>But doesn't this just seem to log IP's that make requests to your >computer? OR does this search out files on other peoples computer and >get thier username and IP address? Either way, I really don't think it >matters.
All this software really does is generate pages of pretty much useless infomation when connected to Gnutella. Gnutella is not Napster.
>If you knew anything about embedded programming, you wouldn't want >Linux to be an embedded OS. You don't really want an embedded system >with the "unlimited resources" attitude of UNIX. That's not to say >Linux is bad, just that it is out of place for embedded systems work.
Yeah. 9 out of 10 Microsoft Astroturfer surveyed knows that Windows CE should be used in embedded systems instead...
>Because no company will reduce thier packaging and therefore shelf space until someone else does it first...
Wrong. It's already happening. Go to Kmart or Wal-mart. You'll find software titles for sale in the $9.99 price range that comes in just the cd-rom jewel case. No box, no printed manual.
>You wouldn't be saying that if your soundcard and/or display adapter >didn't function correctly under Linux.
Wrong. The mistake the Be/Amiga/gamer crowd have always made is in thinking that everbody in the Linux/Unix/BSD world share their opinion on things. You see it in the Be/Amiga/gamer rants concering the use of the CLI over a GUI. You see it on their rants over PC gaming vs the Sony,Sega and Nintendo machines and so on and so forth.
>So why is the slashdot crowd hurting so much now that linux has been >proven to suck really bad at OpenGL? First they whine and bitch until >they have Quake for linux. Then they whine and bitch because it's >slower than everything else. Pathetic bunch you are...
Who's whining and bitching about anything other than the BE/Multimedia bunch? It's not exactly a big secret that there's a whole lot people who hang out on Slashdot who just don't care about the kind of gamer/multimedia issues the Be,Amiga and gamer crowd seem to get so uptight about.
>Heavy Metal is without a doubt the most overrated American animated >film of the twentieth century. I'm firmly convinced the only reason >anyone liked it is because they were utterly stoned at the time >(probably the only way to watch it, I'm sure).
It's the soundtrack that people go for. Heavy Metal the Moive is as you said, a pile of shit.
>Animation, Titan A.E., and Usability is an interview I conducted with >Mayo Tirado, one of the animation experts behind Titan A.E. He talks >about the animation tools he uses, the books he's read, and the web >sites he visits. He also has a couple of reasonable comments on >usability and web development in general.
And this is exactly the problem with Titan A.E it looks like. Instead of going to Japan and studying how Anime and Manga projects are created and developed over there,US companies hire idoit Web designers...No wonder so much of American Animation tend suck so bad...
If anyone was hoping Titan A.E was going to be something along the lines of Gunbuster, you're going to be disappointed.
>Gamers don't care. They just see that linux is way behind in the >framerate department. People buy expensive coolors so they can >overclock their machines to the max,
And most of the Linux/Unix/BSD userbase don't tend to care all that much about the gamer crowd, so what's your point?
>2. The audience who buys this will be either the parents of kids who >don't give a rat's ass or older kids who don't give a rat's ass. >3. 1) Games that will be released on the x-box before they are >released to the general pc market. 2) Can you play those pc games >without worrying about drivers, OS versions, DirectX, conflicts, etc? >4. Blinding yourself to something doesn't make it go away. Just >because it's not one of the old school giants doesn't mean it's doomed >to failure.
Wrong. It's precisly not going to save the market for PC games because XBox games ARE PC Market Games. In case you haven't noticed, the vast majority of the audience who are or who intend to buy the Sony,Nintendo and Sega machines HAVE NO LOVE FOR PC GAMING. They don't really share the PC Gamer mindset.
>> The author... thinks it's just not that much of a revolution yet. >Does the Slashdot community agree? >Heck no. >In the mid 1980s I was at school in South Africa. First the govenment >declared a National State of Emergency, then they stopped the >newspapers from reporting to us what was going on, how the Govt. was
Bullshit. The author of the piece is right and all you *technosnobs* know it. So what if you could get information via the interent? The point still remains that there were MILLIONS who couldn't because they didn't have acess to a computer or the Internet. The American revolution and revolutions throught history in places such as Latin America,Vietnam and yes even in South Africa got along just fine without the "The Digital Revolution". You guys really need to study human history before jumping on your soapbox.
