I certainly don't want windows and I really don't like this Novell M$ deal.
I want to install a version of Linux of my own choice.
So sell me a laptop without any OS.
Why the hell do these companies get away of peddling this crappy software I don't want?
How totally stupid. So the government will probably send special hash codes (id numbers) to everyone. People leave these lying around, get picked up with other people. Kids could collect them. People can steal those numbers. Then they go online and vote. How stupid can they get?
Look how much energy it takes to get a space ship into space. So someone actually thinks they can fool the masses into making everyone think that they're going to have a manned mission to mars? How in the hell do they take us for? The insult is beyond belief!
If they care at all to bring back the astronauts alive, they'll have to figure out a way to get a space ship there in the right condition and with the right amount of energy in order to be able to take of from Mars, escape the orbit and then make it all the way back to earth. It's *NOT* the trip *TO* mars that's the problem, it's the trip *BACK* to *EARTH* that is the problem.
So, until they figure out a better propulsion system, or a way to carry more energy more easily, they should *NOT* waste our money on such frivulous BS money wasting trips to the Moon. It's unfair for them to spend other people's money that way - it's PURE THEFT I tells ya.
"I have 3 words:... this... company... sucks... yyyeeeahhhhh.... who said sit down... I will kill you I will kill you all..."
What's with the frecking threats? Can we see the Microsoft source code base please? Surely, some open source routines made it in somewhere.
"We hereby threaten Microsoft with an open source lawsuit, because they're guilty until proven innocent."
I think crybaby Ballmer needs to shut the hell up, unless he comes up with specifics.
Anyway.
Some serious fixing needs to be done:
Priority #1: strip and burn Mono and anything that has anything to do with Mono. Educate companies like Red Hat (Beagle must go).
Priority #2: boycott Novell. Consider them tainted, dirty, disgusting. Barf, woof.
Priority #3: watch what Novell is doing, and immediately create alternative solutions written in Java or something else (and please, NOT low quality crap like Python).
> they're getting a good response from.NET developers, who would like to see their stuff become more portable -- they'd love to see.NET pick up some of that "write once run anywhere" magic that java has. They'd like to not be locked in.
The "developers" can want whatever they want. But it'd be a first ever if Microsoft would want to be cross platform. Ballmer will surely, at one point, suck the living daylights out of it. It's kind of like a sleeping alien, but watch out when he wakes up. He'll jump up and down and go "developers, developers, developers, what have you done! Now we have to go an sue and threaten and intimidate."
I can not understand this S-T-U-P-I-D mono project, because it's unnecessary. Java is better - by a landslide. Why expose ourselves to the wrath of Microsoft?
And all that open-standards crap argument doesn't wash. Mono is a funnel that will attract copyrighted code.
It'd a *MUCH* better choice if people just drop this whole Mono thing on the floor, and do whatever it is that they wanted to do in Java. Sun Java. Sun is *NOT* going to make Linux' life hard - Microsoft on the other hand *WILL*.
I wholeheartedly agree. I can't for the life understand why these bloody wankers are polluting Linux with their stupid useless completely unnecessary microsoft crap.
Even Red Hat is falling into the trap, with that stupid defunct Beagle product, which, by the way, will put your cpu to 100% even when it's not doing anything, on a stock FC6 that is.
That's great and all, but there is another thing with the way a fridge works. It actually displaces energy which generates heat on the outside. You want that heat to be in the house and not get lost.
One thing people usually overlook. In the winter, where you want to heat the house, a bulb contributes to the heating of the house. In fact, where you sit, is usually where you have the lights on, slightly delaying when the gas heat kicks in, while in other places of the house, are slightly cooler. I think the net result is that incandescent light bulbs can actually be beneficial. You'd have to use them below ceiling height though.
In the summer, it's the other way around. You spend energy cooling the house, and then a bulb sits there and makes it warm again. Kinda like the fridge in the winter. You spend energy to make the house warm, and then energy again to have a box with colder air inside of it. What a screwed up backwards world we live in.
Anyway, in the end - yes - impose the better light bulbs, because if you have to wait for the average idiot/moron to participate, it'll never happen.
