Yah yah, but the difference is that the article posting would read;
Rich0 writes "Microsoft is announcing that their 'Security Hardening Package' for their Windows 2000 servers released in march of 2002 contained a security whole that allowed remote users to execute arbitrary code. MS has now released a patch for this security whole and is making the hole public knowledge. Ironically, the solution is to remove the package, potentially removing protection from other compromises. There's a CERT advisory, as well as an article posted on Extremetech." Yikes, one would hope there's a forthcoming patch in the works.
And for watching TV on my PC, I think I'd much rather sit in my Lazy Boy, with my feet up, looking at a 35" screen and not having the sound drowned out by CPU fans.
Monitor is 36", couch, and I like the sound of CASE fans. (CPU fan, singular, unless you have one of those massive gladiator coolers, but who in the world still uses those?)
Of course, my first mod will be to introduce an "Enterprise NNC 1701" class starship and sort out those Usenet arguments once and for all.
The starwar's fans will get their collective butts kicked. Though I do admit that a swarm of x-wings could be fairly irritating, photon torpedos travel at warp speeds. Ouch.
Pool of Radiance - I built a DOS box just to play this a few months ago and it's still great! Eye of the Beholder - Oh the glory of near-3D! anyone care to review the Neverwinter mods of EOB and POR? are they any good?
To Amens
Baldur's Gate - very close to my ideal RPG. Diablo II - mindless but terribly fun. I'd like to see a cross between Diablo 2 and Baldur's Gate - make D2 combat a little more strategic with the pause option.
And a WTF are you thinking?
DiabloI/II are ARE NOT RPGS they are ACTION games PERIOD. They have NO role playing in them WHAT SO EVER.
Listen, if a game can be played through by a BOT then it can safetly be classified under twitch/reflex.
The SSI/TSR Gold Box series are the best RPGs ever, period. Followed up by Fallout1/2 and Arcanum.
Baulders Gate was so horrible I deleted it from my HD a few days after installing it. Absolute trash, ick! AD&D my ass. . . . None of the tactics, none of the challenge, bleck.
I remember fighting off entire ARMIES in the Gold Box games.
Oh yah, and Dragon Wars by Interplay, most non-linear game ever.:)
Asimov's robots aren't unrealistic; they're robots as we'd like them to be.
He used the word "Positronic" because, and I quote "Positrons had just been discovered;"
The three laws are no thing more then an interesting logical play thing, though they will likely prove important to the/concepts/ put into actual intelligent robots when humans do get to that technological level of being able to make them, the rules themselves will not suffice and a far more complex system will need to be devised. (I got 0wned in a past/. thread over this point debating that the 3 rules where a-ok.:P )
I'm still trying to conjure up a reason for the karma whore crack:)
The "Asimov made machines yada yada yada" part shows it is an obvious Karma whore. Nothing insightful new or different was said, two of the most prominent and popular science fiction authors had two cliche statements attached to them. zzzz
That's interesting about Issac....which story was that in?
Oh, the one where the computer creates the universe, err, Univac or whatever it is (it is late, been awhile, I have it around here someplace.:) ). The dudes have a portable one that fits in their pockets that they can pull out to access "The central computer".:)
And I giant "Fuck You" to the new age neo-socialist pansies who modded me down!
I swear, the day people with sociology degrees started writing Science Fiction is the day readers of Science Fiction stopped learning things!
Used to be you could pick up a good Science Fiction mag or book and come back a few hours later with some actual real world facts, now days you'll have down pat all the metaphors for racism in our nation, but odds are against you learning any SCIENCE. Lots of fiction though. . ..
Introspective aliens and long soliloquys do not make for Science Fiction. . . .
...and his ability to foresee the future, and tell us about it so that our imaginations flowed with his. And throw in some Asimov for his clarity in things machine.
*cough* Karma whore *cough*
Clark had no greater accuracy in fortelling the future then any other number of Science Fiction authors.
Asimov was good at logic puzzels and expository works, he could explain ANYTHING and make it sound interesting. As far as his robots go they are HIGHLY unrealistic but GREAT logical puzzles.
If you are going to whore, at least lube up first on your facts.
So what you *really* mean is that you don't like Mozilla's shoddy performance and prefer IE, *not* that you "like integration".
No, I mean that I like every file browser window on my computer also being an browser window and being able to use the run dialog box to jump to URLS and having things all in all being conveniently located.
