People who profit off drugs deserve to rot in jail like the murders they are. But mostly, the war was supposed to be a propaganda battle as well.
Attitudes like this:
David Bunnell, the 53-year-old
chief executive of Upside Media, which
publishes print and online technology industry
magazines. "I knew he was drinking a lot and
taking uppers to stay awake. I didn't think it was
much of a problem. I didn't see it."
are delusional. The propaganda, which was never embraced by the Media whores, ended when George Bush left office and a shameless user entered. This is unforgivable encouragement:
Indeed, weeks after David Bunnell learned
that his son had died, the chief executive
declined to implement a pre-employment
drug-testing policy.
"What people do in their own time, in the
privacy of their own homes, is not our
business," Bunnell said. "We have a policy that
we don't want people to be stoned at work, but
there is a lot to do here. There's no time to slow
down."
How can you get help to someone if you don't know they have a problem? How can you even recognize the problem if you are tollerent?
Money and drugs. Dealers are also attracted to get rich quick schemes. Sure, it's hype. Nothing new here, not even your silly users vrs. abusers delusion.
My dad's a cardiologist and he's seen the results of regular use. It's a heart that's mostly scar tissue before you are 30. This is also known as death and is generally a non event after you've spent all your money on drugs and driven off all of your friends.
If it's not legal, you don't have any idea of what it is till you use it. Get Real, if you feel the urge to buy something like that you have a problem.
The dark side is composed of many individuals, 2,000 or so in Redmond, more but fewer with time elsewhere around the world. Each chasing his own selfish interests, seeking to take advantage of the crumbling monopoly and the work that has already been put into it. All the effort increases that body of work and makes it more seductive for others. As MS continues to destroy and envelope those comanies that used to compete, it is more obviously a collective. One hand washes the other.
This piece of responsiveness was forced by the position being too obviously wrong. Judging from all of the MicroTurd responses around here, I'd say that there are lots of MS programers with nothing better to do than read Slashdot.
Why bother with any of that stuff? By using primative API functions I had a program that made some sense when read, was small and fast when compiled, and was much harder to break. By not using the USER kernel, err I mean MFC, my programs were more difficult to break. Yep, the crappy little programs I wrote two years ago with a 4 year old compiler work in 95, 98, and NT. MS does not dare break those API calls as it will break all of their own software. Well, one day they will break everything, but that's progress, right? MFC is gonna change as fast as VB. It does not save you much up front and it costs you in the end.
Take the advice for what it's worth. I feel beter off learning about X.
OK, what exactly does that SUPPORT consist of? I might be missing something, but it looks like a DOS compiler with a few extra headers to talk to the Win API. A sample program, besides the Win specific instance and functions calls has:
#include win16.h and
#include commdlg.h
What eles whould a compiler need to interface with a silly windowing system? A liscence?
Actually you can write win32 apps with ANY compiler, so long as you have the proper headers. I used to use Watcom before I decided that windows programing was a DEAD END. It worked well, and I was supprised by how easy it was.
MFC and Visual Studio are traps to be avoided. Writing anything with Visual Studio is akin to using Visual BASIC. You get robot code that says, "for heaven's sake, don't modify this" when you can find the pieces. MFC is just a RAD wraper for the win API, an interface that was easy to begin with. Bloaty barf! MFC instantly bloats simple apps to 10 times their original size, and leaves your nads in MS hands for future breakage. You don't think MS uses MFC, do you? Or is that how Win2k got so big? Nothing is easy when things are hidden.
You know, that site full of smart ass, 20-20 hindsight kids getting cracked. "We told you all that long haired pinko commie type hippie fag freeware was in secure!", market-troids will cheerfully chirp, "You need to grow up and get yourself a real commerical OS." The New York Times has been making references to SlashDot (not always flattering). Even Scientific American made a snide comment or two this month about the "propeller head crowd on Slashdot." ZDNet will burst, and the clueless will be able to stick their heads in the sand again.
