I clicked on Compaq's website, selected the US version, and zipped right over to home users.
BOOM - right there in my face was this 'Compaq shatters the 1ghz barrier... Presario 5900Z 1GHz AMD Athlon Processor.' $2499. No offense to Compaq though but I went with Kryotech first:)
Oh yeah, this is good. Tom's Hardware was right, intel is hemmorhaging badly.
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
And I am fed up with all this talk about user friendliness.
About GUI's: Whatever happened to the shell prompt?! Can't you people type a simple "cd mpg123/music/mp3/artists/britneyspears/lovenotetoprincew illiam.mp3" command? Sheesh. Why do we need this xmms crap that puts all your favorite mp3's into playlists? Dude that is so... windows like.
About GIMP vs Photoshop: Bah. Get a good laser printer and make your stuff with GIMP. Who cares about Photoshop, cmyk and pantones?? I don't read those glossy propaganda magazines, that's for slaves of the Man. Gimme 2600 any day.
About RPM's: Any idiot who can't spend a mere 10 minutes pre-configuring and compiling an app before they install it, doesn't need to be on linux. Windows has it all backwards. Only an idiot would download software that is ready-to-run out of the box. Didn't the Chinese once say patience is a virtue??
About grandmama: Oh don't get me started. I am not gonna spend the time to get her hooked up with linux. I'd much rather just stick Windows 2000 on her machine and let microsoft and all those marketers rip her privacy to shreds as she incautiously browses a world wide web littered with cookies and user tracking technology and so on. Of course it ain't my problem if grandmama goes to a website and gets nailed with a piece of trojan horse ActiveX code.
I speak for all old skool t3chi3z when I say the stupid and clueless do not deserve the freedom of Linux. I will personally wage war against all those who would make Linux easier to use for idiots. Keep Linux restricted to the elite!!!
PS: This post is meant to lampoon all those hard k0re elitist jerks in the community. Thank you. ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
1) What I mean is that he projects that capitalism utterly beat communism. But if you measure government vs. private sector, you see for the past 200 years, government is taking up an ever increasing share... This is not untrue. However, his point was that multinational corporations will eventually overrun governments, and the governments will even be operating as businesses instead of public-interest organizations; the world that Bruce Sterling's describing, looks a lot like modern feudalism - the exact opposite of communism. Feudalism is pure hypercapitalism on methamphetamines - it's where the people with the big money control your life. See: tyranny of the land holders. Also see: Robocop's OCP, or the Company Town (also look here)...
2) Uh, what riches? You call his situation 'rich'? And most people would love the idea of getting rich without working for it. Ever heard of the Lottery?
3) Sterling is wise to lambast the problem of the huge population and the lack of children. Look at what he said: his own life expectancy is 110 years. People in his generation, and probably the one before, are going to grow to be very old and gray. To say nothing of the newborns of his time, who would live to be 150. Not seeing my point yet? Go check out Japan. Lots and lots of old folks. Fewer and fewer workers to support them. Their economy is taking serious hits from this burden and it hasn't even started to affect them yet. In Sterling's time and scenario, you have 7 billion people, aging to over 100 years average, and very few kids coming up to support them. This will result in an extremely top heavy population (age wise), and in the US the social security burden would take our crushed economy (in his scenario) and grind it into powder. You'll also see a sharp rise in forced euthanasia, because in that ultra market driven world, an elderly person who is just too expensive to keep providing medical care for, and so on, will be "encouraged" (very strongly so) to put an end to the burden on their family, by visiting Kervorkian. This already DID happen in Germany. A top heavy population with no hope in sight for a baby boom, is one of the worst possible economic situations a nation can get into, and it is guaranteed to cause either a depression, or a national policy switch to the game of lifeboat ethics. Do the 'math' on the dynamics of a population with a less than 1.8 child per couple ratio sometime.
Sterling's scenario isn't perfect; nobody's is. But his scenario is more realistic than you think.