Have people caught onto the fact that those really really cheap 4 for a dollar bulbs are intentionally made to have an extra short lifespan yet? Those people refuse to buy the $1.50 bulbs, even if they in the end they last 5 times as long. Kinda like bus tickets, people buy individual tickets for, say, $2.50. They won't buy 10 for $20. Why? They *FEEL* it's cheaper. Or, "I don't have the money now", "I don't want to spend that much".
Yes, take control, decide it for them, people are too stupid to do the right thing.
Ah yes, the american lawyer, always looking to harass some sucker.
Stalking my ass. Next thing you know I can't even look at someone across the street, or I'll get sued for staring - oh wait, that already happened.
Who lives in this so called free country again? The land of intimidation, the land of wanker crybaby pussy lawsuit landmines that is.
Send a message to them in as many formats as possible. Use only open formats, so not.doc format;-)
Wait for instructions on how to build an efficient propulsion system (something we wouldn't know if we fell over it).
Kinda like in 'Contact'.
Why is it that, just like in the movies, America has to be in the centre of the universe. An object from outer space is coming to threat us, and what do you know? "California" is at risk.
How arrogant! I mean what the hell?
Here's why it is super uber-arrogant: if there is a 1 in 45000 chance, and then *IF* it hits the earth at all, it could really hit *anywhere* on earth. North, south, slightly earlier, slightly later, all factors that will completely make the outcome just about 100% unpredictable as to where exactly it will hit, if at all.
So right away, "California" is at risk. Seriously, you people need to get your heads checked.
I just didn't realize that CD prices more than doubled. O well, to offset the cost, I'll have to download a few movies to offset the cost. Poor BlockBusters, getting less business from me now - perhaps *they* should lobby for a DVD levy.
Now if only I can figure out how to get i2p to work with azureus, I'm on my way. Damn Rogers.
Would using Azureus or uTorrent encrypted connections have prevented their little stalking game?
I wonder what's the best ip anonymizer / scatterizer out there... freenet ?
ps. that link you provided. The prices of CD's are way higher than DVD's looks like. I bought 200 DVD for $30 over a year ago at boxing day at Futureshop once. And CD's now? $30 for just 50? Might an actual harddrive be cheaper? Perhaps they should levy a tax on harddrives too.
And then also levy compression algorithms.
Isn't the tax/levy only on CD's and not on DVD's. Perhaps that's why blank CD's are just about phased out... Tigerdirect didn't even have any, only DVD's.
And the money they collect probably barely pays for the administrative overhead and for the executives' mercedes fund. Heck, that was probably the main motivation anyway.
He! *THEY* started this corrupt crappy system, not me.
Where's the download button?
Email? Woof, the wife won't see that one, relief... I don't even use the crappy email accounts of Crogers or Chimpatico.
Perhaps they should include a suspected illegal activity rating/score on the monthly bill - the wife *would* notice *that*.
They could base it on funny-port-use ratio or something. They could take the number of gigabytes uploaded/downloaded through ports they think are not used for "legitimate use", and translate it through a formula and provide a "whole-some" rating.
0 'd be 0% chance you're doing anything illegal. This is the person that only reads and writes email, visits ordinary websites like cnn and cbc. This person should downgrade to a basic account - no need for 5+ Mb/s speeds here. ISP will not want that...
10 'd be someone who visits porn sites.
20 'd be someone who runs the odd limewire.
50 'd be someone who runs bittorrent to do stuff, whatever stuff.
75 'd be someone who runs bittorrent 24/7 with an average of 25 KB/s (Rogers mames connection speeds, forget about 300+MB/s downloads, it aint happening no more).
100 'd be someone who looks like he's running a freenet node, and imminently faced the
rcmp running down the front door on a sunday morning.
We might as well move to China - it'd be a freeer nation over there...
Battlestar Galactica has already done this. They made sure that both in Canada and the US, it airs exactly at 10pm EST, *only*, and no other timezones get it earlier or later. That means 7pm PST. They moved it to Sunday 10pm, so that most people that want to watch it before the weekend is done, on tv. It used to be that you could torrent the BG episode sometime during Friday midnight, because in the US is was aired on Friday I guess, and in Canada on Saturday.