All these Windows users have a point
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You will need 4 CPU's to run Win2kNet+1/2 Millenium was last year version to come:
1. 8088 for word processing and email clients.
2. 80486 for the underlying Windowing system.
3. Pentium IV for all the online shopping.
4. Pentium VI for the fully skined talking paperclip of your choice. Insert list of babes here.
"Crap", "Shitheads"? Your language itself reflects the poor attitudes that plauge much of American management: Me first over you. There is a better way. Co-operation is better than adveserial competition.
Instead of constantly seeking "shitheads" to fire, you sould make sure you only hire talented people with reasonable attitudes. When people have problems and start acting strange, you need to find out why and help them out. If someone does not live up to their potential, you need to make the best use of them you can. Proper selection and loyalty to employees promotes loyalty to the company. Harrasing your employees before you fire them will ruin you.
No one can be responsible for all freak accidents, but Billy G. can do better. You can't help it if an individual goes insane and does something stupid, but this was not an unforseable or individual act. Every publication needs to be run through PR. PR should know better than to create a trap like this. Hell, every single programer should have better morals than that. They should all know that it's not OK to pain their users with code that's inconsistent, deceptive and buggy. They should not consider those users "morons". Morals come from the top down. No mind control is needed, you just don't do things the company does not approve of. Nor do employees do things that are not part of the company's mission. Billy G. embodies those morals and that mission. When he, or his top managers, email questions like "A. How does this make more money for Microsoft? B. How does this help kill Unix?" about interoperability, the wrong message is sent. There are countless other examples of wrongheaded behavior that go back to the foundation of MS, and it all eminates from one person and the people he chose.
The whole article is brain dead, and based on false assumptions. MS has been commiting suicide for decade. They are not the only game in town, they just thought they were.
People have already stoped buying their bloatware. Sales of Win2k are dismal, because of the OS's internal problems and high costs. If you have not noticed MS prides itself on conducting "business as usual (TM)" regardless of what the federal govenment has to say. Don't forget that the OS on it's own is next to useless, you have to buy hundreds of dollars of CD's to get any real functionality out of the damn thing.
Without breakup, we might really see a $1,000 OS as MS integrates the entire freaking Office and Visual Nightmare Suite to make it competitive with free software. Sorry, that is just not competive.
The path of least resistance is flowing away from them. Grandma? Hell, I don't know what goes on inside an MS machine and I never will. It's easier for me to set up any of the Linux distros and I can learn everything if I want.
As Chief of Microsoft and it's largest owner, Bill Gates is unconditionaly responsible for the actions of his company. He sets the tone, it is his environment. "Middle Management did it" is a poor excuse.
He never has cared and he never will. He's always been rich, having $1,000,000 trust fund, and now he is just astronomical. It's never enough, it seems. To learn how Billy G. got where he is go visit this great site .
The man knows how he got there, and what keeps him there. So do the people who work for him. Don't expect any changes.
It's good that you bring up the Russian space program. Despite the monolithic appearence of the Soviet system, there was a great deal of infighting and competition for funding between the various branches of the program. The duplication of effort and high costs is the primary reason the US beat them to the moon (I read this in Scientific American once, but I'm too lazy to link it.)
I never said I clicked without reading. The point was that MS forces people to click so often that they'll punch anything. The only thing I won't read anymore are those 15 page EULA that have all the force of urine against a tide. Oh, I Agree and I Submit, Bill. Ahhh, ha ha ha ha ha! Nope, don't use that smelly stuff any more except at work where I'm forced to suffer. Setup NT 4.0 service pack 4,5 or 6, with office 97. I've never touched any of MS's impossible to find "default" settings, and so they torture me every day.
My sympathy goes out to all of those people who have a single choice of OS when they buy their machine. I also feel for them as they get suckered into MSN, and spam all of their friends. Tricked again!
Yes, that old boss would just love to have the biggest most expensive toy in the world on his desk so he could upload his palm pilot data, write papers, and other things any old 486 could handle. Well, OK, so long as he needs tech support, I'll keep on smiling.
