Original films like Jason X? Are you insane? Did somebody beat the shit of out you this morning and you just have yet to wake from the daze? My god man - its a STUPID ACTION HORROR FLICK which should have been left to DIE MANY YEARS AGO.
ROFLMAO! I still can't believe you mentioned Jason X>!?!?!?! Hahahaha. That movie is the biggest piece of trash to hit movie screen since the its prequel.
I think it is you who needs to reevaluate their views and opinions.
Well it seems that despite all of the rumors, predictions, and assertations that Microsoft would become the victim of criminal liabilities - that Oracle has appeared to reach this milestone first.
Larry Ellison, Founder and CEO of Oracle Corp was quoted as saying, "Oracle has raised the bar once again. We have heightened competition to a point where Microsoft can no longer compete." Summarily William Gates, Founder and CEO of Microsoft Corp was quoted as responding, "It looks like Ellison is going to get a headstart on the excon IT market. Looks like he finally beat me in something."
Yes the above was meant to be humorous. Yes its a joke. Yes I find it extremely amusing that for all of their proproganda on the subject, Oracle may be subject to stiffer criminal liabilities than MS ever has been as a result of this scandal.
Who knows how many state or federal officials they have attempted to bribe? This could really blow up in their faces.... well at least we still have IBM DB/2 to compete against the monster that is Microsoft.
Hey Taco - FFX will be coming out for the PS2. In fact their is a PS2 version already available in Japan. The PS2 is here to stay for awhile. I would estimate that it will be here for at least another 3 years. As for the online gaming - guess what? The XBOX already has that capability now and the PS2 still doesnt have it. Thats not to say that the PS2 wont have it (which it obviously will since FFX is coming out for it) but they are a bit late to the game, dontcha think?
Also please refrain from drooling so much over FFX. Its just a game. Strike that. Its just a game thats going to suck the majority of your life away because it will require an even larger time investment than the single player FF games.
I would your wife soon to be approves of you pissing away oh so much time in such a wasteful fashion - otherwise you may be having a few problems:-)
As I recall Jim Henson is dead. Its quite the shame. Also I was under the impression that his company "Jim Henson Productions" had been sold off to the highest bidder. Do they even exist anymore?
How many people does this actually affect? I realize that their are probably some Alpha and Sparc owners on this board and in the community but how many of those people are actually running Debian? Are they really comtemplating dragging out their already elongated release schedule because of two platforms that the vast majority of Debian Users dont care about?
I dont particulary care for Debian myself - but this all seems rather stupid. (1) Because they shouldn't have waited until the last minute to break the news (2) Because its a rather frivalous reason. Alot of other distro release x86 first and Sparc/Whatever later on. Why can't Debian do that?
Oh well I'm sure they will get it worked out in due time - until then I'm sure more and more people will begin to think of Debian as a dead distribution rather than as an active one. They really don't have anybody to blame but themselves I mean they are the only ones shipping a distro that still uses the 2.2 kernel.
Yes I am "rather" young in an absolute sense:-) It just boggles the mind that a country which was primarily colonized by people looking to escape from religious oppression have begun to oppress (maybe begun isnt the right word) their own people religiously. Ahhhh will wonders never cease?
What I want to know is - how is it legal to restrict my choice to buy alcohol on Sundays because of some ass backward religion that the inbred locals take for granted?
Seperation of Church and State anybody? I personally think the reason they make it illegal is that these churchies know they haven't got the brass to actually resist the tempation to do so.
What better way to preserve the integrity of your spiritual conscience than by making the life of everybody more miserable..... sigh.
I will attest to the fact that Senator Hollings is one of the dumbest men alive. In fact he ranks only second when it comes to idiocy to the great Senator Strom Thurmond, who as you may recall was also elected by the ultra idiotic voters in South Carolina.
I mean watching that guy at a speech or an event (which isn't very often either) reminds me so much of Weekend at Bernies that its just kinda sad.
But when you guys talk about Hollings keep in mind that he lives in a state where the congress wastes their time whining about taking down or putting up some stupid confederate flag. He lives in a state where there are towns in which it is ILLEGAL to buy alcohol on a Sunday. He lives in a state that outlawed Video Poker but legalized a lottery because they wanted to get their cut.
So no matter what comes out of that mans mouth - I don't think it matters much. The other bill we spent so much time whining about didnt get very far so why should this one be any different?
You gotta know the man before you know the problem:-)
Integrating IE really isn't such a bad thing - it works very well. I suggest you try it sometime. And if you have and still don't like it - well to each his own.
Afterall Konquerer is pretty good to - and its pretty tightly integrated into KDE isn't it? Have fun.
