As this is really a re-hash of an old story, I'd be more interested in what happens to these rigs over the long haul. How long does the computer last in oil? How often does he have to change the oil? How does he cool the oil? How long before the mobo and cards are somehow affected by the oil?
Answering *these* questions would make for a much more interesting article than just "Hey, dude, I put my mobo in oil! I'm l33t!"
I don't understand. Is an entire office suite made available free of charge not enough? I can also understand some people's hatred of Java (I'm not wild about it, either...Java was slow in 1996, but why is it still slow today?), but isn't the source code for Java available online, too? Does OOo rely on some sort of Java class that isn't publicly available or that is completely closed-source?
In short, can't companies be allowed to take little steps towards total openness? As long as OOo is still free, and I am still free to view and modify the source code, why should I worry about this?
I am the proponent of an EXCITING NEW SCIENTIFIC THEORY which challenges all basic tenets of computer science. We call our theory the Little Invisible Mathematicians Proposal, or LIMP.
For the last number of decades, computer science was thought to have been popularized by such so-called "inventions" as the "transistor". Our organization, which is growing in (God-initiated) leaps and bounds, proposes that trapped inside your everyday computer are the souls of literally HUNDREDS of tiny, invisible mathematicians (many of whom were fetuses aborted by their murderous, pro-life, heathen ACLU-type mothers) who use their thousands of holy slide-rules to try and figure out the answer when you ask calc.exe what 1337 squared is (it's 1787569, and I figured that out whith a pen and paper so as not to torture any more fetus' souls).
These lost souls are being enslaved by terrible companies like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, who claim to be doing "valid research" into crackpot "computer science" just so you won't find out the horrible truth about the inner workings of your computer. We believe that all these so-called "computers" are nothing more than the work of the left-leaning, limousine-liberal, ACLU-loving Jewish Media Conspiracy which aims to destroy the jobs, souls and minds of countless Christian^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H LIMP supporters who might otherwise be spending their time in the valuable industry of transcribing monkish Bibles by hand.
By constantly creating new software, these so-called "computer scientists", whom for the sake of objectivity we shall refer to as "child-murdering sociopaths", are working thousands of fetal souls tirelessly, until enough have been sucked into Hell from overwork that the "computer" owner must purchase a new "computer".
You won't read about our theory in communist rags like "Scientific American" or "Popular Science" because they didn't accept our manifesto^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H article for publication, claiming it was "inconsistent with scientific principles". Clearly, they are simply so afraid of the Truth of our theory that we feel that our theory has been leant extra validity in its very denial by the Godless socialist magazines who are trying to kill religion. We believe that it should not even be called a "theory" any more--as theories are open to question--but rather should be called a fact, since we say that it is one.
A six- to twelve-month release cycle is what Debian needs. (I've heard comparisons of Sarge taking almost as long as Longhorn, and that's a bad sign.) If you can't get the feature in for the release, drop it for the next. The "it'll be out when it's done" attitude is fine for John Carmack, but not for an operating system. Woody is almost THREE YEARS OLD, for crying out loud!
Other distros like Ubuntu and Fedora have it right: timely releases make users happy and ensure that a distro is kept up-to-date.
I'm no business guy, but Microsoft predicted revenues of $9.7bn and got $9.62bn. They were off by $80M, which--when your company counts its revenue in billions--is practically a rounding error. What's the big freakin' deal?
Go to your average library or bookstore. How many spy novels are there? Thousands. Has the book industry collapsed? Of course not!
Go to Blockbuster and see how many movies are remakes or derivatives of other movies (Remember the "Deep Impact" vs "Armageddon" jokes?). Has the movie industry collapsed? No (although some wish it would).
Dvorak said his kids "showed" him games, but the proof is in the playing. Sure, a lot of games are deriviative of others, but isn't that the case with a lot of industries? I would argue that System Shock 2 and Deus Ex are far cries from Quake II in terms of gameplay; the only things they share is that they are both first-person and they both contain weapons. The stories, items and functionality of the games are drastically different. (Sorry for the old examples; my PC is from 1998.)
Of course, I agree that $50 is really a gratuitous price for games. That was why I loved ESPN NFL 2K5. ($20 for a spectacular game; awww, yeah.) I believe that games would sell twice as well if the prices were permanently lowered by one-third to one-half.
Dvorak makes his living doing what all pundits do: making wild predictions (based upon mistaken, uninformed gut-feeling opinions) that rarely come true. He can write decent columns, but look at his columns from five or ten years ago and you'll see what I mean.
