choices. They may not realize the full consequences of their actions, but on the same token, when I was younger I always knew when I "done fucked up." I may not have known how to handle it, but I certainly knew I'd be held responsible...
Part of becoming an adult is the process of making adult decisions (read: mistakes) and adjusting to the consequences of screwing up, and those who survive long enough generally become healthy adults, but when the consequences for something as commonplace, enjoyable, and desirable as sex are FEDERAL CRIMINAL CHARGES, chances are good the only lesson you'll learn from your teenage foray into your sexuality is that society believes you are one fucked up individual... and you'll probably be one until you die.
It's sad that the heartbreak, embarrassment, emotional distress, STD-acquisition potential, and general insecurity that having sex at the wrong time or with the wrong person can give you isn't enough for some people... we really need to throw criminal charges on top of it.
Also their applications, and their applications and programmers' expectations... which needless to say are extremely (cough*AdministratorALLTHETIME*cough) insecure.
Financial Pros already managed to turn crime into a poor economy.
And it has fallen upon our shoulders to turn the poor economy back into a haven for profitable crime!
I, for one, humbly, selflessly, and with a strong sense of duty accept this honor on behalf profession and my country; nay, the world! The VIjAGRA e-tailers are calling our names!
I cannot honestly say that I've actually noticed the missing status bar
You know, I prefer the look of windows without the status bar, but AFAIK it's the only UI item that keeps a running tally of how many items you have selected at a time...
With respect to the GP though, it takes an open mind to adjust from one interface to another, but I find a lot of his gripes about Vista/7 to be very backward. IMHO, my personal tell-tale of whether or not someone will be able to adapt to a new version of any software is to look at their start menu. If it resembles Windows 95 and doesn't have Computer, Documents, etc., in it, then they're going to have a problem.
Also, the breadcrumb bar... pure genius. I don't have to click "up one level" seven times to get to a specific folder, nor do I have to do so to get to any other subdirectory of a parent in my current path. Paths are also more visibly defined, as the hard arrows make better separators than "i\i" does, visually speaking.
Microsoft's UI element changes have, for the most part, been expressly for the better as far as Windows (and Office) are concerned. If you can't at the very least get used to them, then you may not have what it takes to move forward in the ever-evolving IT industry.
OTOH, I hear COBOL programmers still make boatloads of cash, so I could be wrong.
Anyway, I have 2 licenses for Vista Ultimate. 32 and 64 bit for my 2 pc's
Your license is for the edition (Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, etc) and not for bit-ness of that copy.
Put simply, a Vista Ultimate license is a Vista Ultimate license. You can use the 32 bit ISO or the 64 bit ISO to perform your installation. Either one will take your license key. Windows 7 will ship the same way.
Truth be told, if their server's chips or GPU's are fast enough to deliver constant frame rates at normal resolutions, then it actually has a leg up against the average home computer.
Also, as these games will be run as workloads on machines that are desgined, by professionals, to run games well, you will actually see a computer games experience that rivals the homogeneity of console gaming.
I personally thought of this the instant I found out about Citrix Apollo.
Your game experience at home and mine at home may be great, but I'm an IT professional. Greasemonkeys always have fast cars just like you and I have fast gaming machines... but this is like giving the Average Joe the ability to have a car as fast as a Corvette while still paying for a Kia.
This is a good idea, and if it's done right (particularly if it can virtualize console games into the fray with MS/Sony partnerships... who knows), they might be right.
As a sysadmin, I agree. If it's up to me to do a network implementation, it will be IPv4 because I know enough about it to get it online and secured. It may be ugly, but I can do it.
I can't even get through the setup of a DHCP server running IPv6. I can't pick a class C space (or whatever its ipv6 analog may be) or figure out if my ISP will assign enough IP's to me to make everything inside my network public. All the terminology is different (for example, there's no more subnet mask, it's called something else, but means the same thing and is notated differently), and any guides that explain IPv6 seem to be geared toward the "holy-fuck-i'm-drowning-in-cisco-manuals" types of people, as opposed to those who simply use networks to get their jobs done.
I don't understand BGP or OSPF and so on, and I suspect I never will because it's not my area of expertise. But IPv6... with what I know about IPv4 and the amount of times I've gone to get some information to understand it better (I would love to convert my home network, for example) I should at least know how to make it work for local communication...
I would like ipv6 as well, but it really ought to be base 10 and dot separated, because then it would at least make some sense to IPv4 users who don't understand anything about it.
I dislike flash just as much as the next slashdotter, but it would be downright idiotic to ignore the role flash plays in the proper viewing of websites.
Personally I like the hardware and design of the MacBook Pro, the software is nice too, but for me it's not worth the extra coin.
As someone who doesn't live his life on his laptop, four features, the aluminum chassis, backlit keyboard, and bluetooth and wifi that work correctly almost 100% of the time, the extra $900^H^H^H
Okay, I lie a little, I know I paid too much, but the features that made me choose a Macbook Pro (in 2007, before aluminum chassis came on Macbooks) over another OEM's Windows PC were easily worth maybe 400 of my extra dollars.
