Just think, boys and girls - a phone that can never be traced to you! Granted, it would be hard to do a drug ring with this because it won't accept calls, but big deal!
Maybe I am just being stupid, but this is worse than divx. Who in their right mind, asside from criminals and kids who want to look cool (also known as wannabes) would want one of these things? PCS service from Sprint is dirt cheap and the phones from them are like $50, and if you are really stingy you can get one from one of the other companies for one cent.
It's pure idiocy, so they will probably make a fortune off of them - just not from me.
I am getting so tired of this "Those meanies cracked my weak encryption!" stuff. The Wired article does no good for the matter either by implying that MusicMatch is a "tool for pirates". Far from it.
I am currently building my very own MP3 server for my living room. Why? Because I have over 600 CDs and never can find the one I want (I am a terrible housekeeper, and I have CDs laying all over the place - most not even in their jewel cases.)
As long as I am using legal copies of stuff I have in my posession that I purchased, who the hell cares? I don't give copies of stuff away - not to my relatives, not to my friends, and not even to strangers. Why should I?
I am also getting mighty sick of the recording taxes the industry is forcing us to pay. You pay a tax on cassette tape, minidisc, and now on CD-R audio discs. Why should we? The stuff I am recording at home is my stuff. It is stuff like the tape my cousin made of my grandmother when she came back from her trip to Czechoslovakia in 1980. If I want to make a copy on tape of that, I get to shell out money to "the man" because he is implying that any tapes I buy are going to be used to record the latest Spice Girls album.
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What gets me is that no matter how hard they try encryption just gets blown away. I still find it rather tiring to keep reading this stuff. The guys coming up with this encryption stuff are either lawyers or marketing drones, so of course it does not stand up for very long!
Of course once it gets cracked then it becomes "hey! they cheated! they are illegal underground punks! they worship the devil!" and a host of other things - just look at what the Brittish recording industry put out recently - after all anyone who listens to MP3s are nothing but a bunch of pot smoking pedophiles, right?
To me breaking encryption is just the geek way of thumbing our noses at idiots. Here's to more beautiful hacks!
A few weeks ago a friend of mine was rather upset because someone at the big faceless yuppie infested company he works for got all upset over his.sig which read "People are funny, and they taste like chicken." So, another friend and I have changed our sigs as well. He has "My cat's breath smells like cat food" and I have the number Euclid spits out in the movie Pi.
I get so sick of all this yuppiedom crapola. I try to entertain myself by giving my servers funny names. I have Holly and smeg and scutter - references from Red Dwarf (and yes, Holly is the monster mega server) and I have Tarantula as my webserver and then I have a machine named BigChief which we named when the Kansas City Chiefs were doing really well in the playoffs a few years ago.
I just get really ill at these social climbing twits who are in business. They ruin the little bit of fun us geeks can have. Perhaps we should all start naming our servers after characters in "Keeping Up Appearances"?
I don't know about anyone else, but AC is truly "THE MAN" in my book.
In all honesty I don't know of anything that I can find at fault with him (other than his Mysterious World of Arthur C. Clarke which, I will admit, is truly entertaining to watch, but is total bunk science.)
Anyway, to this day whenever I pick up one of his books, the first thing I think of when I read something about some gizmo is "okay...." but then I soon say "Wow!" when it finally sinks in just what the thing does.
If there should be a patron saint of/., AC gets my vote.
I have been using Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 for almost a month now. It is super easy to set up (provided you pay attention and notice that sometimes it does not start the swap - it is very annoying when your machine thrashes worse than a 4 MB machine running WinNT).
The install is very smooth. You plop the disk in, click a few things, and it starts installing. Then you get to play a nice game of tetris.
