I think this is a great idea, in conceptual terms if nothing else. I like the concept of buying discs with OSs already installed; conceptually, it makes them part of the "fabric" of the disc.
Usually when I buy a HDD I think of it as an empty container to put things in. I'd much prefer to think of it as a toolbox with free tools already inside.
I hate this. This is business. This is what business is. This is all it takes. Just fund the study that says what you want. On its face it looks rediculous, but who'll see it on its face? What you're really buying is the references to the study. The argument that "independent studies show..." All you need is that little bit of doubt, and you'll get sales.
We need stricter rules! This is how businesses succeed, and it's awful! I hate the SCO lawsh^Huit, I hate the RIAA lawsh^Hit, I can't stand these false studies and it's just infuriating.
Any reference to this study down the line should be required BY LAW to be labeled as "funded by Microsoft." Then there would be no manufactured doubt, and the study wouldn't happen in the first place, and businesses would have all these extra resources to spend on things like research and development, instead of things like fake false lying lies that confuse people and make it impossible to know what's really real and gee while they're scratching their heads let's just reach over and take the money out of their pockets. Monsters.
Let's get rid of the "D" and just tell businesses like Microsoft, "F U."
- W32/Webster.Worm: Opens a command shell using the RPC VNC OpenHole ActiveX/rootsploit featurebug. Opens all MSWord and Works documents, fixes spelling and grammar, saves without a backup, then writes a polite "echo" line to AUTOEXEC.BAT gently chiding you to learn to read at a fourth grade level.
- W32/PSCheezRemove.AutoTrojanMurderWorm: Attaches to exposed port 5555, downloads GOODTASTE.EXE from a predefined HTTP server, which it then executes. Scans Hard discs for PSD files that employ garish glows, drop shadows, and procedural 2D fire effects, and replaces those layers with a text layer containing the URLs of several reputable visual arts schools.
- Existence/DrawerClean.Intruder: Waits until you leave for work, jimmies your bedroom window, and illegally enters your home. If he/she finds an underwear drawer, he/she folds and neatly stacks the contents of the drawer, quicksorting by color, then leaves. Symantec is reporting a variant, DrawerClean/FourStar, which leaves a mint on your pillow on the 16th of each month.
I'm a linux-friendly windows user, and i have to say, -- including windows 3.1 -- I think that XP is the first inexcusably bad version of windows. I don't want to run linux as my main OS (I happily use *BSD and linux shells on a daily basis, but I've never, EVER been able to get comfortable in X.)... but I'm going to, because I just want an OS that works.
The "find file" function of XP is labyrinthene and anti-intuitive, even months after I've been using the OS. And my favorite is that I can't figure out how to associate winamp with mp3s in ie6. (I clicked the wrong choice the first time, and now I'm fscked. If you think I'm spending more than 15 minutes figuring out how to do it you're crazy). The volume control doesn't work as it should (and.. who chose the green on blue color scheme? Can I have their address and a baseball bat please?), yadda, yadda, yadda... I could bitch all day but the bottom line is: I was always happy with 2000, but XP is massively, bloatedly, titanic-headed-for-the-iceberg awful.
So if KDE rates just below XP, I would suggest we don't pull out the confetti and champagne quite yet.
Pursuent to U. S. Patent #105092830.41b, in which the Patent Owner (hereafter referred to as ME) explicitly describes the process of punching a second party (hereafter referred to as YOU) in the nose really really hard, you may not duplicate any such action once it has been demonstrated. Or we sue you to tears. We mean it. God Bless America.
I swear I'm not trying to make trouble, I'm just wondering: is it really kosher for the founder/figurehead geek of this site to be implicitly advocating "modding" the xbox? IANAL so if anyone has any kind of authoritative answer to that, please chime in.
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Posted by Hemos on 8:42 23 June 2003 from the cut-and-paste dept. Nathan writes "Someone else asked us to redirect traffic to their site. Wetold themof course."
Sco's just pissed because Linux proves that you don't have to be a billion-dollar company to get the job done. That quote in the original suit is so telling:
"Prior to IBM's involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. Unix was the software equivalent of a luxury car."
Could they be more plain about their motives? They make their living selling luxury cars. What they'd really like is a law mandating people either walk, or drive a Rolls Royce.