The real problem is not the Windows Installer, I think, but the UN-installer. I'm for easy installation systems just so long as they leave NO TRACES BEHIND when I uninstall, with the possible exception of a settings file in my home directory.
The problem with the Windows Installer system is that an uninstall is not just a reversal of copying files, but that so many registry entries are left behind. Pretty soon, your registry is totally polluted with orphaned values and it's time to nuke-and-pave all over again.
Here's what we need from programs: # Easy installation # Complete removal of the program and all registry values upon un-installation. # If data must be left behind, leave it in a.appname folder, so a user can completely expunge it if she so desires.
It really doesn't matter how much Sony clones the iPod shuffle or iPod; if users are forced to use Sony's ridiculously restrictive MagicGate(TM) DRM and their crappy synchronizing programs, people are going to pass on it. I'm glad that Sony has gotten wise to their inexplicable death-grip to ATRAC3, but they simply must go easier on the DRM. This may be a crazy thought, but maybe, just maybe, the majority of us music fans out here actually own all (or most) of the music we put on our iPods.
Get wise, Sony; loosen up the DRM and make an MP3 player that synchs through a simpler interface.
Doh! I hit Enter and sent this anonymously by accident. Allow me to sum up.
Bill Gates is absolutely right; schools in America are thoroughly broken. Our kids are getting dumber every year. Meddling parents, an advancement-only society, overtesting and reduced arts programming are combining to ensure that our kids learn less and less every year.
It is in the U.S. government's interest (or any government's, really; this isn't just a U.S. problem) to keep people ignorant about what rights they really have. That way, when those rights are eroded, the people will be too ignorant to complain.
Look at Cory Doctorow's recent experience with American Airlines. He was asked by the airline to write down the addresses of the people with whom he was staying, but when he asked what law required this, he was simply told, "It's for your safety," and "It's a federal law," but no one could tell him what law. Since most people are ignorant of the extent of their rights, many people think taking photos of bridges or burning the flag is illegal, or that they have to tell their airline with whom they are staying on their vacations.
In President Bush's America, the government tells you what your rights are, regardless of what the Constitution and its Amendments say.
Is it so hard for OSS coders to just duplicate the feature in things like Bluefish and other web editors?
I love open source as much as anyone else, but Dreamweaver really is the best-of-breed for web designers and developers who want to build good, standards-based sites. Its templating sustem is a boatload easier to use than ttree and Perl. I don't want to have to code, just so I can get coding!
And you know what? If Macromedia came out with Dreamweaver for Linux, I'd buy and use it...at least until the OSS folks duplicated that awesome templating system.
It's sad, really sad, to see stuff like this happen. Service and functionality reductions never help anyone's reputation and certainly don't get them new customers. As powerful as TiVo must be (I don't have one myself), this makes me want to have one even less.
I'm sure all the TiVo owners out there are worried about this DRM being a possible Trojan Horse which could ultimately lead to ever-tighter content control, effectively yoking the Tivo to halt its progress. What subscribers really need is a *binding agreement* from TiVo, stating that they will always allow people to record programs and that this truly is a one-shot deal.
The really wonderful thing about PayPal is its ease of use. Without it, I have to enter all my info into someone's database for every site with its own shopping cart. With PayPal, it just gets popped into Paypal. No fuss, no muss.
We must be wary, however, no matter how good PayPal may be. Monopolies have rarely ever produced good prices and service on long timelines. I was hoping PayDirect would catch on, because as much as I love and rely upon PayPal, a little competition never hurt anyone.
Perhaps I'll be a little more open to listening to what G4 has to say when their channel ups its contrast. I mean, I've got a couple hundred channels on my digital cable and G4TechTV is the ONLY ONE whose contrast is low.
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As this is really a re-hash of an old story, I'd be more interested in what happens to these rigs over the long haul. How long does the computer last in oil? How often does he have to change the oil? How does he cool the oil? How long before the mobo and cards are somehow affected by the oil?
Answering *these* questions would make for a much more interesting article than just "Hey, dude, I put my mobo in oil! I'm l33t!"
I don't understand. Is an entire office suite made available free of charge not enough? I can also understand some people's hatred of Java (I'm not wild about it, either...Java was slow in 1996, but why is it still slow today?), but isn't the source code for Java available online, too? Does OOo rely on some sort of Java class that isn't publicly available or that is completely closed-source?
