I've heard about that fact a lot, could it be attributed to Windows-only company policies, and people reading from work? At any case, this is my personal PC and I'm using Windows at the moment. Surfing with Opera though!
That's exactly what I thought when I looked at the first 2 pictures (hmm, they're not slashdoted yet, or is it because I'm coming with the afterdot (as in aftershocks with earthquakes:)). Thoughts of Syndicate Wars also come into mind, in it the people of the world are controlled with a chip that alters their mind, the real world is dark and grim, but in their reality it is a nice, bright world. Somewhat like the Matrix, without the big bahtubs.
Jesus Christ this guy is stupid. He's only thinking short term (how to get out of this lawsuit) and not long term (how is this going to look to my customers). Seems like he still thinks Microsoft is number one, that there is no alternative, either you use MS or end up with no IT infrastructure. Bah, anyone who still buys from MS after reading this should be qualified as stupid.
Man, I want to be angry at his stupidity but I can't. Maybe I'll just laugh at him. What a bunch of fuckups they have at MS.
You were the CTO of a web services company. Was this another dotcom that went kaboom? Somehow whenever I hear about these dotcoms, I have in my mind the idea that the executives waste a tremendous amount of money and then bail out with $million per year "pension" just before the company bankrupts, leaving its unpaid employees unemployed? Were you one of those execs too? Serious question.
Arguably the best films ever made? I'd argue to that. I'm a geek (I don't see myself as being hardcore, although I think my non-geek friends are afraid with how much I know about computers), and I find Star Wars so-so. I still haven't seen Episode I, back when they had The Special Edition (Special, only on theaters! These series will not be released to DVD! (18 months later, oops, DVD)) I only saw 2 out of the original 3 series. Wanna talk good films? Lord of The Rings, if you're into sci-fi/fantasy. Fight Club (a bit of a "Everyone thinks it's cool, I have to think so too"), American Beauty or any movie which phony acting and dialog (The Fast and Furious, any other teeny movie there is) doesn't make you wanna punch the director for making such crap.
It's also a brilliant move for Matrox: If they keep throwing out 3 head cards at a premium price - after buying one Matrox 3-headed card, who's not going to keep purchasing Matrox cards? If you got this set-up, would you disable one or two of your gaming monitors just to get the new nvidia whizbang that might be 10-20% faster? Very insightful, but that's only going to hold true until Nvidia makes a card that can also do 3-head. (It also has to be faster than Matrox's to get people to buy it, of course.). But for now, it's a nice feat of engineering by Matrox.
XSokoban? I really think it's a way of teaching kids (and adults too) of thinking ahead. There's also the chess games, but hehe I don't think kids enjoy that.
RMS, or better, Linus (he's better known and scares less people IMO) should say something about the project on media, saying that helping schools is one of Linux's goals or something similar. Though I don't think Linus likes to talk about the politics of the OS wars, he's just the one that controls one of the tools needed for that war, the kernel (which, unfortunately for FSF, is the tool that gets the most recognition). But he did say his goal wrt Linux is to take over the world, or not?
Wow, although this seems to be the work of a troll, I find this feature quite interesting. See, I can't cook but I want to learn and I'm always interested in easy to cook recipes. And imagine, finding recipes on Slashdot! A good interruption from the usual on-topic discussion. Is this part of the enhanced service from subscriptions?
Reminds me of Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts, Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) believes that all murderers of famous people had a copy of "Catcher in the Rye", and he's obssesed about buying any copy of it he sees. One day he bought a copy, and as soon as it got scanned at the cash register, men in black started rappeling down from black helicopters which showed up outside the book store.
If not for the monopoly of whoever it is that holds control of the most popular TLDs, everybody anywhere would be able to register whatever they want..com is supposedly US only (call it egocentric but it was probably because of historical reasons), but a lot of foreign companies have a.com URL, because it looks cooler than a *.[country-id] . There's also the mess with.to,.tv,.cx,.nu and whatever else there is that no longer belong to respective countries. The whole concept is getting pointless , I say we deregulate and let anyone choose anything. Nike could have http://just.do.it/ for example. Yeah, well, I bet no registrar would be willing to do that. And yeah, it'll be yet another fucking commodity where everyone will fight for "good" domain names, but if Nike isn't nike.com, people have to know what the domain name really is. It would then be pointless to squat on nike.[whatever] when a new [whatever] TLD comes alive.
Call me an elitist, but your newbie-type comment doesn't really help Linux. Hey sure it's a free country, a free (to some extent) forum but I wish you would just shut up with your cluelessness.
RTFM, (man lilo , man lilo.conf) and realize that you really didn't know what you're talking about.