One thing I did find annoying, however, was the X setup. It shows you a screen and you are supposed to pick your video resolution and then hit the test button to make sure that it works. Well, your screen flashes - and it will either show you a X window session or it won't. But, in my case, it took me a while to ever get a display properly picked. The problem is not that when it fails it just does a *blip!* to the screen, it is that it does not tell you it failed. I can see how this would confuse the hell out of a newbie. It would be nice to see something say "Sorry, but that mode does not work" or something to that effect.
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This man should be commended and held up for the world to see! He pulled a media hack that got a whole cable network show devoted to it. Only Joey Skaggs has done better at this than I know of, and that is because Joey has been pulling these media hacks for years!
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Okay, sure, Linux may not have MS Office, nor does it have Corel Office, but it does have Wordperfect and Star Office. Isn't this mainly what the typical business person needs?
As I sit here and think about what stuff we run where I work, 90% of it is Word and Excel, which Star Office does just fine.
I really whished I had found Linux sooner. It would be saving me so much headache in the support department it would not even be funny - like all the time I have spent un-fsck'ing a Windows machine that someone who "thought they knew" fsck'ed up. Had I had real security to start with, I would not be wasting my time.
I have been looking long and hard at the Philips Pronto remote, which is pretty much just a remote control made out of a Nino. I hope they don't cancel it too!
This does bring me to a kind of off topic question though that I think should be asked - who will be the next to leave the CE camp? How indicative is this of what CE is doing in the marketplace? When will MS be posting a PalmOS FUD document like they did for Linux? My guess on the last question is Real Soon Now.
I think there are a number of reasons for this happening. Main among them is "who in the hell is Mandrake?" Up until a few weeks ago I don't ever really remember paying attention to any press they issued. I know all about the/. link here to see the past Mandrake stories, but I think a majority of people relate more to the Big 3 (soon to be 4) - Red Hat, Caldera, SuSe, and soon Corel. You see those names and you know it is a Linux article. I think Mandrake needs to start jumping up and down and waving a flag or something to get some more attention. From what I have read about Mandrake, it seems like an excellent distro.
I think another thing I consider to be a problem is Distro-bigotry. A case in point: last week I went into the efnet #linux channel. What a disgrace! The ops were there flaming everyone they could, made fun of this one newbie because he was playing around with WinLinux and was having some problems with it, and just plain making asses out of themselves. I was in the channel for an hour and all they could do was sit and bash this distro and that distro. Of course, they had their favorite, and everything else was pure crap to them.
So, imagine what is going to be happening... new guy comes in and wants to get some opinions, everyone chimes in "Red Hat!" and off they go. Those using Mandrake or Caldera or SuSe are not going to say a word for fear of either a) being flamed, or, as I saw the ops do to the WinLinux guy, b) kick and ban him.
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I remember seeing an interview with him on 60 Minutes a number of years ago. He said that the products that Sony produced were the ones he wanted to have. I think we can honestly call him one hell of a wired geek.
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www.cc.org - The Christrian Coalition - I disagree with their stance on so many issues it is not even funny.
www.microsoft.com - They release buggy as hell software, charge an arm and a leg, and don't get around to fixing 1/2 of their bugs. Therefore, they are a bad example for kids in that they are teaching them that money is the most important thing in the world, and it is okay to cheat your customers (MY opinion).
www.slashdot.org - People are allowed to post their opinions uncensored and sometimes people say the word "fuck"
Now, where do we draw the line? If a list such as what you are advocating is allowed to be created, every web page is going to be listed on it because there is someone who disagrees with it!
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An example? Check out this bug. From what I can tell it has been in there since 4.01 and maybe earlier. Let's see them put REAL support for PNGs. I doubt we will see it though. ------------------- Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may be drafted...
I read this. I scanned it. I read it again. Each time I caught myself nodding off.
Are these people really this boring? Do they really lack incentive (other than the allmighty dollar)?
It seems to me that MS has just reached the apex of stagnant. It used to be I would at least raise my eyebrows at some of their ideas for stuff and go "hmmm". But this stuff is just plain boring!