Anyway - one way of circumventing early downloads and torrents, is to move popular weekly episodes to Sunday night.
You're making a great contribution to society by being a doctor. If you're an honest person and always take things seriously and do a proper responsible job, then you deserve all the respect in the world. If I'd buy your services, I would have no problem paying for it, so long as I know that I'm not gouged. However, there are a lot of not so well off people. Some deserve their situation, others are just unlucky, and others would like to be better off, but can't because they can't concentrate and understand complex things, so they can't work their way up. Regardless of the reasons of the situation that others are in, pharmaceutical companies and the cancer industry must not line their pockets with gold off the backs of these people, it's just evil. I hope you don't pass on the "hints" that those companies are giving people about this drug and that drug to people. Half the time, people don't need drugs, just rest with some vitamins. Half the time, it's not stress. Half the time kids don't need rydalin, but simply need to be wiened of a high glucose diet and more exercise. I hope you don't "pass the buck", and play along with the pharmaceutical companies. The hand that feeds you, is me, the customers, the patient, I pay your bills. Is there a kickback from the pharmaceuticals? Is there a royalty payment, a percentage or sorts. I'd like to know.
So, the OSP (Open Source Pharmaceuticals), might be interesting to your customer. But will it work, because surely, the "industry" have figured out their game...
You can't be serious. So you're saying that if I move my harddrive from one computer to another, with a different mobo, graphics card, etc, M$ has no problem with that?
This is completely contrary of what everyone is saying. You must have had a registry hack in place already, or perhaps your computer has been infected with an ungenuine advantage virus.
Typical neocon Harper hypocrisy. Let's vote that former National Citizens Coalition president/sociopath out before he deforms/mames us into a US clone.
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As long as I can't buy a laptop without any OS for a lower price than one with an OS, the business remain disgusting and dirty.
I certainly don't want windows and I really don't like this Novell M$ deal. I want to install a version of Linux of my own choice. So sell me a laptop without any OS. Why the hell do these companies get away of peddling this crappy software I don't want?
How totally stupid. So the government will probably send special hash codes (id numbers) to everyone. People leave these lying around, get picked up with other people. Kids could collect them. People can steal those numbers.
Then they go online and vote.
How stupid can they get?
Look how much energy it takes to get a space ship into space. So someone actually thinks they can fool the masses into making everyone think that they're going to have a manned mission to mars? How in the hell do they take us for? The insult is beyond belief!
If they care at all to bring back the astronauts alive, they'll have to figure out a way to get a space ship there in the right condition and with the right amount of energy in order to be able to take of from Mars, escape the orbit and then make it all the way back to earth. It's *NOT* the trip *TO* mars that's the problem, it's the trip *BACK* to *EARTH* that is the problem.
So, until they figure out a better propulsion system, or a way to carry more energy more easily, they should *NOT* waste our money on such frivulous BS money wasting trips to the Moon.
It's unfair for them to spend other people's money that way - it's PURE THEFT I tells ya.
"I have 3 words: ... this ... company ... sucks ... yyyeeeahhhhh .... who said sit down ... I will kill you I will kill you all ..."
What's with the frecking threats? Can we see the Microsoft source code base please? Surely, some open source routines made it in somewhere.
"We hereby threaten Microsoft with an open source lawsuit, because they're guilty until proven innocent."
I think crybaby Ballmer needs to shut the hell up, unless he comes up with specifics.
Anyway.
Some serious fixing needs to be done:
Priority #1: strip and burn Mono and anything that has anything to do with Mono. Educate companies like Red Hat (Beagle must go).
Priority #2: boycott Novell. Consider them tainted, dirty, disgusting. Barf, woof.
Priority #3: watch what Novell is doing, and immediately create alternative solutions written in Java or something else (and please, NOT low quality crap like Python).
> they're getting a good response from .NET developers, who would like to see their stuff become more portable -- they'd love to see .NET pick up some of that "write once run anywhere" magic that java has. They'd like to not be locked in.
