I never said it was anything unusual or anything like that.
And nearly every one of your countries that you stated, is, corrupted in one way shape or form.
All the ministers in Korea, China, USSR (or the former Republics to the younger crowd) and the middle east are fine upstanding individuals, too.
It was a generalization. Just as our secretaries are just as corrupt. HOWEVER, more countries refer to their cabinet level members (or insert your phrase of choice for your country here) as ministers, hence me being able to make the statement I did.
He who controls most of the desktops / servers will be the one that sets the standards.
Or didn't you hear, they dropped firewire for USB in the new Macbook.
Arguing your MS hatred in a thread that makes your point invalid is..... Well, you fill in the blank.
USB got as far as it did, in a LARGE part to ease of use. It also got to where it did my Gates hosing a system on TV when trying to plug USB in. Yup, a few where scared by it, but everyone I knew at the time (I worked in IT at the time) was trying to use it, crash it, and play with it.
Guess you haven't heard, MS is on nearly all corporate desktops. Guess they have no idea about a standard, huh... Even though they ARE the corporate standard.
Using Reaper and Audition, I haven't had to resort to using high end audio cards.
Of course, I'm only mixing 2 to 5 channels (and 2 of them are based from microphone inputs) and the resultant output gets fed directly into a transmitter for broadcast, but it >.
I understand what your saying, but then again, high end audio cards and an entry level notebook have no basis in the same thread together.
I'd assume, you'd be one of the guys that bought a pro version anyway.....?
Apple has created a market of, for and about selling idiots things they don't need, at an inflated price, that does little to less than it's predecessor.
I'm seriously thinking of cobbling together a WinTel system to play with the new OSX release... But, to be fair, I'd NEVER own another macintosh (as I sit here staring at my iMAC Teal (was a gift to my kids)... Can't really call it a usable computer, as half the time it doesn't work) after owning two of them. One had hard drive issues (to be fair, not exactly Apple's fault... I've had HDDs fail in WinTel crap, too) but was a SCREAMING system on the original OSX. This iMAC, well, it was great for my uncle (until he used my Dell XP laptop, then he gives my kid his mac and orders an XP lappy) as he was scared of a calculator (really, a self made millionaire that HATES electronics) and the Apple got him into computers (and to not be scared of them).
This iMAC POS (which is a newer system by ages compared to my last MAC) is a, for lack of better terms, a POS (and I'm not talking Point of Sale).
You really need to brush up on what entrapment is.
They where NOT trying to entrap you. Selling you narcotics and then arresting you for owning them is NOT entrapment.
Your story is suspect anyway. Any cop worth (his / her) salts isn't going to be telling you that you are a good boy afterwards for not taking the bait.
Looking up IP space for the police? LOL. Heard of AOL dialup?
This post stinks of bullshit. I'm removing my shoes and walking on. snopes couldn't even stand for this one.
Funny as shit, watching all the.eu trash and.au trash as they talk shit about the United States.
Remember, you're less a democracy than we are. Wanna shit in my yard, better clean your own up first.
I'm sure we will have the same thing, I just felt the need to point out the obvious... Gets tiring watching the posts here from non us citizens talking about how they would never, nor would their country.
Elon has outsted the CEO and taken the reigns, blaming the global credit crunch?
Could it be that people really don't WANT to drive an electric high performance car?
I mean, don't people understand? Nobody REALLY wants an electric car (underdeveloped technology, unproven, etc) when they can go get something from Toyota or Honda that gets excellent mileage, has a track record, isn't going to "go belly up"
because of insert_buzzword_here, etc., etc., etc.
The venture cap people that gave them the money in the first place should be tarred, feathered and shot from the lowest balcony in the first place.
I'm all for innovation, let's at least innovate where people are fucking interested, rather than try to blame a vaporware problem because your company had a product that was too expensive for the masses, was underdeveloped, undermarketed and basically, wasn't worthy of being produced.
Free market economy at it's finest. Unfortunately, the idiot at the company just doesn't understand supply and demand.
Too many y2k / post y2k startups believe they are supposed to MAKE MONEY off venture cap. WRONG. Your supposed to damn near go broke, have a working 'device', and someone else believes in you enough. This bullshitting your way into millions has got to stop at some point.
Even so, if what you say is true, having a web search company in control of what I can and can't have on my cell phone is bullshit.
BUT, I'm not stupid enough to go out and purchase every OSS phone that comes down the pike, either... Matter of fact, since I like my features to all work, and be controlled by me, I have an HTC WM phone. Works, great, and I like it. Doesn't run linux, but then, neither does my home PC.
