He's so excessive on issues that an outsider would get the impression the world is coming to an end at the hands of corporations. I think the general feeling is that he is trying too hard to be part of the community and half the time he doesn't really know what he's talking about. So he uses buzz words that catch people's attention and promotes the idea that some how a geek is better than everyone else in the world... My message to Katz would be that idea is wrong: the corporations, the so called "mindless public" the users of windows and the users of Linux and everyone who posts on/., we are all people. Some people are greedy, some people have genuine different ideas about what is right when it comes to intellectual property and copyright laws.
Katz himself is a victim of greed. He wants people to read his articles so his reoccuring theme is corporate conspiracies and government conspiracies to snuff all the geeks because we are dangerous or something. The problem is he isn't believable, I read his articles and find no evidence that Katz himself believes what he writting. He writes to be seen and anyone with half a brain is going to resent that because its nothing more than a load of crap
Sue them. Legally you can take any company to small claims court and get about $500 if you ask them not to call and they do it anyway. With such an automated system they will probably call you back and if enough people took it up ABC would most likely stop doing it.
2 or 3 million viewers doing that and it could seriously hurt the company:). Not a bad idea of you ask me. Maybe we can get some of the "sheep-like" public away from their TVs for awhile!
Right..... hmmm you know it seems to me that you are as bad as the people that took them away from it. So Christian's don't get rights just like everyone else? You are as narrow minded as you claim we are!
Maybe God didn't want that person to have the domain name, that's up to God, and I hope the person who did own it realizes that losing a domain is not really that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things (even though its a huge injustice) and doesn't go and blame God for it.
As for you why don't I amuse you a bit more and pray that God will forgive you for making such a stupid comment
This will probably be considered Flamebait but I'd just like to say that you have a lot of nerve. Not all of us buy in to the whole stupid conspiracy by the government and corporations to ruin our lives. I agree that corporations want to make money, i work for one. I agree that politians want to make money, I don't think they are going to start doing things that would stop them from doing that. An insurance company looking at your grocery list? Why would they do that? They could find countless reasons to deny people. To what end so they don't have any customers anymore? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of making money? As I said in my post above privacy is a common sense thing, if you don't want people to know about you then don't tell them about you!
There are no constitutional guruantees to privacy, its a common sense thing. If you don't want people finding out personal things about you then don't leave them lying around.
In l890, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote that "the common law secures to each individual the right of determining, ordinarily, to what extent his thoughts, sentiments, and emotions shall be communicated to others."
This quote backs that up. Each individual the right to determine There is nothing online that requires me to use my real name. I really hope that no one has the 555-5555 telephone number because I've used that hundreds of time signing up for stuff. If you are paranoid about your email being targeted and read (out of millions out there) then encrypt it!
Offline don't leave your personal items floating around your desk. Take them home if you are worried that your employer is going to come and snoop around. If you can't take it home then buy a pad-lock.
Its all common sense. People should use it rather than posting cynical comments to Slashdot. Corporate America wouldn't have near as much power if the average person didn't give it to them in the first place
If there's one thing that I can't stand, it's people who live in their own idealistic little worlds and think that protest actions and their lofty goals make a damn bit of difference in this world.
Hmmmm that's a bit cynical. Where would the world be if we didn't have people to stand by their principles? Ghandi? Martin Luther King Jr.? ummm how about Jesus? (or just about any other religious founder) These people made huge differences in the world because they stood up for what they believe in. Where would we be without those people? The British Empire could still be oppressing half the world without Ghandi. In the American south we might still be treating African Americans as second class without King Jr. And whether you believe in a supreme being or not it would be hard to argue that the world would be better off without some forms of religion.
There are countless other examples. It takes people of vision and principle to stand up against oppressive governments and laws that are wrong. You yourself pointed out that you live in China... surely you must see this?
I would agree that we should be harder on criminals but not at the cost of an uninformed public. The guy from Forbes did the right thing. The people he talked to trust him not to go to the authorities and he had the integrity to live up to that promise. People are remembered in this world for standing up for their priniciples rather than being programmed to do what the government always wants.
I've lived in forign countries where the government owned all the land, took care of all the health care, (third world country so you can imagine what that was like) and could search homes or stop people without any reason at all.