>well have the other formats competed with MP3, like windows media and >the vqf thing or whatever. Heck, I can't even remember the names of >the other formats, that is how dominant the MP3 format has become. >This new format will just be another Beta vs. VHS thing, I'm sure of >it. >The only thing that will blow the MP3 away is something which has >vastly better compression and comparable sound quality. Anything else >is doomed to obsolesence.
I take it you weren't around for the ARC vs PKZIP wars eh? Here's a clue. The ARC/PKZIP war had more to do with the BBS politics of the time than anything else. The pro-ARC crowd basically drove people into the PKZIP camp. The same thing is going to happen with the mp3 format. Count on it.
>The only downside I can see is that this may bring even more fire from >the RIAA. One of the arguements I have seen many times here is that >MP3s are lossy, and thus aren't close to being the same quality as the >original... Let's hope these things aren't high enough quality to blow that out of the water, or we'll be seeing a whole lot of heat being drawn on it... What the hell can the RIAA do? This will be a format that's truely in the "Public Domain", meaning anyone can use it to record any sort of audio information,not just music. It's use will most likely be similar to recording things in the *.wav and other sound formats.
>Now all we need is an opensource Linux version of 'OilChange' with no >subscriptions fees. (For those of you who don't know, OilChange >monitors your system's drivers and checks the manufacture's websites >for periodic updates and will automatically download/install new >drivers).
What the hell for? The Windows "Driver or DLL Of The Week" game doesn't really apply to Linux or the BSD's.
>Berlin is not a window manager, it's a full blown windowing system. >ie. it's a replacement for X not for fvwm! I don't know if it is API >compatable or not, I hope so!
Who cares? Berlin is too little,too late just like the "rebirth" of the Amiga and Mofit becoming "Open Source". We've got Xfree 4.0 now. Pretty much nobody is going to be adopting Berlin at this stage of the game. Does anyone really see RedHat,Suse,Debian replacing X with Berlin? I didn't think so.
How will this silly technology deal with hunt-and-peck typists?
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>I'm sure the market will consolidate -- that's inevitable -- but >probably not like this. Why, for instance, Caldera and SuSE? SuSE is >way too cool for a bunch of ex-Novell losers like Caldera. I suspect >RedHat and SuSE will end up ruling the world
As usual ZDNet got it wrong. There may well be mergers in the coming but not in the sense ZDNet is thinking in. Why for instance SuSE and Caldera merge? SuSE's market and focus is mainly in Europe. TurboLinux's Market is mostly Asia. Redhat's is mostly North America. This is is just an example of just how little ZDNet's so-called techwriters understand how things in the linux world tend to work.
>Wow you need to calm down. Blind zealotry doesn't fix bugs. Instead of >saying good one less bug to worry about, you go and flame everyone in >existence. That doesn't help.
Wrong. The moment you get people saying it's too much trouble to actually do the job they are supposed to be getting paid for, and start making excuses why they shouldn't be expected to *DO THEIR FUCKING JOB* It's time to start flaming the hell out of these people. Would *YOU* want someone like this working on the brakes of *YOUR* car for instance?
>It sounds like yet another reason for businesses to not widely deploy >Linux, unless they can afford to keep a massive support team busy >following each and every mailing list and newsgroup. >Let's face it, the 15 year olds live for this. Do businesses want to >run code children are climbing around in breaking? >(score:-7 Truth about Linux)
Crap. If you don't do things like this, what happends is exactly what we saw with ILOVYOU. How long did you Microsoft assholes sit on your asses knowing the truth about the various Outlook/VBS problems and pretty much did (and haven't really) nothing about it untill a hell of lot of people got burned by you shitty software design? The world is changing loser. People are going to expect that problems with software connected to the internet to be fixed and fixed fast. They aren't going to be interested in hearing excuses from people like you anymore.
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>Unfortunately this kind of thing has come around as a result of the >blatent piracy that takes place across the entire computing world >thanks to the "I'm not paying for that" mentality that seems to be the >norm. Especially when the company is Microsoft, people seem to think >that they have some kind of moral right to copy and distribute their >products willy-nilly rather than give any more money to the "Evil >Empire".