Looking at the Flash demo on the website, setting the alarms appears to involve holding the + or - button and waiting as the minutes tick one by one until the LCD displays the time you want the alarm to go off. Great. At least it can go forwards and backwards. What would be cool (but is probably too complicated) is if you can press a button to set the hour (LCD displays "HOUR"), and move the hour hand to the appropriate/approximate time using your touch, press another button and then move the minute hand to set the minute. And perhaps another pres to activate the + or - to fine tune the minute.
Interesting thought, when the US makes an enemy out of the rest of the world, who will the "bad guys" really be? The US itself? To Muslims extremists, the US is already a regime of terror that has control over their holy land, etc, etc. Imagine if the US is not the US, but each state was an independent country but all share the same ideology. And let's say Russia is the economic and military superpower. How much would you enjoy seeing that Russian military base when you drive to work every day? How much would you like the fact that Cuban nationals (an ally of Russia's), who have taken over most of Florida as their nation, is launching daily attacks againsts what's left of the natives of Florida, and because you live in a powerless nation, all you can do is beg Russia to make Cuba stop? And the only thought that makes you feel independent is the thought that when Russia attacks the hell out of you, your country might disappear, but at least your allies will be mighty pissed off.
Change States of the US to Muslim countries in the middle east, Florida to Palestina and Cuba to Israel.
Already, the US controls the world. I wonder how much Hollywood propaganda has helped. Every spy film in the Cold War featured, guess who, the enemy as the evil assholes.
Of course we think we are on the right side. So does Mr. Bin Laden, he thinks he's on God's side, and Bush thinks the same. We think America stands for liberty and democracy and all that crap (just forget about RIAA, Disney, Hollings, Enron for a bit), but Muslims believe they stand for God and their Holy Book. At least Bush doesn't try to enforce the rule of the Bible on us. True, the interpretation of Quran is opressive against women, I agree thats backwards, but to those who believe it, it's the only source of right.
IMO 1984 was less about the society and more about the control the government has over that society. People who say that the US is turning into a 1984 scenario have their points, the US just spins the media (like with this article) to mislead the public.
But of course I can't convince you, you have to see for yourself.
On the other hand, I can't believe how decisions that affect the world and lives of many people are left to a couple of idiots at the Washington top and how much personal biases affect those decisions, the US let Palestinia and Israel kill each other, making a lot of Muslims pissed off at the same time, because Cheney and Rumsfeld were probably racists that didn't like Arabs. Sure people too can too be racist and say "wel'll just nuke the hell out of Bin Laden and any country that supports him.", but will you sleep well at night when you realize that those who are angry at how the US government for making their world miserable is on their mission from "God" to kill you?
Nicely said. Bah, Code Red over-hyped? Fucking journalist probably didn't even know that it wasn't some lame VBscript Outlook virus that exploits the idiocy of PHBs to double-click them, instead a virus that only exploited the web server service from the secure-company-wannabe and could spread itself sans PHB (thereby more appropriately called a worm), fuck the technology idiots at CNN. How are the viruses being ranked anyway? By the frequency of its appearance in Outlook inboxes? Of course Code Red won't show up in such a list.
On the other hand, it's quite fair to say that antivirus companies have to do a lot of marketing to sell their products. It looks like McAfee has switched into a "web service" company that needs you to pay to connect to their server so they can run an ActiveX virus-scanner, all from MSIE. But hey, we're in a depression, gotta survive somehow. The sky is falling, the sky is falling, yeah it is..
"I intend to stress test our equipment by connecting to the busiest sites on the internet and downloading large amounts of data." -- Wally from Dilbert.
It's sort of wishful thinking that a lot of people who are fed up with Microsoft's tactics (Bug fix=upgrade=give them more money, BSA Gestapo Auditing) are going to switch to free software, because many of them are stuck with MS, for one reason or another. Switching and retraining is expensive and it seems business are only focusing on the short term, especially in these times where if they mess up in the short term they won't be around in the long term. But more and more people are fed up, I for one would never choose MS solution if I ever had the position to make a decision. It's obvious they have used their power to threaten and kill competitors (OEMs, BeOS, Netscape), but I wonder what breaking the OS up is going to achieve. Why the hell should MS really offer competitor's browsers/media player on its system. (On the topic of media player, Real Player is nothing compared to Windows Media Player, but WiMP is integrated.). A browser and a media player is quite a logical extension of an OS. What I really want to see is a move to stop Microsoft forcing OEMs to only have Windows pre-installed OSes. It seems to be the forgotten point. Fair enough, since BeOS, there hasn't been a competitor for a user friendly desktop on the x86 (Mac OS x86 maybe?), and OEMs will end up installing Windows anyway, at least for the moment.
