VMWare presents Windows generic-style drivers when you install Windows under VMWare. All Microsoft has to do is refuce to sign those drivers as being DRM complient and your new copy of Windows XP-SE on VMWare will refuse to play WMA over the un-signed driver.
I've found that the answer "zero" correlates highly with success. Whether this is a causal relationship or not is still anybody's guess.
Zero is a good answer, for success, to the question "At age 30, how many children did you have?"
Overbreaders tend to be stupid and lazy - it's sad that their traits are passed though genes and rearing to the next generation.
Then, after their ruined their life and the lives of their children, the have the gall to as for more hand-outs, more tax-breaks, and more food and housing.
Maby I'm turning in to a nasty rat-bastard, but we definatly sould think about Norplanting people on welfare - the men could get a premenent snip.
The DRM devil stopped bothering me once I unclicked the 'Use Digital Rights Management?' in the configuration settings.
That may work now - but in the future Microsoft will clamp down on you. Example: The Windows Media Player included in Windows 98 use to let you easily save your movies from the file menu - that feature has been removed, even though the player makes a tempory copy on to your hard-driveitself - Microsoft is increaingly making it harder to use your computer the way you . Diden't you notice? The DRM setting is enabeled by default and you had to root around to turn it off.
It will get worse - Microsoft is going to enforce sound-card drivers to certify that their drivers won't allow any 'unotherised' copies of the sound stream. See here
For low bit rate WMA does sound better to my ears - but for me, it's not worth dancing with the Microsoft DRM Devil for a little be extra quality, considering the.OGG files have all the benifits of WMA without a lot of the drawbacks..OGG and.WMA both suffer from no broad support from players, but.OGG files have this really cool feature - you can re-rip a high-bit-rate.OGG file to a low-rate one, and the quality is the same as if you ripped it directly from the source. Try that with WMA and MP3 and the compression artifacts add up.
called "hyperlinks" and take you to other places on the "internet"
I have the internet in my hard-drive under the desk - sometimes though, it disappears and clicking on the "e" doesen't work. Sometimes, though, clicking on the "N" works, and the internet works.
Gotta go - the paperclip is helping me write a letter.
Uh oh. No, no, no. You are the one living in dreams now. What did inspire them was more the living standards; the ideals of democracy were important for rather few people. In many/most cases people in 3rd world countries are interested in getting better standards of living, and couldn't give rats ass about "higher" ideals.
The third world,possibly yes - but not Russia and the eastern bloc. They may have been stunted by the 'revolution' but they are smart and definatly in the first world. You demean them to think that their struggle for democracy was only a struggle for TV and Coke. I encourage you to visit - and you'll see that the quality of people there is capable of idealistic thought and not just consumerism.
Criminal prisioners vs. prisioners of stupid laws, or criminals that should be punished by other means than prision.
My reasioning is that we, as citizens, have to work hard for our food and housing - prisioners should be required to work as hard a we do. 60 hour weeks of hard labor would keep our taxes low and help the recitivism rate. Prisioners should not keep any of the proceeds of their labor, and if, they choose not to work, then they should starve.
This hard tratment should be reserved for prisioners of violent crime and abusive fraud, and not for the schmuk that gets caught with a joint in his pocket.
The Soviet Union did not fall because of Reagan, or any policy of the West.
Hate to break it to you - but the ideas of the west provided a source of inspiration to the peoples of Iron Cutain.
It's not like they revolted to become more like Saudi Arabia or eastern Africa. The revolted to become more like the west - whom they thought had a better life.
Part of that was helped by communications - Radio Free Europe and the BBC shortwave probably helped more than we could imagine. These were funded by the west for exactly this reason - and after the revolution, afther they have served their call, both have had their funding curtailed.
So the policy of boradcast radio did help spread our ideas - so much so that the poor blockes spent vast resources to block their signals.
... all you buzzwords are a least 5 years old. Thats why it won't work.
See what you really want is a Peer-To-peer B2B Distributed Cluster of High Availablity C# Tablet-PS Servers running a Micro-Kerenel Database. Preferably using Wi-Fi over Firewire. Oh yeah, don't forget that you need some of that Linux in there too. I've heard that that's good for cross-platform open-source binary-only drivers.
OOP is sooooo early 90's, that I'm supriesed your project is still being funded.
Kinda like how FTP forced me to learn to spell 'anonymous.'