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
speaking of high-tech depressions, who was it who said of the US in the 1930's: "America is the only place where people drove to the poor house" ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
In Israel there is a policy called the Samson option. Basically if they're on the verge of defeat, they launch their nuclear arsenal and turn the middle east into glass. (http://www.access-one.com/prophecy/pb_post.htm)
Real Networks has a similar option at their disposal. They can, if their survival is threatened, release the source code for Real Producer and Real Player G2. The release of an open sourced codec of this quality, would create a giant split - Microsoft and their closed source media tools, against the ever evolving open source version running on linux and windows. People will migrate towards the open standards because of its universal accessibility (see: mpegs, mp3's), and excellent quality.
But it would only come to that if Real Networks was becoming totally irrelevant, and then it is just a maybe...
It's a rarely used feature but that accursed AccelX bunch claims to have g400 dual head (dual monitor) support, and they lord it all over XFree on their website.
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But Bernardo Carducci, a professor of psychology at Indiana University Southwest, cautioned that e-mail in place of face-to-face human interaction is a dangerous social dynamic. Many frequent users of e-mail and chat groups tend to seek out only like-minded individuals. "There's a difference between conversing and connecting," Carducci said. "This creates the possibility for what I call 'electronic cleansing.' We're losing the tolerance for diversity."
My opinion is, the more balkanization, the better! When we're out there calling people freaks, losers, idiots and misfits, don't then complain when they huddle up and form exclusive little internet communities and act like we don't exist. They're doing it because they found a relief from our abuse - they found a support system and a shield against us. They aren't the intolerant ones - we are, we've bombarded them with this stupid propaganda that their pierced ears or japanese animation or computer game enthusiasm, etc., is sick and undesirable. We're the ones inflicting all the intolerance on these guys, who is anyone outside to be jawing about "electronic cleansing" when we're thinning the herd on the backs of nonconformists 24/7?
If we would instruct young kids on the concept of open mindedness and tolerance in kindergarten, maybe we wouldn't have kids growing up and forming their own little protective, exclusive internet communities. If we did this, maybe there wouldn't be exclusive ethnic neighborhoods or gated communities or white flight.
I'll tell ya the real solution: there's nothing you can do. There'll always be asian and hispanic neighborhoods, there'll always be white flight, there'll always be gated housing areas, and there'll always kids who see each other as Charlie Brown or Eric Cartman and who will hate each other for no reason and thus form exclusive social groups as a buffer against each other. This study only proves the Internet is an extension of that basic fact.
I have to admit your jokes are funny and I couldn't help but laugh. It's wrong as hell but I laughed.
If you ever say this in real life, though, it's gonna be even more hilarious when some chick punches you into next week and you wind up coming back to this week to retrieve your teeth.
only the US Government has a right to gun down civilians in cold blood (see: Waco, and Randy Weaver's wife), and Pinkerton would be infringing on this monopoly.
It's as simple as this. Linux is a freight train. Big, fast, agile and sexy. And it can carry a hundred times the load of a NT server. You only need one to handle a bunch of data. A single Linux server can be an email server and a web server. All high volume.
A NT server is a volkswagen. Small, crashy and unsafe. To carry data on it, it is wise to have a bunch of NT servers working together. Like distributing a freight train's load across a buncha VW's. No NT server could survive ten seconds being a high volume mail server AND high volume web server.
In short you will need two or more NT servers to do the tasks that one Linux server can do. NT is inadequate specifically to make people buy more NT licenses. Hundreds of bucks a pop. Linux is free, or $80 with a redhat support agreement, and one server can do several types of high volume serving tasks at once.
Let's put it this way. If we count the number of NT servers doing one task, as 1 point, and the number of NT servers doing 2 tasks, as 2 points, and then apply the same standard to Linux, Linux will equal NT on a 1 to 1 ratio, because NT typically is only strong enough to perform 1 kind of task, while linux can be seen handling big ticket stuff like mail serving and web serving all at once. Not to mention DNS.