As a geek who finds the windows API clunky, anti-intuitive, and boring, I can understand why a kid growing up with a windows box would be daunted by computer programming. BASIC was important. I can trace my obsession with computers back to the moment I hit CTRL-BREAK to halt Oregon Trail on a TRS-80. What? I can control this thing? Hey, I can read this language, it makes sense to me, even though I'm only ten. Maybe at an age where I'm still ravenously curious and have no sense of my limitations, I can use this tool to express myself! (...cut to: ten-year-old today, reading the hex code of a windows blue screen.)
All computers should ship with LOGO. Write your congressman.
I find that LISP programmers tend to think more verbally than C++ programmers, who think more numerically. LISPies construct ideas verbally, parenthetically. C++ programmers think in a manner more closely in line with machines: operation, operation, operation. Am I making this up? In my C++/3D engine-type courses, the guys and occasional gals fit the compsci stereotype more closely: dungeons and dragons, late nights playing Quake. In my LISP courses, usually AI/GA/GP, there were a lot of guys/gals taking poetry minors.
I might add that nearly all of the C++ guys were x86ers. Among the prefix notation/parenthetical set of students, there were a lot of school-of-Jobs fanatics and I-*heart*-Woz shirts.
Or was I imagining it? Anyone else find this to be a reasonable thumbrule?
serializer.net. They strike a tone that finds that sweet spot between art, commercialism, and the necessary self-awareness of a frontier market/nascent medium. Also, they've got exclusive comix by two of my favorite artists, Ethan Persoff and Chris Onstad.
> I'd like IMAP, HTTP, and IM, as well as PDA functionality that can sync via bluetooth to a Mac. I was looking at the Sony Ericsons, but this may work as well.
U-S-A! U-S-A!
No blood for IMAP, please.
Friends,/.ers, countrymen. Do we really need four different kinds of icing on our devilsfood? A little first-world modesty would become us.
That being said: will this thing sync with my Aibo's GP32?
Half the posts on/. exhibit such a painful sexual repression. Parsing their three-year-old-child references to sexuality can really be excruciating. "THE GRAPHICS ARE EXQUISITE. THEY DEPICT.. WELL.. YOU-KNOW-WHAT!@!!!!!!"
This isn't a troll. As someone who visits this website daily, it really is frustrating and embarrassing. Let's grow up a bit, if possible.
Nothinginterestingtosay writes: "Something we always talk about and something else we always talk about are combining. It's so ludicrous, it's hilarious." I concur -- It's so funny, it's hard to believe it's true. Wink! Ogg Vorbis.
my post got an offtopic mod? Is this another April Fools' joke? To the mod who marked me down on my test, go rent Doctor Strangelove, watch the first hour, then stop and write me an essay about how goddamned hilarious I am for drawing such a clever parallel between a frontpage April Fool's slashdot post and the brilliant premise of one of the greatest American black comedies ever filmed (thanks in no small part to a certain underappreciated genius of human dialogue).
So few geeks have even the slightest semblance of a sense of humor.
Repeat after me, boys: "rm -f marinasirtis*.jpg". Christ.
Why are film remakes so often considered blasphemous? It's the standard practice on stage: take the greatest stories, and tell them anew, with the voices of new storytellers, and the work of a new generation of actors.
The greatest stories deserve to be re-told. As human beings and as consumers of tales, we need to revise our conception of film as an eternal document.
Hello? Hello, Dimitri? Listen, I can't hear too well, do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? Oh, that's much better. Yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. Clear and plain and coming through fine. I'm coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then as you say we're both coming through fine. Good. Well it's good that you're fine and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine. Now then Dimitri....
If OSX were linux, it would be called linux. They're different. If you still don't understand, re-read my previous sentence more slowly; sound it out if necessary.
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I think this is a great idea, in conceptual terms if nothing else. I like the concept of buying discs with OSs already installed; conceptually, it makes them part of the "fabric" of the disc.
Usually when I buy a HDD I think of it as an empty container to put things in. I'd much prefer to think of it as a toolbox with free tools already inside.
