XP is just Windows 2000 with themes and a few other insignificant changes, mostly cosmetic. There are a few bugfixes and more game compatibility is there, as well.
There is no reason to say anything to XP that you couldn't say to Windows 2000. Sure, it might put Stardock (of WindowBlinds fame) out of business, but who gives a shit? Linux has had themes for a long time and nobody ever said that was evil:D
This Yankee has probably just realized that there's reason behind the antitrust case and wants to seem like he's leading the crusade instead of bandwagon-jumping when it's too late.
It gets increasingly ahrder to find information as you have most of it already on your hard drive. Eventually I won't be able to find any pr0n I don't have, at least without paying for it. Same with warez, etc....
At the point when you can't find anything else, you only need like three more gigs for personal stuffs. I think a terabyte would be enough for me.
...that we'll run out of space.
Look! We will have 200GB drive soon, right, there was a/. article about that.
We'll have 400GB drives in 3 years, maybe a nice round number like 512GB will be the upper limit. Maybe 256GB.
But then you think... I can have a PHYSICALLY BIGGER hard drive! A full-height 5 1/4 one, like the old IBM PC ones, but with superdense and 10000RPM spinning platters.
So that could bring me up to maybe 512GB, or more.
Then I could have an even bigger one, two-times the height, with a terabyte on it.
And who the fuck can fill up a terabyte in an appreciable amount of time? I know I could fill up 100GB in a week or so but a terabyte? It would take a long time to find enough pr0n and warez to fill up all that space.
Relax, people, we're coming to the point at which things are going to slow down a bit. Compression technology is getting more advanced, and there's plenty of room an a 1TB hard drive for some 1GB DivX;-) movies. Never mind the fact that DVD burners are coming down in price to provide us with an acceptably-sized external storage medium.
There's no crisis here. Companies will still sell hard drives. The spice will still flow.
Thinking about that...
Basically, a coffee percolator is an inverted bong, as the heat comes from the bottom, forcing the water around instead of suction forcing air around.
Thinking along those lines two weeks ago I took an old percolator, and with the help of some duct tape and a hacksaw I made a bong! The top, where the glass knob normally is where you can see the coffee bubbling, has been replaced by a bowl, which leads down into the former coffee chamber that has been sealed airtight except for the tube leading down into the water.
There's a pipe-tube-hookah thing leading into the spout, also sealed airtight. The pipe is built with a little tiny piece of plastic PVC so it's easy to disconnect it and put it inside for safekeeping.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, ANYTHING can become pot smoking paraphenalia. Just be creative!
My other pipes include an old wireless Nintendo controller (where the thumbpad was,a bowl is now) and a telephone handset (think about it!).
Everybody's going to jump on board with the Linux side of things here, but let's look at the facts.
Adobe owns the Illustrator name. It's not "Adobe Illustrator", it's "Illustrator". It's been around for ages and while not the best product in my eyes it certainly is better at this point that the K-version.
Regardless of platforms or competing or profits, Adobe owns the name. It's not a matter of "huzzah huzzah intellectual property" or anything. Names have been trademarked and defended for years. You don't see people cleaning the window with "Kwindex" or wiping their noses with "Gnokleenex" do you? NO!, because the base name is owned by a company.
As for the lawyers demanding to be paid, they should go fuck themselves. If the author's willing to change the name, he has already made the correct choice. Now, the lawyers have to do the right thing in turn and just leave it be.
Obviously they won't. Somebody go set up a Paypal account or something, maybe the author could do that, and we could contribute a buck each if neccessary.
I wonder why/., the champions of open source, aren't using a Linux box with a few NICs and some hacked-together code as a load balancer?
Your qualified personell would be just as qualified as the woman who quit, and it would have cost less. Plus, you could appeal to the masses with an Ask Slashdot about the best way to set it up!
Funny that when Microsoft's router failed (probably a Cisco also) it was catastrophic incompetence but for you guy's it's just bad luck.