I think they need to hire Steve Jobs and let him ask the new hires "Are you still a virgin?"
Linux folks, there ain't a thing to worry about if this is the best Bill and Co. can do.
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I am going through this right now myself, and have to chime in with my comments....
When I started using computers in 1979 in Junior High, the things were pretty neat. Simple, yes, but neat. You just loaded the program off of tape, then typed RUN and that was it.
Then in 1982 I got my first computer at home - a Timex Sinclair 1000. That was actually a pretty big step up for me. For one thing, I was able to use PLOT (which, if memory serves, was not an option on PET BASIC. It might of been, but I don't remember it). Three months later I moved to an Atari 400. The end of 1983 I changed to an Atari 800XL with disk drives!
Each time I made a change, there was a learning curve. There was a lot of times I would sit in front of the computer and blankly stare at it trying to remember what the heck the command was I needed.
I don't even want to describe what it was like when I got into university and logged onto the VAX the first time.... but I managed to figure it out. This was a huge step up for me - from running and 8 bit machine with 88K floppy drives up to this huge behemoth.
What really astounded me was the day I fired up my 300 baud modem and was able to log on from home. THAT was cool. Then I found the net and started learning to use ftp. And it took me forever to get kermit down.
So what is my point? First, to agree with everything you say, but also that right now I am going through this huge learning process again with linux. Yes it is hard to learn. Yes it is going to take me a while. This time I am pretty much doing it on my own (still waiting to go to the local LUG meeting in a few weeks, so that will help).
How will I know that I finally have a grasp on it? In thinking back, it will be the time that I can help a newbie with something. But you are right... the real stumbling block is trying to use what a person already knows. I know MS-DOS and Windows like the back of my hand. Will that help in using Linux? Sure. But it is gonna be a hinderance too.
Guess a good analogy would be that OSs are a lot like cars. That is, you can hop in any car and drive it. But you can not get in any car and then enter a race.
Does any of this make sense???:)
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The TCP/IP Illustrated book is perhaps the most read book on my shelves. I bought it a while back just wanting to know how the Internet worked - what I learned from it is amazing and I will always be grateful to him to educating me.
Gonna miss you, dude.
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This just makes me sit back and wonder - is the Playstation 2 now history? Yeah, I know, diffy platform and all that, but still. Leaving out the Emotion Engine or whatever it is called, it seems to me the PS2 is now a relic in terms of what it is delivering for graphics. Granted we are not seeing any numbers, but still.
I think if anything seeing graphics like this are at least going to set a fire under some butts to get the next generation of stuff out. It is also good to see nvidia not having to worry about selling the chips. This whole Diamond/STB thing had me worried for a while.
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Yesterday I ripped all links to amazon and amazon-related sites, and yanked the orders I had placed. Now I am looking around at other sites.
Someone mentioned Powels (sp?) elsewhere, and there is fatbrain, but what else is there? I must say that having books and DVDs on one site was pretty kickass, but 800.com seems to be the best DVD place. Are there any other sites besides the wicked evil amazon that do DVD/Books/Toys?
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Subject: Dump this or I am dumping you. To: purchase-circles@amazon.com From: Randy Rathbun Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:27:55 -0500
I currently have a $120+ order pending with your company. If this "purchase circle" is not done away with immediately, I will be canceling this order, I will also be removing any and all links from my website to the amazon affiliates program, and I will never visit any of your web sites or do business with you again. Period. This includes links to IMDB.
I will be checking your website the afternoon of August 26. If this thing is still in effect, my business will be taken elsewhere.
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------------------------------------------------ Maybe it is just me, but I think Amazon is gonna get hurt in this deal.
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I completely agree with what you are saying - and can relate an episode that I watched about a year ago when I took my car in for an oil change - this lady had a new car and had no idea what the RPM guage was for. She thought it was a clock and brought her car in to have the clock fixed because the needle was jumping all over.