The "developers" can want whatever they want. But it'd be a first ever if Microsoft would want to be cross platform. Ballmer will surely, at one point, suck the living daylights out of it. It's kind of like a sleeping alien, but watch out when he wakes up. He'll jump up and down and go "developers, developers, developers, what have you done! Now we have to go an sue and threaten and intimidate."
I can not understand this S-T-U-P-I-D mono project, because it's unnecessary. Java is better - by a landslide. Why expose ourselves to the wrath of Microsoft?
And all that open-standards crap argument doesn't wash. Mono is a funnel that will attract copyrighted code.
It'd a *MUCH* better choice if people just drop this whole Mono thing on the floor, and do whatever it is that they wanted to do in Java. Sun Java. Sun is *NOT* going to make Linux' life hard - Microsoft on the other hand *WILL*.
I wholeheartedly agree. I can't for the life understand why these bloody wankers are polluting Linux with their stupid useless completely unnecessary microsoft crap. Even Red Hat is falling into the trap, with that stupid defunct Beagle product, which, by the way, will put your cpu to 100% even when it's not doing anything, on a stock FC6 that is.
That's great and all, but there is another thing with the way a fridge works. It actually displaces energy which generates heat on the outside. You want that heat to be in the house and not get lost.
One thing people usually overlook. In the winter, where you want to heat the house, a bulb contributes to the heating of the house. In fact, where you sit, is usually where you have the lights on, slightly delaying when the gas heat kicks in, while in other places of the house, are slightly cooler. I think the net result is that incandescent light bulbs can actually be beneficial. You'd have to use them below ceiling height though.
In the summer, it's the other way around. You spend energy cooling the house, and then a bulb sits there and makes it warm again. Kinda like the fridge in the winter. You spend energy to make the house warm, and then energy again to have a box with colder air inside of it. What a screwed up backwards world we live in.
Anyway, in the end - yes - impose the better light bulbs, because if you have to wait for the average idiot/moron to participate, it'll never happen.
Have people caught onto the fact that those really really cheap 4 for a dollar bulbs are intentionally made to have an extra short lifespan yet? Those people refuse to buy the $1.50 bulbs, even if they in the end they last 5 times as long.
Kinda like bus tickets, people buy individual tickets for, say, $2.50. They won't buy 10 for $20. Why? They *FEEL* it's cheaper. Or, "I don't have the money now", "I don't want to spend that much".
Yes, take control, decide it for them, people are too stupid to do the right thing.
Ah yes, the american lawyer, always looking to harass some sucker. Stalking my ass. Next thing you know I can't even look at someone across the street, or I'll get sued for staring - oh wait, that already happened. Who lives in this so called free country again? The land of intimidation, the land of wanker crybaby pussy lawsuit landmines that is.
Send a message to them in as many formats as possible. Use only open formats, so not .doc format ;-)
Wait for instructions on how to build an efficient propulsion system (something we wouldn't know if we fell over it).
Kinda like in 'Contact'.
Why is it that, just like in the movies, America has to be in the centre of the universe. An object from outer space is coming to threat us, and what do you know? "California" is at risk. How arrogant! I mean what the hell? Here's why it is super uber-arrogant: if there is a 1 in 45000 chance, and then *IF* it hits the earth at all, it could really hit *anywhere* on earth. North, south, slightly earlier, slightly later, all factors that will completely make the outcome just about 100% unpredictable as to where exactly it will hit, if at all. So right away, "California" is at risk. Seriously, you people need to get your heads checked.
I just didn't realize that CD prices more than doubled. O well, to offset the cost, I'll have to download a few movies to offset the cost. Poor BlockBusters, getting less business from me now - perhaps *they* should lobby for a DVD levy.
Now if only I can figure out how to get i2p to work with azureus, I'm on my way. Damn Rogers.
Screw them all. I suggest exploring something freenet, get that to work.
Would using Azureus or uTorrent encrypted connections have prevented their little stalking game? I wonder what's the best ip anonymizer / scatterizer out there... freenet ?