My point was MORE to the fact that OP inferred there was no appstore for WM devices. I was pointing out that he was talking out his anus.
I had a @cc.dixie.edu email account for years before other people heard of the internet. Learned to use Pine for my email and Lynx for my web browsing. Man, I remember my first web browser that used LYNX on the UNIX server, but would ZMODEM all images and pages back to me, allowing me to use Win 3.11 WITHOUT winsock to get on the GRAPHICIZED internet. Before that, it was ALL Telemate.
Yeah, FUCK YOU guys who trashed the internet with graphics, btw.
Google, before this article was put online, announced they will keep control of their phone via their appstore.
Please, Slashdot, actually fact check blogs that are submitted as actual facts, stories, or articles. Makes/. feel more and more like digg or yahoo everyday.
Oh yes, ensuring that the company that produces your phone is the only place to get software is
A. Democratic B. Fair to other developers C. The proper OSS way to do things.
Let's not let the name "Google" screw up our thinking here. If this was "Microsoft Android", EVERYONE on/. would be screaming this, that, the other and antitrust.
Just because it's Google / Apple, the crowds will try to find a way to make this look "better" for the crowds.
Saying there is no app store for the WM platform is stupidity. Ever try Handango?
HTC does let you install pretty much anything on their phones.
Look at the plethora of images for the HTC Wizard on the internet.
The OS doesn't talk to the radio towers, the radio OS does. Most cellular telephones have an operating system for the "user interface", and then two or three other systems that actually make the electronics of the telephone work.
How many people sat here screaming how shitty the IPhone was, screaming they where waiting for Android and Google.
Sheesh, more of the same.
Thank GOD I had the forethought to actually purchase a working phone, with an OS I paid for that works (literally, 99.9 percent of the time). I can develop stuff for it, nobody can delete it, nobody can control it, etc.
Yup, I run Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 (two different devices). They work, they work well, and I don't have many, if ANY, problems with them.
Of course, installing shitty apps causes battery life to deteriorate. I much prefer having control over my telephone, though, rather than having some socialistic company take control from me.
Linux based telephone, OSS, etc. Thank goodness my good old fashioned Win Mobile phones don't come with these problems. Oh yeah, and I can TETHER my phone to my laptop.
Gosh, MS is so evil. Thank GOD we have Google and Apple to show us the CORRECT way.
--Toll_Free
(sarcasm intentional. Yes, I have two WM 6.x phones. Yes, I like them. Yes, I have used an IPhone. Yes, I think the IPhone is overrated, overhyped, and nothing more than successful marketing (my phone does all the IPhone does, does it just as well, doesn't have the incumbrances, has a cheaper rate plan, etc), but that doesn't mean it doesn't have it's place with (what we in the amateur radio community call) appliance operators. No, I haven't used an Android, nor do I see myself wasting money on something else someone else can control.)
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I've noticed the same thing as you, although I wouldn't think that "how dare you mod me flamebait," has ANY semblance of being in a debate.
I mean, C'mon.
And they don't reply because that would open them up to being modd'ed the same way, not because they are too lazy to reply.
Although, to be fair, it IS easy to just pick and choose, rather than have to think, type and express coherent thought(s).
--Toll_Free
I never said it was anything unusual or anything like that.
And nearly every one of your countries that you stated, is, corrupted in one way shape or form.
All the ministers in Korea, China, USSR (or the former Republics to the younger crowd) and the middle east are fine upstanding individuals, too.
It was a generalization. Just as our secretaries are just as corrupt. HOWEVER, more countries refer to their cabinet level members (or insert your phrase of choice for your country here) as ministers, hence me being able to make the statement I did.
It was more of a joke than anything else, bud. :)
Thanks for the edu, though....
--Toll_Free
What FUCKING dream world do you live in?
He who controls most of the desktops / servers will be the one that sets the standards.
Or didn't you hear, they dropped firewire for USB in the new Macbook.
Arguing your MS hatred in a thread that makes your point invalid is..... Well, you fill in the blank.
USB got as far as it did, in a LARGE part to ease of use. It also got to where it did my Gates hosing a system on TV when trying to plug USB in. Yup, a few where scared by it, but everyone I knew at the time (I worked in IT at the time) was trying to use it, crash it, and play with it.
Guess you haven't heard, MS is on nearly all corporate desktops. Guess they have no idea about a standard, huh... Even though they ARE the corporate standard.
--Toll_Free
It's more the spindle speed and cache that determine your hard drive times, you didn't know that?
Fuck man, learn to read marketing reports more. :)
--Toll_Free
What about a daughtercard for the USB side, that MUX'ed the inputs into something USB-centric?