Also, linux sales will be artificially deflated because one copy can go on a hundred machines. Legally.
IOW the company with ten Linux servers is going to be heavier in the wallet than if they tried to do the same job with NT, which would take twenty servers and a site license from hell.
Pinkerton was known for sending security forces out to break up strikes with bullets. Also, the Pullman Strike was an excellent example of how corporations would get the Government against you. Go here to read more about how corporations would bring the big guns against the people.
I spat out a mouthful of koolaid when I read it. I couldn't believe I was being asked such a stupid question. Of course it was his mother. Is this supposed to be a brain twister? When I answered his mother I thought it was a trick question and it was perhaps gonna turn out to be his adopted father or something stupid like that.
..And the military, who first put this stuff together. You techies are just second generation unix shell users who settled here and pushed the creators of the net off to MIL-net.
So don't be whining when someone else comes and settles with ya.
This article says nothing about how they might explicitly monitor the computing habits of their employees. However, the opportunity is wide open.
For one, people are encouraged to use a particular ISP (MCI). Will their accounts be flagged and monitored? Is there a hidden deal here where Ford gets information on what these employees are doing?
They say these computers will be used to train employees. What kind of software is getting installed? I for one would install and boot into Linux after training. Or dual boot another version of windows 95 or something. In any case, the OS that program goes onto, would be treated as contaminated in my house.
The company town, by the way, was not entirely unlike the government nanny state. The company gave you a place to live, and controlled all aspects of your life. To see why this was bad, check out the history of The Pullman Strike.
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I clicked on Compaq's website, selected the US version, and zipped right over to home users.
BOOM - right there in my face was this 'Compaq shatters the 1ghz barrier
Oh yeah, this is good. Tom's Hardware was right, intel is hemmorhaging badly.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
just in time for the US census.
linux distros: 100 and counting
users: 10 million+ and counting
(Not that they'd probe for such important stuff
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
And I am fed up with all this talk about user friendliness.
/music/mp3/artists/britneyspears/lovenotetoprincew illiam.mp3" command? Sheesh. Why do we need this xmms crap that puts all your favorite mp3's into playlists? Dude that is so... windows like.
About GUI's: Whatever happened to the shell prompt?! Can't you people type a simple "cd mpg123
About GIMP vs Photoshop: Bah. Get a good laser printer and make your stuff with GIMP. Who cares about Photoshop, cmyk and pantones?? I don't read those glossy propaganda magazines, that's for slaves of the Man. Gimme 2600 any day.
About RPM's: Any idiot who can't spend a mere 10 minutes pre-configuring and compiling an app before they install it, doesn't need to be on linux. Windows has it all backwards. Only an idiot would download software that is ready-to-run out of the box. Didn't the Chinese once say patience is a virtue??
About grandmama: Oh don't get me started. I am not gonna spend the time to get her hooked up with linux. I'd much rather just stick Windows 2000 on her machine and let microsoft and all those marketers rip her privacy to shreds as she incautiously browses a world wide web littered with cookies and user tracking technology and so on. Of course it ain't my problem if grandmama goes to a website and gets nailed with a piece of trojan horse ActiveX code.
I speak for all old skool t3chi3z when I say the stupid and clueless do not deserve the freedom of Linux. I will personally wage war against all those who would make Linux easier to use for idiots. Keep Linux restricted to the elite!!!
PS: This post is meant to lampoon all those hard k0re elitist jerks in the community. Thank you.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I'd like to address some of your points.
1) What I mean is that he projects that capitalism utterly beat communism. But if you measure government vs. private sector, you see for the past 200 years, government is taking up an ever increasing share... This is not untrue. However, his point was that multinational corporations will eventually overrun governments, and the governments will even be operating as businesses instead of public-interest organizations; the world that Bruce Sterling's describing, looks a lot like modern feudalism - the exact opposite of communism. Feudalism is pure hypercapitalism on methamphetamines - it's where the people with the big money control your life. See: tyranny of the land holders. Also see: Robocop's OCP, or the Company Town (also look here)...