I hate this. This is business. This is what business is. This is all it takes. Just fund the study that says what you want. On its face it looks rediculous, but who'll see it on its face? What you're really buying is the references to the study. The argument that "independent studies show..." All you need is that little bit of doubt, and you'll get sales.
We need stricter rules! This is how businesses succeed, and it's awful! I hate the SCO lawsh^Huit, I hate the RIAA lawsh^Hit, I can't stand these false studies and it's just infuriating.
Any reference to this study down the line should be required BY LAW to be labeled as "funded by Microsoft." Then there would be no manufactured doubt, and the study wouldn't happen in the first place, and businesses would have all these extra resources to spend on things like research and development, instead of things like fake false lying lies that confuse people and make it impossible to know what's really real and gee while they're scratching their heads let's just reach over and take the money out of their pockets. Monsters.
Let's get rid of the "D" and just tell businesses like Microsoft, "F U."
Monsters.
When the bacteria take over, there is gonna be MAJOR payback.
- W32/Webster.Worm: Opens a command shell using the RPC VNC OpenHole ActiveX/rootsploit featurebug. Opens all MSWord and Works documents, fixes spelling and grammar, saves without a backup, then writes a polite "echo" line to AUTOEXEC.BAT gently chiding you to learn to read at a fourth grade level.
- W32/PSCheezRemove.AutoTrojanMurderWorm: Attaches to exposed port 5555, downloads GOODTASTE.EXE from a predefined HTTP server, which it then executes. Scans Hard discs for PSD files that employ garish glows, drop shadows, and procedural 2D fire effects, and replaces those layers with a text layer containing the URLs of several reputable visual arts schools.
- Existence/DrawerClean.Intruder: Waits until you leave for work, jimmies your bedroom window, and illegally enters your home. If he/she finds an underwear drawer, he/she folds and neatly stacks the contents of the drawer, quicksorting by color, then leaves. Symantec is reporting a variant, DrawerClean/FourStar, which leaves a mint on your pillow on the 16th of each month.
I'm a linux-friendly windows user, and i have to say, -- including windows 3.1 -- I think that XP is the first inexcusably bad version of windows. I don't want to run linux as my main OS (I happily use *BSD and linux shells on a daily basis, but I've never, EVER been able to get comfortable in X.)... but I'm going to, because I just want an OS that works.
The "find file" function of XP is labyrinthene and anti-intuitive, even months after I've been using the OS. And my favorite is that I can't figure out how to associate winamp with mp3s in ie6. (I clicked the wrong choice the first time, and now I'm fscked. If you think I'm spending more than 15 minutes figuring out how to do it you're crazy). The volume control doesn't work as it should (and.. who chose the green on blue color scheme? Can I have their address and a baseball bat please?), yadda, yadda, yadda... I could bitch all day but the bottom line is: I was always happy with 2000, but XP is massively, bloatedly, titanic-headed-for-the-iceberg awful.
So if KDE rates just below XP, I would suggest we don't pull out the confetti and champagne quite yet.
Pursuent to U. S. Patent #105092830.41b, in which the Patent Owner (hereafter referred to as ME) explicitly describes the process of punching a second party (hereafter referred to as YOU) in the nose really really hard, you may not duplicate any such action once it has been demonstrated. Or we sue you to tears. We mean it. God Bless America.
Yours in Pugilatory Preamble,
ME.
> One more reason to mod an xbox.
I swear I'm not trying to make trouble, I'm just wondering: is it really kosher for the founder/figurehead geek of this site to be implicitly advocating "modding" the xbox? IANAL so if anyone has any kind of authoritative answer to that, please chime in.
Posted by Hemos on 8:42 23 June 2003
from the cut-and-paste dept.
Nathan writes "Someone else asked us to redirect traffic to their site. We told them of course."
Sco's just pissed because Linux proves that you don't have to be a billion-dollar company to get the job done. That quote in the original suit is so telling:
"Prior to IBM's involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. Unix was the software equivalent of a luxury car."
Could they be more plain about their motives? They make their living selling luxury cars. What they'd really like is a law mandating people either walk, or drive a Rolls Royce.