I mean, we do it to the telephone systems, why not to the mixing boards?
Doesn't the Audigy come USB 2.0 as well? Not the gaming system one, but the high end card that Adobe recommends in and for Audition (3.0)?
--Toll_Free
Using Reaper and Audition, I haven't had to resort to using high end audio cards.
Of course, I'm only mixing 2 to 5 channels (and 2 of them are based from microphone inputs) and the resultant output gets fed directly into a transmitter for broadcast, but it >.
I understand what your saying, but then again, high end audio cards and an entry level notebook have no basis in the same thread together.
I'd assume, you'd be one of the guys that bought a pro version anyway.....?
Was I the only one that read his comment as
"Old people have PCI cards"
not
"People have old PCI cards"
As I stare at my EISA SCSI card, I wonder, will my firewire, usb, PCI and other options just end up in a junkbox?
Seriously, time to pick myself up off the floor. Kids wondering wtf daddy is laughing about.
Shhhh..
Apple has created a market of, for and about selling idiots things they don't need, at an inflated price, that does little to less than it's predecessor.
I'm seriously thinking of cobbling together a WinTel system to play with the new OSX release... But, to be fair, I'd NEVER own another macintosh (as I sit here staring at my iMAC Teal (was a gift to my kids)... Can't really call it a usable computer, as half the time it doesn't work) after owning two of them. One had hard drive issues (to be fair, not exactly Apple's fault... I've had HDDs fail in WinTel crap, too) but was a SCREAMING system on the original OSX. This iMAC, well, it was great for my uncle (until he used my Dell XP laptop, then he gives my kid his mac and orders an XP lappy) as he was scared of a calculator (really, a self made millionaire that HATES electronics) and the Apple got him into computers (and to not be scared of them).
This iMAC POS (which is a newer system by ages compared to my last MAC) is a, for lack of better terms, a POS (and I'm not talking Point of Sale).
--Toll_Free
Somethin out of a hollowed out Applecore in the back of gym class....
Why? You jealous? :)
--Toll_Free
And Digi Cam Corders are about the last bastion that uses Firewire.
I have a Digi CamCorder I bought years ago. The batteries are now dead, the firewire card gets used little to never, and I've never looked back.
USB2.0 will dominate, just because Microsoft embraced it.
Call on all the standards compliance bs consortiums you want. The market spoke, and so did Apple.
Firewire is dying.
--Toll_Free
lol.
You really need to brush up on what entrapment is.
They where NOT trying to entrap you. Selling you narcotics and then arresting you for owning them is NOT entrapment.
Your story is suspect anyway. Any cop worth (his / her) salts isn't going to be telling you that you are a good boy afterwards for not taking the bait.
Looking up IP space for the police? LOL. Heard of AOL dialup?
This post stinks of bullshit. I'm removing my shoes and walking on. snopes couldn't even stand for this one.
--Toll_Free
Any country that employs "ministers"
IS CORRUPT.
--Toll_Free
Yeah, just ask the kid who hacked Mrs. Palins email account about those "anonymizing" proxies.
Wanna do something illegal? Be prepared for the repurcussions.
--Toll_Free
Funny as shit, watching all the .eu trash and .au trash as they talk shit about the United States.
Remember, you're less a democracy than we are. Wanna shit in my yard, better clean your own up first.
I'm sure we will have the same thing, I just felt the need to point out the obvious... Gets tiring watching the posts here from non us citizens talking about how they would never, nor would their country.
Guess you better move now, aussieboyeeee.
--Toll_Free
Elon has outsted the CEO and taken the reigns, blaming the global credit crunch?
Could it be that people really don't WANT to drive an electric high performance car?
I mean, don't people understand? Nobody REALLY wants an electric car (underdeveloped technology, unproven, etc) when they can go get something from Toyota or Honda that gets excellent mileage, has a track record, isn't going to "go belly up"
because of insert_buzzword_here, etc., etc., etc.
The venture cap people that gave them the money in the first place should be tarred, feathered and shot from the lowest balcony in the first place.
I'm all for innovation, let's at least innovate where people are fucking interested, rather than try to blame a vaporware problem because your company had a product that was too expensive for the masses, was underdeveloped, undermarketed and basically, wasn't worthy of being produced.
Free market economy at it's finest. Unfortunately, the idiot at the company just
doesn't understand supply and demand.
Too many y2k / post y2k startups believe they are supposed to MAKE MONEY off venture cap. WRONG. Your supposed to damn near go broke, have a working 'device', and someone else believes in you enough. This bullshitting your way into millions has got to stop at some point.