Or somthing.
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How many blind people actually pursue careers as pilots?
Few, but here at my local civil aifeild, there is a gentleman who is legally blind who does stunt flying with a partnern. The sense of freedom probably brings him joy.
I'm not a big fan of overbearing ADA rules - but making the web accesible to blind people is definatly worth the extra effort involved - even if few partake of it.
I'm not sure how indicating my study achievements is either arrogant or "self-sure". I was summarising my background, not stating my opinion of myself.
IMO, In this industry, you will find people that will take a liteny of stellar acedemic achievemnts the wrong way. Personally, I've always been impressed more with technical resoursefullness and ability to learn:
example..
I've dropped, repaired and installed the transmission in my car. I've emailed via satelite at 10,000 feet with my cobbeled together system. I undertand the STL. I've written games in 4K, in machine-language for my TRS-80. I'm diplomatic and have frinds in all contenets save the sothern most. PICs are fun. All of my home computers are use IPv6. I taught myself French. For fun.
etc..
Most people, like me, are interested in the cool things you can do. Of course, this could be my own skewed point of view, due to my complete lack of formal education, and my general disgust for people resting on their laurels.
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Have you any idea how hard it is to find any sort of job in computing...
Yep - It is quite difficult to find a *typical* job in the IT industry right now. If you're haveing trouble playing this particular "game*, move on...
Consider starting your own shop...
Start by fixing peoples home computers - charge them $30 a hour and you'll have enough work to make ends meet. One of your customers will reccomend you to their small business - charge them $60 an hour. That small business will reccomend you to others - one of them will be a larger business - charge them $120 an hour. Start hiring empolyees.
That's what I did - my work load went from one old lady to all the work I can stand in 2.5 years. I travel and hike a *lot*,so if you're smart, you can accelrate this time table.
Be proud of your accedemic achievemnts, but get in there and hustle. Look to the immegrent population for insprition - most of them can't speak the native tounge, let alone "four Europoean languages." They hustle and scheme, and start their own businesses when no one else hires them.
You're smart - run with it.
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The fact that you know what you're doing, and your boss won't listen or take your advice speaks volumes. You need to *tell* you boss that you know what the best solution is, and if he doesen't have a vaid reason for going with your decision - find gainfull employment elsewhere.
If you *really* know Unix, you can find work easily - in places wheere a $1500 server is cosidered worth it just for experimentation alone.
So unless there are mitigating circumstances - get out of there.
PS: Your *current* website works fine: it meets the goals that really matter: it lets you get information quickly and easily. It appears to be lynx comapatable - so blind people can use it, I imagine.
Unless you *really* know what your doing - leave the cooling alone. The last thing you want is a cheapo power supply overheating and catching the case on fire. If you have to have a quiet power-supply, Antec makes a line of AT and ATX power-supplies that have a fan that adjusts it's speed to the required cooling load. With your underclocked system, I doubt it reach past 20db.
Personally - I've been very carefull to aquire legal copies of Borland software for each of my computers due to the good vibe of the company in the past. They sold good, inexpensive, software and trusted me to do the right thing.
Now.. with their draconian licencing, and serial numbers and almost-forced registration, I'm starting not to give a ratt's ass.
Am I the only weirdo that treats companies the way they treat me - or is locking down all users so profitable that pissing off a few people like me is worth it to Borland?
Perhaps our minor disagreement is due to our repsective locations. Out here on the west cost, it truly is an Asian-American culture thing. Tweaking cars is in almost all cultures, but a huge spoiler on a Honda almost always indicates a young 2nd generation Asian male, while a raised Ford pickup tends to indicates a young rurual Caucasian.
I think that perhaps, the Japanese-car scene, here, has been so strongly identified with being Asian, that it has kept it from moving into other populations.
Being white,I remember the day when all my sterytypes were shattered: I was in line a McDonalds for some of their crappy food, and there was a black gentleman in front of me: dressed nicly with dark slacks, a shirt and a subdued tie. Behind the counter was a scruffy white kid, probably dropped out of high-shool, with big hair and a crappy job. The black man and myself were the same culture, the white kid might as well have been born on a deferent planet for all the similarites we had. What an insight I was luck to have that day - race really doesen't matter.