Dude I hope for your sake that you're not going to be hit by the next wave of Windows-only (as if there are really any other kind) computer viruses. This is going to be a virus writers dream enviroment. They can pretty much trash a computer running a Microsoft OS under this. You thought the aftermath of ILOVYOU was bad? You Microsoft Shills haven't seen anything yet......
>Microsoft breaks up... Ok fine, oh wait, shit, they had the best PC >Gaming Platform in existance... Hmm, well since they break up all >their products will go to shit, and Linux has it's chance, where's the >games? Oh wait... The OS still sucks for games...
You're assuming people actually care about gaming all that much which is something I and a hell lot of other people *DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT*
>All of this started just because Microsoft bundled their Internet >Explorer with their OS. Hmm... Doesn't Red Hat Linux ship with >Netscape installed???
Not really. You can tell the RedHat install program *NOT* to install any part of Netscape whatsoever. The same goes for Gnome,KDE and pretty much the rest of a RedHat Dist.
>MS makes some great keyboards and mice. Where will these go?
Maybe the companies Microsoft *STOLE* the ideas and designs from will actually get a chance to market their designs for keyboards and mice for a change?
>bite the hand that feeds you. Neither our vastly powerful yet very >cheap PCs nor your beloved Linux nor anything else you value in >computing would exist
You're right. We'ld be using more powerful generations of the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga instead, Microsoft Astroturfer......
>Nononononono. The Ethernet is used only on the fighters. Anyone can >clearly see that the fighter umbilical is FDDI. (And of course the >mother ship runs Windows -- don't you know that the reason Jeff >Goldblum was using a Mac (apart from the fact that they own him
Yeah. That's why they were able to infect the mothership so easily with the virus. They just uploaded a.VBS file created on the Mac to the mothership and the rest as they say was history
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>But doesn't this just seem to log IP's that make requests to your
>computer? OR does this search out files on other peoples computer and
>get thier username and IP address? Either way, I really don't think it
>matters.
All this software really does is generate pages of pretty much useless infomation when connected to Gnutella. Gnutella is not Napster.
>If you knew anything about embedded programming, you wouldn't want
>Linux to be an embedded OS. You don't really want an embedded system
>with the "unlimited resources" attitude of UNIX. That's not to say
>Linux is bad, just that it is out of place for embedded systems work.
Yeah. 9 out of 10 Microsoft Astroturfer surveyed knows that Windows CE should be used in embedded systems instead...
>Because no company will reduce thier packaging and therefore shelf
space until someone else does it first...
Wrong. It's already happening. Go to Kmart or Wal-mart. You'll find software titles for sale in the $9.99 price range that comes in just the cd-rom jewel case. No box, no printed manual.
>You wouldn't be saying that if your soundcard and/or display adapter
>didn't function correctly under Linux.
Wrong. The mistake the Be/Amiga/gamer crowd have always made is in thinking that everbody in the Linux/Unix/BSD world share their opinion on things. You see it in the Be/Amiga/gamer rants concering the use of the CLI over a GUI. You see it on their rants over PC gaming vs the Sony,Sega and Nintendo machines and so on and so forth.
>So why is the slashdot crowd hurting so much now that linux has been
>proven to suck really bad at OpenGL? First they whine and bitch until
>they have Quake for linux. Then they whine and bitch because it's
>slower than everything else. Pathetic bunch you are...
Who's whining and bitching about anything other than the BE/Multimedia bunch? It's not exactly a big secret that there's a whole lot people who hang out on Slashdot who just don't care about the kind of gamer/multimedia issues the Be,Amiga and gamer crowd seem to get so uptight about.
>Heavy Metal is without a doubt the most overrated American animated
>film of the twentieth century. I'm firmly convinced the only reason
>anyone liked it is because they were utterly stoned at the time
>(probably the only way to watch it, I'm sure).
It's the soundtrack that people go for. Heavy Metal the Moive is as you said, a pile of shit.
