To every one of you that swallowed the mini-RC hype and bought one for yourself, a friend, or kids, please don't whine when you get spam for these latest crazes now that spam has been officially validated as a way for companies to sell their wares:
1) A new money making scheme! Send me your wallet and I'll show you how one can do it.
2) Big busted babes go sucky sucky!
3) President Mgabe Mambo needs you to send money to save his country.
4) HaHaHa
5) Bigger longer faster...not the history of rocketry, but something else going off.
6) Viagra for all!!! Now with more ginseng and ginko. WWW.Amateur-Pharmaceuticals-Inc.Com
7) Stock ticker ABCXYZ is hott! Low trading fees.
8) Mortgage your life away before rates go up!
9) Get in on the ground floor...amateur elevator cams.
10) Thought you'd like to see this...virus wipe out your hard drive.
11) Can't handle your credit cards? Why cut them up when you can saddle yourself with another loan? Operators standing by to collect bank account numbers.
At this time, Linux does not push hardware innovations that Windows users want Microsoft to follow. It also does not have any software that anyone is craving for, especially now with Cygwin and many open source packages compilable for Win platforms. There are no Linux games that Windows users are slaving after, nor is there any Tux-box lining people up at stores for Christmas. There are no killer embedded-Linux devices being sold that are not already being sold as embedded Windows-2000/XP devices. Linux PDAs are not doing anything different than Palm or PalmPCs.
Linux and all other platforms are still playing catch-up to *everything* Microsoft. Once Linux creates its own blazing trail for Microsoft and others to follow after, only then will the real competition from Linux have begun. When will the pengiun teach a new trick?
Most including the old Hotbot were too slow. This seems to be much zippier under the Inktomi engine, but we'll have to see how it compares to Google. Cool thing is that it will use the last search engine you clicked so if you like the Google engine better than the Inktomi engine, then that's what it will use.
"all we have to do is continue to develop software in the same way, and the users will make the switch all by themselves'."
That sounds familiar. I'm betting that's Apple's thinking. I'm afraid it's not getting them any further. I think that if Linux users believe that Office clones are all they need to overcome Microsoft, they are vastly deluded. A world of home-grown dll-dependent apps and simple VB programming is out there that locks these companies into using Microsoft the same way that dynamic libraries are needed by some RPM packages. These are the "character" of how business is done at these companies.
Stop cloning and come up with your own real innovation. Somewhere someone needs to put something truly innovative into OpenOffice or one of the desktop environments that is a generation ahead of Microsoft or Apple. *That* is when the real threat from Linux begins.
Communities tend to take too long to get back to you because we are all buys working. Believe it or not, you are probably not the first person to have the problem you are looking for. By going to Google Groups you are taking advantage of the fact that those people who had a specific problem (most often *not* in the FM) have already discussed and solved the issue. This is the last place I would look for very specific configuration solutions.
Once a modular model is widely adopted, it will be much cheaper to crank out modular homes which can then be thrown up for anyone with minimal dollars. It would then be cheap to just have the pieces shipped to whatever 3rd world country a charity organization was funding and have the homes knocked together with much less labor cost than nailing everything together. Of course, to imagine what you would get for your dollar or rupie, check out old Soviet block architecture.
I've been to countries like India, BTW, and this modular concept has to compete again things like corrugated metal roofing, stacked brick and cinderblock walls, and whatever other fabricated raw material can be dragged home. I'm not confident it can be made *that* cheap. However, if these countries were able to provide financing options to their citizens like what the US government gave returning GIs after WWII, they might be able to reach for something more. That would require those countries to have good finances to begin with and that's another story.
Palladium, Client/Server tie in, Office 11 breaking backward compatability, 3 year licensing plans, product activation
Microsoft is a long ways off from providing us with Longhorn. They've stated that it is a few years away, plenty of time for other OSs to evolve into something finally more usable. In the meantime, can your stupid analogies and don't use the friggin Palladium, Client/Server software, Office 11, and you won't have to deal with broken backwards compatibility, licensing or product activation. You're not a slave of Microsoft if you are going along with them willingly. That just makes you a whiner.
The middle of the road is where criminals try to justify their actions. The nice thing is that if you play there long enough you eventually get run over.
That's NOT what freedom is about, stupid, and that still doesn't make it right for you to do it. "While waiting for my car to arrive at the dealer, I decided I'd drive around town in other people's cars and even kept a few." Sounds as stupid as what you are doing. I don't understand how you justify it.
You ought to take a look at Alejandro Jodorowsky's plans for Frank Herbert's Dune for an example of what a bastardization of a story looks like (http://www.orlok.co.uk/prime/history.html). Jackson's license with Arwen would pale in comparison. I'm sure they are just flashbacks meant to flesh out Aragorn from the rustic barbarian he started out as at the beginning of FotR. He has feelings, too, you know.