One of the other posts here says that they don't consider this stuff funny anymore. I am in the same boat. I hang out on one of the help channels on IRC and oh my some idiots come in there. Then I get to deal with the same shit for brain types all day at work.
It all makes me sad.
I think it goes to show how our educational system is running when people can not even program a VCR, set a digital watch, or turn on a computer.
Maybe I should just move to an island and get away from the morons of the world.
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I read a lot of comments here about "how dare they.. now things are going to be that much worse", to which I reply - BS.
When DIVX died just over two months ago, it showed the entertainment industry that us consumers are not going to put up with some pay-per-play system in which they can yank the rug out at any time and keep us, the customers, from watching something we have in our homes.
Now, thanks to the guys who wrote UNFUCK, we can show the RIAA and their ilk that we are not going to put up with this SDMI crap either.
Ya know, we pay taxes on all recordable media for music. You pay a tax on cassette tapes, minidiscs, blank CD-R Audio discs... or you pay a huge tax on recording equipment so that you can turn SDMS off. What is SDMS? All it entails is flipping two bits of an 11 bit stream to make all the copies you want. Why do we pay this tax? Because the RIAA got congress to impose this tax so that the music industry does not loose money every time you make a copy of the Spice Girls album and give it to your friends.
However, I don't make copies of any of my CDs for any of my friends. I have old audio tapes from when I was two years old. Thanks the RIAA, I can not make multiple generation copies of digital tracks I made of these tapes. Yeah yeah, I know all about CDR and all that, and that is how I do it. But if we the consumers let the RIAA have it's way and let this SDMI crap succeed, we will not be able to make copies of digital stuff THAT WE OWN in the future.
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Just think, boys and girls - a phone that can never be traced to you! Granted, it would be hard to do a drug ring with this because it won't accept calls, but big deal!
Maybe I am just being stupid, but this is worse than divx. Who in their right mind, asside from criminals and kids who want to look cool (also known as wannabes) would want one of these things? PCS service from Sprint is dirt cheap and the phones from them are like $50, and if you are really stingy you can get one from one of the other companies for one cent.
It's pure idiocy, so they will probably make a fortune off of them - just not from me.
I am getting so tired of this "Those meanies cracked my weak encryption!" stuff. The Wired article does no good for the matter either by implying that MusicMatch is a "tool for pirates". Far from it.
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I am currently building my very own MP3 server for my living room. Why? Because I have over 600 CDs and never can find the one I want (I am a terrible housekeeper, and I have CDs laying all over the place - most not even in their jewel cases.)
As long as I am using legal copies of stuff I have in my posession that I purchased, who the hell cares? I don't give copies of stuff away - not to my relatives, not to my friends, and not even to strangers. Why should I?
I am also getting mighty sick of the recording taxes the industry is forcing us to pay. You pay a tax on cassette tape, minidisc, and now on CD-R audio discs. Why should we? The stuff I am recording at home is my stuff. It is stuff like the tape my cousin made of my grandmother when she came back from her trip to Czechoslovakia in 1980. If I want to make a copy on tape of that, I get to shell out money to "the man" because he is implying that any tapes I buy are going to be used to record the latest Spice Girls album.
I am sick to death of it.
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What gets me is that no matter how hard they try encryption just gets blown away. I still find it rather tiring to keep reading this stuff. The guys coming up with this encryption stuff are either lawyers or marketing drones, so of course it does not stand up for very long!
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Of course once it gets cracked then it becomes "hey! they cheated! they are illegal underground punks! they worship the devil!" and a host of other things - just look at what the Brittish recording industry put out recently - after all anyone who listens to MP3s are nothing but a bunch of pot smoking pedophiles, right?
To me breaking encryption is just the geek way of thumbing our noses at idiots. Here's to more beautiful hacks!