I've tried to remember that feeling. It's been hard recently, as a bunch of thugs happened to move in to my neighborhood. They happen to all be black skined. I have to be carefull thay my eyes don't trick me into lumping good people with these animals.
I'll save the argument that can't only lead to someone invoking Godwin's rule for later..
but it was playing on an [inaccurate] stereotype in a mocking way
It's polite of you to not make a big deal of it, but it's rather unobservent to not notice that it's predomently Asians who lower their Hondas/Toyotas, put stickers on them and pretent that their cars go faster becuse of it.
I don't think that there is a "lowering out transportation" gene. That's racism. But noticing that Asian-Ameicans do these thing is just making note of a differing culture. White kids who grow up around this culture tend to do the same things with their cars. It's not race, it's culture.
And pretending it's not there may be noble in the fey PC crowd, but 'round here it's just considered stupid.
How do you know I'm not Asian, and making fun of my friends? You assume that beacuse I have somthing funny to say about suped up Honda's that I'm not Asian. That fits the definition of racisim right there - ascribing a negivitve sterotype exclusivly to one race.
NB
Ohh, I see I'm dealing with a sophisticated individual here. Wow.
...... they had added a spoiler to the space-probe, and tinted the windows, it would have been at Mars by now. Oh... and added a 'Type R' sticker - to it to make it extra fast.
1) Single-button mice suck 2) PR0N on 23" HD display 3) OS-"EXX" vs OS-TEN 4) Software in a post-9/11 world. 5) Where's the SCSI, you bastards 6) Old NeXT cases can burn in fire! 7) Apple sold out to the man to get IE and Office. 8) Amiga is comming back! Watch out!
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VMWare presents Windows generic-style drivers when you install Windows under VMWare. All Microsoft has to do is refuce to sign those drivers as being DRM complient and your new copy of Windows XP-SE on VMWare will refuse to play WMA over the un-signed driver.
Icky stuff.
I've found that the answer "zero" correlates highly with success. Whether this is a causal relationship or not is still anybody's guess.
Zero is a good answer, for success, to the question "At age 30, how many children did you have?"
Overbreaders tend to be stupid and lazy - it's sad that their traits are passed though genes and rearing to the next generation.
Then, after their ruined their life and the lives of their children, the have the gall to as for more hand-outs, more tax-breaks, and more food and housing.
Maby I'm turning in to a nasty rat-bastard, but we definatly sould think about Norplanting people on welfare - the men could get a premenent snip.
The DRM devil stopped bothering me once I unclicked the 'Use Digital Rights Management?' in the configuration settings.
That may work now - but in the future Microsoft will clamp down on you. Example: The Windows Media Player included in Windows 98 use to let you easily save your movies from the file menu - that feature has been removed, even though the player makes a tempory copy on to your hard-driveitself - Microsoft is increaingly making it harder to use your computer the way you . Diden't you notice? The DRM setting is enabeled by default and you had to root around to turn it off.
It will get worse - Microsoft is going to enforce sound-card drivers to certify that their drivers won't allow any 'unotherised' copies of the sound stream. See here
For low bit rate WMA does sound better to my ears - but for me, it's not worth dancing with the Microsoft DRM Devil for a little be extra quality, considering the .OGG files have all the benifits of WMA without a lot of the drawbacks. .OGG and .WMA both suffer from no broad support from players, but .OGG files have this really cool feature - you can re-rip a high-bit-rate .OGG file to a low-rate one, and the quality is the same as if you ripped it directly from the source. Try that with WMA and MP3 and the compression artifacts add up.
called "hyperlinks" and take you to other places on the "internet"
I have the internet in my hard-drive under the desk - sometimes though, it disappears and clicking on the "e" doesen't work. Sometimes, though, clicking on the "N" works, and the internet works.
Gotta go - the paperclip is helping me write a letter.
Uh oh. No, no, no. You are the one living in dreams now. What did inspire them was more the living standards; the ideals of democracy were important for rather few people. In many/most cases people in 3rd world countries are interested in getting better standards of living, and couldn't give rats ass about "higher" ideals.
The third world,possibly yes - but not Russia and the eastern bloc. They may have been stunted by the 'revolution' but they are smart and definatly in the first world. You demean them to think that their struggle for democracy was only a struggle for TV and Coke. I encourage you to visit - and you'll see that the quality of people there is capable of idealistic thought and not just consumerism.