As a geek who finds the windows API clunky, anti-intuitive, and boring, I can understand why a kid growing up with a windows box would be daunted by computer programming. BASIC was important. I can trace my obsession with computers back to the moment I hit CTRL-BREAK to halt Oregon Trail on a TRS-80. What? I can control this thing? Hey, I can read this language, it makes sense to me, even though I'm only ten. Maybe at an age where I'm still ravenously curious and have no sense of my limitations, I can use this tool to express myself! (...cut to: ten-year-old today, reading the hex code of a windows blue screen.)
All computers should ship with LOGO. Write your congressman.
As a corollary to this question: if you did indeed forsee illegal uses of BitTorrent, would you happily admit to it on the record in a public forum?
And if so: would be interested in some property in the Florida Everglades?
>I mean if you're going to have medieval fantasy characters in your demos, might as well go the whole way and have a proper Princess.
[Elyse Keaton] But what about the Proper Penguin? [/Elyse Keaton]
I find that LISP programmers tend to think more verbally than C++ programmers, who think more numerically. LISPies construct ideas verbally, parenthetically. C++ programmers think in a manner more closely in line with machines: operation, operation, operation. Am I making this up? In my C++/3D engine-type courses, the guys and occasional gals fit the compsci stereotype more closely: dungeons and dragons, late nights playing Quake. In my LISP courses, usually AI/GA/GP, there were a lot of guys/gals taking poetry minors.
I might add that nearly all of the C++ guys were x86ers. Among the prefix notation/parenthetical set of students, there were a lot of school-of-Jobs fanatics and I-*heart*-Woz shirts.
Or was I imagining it? Anyone else find this to be a reasonable thumbrule?
serializer.net. They strike a tone that finds that sweet spot between art, commercialism, and the necessary self-awareness of a frontier market/nascent medium. Also, they've got exclusive comix by two of my favorite artists, Ethan Persoff and Chris Onstad.
> I'd like IMAP, HTTP, and IM, as well as PDA functionality that can sync via bluetooth to a Mac. I was looking at the Sony Ericsons, but this may work as well.
/.ers, countrymen. Do we really need four different kinds of icing on our devilsfood? A little first-world modesty would become us.
U-S-A! U-S-A!
No blood for IMAP, please.
Friends,
That being said: will this thing sync with my Aibo's GP32?
you're going to have to investigate the real thing.
from earth to orbit faster than you can see the next post on slashdot about the space elevator.
Half the posts on /. exhibit such a painful sexual repression. Parsing their three-year-old-child references to sexuality can really be excruciating. "THE GRAPHICS ARE EXQUISITE. THEY DEPICT .. WELL .. YOU-KNOW-WHAT!@!!!!!!"
This isn't a troll. As someone who visits this website daily, it really is frustrating and embarrassing. Let's grow up a bit, if possible.
I say again unto you: "rm -f marinasirtis*.jpg"
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Nothinginterestingtosay writes: "Something we always talk about and something else we always talk about are combining. It's so ludicrous, it's hilarious." I concur -- It's so funny, it's hard to believe it's true. Wink! Ogg Vorbis.
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my post got an offtopic mod? Is this another April Fools' joke? To the mod who marked me down on my test, go rent Doctor Strangelove, watch the first hour, then stop and write me an essay about how goddamned hilarious I am for drawing such a clever parallel between a frontpage April Fool's slashdot post and the brilliant premise of one of the greatest American black comedies ever filmed (thanks in no small part to a certain underappreciated genius of human dialogue).
So few geeks have even the slightest semblance of a sense of humor.
Repeat after me, boys: "rm -f marinasirtis*.jpg". Christ.
Why are film remakes so often considered blasphemous? It's the standard practice on stage: take the greatest stories, and tell them anew, with the voices of new storytellers, and the work of a new generation of actors.
The greatest stories deserve to be re-told. As human beings and as consumers of tales, we need to revise our conception of film as an eternal document.
with team fortress 2
Hello? Hello, Dimitri? Listen, I can't hear too well, do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? Oh, that's much better. Yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. Clear and plain and coming through fine. I'm coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then as you say we're both coming through fine. Good. Well it's good that you're fine and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine. Now then Dimitri. ...
Won't you adopt one? They come from a background of abuse and neglect.
It takes a village to raise an OS.
If OSX were linux, it would be called linux. They're different. If you still don't understand, re-read my previous sentence more slowly; sound it out if necessary.