I remember being offered dot-com jobs at the height of the dot-com craze and steering clear of them because of the obvious bubble it was all riding on. Too bad more people can't see more clearly past the initial blinding offer of stock and cash. Your own poor choice based on ignorant greed, not anything else, is what has you in this place now. What have you done since then to ambitious help yourself out of this?
The thing that got me was the lack of real dialog in the Simarillion. It would have been great as a whole, but with all the jumping around the dialog would not have been connected. I'll have to force myself to finish reading it one day.
From the sounds of your impatience, I really doubt you will sit in the theatre for the full 10 hours it would take to do the story justice. If you really want a short summary of the story, I'm sure there's some Cliff Notes around for you to enjoy...but that would take the effort of going to the book store.
"Amazing, that for a people with nothing to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon, we feverishly clamor for immortality."
I can't believe they showed that part seeing as how it was one of the most moving parts of the first movie; a real let down that was. But they seem to have kept Treebeard and friends out of the picture.
Since Treebeard is being played by John Rhys Davies of Gimli fame Treebeard is in. The recent trailer, if you bothered to watch it, showed a Huorn picking up Merry or Pippin. People should get over Tom Bombadil...Tolkien himself said it wasn't that pertinent to the story so they shouldn't give it any more importance than it deserves. I also thought it was a left-over from the Hobbit, but the book soon picked up nicely after that.
Unfortunately, those without scruples will take this large profit from the first movie to mean that the studio and actors are no longer entitled profits from the next two movies for their work on those two movies. All the more reason for them to download the DVD files of the movie and the MP3s for the soundtrack off the net without ever having paid their share, or so they believe. With so many people willing to casually perform acts of petty thievery it's no wonder things are as screwed up as they are.
The article before this titled "Attempts To Stop Music Sharing Pointless?" may be right, though. The ultimate weapon against stealing has always been keeping your morals in place and I see no attempt at people trying to bolster that.
You also finance the artists and directors who make the effort to give us a decent picture instead of the next Home Alone dribble.
When I pay for my movie tickets, I'm not concerned about how I'm going to watch it on DVD months later because I'm not forced into any DRM agreements there. I'm paying for my tickets because they cover my current entertainment that the transaction represents. It's the guy in the back with the camcorder and his connection to the guy selling the movie on the street that's causing the management to be nervous. He's akin to the average KaZaa'er.
Worry about your DVD playability later when the DVD hits the shelves. But please, while about them if you're truly being infringed on and not if you are deciding that you are entitled to rip a DVD because your friend paid for it. Sorry, but I know too many people who have MP3s for music they do not own and download ripped movies that they do not own. I'm pretty sure the whole reason movie/music downloading is so popular is that it is being abused by a majority that has no right to it. If you're among them, you are no better than petty thieves; have fun leeching off humanity. Just because you *can* rip it doesn't necessarily make it right for *you* to rip it. And by giving yourself the right to perform something illegal against someone else, I see no reason someone else can't do the same to you.
For pete's sake, how do you expect people to respond when you walk into their house and steal from under their nose? You have to identify yourself before you can walk in. Now, thanks to those without morals, we who follow the rules get to deal with DRM to go into that house of entertainment. Who wants to finance a decent picture when they know the public will rip them off in exchange for their work rather than applaud them? That's when we end up with formula pictures like Home Alone 17.
You've seen Embedded Windows in cash registers, phones, and other hand-held devices. This is going to become more wide-spread as the masses that use Windows on their desktop think it cool to pick up a Microsoft Windows XP Powered audio system for their car. That will enable you to play these in other systems.
I imagine that at some point we would have to have a library of publicly available models (open format, of course) that would allow for true object reuse.
So, if someone spends time creating a vase for Sims Online v5, it should be available for a scene in Splinter Cell v22.
Given a large enough amount of disk and large enough bandwidth someone could update their vase every now and then and the software will check and automatically update these objects to either 1) add new realism to the game/system or 2) screw everyone that loaded the new vase with a buggy vase that is updated moments later.
This could then lead to uniquely crafted virtual objects that might be considered art and sought after like real art.
If they keep explaining away all this stuff, there will be nothing for fanboys to argue about at sci-fi conventions with extremely outlandish theories! Noooooo!!!!
I hear they're releasing prequels to the Lord of the Rings in which they explain the histories of the elves, dwarves and humans in incredibly dry historical reading. Oh, wait, that was the Simarillion. So, authors have been doing this "Lucasing" for quite a long time now. Boy, did I have to force myself to read those chapters.
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To every one of you that swallowed the mini-RC hype and bought one for yourself, a friend, or kids, please don't whine when you get spam for these latest crazes now that spam has been officially validated as a way for companies to sell their wares:
1) A new money making scheme! Send me your wallet and I'll show you how one can do it.