Criminal prisioners vs. prisioners of stupid laws, or criminals that should be punished by other means than prision.
My reasioning is that we, as citizens, have to work hard for our food and housing - prisioners should be required to work as hard a we do. 60 hour weeks of hard labor would keep our taxes low and help the recitivism rate. Prisioners should not keep any of the proceeds of their labor, and if, they choose not to work, then they should starve.
This hard tratment should be reserved for prisioners of violent crime and abusive fraud, and not for the schmuk that gets caught with a joint in his pocket.
What you appear to be unable to grasp is that whatever was done from the outside had mush less effect than what went on on the inside.
I'll thank you to keep your pontificating as to my mental capabilites to yourself - as you are wrong.
The Soviet Union did not fall because of Reagan, or any policy of the West.
Hate to break it to you - but the ideas of the west provided a source of inspiration to the peoples of Iron Cutain.
It's not like they revolted to become more like Saudi Arabia or eastern Africa. The revolted to become more like the west - whom they thought had a better life.
Part of that was helped by communications - Radio Free Europe and the BBC shortwave probably helped more than we could imagine. These were funded by the west for exactly this reason - and after the revolution, afther they have served their call, both have had their funding curtailed.
So the policy of boradcast radio did help spread our ideas - so much so that the poor blockes spent vast resources to block their signals.
See what you really want is a Peer-To-peer B2B Distributed Cluster of High Availablity C# Tablet-PS Servers running a Micro-Kerenel Database. Preferably using Wi-Fi over Firewire. Oh yeah, don't forget that you need some of that Linux in there too. I've heard that that's good for cross-platform open-source binary-only drivers.
OOP is sooooo early 90's, that I'm supriesed your project is still being funded.
The best thing about Windows?
It forced me to learn to spell 'administrator.'
Kinda like how FTP forced me to learn to spell 'anonymous.'
Or somthing.
How many blind people actually pursue careers as pilots?
Few, but here at my local civil aifeild, there is a gentleman who is legally blind who does stunt flying with a partnern. The sense of freedom probably brings him joy.
I'm not a big fan of overbearing ADA rules - but making the web accesible to blind people is definatly worth the extra effort involved - even if few partake of it.
I'm not sure how indicating my study achievements is either arrogant or "self-sure". I was summarising my background, not stating my opinion of myself.
IMO, In this industry, you will find people that will take a liteny of stellar acedemic achievemnts the wrong way. Personally, I've always been impressed more with technical resoursefullness and ability to learn:
example..
I've dropped, repaired and installed the transmission in my car.
I've emailed via satelite at 10,000 feet with my cobbeled together system.
I undertand the STL.
I've written games in 4K, in machine-language for my TRS-80.
I'm diplomatic and have frinds in all contenets save the sothern most.
PICs are fun.
All of my home computers are use IPv6.
I taught myself French. For fun.
etc..
Most people, like me, are interested in the cool things you can do. Of course, this could be my own skewed point of view, due to my complete lack of formal education, and my general disgust for people resting on their laurels.
Have you any idea how hard it is to find any sort of job in computing ...
Yep - It is quite difficult to find a *typical* job in the IT industry right now.
If you're haveing trouble playing this particular "game*, move on...
Consider starting your own shop...
Start by fixing peoples home computers - charge them $30 a hour and you'll have enough work to make ends meet. One of your customers will reccomend you to their small business - charge them $60 an hour. That small business will reccomend you to others - one of them will be a larger business - charge them $120 an hour. Start hiring empolyees.
That's what I did - my work load went from one old lady to all the work I can stand in 2.5 years. I travel and hike a *lot*,so if you're smart, you can accelrate this time table.
Be proud of your accedemic achievemnts, but get in there and hustle. Look to the immegrent population for insprition - most of them can't speak the native tounge, let alone "four Europoean languages." They hustle and scheme, and start their own businesses when no one else hires them.
You're smart - run with it.
The fact that you know what you're doing, and your boss won't listen or take your advice speaks volumes. You need to *tell* you boss that you know what the best solution is, and if he doesen't have a vaid reason for going with your decision - find gainfull employment elsewhere.
If you *really* know Unix, you can find work easily - in places wheere a $1500 server is cosidered worth it just for experimentation alone.
So unless there are mitigating circumstances - get out of there.