>Animation, Titan A.E., and Usability is an interview I conducted with
>Mayo Tirado, one of the animation experts behind Titan A.E. He talks
>about the animation tools he uses, the books he's read, and the web
>sites he visits. He also has a couple of reasonable comments on
>usability and web development in general.
And this is exactly the problem with Titan A.E it looks like. Instead of going to Japan and studying how Anime and Manga projects are created and developed over there,US companies hire idoit Web designers...No wonder so much of American Animation tend suck so bad...
If anyone was hoping Titan A.E was going to be something along the lines of Gunbuster, you're going to be disappointed.
>Gamers don't care. They just see that linux is way behind in the
>framerate department. People buy expensive coolors so they can
>overclock their machines to the max,
And most of the Linux/Unix/BSD userbase don't tend to care all that much about the gamer crowd, so what's your point?
>2. The audience who buys this will be either the parents of kids who
>don't give a rat's ass or older kids who don't give a rat's ass.
>3. 1) Games that will be released on the x-box before they are
>released to the general pc market. 2) Can you play those pc games
>without worrying about drivers, OS versions, DirectX, conflicts, etc?
>4. Blinding yourself to something doesn't make it go away. Just
>because it's not one of the old school giants doesn't mean it's doomed
>to failure.
Wrong. It's precisly not going to save the market for PC games because XBox games ARE PC Market Games. In case you haven't noticed, the vast majority of the audience who are or who intend to buy the Sony,Nintendo and Sega machines HAVE NO LOVE FOR PC GAMING. They don't really share the PC Gamer mindset.
>> The author ... thinks it's just not that much of a revolution yet.
>Does the Slashdot community agree?
>Heck no.
>In the mid 1980s I was at school in South Africa. First the govenment
>declared a National State of Emergency, then they stopped the
>newspapers from reporting to us what was going on, how the Govt. was
Bullshit. The author of the piece is right and all you *technosnobs* know it. So what if you could get information via the interent? The point still remains that there were MILLIONS who couldn't because they didn't have acess to a computer or the Internet. The American revolution and revolutions throught history in places such as Latin America,Vietnam and yes even in South Africa got along just fine without the "The Digital Revolution". You guys really need to study human history before jumping on your soapbox.
>If Napster wins, will they force Metallica to split up into two
>different bands?
You mean ones with *talent*?
>well have the other formats competed with MP3, like windows media and
>the vqf thing or whatever. Heck, I can't even remember the names of
>the other formats, that is how dominant the MP3 format has become.
>This new format will just be another Beta vs. VHS thing, I'm sure of
>it.
>The only thing that will blow the MP3 away is something which has
>vastly better compression and comparable sound quality. Anything else
>is doomed to obsolesence.
I take it you weren't around for the ARC vs PKZIP wars eh? Here's a clue. The ARC/PKZIP war had more to do with the BBS politics of the time than anything else. The pro-ARC crowd basically drove people into the PKZIP camp. The same thing is going to happen with the mp3 format. Count on it.
>The only downside I can see is that this may bring even more fire from
>the RIAA. One of the arguements I have seen many times here is that
>MP3s are lossy, and thus aren't close to being the same quality as the
>original... Let's hope these things aren't high enough quality to blow that out of the water, or we'll be seeing a whole lot of heat being drawn on it...
What the hell can the RIAA do? This will be a format that's truely in the "Public Domain", meaning anyone can use it to record any sort of audio information,not just music. It's use will most likely be similar to recording things in the *.wav and other sound formats.
>Now all we need is an opensource Linux version of 'OilChange' with no
>subscriptions fees. (For those of you who don't know, OilChange
>monitors your system's drivers and checks the manufacture's websites
>for periodic updates and will automatically download/install new
>drivers).
What the hell for? The Windows "Driver or DLL Of The Week" game doesn't really apply to Linux or the BSD's.
>Berlin is not a window manager, it's a full blown windowing system.
>ie. it's a replacement for X not for fvwm! I don't know if it is API
>compatable or not, I hope so!
Who cares? Berlin is too little,too late just like the "rebirth" of the Amiga and Mofit becoming "Open Source". We've got Xfree 4.0 now. Pretty much nobody is going to be adopting Berlin at this stage of the game. Does anyone really see RedHat,Suse,Debian replacing X with Berlin? I didn't think so.