But you are forgetting something - I can install any alternative to MS' stuff on my machine. So what exactly is the problem? On my XP box now I have Mozilla.99, Netscrape 6.2, and IE 6.0. I've also got an alternative MP3 player (WinAMP) and an alternative CD Ripper. Not to mention the fact that I haven't got a single Microsoft branded game installed on my machine - yet all of my other 3rd party games appear to work fine. I can even install OpenOffice or StarOffice if I would like without even having to uninstall OfficeXP no less!
I can even install cygwin if I want to so that I pretend that my Windows box is a wannabe *nix with vi installed. God forbid I do that though because all it takes is a flip of a switch and I'm back to linux:-)
Oh yeah one thing: What clock??!?!?!? They counted the votes in Florida (again and again and again...) and according to the electorial system Gore lost. While it may not be right - it was fair according to rules that have been in place for over 200 years.
If you want to deal with the problem - lobby to change the laws involved instead of making it your sig on some site nobody but geeks who probably love their computers more than most people visit.
Yes but your example using OSX is flawed by virtue of the fact that OSX has some of slowest browsing on the face of the planet. If you'd like I'll provide a valid link on this subject.
As far as the HTML help files are concerned - I'd be interested in knowing whether or not you could view Apples help in a non Apple "browser". If you were a bit more knowledgable about your OS you would know that Apple has embedded their own HTML rendering component for the help system.
Its also funny that you mention selling IE for $5 when for $15 dollars I can purchase an MS addon to Media Player that allows me to rip music directly into MP3 format. This of course diminishes the value of your next point.
I do agree windows could be modular though I'm truly at a loss to see who it would benefit. Keep in mind that most consumers have next to nothing in common with most of the people here and they don't particulary care to install five different browsers, twenty text editors, and fifteen window managers. We may enjoy it - they probably won't.
I suppose this has something to do with the fact that once you become accustomed to reading MAN pages everything just becomes garbled meaningless crap.
Though I would have to agree with you on this one. Do you realize what makes this all the more amusing though? I just finished reading Linus' book (which was very good by the way) in which he states that "platform advocacy is for losers" or something to that effect.
Maybe Windows 95/98/ME but your comment is really irrelevant when applied to current Microsoft Operating Systems. Current MS OSes use whats none as a "virtual" machine to execute legacy DOS applications.
Bzzzzzttttt! Wrong Answer. Tell him what he hasn't won Bob.
We all know it can be done. Have you seen embedded XP lately? The contention here is whether or not the Government is within its rights to force Microsoft to "strip down" their product. I don't believe that this is the case - though the courts are the only ones with opinions that matter in this particular instance.
Either way why would you ship an Operating system without a web browser? Sure you could ship Windows with Netscape but isn't competition a good thing? The only reason Netscape 6 is somewhat of a decent product is because IE pushed it into overddrive. The fact that IE is shipped with Windows is no more a point of contention nowadays than X being shipped with any Linux distro. (Okay maybe not all of them... but you get the point)
Anyway I'll probably get modded down since I've dared make a comment that doesn't equate Microsoft to the Antichrist. Oh well sue me. I've still got my Linux box and my Windows XP box running side by side day by day. They seem to get along well enough, so why can't we?
This is moronic. Anybody who believes that Mozilla will be treated differently because they went from version.99 to 1.0 is an absolute retard who is in need of serious help.
As far as this so-called revival is concerned, since when did Moz become a religion? My god its just software people. Get some priorities.
Yeah but Microsoft has been saying this for months - how this is news? I seriously am beginning to believe that slashdot has a quota to fill when it comes to anti-Microsoft stories. Just look at the posting history of the editors....
We understand that you do not like Microsoft or any of their products. You do not have to keep filling the daily "Anti Microsoft Story" quota to prove this to us.
Stop embrassasing yourselves and start reporting on ideas and events that would actually be considered news by the most of us. We all know Windows in modular and Microsoft is full of it (just look at embedded Windows XP) - but it would be a support nightmare.
Compare your box to a P4 running either DDR or Rambus and then your observations might mean something. Everybody knows the P4/PC133 combination sucks the sweat off a dead mans balls.
We have yet to find a single file from any of our customers that requires a newer version to open, which tells me that Office97 is the defacto standard for file exchange, and will be for a VERY long time.
Whats it like to be brain dead? Do you think this has something to do with the fact that THE FILE FORMATS HAVENT CHANGED SINCE OFFICE 97?!?!?!?!? Maybe thats why you dont need a newer version of office to open any of the files created in a newer version.
Oh but dont let the truth stop you from making an ass of yourself...
Hate to troll here but his grammar is severely lacking on all fronts. Perhaps you should read his post a bit closer next time before sticking your foot in your mouth?
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Original films like Jason X? Are you insane? Did somebody beat the shit of out you this morning and you just have yet to wake from the daze? My god man - its a STUPID ACTION HORROR FLICK which should have been left to DIE MANY YEARS AGO.
