When a process is running ON MY MACHINE without my permission to track me, its more like the motorist has a stowaway in the back seat monitoring my car from the inside of the freaking back seat.
NO software should be able to put itself into HKEYLOCALMACHINE>SOFTWARE>MICROSOFT>WINDOWS>RUN/RU N SERVICES without my permission.
I never used a Timex, Started with a Vic-20, then a c64,c128, Amiga2000HD, Watched Amiga fall, lost interst in computers and faith in the world, got PC, still no interst / faith.
Bullshit. You return to your country a virtual millionaire, and with the expierence of working here. How does your government lose?
You paid a total of what? $60 for your education? You think your governments concerned about that $60 when you return with $60,000 in cash?
I keep seeing H1-b's returning to live like millionaires in their home country, where the money is worth more. We're not really subsidising immigrants who will live HERE, we're subsidising foreiners to live above their standard of living in their OWN country while taking away from ours HERE. As long as the H1-b's return to their own country, we lose.
Someone please tell me, what will it take to get us off of our fat, lazy, American asses and do something about the subversion of our political system that is, and has been, taking place right under our noses?
They can have my guns when they pry them from my cold dead hands.
>> How incredibly arrogant. "You poor foreigners, you don't understand that the H-1B visa is bad for you, so we intellignent Americans must protect you by not letting you decide for yourself if you want one."
How is it arrogant? It directly affects him when he doesnt get a job because they're payng someone for 40 hours and getting 70-100 and decide they dont NEED anyone else. I suppose when we cant watch our children grow up because we're working 100 hours a week "like they do" and we're upset the government is SUBSIDISING this and how it affects our families quality of life, we're just arrogant.
I would like my employer to expect a reasonable workweek, y'know, 40-55 hours or so, but I guess I'm just arrogant.
While we're at it, lets get rid of the minimum wage, who are WE to tell people that they shouldnt work for $1 an hour? That would be arrogant to assume we know whats best for them, In fact, lets just get rid of ALL our arrogant labor laws.
>> so we intellignent Americans must protect you by not letting you decide for yourself if you want one."
You're right, we shouldnt decide our countries policies, we, as intelligent Americans, should let foreigners govern us and our policies. In fact, we should put in force policies that lower our families standard of living in favor of foreiners. After all, we would want to appear arrogant.
I wouldnt have a problem with it if there WAS a shortage of workers, but thats not the case. Companies want people with 5 years expierence and only want to pay starting wage.
I keep seeing "Entry level position, 5 years exp. required", and usually the companies are NOT willing to train. The way it looks to me, this is just the government trying to flood the employment market to lower the cost (wages) of IT workers. I think we need a union, as if working 70-100 hours a week isnt enough. This is an ocupation that is expensive to train for, and job security isnt the same as other ocupations as a lot of the jobs are with start-ups and volitile organizations.
I dont have a problem with foreiners being allowed to work here, but make them get paid as much as we do, and only let them work the hours we do. (They DONT get paid as much as a citizen, if you consider the hours they work)
Great, When I was working as a laborer, the Mexicans were taking the jobs, now I'm into computers, and they still are! I knew I should have taken basket weaving.
ALL of the desktops are too premature for this to be a good time to say "this is the ONE"- at this point, more is better, were still evolving, and we need the mutations to evolve.
X windows is older than MS windows. Microsoft reinvented.
I have a 486 VLB motherboard with USB support, it took Microsoft 3 1/2 years to support it. (they were working on it for 3 years). The Linux USB support was in developement FAR less.)
95b USB support doesnt count. it only works for mice and keyboards, which can be emulated by the BIOS anyway. You cant GET a USB printer to work in "Windows 95 with USB support", they only work in 98.
So even if Linux takes THREE YEARS to get USB support working for more than just keyboards (which they already have) they are ahead of the game.
>> Now if you're "getting really sick of living in the United States of America" then allow me to use the tried but true cliche used every now and then: if you don't like it, leave it.
I'd rather have my country left alone thank you, Just because others are raping the constitution doesnt mean *I* should leave, If they dont like the constitution, let THEM leave, but leave the constitution alone!