I don't really believe that the government doesn't have our best interest in mind at least for the most part. There is no possible way the FBI could read all email, and I would go even farther to say there's no way they are going to get the software installed at all ISPs. There's dozens of Mom and Pa Internet shops that simply aren't going to do it. The FBI found a loophole where they can gather information a possibly catch criminals. I truely don't believe there's a consipiracy to label everyone as a bad guy.
Is what they are doing wrong? Yes I think so. Is it particulary dangerous to our freedom? Probably not, especially when compared to what goes on in some other countries. I'm glad the ACLU is stepping in but really what can they do about it? I'm sure that this sort of thing will still go on unless Congress opens an investigation and puts a stop to it. So if you are worried about the FBI reading your mail then encrypt it. Personally I have nothing to hide.
This is great! I'm glad that someone is standing up for what is right in this situation. I'm not cracker/hacker whatever term you prefer but the government has no business reading my email no matter what its about!
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So we should just keep working with it because it does remote display? No! Write a new standard that does remote display, better font support (like the article mentioned) and gets rid of tons of unneeded code.
There are a lot of things I'd love to see in a GUI system: You mentioned remote display, I'd love to see something that cuts down on the overhead (ever tried to do remote display over a modem?). Maybe some kind of two way communication where the remote system looks for the graphics binaries on the client and just sends data to update rather than data for the whole binary. (If the client has them). BTW: Windows can do remote display but it does suck, its even slower than X.
I'd also like to see some kind of standard widget set built into the server itself. (GTK would be fine with me). Its soooo incrediably annoying when I find programs that look really cool but don't run correctly (or not at all in my window manager).
I'd still like to see mulitple window managers to have different looks though. Some people need a Windows/Mac look. Personally I love BlackBox. Which as far as GUI's go I feel is pretty innovative.(and its really small. If anyone wanted to take the chalange in the article to put the GUI and kernel on a floppy, try BlackBox!)
Q3A isn't very slow using XF86 && glX either, now is it?)
I really hate to point this out but there was a benchmark at Linux Games that shows Windows beating Linux in 3d accelaration with several different cards. Personally I think this has a lot to do with X.
I'm a Christian trying to make a cool web community for teens and college students (not nessicarily all Christian stuff) I have a few volunteers but no other geeks to help with the actual programming. (Mostly perl but I'd like to do some Java and maybe Python as well). Anyone who is interested should visit my domain above
I think that most of us here on/. would agree that we have to program for the user, and users don't change a whole lot. Think about how Windows has dominated the market place. As much as their OS design royally sucks, they created a standard way that a computer interacts with a user. Users don't readly change to something they don't know. Mention Linux to typical average Joe User and the response is always the same "learning something new is too hard". Even our window managers on *ix machines have a look and feel much like that of Windows, or Mac or a combination.
This guy is blaming the programmers for problems with computer systems when he doesn't realize that computer systems are the way they are to meet the needs of users.
Some of his ideas are okay but personally most of this article sounded more like an ad campaign for M$oft.NET, all computers working as one, the net being the focus, not the computer. Bla bla bla.... one point that I found particularly interesting: 17. A cyberbody can be replicated or distributed over many computers; can inhabit many computers at the same time. If the Cybersphere's computers are tiles in a paved courtyard, a cyberbody is a cloud's drifting shadow covering many tiles simultaneously. Um so he's going to fund us to make the entire net a Beowulf cluster? And in a way don't some large sites/ISPs do this anyway? My school has 9 servers and all of them have different jobs. If we had 1 those jobs wouldn't be done as fast.... Ironically he's advocating the same "obsolete" technology!
It all comes down to the user's wants. I don't feel that the user wants what he is advocating here and the only way to tell is if he goes and builds teh stupid thing and gets people to try it.
(a couple of employees viewing website traffic reports for www.hotxxx-lesbo-hardcore.com)
"Geez this guy is sick, 39 minutes on one picture" "Yeah too bad our little bug can't show us what he's seeing "Hey that would be cool I'll talk to the programmers. Just remember we don't actually know anything!"
So what's next? Double Click isn't very smart getting into something like this now. They really can't deny getting information!
