Who the hell are you people to say what I can and cannot use my days off for? This costs the economy no more than it would if I took the day off to shave my cat or have my brain pierced!
"is it right to take a good product away from so many people who really do like it just because another company's product isn't taking over the market like they hoped it would?"
The same argument can be made *for* Microsoft. Should Microsoft have to suffer just because that other crap out there isn't selling as strong as Windows? There are plenty of people out there who actually like it. Try to use your friggin brain in a consistent manner, folks.
So we are no longer allowed to close our eyes during the commercials? Am I allowed to blink? No, don't look away at the cat! The baby's diaper will have to wait! Maybe take a bathroom break? Maybe leave the room for the duration of all commercials and come back when I hear the program on? We are slaves to the tube!
If I'm not interested in the garbage they are peddling, I am under no obligation to look at their pap. I pay them money for the friggin cable access and they are obligated to provide me with a signal. The content is up to them and I will alter the stream to my taste. Maybe I'll sit there and twist the hell out of the cable until every show looks like it's snowing and Christmasy and there will be Christmas specials year round! Will they like that?
Plenty of other things to do in life besides watch TV if that is the tact they are going to take. And the crap they have on the tube these days doesn't hold a candle to good old fashioned low-tech sex, baby!
Actually, most recent reviews have placed the Ti4400 at better than the 8500s and comparably priced. The all-in-one capability of this card makes me ambivalent between the two, though. Will I really record that much video to disk (already have a TiVo) or should I just continue to concentrate on the games? Maybe when the highest density DVD recorders are finally available. I think I shall game now.
Well, the install is really, really easy and I was glad to see CUPS in there with my printer automatically being set up, but my Netgear FA310TX (tulip) and Adaptec 1522 (aha152x) were not detected and would not show for any reason whatsoever. If anyone has any tips, email me and give me a clue in the right direction.
This is the point of computing for the masses. They want to get their stuff done and move on. They don't want to be "eternal tweakers", the ones who will go to their grave never having accomplished anything but having tweaked their system until it might be useful to someone who was going to do something useful with it. The masses have movies to go to, families to visit and events to attend. They put in their time getting their stuff done (online check book, games/entertainment, checking email, getting info off web, etc.) and then get away from the computer. Take to heart that Slashdot article from a few weeks back about web surfing dropping in popularity. It's like that old Simpsons episode where the kids stopped watching the tube and got back out to the real world. The glitz is gone now that we are being raped for $10 for every little service (Yahoo email, IP redirection, blah blah blah) and everyone is slowly turning away from the net. Got work?
AdAware was updated recently to check for Kazaa residue, especially since Kazaa has that distributed computing backdoor that was added. AdAware 5.7 has just been released.
If you want a "Never trust content/Ignore content from" option, slap the free Adshield on your system. See Adshield.org for more on this great product. I haven't seen those ridiculous Greatest Casino ads for months and the Slashdot ads that were supposed to show up...where are they, anyway? =)
As long as AdAware (www.lavasoftusa.com) is aware of it, I have no problem with anyone bundling it into something I download. That'll just make sure it doesn't stay on my system for long. Hopefully the *nix world is spared this crap.
If the service they provide is that bad, then they deserve what they get when they hit the brick wall of competition.
And when Ass End has their election, they can rely on web sites and newspapers, or pony up for airtime on the public access channels. I don't ever watch local news stations because they are just a glorified public access channel and all the interesting stuff is being broadcast by CNN and the New York stations.
You assume that our human actions are what is causing this. We are in a warming period between ice ages and this could very well be completely natural. Without data from the previous ages, we have nothing to base these opinions on other than direct data for the past few decades and some guesswork on geological surveys.
Wasn't there an article that was submitted to Slashdot stating that in 3 billion years our galaxy would collide with a neighboring galaxy? In that case there would certainly be a lot less time that we think. Being closer to the outer rim, we might be on the leading edge of that and be consumed should we pass too close to another star. No space probe is going to survive that.
The thing is traveling very fast and is known to have been hit by teeny rock fragments a number of times. All you need is one little thing to hit it in the right spot to end it all. I'm not sure it's going to make it to Aldebaran since it wasn't built with the smarts to make it through the Oort cloud.
Actually, I'd say they'd probably wait until the transmitter that is still capable of talking to the probe is 1 hour past being lined up with it, send 'PING', and wait for the earth to go around to the 1-hour-short mark. But that's just me and my illusion of a round Earth speaking.