>> I, too, am frustrated by boneheaded judges and greedy institutions. I fear for my privacy and the erosion of my rights. But having done quite a bit of travelling outside of the United States in Europe and Asia I can confidently tell you that I think there is no better place to live on the planet today when you factor in safety, creature comforts, wages, health care, education and opportunity.
Ok, but when you ALSO factor in Freedom, Liberty, Government, Repression, Opression, and Political/Legal climates, it doesnt look so good after all, AND *THATS* WHY THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED, thank you. Our forefathers didnt come here for "creature comforts."
So, for those of you that get sick of us "whining" that our rights are being stripped, maybe YOU should go somewhere else, and let us AMERICANS have our Freedom and Liberty intact, If you feel the constitution needs changing, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE, and write your own, but leave ours INTACT.
On a side note, why didnt the lawyers create a leak? it might have gained public sympathy.
The Soap Opera that went on over at ID Software for awhile. I like to hear those stories, and they're hard to find exept for the recent one about the time they announced Doom3 and Reeds departure.
But the Windows toilet has a EULA on the toilet seat, and the seat itself has to be upgraded every 6 months. The thing clogs constantly, and I need a plunger handy at all times. I cant keep it clean, and the roto-rooter man cant always fix it, he (most of the time) tells me it needs to be reinstalled.
No matter how much I clean it, you can get virusus from it also. They will contaminate all the MS things in your house too.
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When a process is running ON MY MACHINE without my permission to track me, its more like the motorist has a stowaway in the back seat monitoring my car from the inside of the freaking back seat.
U N SERVICES without my permission.
NO software should be able to put itself into HKEYLOCALMACHINE>SOFTWARE>MICROSOFT>WINDOWS>RUN/R
Ogg is the last name of one of the creators. Cool, about time an Ogg became famous!
I never used a Timex, Started with a Vic-20, then a c64,c128, Amiga2000HD, Watched Amiga fall, lost interst in computers and faith in the world, got PC, still no interst / faith.
I want my Amiga back
Three versions later, it still is.
I didnt say "USB port", I said "USB support", the pins are there, head on over to ASUS's website and check out some of their 486 offerings.
Bullshit. You return to your country a virtual millionaire, and with the expierence of working here. How does your government lose?
You paid a total of what? $60 for your education? You think your governments concerned about that $60 when you return with $60,000 in cash?
I keep seeing H1-b's returning to live like millionaires in their home country, where the money is worth more. We're not really subsidising immigrants who will live HERE, we're subsidising foreiners to live above their standard of living in their OWN country while taking away from ours HERE. As long as the H1-b's return to their own country, we lose.
Someone please tell me, what will it take to get us off of our fat, lazy, American asses and do something about the subversion of our political system that is, and has been, taking place right under our noses?
They can have my guns when they pry them from my cold dead hands.
>> How incredibly arrogant. "You poor foreigners, you don't understand that the H-1B visa is bad for you, so we intellignent Americans must protect you by not letting you decide for yourself if you want one."
How is it arrogant? It directly affects him when he doesnt get a job because they're payng someone for 40 hours and getting 70-100 and decide they dont NEED anyone else. I suppose when we cant watch our children grow up because we're working 100 hours a week "like they do" and we're upset the government is SUBSIDISING this and how it affects our families quality of life, we're just arrogant.
I would like my employer to expect a reasonable workweek, y'know, 40-55 hours or so, but I guess I'm just arrogant.
While we're at it, lets get rid of the minimum wage, who are WE to tell people that they shouldnt work for $1 an hour? That would be arrogant to assume we know whats best for them, In fact, lets just get rid of ALL our arrogant labor laws.
>> so we intellignent Americans must protect you by not letting you decide for yourself if you want one."
You're right, we shouldnt decide our countries policies, we, as intelligent Americans, should let foreigners govern us and our policies. In fact, we should put in force policies that lower our families standard of living in favor of foreiners. After all, we would want to appear arrogant.
I wouldnt have a problem with it if there WAS a shortage of workers, but thats not the case. Companies want people with 5 years expierence and only want to pay starting wage.
I keep seeing "Entry level position, 5 years exp. required", and usually the companies are NOT willing to train. The way it looks to me, this is just the government trying to flood the employment market to lower the cost (wages) of IT workers. I think we need a union, as if working 70-100 hours a week isnt enough. This is an ocupation that is expensive to train for, and job security isnt the same as other ocupations as a lot of the jobs are with start-ups and volitile organizations.