2) Uh, what riches? You call his situation 'rich'? And most people would love the idea of getting rich without working for it. Ever heard of the Lottery?
3) Sterling is wise to lambast the problem of the huge population and the lack of children. Look at what he said: his own life expectancy is 110 years. People in his generation, and probably the one before, are going to grow to be very old and gray. To say nothing of the newborns of his time, who would live to be 150. Not seeing my point yet? Go check out Japan. Lots and lots of old folks. Fewer and fewer workers to support them. Their economy is taking serious hits from this burden and it hasn't even started to affect them yet. In Sterling's time and scenario, you have 7 billion people, aging to over 100 years average, and very few kids coming up to support them. This will result in an extremely top heavy population (age wise), and in the US the social security burden would take our crushed economy (in his scenario) and grind it into powder. You'll also see a sharp rise in forced euthanasia, because in that ultra market driven world, an elderly person who is just too expensive to keep providing medical care for, and so on, will be "encouraged" (very strongly so) to put an end to the burden on their family, by visiting Kervorkian. This already DID happen in Germany. A top heavy population with no hope in sight for a baby boom, is one of the worst possible economic situations a nation can get into, and it is guaranteed to cause either a depression, or a national policy switch to the game of lifeboat ethics. Do the 'math' on the dynamics of a population with a less than 1.8 child per couple ratio sometime.
Sterling's scenario isn't perfect; nobody's is. But his scenario is more realistic than you think.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
speaking of high-tech depressions, who was it who said of the US in the 1930's: "America is the only place where people drove to the poor house"
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
digging through real networks' site for that stuff is like looking for an honest politician.
In Israel there is a policy called the Samson option. Basically if they're on the verge of defeat, they launch their nuclear arsenal and turn the middle east into glass. (http://www.access-one.com/prophecy/pb_post.htm)
Real Networks has a similar option at their disposal. They can, if their survival is threatened, release the source code for Real Producer and Real Player G2. The release of an open sourced codec of this quality, would create a giant split - Microsoft and their closed source media tools, against the ever evolving open source version running on linux and windows. People will migrate towards the open standards because of its universal accessibility (see: mpegs, mp3's), and excellent quality.
But it would only come to that if Real Networks was becoming totally irrelevant, and then it is just a maybe...
It's a rarely used feature but that accursed AccelX bunch claims to have g400 dual head (dual monitor) support, and they lord it all over XFree on their website.
My opinion is, the more balkanization, the better! When we're out there calling people freaks, losers, idiots and misfits, don't then complain when they huddle up and form exclusive little internet communities and act like we don't exist. They're doing it because they found a relief from our abuse - they found a support system and a shield against us. They aren't the intolerant ones - we are, we've bombarded them with this stupid propaganda that their pierced ears or japanese animation or computer game enthusiasm, etc., is sick and undesirable. We're the ones inflicting all the intolerance on these guys, who is anyone outside to be jawing about "electronic cleansing" when we're thinning the herd on the backs of nonconformists 24/7?
If we would instruct young kids on the concept of open mindedness and tolerance in kindergarten, maybe we wouldn't have kids growing up and forming their own little protective, exclusive internet communities. If we did this, maybe there wouldn't be exclusive ethnic neighborhoods or gated communities or white flight.
I'll tell ya the real solution: there's nothing you can do. There'll always be asian and hispanic neighborhoods, there'll always be white flight, there'll always be gated housing areas, and there'll always kids who see each other as Charlie Brown or Eric Cartman and who will hate each other for no reason and thus form exclusive social groups as a buffer against each other. This study only proves the Internet is an extension of that basic fact.
I have to admit your jokes are funny and I couldn't help but laugh. It's wrong as hell but I laughed.
If you ever say this in real life, though, it's gonna be even more hilarious when some chick punches you into next week and you wind up coming back to this week to retrieve your teeth.
