i must agree with this one. the movie was very realistic, everything seemed reasonable, and sure if you really are a programmer (which i am not) you can probably find flaws and inconsistencies in a lot of the code and commands used, but a lot of it was realistic. hackers doesn't even seem realistic to non-geeks. this movie makes people ask questions and think. that's what it was meant to do. it attacks microsoft, but not just that. if you really know whats going on with patents and how the patent office just gives patents out to almost anyone, it attacks that as well saying that human knowledge should be shared. you may not have liked the tangents, but for non-geeks, the tangents are needed to give the movie a bit more of a plot besides the computer stuff. it was definitely a predictable movie, but overall, i'd say it was pretty good. it's a good movie to make you think about how things are done and make people who don't know much about open source think about it and learn more about it. if people find something interesting, they don't just stop with the first mention of it, they will look more into it and see what it's all about. this movie will help more people look into the open source world and see what's going on here, and i think (as an advocate of open source) that's what we want, more people to learn about the movement and see what it's really all about. many of you may not agree with me that it was a good movie, but you have to admit, it makes you think.
i will admit that i am not a good strong user, nor do i use it very often, but i use linux once in a while to toy around with. i'm getting better, but i'm a very poor user. i don't know much about it, i don't know much about unix in general. i played with be, i liked that too. i don't program or code or anything, i'm a biology major. i can install linux with no problems and get a system working fine. i have encountered a couple of people who listened to others and decided that they should install linux because it's the only operating system to use. that is incredibly wrong, and i'll probably get flamed for saying this, but windows is a quality end user operating system for people who do nothing more than word processing and play games, and honestly, that's what i mostly use my computer for. windows 98 has not really let me down, i have very few problems with it, except for the customizeability, but for most users, they wouldn't know what to do if they could customize it. anyways, back to my story, this kid i ran into was trying to install linux and imed me using aol as his isp, anyways, he had no idea what to do and when he bought (yes bought) the distribution (it happened to be debian, which was probably a mistake because for someone who had so many very basic questions, something like red hat or mandrake would have been better), he listened to the guy at the computer store who told him to buy debian (i guess red hat didn't work). he doesn't know anyone who uses linux, and only has the help of other aol users. i don't want to sound elitist, but some people just should not try something like linux until they know more about it. i tried to give him all the help i could, but there's only so much you can do over instant message. anyways, that's that. there are a lot of clueless end users trying to use linux, in fact there are more now than ever due to the huge jump in popularity of linux, everyone decided to hop on the old bandwagon and try it even though they have no idea what it is. i, myself, installed it as a learning experience and i will say that i am learning quite a bit. so before you go and flame me, remember that as monopolistic as microsoft is, windows is not as bad as people say, it's a good end user operating system for people who want to write documents and play games. and windows nt not a bad server or even workstation environment. and maybe beos can become similar to nt in that it's gui based, they just need to add multi-user support, and it will be just like nt/2000. anyways, that's my little story, i hope you enjoyed it.
this may be true, and that article makes good points, but overall, it's not really a good system. if you haven't noticed, the candidates are sure to do their strongest campaigning in the largers states. it's really not a good system, maybe back in the days when there were only 13 states it worked, but now that there are 50 states, and many many many million more people in this country. it doesn't make sense to keep the electoral college just so that they campaign everywhere when every other vote in this "democratic" country is won by majority. the electoral college has worked for a long time, but as has happened with a lot of the constitution, times change and we have to adjust for them, we can't be using 200+ year old ways for everything anymore. it doesn't work. i am sure the founding fathers didn't expect this country to grow as much as it has, not to mention the founding fathers were very elitist and wrote the constitution to protect the rights of the upper-class, white, land-owning males and didn't really care about the other people. and no, it does not take a large attention span to understand the purpose of the electoral college, what it takes is knowledge that it was created over 200 years ago and since then, things have changed quite a bit and it doesn't work anymore. and we can easily see its flaws if george bush is elected president. with gore obviously having the national popular vote (which is what should matter if this is truly a democracy) there is no way that 2000 votes should give bush the presidency.
i'd vote for ralph, but there's this little problem. i hate bush more than i like ralph and essentially, a vote for ralph is a vote for bush, so, i'm pro-gore all the way. plus i'm from connecticut and lieberman is a really nice guy and would make an excellent vp. and gore isn't all that bad, he's definitely a family man... so if you are planning on voting nader, please think about what is more important to you... having nader as president or having bush as president...
i personally prefer the microsoft intellimouse to any other mouse i've used, although there was one logitech mouse that felt comfortable, but the curvature of the intellimouse is the most comfortable mouse i've used, the only problem i have now is that the wheel on it is messed up, so i'm looking into getting a new optical intellimouse... it's not wireless, but i just used some duct tape and taped a little slack to the back of my desk so that i have room to move but not tons of extra cable, it's nice...
ok, first of all, metallica has said they are doing this to protect their music as an art, how are they protecting the art if they are looking for money? imho, if they considered their music so much of an art, tehn they would distribute their cd's and music for free, cause true art has no value. that's just my opinion though...