...but it sounds really interesting. I'm not sure I understand the meaning behind the title though. The review sounds more like a story about two people (the alien and the palentologist) who seek to know more about God: one from the standpoint of a believer, and one from the standpoint of an un-believer. The title almost sounds like people who are trying to create or figure out how to be God.
Anyway the title aside, judging from this review I think the book has a good chance of being something that will last. "Religion" aside the existance of God (or lack there of) is something that all humans have dealt with through the ages. Stories that are well written and deal with "Meaning of life" types of questions have a good chance of success. Religion is something we do as a habit and typically differs at least somewhat for every individual. This books seems to address questions that everyone has to eventually deal with.
Come on! All that's ever on Slashdot about any movie is negative. Episode I was beautifully done. It had everything that made the original movies good:
1. A great story line, good vs. evil sort of thing 2. Action 3. Comic Relief (Jar Jar) 4. A bit of romance (Amadala and Anakin)
It has exactly what it needs to be a good movie and to infom us of how we eventually will get to the Empire and the Rebellion. There's much more to Star Wars besides Darth Vader.
What everyone seems to be forgeting is that Episode I is supposed to tell us how it all got started. The only purpose of the movie is to show how we get to Episode II! Everyone seems to hate it because there's no grand revealing things that happen-- there isn't supposed to be! If there was then Episode II and III would absolutely suck because there wouldn't be anything else to tell.
The second thing people need to figure out is that puppets aren't real either. There's all kinds of complaining about how Lucas should have used puppets instead of CGI animation. Why? Are puppets more real than computer generated characters? Lucas couldn't have done what he did without the help of the computers! (Jar Jar aside)
Finally when all the movies are out no one is going to complain about Episode I because it will all make sense and everyone will see that its needed to tell us how the whole thing began. When Episode V (Empire Strikes Back) there was all kinds of complaining about it being too dark and too evil and most of us would now say its needed to have Return of the Jedi. I expect that Episode 2 will be much the same way.
Anyway I loved the movie. There's my rant for the day!
Bill has decided we need our own web language to compete with Java and some of the Unix languages such as Perl. We're going to tell the public that we came up with the idea of a language designed for the internet, and that it won't let the user make mistakes and won't have any security holes (that they can find). We need this in the next few days to coincide with the.NET announcement.
P.S. We also told them it would have lots of really pretty (useless) buttons
Not a problem! We'll just take some C headers and stuff them into the Visual Basic package. We'll add a ton more of those stupid help messages that pop up when the programmer forgets a semicolon, or just at random to make sure they hate us, and maybe we'll add the Paperclip just for kicks and some extra memory usage. You guys in marketing make so much fun for us:)
So we have the right to copy on to tape as much as we want but not to MP3s? This is a stupid issue! A couple of points:
First of all I must say that Metallica is right about copy infringment. I'm a writer and I would be very upset if someone took my work sold it for their own profit. Metallica isn't thinking very straight here and I don't think they really understand the technology. These people on Napster are not making profit by trading songs and how many of them are actually downloading entire albums. If I want an album I spend 5 minutes to go in buy it, not several hours downloading it over my modem! That doesn't make any sense.
So my second point is that Metallica is effectively cutting off their own right arm! In the long run people trading their songs are going to cause more people to buy their albums. They should endorse such a practice. Its never going to cut into their profits!
And thirdly they don't want to look like ***holes well they already do making hypocritical statements about "the principle of people stealing music" and then turn around and say its okay to tape stuff and give it to a friend. If its not about money doesn't that fall under the same so called "principle"?
I was just wondering why it took so long for the fastest computer ever built took so long to multiply 6x8. Did he run on NT or something?:)
Of course being sencient he could have chosen his own OS. I would suppose that it is defenatly possible that he bought stock in Microsoft and wanted to help increase their market share. The brightest and fasted computer ever built running on NT would certainly give MS a lot of publicity. They'd just have to market the performance problems as an "upgrade".
I've been using black box for sometime now and while it is very new (not even version 1 yet) and probably wouldn't work as well for a new user but with some time and development this is something that I think people would like.
One of the most amazing things about BB is that it recreates its menus on the fly from a text file. If I need a new menu item I put it in the file and when I click the menu there it is.
By default there are no icons on the desktop but just tell it to start KFM and there they are.