How will this silly technology deal with hunt-and-peck typists?
>I'm sure the market will consolidate -- that's inevitable -- but
>probably not like this. Why, for instance, Caldera and SuSE? SuSE is
>way too cool for a bunch of ex-Novell losers like Caldera. I suspect
>RedHat and SuSE will end up ruling the world
As usual ZDNet got it wrong. There may well be mergers in the coming but not in the sense ZDNet is thinking in. Why for instance SuSE and Caldera merge? SuSE's market and focus is mainly in Europe. TurboLinux's Market is mostly Asia. Redhat's is mostly North America. This is is just an example of just how little ZDNet's so-called techwriters understand how things in the linux world tend to work.
>Wow you need to calm down. Blind zealotry doesn't fix bugs. Instead of
>saying good one less bug to worry about, you go and flame everyone in
>existence. That doesn't help.
Wrong. The moment you get people saying it's too much trouble to actually do the job they are supposed to be getting paid for, and start making excuses why they shouldn't be expected to *DO THEIR FUCKING JOB* It's time to start flaming the hell out of these people. Would *YOU* want someone like this working on the brakes of *YOUR* car for instance?
>It sounds like yet another reason for businesses to not widely deploy
>Linux, unless they can afford to keep a massive support team busy
>following each and every mailing list and newsgroup.
>Let's face it, the 15 year olds live for this. Do businesses want to
>run code children are climbing around in breaking?
>(score:-7 Truth about Linux)
Crap. If you don't do things like this, what happends is exactly what we saw with ILOVYOU. How long did you Microsoft assholes sit on your asses knowing the truth about the various Outlook/VBS problems and pretty much did (and haven't really) nothing about it untill a hell of lot of people got burned by you shitty software design? The world is changing loser. People are going to expect that problems with software connected to the internet to be fixed and fixed fast. They aren't going to be interested in hearing excuses from people like you anymore.
>Unfortunately this kind of thing has come around as a result of the
>blatent piracy that takes place across the entire computing world
>thanks to the "I'm not paying for that" mentality that seems to be the
>norm. Especially when the company is Microsoft, people seem to think
>that they have some kind of moral right to copy and distribute their
>products willy-nilly rather than give any more money to the "Evil
>Empire".
Dude I hope for your sake that you're not going to be hit by the next wave of Windows-only (as if there are really any other kind) computer viruses. This is going to be a virus writers dream enviroment. They can pretty much trash a computer running a Microsoft OS under this. You thought the aftermath of ILOVYOU was bad? You Microsoft Shills haven't seen anything yet......
>Microsoft breaks up... Ok fine, oh wait, shit, they had the best PC
>Gaming Platform in existance... Hmm, well since they break up all
>their products will go to shit, and Linux has it's chance, where's the
>games? Oh wait... The OS still sucks for games...
You're assuming people actually care about gaming all that much which is something I and a hell lot of other people *DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT*
>All of this started just because Microsoft bundled their Internet
>Explorer with their OS. Hmm... Doesn't Red Hat Linux ship with
>Netscape installed???
Not really. You can tell the RedHat install program *NOT* to install any part of Netscape whatsoever. The same goes for Gnome,KDE and pretty much the rest of a RedHat Dist.
>MS makes some great keyboards and mice. Where will these go?
Maybe the companies Microsoft *STOLE* the ideas and designs from will actually get a chance to market their designs for keyboards and mice for a change?
>bite the hand that feeds you. Neither our vastly powerful yet very
>cheap PCs nor your beloved Linux nor anything else you value in
>computing would exist
You're right. We'ld be using more powerful generations of the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga instead, Microsoft Astroturfer......
>Nononononono. The Ethernet is used only on the fighters. Anyone can
.VBS file created on the Mac to the mothership and the rest as they say was history
>clearly see that the fighter umbilical is FDDI. (And of course the
>mother ship runs Windows -- don't you know that the reason Jeff
>Goldblum was using a Mac (apart from the fact that they own him
Yeah. That's why they were able to infect the mothership so easily with the virus. They just uploaded a