What magic bus will prevent memory and disk performance hits in the "real world"? Sun's got a good bus, and very good floating point perfomance. Floating point perfomance won't do it on it's own.
Now how much did you say that mobo cost? Ironically, I could only find Intel mobos on the Motorola ATX page . Nothing showed up on pricewatch. 11,700 matches for G4 Motherboard on google, barf, I give up.
Help me out, I'm as interested as the next guy in cheap computers.
If you do this, and behave like a complete asshole, you'll probably get good results.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Act like an asshole and your rep will not be at the office when you call. Your paperwork will get "lost" and you will sit. The sales rep can keep notes, cover his ass, service others and leave you fuming. Harrasing people without power to get things done gets you nowhere.
You don't have to be a jerk to avoid being walked on. Keep those notes, but do it quietly. Find out who's realy at fault and go over their head. Talk politely and find out what can be done. In the end, if the service is unaceptable, don't use it.
Large organizations are set up to get their way. If you want to do something different, be prepared to talk to a bunch of people who lack the authority to get anything done before you reach someone who can help. Many of those people will be rude, stupid and arrogant. All of them will take hours of time. It's all part of the organization doing what it wants. A good office will have someone to talk to and torture people like waldoj. Sometimes you will never get there. Waldoj will forever languish. Figure out what you are trying to do is worth to you.
If everything goes wrong and contracts are breached, visit a polite lawyer.
MS trains it's users to click buttons. Excell makes me click OK four fucking times to save a spreadsheet. 1; click save icon 2: You should use an older format for people that don't have this. OK 3; You might loose something here! OK. 4. I forgot what, but it's obtuse. Ahhhh! just save the thing! We all know how many buttons you have to press to say, change a DNS server. Then you have to reboot! MS interfaces have always been second rate, inconsistent and deceptive.
I can imagine the same feeling of "just do it already" takes over here too. How many times do you have to click OK to do this? After digging deep enough to change that address, I can imagine the average user is already annoyed. Next they get a promissing note, "Wow, now I don't have to do this by hand." By the time they get to that subject line and don't see anyway to change it, and don't know that the message contains something that WAS NOT prommised... well, they push the button.
The two cases are not as related as you think. One method of search is broad and the other is specific. The hot roof search sounds reasonable. A person standing on a hill could see all the hot roofs in town at once. The interferometer, or modified helioscope, is just as invasive as a phone tap. It is specific and a judgement has already been made. Why did the police decide to stop at that house? We can expect that our conversations will not be heard through our walls on the street. We can not expect to hide our roof from the sky.
Are you telling me that law enforcement needs to get a search warrent for every box in the world? That sounds nuts. If there's a search warrent for someone's house, you can bet that everything in the house can be searched. Ledgers, PC's and mayonaise jars can all be searched. If not, something should be changed.
Yes, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. That's why search warrents should only be given out for good cause even though this helps criminals hide. The key word is reasonable. The protection is more than one branch deciding what reasonable is and a public proof that can be questioned. Once convicted, however, you have no rights. You will be fined, imprisoned or even killed, oh my.
In any case my main point was that the use of encryption to hide criminal activity is not something we should be happy about or advocate anymore than we advocate criminal activity.
Slashdot Mirror
A contribute to a monopoly.
B contribute to a free code.
Oh yeah, you need to eat. Seek and you will find.
Free software will not solve all of our problems, but it will eliminate the problems of comercial software. Microsoft is evil.
Attitudes like this:
David Bunnell, the 53-year-old chief executive of Upside Media, which publishes print and online technology industry magazines. "I knew he was drinking a lot and taking uppers to stay awake. I didn't think it was much of a problem. I didn't see it."
are delusional. The propaganda, which was never embraced by the Media whores, ended when George Bush left office and a shameless user entered. This is unforgivable encouragement:
Indeed, weeks after David Bunnell learned that his son had died, the chief executive declined to implement a pre-employment drug-testing policy. "What people do in their own time, in the privacy of their own homes, is not our business," Bunnell said. "We have a policy that we don't want people to be stoned at work, but there is a lot to do here. There's no time to slow down."