--Toll_Free
All my FTP sites are currently encrypted.
Fuck them, fuck the aussies and fuck jew york.
Fuck spicago as well.
(racist comments I can't claim ownership of, but also can't remember what movie they came from)
--Toll_Free
Even so, if what you say is true, having a web search company in control of what I can and can't have on my cell phone is bullshit.
BUT, I'm not stupid enough to go out and purchase every OSS phone that comes down the pike, either... Matter of fact, since I like my features to all work, and be controlled by me, I have an HTC WM phone. Works, great, and I like it. Doesn't run linux, but then, neither does my home PC.
My point was MORE to the fact that OP inferred there was no appstore for WM devices. I was pointing out that he was talking out his anus.
--Toll_Free
Got ya... Agree 100 percent.
I had a @cc.dixie.edu email account for years before other people heard of the internet. Learned to use Pine for my email and Lynx for my web browsing. Man, I remember my first web browser that used LYNX on the UNIX server, but would ZMODEM all images and pages back to me, allowing me to use Win 3.11 WITHOUT winsock to get on the GRAPHICIZED internet. Before that, it was ALL Telemate.
Yeah, FUCK YOU guys who trashed the internet with graphics, btw.
--Toll_Free
Yet another article that's full of shit.
Google, before this article was put online, announced they will keep control of their phone via their appstore.
Please, Slashdot, actually fact check blogs that are submitted as actual facts, stories, or articles. Makes /. feel more and more like digg or yahoo everyday.
--Toll_Free
The internet was a government entity.
How can you possibly state that it was "off the radar"?
I mean, really now.
--Toll_Free
I suggest you learn what a JTAG is.
Just because it's not easy to install your stuff via USB or WiFi or stuffin a memory stick in your PC doesn't mean it's impossible.
If the chips have code on them, chances are, you can pull that code, change that code, and rewrite code. Of course, not ALWAYS, but ....
Parallel ports and resistors are still your friends.... Learn to JTAG.
--Toll_Free
Oh yes, ensuring that the company that produces your phone is the only place to get software is
A. Democratic
B. Fair to other developers
C. The proper OSS way to do things.
Let's not let the name "Google" screw up our thinking here. If this was "Microsoft Android", EVERYONE on /. would be screaming this, that, the other and antitrust.
Just because it's Google / Apple, the crowds will try to find a way to make this look "better" for the crowds.
Saying there is no app store for the WM platform is stupidity. Ever try Handango?
--Toll_Free
The telephone shows up as a "hard drive" in "my computer".
Very simple to install software / mp3s / etc / whatever.
You can also tether the telephone by WiFi or cable to allow it to be an AP.
I use / have the HTC Wizard, so my knowlege is based upon that phone, although I have had others in the past, and they ALL worked that way.
No BS software, no third party sync applications. It's pretty easy when the OS on your computer and your phone are DESIGNED to work together.
--Toll_Free
HTC does let you install pretty much anything on their phones.
Look at the plethora of images for the HTC Wizard on the internet.
The OS doesn't talk to the radio towers, the radio OS does. Most cellular telephones have an operating system for the "user interface", and then two or three other systems that actually make the electronics of the telephone work.
--Toll_Free
LOL.
How many people sat here screaming how shitty the IPhone was, screaming they where waiting for Android and Google.
Sheesh, more of the same.
Thank GOD I had the forethought to actually purchase a working phone, with an OS I paid for that works (literally, 99.9 percent of the time). I can develop stuff for it, nobody can delete it, nobody can control it, etc.
Yup, I run Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 (two different devices). They work, they work well, and I don't have many, if ANY, problems with them.
Of course, installing shitty apps causes battery life to deteriorate. I much prefer having control over my telephone, though, rather than having some socialistic company take control from me.
Linux based telephone, OSS, etc. Thank goodness my good old fashioned Win Mobile phones don't come with these problems. Oh yeah, and I can TETHER my phone to my laptop.
Gosh, MS is so evil. Thank GOD we have Google and Apple to show us the CORRECT way.
--Toll_Free
(sarcasm intentional. Yes, I have two WM 6.x phones. Yes, I like them. Yes, I have used an IPhone. Yes, I think the IPhone is overrated, overhyped, and nothing more than successful marketing (my phone does all the IPhone does, does it just as well, doesn't have the incumbrances, has a cheaper rate plan, etc), but that doesn't mean it doesn't have it's place with (what we in the amateur radio community call) appliance operators. No, I haven't used an Android, nor do I see myself wasting money on something else someone else can control.)
YMMV, IANAL, insert other acronyms here. :)