I remember seeing TV ads for these things. Basically, it's a vest that reacts to low-frequency sound like bass from firing a rocket in Quake... you get shaken pretty good. It works with any audio source, so pr0n is definately an option.
From the site:
"It requires no software or drivers, and simply plugs into your soundcard audio out jack. "
An interesting use for this, for people with two sound outs (back and front), like the SB Live!, would be to use this in the back plug... it could almost be a surround-sound experience!
To quote from another review, found at this page near the bottom,
"Wearing a jetpack-like contraption on your back while playing video games might sound a bit silly, but even though the Aura Interactor is designed to be worn like a backpack or a vest, it also works very well when strapped to the back of your desk chair. This is how I've been using mine, and it works very nicely. The bottom line is that if you're a speed freak who loves sim racing and you've already invested big bucks in video cards, driving wheels, and other computer-related paraphernalia in the pursuit of performance and realism, then you owe it to yourself to spend a measly $20 on an Aura Interactor. You'll definitely feel like you're getting your money's worth, and the return on investment in terms of grins per dollar just can't be beat. "
Now I have to go beg my parents to let me use the credit card:D
I sure hope you're using the latest 4-in-1 drivers from viahardware.com and that you've got the latest service packs for your presumeably Microsoft based OS.
I hate nothing more than losers who don't trust binary files.
Remember two key things:
1. Only morons ever get viruses.
2. The real world deals primarily with prepackaged things.
So you can go and live in your opensource zealot world where you have to know the recipe to everything you eat and the specs to all the hardware you buy and the blueprints to your house and the list goes on.
Listen. The reason most programs from websites don't have viruses in them is because if they did, WORD WOULD GET AROUND AND NOBODY WOULD DOWNLOAD IT ANYMORE. Warez sites work like that: virus infested releases are quickly torn down because otherwise nobody would trust that site or group again.
If you're going to worry that much about binaries from sources that aren't your best friend, then how the hell did you ever install Linux on your machine? Wait... How did you ever turn on your machine? With the way computers work these days, you need a binary somewhere to even get started! Be it io.sys from MSDOS or the Linux kernel, you're not starting up with uncompiled visable code at any moment.
Soemthing about this size could probably be fit to a skullcap, no problem. Add a few buttons say on the palm of my hand, and some kind of retinal projection system, and i'd have a private, personal computer that i could use simultaneously while doing anything, like walking around or watching a movie.
Add a cell phone held in your hand, connected to the wrist USB port, and you have instant internet.
I'm only talking Palmtop level functionality, so i could read Avantgo stuff in green glowing text in the dark. But tiny, solid state systems are definatly a must... and then we need them funky retina displays.
So you scientist people, there's a free unpatented idea, retinal projection displays. Courtesy of me. Make them and I'll buy.
Ok, so Britain decides to do this, all by themselves. Great. And they pull us too far.
Realize please that if the temperature of the earth goes down by more than like two ro three degrees, a lot of thigns will change. We could trigger an ice age! That's not exactly the best cure for an economic recession.
If this is ever going to be done, it would have to be a unanimous vote from every country, holding majority elections in the country to decide the nation vote. Because this could easily fuck up and you don't wanna fuck up the planet unless everyone agrees it will be fun.
Anyways, I'm going to restock my Y2k bunker and include a small micro-nuclear heating cell. Any beautiful women, ages 16-24, who are interested in repopulating the planet once it moves back into a stable orbit, drop me a reply. thanks
Hahahaa no, I was being sarcastic. Be is excellent, I have it on dual boot. But it was a startup that took some time to catch the public eye, right? It was just another OS until everyone realized it's cool abilities for realtime media.
Linux is just as innovative. Don't start a holy war, be-fan, because the only one that matters on/. is the one against Winblows.
Yeah, like that crackpot Jean-Paul Gasee. Made that stupid gui and toolkit for a unix like os called, um, Be or something... it's good that there aren't more people like him, coming up with innovative ideas...
I won't lie. I use napster to pirate MP3's, and i have a ten gig collection of acid jazz and trance music.