I'm gonna be out there doggin' Microsoft's crappy code until I'm out of breath.
Let the goons come. This is where I draw the line, hard core.
japanese anime dvd's
Check out the Apex AD-600A DVD, VCD and MP3 player.
There are instructions at nerd-out.com for changing the Region ID, as well as the Macrovision options and, ahem, other things, via the secret menu.
LOL. The player costs $199 at Circuit City. People are buying it en masse. I ordered mine already.
as the young Princess Leia
:)
only the US Government has a right to gun down civilians in cold blood (see: Waco, and Randy Weaver's wife), and Pinkerton would be infringing on this monopoly.
It's as simple as this. Linux is a freight train. Big, fast, agile and sexy. And it can carry a hundred times the load of a NT server. You only need one to handle a bunch of data. A single Linux server can be an email server and a web server. All high volume.
A NT server is a volkswagen. Small, crashy and unsafe. To carry data on it, it is wise to have a bunch of NT servers working together. Like distributing a freight train's load across a buncha VW's. No NT server could survive ten seconds being a high volume mail server AND high volume web server.
In short you will need two or more NT servers to do the tasks that one Linux server can do. NT is inadequate specifically to make people buy more NT licenses. Hundreds of bucks a pop. Linux is free, or $80 with a redhat support agreement, and one server can do several types of high volume serving tasks at once.
Let's put it this way. If we count the number of NT servers doing one task, as 1 point, and the number of NT servers doing 2 tasks, as 2 points, and then apply the same standard to Linux, Linux will equal NT on a 1 to 1 ratio, because NT typically is only strong enough to perform 1 kind of task, while linux can be seen handling big ticket stuff like mail serving and web serving all at once. Not to mention DNS.
Also, linux sales will be artificially deflated because one copy can go on a hundred machines. Legally.
IOW the company with ten Linux servers is going to be heavier in the wallet than if they tried to do the same job with NT, which would take twenty servers and a site license from hell.
Northwest's behavior went unchallenged. They now know how far they can go.
So do other corporations.
This is going to happen again.
Pinkerton was known for sending security forces out to break up strikes with bullets. Also, the Pullman Strike was an excellent example of how corporations would get the Government against you. Go here to read more about how corporations would bring the big guns against the people.
Ever read 'Watership Down'?
You remind me of Fiver. The majority of posters here remind me of the village of rabbits that Fiver and his crew eventually departed from.
I spat out a mouthful of koolaid when I read it. I couldn't believe I was being asked such a stupid question. Of course it was his mother. Is this supposed to be a brain twister? When I answered his mother I thought it was a trick question and it was perhaps gonna turn out to be his adopted father or something stupid like that.
MENSA. Heh.
..And the military, who first put this stuff together. You techies are just second generation unix shell users who settled here and pushed the creators of the net off to MIL-net.
So don't be whining when someone else comes and settles with ya.
There are two letters of support for you, to be found there. None in opposition.
The LA Times is, of course, no small venue. I was shocked to see it there.
This article says nothing about how they might explicitly monitor the computing habits of their employees. However, the opportunity is wide open.
For one, people are encouraged to use a particular ISP (MCI). Will their accounts be flagged and monitored? Is there a hidden deal here where Ford gets information on what these employees are doing?
They say these computers will be used to train employees. What kind of software is getting installed? I for one would install and boot into Linux after training. Or dual boot another version of windows 95 or something. In any case, the OS that program goes onto, would be treated as contaminated in my house.
The company town, by the way, was not entirely unlike the government nanny state. The company gave you a place to live, and controlled all aspects of your life. To see why this was bad, check out the history of The Pullman Strike.
Ciao!
Aren't these already guaranteed rights by law?
System Requirements: Windows 95 OSR2 (Ver. 4.00.950b) or later, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0.
I don't use windows much, and not at all at home. So this new "technology" isn't of much use to me.