I dont have a problem with foreiners being allowed to work here, but make them get paid as much as we do, and only let them work the hours we do. (They DONT get paid as much as a citizen, if you consider the hours they work)
Great, When I was working as a laborer, the Mexicans were taking the jobs, now I'm into computers, and they still are! I knew I should have taken basket weaving.
ALL of the desktops are too premature for this to be a good time to say "this is the ONE"- at this point, more is better, were still evolving, and we need the mutations to evolve.
set static IP
ditch your crappy NIC drivers
in BIOS set DELAYED TRANSACTION = ENABLED
X windows is older than MS windows. Microsoft reinvented.
I have a 486 VLB motherboard with USB support, it took Microsoft 3 1/2 years to support it. (they were working on it for 3 years). The Linux USB support was in developement FAR less.)
95b USB support doesnt count. it only works for mice and keyboards, which can be emulated by the BIOS anyway. You cant GET a USB printer to work in "Windows 95 with USB support", they only work in 98.
So even if Linux takes THREE YEARS to get USB support working for more than just keyboards (which they already have) they are ahead of the game.
Tee hee hee, I have this video of Bill Gates demonstrating win98 support for AWESOME USB DEVICES, hee hee hee, The screen went blue...
I agree, wish we'd see more people sticking to their guns, even if they fail, at least the SOB's would feel a resistance at least.
>> Now if you're "getting really sick of living in the United States of America" then allow me to use the tried but true cliche used every now and then: if you don't like it, leave it.
I'd rather have my country left alone thank you, Just because others are raping the constitution doesnt mean *I* should leave, If they dont like the constitution, let THEM leave, but leave the constitution alone!
>> I, too, am frustrated by boneheaded judges and greedy institutions. I fear for my privacy and the erosion of my rights. But having done quite a bit of travelling outside of the United States in Europe and Asia I can confidently tell you that I think there is no better place to live on the planet today when you factor in safety, creature comforts, wages, health care, education and opportunity.
Ok, but when you ALSO factor in Freedom, Liberty, Government, Repression, Opression, and Political/Legal climates, it doesnt look so good after all, AND *THATS* WHY THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED, thank you. Our forefathers didnt come here for "creature comforts."
So, for those of you that get sick of us "whining" that our rights are being stripped, maybe YOU should go somewhere else, and let us AMERICANS have our Freedom and Liberty intact, If you feel the constitution needs changing, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE, and write your own, but leave ours INTACT.
On a side note, why didnt the lawyers create a leak? it might have gained public sympathy.
Big Iron is not dead, no cluster has the I/O of Big Iron, anyway, I think he was talking OS/software, not hardware.
Never trust someones who's number *IS* 666!
The Soap Opera that went on over at ID Software for awhile. I like to hear those stories, and they're hard to find exept for the recent one about the time they announced Doom3 and Reeds departure.
Windows 95 does not have a built in TCP/IP stack.
Amiga had true (TRUE true) 32 bit multitasking in 1985, (and there IS no 16-bit code on the Amiga, NONE, 95 has 16 bit crap all over it)
Plug and Play was only needed because the platform sucks, I never needed IRQ's for my devices on my Amiga or my Quark.
Breaking new ground? The only thing Microsoft broke was wind.
I believe its based on the Prism kernel (?)
on a side note, why the hell dont we give ourselves 256 IRQ's? we went from 8 to 16, but thats not enough!
Both your AT Keyboard, and your PS/2 Mouse use an IRQ, (1 and 12), USB uses ONE IRQ for all devices attached, up to 127!
You only have 16 total, IRQ's are precious.
But the Windows toilet has a EULA on the toilet seat, and the seat itself has to be upgraded every 6 months. The thing clogs constantly, and I need a plunger handy at all times. I cant keep it clean, and the roto-rooter man cant always fix it, he (most of the time) tells me it needs to be reinstalled.
No matter how much I clean it, you can get virusus from it also. They will contaminate all the MS things in your house too.
>> Sun created Java, but they want it to be an open standard *and* have control at the same time.
Yea imagine that! They should be more like Linus, he would never, what? oh yea, nevermind.
or, um, RMS! he would never, huh? oh yea. hmmm...