Wouldn't that make the signal go off at an angle that would never come close to where the probe was? Imagining that the probe is at the 0 degree mark, you would try to get this to work by blasting a signal at the 345 degree mark and then listen for it at the 15 degree mark? With the probe 7.5 billion miles away, basic trig says that you are shooting the beam 4.33 billion miles to the one side of the probe and listen for it 4.33 billion miles to the other side of it. The earth might be rotating, but the beam is taking a straight line path from where you fired it.
I would imagine that you have one ground station send the ping fired at the 0 degree mark and 22 hours later another ground station would be listening for it while lined up at that 0 degree mark or somewhere within a cone of reception. Aren't there some communications satellites set up in places near earth to catch the transmissions of probes like this in case the right listening stations are not lined up, sort of as a relay system?
Must be great releasing the same movie over and over again. Most people in the business have to bust their ass to claw their way just to mediocrity. I guess when you get one or two hits under your belt you are at the point where you can do some filler and just re-release the hits 10 or 20 years later to rake in some more bucks. Then it's on to re-releasing another...
They discuss various uses, from musical performances to possible weaponization.
OK, I know those damn weirding modules weren't *really* part of the Dune story, but someone had the idea that they would make a great addition to the film, and these folks are obviously on the same track.
Does anyone actually think that anything we do to this planet in killing ourselves would not disappear after 100,000 years or so? The universe doesn't care what the hell we do here...this rock will continue to spin around the Sun and life will find a way around whatever it is that we do. The basic atoms and particles that this planet consisted of a few million years ago are all still here now and will be in a few million years, regardless of the resources spent on a paltry handful space probes that will escape this solar system.
When we consider all this "green" business, they're *still* being humanocentric - the planet must be the way we remember it over the past hundred years or so. Who said so? Maybe we're still in part of a warming period between ice ages and it's going to get a lot hotter before some other geological system kicks in to cool things down again. By that time people will be moaning over global cooling because they're too short sighted to see that it's teh way things are, and little puny humans that think they are affecting the biosphere are a galactic joke.
Our science over the past couple of hundred years or so is still so adolescent that you really can't consider the data to present a realistic statistic base compared to the reality over the past millions. Global warming is a theory, not known to be fact. There is evidence that points both ways, and we have just had eight years of liberalism that allowed the pendulum of public opinion to swing towards only showcasing an overabundance of green lunatics. We may be heading towards a period over overconservatism that will completely and blindly deny any existence of global warming. Whatever the case, we need to tread carefully with whatever ideas are put forth, since the overzealous are always pushing their agendas regardless of how wrong they are in the long run.
So, what you're saying is that less distributions are better? Suppose Sun actually makes a distribution that rocks and blows Red Hat and friends out of the water? We shouldn't have it because you would rather see companies working with Red Hat and Suse? Sun actually has a good patching and patching tracking system in Solaris and Linux would only benefit from it. Solaris and Linux already share a common open source application base, so they are being blurred more and more.
Frankly, I'll take Sun hardware and Solaris over Linux on any Intel box any day. Sure, you can throw Linux onto these super boxes that have been custom built to supercomputer stats, but most sysadmins are not the University of So-and-so to build your own servers and the Linux business app base is still too small for me.
Less=Better sounds like something Bill Gates might say.
I suppose the Empire is not supposed to get wind of your little plot and send an armada of ships to nuke them from orbit - it's the only way. Or send streams of stormtroopers onto the planet to eradicate ("I didn't realize massacre had a negative connotation") every living thing that looks like it might be resisting. Maybe these stormtroopers can actually shoot straight.
Same thing at my place as part of policy I helped push. But is it inconceivable that a place that does use XP would want this, albeit under the restrictions that I mentioned? If this whole "trusty computing" thing actually happens (another inconceivable?) then places moving to Windows XP would find this useful. They are already doing this with Windows Update Federated Server for Win2k/XP, though not to the extent of putting it into the EULA.
I can see this being extremely useful in IT, but only if you can point it at a local server where you select what patches are OK. IT tends to want to deploy service packs are they are verified to work with certain known software packages. For a home user, I would want to verify this myself, so I would hope that they would make this optional. Otherwise, I will not be buying Windows XP.
Riiiiight. Because the corporations that employ and feed people aren't funded in any way by moneyed people; they just exist on their own because they sprout spontaneously, are all guaranteed to profit, and are not affected or threatened in any way by world events. Those moneyed people have no role in the world but to be corrupt and laugh 24 hours a day in the face of those lower than them, because everyone knows the wicked need no sleep. There's no symbient relation between people in an economy. The poor guy who bitches all day long about moneyed people being fat cats and spends the day coveting isn't being detrimental to the economy by bitching all day long instead of being productive. "Want want want" is the order of the day, but without the effort to earn it. I see your point.