I'll just go to opennap. I'm not willing to pay for the music... i'm a high school student with a small allowance and no job. I don't have enough $ like you dot commies on here with your Benz's and your Benjamins.
I have to spend my money getting weed to smoke on weekends. So I use napster, and now instead OpenNap through Napster with Napigator.
The record industry? Fuck them. I never intended to pay and I always knew I was breaking copyright laws. So what? I do that with my mad l33t copy of Photoshop and everything else anyways.
Record Industries: Face it, you will lose, buying Napster changes nothing, except making people move to an even harder-to-control system with no central authority. You've fucked up. Please come again.
Aha, that's where Star Office and Word come in handy! With Auto-correction features, one can now simply type without ever hitting the shift key, as long as you're not quoting people (and if you're the kind of person who doesn't hit the shift key, you probably don't quote very often).
So one can type:
i think thats realy good, but maybe we need ot add even mroe auto correction features.
and have it come out:
I think that's really good, but maybe we need to add even more Auto Correction features.
The best way was already suggested in the article: give them more nics. But hey, why stop there? Hire them (perhaps on a part time basis) to write drivers for you. Even if you have to put them under an NDA for the specs to your cards, which seems unlikely as they've already made drivers, you'll get high-performance drivers in return and the Linux community might buy your cards before someone else's if they've got a Tux on the box.
(Of course, this assume that your company is named 3com...:D)
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Must have been gravitation
Pulled him to the task
XP is just Windows 2000 with themes and a few other insignificant changes, mostly cosmetic. There are a few bugfixes and more game compatibility is there, as well.
:D
There is no reason to say anything to XP that you couldn't say to Windows 2000. Sure, it might put Stardock (of WindowBlinds fame) out of business, but who gives a shit? Linux has had themes for a long time and nobody ever said that was evil
This Yankee has probably just realized that there's reason behind the antitrust case and wants to seem like he's leading the crusade instead of bandwagon-jumping when it's too late.
It gets increasingly ahrder to find information as you have most of it already on your hard drive. Eventually I won't be able to find any pr0n I don't have, at least without paying for it. Same with warez, etc....
At the point when you can't find anything else, you only need like three more gigs for personal stuffs. I think a terabyte would be enough for me.
...that we'll run out of space. /. article about that.
;-) movies. Never mind the fact that DVD burners are coming down in price to provide us with an acceptably-sized external storage medium.
Look! We will have 200GB drive soon, right, there was a
We'll have 400GB drives in 3 years, maybe a nice round number like 512GB will be the upper limit. Maybe 256GB.
But then you think... I can have a PHYSICALLY BIGGER hard drive! A full-height 5 1/4 one, like the old IBM PC ones, but with superdense and 10000RPM spinning platters.
So that could bring me up to maybe 512GB, or more.
Then I could have an even bigger one, two-times the height, with a terabyte on it.
And who the fuck can fill up a terabyte in an appreciable amount of time? I know I could fill up 100GB in a week or so but a terabyte? It would take a long time to find enough pr0n and warez to fill up all that space.
Relax, people, we're coming to the point at which things are going to slow down a bit. Compression technology is getting more advanced, and there's plenty of room an a 1TB hard drive for some 1GB DivX
There's no crisis here. Companies will still sell hard drives. The spice will still flow.
Thinking about that...
Basically, a coffee percolator is an inverted bong, as the heat comes from the bottom, forcing the water around instead of suction forcing air around.
Thinking along those lines two weeks ago I took an old percolator, and with the help of some duct tape and a hacksaw I made a bong! The top, where the glass knob normally is where you can see the coffee bubbling, has been replaced by a bowl, which leads down into the former coffee chamber that has been sealed airtight except for the tube leading down into the water.
There's a pipe-tube-hookah thing leading into the spout, also sealed airtight. The pipe is built with a little tiny piece of plastic PVC so it's easy to disconnect it and put it inside for safekeeping.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, ANYTHING can become pot smoking paraphenalia. Just be creative!
My other pipes include an old wireless Nintendo controller (where the thumbpad was,a bowl is now) and a telephone handset (think about it!).