Are you on DSL, which changes ip addresses often? Perhaps a mixup?
ps. that link you provided. The prices of CD's are way higher than DVD's looks like. I bought 200 DVD for $30 over a year ago at boxing day at Futureshop once. And CD's now? $30 for just 50? Might an actual harddrive be cheaper? Perhaps they should levy a tax on harddrives too. And then also levy compression algorithms.
Didn't see any in the store, only dvd's. Maybe I missed it? It did seem strange, but I walked back and forth around the shelfs, and only saw dvd's.
Isn't the tax/levy only on CD's and not on DVD's. Perhaps that's why blank CD's are just about phased out... Tigerdirect didn't even have any, only DVD's. And the money they collect probably barely pays for the administrative overhead and for the executives' mercedes fund. Heck, that was probably the main motivation anyway. He! *THEY* started this corrupt crappy system, not me. Where's the download button?
Email? Woof, the wife won't see that one, relief... I don't even use the crappy email accounts of Crogers or Chimpatico. Perhaps they should include a suspected illegal activity rating/score on the monthly bill - the wife *would* notice *that*. They could base it on funny-port-use ratio or something. They could take the number of gigabytes uploaded/downloaded through ports they think are not used for "legitimate use", and translate it through a formula and provide a "whole-some" rating. 0 'd be 0% chance you're doing anything illegal. This is the person that only reads and writes email, visits ordinary websites like cnn and cbc. This person should downgrade to a basic account - no need for 5+ Mb/s speeds here. ISP will not want that... 10 'd be someone who visits porn sites. 20 'd be someone who runs the odd limewire. 50 'd be someone who runs bittorrent to do stuff, whatever stuff. 75 'd be someone who runs bittorrent 24/7 with an average of 25 KB/s (Rogers mames connection speeds, forget about 300+MB/s downloads, it aint happening no more). 100 'd be someone who looks like he's running a freenet node, and imminently faced the rcmp running down the front door on a sunday morning. We might as well move to China - it'd be a freeer nation over there...
Battlestar Galactica has already done this. They made sure that both in Canada and the US, it airs exactly at 10pm EST, *only*, and no other timezones get it earlier or later. That means 7pm PST. They moved it to Sunday 10pm, so that most people that want to watch it before the weekend is done, on tv. It used to be that you could torrent the BG episode sometime during Friday midnight, because in the US is was aired on Friday I guess, and in Canada on Saturday. Anyway - one way of circumventing early downloads and torrents, is to move popular weekly episodes to Sunday night.
You're making a great contribution to society by being a doctor. If you're an honest person and always take things seriously and do a proper responsible job, then you deserve all the respect in the world. If I'd buy your services, I would have no problem paying for it, so long as I know that I'm not gouged. However, there are a lot of not so well off people. Some deserve their situation, others are just unlucky, and others would like to be better off, but can't because they can't concentrate and understand complex things, so they can't work their way up. Regardless of the reasons of the situation that others are in, pharmaceutical companies and the cancer industry must not line their pockets with gold off the backs of these people, it's just evil. I hope you don't pass on the "hints" that those companies are giving people about this drug and that drug to people. Half the time, people don't need drugs, just rest with some vitamins. Half the time, it's not stress. Half the time kids don't need rydalin, but simply need to be wiened of a high glucose diet and more exercise. I hope you don't "pass the buck", and play along with the pharmaceutical companies. The hand that feeds you, is me, the customers, the patient, I pay your bills. Is there a kickback from the pharmaceuticals? Is there a royalty payment, a percentage or sorts. I'd like to know.
So, the OSP (Open Source Pharmaceuticals), might be interesting to your customer. But will it work, because surely, the "industry" have figured out their game...
Java's threading is practically 1:1 to the OS. It's incredibly easy to use.
new Thread() { public void run() { go nuts } }.start().
You can't be serious. So you're saying that if I move my harddrive from one computer to another, with a different mobo, graphics card, etc, M$ has no problem with that?
This is completely contrary of what everyone is saying. You must have had a registry hack in place already, or perhaps your computer has been infected with an ungenuine advantage virus.
Typical neocon Harper hypocrisy. Let's vote that former National Citizens Coalition president/sociopath out before he deforms/mames us into a US clone.