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i must agree with this one. the movie was very realistic, everything seemed reasonable, and sure if you really are a programmer (which i am not) you can probably find flaws and inconsistencies in a lot of the code and commands used, but a lot of it was realistic. hackers doesn't even seem realistic to non-geeks. this movie makes people ask questions and think. that's what it was meant to do. it attacks microsoft, but not just that. if you really know whats going on with patents and how the patent office just gives patents out to almost anyone, it attacks that as well saying that human knowledge should be shared. you may not have liked the tangents, but for non-geeks, the tangents are needed to give the movie a bit more of a plot besides the computer stuff. it was definitely a predictable movie, but overall, i'd say it was pretty good. it's a good movie to make you think about how things are done and make people who don't know much about open source think about it and learn more about it. if people find something interesting, they don't just stop with the first mention of it, they will look more into it and see what it's all about. this movie will help more people look into the open source world and see what's going on here, and i think (as an advocate of open source) that's what we want, more people to learn about the movement and see what it's really all about. many of you may not agree with me that it was a good movie, but you have to admit, it makes you think.
i will admit that i am not a good strong user, nor do i use it very often, but i use linux once in a while to toy around with. i'm getting better, but i'm a very poor user. i don't know much about it, i don't know much about unix in general. i played with be, i liked that too. i don't program or code or anything, i'm a biology major. i can install linux with no problems and get a system working fine. i have encountered a couple of people who listened to others and decided that they should install linux because it's the only operating system to use. that is incredibly wrong, and i'll probably get flamed for saying this, but windows is a quality end user operating system for people who do nothing more than word processing and play games, and honestly, that's what i mostly use my computer for. windows 98 has not really let me down, i have very few problems with it, except for the customizeability, but for most users, they wouldn't know what to do if they could customize it. anyways, back to my story, this kid i ran into was trying to install linux and imed me using aol as his isp, anyways, he had no idea what to do and when he bought (yes bought) the distribution (it happened to be debian, which was probably a mistake because for someone who had so many very basic questions, something like red hat or mandrake would have been better), he listened to the guy at the computer store who told him to buy debian (i guess red hat didn't work). he doesn't know anyone who uses linux, and only has the help of other aol users. i don't want to sound elitist, but some people just should not try something like linux until they know more about it. i tried to give him all the help i could, but there's only so much you can do over instant message. anyways, that's that. there are a lot of clueless end users trying to use linux, in fact there are more now than ever due to the huge jump in popularity of linux, everyone decided to hop on the old bandwagon and try it even though they have no idea what it is. i, myself, installed it as a learning experience and i will say that i am learning quite a bit. so before you go and flame me, remember that as monopolistic as microsoft is, windows is not as bad as people say, it's a good end user operating system for people who want to write documents and play games. and windows nt not a bad server or even workstation environment. and maybe beos can become similar to nt in that it's gui based, they just need to add multi-user support, and it will be just like nt/2000. anyways, that's my little story, i hope you enjoyed it.
this may be true, and that article makes good points, but overall, it's not really a good system. if you haven't noticed, the candidates are sure to do their strongest campaigning in the largers states. it's really not a good system, maybe back in the days when there were only 13 states it worked, but now that there are 50 states, and many many many million more people in this country. it doesn't make sense to keep the electoral college just so that they campaign everywhere when every other vote in this "democratic" country is won by majority. the electoral college has worked for a long time, but as has happened with a lot of the constitution, times change and we have to adjust for them, we can't be using 200+ year old ways for everything anymore. it doesn't work. i am sure the founding fathers didn't expect this country to grow as much as it has, not to mention the founding fathers were very elitist and wrote the constitution to protect the rights of the upper-class, white, land-owning males and didn't really care about the other people. and no, it does not take a large attention span to understand the purpose of the electoral college, what it takes is knowledge that it was created over 200 years ago and since then, things have changed quite a bit and it doesn't work anymore. and we can easily see its flaws if george bush is elected president. with gore obviously having the national popular vote (which is what should matter if this is truly a democracy) there is no way that 2000 votes should give bush the presidency.
i'd vote for ralph, but there's this little problem. i hate bush more than i like ralph and essentially, a vote for ralph is a vote for bush, so, i'm pro-gore all the way. plus i'm from connecticut and lieberman is a really nice guy and would make an excellent vp. and gore isn't all that bad, he's definitely a family man... so if you are planning on voting nader, please think about what is more important to you... having nader as president or having bush as president...
i personally prefer the microsoft intellimouse to any other mouse i've used, although there was one logitech mouse that felt comfortable, but the curvature of the intellimouse is the most comfortable mouse i've used, the only problem i have now is that the wheel on it is messed up, so i'm looking into getting a new optical intellimouse... it's not wireless, but i just used some duct tape and taped a little slack to the back of my desk so that i have room to move but not tons of extra cable, it's nice...
ok, first of all, metallica has said they are doing this to protect their music as an art, how are they protecting the art if they are looking for money? imho, if they considered their music so much of an art, tehn they would distribute their cd's and music for free, cause true art has no value. that's just my opinion though...