Enjoy, and study plenty at four twenty.
Everybody's going to jump on board with the Linux side of things here, but let's look at the facts.
Adobe owns the Illustrator name. It's not "Adobe Illustrator", it's "Illustrator". It's been around for ages and while not the best product in my eyes it certainly is better at this point that the K-version.
Regardless of platforms or competing or profits, Adobe owns the name. It's not a matter of "huzzah huzzah intellectual property" or anything. Names have been trademarked and defended for years. You don't see people cleaning the window with "Kwindex" or wiping their noses with "Gnokleenex" do you? NO!, because the base name is owned by a company.
As for the lawyers demanding to be paid, they should go fuck themselves. If the author's willing to change the name, he has already made the correct choice. Now, the lawyers have to do the right thing in turn and just leave it be.
Obviously they won't. Somebody go set up a Paypal account or something, maybe the author could do that, and we could contribute a buck each if neccessary.
I wonder why /., the champions of open source, aren't using a Linux box with a few NICs and some hacked-together code as a load balancer?
Your qualified personell would be just as qualified as the woman who quit, and it would have cost less. Plus, you could appeal to the masses with an Ask Slashdot about the best way to set it up!
Funny that when Microsoft's router failed (probably a Cisco also) it was catastrophic incompetence but for you guy's it's just bad luck.
A reply to a story you moderated renders all of your moderations undone....
I remember seeing TV ads for these things. Basically, it's a vest that reacts to low-frequency sound like bass from firing a rocket in Quake... you get shaken pretty good. It works with any audio source, so pr0n is definately an option.
:D
From the site:
"It requires no software or drivers, and simply plugs into your soundcard audio out jack. "
An interesting use for this, for people with two sound outs (back and front), like the SB Live!, would be to use this in the back plug... it could almost be a surround-sound experience!
To quote from another review, found at this page near the bottom,
"Wearing a jetpack-like contraption on your back while playing video games might sound a bit silly, but even though the Aura Interactor is designed to be worn like a backpack or a vest, it also works very well when strapped to the back of your desk chair. This is how I've been using mine, and it works very nicely. The bottom line is that if you're a speed freak who loves sim racing and you've already invested big bucks in video cards, driving wheels, and other computer-related paraphernalia in the pursuit of performance and realism, then you owe it to yourself to spend a measly $20 on an Aura Interactor. You'll definitely feel like you're getting your money's worth, and the return on investment in terms of grins per dollar just can't be beat. "
Now I have to go beg my parents to let me use the credit card
I sure hope you're using the latest 4-in-1 drivers from viahardware.com and that you've got the latest service packs for your presumeably Microsoft based OS.
(clever insult, no?)
What about support staff? Capcoms and the like? Orbit calculations?
Sounds a lot like the guy who put baloons on his lawn chair and flew up into the sky... in other words, I don't expect it to end up working too well.
It would be cool to land 100% civilian people on the moon, though... but that will cost more than $250k.
Duh, Them kids should stay out of riverdale!
--Moose
I hate nothing more than losers who don't trust binary files.
Remember two key things:
1. Only morons ever get viruses.
2. The real world deals primarily with prepackaged things.
So you can go and live in your opensource zealot world where you have to know the recipe to everything you eat and the specs to all the hardware you buy and the blueprints to your house and the list goes on.
Listen. The reason most programs from websites don't have viruses in them is because if they did, WORD WOULD GET AROUND AND NOBODY WOULD DOWNLOAD IT ANYMORE. Warez sites work like that: virus infested releases are quickly torn down because otherwise nobody would trust that site or group again.
If you're going to worry that much about binaries from sources that aren't your best friend, then how the hell did you ever install Linux on your machine? Wait... How did you ever turn on your machine? With the way computers work these days, you need a binary somewhere to even get started! Be it io.sys from MSDOS or the Linux kernel, you're not starting up with uncompiled visable code at any moment.
So don't be a purist ass.
You are dumb. Ian Murdock MADE THE DISTRO. He's the "ian" in Debian. Get a clue.