I don't understand why the administration doesn't want to get into opening space for American exploitation. I thought Alien 2 was clear enough with "nuke them from orbit, it's the only way". I see missiles and bombs parked in orbit just waiting for someone to act like they need some negative attention. Let's see those Taikonauts in that tin can get past a fragmentation bomb going off on their hull.
The idea that artists and musicians suddenly become producers of material who should not expect any compensation for their work practically brings us to the level of a slave based economy. People on Slashdot love to complain "the U.S. and its corporations thinks of the world as their subjects", how "Microsoft mistreats other companies", how "programmers are nothing but corporate slaves", and "the gummint is out to get us" yet they are so eager to steal the work of others, denying the worker the dignity of their work, marking themselves as people the gummint should get. Even to the point of demanding that if software is not free, it is to be shunned, screwing the programmers even more than they already are. God forbid someone should be able to make enough money to feed their family just because you think work should be limited to one hour a day so that you can watch free movies, listen to free music, and entertain yourself for free with the latest coveted software package at will.
It is incredible how hypocritical you all are in your righteousness. Of course people are going to look at you like a thief and want to bust you if you talk like a thief and walk like a thief. How the hell does everyone think they are entitled to free entertainment and free tools just because they want it to be so? If some guy obsesses on his neighbor's wife, does that mean he's entitled to her? Can you actually blame the music and software companies for trying to put bigger deadbolts on the doors when the thieves are smacking at the doors with crowbars like there's no tomorrow?
Too much "free, as in beer" on your mind takes you right to the thugs that took over in 1917 and 1939. In that case, "the mob rules" was hurtful to the world for decades. This certainly isn't on the same scale, but this level of flawed thinking definitely points in that direction when the mob gets rolling. Somehow I think that this isn't what this crowd really wants since that just heads into stagnation, but the level of ignorance here seems to be so great that nobody can see it because how steeped they are in thinking they are some sort of intelligentsia. That's the price of "free, as in speech."
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Who the hell are you people to say what I can and cannot use my days off for? This costs the economy no more than it would if I took the day off to shave my cat or have my brain pierced!
"is it right to take a good product away from so many people who really do like it just because another company's product isn't taking over the market like they hoped it would?"
The same argument can be made *for* Microsoft. Should Microsoft have to suffer just because that other crap out there isn't selling as strong as Windows? There are plenty of people out there who actually like it. Try to use your friggin brain in a consistent manner, folks.
So we are no longer allowed to close our eyes during the commercials? Am I allowed to blink? No, don't look away at the cat! The baby's diaper will have to wait! Maybe take a bathroom break? Maybe leave the room for the duration of all commercials and come back when I hear the program on? We are slaves to the tube!
If I'm not interested in the garbage they are peddling, I am under no obligation to look at their pap. I pay them money for the friggin cable access and they are obligated to provide me with a signal. The content is up to them and I will alter the stream to my taste. Maybe I'll sit there and twist the hell out of the cable until every show looks like it's snowing and Christmasy and there will be Christmas specials year round! Will they like that?
Plenty of other things to do in life besides watch TV if that is the tact they are going to take. And the crap they have on the tube these days doesn't hold a candle to good old fashioned low-tech sex, baby!
Actually, most recent reviews have placed the Ti4400 at better than the 8500s and comparably priced. The all-in-one capability of this card makes me ambivalent between the two, though. Will I really record that much video to disk (already have a TiVo) or should I just continue to concentrate on the games? Maybe when the highest density DVD recorders are finally available. I think I shall game now.
Well, the install is really, really easy and I was glad to see CUPS in there with my printer automatically being set up, but my Netgear FA310TX (tulip) and Adaptec 1522 (aha152x) were not detected and would not show for any reason whatsoever. If anyone has any tips, email me and give me a clue in the right direction.
This is the point of computing for the masses. They want to get their stuff done and move on. They don't want to be "eternal tweakers", the ones who will go to their grave never having accomplished anything but having tweaked their system until it might be useful to someone who was going to do something useful with it. The masses have movies to go to, families to visit and events to attend. They put in their time getting their stuff done (online check book, games/entertainment, checking email, getting info off web, etc.) and then get away from the computer. Take to heart that Slashdot article from a few weeks back about web surfing dropping in popularity. It's like that old Simpsons episode where the kids stopped watching the tube and got back out to the real world. The glitz is gone now that we are being raped for $10 for every little service (Yahoo email, IP redirection, blah blah blah) and everyone is slowly turning away from the net. Got work?