"integration" is a very negative thing from an engineering standpoint -- modularity is almost always better. There's no reason in the least that "integration" implies fast start times, which can be achieved without the mingling of web browser code and the OS that MS did.
Iexplorer and explorer.exe run as separate instances under Windows 2000 and above. In fact in Windows 2000 (though less so in XP, bleck) the explorer.exe can be nuked altogether with no effect on the system as a whole, drop in your own shell, windows doesn't care.
A lot of the HTML rendering functionality in windows is accessed through shared libraries, which can be independently upgraded and swapped with fixed versions, hardly an integrated solution other then that they are used by a wide variety of applications that want to, surprise surprise render HTML without having to load any more crud up then is already occupying system memory.
Last time I looked the record companies weren't funding arms deal to Iraq or manufacturing CDs in third world sweatshops so I can't see any political reason not to buy CDs from corporate whores.
Let me paste a portion of that again. . .
I can't see any political reason not to buy CDs from corporate whores.
oooh ooh ooh *raises hand* I know I know I know!!!
BECAUSE THEY ARE BLEEMING CORPORATE WHORES WITH HUGE POLITICAL INTERESTS / PAYOFFS.
Any company that is going to use MY money to pay of legislators to pass laws to take away MY rights can go fuckTHEMselves.
I have better things to do then pay the wages of the fools working against me, thank you so very much.
You might not like the prices they charge, but I haven't noticed the small time artists and record companies charging any less for their CDs so that pretty much kills that argument too.
Umm, depends. When MP3.com was independently owned, they where/dirt/ cheap. Often times independent artists are paying far more for their own recording studio and such, not to mention they do not have outside endorsements going on. (when was the last time you say your favorite indie band and Pepsi join together?)
If you do not like going through a reseller, you can typically buy the CDs directly from the band for a much cheaper price.
Then again most of the stuff I listen to is Classical/Celtic any ways, so it tends to be dirt cheap.:)
How about simply supporting those whose music you enjoy?
Because sometimes long term objectives are more important then short term pleasures.
Hell, by your reasoning, why boycott ANY product if the product is enjoyed? Sometimes it is more then just the product, but how the product is made or where the money used to purchase the product goes.
What about resolution issues? Font problems anyone? No realtime shadows, no hardware alpha channel, software alpha channel is too slow and buggy to be useful.
And since when can Quartz do real time anything
Well besides suckage.:-P
Weee, look at the OS that needed optimizations just to scroll text! Wow I am soooo impressed. . ..
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Monitor is 36", couch, and I like the sound of CASE fans. (CPU fan, singular, unless you have one of those massive gladiator coolers, but who in the world still uses those?)
The starwar's fans will get their collective butts kicked. Though I do admit that a swarm of x-wings could be fairly irritating, photon torpedos travel at warp speeds. Ouch.
I have, and I refuse to play anything that is based on it.
Bleck.
Pool of Radiance - I built a DOS box just to play this a few months ago and it's still great!
Eye of the Beholder - Oh the glory of near-3D! anyone care to review the Neverwinter mods of EOB and POR? are they any good?
To Amens
Baldur's Gate - very close to my ideal RPG.
Diablo II - mindless but terribly fun. I'd like to see a cross between Diablo 2 and Baldur's Gate - make D2 combat a little more strategic with the pause option.
And a WTF are you thinking?
DiabloI/II are ARE NOT RPGS they are ACTION games PERIOD. They have NO role playing in them WHAT SO EVER.
Listen, if a game can be played through by a BOT then it can safetly be classified under twitch/reflex.
The SSI/TSR Gold Box series are the best RPGs ever, period. Followed up by Fallout1/2 and Arcanum.
Baulders Gate was so horrible I deleted it from my HD a few days after installing it. Absolute trash, ick! AD&D my ass. . . . None of the tactics, none of the challenge, bleck.
I remember fighting off entire ARMIES in the Gold Box games.
Oh yah, and Dragon Wars by Interplay, most non-linear game ever.
Sounds like your average Joe Blow user will not have a reason to be hesitent to accept any more "DRM enabled" technologies into his life.
I have yet to have one Windows OS handle a mobo switch. I've tried it on both Win98 and Win2000.
My Windows 98 box is on its third motherboard. . . .
He used the word "Positronic" because, and I quote "Positrons had just been discovered;"
The three laws are no thing more then an interesting logical play thing, though they will likely prove important to the
In that story, Hari Seldon used a hand-held device to do calculations, years before calculators were invented.