How can you get help to someone if you don't know they have a problem? How can you even recognize the problem if you are tollerent?
My dad's a cardiologist and he's seen the results of regular use. It's a heart that's mostly scar tissue before you are 30. This is also known as death and is generally a non event after you've spent all your money on drugs and driven off all of your friends.
If it's not legal, you don't have any idea of what it is till you use it. Get Real, if you feel the urge to buy something like that you have a problem.
Stop using while you have your health.
This piece of responsiveness was forced by the position being too obviously wrong. Judging from all of the MicroTurd responses around here, I'd say that there are lots of MS programers with nothing better to do than read Slashdot.
Take the advice for what it's worth. I feel beter off learning about X.
#include win16.h and
#include commdlg.h
What eles whould a compiler need to interface with a silly windowing system? A liscence?
I suppose you could say the same thing about Visual Basic. AAaaaH, HA-HA HA-HA HA-HA HA!
Brick wall it would be, and that's his point.
MFC and Visual Studio are traps to be avoided. Writing anything with Visual Studio is akin to using Visual BASIC. You get robot code that says, "for heaven's sake, don't modify this" when you can find the pieces. MFC is just a RAD wraper for the win API, an interface that was easy to begin with. Bloaty barf! MFC instantly bloats simple apps to 10 times their original size, and leaves your nads in MS hands for future breakage. You don't think MS uses MFC, do you? Or is that how Win2k got so big? Nothing is easy when things are hidden.
You know, that site full of smart ass, 20-20 hindsight kids getting cracked. "We told you all that long haired pinko commie type hippie fag freeware was in secure!", market-troids will cheerfully chirp, "You need to grow up and get yourself a real commerical OS." The New York Times has been making references to SlashDot (not always flattering). Even Scientific American made a snide comment or two this month about the "propeller head crowd on Slashdot." ZDNet will burst, and the clueless will be able to stick their heads in the sand again.
1. 8088 for word processing and email clients.
2. 80486 for the underlying Windowing system.
3. Pentium IV for all the online shopping.
4. Pentium VI for the fully skined talking paperclip of your choice. Insert list of babes here.
Anything less and response will get chunky.
Instead of constantly seeking "shitheads" to fire, you sould make sure you only hire talented people with reasonable attitudes. When people have problems and start acting strange, you need to find out why and help them out. If someone does not live up to their potential, you need to make the best use of them you can. Proper selection and loyalty to employees promotes loyalty to the company. Harrasing your employees before you fire them will ruin you.
No one can be responsible for all freak accidents, but Billy G. can do better. You can't help it if an individual goes insane and does something stupid, but this was not an unforseable or individual act. Every publication needs to be run through PR. PR should know better than to create a trap like this. Hell, every single programer should have better morals than that. They should all know that it's not OK to pain their users with code that's inconsistent, deceptive and buggy. They should not consider those users "morons". Morals come from the top down. No mind control is needed, you just don't do things the company does not approve of. Nor do employees do things that are not part of the company's mission. Billy G. embodies those morals and that mission. When he, or his top managers, email questions like "A. How does this make more money for Microsoft? B. How does this help kill Unix?" about interoperability, the wrong message is sent. There are countless other examples of wrongheaded behavior that go back to the foundation of MS, and it all eminates from one person and the people he chose.
People have already stoped buying their bloatware. Sales of Win2k are dismal, because of the OS's internal problems and high costs. If you have not noticed MS prides itself on conducting "business as usual (TM)" regardless of what the federal govenment has to say. Don't forget that the OS on it's own is next to useless, you have to buy hundreds of dollars of CD's to get any real functionality out of the damn thing.
Without breakup, we might really see a $1,000 OS as MS integrates the entire freaking Office and Visual Nightmare Suite to make it competitive with free software. Sorry, that is just not competive.