Its extemely small, light on memory, things can be changed without restarting X, often without even restarting Black Box itself. Everything from what runs by default to themes to menu items are controled by text files and then to top it off its incredibly stable. I've used it for nearly a year and it has never ever crashed on me.
If you are looking for a stable, easily customizeable window manager then give it a try.
Well maybe they are reported faster to MS but who gets to see them but M$oft? Who gets to decide whether or not we know about potential security bugs... the answer again: Microsoft.
Now let me ask you this. Is Microsoft interested in the security or your system? No. They are interested in making money which is why there are security bugs that go unreported and if anyone was bothering to check the code, a hole that huge would have been found. Last but not least who runs the Internet? It isn't IIS my friend. Apache almost 60% of websites you see everyday. I have my doubts that M$oft.com even runs on IIS because it isn't built to handle high amounts of traffic. By the way Apache servers get hammered just as much as IIS with attacks. I've seen logs from Linux webservers. I know what people are trying to get in almost everyday. A person who knows what they are doing has good security with Apache. With IIS you may know what you are doing but you have no idea what humorous microsoft programmers decided to say about netscape, linux, Jon Katz, or anyone else:)
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I agree that the Net has communities, and ways to connect to other people however I'm not sure that these take the place of "true contact" physically being with another person.
The problem is that you are taking one extreme and forcing it to the other. And there is a happy middle ground where people use the net, they interact on the net but they realize that people they come in contact with probably aren't same as they would be if they were met in the physical world.
People on the net say things that they wouldn't say in real life because who cares what Joe Bob in Timbuctoo thinks about it.
The net is great and it is very useful, and its fun to come into contact with people that you wouldn't otherwise meet, however it will be sad day when people start staying glued to their computer screens with no contact at all with the physical world. I think the trick is keeping the virtual world and the real world separate and not spend too much time in either one
I think you ignored my comment. But because you flamed me I guess I'll give you a reason:
I love God, I'm not ashamed to say it. I think the people who annoy you are the ones that don't act like it. Its a free country, this is a free speech site. so I love God. Deal with it.
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He's so excessive on issues that an outsider would get the impression the world is coming to an end at the hands of corporations. I think the general feeling is that he is trying too hard to be part of the community and half the time he doesn't really know what he's talking about. So he uses buzz words that catch people's attention and promotes the idea that some how a geek is better than everyone else in the world... My message to Katz would be that idea is wrong: the corporations, the so called "mindless public" the users of windows and the users of Linux and everyone who posts on /., we are all people. Some people are greedy, some people have genuine different ideas about what is right when it comes to intellectual property and copyright laws.
Katz himself is a victim of greed. He wants people to read his articles so his reoccuring theme is corporate conspiracies and government conspiracies to snuff all the geeks because we are dangerous or something. The problem is he isn't believable, I read his articles and find no evidence that Katz himself believes what he writting. He writes to be seen and anyone with half a brain is going to resent that because its nothing more than a load of crap
my $.02
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Sue them. Legally you can take any company to small claims court and get about $500 if you ask them not to call and they do it anyway. With such an automated system they will probably call you back and if enough people took it up ABC would most likely stop doing it.
2 or 3 million viewers doing that and it could seriously hurt the company :). Not a bad idea of you ask me. Maybe we can get some of the "sheep-like" public away from their TVs for awhile!
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Right ..... hmmm you know it seems to me that you are as bad as the people that took them away from it. So Christian's don't get rights just like everyone else? You are as narrow minded as you claim we are!
Maybe God didn't want that person to have the domain name, that's up to God, and I hope the person who did own it realizes that losing a domain is not really that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things (even though its a huge injustice) and doesn't go and blame God for it.
As for you why don't I amuse you a bit more and pray that God will forgive you for making such a stupid comment
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Never knock on Death's door:
In l890, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote that "the common law secures to each individual the right of determining, ordinarily, to what extent his thoughts, sentiments, and emotions shall be communicated to others."
This quote backs that up. Each individual the right to determine There is nothing online that requires me to use my real name. I really hope that no one has the 555-5555 telephone number because I've used that hundreds of time signing up for stuff. If you are paranoid about your email being targeted and read (out of millions out there) then encrypt it!