Thank you, the last question.
In one stage of The Last Question the guy accesses the big central computer using a portable handheld device.
Hmm, I am surprised I missed the calculator reference in Foundation, calculators have to be one of the least predicted devices in Science Fiction. o_O
The "Asimov made machines yada yada yada" part shows it is an obvious Karma whore. Nothing insightful new or different was said, two of the most prominent and popular science fiction authors had two cliche statements attached to them. zzzz
That's interesting about Issac....which story was that in?
Oh, the one where the computer creates the universe, err, Univac or whatever it is (it is late, been awhile, I have it around here someplace.
And I giant "Fuck You" to the new age neo-socialist pansies who modded me down!
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I swear, the day people with sociology degrees started writing Science Fiction is the day readers of Science Fiction stopped learning things!
Used to be you could pick up a good Science Fiction mag or book and come back a few hours later with some actual real world facts, now days you'll have down pat all the metaphors for racism in our nation, but odds are against you learning any SCIENCE. Lots of fiction though. . .
Introspective aliens and long soliloquys do not make for Science Fiction. . . .
Ok not THAT early. :P
Now as I said, he had an accuracy ABOUT AS GOOD AS ANY OTHER MAJOR SCIENCE FICTION WRITTER.
:-P
He also (IIRC) owned patents on the darn things, heh.
If you want to get picky, Asimov forsaw hand held networked PDAs.
Those would be the early pulps, a pain in the arse to find for sale though. . . .
*cough* Karma whore *cough*
Clark had no greater accuracy in fortelling the future then any other number of Science Fiction authors.
Asimov was good at logic puzzels and expository works, he could explain ANYTHING and make it sound interesting. As far as his robots go they are HIGHLY unrealistic but GREAT logical puzzles.
If you are going to whore, at least lube up first on your facts.
Hard Science Fiction Mofos;
New Wave Sucks, Golden Age forever!
Submitted what Mr Language Genius?
Bleck.
Uh, who in the world buys deer, from what I have gathered (Grandfather hunted) deer meat is tough as hell and a bitch to cook.
No, I mean that I like every file browser window on my computer also being an browser window and being able to use the run dialog box to jump to URLS and having things all in all being conveniently located.
Iexplorer and explorer.exe run as separate instances under Windows 2000 and above. In fact in Windows 2000 (though less so in XP, bleck) the explorer.exe can be nuked altogether with no effect on the system as a whole, drop in your own shell, windows doesn't care.
A lot of the HTML rendering functionality in windows is accessed through shared libraries, which can be independently upgraded and swapped with fixed versions, hardly an integrated solution other then that they are used by a wide variety of applications that want to, surprise surprise render HTML without having to load any more crud up then is already occupying system memory.
I am sick and tired of hearing people say that liek it is a negative!
Listen, it is integrated because the users want it that way.
It is QUICK it is FAST and it is EFFICENT. I can open up to google from ANYWHERES in my OS in UNDER 2 seconds, I like it that way.
LOL! hilarious troll, even if you just uncreativly exchanged the regular positionings of MS and Mozilla in your sentences. :P
Let me paste a portion of that again. . .
oooh ooh ooh *raises hand* I know I know I know!!!
BECAUSE THEY ARE BLEEMING CORPORATE WHORES WITH HUGE POLITICAL INTERESTS / PAYOFFS.
Any company that is going to use MY money to pay of legislators to pass laws to take away MY rights can go fuck THEMselves.
I have better things to do then pay the wages of the fools working against me, thank you so very much.
You might not like the prices they charge, but I haven't noticed the small time artists and record companies charging any less for their CDs so that pretty much kills that argument too.
Umm, depends. When MP3.com was independently owned, they where
If you do not like going through a reseller, you can typically buy the CDs directly from the band for a much cheaper price.
Then again most of the stuff I listen to is Classical/Celtic any ways, so it tends to be dirt cheap.
*looks ups*
And that is a disadvantage why now?
Because sometimes long term objectives are more important then short term pleasures.
Hell, by your reasoning, why boycott ANY product if the product is enjoyed? Sometimes it is more then just the product, but how the product is made or where the money used to purchase the product goes.
What about resolution issues? Font problems anyone?
No realtime shadows, no hardware alpha channel, software alpha channel is too slow and buggy to be useful.
And since when can Quartz do real time anything
Well besides suckage.
Weee, look at the OS that needed optimizations just to scroll text! Wow I am soooo impressed. . .
bleck.