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A few weeks ago a friend of mine was rather upset because someone at the big faceless yuppie infested company he works for got all upset over his .sig which read "People are funny, and they taste like chicken." So, another friend and I have changed our sigs as well. He has "My cat's breath smells like cat food" and I have the number Euclid spits out in the movie Pi.
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I get so sick of all this yuppiedom crapola. I try to entertain myself by giving my servers funny names. I have Holly and smeg and scutter - references from Red Dwarf (and yes, Holly is the monster mega server) and I have Tarantula as my webserver and then I have a machine named BigChief which we named when the Kansas City Chiefs were doing really well in the playoffs a few years ago.
I just get really ill at these social climbing twits who are in business. They ruin the little bit of fun us geeks can have. Perhaps we should all start naming our servers after characters in "Keeping Up Appearances"?
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I don't know about anyone else, but AC is truly "THE MAN" in my book.
In all honesty I don't know of anything that I can find at fault with him (other than his Mysterious World of Arthur C. Clarke which, I will admit, is truly entertaining to watch, but is total bunk science.)
Anyway, to this day whenever I pick up one of his books, the first thing I think of when I read something about some gizmo is "okay...." but then I soon say "Wow!" when it finally sinks in just what the thing does.
If there should be a patron saint of /., AC gets my vote.
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I have been using Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 for almost a month now. It is super easy to set up (provided you pay attention and notice that sometimes it does not start the swap - it is very annoying when your machine thrashes worse than a 4 MB machine running WinNT).
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The install is very smooth. You plop the disk in, click a few things, and it starts installing. Then you get to play a nice game of tetris.
One thing I did find annoying, however, was the X setup. It shows you a screen and you are supposed to pick your video resolution and then hit the test button to make sure that it works. Well, your screen flashes - and it will either show you a X window session or it won't. But, in my case, it took me a while to ever get a display properly picked. The problem is not that when it fails it just does a *blip!* to the screen, it is that it does not tell you it failed. I can see how this would confuse the hell out of a newbie. It would be nice to see something say "Sorry, but that mode does not work" or something to that effect.
I can do a full install in about 20 minutes, and have COL up and running totally to my liking in about 40 (after I install Star Office, BRU, and WP8). As far as I can tell, COL is getting really close to being the proverbial "so easy my mom can use it" distro.
Heck, I bet she could use it with no problem. Maybe I should take a machine over and let her try to install it?
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This man should be commended and held up for the world to see! He pulled a media hack that got a whole cable network show devoted to it. Only Joey Skaggs has done better at this than I know of, and that is because Joey has been pulling these media hacks for years!
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Okay, sure, Linux may not have MS Office, nor does it have Corel Office, but it does have Wordperfect and Star Office. Isn't this mainly what the typical business person needs?
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As I sit here and think about what stuff we run where I work, 90% of it is Word and Excel, which Star Office does just fine.
I really whished I had found Linux sooner. It would be saving me so much headache in the support department it would not even be funny - like all the time I have spent un-fsck'ing a Windows machine that someone who "thought they knew" fsck'ed up. Had I had real security to start with, I would not be wasting my time.
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This does bring me to a kind of off topic question though that I think should be asked - who will be the next to leave the CE camp? How indicative is this of what CE is doing in the marketplace? When will MS be posting a PalmOS FUD document like they did for Linux? My guess on the last question is Real Soon Now.
This should be fun to watch for!
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I think there are a number of reasons for this happening. Main among them is "who in the hell is Mandrake?" Up until a few weeks ago I don't ever really remember paying attention to any press they issued. I know all about the /. link here to see the past Mandrake stories, but I think a majority of people relate more to the Big 3 (soon to be 4) - Red Hat, Caldera, SuSe, and soon Corel. You see those names and you know it is a Linux article. I think Mandrake needs to start jumping up and down and waving a flag or something to get some more attention. From what I have read about Mandrake, it seems like an excellent distro.
