Which console you should get is a tough decision for some people. The PS2 is already a year old, but it is still the most popular one out there. Don't let people convince you that it is superior on account of the vast amount of games for it, they always count the old PS1 games. If you want to go just by the current number of games, go for the Dreamcast, but if you want to go for the promise of more good games coming in the future, then the PS2 and the XBOX are your options.
The GameCube is cute, and it has four controller slots and its games will never be pirated because they are delightfully proprietary. Do not let the cuteness sway you, it's just not very good. The controller is too small (and lacks the necessary critical mass of buttons), and the graphics are comparable to early PS2 games, and are easily overshadowed by newer games like GTA3, Gran Turismo 3, Metal Gear Solid 2, and Madden 2002.
If you plan to be playing by yourself a lot, then the PlayStation is an excellent option, because of its excellent single player games (GTA3 & MGS2). Now that the developers have grown accustomed to the PS2, the games are getting awesome.
But if you don't want to be a total bitch, you might consider the XBOX. It does have 4 controller ports, and its controllers are large enough for a man to use, but not too big for a small child. This is a good system for multiplayer as well as single player, and even games that you would expect to be single-player (like Halo) can be played with multiple people. The graphics of the XBOX launch games are better than any other launch, and the cream of the XBOX crop just barely squeak past the cream of the PS2 (GTA3 & MGS2).
Now, I have all three systems, and I find myself using the XBOX the most. The controller is the most comfortable, and the games are the best. The GameCube pisses me off, I just let the little kids use that one. The PS2 is best for Madden and Tiger Woods, but also for its best games (GTA3 & MGS2). But the controller is very thumb intensive, which makes it rather difficult to use with a broken thumb as compared to the XBOX (as I have recently learned, damn it).
And if you are looking for a DVD player, the XBOX is on a level with most commercial DVD players (I also have a high end Sony DVD player for the other TV), once you buy the A/V kit for S-video and digital audio. The PS2 is a shitty DVD player, basically DVD is a bonus feature on a through-and-through gaming system, it's not make-or-break. If you want DVD, go XBOX or go for a specific player.
All in all, in my opinion, go XBOX: it's the best one on the market now, and probably for the foreseeable future.
If by "one" you mean the XBOX, then you are either a liar or an idiot. I purchased an XBOX and have not yet turned it off, indeed I have hardly stopped playing it (that includes 18 straight hours of Halo, during which I beat the game), and it has yet to overheat. In fact, the box itself is not uncomfortably cool (although it is noticeably warm to the touch), but the gameplay does not slow down. Only someone with 17 fans on their Athlon would think the XBOX overheats. Perhaps you editors should only post what you know, rather than whatever might make people think that Microsoft looks bad. Your propaganda battle is pointless, because you're preaching to the choir, who largely don't matter.
I wonder how they would survive spin, wash, dry, and iron cycles. or drying in a microwave oven.
Probably about the same as the currency itself would under these circumstances. Have you ever ran a twenty through the washing machine? The damn bill is gone, and it doesn't matter if the computer chip inside can still function, you can't spend the money.
China will never willingly change that much toward the ideals of the west. If even 50% of the Chinese in China are going to get on the web, there'll need to be a war, in which the People revolt against their current government, demanding freedom. It worked for America (though it still took a long time to get onto the internet...;) ).
Now you get into this question: would you rather have complete freedom for another billion people to have the theoretical possibility of getting on the net, or would you rather have peace? I take peace.
I won't care about what they find in a meteor until they can prove that that is where the Egyptians actually came from. Until then, though, I'm much more interested in actual space missions. Those Ancient Egyptians... oh man.
What would happen to the astronauts if their space suit was cracked by a kid with a beefed up receiver on the ground? Now I know the 802.11b standard doesn't broadcast that far, but it is conceivably possible that, say, another country, could build a huge ass wireless receiver, light up an astronaut, and hack his system, and take total control of his 'desktop.'
Maybe they'll put a new show on cable: Remote control spaceman battles! Now on Comedy Central!
Doesn't 28k-60k seem a little low for employees with "remarkable programming skills"?