2) Big busted babes go sucky sucky!
3) President Mgabe Mambo needs you to send money to save his country.
4) HaHaHa
5) Bigger longer faster...not the history of rocketry, but something else going off.
6) Viagra for all!!! Now with more ginseng and ginko. WWW.Amateur-Pharmaceuticals-Inc.Com
7) Stock ticker ABCXYZ is hott! Low trading fees.
8) Mortgage your life away before rates go up!
9) Get in on the ground floor...amateur elevator cams.
10) Thought you'd like to see this...virus wipe out your hard drive.
11) Can't handle your credit cards? Why cut them up when you can saddle yourself with another loan? Operators standing by to collect bank account numbers.
At this time, Linux does not push hardware innovations that Windows users want Microsoft to follow. It also does not have any software that anyone is craving for, especially now with Cygwin and many open source packages compilable for Win platforms. There are no Linux games that Windows users are slaving after, nor is there any Tux-box lining people up at stores for Christmas. There are no killer embedded-Linux devices being sold that are not already being sold as embedded Windows-2000/XP devices. Linux PDAs are not doing anything different than Palm or PalmPCs.
Linux and all other platforms are still playing catch-up to *everything* Microsoft. Once Linux creates its own blazing trail for Microsoft and others to follow after, only then will the real competition from Linux have begun. When will the pengiun teach a new trick?
Most including the old Hotbot were too slow. This seems to be much zippier under the Inktomi engine, but we'll have to see how it compares to Google. Cool thing is that it will use the last search engine you clicked so if you like the Google engine better than the Inktomi engine, then that's what it will use.
"all we have to do is continue to develop software in the same way, and the users will make the switch all by themselves'."
That sounds familiar. I'm betting that's Apple's thinking. I'm afraid it's not getting them any further. I think that if Linux users believe that Office clones are all they need to overcome Microsoft, they are vastly deluded. A world of home-grown dll-dependent apps and simple VB programming is out there that locks these companies into using Microsoft the same way that dynamic libraries are needed by some RPM packages. These are the "character" of how business is done at these companies.
Stop cloning and come up with your own real innovation. Somewhere someone needs to put something truly innovative into OpenOffice or one of the desktop environments that is a generation ahead of Microsoft or Apple. *That* is when the real threat from Linux begins.
Communities tend to take too long to get back to you because we are all buys working. Believe it or not, you are probably not the first person to have the problem you are looking for. By going to Google Groups you are taking advantage of the fact that those people who had a specific problem (most often *not* in the FM) have already discussed and solved the issue. This is the last place I would look for very specific configuration solutions.
Correct, but it's better to be thankful while you enjoy the advantage than to be ignorant of everything else around you while you enjoy it.
In some countries citizens don't have a choice what they work in and what they go home to. Aren't you lucky?
Once a modular model is widely adopted, it will be much cheaper to crank out modular homes which can then be thrown up for anyone with minimal dollars. It would then be cheap to just have the pieces shipped to whatever 3rd world country a charity organization was funding and have the homes knocked together with much less labor cost than nailing everything together. Of course, to imagine what you would get for your dollar or rupie, check out old Soviet block architecture.
I've been to countries like India, BTW, and this modular concept has to compete again things like corrugated metal roofing, stacked brick and cinderblock walls, and whatever other fabricated raw material can be dragged home. I'm not confident it can be made *that* cheap. However, if these countries were able to provide financing options to their citizens like what the US government gave returning GIs after WWII, they might be able to reach for something more. That would require those countries to have good finances to begin with and that's another story.
So, you see someone who doesn't take what doesn't belong to them as an extremist. There's something wrong in that.
Palladium, Client/Server tie in, Office 11 breaking backward compatability, 3 year licensing plans, product activation
Microsoft is a long ways off from providing us with Longhorn. They've stated that it is a few years away, plenty of time for other OSs to evolve into something finally more usable. In the meantime, can your stupid analogies and don't use the friggin Palladium, Client/Server software, Office 11, and you won't have to deal with broken backwards compatibility, licensing or product activation. You're not a slave of Microsoft if you are going along with them willingly. That just makes you a whiner.
The middle of the road is where criminals try to justify their actions. The nice thing is that if you play there long enough you eventually get run over.
That's NOT what freedom is about, stupid, and that still doesn't make it right for you to do it. "While waiting for my car to arrive at the dealer, I decided I'd drive around town in other people's cars and even kept a few." Sounds as stupid as what you are doing. I don't understand how you justify it.