ROFLMAO! I still can't believe you mentioned Jason X>!?!?!?! Hahahaha. That movie is the biggest piece of trash to hit movie screen since the its prequel.
I think it is you who needs to reevaluate their views and opinions.
J
Well it seems that despite all of the rumors, predictions, and assertations that Microsoft would become the victim of criminal liabilities - that Oracle has appeared to reach this milestone first.
Larry Ellison, Founder and CEO of Oracle Corp was quoted as saying, "Oracle has raised the bar once again. We have heightened competition to a point where Microsoft can no longer compete." Summarily William Gates, Founder and CEO of Microsoft Corp was quoted as responding, "It looks like Ellison is going to get a headstart on the excon IT market. Looks like he finally beat me in something."
Yes the above was meant to be humorous. Yes its a joke. Yes I find it extremely amusing that for all of their proproganda on the subject, Oracle may be subject to stiffer criminal liabilities than MS ever has been as a result of this scandal.
Who knows how many state or federal officials they have attempted to bribe? This could really blow up in their faces.... well at least we still have IBM DB/2 to compete against the monster that is Microsoft.
Good Work Ellison...
J
Hey Taco - FFX will be coming out for the PS2. In fact their is a PS2 version already available in Japan. The PS2 is here to stay for awhile. I would estimate that it will be here for at least another 3 years. As for the online gaming - guess what? The XBOX already has that capability now and the PS2 still doesnt have it. Thats not to say that the PS2 wont have it (which it obviously will since FFX is coming out for it) but they are a bit late to the game, dontcha think?
:-)
Also please refrain from drooling so much over FFX. Its just a game. Strike that. Its just a game thats going to suck the majority of your life away because it will require an even larger time investment than the single player FF games.
I would your wife soon to be approves of you pissing away oh so much time in such a wasteful fashion - otherwise you may be having a few problems
Cheers,
J
As I recall Jim Henson is dead. Its quite the shame. Also I was under the impression that his company "Jim Henson Productions" had been sold off to the highest bidder. Do they even exist anymore?
J
How many people does this actually affect? I realize that their are probably some Alpha and Sparc owners on this board and in the community but how many of those people are actually running Debian? Are they really comtemplating dragging out their already elongated release schedule because of two platforms that the vast majority of Debian Users dont care about?
I dont particulary care for Debian myself - but this all seems rather stupid. (1) Because they shouldn't have waited until the last minute to break the news (2) Because its a rather frivalous reason. Alot of other distro release x86 first and Sparc/Whatever later on. Why can't Debian do that?
Oh well I'm sure they will get it worked out in due time - until then I'm sure more and more people will begin to think of Debian as a dead distribution rather than as an active one. They really don't have anybody to blame but themselves I mean they are the only ones shipping a distro that still uses the 2.2 kernel.
J
I wish I had some mod points - because your skit was funny as hell. Its too bad most of the people here wont get the Pulp Fiction reference....
J
Lets not forget the fact that Apple gets its butt kicked on a number of real world benchmarks... come on back to reality k?
J
Yes I am "rather" young in an absolute sense :-) It just boggles the mind that a country which was primarily colonized by people looking to escape from religious oppression have begun to oppress (maybe begun isnt the right word) their own people religiously. Ahhhh will wonders never cease?
J
What I want to know is - how is it legal to restrict my choice to buy alcohol on Sundays because of some ass backward religion that the inbred locals take for granted?
Seperation of Church and State anybody? I personally think the reason they make it illegal is that these churchies know they haven't got the brass to actually resist the tempation to do so.
What better way to preserve the integrity of your spiritual conscience than by making the life of everybody more miserable..... sigh.
J
I will attest to the fact that Senator Hollings is one of the dumbest men alive. In fact he ranks only second when it comes to idiocy to the great Senator Strom Thurmond, who as you may recall was also elected by the ultra idiotic voters in South Carolina.
:-)
I mean watching that guy at a speech or an event (which isn't very often either) reminds me so much of Weekend at Bernies that its just kinda sad.
But when you guys talk about Hollings keep in mind that he lives in a state where the congress wastes their time whining about taking down or putting up some stupid confederate flag. He lives in a state where there are towns in which it is ILLEGAL to buy alcohol on a Sunday. He lives in a state that outlawed Video Poker but legalized a lottery because they wanted to get their cut.
So no matter what comes out of that mans mouth - I don't think it matters much. The other bill we spent so much time whining about didnt get very far so why should this one be any different?
You gotta know the man before you know the problem
J
Integrating IE really isn't such a bad thing - it works very well. I suggest you try it sometime. And if you have and still don't like it - well to each his own.
Afterall Konquerer is pretty good to - and its pretty tightly integrated into KDE isn't it? Have fun.