Only if you grew up in America. At the company where I work there are several people from India with "remarkable programming skills," and they would have been more than happy with 10k. And they will never leave this company because the first offer was 24k. They're the happiest people in the whole company!
Linux, which is based on Unix, may well be hard. Big deal, get a nice GUI. For god's sake, take a page out of Apple's book! They took a powerful and very technical Unix system and slapped a pretty GUI with plenty of distracting visual gimmicks onto it, and for the most part its users absolutely love it.
Linux needs to have a super-easy install process that defaults to an over-glamorous GUI (which can be turned off easily using a command line program, if you like).
The average user really doesn't care about the underlying system, and if you want them to use the OS, make it so they never have to worry about it, but in such a way that you still can in some other way.
Mac OS X 10.1 is a whole new operating system. 10.0 and its brethren are based on Darwin 1.3, and the new 10.1 is based on Darwin 1.4.1, and many other low-level upgrades. Of course the CD boots the system up, it contains a whole new kernel and everything a computer needs. It is a wholly new operating system and Apple made it an update disk because they didn't want their software labeled as a whole new OS, because people would criticize them for being too much like MS. Don't criticize Apple, they're trying to keep themselves in good light, and you're deliberately trying to shame them because you don't know as much about Darwin as you know about kernel32.dll and your windows s'. OS X is the best operating system on the market, as of right now, and that should raise the competition to its level. Bring it.
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that screen you link to is not a green screen of death at all! It's an error message, which you would probably get if you tried to load a game without the disk in. Oh my god! I'm sure we'd all rather they didn't give you an error and let you try to figure it out yourself... like most home users will of course know how to do...
Of course, it wouldn't have this problem of not being able to load, it would just boot linux off the drive!!!
Bear in mind, of course, that the box is designed for games, not linux. Put the damn disk in!
You call this a "Review of the XBox." This is by no means a review of anything, other than the author's opinion about Steve Ballmer and his impact on the abilities of MS developers to develop. He says nothing about how good or bad the XBox games actually are, just that he hasn't heard anything about them and hasn't seen them (some reviewer...), but he does mention (extensively) what the PS2 has, had, and will soon have (hopefully). This is not a review of the XBox, but a shameless ad for the PlayStation. Or, more accurately, an anti-XBox opinion based in no particular facts.
recall, if you will, that at the end of that race between the honda and the toranado, which you say 'tied,' the toranado was hit by a train and was destroyed. are you trying to say that amd, as a company or a processor, will be 'hit by a train,' or in some other way become incapacitated? I think we all hope that doesn't happen.
I have an old laptop. When I say old, I mean really, really old. It's a Pentium-233, with 96 megs of RAM. That's basically the minimum requirements to even run Windows XP, but I still wanted to get rid of Windows 95 which it had been running. So I picked up a free copy of XP from the office and installed it. It installed quickly and easily, and the first bootup was quicker than expected. After turning off the new gui (blue & green taskbar?? Are you kidding?), it ran quite quickly. There is no slowdown compared to Win95, in fact in many situations it seems to be considerably faster than 95 on this machine. Bear in mind, of course, that this is the bare minimum processor and just above the minimum RAM, and there is a considerably performance increase over Windows 95. Amazing.
I think we should all applaud Microsoft. Say what you will about them, but they still manage to release a huge new update to their OS at least once a year (how old are Win2k and Me? And now XP is already out), and every one is better than the last. XP is definitely worth the upgrade, even if you only have the bare minimum.
On a personal note, as I write this I'm running a Big-O test on one of my programs, and the OS dynamically allocates processor time to the program on the fly, and there are no performance hits to the real-time programs. Glancing at the task-manager shows that the profiled program is always taking up 86-95% of the processor, but nothing seems slower than it normally does. Incredible.
they will not die of natural selection, because in order for them to die off in this way, the majority of users will have to go somewhere else. Since you are in the minority, you cannot possibly force them out. Just thought I'd mention it.
it appears that one of the first victims of America's new war may be the privacy of her citizens.