In short, can't companies be allowed to take little steps towards total openness? As long as OOo is still free, and I am still free to view and modify the source code, why should I worry about this?
GameSpy? Are they still in business?
And here I was thinking that the US govt had revived an unpopular old program...
I am the proponent of an EXCITING NEW SCIENTIFIC THEORY which challenges all basic tenets of computer science. We call our theory the Little Invisible Mathematicians Proposal, or LIMP.
For the last number of decades, computer science was thought to have been popularized by such so-called "inventions" as the "transistor". Our organization, which is growing in (God-initiated) leaps and bounds, proposes that trapped inside your everyday computer are the souls of literally HUNDREDS of tiny, invisible mathematicians (many of whom were fetuses aborted by their murderous, pro-life, heathen ACLU-type mothers) who use their thousands of holy slide-rules to try and figure out the answer when you ask calc.exe what 1337 squared is (it's 1787569, and I figured that out whith a pen and paper so as not to torture any more fetus' souls).
These lost souls are being enslaved by terrible companies like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, who claim to be doing "valid research" into crackpot "computer science" just so you won't find out the horrible truth about the inner workings of your computer. We believe that all these so-called "computers" are nothing more than the work of the left-leaning, limousine-liberal, ACLU-loving Jewish Media Conspiracy which aims to destroy the jobs, souls and minds of countless Christian^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H LIMP supporters who might otherwise be spending their time in the valuable industry of transcribing monkish Bibles by hand.
By constantly creating new software, these so-called "computer scientists", whom for the sake of objectivity we shall refer to as "child-murdering sociopaths", are working thousands of fetal souls tirelessly, until enough have been sucked into Hell from overwork that the "computer" owner must purchase a new "computer".
You won't read about our theory in communist rags like "Scientific American" or "Popular Science" because they didn't accept our manifesto^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H article for publication, claiming it was "inconsistent with scientific principles". Clearly, they are simply so afraid of the Truth of our theory that we feel that our theory has been leant extra validity in its very denial by the Godless socialist magazines who are trying to kill religion. We believe that it should not even be called a "theory" any more--as theories are open to question--but rather should be called a fact, since we say that it is one.
Now, let's see all the BSDs, several Linux distros and Mac OS X do the same thing, and keep the whole thing running until the last one is standing.
Oh, right: Windows has the worst security record of all of them, and will get knocked out first.
Great! Now it's only, what, TWO years behind?
A six- to twelve-month release cycle is what Debian needs. (I've heard comparisons of Sarge taking almost as long as Longhorn, and that's a bad sign.) If you can't get the feature in for the release, drop it for the next. The "it'll be out when it's done" attitude is fine for John Carmack, but not for an operating system. Woody is almost THREE YEARS OLD, for crying out loud!
Other distros like Ubuntu and Fedora have it right: timely releases make users happy and ensure that a distro is kept up-to-date.
I'm no business guy, but Microsoft predicted revenues of $9.7bn and got $9.62bn. They were off by $80M, which--when your company counts its revenue in billions--is practically a rounding error. What's the big freakin' deal?
Go to your average library or bookstore. How many spy novels are there? Thousands. Has the book industry collapsed? Of course not!
Go to Blockbuster and see how many movies are remakes or derivatives of other movies (Remember the "Deep Impact" vs "Armageddon" jokes?). Has the movie industry collapsed? No (although some wish it would).
Dvorak said his kids "showed" him games, but the proof is in the playing. Sure, a lot of games are deriviative of others, but isn't that the case with a lot of industries? I would argue that System Shock 2 and Deus Ex are far cries from Quake II in terms of gameplay; the only things they share is that they are both first-person and they both contain weapons. The stories, items and functionality of the games are drastically different. (Sorry for the old examples; my PC is from 1998.)
Of course, I agree that $50 is really a gratuitous price for games. That was why I loved ESPN NFL 2K5. ($20 for a spectacular game; awww, yeah.) I believe that games would sell twice as well if the prices were permanently lowered by one-third to one-half.
Dvorak makes his living doing what all pundits do: making wild predictions (based upon mistaken, uninformed gut-feeling opinions) that rarely come true. He can write decent columns, but look at his columns from five or ten years ago and you'll see what I mean.
I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, but I remember Airbag posting this, like, TWO YEARS ago.
Wow, files in more than one place? Wow! *nix has only had that capability since, what? 1969?