I want an embedded system. Literally.
Embedded into my HEAD!
Soemthing about this size could probably be fit to a skullcap, no problem. Add a few buttons say on the palm of my hand, and some kind of retinal projection system, and i'd have a private, personal computer that i could use simultaneously while doing anything, like walking around or watching a movie.
Add a cell phone held in your hand, connected to the wrist USB port, and you have instant internet.
I'm only talking Palmtop level functionality, so i could read Avantgo stuff in green glowing text in the dark. But tiny, solid state systems are definatly a must... and then we need them funky retina displays.
So you scientist people, there's a free unpatented idea, retinal projection displays. Courtesy of me. Make them and I'll buy.
My god, the internet is made possible by satellites that require a round earth!
How do these people have a web page!!!
2001-03-21 04:42:42
Yes, those 42's are there for good luck.
:D
Ok, so Britain decides to do this, all by themselves. Great. And they pull us too far.
Realize please that if the temperature of the earth goes down by more than like two ro three degrees, a lot of thigns will change. We could trigger an ice age! That's not exactly the best cure for an economic recession.
If this is ever going to be done, it would have to be a unanimous vote from every country, holding majority elections in the country to decide the nation vote. Because this could easily fuck up and you don't wanna fuck up the planet unless everyone agrees it will be fun.
Anyways, I'm going to restock my Y2k bunker and include a small micro-nuclear heating cell. Any beautiful women, ages 16-24, who are interested in repopulating the planet once it moves back into a stable orbit, drop me a reply. thanks
Hahahaa no, I was being sarcastic. Be is excellent, I have it on dual boot. But it was a startup that took some time to catch the public eye, right? It was just another OS until everyone realized it's cool abilities for realtime media.
/. is the one against Winblows.
Linux is just as innovative. Don't start a holy war, be-fan, because the only one that matters on
Yeah, like that crackpot Jean-Paul Gasee. Made that stupid gui and toolkit for a unix like os called, um, Be or something... it's good that there aren't more people like him, coming up with innovative ideas...
...yuo = fagot.
I won't lie. I use napster to pirate MP3's, and i have a ten gig collection of acid jazz and trance music.
I'll just go to opennap. I'm not willing to pay for the music... i'm a high school student with a small allowance and no job. I don't have enough $ like you dot commies on here with your Benz's and your Benjamins.
I have to spend my money getting weed to smoke on weekends. So I use napster, and now instead OpenNap through Napster with Napigator .
The record industry? Fuck them. I never intended to pay and I always knew I was breaking copyright laws. So what? I do that with my mad l33t copy of Photoshop and everything else anyways.
Record Industries: Face it, you will lose, buying Napster changes nothing, except making people move to an even harder-to-control system with no central authority. You've fucked up. Please come again.
I'm in grade 12 at high school. My term project for IT was to set up a beowulf machine.
/., you've been accused of enough bigotry recently.
My school uses Linux exclusively. Blender for 3D, Gimp for art, StarOffice, KDE.
I set up a beowulf cluster and had it running within three days (two classes plus some extra time).
We're not stupid. MSCE's might be stupid. But I am sho' nuff not. Don't say stupid things,
Aha, that's where Star Office and Word come in handy! With Auto-correction features, one can now simply type without ever hitting the shift key, as long as you're not quoting people (and if you're the kind of person who doesn't hit the shift key, you probably don't quote very often).
So one can type:
i think thats realy good, but maybe we need ot add even mroe auto correction features.
and have it come out:
I think that's really good, but maybe we need to add even more Auto Correction features.
Yep. The miracle of technology.
Correction: Mandrake 7.2 set us up the bomb.
The best way was already suggested in the article: give them more nics. But hey, why stop there? Hire them (perhaps on a part time basis) to write drivers for you. Even if you have to put them under an NDA for the specs to your cards, which seems unlikely as they've already made drivers, you'll get high-performance drivers in return and the Linux community might buy your cards before someone else's if they've got a Tux on the box.
:D)
(Of course, this assume that your company is named 3com...