I feel obliged to remind you, sir, that the first victim of America's new war is not, and cannot be, the privacy of our citizens. We don't know exactly who the first victim was, but we know that there were roughly 6000, and their deaths are the incident that sparked this very issue. I would thank you to remember that from now on.
you said your job with the dot-com was FUN. Great. You got to play nerf games in a refurbished factory. Yeah. Unfortunately, the "company" went under. Darn. It's too bad the magical economic fairies didn't keep you afloat. Maybe the company went under because it spent all its money on nerf guns and you spent all your time shooting your coworkers instead of trying to stay ahead of the market trends. The failure of your company came about because you spent too much time having fun and not enough time having a job. That might be one of the many reasons for the dot-bomb fiasco. Too bad, folks.
would they still be whining spawn if it was a linux machine? or would they be glittering, ivory toothed wonder-children with no immaturity problems and genius level IQs?
I hate Microsoft with a passion -- my first thought upon hearing about the WTC attack was, "Those poor people! I sure hope Bill Gates was in there."
I hope no one reads your post. You are a horrible person, who barely deserves to have his own opinion. You use a national tragedy as a focus for your hatred of an individual whom you have never met. He has never done anything to personally offend you or to profit from your pain, and he does not glorify in your unhappiness. Your anger at Bill Gates is unreasonable and unfounded. It is bad enough that people automatically hate Osama bin Laden, because no one who bad-mouths him has ever met him. Bin Laden has killed thousands of people and does glorify in the pain and suffering of others, but he shouldn't be singularly hated by everyone.
I think it's very interesting that Osama hates us and America for the exact same reason that you typical Slashdot stereotypes hate Bill Gates and Microsoft. Success. Don't whine about Microsoft, and don't bitch about Bill Gates. Perhaps you should get back to the code you allegedly write but actually don't and try to beat him, not in the courts, but in the industry.
The Mars Society has already thought of this. You are correct when you assume that you need a ridiculously large vessel to make this feasible. But, the way the Mars Society theorists got around the issue is to separate the craft into two parts separated by a teflon tether, of a sort. The first part of the craft would be larger and contain everything the astronauts would need on the voyage to Mars. The second part would be considerably smaller but nearly equivalent in weight (space for living astronauts is considerable). The two parts would then be spun around each other with initial and occasional blasts from small, dedicated retro rockets.
The problem is, in order to simulate 1G of gravity (equal to that on Earth), you need a certain mixture of size and speed. For safety reasons, the tether can only be so long. So you would think they could just increase the speed. It works on paper, but when put into practice with such a small vessel, spinning at that speed would most likely just induce vertigo in the astronauts and the small size of the craft would allow small variations in the rotation to create noticeable rocking, much like a ship at sea. Luckily, there is an easy solution to this problem. Just simulate the gravity on Mars. Spinning at a reasonable speed, the craft would be able to simulate the necessary 0.38G safely and easily. And then there's less of a problem on both landings (Mars and Earth), because even if you were able to simulate full Earth gravity, would you really want to? When you land on Mars, some considerable amount of time would have to be devoted to getting acclimated to the gravity, during which time the astronauts would not be fully operational and not exactly able to do the required exploration work. With a gravity of 0.38G on the transporting spacecraft, that acclimation can be done over the 6 month travel period and the astronauts can hop out and get their work done immediately after landing.
Getting any kind of refund from Qwest for a lack of service for any amount of time (even a ridiculously extended period) seems to me to be impossible. I use Qwest for my DSL service, and I was out of service for the months between and including November of last year and April of this one. These five months not only lacked broadband service, but they continued to extract a monthly charge despite my numerous angry exchanges with the technical support and the sales staff. I finally paid the fellows at the local station a less-than-friendly visit and made brutally clear to them how I felt about the whole affair. Needless to say, the matter was sorted out quickly and easily in my presence, and since I have enjoyed virtually constant DSL service from the good folks at Qwest (unfortunately, however, I am getting 30% or less of my allotted downstream bandwidth, a very disappointing circumstance considering my ever-increasing home networking situation). Although, the good folks at Qwest are not so reasonable. That is to say they are about as reasonable as they are competent. In spite of the fact that I had exactly zero service for a period of no less than five months, and had continued to be charged the hefty sum of $30 a month throughout, Qwest refused and continues to refuse a refund of any kind, much less the full deserved amount lost of approx. $150, if I have done that math correctly (and I think it is unquestionable that I have).