Also, with regards to the AC above you, I much prefer Vista to Leopard:-P
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At the very least, the headline was kind of funny!
...And at the same time, it's really, really sad that that headline can be funny at all...
I'm in Ohio, last I checked 3G laptop cards are $60/monthly. Blackberry/smartphone data plans are $30, Blackberry data plans with BES connectivity are $45, and Blackberry data with BES + tethering runs $60.
The $30 plan is nowhere near real "wireless data access."
So they only have to look at your config to see what porn sites you visit, instead? I'll go with a "privacy" mode, thanks.
I realize that, but that was the point I was getting at here.
I like that feature of instantly spawning a guest account, but alas I need this in Windows.
I find it funny that slashdotters are always telling me of Linux's features (esp. ones that solve a particular situation like this!) but alas I still prefer Windows for my everyday work.
That's excessive, but funny :D
:)
If I wanted something that deep I'd probably truecrypt a virtual machine and run it as a service. I do realize I could set up a second account and RunAs my web browser as that... maybe you could do that as it seems to suit what your goal is
So your going to force anyone who wants to check their facebook on your computer for 5 minutes to resign on as another user? Please.
Another thing, forgot to mention in previous post, is that while account switching and logon are very fast on my machine, I don't want to go to the trouble of maintaining or securing a second account on my own computer. I already tweak enough group policy at work that I don't want to do it when I get home. I much prefer my computer never be used without my permission (within reason, if someone wants to boot a LiveCD and invade my privacy I'll just have to kick him in the dick).
Why the fuck should i be typing _anything_ into the address bar that is not a URL?
It's not that non-URL data should go into a URL box. When I'm trying to remember a site I want to go to, I might remember something about the page better than I remember a URL itself. Also, if URLs are nondescript but page titles are, they show up and can be matched against in the awesome bar. It's really helpful in many circumstances, especially for folks such as myself, as I completely fail at the bookmarking game :(
but then the registry shows all the stuff you have deliberatly blocked
Aye, but I'm not trying to hide the history from the CIA/determined individual, I'm trying to hide it from innocent bystanders.
I for one am sick of assuming that everyone else is stupid, dangerous, and irresponsible.
I agree. I think that parents should be responsible for their children, and adults should be responsible for themselves.
:P
Radical I know
Ahh yes I know there's a plug-in that'll give you the same features as IE8's InPrivate, but what I'd rather do is just block anything that matches some keywords or domains (like "pr0n" or "*.pr0n.com") from showing up in my awesome bar/history.
Those things are right in your face when you use a browser, but if I can filter out certain things deep in a configuration setting or my registry, that'd be gold. Mainly, I want to be able to "show" someone a website without having to hammer out a URL really fast.
[rant]WRT other accounts, I've got plenty of computers that other people could (and do) use for general web browsing/what have you, but I've gotten sick of explaining to people who simply can't fathom how profiles personalize computers for their users that I don't want other people using mine and logging out of websites like myspace or facebook or igoogle and so on... It's like getting in your car and finding all the seats and mirrors moved around, but apparently I'm the only person I know who gets royally pissed off by that kind of stuff. [/rant]
Hey, at least blocking kdawson from the front page works again now.
Please share the Zen.
Can I block him from my RSS feed too?
I hope it stops suggesting porn when my friends and family use my computer.
For stuff like beer and tobacco, the test would be on the health risks.
I don't know if I agree with that... I firmly believe that the legal taboos placed on alcohol and tobacco significantly contribute to making them so enticing to younger people in this country.
From what I understand, minors are tried as adults in many cases because, assuming they committed the crime of which they're accused, they've taken on "adult" responsibilities by [allegedly] committing an "adult" action and should be treated as such.
Is not sex one of those actions?
I mean, I know people are becoming sexually active at younger ages (compared to the few previous generations, but certainly not humanity as a whole) but if sex is something that our laws deem fit to be an action that is defined as an adult choice, why are sexually active minors only treated like adults when their actions are considered criminal? Why is it that discovering self-made sex videos or pictures of consenting minors suddenly means that we have to treat and try them as adults, whereas the same minors would require a parent's signature to get an abortion?
I'm not one to think that everyone should be treated like an adult, but there are some things that even kids understand are adult choices. They may not realize the full consequences of their actions, but on the same token, when I was younger I always knew when I "done fucked up." I may not have known how to handle it, but I certainly knew I'd be held responsible...
Part of becoming an adult is the process of making adult decisions (read: mistakes) and adjusting to the consequences of screwing up, and those who survive long enough generally become healthy adults, but when the consequences for something as commonplace, enjoyable, and desirable as sex are FEDERAL CRIMINAL CHARGES, chances are good the only lesson you'll learn from your teenage foray into your sexuality is that society believes you are one fucked up individual... and you'll probably be one until you die.