AdAware was updated recently to check for Kazaa residue, especially since Kazaa has that distributed computing backdoor that was added. AdAware 5.7 has just been released.
If you want a "Never trust content/Ignore content from" option, slap the free Adshield on your system. See Adshield.org for more on this great product. I haven't seen those ridiculous Greatest Casino ads for months and the Slashdot ads that were supposed to show up...where are they, anyway? =)
As long as AdAware (www.lavasoftusa.com) is aware of it, I have no problem with anyone bundling it into something I download. That'll just make sure it doesn't stay on my system for long. Hopefully the *nix world is spared this crap.
If the service they provide is that bad, then they deserve what they get when they hit the brick wall of competition.
And when Ass End has their election, they can rely on web sites and newspapers, or pony up for airtime on the public access channels. I don't ever watch local news stations because they are just a glorified public access channel and all the interesting stuff is being broadcast by CNN and the New York stations.
You assume that our human actions are what is causing this. We are in a warming period between ice ages and this could very well be completely natural. Without data from the previous ages, we have nothing to base these opinions on other than direct data for the past few decades and some guesswork on geological surveys.
So now all we need is our own Gungan army.
Wasn't there an article that was submitted to Slashdot stating that in 3 billion years our galaxy would collide with a neighboring galaxy? In that case there would certainly be a lot less time that we think. Being closer to the outer rim, we might be on the leading edge of that and be consumed should we pass too close to another star. No space probe is going to survive that.
The thing is traveling very fast and is known to have been hit by teeny rock fragments a number of times. All you need is one little thing to hit it in the right spot to end it all. I'm not sure it's going to make it to Aldebaran since it wasn't built with the smarts to make it through the Oort cloud.
Actually, I'd say they'd probably wait until the transmitter that is still capable of talking to the probe is 1 hour past being lined up with it, send 'PING', and wait for the earth to go around to the 1-hour-short mark. But that's just me and my illusion of a round Earth speaking.
Wouldn't that make the signal go off at an angle that would never come close to where the probe was? Imagining that the probe is at the 0 degree mark, you would try to get this to work by blasting a signal at the 345 degree mark and then listen for it at the 15 degree mark? With the probe 7.5 billion miles away, basic trig says that you are shooting the beam 4.33 billion miles to the one side of the probe and listen for it 4.33 billion miles to the other side of it. The earth might be rotating, but the beam is taking a straight line path from where you fired it.
I would imagine that you have one ground station send the ping fired at the 0 degree mark and 22 hours later another ground station would be listening for it while lined up at that 0 degree mark or somewhere within a cone of reception. Aren't there some communications satellites set up in places near earth to catch the transmissions of probes like this in case the right listening stations are not lined up, sort of as a relay system?
Must be great releasing the same movie over and over again. Most people in the business have to bust their ass to claw their way just to mediocrity. I guess when you get one or two hits under your belt you are at the point where you can do some filler and just re-release the hits 10 or 20 years later to rake in some more bucks. Then it's on to re-releasing another...
They discuss various uses, from musical performances to possible weaponization.
OK, I know those damn weirding modules weren't *really* part of the Dune story, but someone had the idea that they would make a great addition to the film, and these folks are obviously on the same track.
**BUSH!** His name is a killing word!
Does anyone actually think that anything we do to this planet in killing ourselves would not disappear after 100,000 years or so? The universe doesn't care what the hell we do here...this rock will continue to spin around the Sun and life will find a way around whatever it is that we do. The basic atoms and particles that this planet consisted of a few million years ago are all still here now and will be in a few million years, regardless of the resources spent on a paltry handful space probes that will escape this solar system.
When we consider all this "green" business, they're *still* being humanocentric - the planet must be the way we remember it over the past hundred years or so. Who said so? Maybe we're still in part of a warming period between ice ages and it's going to get a lot hotter before some other geological system kicks in to cool things down again. By that time people will be moaning over global cooling because they're too short sighted to see that it's teh way things are, and little puny humans that think they are affecting the biosphere are a galactic joke.