Offline don't leave your personal items floating around your desk. Take them home if you are worried that your employer is going to come and snoop around. If you can't take it home then buy a pad-lock.
Its all common sense. People should use it rather than posting cynical comments to Slashdot. Corporate America wouldn't have near as much power if the average person didn't give it to them in the first place
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If there's one thing that I can't stand, it's people who live in their own idealistic little worlds and think that protest actions and their lofty goals make a damn bit of difference in this world.
Hmmmm that's a bit cynical. Where would the world be if we didn't have people to stand by their principles? Ghandi? Martin Luther King Jr.? ummm how about Jesus? (or just about any other religious founder) These people made huge differences in the world because they stood up for what they believe in. Where would we be without those people? The British Empire could still be oppressing half the world without Ghandi. In the American south we might still be treating African Americans as second class without King Jr. And whether you believe in a supreme being or not it would be hard to argue that the world would be better off without some forms of religion.
There are countless other examples. It takes people of vision and principle to stand up against oppressive governments and laws that are wrong. You yourself pointed out that you live in China... surely you must see this?
I would agree that we should be harder on criminals but not at the cost of an uninformed public. The guy from Forbes did the right thing. The people he talked to trust him not to go to the authorities and he had the integrity to live up to that promise. People are remembered in this world for standing up for their priniciples rather than being programmed to do what the government always wants.
Never knock on Death's door:
I've lived in forign countries where the government owned all the land, took care of all the health care, (third world country so you can imagine what that was like) and could search homes or stop people without any reason at all.
I don't really believe that the government doesn't have our best interest in mind at least for the most part. There is no possible way the FBI could read all email, and I would go even farther to say there's no way they are going to get the software installed at all ISPs. There's dozens of Mom and Pa Internet shops that simply aren't going to do it. The FBI found a loophole where they can gather information a possibly catch criminals. I truely don't believe there's a consipiracy to label everyone as a bad guy.
Is what they are doing wrong? Yes I think so. Is it particulary dangerous to our freedom? Probably not, especially when compared to what goes on in some other countries. I'm glad the ACLU is stepping in but really what can they do about it? I'm sure that this sort of thing will still go on unless Congress opens an investigation and puts a stop to it. So if you are worried about the FBI reading your mail then encrypt it. Personally I have nothing to hide.
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This is great! I'm glad that someone is standing up for what is right in this situation. I'm not cracker/hacker whatever term you prefer but the government has no business reading my email no matter what its about!
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So we should just keep working with it because it does remote display? No! Write a new standard that does remote display, better font support (like the article mentioned) and gets rid of tons of unneeded code.
There are a lot of things I'd love to see in a GUI system: You mentioned remote display, I'd love to see something that cuts down on the overhead (ever tried to do remote display over a modem?). Maybe some kind of two way communication where the remote system looks for the graphics binaries on the client and just sends data to update rather than data for the whole binary. (If the client has them). BTW: Windows can do remote display but it does suck, its even slower than X.
I'd also like to see some kind of standard widget set built into the server itself. (GTK would be fine with me). Its soooo incrediably annoying when I find programs that look really cool but don't run correctly (or not at all in my window manager).
I'd still like to see mulitple window managers to have different looks though. Some people need a Windows/Mac look. Personally I love BlackBox. Which as far as GUI's go I feel is pretty innovative.(and its really small. If anyone wanted to take the chalange in the article to put the GUI and kernel on a floppy, try BlackBox!)
Q3A isn't very slow using XF86 && glX either, now is it?)
I really hate to point this out but there was a benchmark at Linux Games that shows Windows beating Linux in 3d accelaration with several different cards. Personally I think this has a lot to do with X.
Never knock on Death's door:
I'm a Christian trying to make a cool web community for teens and college students (not nessicarily all Christian stuff) I have a few volunteers but no other geeks to help with the actual programming. (Mostly perl but I'd like to do some Java and maybe Python as well). Anyone who is interested should visit my domain above
Never knock on Death's door:
I think that most of us here on /. would agree that we have to program for the user, and users don't change a whole lot. Think about how Windows has dominated the market place. As much as their OS design royally sucks, they created a standard way that a computer interacts with a user. Users don't readly change to something they don't know. Mention Linux to typical average Joe User and the response is always the same "learning something new is too hard". Even our window managers on *ix machines have a look and feel much like that of Windows, or Mac or a combination.