Rest assured, now it seems that Microsoft is killing itself, like the RIAA, by making enemies out of its customers. I wonder if they are going to change in the near future, especially with.net, which even offers compatibility with Mono. The.net API doesn't look bad, and from what I can see they are making it open. At first sight, it looks to me they are trying to bring about a new era to the world of computing, and while they are the developers, they will have the lead in implementation, which is probably what they are betting on. But by keeping the API open they are giving others some fair competition. They need other people to join their bandwagon lest it stops dead. But everybody has to be cautious about APIs that they keep for themselves.
Cool idea, but how annoyed would the some of the users be when on Tuesday morning, they don't have Office on their computer anymore?
I wonder what the Gestapo officers look for on the systems as evidence. If a computer has lots of recently modified DOC and XLS files but doesn't have Office, shouldn't they get suspicious? What if I were to make a new partition with a fresh install of Windows (or better yet Linux, so they would just skip the computer) and hide the partition of the old system?
A telling evidence in that case would be that the computer looks so fresh; it only has plain Windows. The Nazis will ask "Does it even get used?" and poke around.
But like BSA audits, the bloody thing would probably take a few days and fuck up the business/school dependant on the computers in the end.
Cool, "barrapunta". I gather that is Spanish for "Slashdot", "punta" has probably the same origin as "punkt" (German for "dot") and "point", a word that would also means "dot".
Thanks, great parody. What an aarrggh-fucking-lame article. What is that site, script-kiddie remedial course? How to fucking make JPEG files. Bah, talk about aiming at the "Windows for Dummies" target market.
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I've heard about that fact a lot, could it be attributed to Windows-only company policies, and people reading from work? At any case, this is my personal PC and I'm using Windows at the moment. Surfing with Opera though!
Who's Jar Jar Binks in this parallel? Oh right, uncoordinated movement and incomprehensible speech, he's Steve Ballmer!
That's exactly what I thought when I looked at the first 2 pictures (hmm, they're not slashdoted yet, or is it because I'm coming with the afterdot (as in aftershocks with earthquakes :)). Thoughts of Syndicate Wars also come into mind, in it the people of the world are controlled with a chip that alters their mind, the real world is dark and grim, but in their reality it is a nice, bright world. Somewhat like the Matrix, without the big bahtubs.
Jesus Christ this guy is stupid. He's only thinking short term (how to get out of this lawsuit) and not long term (how is this going to look to my customers). Seems like he still thinks Microsoft is number one, that there is no alternative, either you use MS or end up with no IT infrastructure. Bah, anyone who still buys from MS after reading this should be qualified as stupid.
Man, I want to be angry at his stupidity but I can't. Maybe I'll just laugh at him. What a bunch of fuckups they have at MS.
You were the CTO of a web services company. Was this another dotcom that went kaboom? Somehow whenever I hear about these dotcoms, I have in my mind the idea that the executives waste a tremendous amount of money and then bail out with $million per year "pension" just before the company bankrupts, leaving its unpaid employees unemployed? Were you one of those execs too? Serious question.
Arguably the best films ever made? I'd argue to that. I'm a geek (I don't see myself as being hardcore, although I think my non-geek friends are afraid with how much I know about computers), and I find Star Wars so-so. I still haven't seen Episode I, back when they had The Special Edition (Special, only on theaters! These series will not be released to DVD! (18 months later, oops, DVD)) I only saw 2 out of the original 3 series.
Wanna talk good films? Lord of The Rings, if you're into sci-fi/fantasy. Fight Club (a bit of a "Everyone thinks it's cool, I have to think so too"), American Beauty or any movie which phony acting and dialog (The Fast and Furious, any other teeny movie there is) doesn't make you wanna punch the director for making such crap.
It's also a brilliant move for Matrox: If they keep throwing out 3 head cards at a premium price - after buying one Matrox 3-headed card, who's not going to keep purchasing Matrox cards? If you got this set-up, would you disable one or two of your gaming monitors just to get the new nvidia whizbang that might be 10-20% faster?
Very insightful, but that's only going to hold true until Nvidia makes a card that can also do 3-head. (It also has to be faster than Matrox's to get people to buy it, of course.). But for now, it's a nice feat of engineering by Matrox.
XSokoban? I really think it's a way of teaching kids (and adults too) of thinking ahead. There's also the chess games, but hehe I don't think kids enjoy that.
RMS, or better, Linus (he's better known and scares less people IMO) should say something about the project on media, saying that helping schools is one of Linux's goals or something similar. Though I don't think Linus likes to talk about the politics of the OS wars, he's just the one that controls one of the tools needed for that war, the kernel (which, unfortunately for FSF, is the tool that gets the most recognition). But he did say his goal wrt Linux is to take over the world, or not?
Wow, although this seems to be the work of a troll, I find this feature quite interesting. See, I can't cook but I want to learn and I'm always interested in easy to cook recipes. And imagine, finding recipes on Slashdot! A good interruption from the usual on-topic discussion. Is this part of the enhanced service from subscriptions?