It's sad that the heartbreak, embarrassment, emotional distress, STD-acquisition potential, and general insecurity that having sex at the wrong time or with the wrong person can give you isn't enough for some people... we really need to throw criminal charges on top of it.
Also their applications, and their applications and programmers' expectations... which needless to say are extremely (cough*AdministratorALLTHETIME*cough) insecure.
Financial Pros already managed to turn crime into a poor economy.
And it has fallen upon our shoulders to turn the poor economy back into a haven for profitable crime!
I, for one, humbly, selflessly, and with a strong sense of duty accept this honor on behalf profession and my country; nay, the world! The VIjAGRA e-tailers are calling our names!
I cannot honestly say that I've actually noticed the missing status bar
You know, I prefer the look of windows without the status bar, but AFAIK it's the only UI item that keeps a running tally of how many items you have selected at a time...
With respect to the GP though, it takes an open mind to adjust from one interface to another, but I find a lot of his gripes about Vista/7 to be very backward. IMHO, my personal tell-tale of whether or not someone will be able to adapt to a new version of any software is to look at their start menu. If it resembles Windows 95 and doesn't have Computer, Documents, etc., in it, then they're going to have a problem.
Also, the breadcrumb bar... pure genius. I don't have to click "up one level" seven times to get to a specific folder, nor do I have to do so to get to any other subdirectory of a parent in my current path. Paths are also more visibly defined, as the hard arrows make better separators than "i\i" does, visually speaking.
Microsoft's UI element changes have, for the most part, been expressly for the better as far as Windows (and Office) are concerned. If you can't at the very least get used to them, then you may not have what it takes to move forward in the ever-evolving IT industry.
OTOH, I hear COBOL programmers still make boatloads of cash, so I could be wrong.
Anyway, I have 2 licenses for Vista Ultimate. 32 and 64 bit for my 2 pc's
Your license is for the edition (Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, etc) and not for bit-ness of that copy.
Put simply, a Vista Ultimate license is a Vista Ultimate license. You can use the 32 bit ISO or the 64 bit ISO to perform your installation. Either one will take your license key. Windows 7 will ship the same way.
n00b. 17'5 5p3113d \/\/17# 4 "7." 17'5 5p3113d "1337." 101
Oh. My. God... I could read that.
I'm going to go get laid ASAP, burning sun be damned!
I know your hotkey would be different, but with Outlook, I press alt+s now to send emails, as the setup is similar.
My blank email percentage has gone way down.
iPodService.exe, anyone?
Truth be told, if their server's chips or GPU's are fast enough to deliver constant frame rates at normal resolutions, then it actually has a leg up against the average home computer.
Also, as these games will be run as workloads on machines that are desgined, by professionals, to run games well, you will actually see a computer games experience that rivals the homogeneity of console gaming.
I personally thought of this the instant I found out about Citrix Apollo.
Your game experience at home and mine at home may be great, but I'm an IT professional. Greasemonkeys always have fast cars just like you and I have fast gaming machines... but this is like giving the Average Joe the ability to have a car as fast as a Corvette while still paying for a Kia.
This is a good idea, and if it's done right (particularly if it can virtualize console games into the fray with MS/Sony partnerships... who knows), they might be right.
As a sysadmin, I agree. If it's up to me to do a network implementation, it will be IPv4 because I know enough about it to get it online and secured. It may be ugly, but I can do it. I can't even get through the setup of a DHCP server running IPv6. I can't pick a class C space (or whatever its ipv6 analog may be) or figure out if my ISP will assign enough IP's to me to make everything inside my network public. All the terminology is different (for example, there's no more subnet mask, it's called something else, but means the same thing and is notated differently), and any guides that explain IPv6 seem to be geared toward the "holy-fuck-i'm-drowning-in-cisco-manuals" types of people, as opposed to those who simply use networks to get their jobs done.
I don't understand BGP or OSPF and so on, and I suspect I never will because it's not my area of expertise. But IPv6... with what I know about IPv4 and the amount of times I've gone to get some information to understand it better (I would love to convert my home network, for example) I should at least know how to make it work for local communication...
I would like ipv6 as well, but it really ought to be base 10 and dot separated, because then it would at least make some sense to IPv4 users who don't understand anything about it.
I dislike flash just as much as the next slashdotter, but it would be downright idiotic to ignore the role flash plays in the proper viewing of websites.
First you have to pay the monopoly fee
You know I asked the Mac geniuses at the Apple store about that one, but was rather dismayed when they wouldn't let me pay with Monopoly money.
Personally I like the hardware and design of the MacBook Pro, the software is nice too, but for me it's not worth the extra coin.
As someone who doesn't live his life on his laptop, four features, the aluminum chassis, backlit keyboard, and bluetooth and wifi that work correctly almost 100% of the time, the extra $900^H^H^H
:-P
Okay, I lie a little, I know I paid too much, but the features that made me choose a Macbook Pro (in 2007, before aluminum chassis came on Macbooks) over another OEM's Windows PC were easily worth maybe 400 of my extra dollars.
Also, with regards to the AC above you, I much prefer Vista to Leopard