All in all, I wouldn't expect any money back or the minor infraction caused by Code Red. It barely affected the modem itself, and it took about two seconds to make the modem completely invulnerable to such an attack again, even before consulting the Qwest support page or people.
personally, I think I'm gonna set up my lawn chair and cooler out back right now, don't wanna miss this! Oort cloud and everything, this should be quite a show...
Is it a good idea to download this (even though it's possible and rather easy). Since Conxion is in bed with MS, is it out of the question that they are tracking IP addresses so they have a little bit of evidence of people stealing their code. And- oh my god!- the people stealing the code are all open source supporters! "This is the kind of people who are supporting open source! Criminals!" Seeing as Microsoft is embroiled in all kinds of court cases right now, you all might be playing right into their hands, and don't be too surprised (or mad) if you receive a call from the US Court of something or other because you and a few hundred other individuals are Exhibit J (or something).
The real question is: what do you do to reverse the trend?
Read the damn Communist Manifesto, for God's sake! You sound exactly like Karl chuggafuggin' Marx, with your evil, trident-bearing Few triumphing over the simple, benevolent Whole. The biggest difference between you and ol' Karl is that despite the flaws inherent in your pipe-dream communist fantasies, he had the brains and the balls to put together a set of rules and spark a revolution, whereas you can only whine about the fact that in a CAPITALIST society, people WORK to EARN money.
My recommendation: give yourself a good, solid kick to the groin (or ask someone else to do it), and move to Cuba where you can bask in Communist "glory." And by glory I mean rotting, penniless wasteland of broken dreams and escaping baseball players.
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Which console you should get is a tough decision for some people. The PS2 is already a year old, but it is still the most popular one out there. Don't let people convince you that it is superior on account of the vast amount of games for it, they always count the old PS1 games. If you want to go just by the current number of games, go for the Dreamcast, but if you want to go for the promise of more good games coming in the future, then the PS2 and the XBOX are your options.
The GameCube is cute, and it has four controller slots and its games will never be pirated because they are delightfully proprietary. Do not let the cuteness sway you, it's just not very good. The controller is too small (and lacks the necessary critical mass of buttons), and the graphics are comparable to early PS2 games, and are easily overshadowed by newer games like GTA3, Gran Turismo 3, Metal Gear Solid 2, and Madden 2002.
If you plan to be playing by yourself a lot, then the PlayStation is an excellent option, because of its excellent single player games (GTA3 & MGS2). Now that the developers have grown accustomed to the PS2, the games are getting awesome.
But if you don't want to be a total bitch, you might consider the XBOX. It does have 4 controller ports, and its controllers are large enough for a man to use, but not too big for a small child. This is a good system for multiplayer as well as single player, and even games that you would expect to be single-player (like Halo) can be played with multiple people. The graphics of the XBOX launch games are better than any other launch, and the cream of the XBOX crop just barely squeak past the cream of the PS2 (GTA3 & MGS2).
Now, I have all three systems, and I find myself using the XBOX the most. The controller is the most comfortable, and the games are the best. The GameCube pisses me off, I just let the little kids use that one. The PS2 is best for Madden and Tiger Woods, but also for its best games (GTA3 & MGS2). But the controller is very thumb intensive, which makes it rather difficult to use with a broken thumb as compared to the XBOX (as I have recently learned, damn it).
And if you are looking for a DVD player, the XBOX is on a level with most commercial DVD players (I also have a high end Sony DVD player for the other TV), once you buy the A/V kit for S-video and digital audio. The PS2 is a shitty DVD player, basically DVD is a bonus feature on a through-and-through gaming system, it's not make-or-break. If you want DVD, go XBOX or go for a specific player.