J
But you are forgetting something - I can install any alternative to MS' stuff on my machine. So what exactly is the problem? On my XP box now I have Mozilla .99, Netscrape 6.2, and IE 6.0. I've also got an alternative MP3 player (WinAMP) and an alternative CD Ripper. Not to mention the fact that I haven't got a single Microsoft branded game installed on my machine - yet all of my other 3rd party games appear to work fine. I can even install OpenOffice or StarOffice if I would like without even having to uninstall OfficeXP no less!
:-)
I can even install cygwin if I want to so that I pretend that my Windows box is a wannabe *nix with vi installed. God forbid I do that though because all it takes is a flip of a switch and I'm back to linux
J
Oh yeah one thing: What clock??!?!?!? They counted the votes in Florida (again and again and again...) and according to the electorial system Gore lost. While it may not be right - it was fair according to rules that have been in place for over 200 years.
If you want to deal with the problem - lobby to change the laws involved instead of making it your sig on some site nobody but geeks who probably love their computers more than most people visit.
J
Yes but your example using OSX is flawed by virtue of the fact that OSX has some of slowest browsing on the face of the planet. If you'd like I'll provide a valid link on this subject.
As far as the HTML help files are concerned - I'd be interested in knowing whether or not you could view Apples help in a non Apple "browser". If you were a bit more knowledgable about your OS you would know that Apple has embedded their own HTML rendering component for the help system.
Its also funny that you mention selling IE for $5 when for $15 dollars I can purchase an MS addon to Media Player that allows me to rip music directly into MP3 format. This of course diminishes the value of your next point.
I do agree windows could be modular though I'm truly at a loss to see who it would benefit. Keep in mind that most consumers have next to nothing in common with most of the people here and they don't particulary care to install five different browsers, twenty text editors, and fifteen window managers. We may enjoy it - they probably won't.
J
I suppose this has something to do with the fact that once you become accustomed to reading MAN pages everything just becomes garbled meaningless crap.
Though I would have to agree with you on this one. Do you realize what makes this all the more amusing though? I just finished reading Linus' book (which was very good by the way) in which he states that "platform advocacy is for losers" or something to that effect.
Isn't the irony just killing you?
J
Maybe Windows 95/98/ME but your comment is really irrelevant when applied to current Microsoft Operating Systems. Current MS OSes use whats none as a "virtual" machine to execute legacy DOS applications.
Bzzzzzttttt! Wrong Answer. Tell him what he hasn't won Bob.
J
We all know it can be done. Have you seen embedded XP lately? The contention here is whether or not the Government is within its rights to force Microsoft to "strip down" their product. I don't believe that this is the case - though the courts are the only ones with opinions that matter in this particular instance.
Either way why would you ship an Operating system without a web browser? Sure you could ship Windows with Netscape but isn't competition a good thing? The only reason Netscape 6 is somewhat of a decent product is because IE pushed it into overddrive. The fact that IE is shipped with Windows is no more a point of contention nowadays than X being shipped with any Linux distro. (Okay maybe not all of them... but you get the point)
Anyway I'll probably get modded down since I've dared make a comment that doesn't equate Microsoft to the Antichrist. Oh well sue me. I've still got my Linux box and my Windows XP box running side by side day by day. They seem to get along well enough, so why can't we?
J
You do realize that if EULA's are declared illegal the GPL is effectively illegal also since its really nothing more than an overrated EULA?
J
This is moronic. Anybody who believes that Mozilla will be treated differently because they went from version .99 to 1.0 is an absolute retard who is in need of serious help.
As far as this so-called revival is concerned, since when did Moz become a religion? My god its just software people. Get some priorities.
J
Yeah but Microsoft has been saying this for months - how this is news? I seriously am beginning to believe that slashdot has a quota to fill when it comes to anti-Microsoft stories. Just look at the posting history of the editors....
J
Guys,
We understand that you do not like Microsoft or any of their products. You do not have to keep filling the daily "Anti Microsoft Story" quota to prove this to us.
Stop embrassasing yourselves and start reporting on ideas and events that would actually be considered news by the most of us. We all know Windows in modular and Microsoft is full of it (just look at embedded Windows XP) - but it would be a support nightmare.
Thanks,
J
Compare your box to a P4 running either DDR or Rambus and then your observations might mean something. Everybody knows the P4/PC133 combination sucks the sweat off a dead mans balls.
J
It sounds like they got dumped because you are a pompous asshole. I could be wrong but I doubt it.
J
Whats it like to be brain dead? Do you think this has something to do with the fact that THE FILE FORMATS HAVENT CHANGED SINCE OFFICE 97?!?!?!?!? Maybe thats why you dont need a newer version of office to open any of the files created in a newer version.
Oh but dont let the truth stop you from making an ass of yourself...
J
Hate to troll here but his grammar is severely lacking on all fronts. Perhaps you should read his post a bit closer next time before sticking your foot in your mouth?
J