The path of least resistance is flowing away from them. Grandma? Hell, I don't know what goes on inside an MS machine and I never will. It's easier for me to set up any of the Linux distros and I can learn everything if I want.
As Chief of Microsoft and it's largest owner, Bill Gates is unconditionaly responsible for the actions of his company. He sets the tone, it is his environment. "Middle Management did it" is a poor excuse.
The man knows how he got there, and what keeps him there. So do the people who work for him. Don't expect any changes.
WE DO NOT WANT TO DO THIS HERE.
My sympathy goes out to all of those people who have a single choice of OS when they buy their machine. I also feel for them as they get suckered into MSN, and spam all of their friends. Tricked again!
Yes, that old boss would just love to have the biggest most expensive toy in the world on his desk so he could upload his palm pilot data, write papers, and other things any old 486 could handle. Well, OK, so long as he needs tech support, I'll keep on smiling.
Now how much did you say that mobo cost? Ironically, I could only find Intel mobos on the Motorola ATX page . Nothing showed up on pricewatch. 11,700 matches for G4 Motherboard on google, barf, I give up.
Help me out, I'm as interested as the next guy in cheap computers.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Act like an asshole and your rep will not be at the office when you call. Your paperwork will get "lost" and you will sit. The sales rep can keep notes, cover his ass, service others and leave you fuming. Harrasing people without power to get things done gets you nowhere.
You don't have to be a jerk to avoid being walked on. Keep those notes, but do it quietly. Find out who's realy at fault and go over their head. Talk politely and find out what can be done. In the end, if the service is unaceptable, don't use it.
Large organizations are set up to get their way. If you want to do something different, be prepared to talk to a bunch of people who lack the authority to get anything done before you reach someone who can help. Many of those people will be rude, stupid and arrogant. All of them will take hours of time. It's all part of the organization doing what it wants. A good office will have someone to talk to and torture people like waldoj. Sometimes you will never get there. Waldoj will forever languish. Figure out what you are trying to do is worth to you.
If everything goes wrong and contracts are breached, visit a polite lawyer.
I can imagine the same feeling of "just do it already" takes over here too. How many times do you have to click OK to do this? After digging deep enough to change that address, I can imagine the average user is already annoyed. Next they get a promissing note, "Wow, now I don't have to do this by hand." By the time they get to that subject line and don't see anyway to change it, and don't know that the message contains something that WAS NOT prommised... well, they push the button.
The two cases are not as related as you think. One method of search is broad and the other is specific. The hot roof search sounds reasonable. A person standing on a hill could see all the hot roofs in town at once. The interferometer, or modified helioscope, is just as invasive as a phone tap. It is specific and a judgement has already been made. Why did the police decide to stop at that house? We can expect that our conversations will not be heard through our walls on the street. We can not expect to hide our roof from the sky.
Yes, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. That's why search warrents should only be given out for good cause even though this helps criminals hide. The key word is reasonable. The protection is more than one branch deciding what reasonable is and a public proof that can be questioned. Once convicted, however, you have no rights. You will be fined, imprisoned or even killed, oh my.
In any case my main point was that the use of encryption to hide criminal activity is not something we should be happy about or advocate anymore than we advocate criminal activity.
While it's great that Motorola is offering chips, I'm not sure about the prices. The more the merrier. In the mean time, you can get these:
AMD K6-2 500MHz, $46 http://www.pricewatch.com/1/3/1946-1.htm
AMD Durron 600, $46 http://www.pricewatch.com/1/3/2471-1.htm
AMD Athalon 500, $65 http://www.pricewatch.com/1/3/1920-1.htm
Intel Celeron 500, $78 http://www.pricewatch.com/1/3/1940-1.htm
Intel Pentium III 500, $111 http://www.pricewatch.com/1/3/1687-1.htm
I don't know a thing about the price of moto motherboards.
Will it run embeded linux?
Not unless you are trying to make money by distributing coppies of your had disk. Sorry.