Reminds me of Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts, Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) believes that all murderers of famous people had a copy of "Catcher in the Rye", and he's obssesed about buying any copy of it he sees. One day he bought a copy, and as soon as it got scanned at the cash register, men in black started rappeling down from black helicopters which showed up outside the book store.
If not for the monopoly of whoever it is that holds control of the most popular TLDs, everybody anywhere would be able to register whatever they want. .com is supposedly US only (call it egocentric but it was probably because of historical reasons), but a lot of foreign companies have a .com URL, because it looks cooler than a *.[country-id] . There's also the mess with .to, .tv, .cx, .nu and whatever else there is that no longer belong to respective countries. The whole concept is getting pointless , I say we deregulate and let anyone choose anything. Nike could have http://just.do.it/ for example. Yeah, well, I bet no registrar would be willing to do that. And yeah, it'll be yet another fucking commodity where everyone will fight for "good" domain names, but if Nike isn't nike.com, people have to know what the domain name really is. It would then be pointless to squat on nike.[whatever] when a new [whatever] TLD comes alive.
because then they'll be saying "All your ice are belong to us!"
Hahahah...aaaaarrrggghh!!
RTFM, (man lilo , man lilo.conf) and realize that you really didn't know what you're talking about.
Or maybe you're just an astroturfer.
Otherwise, it's one neat watch.
Change States of the US to Muslim countries in the middle east, Florida to Palestina and Cuba to Israel.
Already, the US controls the world. I wonder how much Hollywood propaganda has helped. Every spy film in the Cold War featured, guess who, the enemy as the evil assholes.
Of course we think we are on the right side. So does Mr. Bin Laden, he thinks he's on God's side, and Bush thinks the same. We think America stands for liberty and democracy and all that crap (just forget about RIAA, Disney, Hollings, Enron for a bit), but Muslims believe they stand for God and their Holy Book. At least Bush doesn't try to enforce the rule of the Bible on us. True, the interpretation of Quran is opressive against women, I agree thats backwards, but to those who believe it, it's the only source of right.
But of course I can't convince you, you have to see for yourself.
On the other hand, I can't believe how decisions that affect the world and lives of many people are left to a couple of idiots at the Washington top and how much personal biases affect those decisions, the US let Palestinia and Israel kill each other, making a lot of Muslims pissed off at the same time, because Cheney and Rumsfeld were probably racists that didn't like Arabs. Sure people too can too be racist and say "wel'll just nuke the hell out of Bin Laden and any country that supports him.", but will you sleep well at night when you realize that those who are angry at how the US government for making their world miserable is on their mission from "God" to kill you?
On the other hand, it's quite fair to say that antivirus companies have to do a lot of marketing to sell their products. It looks like McAfee has switched into a "web service" company that needs you to pay to connect to their server so they can run an ActiveX virus-scanner, all from MSIE. But hey, we're in a depression, gotta survive somehow. The sky is falling, the sky is falling, yeah it is..
"I intend to stress test our equipment by connecting to the busiest sites on the internet and downloading large amounts of data." -- Wally from Dilbert.
Google my friend, google.
Rest assured, now it seems that Microsoft is killing itself, like the RIAA, by making enemies out of its customers. I wonder if they are going to change in the near future, especially with .net, which even offers compatibility with Mono. The .net API doesn't look bad, and from what I can see they are making it open. At first sight, it looks to me they are trying to bring about a new era to the world of computing, and while they are the developers, they will have the lead in implementation, which is probably what they are betting on. But by keeping the API open they are giving others some fair competition. They need other people to join their bandwagon lest it stops dead. But everybody has to be cautious about APIs that they keep for themselves.
I wonder what the Gestapo officers look for on the systems as evidence. If a computer has lots of recently modified DOC and XLS files but doesn't have Office, shouldn't they get suspicious? What if I were to make a new partition with a fresh install of Windows (or better yet Linux, so they would just skip the computer) and hide the partition of the old system?
A telling evidence in that case would be that the computer looks so fresh; it only has plain Windows. The Nazis will ask "Does it even get used?" and poke around.
But like BSA audits, the bloody thing would probably take a few days and fuck up the business/school dependant on the computers in the end.
Cool, "barrapunta". I gather that is Spanish for "Slashdot", "punta" has probably the same origin as "punkt" (German for "dot") and "point", a word that would also means "dot".
The fact that PNG can do that magic makes the article worse because then the article becomes more misleading/inaccurate.
Thanks, great parody. What an aarrggh-fucking-lame article. What is that site, script-kiddie remedial course? How to fucking make JPEG files. Bah, talk about aiming at the "Windows for Dummies" target market.