All in all, in my opinion, go XBOX: it's the best one on the market now, and probably for the foreseeable future.
If by "one" you mean the XBOX, then you are either a liar or an idiot. I purchased an XBOX and have not yet turned it off, indeed I have hardly stopped playing it (that includes 18 straight hours of Halo, during which I beat the game), and it has yet to overheat. In fact, the box itself is not uncomfortably cool (although it is noticeably warm to the touch), but the gameplay does not slow down. Only someone with 17 fans on their Athlon would think the XBOX overheats. Perhaps you editors should only post what you know, rather than whatever might make people think that Microsoft looks bad. Your propaganda battle is pointless, because you're preaching to the choir, who largely don't matter.
I wonder how they would survive spin, wash, dry, and iron cycles. or drying in a microwave oven.
Probably about the same as the currency itself would under these circumstances. Have you ever ran a twenty through the washing machine? The damn bill is gone, and it doesn't matter if the computer chip inside can still function, you can't spend the money.
China will never willingly change that much toward the ideals of the west. If even 50% of the Chinese in China are going to get on the web, there'll need to be a war, in which the People revolt against their current government, demanding freedom. It worked for America (though it still took a long time to get onto the internet... ;) ).
Now you get into this question: would you rather have complete freedom for another billion people to have the theoretical possibility of getting on the net, or would you rather have peace? I take peace.
I won't care about what they find in a meteor until they can prove that that is where the Egyptians actually came from. Until then, though, I'm much more interested in actual space missions. Those Ancient Egyptians... oh man.
What would happen to the astronauts if their space suit was cracked by a kid with a beefed up receiver on the ground? Now I know the 802.11b standard doesn't broadcast that far, but it is conceivably possible that, say, another country, could build a huge ass wireless receiver, light up an astronaut, and hack his system, and take total control of his 'desktop.'
Maybe they'll put a new show on cable: Remote control spaceman battles! Now on Comedy Central!
Doesn't 28k-60k seem a little low for employees with "remarkable programming skills"?
Only if you grew up in America. At the company where I work there are several people from India with "remarkable programming skills," and they would have been more than happy with 10k. And they will never leave this company because the first offer was 24k. They're the happiest people in the whole company!
Linux, which is based on Unix, may well be hard. Big deal, get a nice GUI. For god's sake, take a page out of Apple's book! They took a powerful and very technical Unix system and slapped a pretty GUI with plenty of distracting visual gimmicks onto it, and for the most part its users absolutely love it.
Linux needs to have a super-easy install process that defaults to an over-glamorous GUI (which can be turned off easily using a command line program, if you like).
The average user really doesn't care about the underlying system, and if you want them to use the OS, make it so they never have to worry about it, but in such a way that you still can in some other way.
That will be how Linux will succeed, if it does.
Mac OS X 10.1 is a whole new operating system. 10.0 and its brethren are based on Darwin 1.3, and the new 10.1 is based on Darwin 1.4.1, and many other low-level upgrades. Of course the CD boots the system up, it contains a whole new kernel and everything a computer needs. It is a wholly new operating system and Apple made it an update disk because they didn't want their software labeled as a whole new OS, because people would criticize them for being too much like MS. Don't criticize Apple, they're trying to keep themselves in good light, and you're deliberately trying to shame them because you don't know as much about Darwin as you know about kernel32.dll and your windows s'. OS X is the best operating system on the market, as of right now, and that should raise the competition to its level. Bring it.
that screen you link to is not a green screen of death at all! It's an error message, which you would probably get if you tried to load a game without the disk in. Oh my god! I'm sure we'd all rather they didn't give you an error and let you try to figure it out yourself... like most home users will of course know how to do...
Of course, it wouldn't have this problem of not being able to load, it would just boot linux off the drive!!!
Bear in mind, of course, that the box is designed for games, not linux. Put the damn disk in!