PS: Your *current* website works fine: it meets the goals that really matter: it lets you get information quickly and easily. It appears to be lynx comapatable - so blind people can use it, I imagine.
FFiiggguurriinngg oouutt wwhhaatt eecchhoo sseettiinngg ttoo uussee..
ALSO, EVERYTHING WAS IN ALL CAPS CAUSE YOUR TRS-80 DIDENT HAVE LOWERCASE
Oh and a shift-2 got you a quote, not one of those fancy 'at' symbols.
Whisteling 300 baud, 'cause your cheap ass modem diden't have an answer mode.
Misdialing.. and hearing some old lady cuss you out on the modem speaker.
Having to use Pulse dialing, cause your phone-company haden't updraded their system after man walked on the moon.
Acustic couplers.
Unless you *really* know what your doing - leave the cooling alone. The last thing you want is a cheapo power supply overheating and catching the case on fire. If you have to have a quiet power-supply, Antec makes a line of AT and ATX power-supplies that have a fan that adjusts it's speed to the required cooling load. With your underclocked system, I doubt it reach past 20db.
Personally - I've been very carefull to aquire legal copies of Borland software for each of my computers due to the good vibe of the company in the past. They sold good, inexpensive, software and trusted me to do the right thing.
Now.. with their draconian licencing, and serial numbers and almost-forced registration, I'm starting not to give a ratt's ass.
Am I the only weirdo that treats companies the way they treat me - or is locking down all users so profitable that pissing off a few people like me is worth it to Borland?
Heh...
A friend had a sticker on his car that said:
Warning:
Able-bodied, Suscesfull and Intelligent Male Caucasion in Car.
Tended to make the PC folk a bit jumpy.
Perhaps our minor disagreement is due to our repsective locations. Out here on the west cost, it truly is an Asian-American culture thing. Tweaking cars is in almost all cultures, but a huge spoiler on a Honda almost always indicates a young 2nd generation Asian male, while a raised Ford pickup tends to indicates a young rurual Caucasian.
I think that perhaps, the Japanese-car scene, here, has been so strongly identified with being Asian, that it has kept it from moving into other populations.
Being white,I remember the day when all my sterytypes were shattered: I was in line a McDonalds for some of their crappy food, and there was a black gentleman in front of me: dressed nicly with dark slacks, a shirt and a subdued tie. Behind the counter was a scruffy white kid, probably dropped out of high-shool, with big hair and a crappy job. The black man and myself were the same culture, the white kid might as well have been born on a deferent planet for all the similarites we had. What an insight I was luck to have that day - race really doesen't matter.
I've tried to remember that feeling. It's been hard recently, as a bunch of thugs happened to move in to my neighborhood. They happen to all be black skined. I have to be carefull thay my eyes don't trick me into lumping good people with these animals.
I'll save the argument that can't only lead to someone invoking Godwin's rule for later..
but it was playing on an [inaccurate] stereotype in a mocking way
It's polite of you to not make a big deal of it, but it's rather unobservent to not notice that it's predomently Asians who lower their Hondas/Toyotas, put stickers on them and pretent that their cars go faster becuse of it.
I don't think that there is a "lowering out transportation" gene. That's racism. But noticing that Asian-Ameicans do these thing is just making note of a differing culture. White kids who grow up around this culture tend to do the same things with their cars. It's not race, it's culture.
And pretending it's not there may be noble in the fey PC crowd, but 'round here it's just considered stupid.
Yeah. Racism. Ain't a wonderful thing?
How do you know I'm not Asian, and making fun of my friends? You assume that beacuse I have somthing funny to say about suped up Honda's that I'm not Asian. That fits the definition of racisim right there - ascribing a negivitve sterotype exclusivly to one race.
NB
Ohh, I see I'm dealing with a sophisticated individual here. Wow.
...... they had added a spoiler to the space-probe, and tinted the windows, it would have been at Mars by now. Oh... and added a 'Type R' sticker - to it to make it extra fast.
1) Single-button mice suck
2) PR0N on 23" HD display
3) OS-"EXX" vs OS-TEN
4) Software in a post-9/11 world.
5) Where's the SCSI, you bastards
6) Old NeXT cases can burn in fire!
7) Apple sold out to the man to get IE and Office.
8) Amiga is comming back! Watch out!
With Mozilla's Javascript pop-up blocker and pornzilla features, everybody can have their own party in their pants on 'release' day.