Our science over the past couple of hundred years or so is still so adolescent that you really can't consider the data to present a realistic statistic base compared to the reality over the past millions. Global warming is a theory, not known to be fact. There is evidence that points both ways, and we have just had eight years of liberalism that allowed the pendulum of public opinion to swing towards only showcasing an overabundance of green lunatics. We may be heading towards a period over overconservatism that will completely and blindly deny any existence of global warming. Whatever the case, we need to tread carefully with whatever ideas are put forth, since the overzealous are always pushing their agendas regardless of how wrong they are in the long run.
So, what you're saying is that less distributions are better? Suppose Sun actually makes a distribution that rocks and blows Red Hat and friends out of the water? We shouldn't have it because you would rather see companies working with Red Hat and Suse? Sun actually has a good patching and patching tracking system in Solaris and Linux would only benefit from it. Solaris and Linux already share a common open source application base, so they are being blurred more and more.
Frankly, I'll take Sun hardware and Solaris over Linux on any Intel box any day. Sure, you can throw Linux onto these super boxes that have been custom built to supercomputer stats, but most sysadmins are not the University of So-and-so to build your own servers and the Linux business app base is still too small for me.
Less=Better sounds like something Bill Gates might say.
I suppose the Empire is not supposed to get wind of your little plot and send an armada of ships to nuke them from orbit - it's the only way. Or send streams of stormtroopers onto the planet to eradicate ("I didn't realize massacre had a negative connotation") every living thing that looks like it might be resisting. Maybe these stormtroopers can actually shoot straight.
Same thing at my place as part of policy I helped push. But is it inconceivable that a place that does use XP would want this, albeit under the restrictions that I mentioned? If this whole "trusty computing" thing actually happens (another inconceivable?) then places moving to Windows XP would find this useful. They are already doing this with Windows Update Federated Server for Win2k/XP, though not to the extent of putting it into the EULA.
I can see this being extremely useful in IT, but only if you can point it at a local server where you select what patches are OK. IT tends to want to deploy service packs are they are verified to work with certain known software packages. For a home user, I would want to verify this myself, so I would hope that they would make this optional. Otherwise, I will not be buying Windows XP.
Riiiiight. Because the corporations that employ and feed people aren't funded in any way by moneyed people; they just exist on their own because they sprout spontaneously, are all guaranteed to profit, and are not affected or threatened in any way by world events. Those moneyed people have no role in the world but to be corrupt and laugh 24 hours a day in the face of those lower than them, because everyone knows the wicked need no sleep. There's no symbient relation between people in an economy. The poor guy who bitches all day long about moneyed people being fat cats and spends the day coveting isn't being detrimental to the economy by bitching all day long instead of being productive. "Want want want" is the order of the day, but without the effort to earn it. I see your point.
I don't understand why the administration doesn't want to get into opening space for American exploitation. I thought Alien 2 was clear enough with "nuke them from orbit, it's the only way". I see missiles and bombs parked in orbit just waiting for someone to act like they need some negative attention. Let's see those Taikonauts in that tin can get past a fragmentation bomb going off on their hull.
The idea that artists and musicians suddenly become producers of material who should not expect any compensation for their work practically brings us to the level of a slave based economy. People on Slashdot love to complain "the U.S. and its corporations thinks of the world as their subjects", how "Microsoft mistreats other companies", how "programmers are nothing but corporate slaves", and "the gummint is out to get us" yet they are so eager to steal the work of others, denying the worker the dignity of their work, marking themselves as people the gummint should get. Even to the point of demanding that if software is not free, it is to be shunned, screwing the programmers even more than they already are. God forbid someone should be able to make enough money to feed their family just because you think work should be limited to one hour a day so that you can watch free movies, listen to free music, and entertain yourself for free with the latest coveted software package at will.
It is incredible how hypocritical you all are in your righteousness. Of course people are going to look at you like a thief and want to bust you if you talk like a thief and walk like a thief. How the hell does everyone think they are entitled to free entertainment and free tools just because they want it to be so? If some guy obsesses on his neighbor's wife, does that mean he's entitled to her? Can you actually blame the music and software companies for trying to put bigger deadbolts on the doors when the thieves are smacking at the doors with crowbars like there's no tomorrow?
Too much "free, as in beer" on your mind takes you right to the thugs that took over in 1917 and 1939. In that case, "the mob rules" was hurtful to the world for decades. This certainly isn't on the same scale, but this level of flawed thinking definitely points in that direction when the mob gets rolling. Somehow I think that this isn't what this crowd really wants since that just heads into stagnation, but the level of ignorance here seems to be so great that nobody can see it because how steeped they are in thinking they are some sort of intelligentsia. That's the price of "free, as in speech."