You ought to take a look at Alejandro Jodorowsky's plans for Frank Herbert's Dune for an example of what a bastardization of a story looks like (http://www.orlok.co.uk/prime/history.html). Jackson's license with Arwen would pale in comparison. I'm sure they are just flashbacks meant to flesh out Aragorn from the rustic barbarian he started out as at the beginning of FotR. He has feelings, too, you know.
I remember being offered dot-com jobs at the height of the dot-com craze and steering clear of them because of the obvious bubble it was all riding on. Too bad more people can't see more clearly past the initial blinding offer of stock and cash. Your own poor choice based on ignorant greed, not anything else, is what has you in this place now. What have you done since then to ambitious help yourself out of this?
The thing that got me was the lack of real dialog in the Simarillion. It would have been great as a whole, but with all the jumping around the dialog would not have been connected. I'll have to force myself to finish reading it one day.
From the sounds of your impatience, I really doubt you will sit in the theatre for the full 10 hours it would take to do the story justice. If you really want a short summary of the story, I'm sure there's some Cliff Notes around for you to enjoy...but that would take the effort of going to the book store.
"Amazing, that for a people with nothing to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon, we feverishly clamor for immortality."
I can't believe they showed that part seeing as how it was one of the most moving parts of the first movie; a real let down that was. But they seem to have kept Treebeard and friends out of the picture.
Since Treebeard is being played by John Rhys Davies of Gimli fame Treebeard is in. The recent trailer, if you bothered to watch it, showed a Huorn picking up Merry or Pippin. People should get over Tom Bombadil...Tolkien himself said it wasn't that pertinent to the story so they shouldn't give it any more importance than it deserves. I also thought it was a left-over from the Hobbit, but the book soon picked up nicely after that.
Unfortunately, those without scruples will take this large profit from the first movie to mean that the studio and actors are no longer entitled profits from the next two movies for their work on those two movies. All the more reason for them to download the DVD files of the movie and the MP3s for the soundtrack off the net without ever having paid their share, or so they believe. With so many people willing to casually perform acts of petty thievery it's no wonder things are as screwed up as they are.
The article before this titled "Attempts To Stop Music Sharing Pointless?" may be right, though. The ultimate weapon against stealing has always been keeping your morals in place and I see no attempt at people trying to bolster that.
You also finance the artists and directors who make the effort to give us a decent picture instead of the next Home Alone dribble.
When I pay for my movie tickets, I'm not concerned about how I'm going to watch it on DVD months later because I'm not forced into any DRM agreements there. I'm paying for my tickets because they cover my current entertainment that the transaction represents. It's the guy in the back with the camcorder and his connection to the guy selling the movie on the street that's causing the management to be nervous. He's akin to the average KaZaa'er.
Worry about your DVD playability later when the DVD hits the shelves. But please, while about them if you're truly being infringed on and not if you are deciding that you are entitled to rip a DVD because your friend paid for it. Sorry, but I know too many people who have MP3s for music they do not own and download ripped movies that they do not own. I'm pretty sure the whole reason movie/music downloading is so popular is that it is being abused by a majority that has no right to it. If you're among them, you are no better than petty thieves; have fun leeching off humanity. Just because you *can* rip it doesn't necessarily make it right for *you* to rip it. And by giving yourself the right to perform something illegal against someone else, I see no reason someone else can't do the same to you.
For pete's sake, how do you expect people to respond when you walk into their house and steal from under their nose? You have to identify yourself before you can walk in. Now, thanks to those without morals, we who follow the rules get to deal with DRM to go into that house of entertainment. Who wants to finance a decent picture when they know the public will rip them off in exchange for their work rather than applaud them? That's when we end up with formula pictures like Home Alone 17.
You've seen Embedded Windows in cash registers, phones, and other hand-held devices. This is going to become more wide-spread as the masses that use Windows on their desktop think it cool to pick up a Microsoft Windows XP Powered audio system for their car. That will enable you to play these in other systems.
I imagine that at some point we would have to have a library of publicly available models (open format, of course) that would allow for true object reuse.
So, if someone spends time creating a vase for Sims Online v5, it should be available for a scene in Splinter Cell v22.
Given a large enough amount of disk and large enough bandwidth someone could update their vase every now and then and the software will check and automatically update these objects to either 1) add new realism to the game/system or 2) screw everyone that loaded the new vase with a buggy vase that is updated moments later.
This could then lead to uniquely crafted virtual objects that might be considered art and sought after like real art.
If they keep explaining away all this stuff, there will be nothing for fanboys to argue about at sci-fi conventions with extremely outlandish theories! Noooooo!!!!
I hear they're releasing prequels to the Lord of the Rings in which they explain the histories of the elves, dwarves and humans in incredibly dry historical reading. Oh, wait, that was the Simarillion. So, authors have been doing this "Lucasing" for quite a long time now. Boy, did I have to force myself to read those chapters.