You must also understand that "21 Jump Street" was an anormous pile of crap. There's that, too.
The real problem is not the Windows Installer, I think, but the UN-installer. I'm for easy installation systems just so long as they leave NO TRACES BEHIND when I uninstall, with the possible exception of a settings file in my home directory.
.appname folder, so a user can completely expunge it if she so desires.
The problem with the Windows Installer system is that an uninstall is not just a reversal of copying files, but that so many registry entries are left behind. Pretty soon, your registry is totally polluted with orphaned values and it's time to nuke-and-pave all over again.
Here's what we need from programs:
# Easy installation
# Complete removal of the program and all registry values upon un-installation.
# If data must be left behind, leave it in a
Hey, great! Of course, it'll only take twenty minutes for OurMedia to get it OUT from a requesting page to the user's browser.
It really doesn't matter how much Sony clones the iPod shuffle or iPod; if users are forced to use Sony's ridiculously restrictive MagicGate(TM) DRM and their crappy synchronizing programs, people are going to pass on it. I'm glad that Sony has gotten wise to their inexplicable death-grip to ATRAC3, but they simply must go easier on the DRM. This may be a crazy thought, but maybe, just maybe, the majority of us music fans out here actually own all (or most) of the music we put on our iPods.
Get wise, Sony; loosen up the DRM and make an MP3 player that synchs through a simpler interface.
Doh! I hit Enter and sent this anonymously by accident. Allow me to sum up.
Bill Gates is absolutely right; schools in America are thoroughly broken. Our kids are getting dumber every year. Meddling parents, an advancement-only society, overtesting and reduced arts programming are combining to ensure that our kids learn less and less every year.
It is in the U.S. government's interest (or any government's, really; this isn't just a U.S. problem) to keep people ignorant about what rights they really have. That way, when those rights are eroded, the people will be too ignorant to complain.
Look at Cory Doctorow's recent experience with American Airlines. He was asked by the airline to write down the addresses of the people with whom he was staying, but when he asked what law required this, he was simply told, "It's for your safety," and "It's a federal law," but no one could tell him what law. Since most people are ignorant of the extent of their rights, many people think taking photos of bridges or burning the flag is illegal, or that they have to tell their airline with whom they are staying on their vacations.
In President Bush's America, the government tells you what your rights are, regardless of what the Constitution and its Amendments say.
Is it so hard for OSS coders to just duplicate the feature in things like Bluefish and other web editors?
I love open source as much as anyone else, but Dreamweaver really is the best-of-breed for web designers and developers who want to build good, standards-based sites. Its templating sustem is a boatload easier to use than ttree and Perl. I don't want to have to code, just so I can get coding!
And you know what? If Macromedia came out with Dreamweaver for Linux, I'd buy and use it...at least until the OSS folks duplicated that awesome templating system.
Netscape used to be Mosiac Communications and their URL used to be:
www.mcom.com
Mercurial Communications developed the new browser and their URL is:
www.mcomi.com
Coincidence? You decide.
I've put up a screenshot, with notes on Flickr. Bash away.
One of my prayers has been answered! Now to pray no one wants it and it goes into Chapter 7...
It's sad, really sad, to see stuff like this happen. Service and functionality reductions never help anyone's reputation and certainly don't get them new customers. As powerful as TiVo must be (I don't have one myself), this makes me want to have one even less.
I'm sure all the TiVo owners out there are worried about this DRM being a possible Trojan Horse which could ultimately lead to ever-tighter content control, effectively yoking the Tivo to halt its progress. What subscribers really need is a *binding agreement* from TiVo, stating that they will always allow people to record programs and that this truly is a one-shot deal.
The really wonderful thing about PayPal is its ease of use. Without it, I have to enter all my info into someone's database for every site with its own shopping cart. With PayPal, it just gets popped into Paypal. No fuss, no muss.
We must be wary, however, no matter how good PayPal may be. Monopolies have rarely ever produced good prices and service on long timelines. I was hoping PayDirect would catch on, because as much as I love and rely upon PayPal, a little competition never hurt anyone.
Perhaps I'll be a little more open to listening to what G4 has to say when their channel ups its contrast. I mean, I've got a couple hundred channels on my digital cable and G4TechTV is the ONLY ONE whose contrast is low.
Let's face it, the time is coming for one desktop to truly assert its dominance. We all knew a great KDE/GNOME fight like this was coming.