You call this a "Review of the XBox." This is by no means a review of anything, other than the author's opinion about Steve Ballmer and his impact on the abilities of MS developers to develop. He says nothing about how good or bad the XBox games actually are, just that he hasn't heard anything about them and hasn't seen them (some reviewer...), but he does mention (extensively) what the PS2 has, had, and will soon have (hopefully). This is not a review of the XBox, but a shameless ad for the PlayStation. Or, more accurately, an anti-XBox opinion based in no particular facts.
recall, if you will, that at the end of that race between the honda and the toranado, which you say 'tied,' the toranado was hit by a train and was destroyed. are you trying to say that amd, as a company or a processor, will be 'hit by a train,' or in some other way become incapacitated? I think we all hope that doesn't happen.
I have an old laptop. When I say old, I mean really, really old. It's a Pentium-233, with 96 megs of RAM. That's basically the minimum requirements to even run Windows XP, but I still wanted to get rid of Windows 95 which it had been running. So I picked up a free copy of XP from the office and installed it. It installed quickly and easily, and the first bootup was quicker than expected. After turning off the new gui (blue & green taskbar?? Are you kidding?), it ran quite quickly. There is no slowdown compared to Win95, in fact in many situations it seems to be considerably faster than 95 on this machine. Bear in mind, of course, that this is the bare minimum processor and just above the minimum RAM, and there is a considerably performance increase over Windows 95. Amazing.
I think we should all applaud Microsoft. Say what you will about them, but they still manage to release a huge new update to their OS at least once a year (how old are Win2k and Me? And now XP is already out), and every one is better than the last. XP is definitely worth the upgrade, even if you only have the bare minimum.
On a personal note, as I write this I'm running a Big-O test on one of my programs, and the OS dynamically allocates processor time to the program on the fly, and there are no performance hits to the real-time programs. Glancing at the task-manager shows that the profiled program is always taking up 86-95% of the processor, but nothing seems slower than it normally does. Incredible.
they will not die of natural selection, because in order for them to die off in this way, the majority of users will have to go somewhere else. Since you are in the minority, you cannot possibly force them out. Just thought I'd mention it.
it appears that one of the first victims of America's new war may be the privacy of her citizens.
I feel obliged to remind you, sir, that the first victim of America's new war is not, and cannot be, the privacy of our citizens. We don't know exactly who the first victim was, but we know that there were roughly 6000, and their deaths are the incident that sparked this very issue. I would thank you to remember that from now on.
you said your job with the dot-com was FUN. Great. You got to play nerf games in a refurbished factory. Yeah. Unfortunately, the "company" went under. Darn. It's too bad the magical economic fairies didn't keep you afloat. Maybe the company went under because it spent all its money on nerf guns and you spent all your time shooting your coworkers instead of trying to stay ahead of the market trends. The failure of your company came about because you spent too much time having fun and not enough time having a job. That might be one of the many reasons for the dot-bomb fiasco. Too bad, folks.
would they still be whining spawn if it was a linux machine? or would they be glittering, ivory toothed wonder-children with no immaturity problems and genius level IQs?
I hate Microsoft with a passion -- my first thought upon hearing about the WTC attack was, "Those poor people! I sure hope Bill Gates was in there."
I hope no one reads your post. You are a horrible person, who barely deserves to have his own opinion. You use a national tragedy as a focus for your hatred of an individual whom you have never met. He has never done anything to personally offend you or to profit from your pain, and he does not glorify in your unhappiness. Your anger at Bill Gates is unreasonable and unfounded. It is bad enough that people automatically hate Osama bin Laden, because no one who bad-mouths him has ever met him. Bin Laden has killed thousands of people and does glorify in the pain and suffering of others, but he shouldn't be singularly hated by everyone.
I think it's very interesting that Osama hates us and America for the exact same reason that you typical Slashdot stereotypes hate Bill Gates and Microsoft. Success. Don't whine about Microsoft, and don't bitch about Bill Gates. Perhaps you should get back to the code you allegedly write but actually don't and try to beat him, not in the courts, but in the industry.
You make me sick.
the link goes to the wrong place. Here is the real site.