This guy is blaming the programmers for problems with computer systems when he doesn't realize that computer systems are the way they are to meet the needs of users.
Some of his ideas are okay but personally most of this article sounded more like an ad campaign for M$oft .NET, all computers working as one, the net being the focus, not the computer. Bla bla bla.... one point that I found particularly interesting:
17. A cyberbody can be replicated or distributed over many computers; can inhabit many computers at the same time. If the Cybersphere's computers are tiles in a paved courtyard, a cyberbody is a cloud's drifting shadow covering many tiles simultaneously.
Um so he's going to fund us to make the entire net a Beowulf cluster? And in a way don't some large sites/ISPs do this anyway? My school has 9 servers and all of them have different jobs. If we had 1 those jobs wouldn't be done as fast.... Ironically he's advocating the same "obsolete" technology!
It all comes down to the user's wants. I don't feel that the user wants what he is advocating here and the only way to tell is if he goes and builds teh stupid thing and gets people to try it.
Never knock on Death's door:
Never knock on Death's door:
(a couple of employees viewing website traffic reports for www.hotxxx-lesbo-hardcore.com)
"Geez this guy is sick, 39 minutes on one picture"
"Yeah too bad our little bug can't show us what he's seeing
"Hey that would be cool I'll talk to the programmers. Just remember we don't actually know anything!"
So what's next? Double Click isn't very smart getting into something like this now. They really can't deny getting information!
Never knock on Death's door:
...but it sounds really interesting. I'm not sure I understand the meaning behind the title though. The review sounds more like a story about two people (the alien and the palentologist) who seek to know more about God: one from the standpoint of a believer, and one from the standpoint of an un-believer. The title almost sounds like people who are trying to create or figure out how to be God.
Anyway the title aside, judging from this review I think the book has a good chance of being something that will last. "Religion" aside the existance of God (or lack there of) is something that all humans have dealt with through the ages. Stories that are well written and deal with "Meaning of life" types of questions have a good chance of success. Religion is something we do as a habit and typically differs at least somewhat for every individual. This books seems to address questions that everyone has to eventually deal with.
Who knows, I might actually go read this one :)
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(it'd be tough to go downhill, that's for sure)
Come on! All that's ever on Slashdot about any movie is negative. Episode I was beautifully done. It had everything that made the original movies good:
1. A great story line, good vs. evil sort of thing
2. Action
3. Comic Relief (Jar Jar)
4. A bit of romance (Amadala and Anakin)
It has exactly what it needs to be a good movie and to infom us of how we eventually will get to the Empire and the Rebellion. There's much more to Star Wars besides Darth Vader.
What everyone seems to be forgeting is that Episode I is supposed to tell us how it all got started. The only purpose of the movie is to show how we get to Episode II! Everyone seems to hate it because there's no grand revealing things that happen-- there isn't supposed to be! If there was then Episode II and III would absolutely suck because there wouldn't be anything else to tell.
The second thing people need to figure out is that puppets aren't real either. There's all kinds of complaining about how Lucas should have used puppets instead of CGI animation. Why? Are puppets more real than computer generated characters? Lucas couldn't have done what he did without the help of the computers! (Jar Jar aside)
Finally when all the movies are out no one is going to complain about Episode I because it will all make sense and everyone will see that its needed to tell us how the whole thing began. When Episode V (Empire Strikes Back) there was all kinds of complaining about it being too dark and too evil and most of us would now say its needed to have Return of the Jedi. I expect that Episode 2 will be much the same way.
Anyway I loved the movie. There's my rant for the day!
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Look! New previously undiscovered evidence!
INTERNAL MEMO MICROSOFT CORP
DATE: JUNE 2000
TO: Programming Department
FROM: Marketing
SUBJECT: New programming language C#
Bill has decided we need our own web language to compete with Java and some of the Unix languages such as Perl. We're going to tell the public that we came up with the idea of a language designed for the internet, and that it won't let the user make mistakes and won't have any security holes (that they can find). We need this in the next few days to coincide with the .NET announcement.