I think another thing I consider to be a problem is Distro-bigotry. A case in point: last week I went into the efnet #linux channel. What a disgrace! The ops were there flaming everyone they could, made fun of this one newbie because he was playing around with WinLinux and was having some problems with it, and just plain making asses out of themselves. I was in the channel for an hour and all they could do was sit and bash this distro and that distro. Of course, they had their favorite, and everything else was pure crap to them.
So, imagine what is going to be happening... new guy comes in and wants to get some opinions, everyone chimes in "Red Hat!" and off they go. Those using Mandrake or Caldera or SuSe are not going to say a word for fear of either a) being flamed, or, as I saw the ops do to the WinLinux guy, b) kick and ban him.
We in the Linux community have a lot of attitudes to change and they need to be changed really fast.
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I remember seeing an interview with him on 60 Minutes a number of years ago. He said that the products that Sony produced were the ones he wanted to have. I think we can honestly call him one hell of a wired geek.
The problem with Beta was not due to "a lack of movies" as you state, but had more to do with Sony refusing to sell blank tapes to the porn industry. JVC was more than happy to let whoever have blank tapes.
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www.cc.org - The Christrian Coalition - I disagree with their stance on so many issues it is not even funny.
www.microsoft.com - They release buggy as hell software, charge an arm and a leg, and don't get around to fixing 1/2 of their bugs. Therefore, they are a bad example for kids in that they are teaching them that money is the most important thing in the world, and it is okay to cheat your customers (MY opinion).
www.slashdot.org - People are allowed to post their opinions uncensored and sometimes people say the word "fuck"
Now, where do we draw the line? If a list such as what you are advocating is allowed to be created, every web page is going to be listed on it because there is someone who disagrees with it!
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Then Netscape could not pop up windows on you!
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An example? Check out this bug. From what I can tell it has been in there since 4.01 and maybe earlier. Let's see them put REAL support for PNGs. I doubt we will see it though.
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I read this. I scanned it. I read it again. Each time I caught myself nodding off.
Are these people really this boring? Do they really lack incentive (other than the allmighty dollar)?
It seems to me that MS has just reached the apex of stagnant. It used to be I would at least raise my eyebrows at some of their ideas for stuff and go "hmmm". But this stuff is just plain boring!
I think they need to hire Steve Jobs and let him ask the new hires "Are you still a virgin?"
Linux folks, there ain't a thing to worry about if this is the best Bill and Co. can do.
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I am going through this right now myself, and have to chime in with my comments....
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When I started using computers in 1979 in Junior High, the things were pretty neat. Simple, yes, but neat. You just loaded the program off of tape, then typed RUN and that was it.
Then in 1982 I got my first computer at home - a Timex Sinclair 1000. That was actually a pretty big step up for me. For one thing, I was able to use PLOT (which, if memory serves, was not an option on PET BASIC. It might of been, but I don't remember it). Three months later I moved to an Atari 400. The end of 1983 I changed to an Atari 800XL with disk drives!
Each time I made a change, there was a learning curve. There was a lot of times I would sit in front of the computer and blankly stare at it trying to remember what the heck the command was I needed.
I don't even want to describe what it was like when I got into university and logged onto the VAX the first time.... but I managed to figure it out. This was a huge step up for me - from running and 8 bit machine with 88K floppy drives up to this huge behemoth.
What really astounded me was the day I fired up my 300 baud modem and was able to log on from home. THAT was cool. Then I found the net and started learning to use ftp. And it took me forever to get kermit down.
So what is my point? First, to agree with everything you say, but also that right now I am going through this huge learning process again with linux. Yes it is hard to learn. Yes it is going to take me a while. This time I am pretty much doing it on my own (still waiting to go to the local LUG meeting in a few weeks, so that will help).
How will I know that I finally have a grasp on it? In thinking back, it will be the time that I can help a newbie with something. But you are right... the real stumbling block is trying to use what a person already knows. I know MS-DOS and Windows like the back of my hand. Will that help in using Linux? Sure. But it is gonna be a hinderance too.