The Mars Society has already thought of this. You are correct when you assume that you need a ridiculously large vessel to make this feasible. But, the way the Mars Society theorists got around the issue is to separate the craft into two parts separated by a teflon tether, of a sort. The first part of the craft would be larger and contain everything the astronauts would need on the voyage to Mars. The second part would be considerably smaller but nearly equivalent in weight (space for living astronauts is considerable). The two parts would then be spun around each other with initial and occasional blasts from small, dedicated retro rockets.
The problem is, in order to simulate 1G of gravity (equal to that on Earth), you need a certain mixture of size and speed. For safety reasons, the tether can only be so long. So you would think they could just increase the speed. It works on paper, but when put into practice with such a small vessel, spinning at that speed would most likely just induce vertigo in the astronauts and the small size of the craft would allow small variations in the rotation to create noticeable rocking, much like a ship at sea. Luckily, there is an easy solution to this problem. Just simulate the gravity on Mars. Spinning at a reasonable speed, the craft would be able to simulate the necessary 0.38G safely and easily. And then there's less of a problem on both landings (Mars and Earth), because even if you were able to simulate full Earth gravity, would you really want to? When you land on Mars, some considerable amount of time would have to be devoted to getting acclimated to the gravity, during which time the astronauts would not be fully operational and not exactly able to do the required exploration work. With a gravity of 0.38G on the transporting spacecraft, that acclimation can be done over the 6 month travel period and the astronauts can hop out and get their work done immediately after landing.
Getting any kind of refund from Qwest for a lack of service for any amount of time (even a ridiculously extended period) seems to me to be impossible. I use Qwest for my DSL service, and I was out of service for the months between and including November of last year and April of this one. These five months not only lacked broadband service, but they continued to extract a monthly charge despite my numerous angry exchanges with the technical support and the sales staff. I finally paid the fellows at the local station a less-than-friendly visit and made brutally clear to them how I felt about the whole affair. Needless to say, the matter was sorted out quickly and easily in my presence, and since I have enjoyed virtually constant DSL service from the good folks at Qwest (unfortunately, however, I am getting 30% or less of my allotted downstream bandwidth, a very disappointing circumstance considering my ever-increasing home networking situation). Although, the good folks at Qwest are not so reasonable. That is to say they are about as reasonable as they are competent. In spite of the fact that I had exactly zero service for a period of no less than five months, and had continued to be charged the hefty sum of $30 a month throughout, Qwest refused and continues to refuse a refund of any kind, much less the full deserved amount lost of approx. $150, if I have done that math correctly (and I think it is unquestionable that I have).
All in all, I wouldn't expect any money back or the minor infraction caused by Code Red. It barely affected the modem itself, and it took about two seconds to make the modem completely invulnerable to such an attack again, even before consulting the Qwest support page or people.
is it available in any other formats beyond postscript?
thanks.
personally, I think I'm gonna set up my lawn chair and cooler out back right now, don't wanna miss this! Oort cloud and everything, this should be quite a show...
So what time does it start?
Is it a good idea to download this (even though it's possible and rather easy). Since Conxion is in bed with MS, is it out of the question that they are tracking IP addresses so they have a little bit of evidence of people stealing their code. And- oh my god!- the people stealing the code are all open source supporters! "This is the kind of people who are supporting open source! Criminals!" Seeing as Microsoft is embroiled in all kinds of court cases right now, you all might be playing right into their hands, and don't be too surprised (or mad) if you receive a call from the US Court of something or other because you and a few hundred other individuals are Exhibit J (or something).
The real question is: what do you do to reverse the trend?
Read the damn Communist Manifesto, for God's sake! You sound exactly like Karl chuggafuggin' Marx, with your evil, trident-bearing Few triumphing over the simple, benevolent Whole. The biggest difference between you and ol' Karl is that despite the flaws inherent in your pipe-dream communist fantasies, he had the brains and the balls to put together a set of rules and spark a revolution, whereas you can only whine about the fact that in a CAPITALIST society, people WORK to EARN money.
My recommendation: give yourself a good, solid kick to the groin (or ask someone else to do it), and move to Cuba where you can bask in Communist "glory." And by glory I mean rotting, penniless wasteland of broken dreams and escaping baseball players.