P.S. We also told them it would have lots of really pretty (useless) buttons
-------------------------------------------------FROM: Programming department
SUBJECT: Re: C# Programming language
Not a problem! We'll just take some C headers and stuff them into the Visual Basic package. We'll add a ton more of those stupid help messages that pop up when the programmer forgets a semicolon, or just at random to make sure they hate us, and maybe we'll add the Paperclip just for kicks and some extra memory usage. You guys in marketing make so much fun for us :)
---------------------------------------------Yeah this looks like a real winner :)
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At least in my area of the country there seem to be plenty of pin-ball machines in arcades, putt-putt golf places, etc. Even new ones have gone in.
Its not as much of a culture anymore though. My dad used to talk about his "friends" hustled people on them. (sure dad, your friends :).
So we have the right to copy on to tape as much as we want but not to MP3s? This is a stupid issue! A couple of points:
First of all I must say that Metallica is right about copy infringment. I'm a writer and I would be very upset if someone took my work sold it for their own profit. Metallica isn't thinking very straight here and I don't think they really understand the technology.
These people on Napster are not making profit by trading songs and how many of them are actually downloading entire albums. If I want an album I spend 5 minutes to go in buy it, not several hours downloading it over my modem! That doesn't make any sense.
So my second point is that Metallica is effectively cutting off their own right arm! In the long run people trading their songs are going to cause more people to buy their albums. They should endorse such a practice. Its never going to cut into their profits!
And thirdly they don't want to look like ***holes well they already do making hypocritical statements about "the principle of people stealing music" and then turn around and say its okay to tape stuff and give it to a friend. If its not about money doesn't that fall under the same so called "principle"?
With ignorance comes stupidity
I was just wondering why it took so long for the fastest computer ever built took so long to multiply 6x8. Did he run on NT or something? :)
Of course being sencient he could have chosen his own OS. I would suppose that it is defenatly possible that he bought stock in Microsoft and wanted to help increase their market share. The brightest and fasted computer ever built running on NT would certainly give MS a lot of publicity. They'd just have to market the performance problems as an "upgrade".
I've been using black box for sometime now and while it is very new (not even version 1 yet) and probably wouldn't work as well for a new user but with some time and development this is something that I think people would like.
One of the most amazing things about BB is that it recreates its menus on the fly from a text file. If I need a new menu item I put it in the file and when I click the menu there it is.
By default there are no icons on the desktop but just tell it to start KFM and there they are.
Its extemely small, light on memory, things can be changed without restarting X, often without even restarting Black Box itself. Everything from what runs by default to themes to menu items are controled by text files and then to top it off its incredibly stable. I've used it for nearly a year and it has never ever crashed on me.
If you are looking for a stable, easily customizeable window manager then give it a try.
Now let me ask you this. Is Microsoft interested in the security or your system? No. They are interested in making money which is why there are security bugs that go unreported and if anyone was bothering to check the code, a hole that huge would have been found. Last but not least who runs the Internet? It isn't IIS my friend. Apache almost 60% of websites you see everyday. I have my doubts that M$oft.com even runs on IIS because it isn't built to handle high amounts of traffic. By the way Apache servers get hammered just as much as IIS with attacks. I've seen logs from Linux webservers. I know what people are trying to get in almost everyday. A person who knows what they are doing has good security with Apache. With IIS you may know what you are doing but you have no idea what humorous microsoft programmers decided to say about netscape, linux, Jon Katz, or anyone else :)
I agree that the Net has communities, and ways to connect to other people however I'm not sure that these take the place of "true contact" physically being with another person.
The problem is that you are taking one extreme and forcing it to the other. And there is a happy middle ground where people use the net, they interact on the net but they realize that people they come in contact with probably aren't same as they would be if they were met in the physical world.
People on the net say things that they wouldn't say in real life because who cares what Joe Bob in Timbuctoo thinks about it.
The net is great and it is very useful, and its fun to come into contact with people that you wouldn't otherwise meet, however it will be sad day when people start staying glued to their computer screens with no contact at all with the physical world. I think the trick is keeping the virtual world and the real world separate and not spend too much time in either one
I think you ignored my comment. But because you flamed me I guess I'll give you a reason:
I love God, I'm not ashamed to say it. I think the people who annoy you are the ones that don't act like it. Its a free country, this is a free speech site. so I love God. Deal with it.