Guess a good analogy would be that OSs are a lot like cars. That is, you can hop in any car and drive it. But you can not get in any car and then enter a race.
Does any of this make sense???
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Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may be drafted...
What if they threw a cyberwar and nobody came?
We need Country Joe to write a song about this...
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Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may be drafted...
The TCP/IP Illustrated book is perhaps the most read book on my shelves. I bought it a while back just wanting to know how the Internet worked - what I learned from it is amazing and I will always be grateful to him to educating me.
Gonna miss you, dude.
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
It wasn't all that long ago that Microsoft got caught pirating software. Remember MS-DOS 6? Remember Double Space?
In other words, "Yes, Virginia, people are stupid enough."
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
I think if anything seeing graphics like this are at least going to set a fire under some butts to get the next generation of stuff out. It is also good to see nvidia not having to worry about selling the chips. This whole Diamond/STB thing had me worried for a while.
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
Yesterday I ripped all links to amazon and amazon-related sites, and yanked the orders I had placed. Now I am looking around at other sites.
Someone mentioned Powels (sp?) elsewhere, and there is fatbrain, but what else is there? I must say that having books and DVDs on one site was pretty kickass, but 800.com seems to be the best DVD place. Are there any other sites besides the wicked evil amazon that do DVD/Books/Toys?
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
Subject: Dump this or I am dumping you.
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To: purchase-circles@amazon.com
From: Randy Rathbun
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:27:55 -0500
I currently have a $120+ order pending with your company. If this "purchase circle" is not done away with immediately, I will be canceling this order, I will also be removing any and all links from my website to the amazon affiliates program, and I will never visit any of your web sites or do
business with you again. Period. This includes links to IMDB.
I will be checking your website the afternoon of August 26. If this thing is still in effect, my business will be taken elsewhere.
Randy
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Maybe it is just me, but I think Amazon is gonna get hurt in this deal.
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
I completely agree with what you are saying - and can relate an episode that I watched about a year ago when I took my car in for an oil change - this lady had a new car and had no idea what the RPM guage was for. She thought it was a clock and brought her car in to have the clock fixed because the needle was jumping all over.
One of the other posts here says that they don't consider this stuff funny anymore. I am in the same boat. I hang out on one of the help channels on IRC and oh my some idiots come in there. Then I get to deal with the same shit for brain types all day at work.
It all makes me sad.
I think it goes to show how our educational system is running when people can not even program a VCR, set a digital watch, or turn on a computer.
Maybe I should just move to an island and get away from the morons of the world.
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
I read a lot of comments here about "how dare they.. now things are going to be that much worse", to which I reply - BS.
When DIVX died just over two months ago, it showed the entertainment industry that us consumers are not going to put up with some pay-per-play system in which they can yank the rug out at any time and keep us, the customers, from watching something we have in our homes.
Now, thanks to the guys who wrote UNFUCK, we can show the RIAA and their ilk that we are not going to put up with this SDMI crap either.
Ya know, we pay taxes on all recordable media for music. You pay a tax on cassette tapes, minidiscs, blank CD-R Audio discs... or you pay a huge tax on recording equipment so that you can turn SDMS off. What is SDMS? All it entails is flipping two bits of an 11 bit stream to make all the copies you want. Why do we pay this tax? Because the RIAA got congress to impose this tax so that the music industry does not loose money every time you make a copy of the Spice Girls album and give it to your friends.
However, I don't make copies of any of my CDs for any of my friends. I have old audio tapes from when I was two years old. Thanks the RIAA, I can not make multiple generation copies of digital tracks I made of these tapes. Yeah yeah, I know all about CDR and all that, and that is how I do it. But if we the consumers let the RIAA have it's way and let this SDMI crap succeed, we will not be able to make copies of digital stuff THAT WE OWN in the future.
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio