So the hierarchy of countries where there is a real informed segment of the populace or government now starts with Denmark, South Africa, India and Brazil?!?
Refresh my memory, do those countries waterboard people? Do they use rigged machines to count votes? What is the matter with those people?!?
Pinko commies the lot of 'em, allowing true interoperable anti monopoly standards and actually counting votes. They better not be brown, or we'll bomb the shit out of 'em!
Obama seems less satanic than hillary or mccain, but he also has stated that we are staying in iraq "till it's done."
Same corporate whore, different color.
The news won't give Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich a chance. I guess AOL/Time Warner, Viacom, Disney, Bertelsmann, and News Corp have a vested interest in the presidency, and their corporate man is still in the running.....
No, I'm totally aware that was a Xerox PARC innovation, in fact, I knew the guy's name at one point who came up with it, but my memory is increasingly shoddy. There are plenty of other things MS has borrowed from Apple over the years.
Most recently I'd point out the zune/ipod, both of which are really not as good as an mp3 player could/should be.
1) Solitaire 2) Windows 98 se 3) Windows XP sp1 4) Getting that contract with IBM 5) Strong arming governments through bribes 6) Bundled monopolism (Internet Explorer 5) 7) Copying Apple 8) Not being brown like Ubuntu
Other than that, I don't really see many MS high points, and I've kind of been watching them the whole time. I kind of liked Qbasic for a minute. It was handy, but I think they bought that from somebody when it was mostly feature complete, then fucked it up later. I can't remember now.... Oh the weary and toil of years of tech support have ravaged me, Microsoft, you bloated, retarded, retarding, evil, slow, relentless monopoly. Would somebody please make a Linux distro to put you to rest indefinitely.
I dual boot. But most of the apps I regularly use seem to work better in Windows, or are Windows only. Firefox is a good example. It works much better in Windows. Skype also works much better under MS. I get nearly double the outgoing resolution!!
Wow, now you are saying things that I can agree 100% with.:) Though it'd have amused me to hear somebody try to defend OS 9. God that was such an awful bloody abortion!!!
So, umm yeah, I tried halite. I tried opening a torrent with the right click "Open with" option, which failed, then I tried the open option natively inside halite.... also failed. I mean, I could not get a torrent to load 8 ways from sunday. It looks promising, but it's a long way from actually being usable!!:)
Those are all good suggestions but I MUCH prefer firefox to opera..... And I am completely a VLC whore.
utorrent is not to be trusted since version 1.6 from what I've heard. I don't have access to the code, though, so I could be wrong, which brings me back to:
I go with FOSS unless there is a VERY good reason not to, and other than skype and utorrent, I don't have any!!!
Also, abiword has many bugs in it's screen display compared to openoffice writer. Also, it's not so much light software I'm after, but CLEAN software. I run everything portable and do not alter the registry. I am a HUGE fanboy of everything here:
Hey, Photoshop may be marginally better, but for an extra $500 I will never know.... Besides, I haven't found an action that I was unable to do in the GIMP as far as photo editing goes, and I do some complicated things......
I don't however publish a magazine and require CMYK..... Is there something else that photoshop has the gimp doesn't? I'd love to hear about them....
Well, I disagree whole heartedly on several points and AM a dyed in the wool firefox fanboy, but at least you were polite and argued on the topic, and with valid points! I still got modded down by a MacFanboy though. I should have seen that coming. I'm still waiting for somebody to defend OS 9. I guess you could say it was OK compared to Windows ME, weren't they out about the same time?!?
LOL
To be fair though, you are absolutely right about people chose an OS for the software. I'm on Windows because of the awesome FOSS tool chain I've acquired there. I haven't found Linux software to be as good as the FOSS apps in Windows, even though some of it is SUPPOSEDLY the same software! For instance, Firefox is much better in windows than in Ubuntu.....
The real truth (for me) though is that all the software over at:
is so easy to manage, run, and reliable that I can't imagine switching much of what I do for a long time to come. The only thing I miss from Linux is Ardour, and the only thing I miss from Mac is..... iChat?!?? Though like I initially said, skype works pretty well.....
deluge and transmission have come a long way, but neither has succeeded in weening me off of utorrent. I have a maniacal ISP and setting up the trackers through TOR is just easier in utorrent. And it has some other advantages....
Apple has been first to market with stolen ideas about a million times. The mouse they stole from xerox, they had first. They failed. Speech recognition they had first. They failed. An OS that was GUI rather than text based: failed. A strong Unix based OS: Hey, they won one. They made a better ipod than sony, and the handful of RIAA slaves that really weren't that enthusiastic about mp3s to begin with.... duh....
OS 9 was a dismal abortion. So was every OS they put out, up until OS X. Suddenly they get one minor thing right (and it's still far behind most linux/unixes!), and they are going to take over the home? Every home? Within 5 years?
Has anybody here ever used quicktime? IT SUCKS. Have you tried iTunes? IT SUCKS. Have you tried anything from apple besides os X and an ipod that DIDN'T TOTALLY SUCK!??!
Yeah, I thought not. Don't get me wrong, ipods are a good design, despite the horrid itunes interface, the DRM, and the over priced nature of them and lack of flash media integration. OS X is also a good design, albeit drastically behind even most of the inferior Linux distros.
The ONLY thing Apple has right is that they design their products for total idiots, and roundly hit the mark 2 out of ten times.
Microsoft is losing it's hegemony, and Apple is a small part of the story, but Linux will be the big winner. It's inevitable. FOSS will take over everywhere, just like Firefox already has. I already use:
Firefox Thunderbird Pidgin Open Office Infrarecord The GIMP VLC Cool Player + Portable UltraVNC Mupen64Plus and ioquake3.
Not just because they are FOSS, but because they are the best programs available, and they are free. It's not going to take long until a Linux distro emulates Windows perfectly in form and function and also comes bundled with those obvious choices. Maybe we'll have to wait for ReactOS, or maybe it will be some future Ubuntu derivative, but it's only a matter of time.
And I'm sure there will be a FOSS skype killer soon enough, so that I don't require proprietary software anywhere on my machine. FOSS is just a better model. Give it time. This war is already over.
the JRE I consider malware. I've had consistent problems with it since 1998. I have not seen MUCH of an improvement since then.
I'm a little anal though, I only use FOSS portable apps, and refuse to allow any software to run in the system tray unless I am using it actively.
Still, there is no call for JRE to be so invasive in the system, and to be running constantly even when I don't have azureus or some other java app open. I've always hated java. I have good reason to. It sucks, locks up, slows machines down, and is completely unnecessary for every software that I care to use, with the minor caveat of azureus, however, I find azureus bloated and slow too, and use utorrent 1.5. You're talking to a guy who just barely switched out winamp 2.81 for CoolPlayer+Portable.
I'm still trumpeting a call and desire for a FOSS torrent app that is small, clean, and lightweight like utorrent. Until then, I'm sticking with utorrent. Sadly.
Now we can get a version that doesn't require the ruinous bloat that is java? Why isn't there a FOSS utorrent clone already? It's sad that a p2p program is the last bit of commercial code on my machine (besides Windows, though I have been dual booting....).
Firefox Thunderbird Open Office 7zip Infrarecord Cool Player Portable Pidgin VLC UltraVNC Mupen64plus
So I've been rather seriously toying around with the idea of putting together a beowulf cluster, just to flex my tech muscles. What would be the most cost effective?
I can get used xboxes from gamestop for $60 each, it looks like soon enough I'll be able to get atom boxes for about $200 each... They also have gamecubes down at gamestop for $50 each.
What is the cheapest way to cluster, and how many nodes would I need to beat any core 2 duo out on the market? And what distro should I use, and can I get real time frame rates in something like ray traced quake 3 at a decent resolution?
Oh wait, that's the article, isn't it. I'VE BEEN ASKING THIS FOR YEARS!!!
Hopefully the new voice and video for pidgin thing won't suck, and we can finally supplant a corporation BEFORE it becomes a hegemony (though Skype is pretty much there already. BLAST!).
The only thing you have going for you is your user generated content. Start limiting that and you may as well become another Fox news, or other corporate lameness with no value that nobody will visit.
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So the hierarchy of countries where there is a real informed segment of the populace or government now starts with Denmark, South Africa, India and Brazil?!?
Refresh my memory, do those countries waterboard people? Do they use rigged machines to count votes? What is the matter with those people?!?
Pinko commies the lot of 'em, allowing true interoperable anti monopoly standards and actually counting votes. They better not be brown, or we'll bomb the shit out of 'em!
You mean it's going to be just like the US and UK already are?!? I agree that is horrifying!!!
If you are concerned about human rights and the right to privacy in any country, please feel free to spread this image around:
http://a819.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/8/l_16c58f4c82c1b2155b841ff67aeb02ba.jpg
Obama seems less satanic than hillary or mccain, but he also has stated that we are staying in iraq "till it's done."
Same corporate whore, different color.
The news won't give Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich a chance. I guess AOL/Time Warner, Viacom, Disney, Bertelsmann, and News Corp have a vested interest in the presidency, and their corporate man is still in the running.....
He probably isn't feeling it either, which is why he wants it taken down. Sissy.
Prince is such a douche. Can we just all decide to stop listening to his whiny effeminate voice now? Although I do like what he did to Paris.....
We should start a reality show where Prince is the lead singer of Metallica. They can all whine and be douches TOGETHER!
Mod Funny! Mod Funny!
No, I'm totally aware that was a Xerox PARC innovation, in fact, I knew the guy's name at one point who came up with it, but my memory is increasingly shoddy. There are plenty of other things MS has borrowed from Apple over the years.
Most recently I'd point out the zune/ipod, both of which are really not as good as an mp3 player could/should be.
1) Solitaire
2) Windows 98 se
3) Windows XP sp1
4) Getting that contract with IBM
5) Strong arming governments through bribes
6) Bundled monopolism (Internet Explorer 5)
7) Copying Apple
8) Not being brown like Ubuntu
Other than that, I don't really see many MS high points, and I've kind of been watching them the whole time. I kind of liked Qbasic for a minute. It was handy, but I think they bought that from somebody when it was mostly feature complete, then fucked it up later. I can't remember now.... Oh the weary and toil of years of tech support have ravaged me, Microsoft, you bloated, retarded, retarding, evil, slow, relentless monopoly. Would somebody please make a Linux distro to put you to rest indefinitely.
I dual boot. But most of the apps I regularly use seem to work better in Windows, or are Windows only. Firefox is a good example. It works much better in Windows. Skype also works much better under MS. I get nearly double the outgoing resolution!!
You mean George Bush Sr.? I didn't know he was missing!
Wow, now you are saying things that I can agree 100% with. :) Though it'd have amused me to hear somebody try to defend OS 9. God that was such an awful bloody abortion!!!
So, umm yeah, I tried halite. I tried opening a torrent with the right click "Open with" option, which failed, then I tried the open option natively inside halite.... also failed. I mean, I could not get a torrent to load 8 ways from sunday. It looks promising, but it's a long way from actually being usable!! :)
Those are all good suggestions but I MUCH prefer firefox to opera..... And I am completely a VLC whore.
:)
utorrent is not to be trusted since version 1.6 from what I've heard. I don't have access to the code, though, so I could be wrong, which brings me back to:
I go with FOSS unless there is a VERY good reason not to, and other than skype and utorrent, I don't have any!!!
Also, abiword has many bugs in it's screen display compared to openoffice writer. Also, it's not so much light software I'm after, but CLEAN software. I run everything portable and do not alter the registry. I am a HUGE fanboy of everything here:
http://portableapps.com/
And yes, they have abiword and gnumeric and miranda, too....
Hey, Photoshop may be marginally better, but for an extra $500 I will never know.... Besides, I haven't found an action that I was unable to do in the GIMP as far as photo editing goes, and I do some complicated things......
I don't however publish a magazine and require CMYK..... Is there something else that photoshop has the gimp doesn't? I'd love to hear about them....
Well, I disagree whole heartedly on several points and AM a dyed in the wool firefox fanboy, but at least you were polite and argued on the topic, and with valid points! I still got modded down by a MacFanboy though. I should have seen that coming. I'm still waiting for somebody to defend OS 9. I guess you could say it was OK compared to Windows ME, weren't they out about the same time?!?
LOL
To be fair though, you are absolutely right about people chose an OS for the software. I'm on Windows because of the awesome FOSS tool chain I've acquired there. I haven't found Linux software to be as good as the FOSS apps in Windows, even though some of it is SUPPOSEDLY the same software! For instance, Firefox is much better in windows than in Ubuntu.....
The real truth (for me) though is that all the software over at:
http://portableapps.com/
is so easy to manage, run, and reliable that I can't imagine switching much of what I do for a long time to come. The only thing I miss from Linux is Ardour, and the only thing I miss from Mac is..... iChat?!?? Though like I initially said, skype works pretty well.....
Heavy Breathing from a slashdot user? PIC OR IT'S FAKE!!!!!
Tim Vroom is OBVIOUSLY just a stage name. Nobody is that fast!
deluge and transmission have come a long way, but neither has succeeded in weening me off of utorrent. I have a maniacal ISP and setting up the trackers through TOR is just easier in utorrent. And it has some other advantages....
It is a decidedly worthy effort, but has not supplanted utorrent (yet!).
Let me bring it back down to reality for you:
Apple has been first to market with stolen ideas about a million times. The mouse they stole from xerox, they had first. They failed. Speech recognition they had first. They failed. An OS that was GUI rather than text based: failed. A strong Unix based OS: Hey, they won one. They made a better ipod than sony, and the handful of RIAA slaves that really weren't that enthusiastic about mp3s to begin with.... duh....
OS 9 was a dismal abortion. So was every OS they put out, up until OS X. Suddenly they get one minor thing right (and it's still far behind most linux/unixes!), and they are going to take over the home? Every home? Within 5 years?
Has anybody here ever used quicktime? IT SUCKS. Have you tried iTunes? IT SUCKS. Have you tried anything from apple besides os X and an ipod that DIDN'T TOTALLY SUCK!??!
Yeah, I thought not. Don't get me wrong, ipods are a good design, despite the horrid itunes interface, the DRM, and the over priced nature of them and lack of flash media integration. OS X is also a good design, albeit drastically behind even most of the inferior Linux distros.
The ONLY thing Apple has right is that they design their products for total idiots, and roundly hit the mark 2 out of ten times.
Microsoft is losing it's hegemony, and Apple is a small part of the story, but Linux will be the big winner. It's inevitable. FOSS will take over everywhere, just like Firefox already has. I already use:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Pidgin
Open Office
Infrarecord
The GIMP
VLC
Cool Player + Portable
UltraVNC
Mupen64Plus
and ioquake3.
Not just because they are FOSS, but because they are the best programs available, and they are free. It's not going to take long until a Linux distro emulates Windows perfectly in form and function and also comes bundled with those obvious choices. Maybe we'll have to wait for ReactOS, or maybe it will be some future Ubuntu derivative, but it's only a matter of time.
And I'm sure there will be a FOSS skype killer soon enough, so that I don't require proprietary software anywhere on my machine. FOSS is just a better model. Give it time. This war is already over.
the JRE I consider malware. I've had consistent problems with it since 1998. I have not seen MUCH of an improvement since then.
I'm a little anal though, I only use FOSS portable apps, and refuse to allow any software to run in the system tray unless I am using it actively.
Still, there is no call for JRE to be so invasive in the system, and to be running constantly even when I don't have azureus or some other java app open. I've always hated java. I have good reason to. It sucks, locks up, slows machines down, and is completely unnecessary for every software that I care to use, with the minor caveat of azureus, however, I find azureus bloated and slow too, and use utorrent 1.5. You're talking to a guy who just barely switched out winamp 2.81 for CoolPlayer+Portable.
I'm still trumpeting a call and desire for a FOSS torrent app that is small, clean, and lightweight like utorrent. Until then, I'm sticking with utorrent. Sadly.
Now we can get a version that doesn't require the ruinous bloat that is java? Why isn't there a FOSS utorrent clone already? It's sad that a p2p program is the last bit of commercial code on my machine (besides Windows, though I have been dual booting....).
Firefox
Thunderbird
Open Office
7zip
Infrarecord
Cool Player Portable
Pidgin
VLC
UltraVNC
Mupen64plus
and
utorrent.
*sigh*
So I've been rather seriously toying around with the idea of putting together a beowulf cluster, just to flex my tech muscles. What would be the most cost effective?
I can get used xboxes from gamestop for $60 each, it looks like soon enough I'll be able to get atom boxes for about $200 each... They also have gamecubes down at gamestop for $50 each.
What is the cheapest way to cluster, and how many nodes would I need to beat any core 2 duo out on the market? And what distro should I use, and can I get real time frame rates in something like ray traced quake 3 at a decent resolution?
rhY
Mod Parent Up!!!
Oh wait, that's the article, isn't it. I'VE BEEN ASKING THIS FOR YEARS!!!
Hopefully the new voice and video for pidgin thing won't suck, and we can finally supplant a corporation BEFORE it becomes a hegemony (though Skype is pretty much there already. BLAST!).
The only thing you have going for you is your user generated content. Start limiting that and you may as well become another Fox news, or other corporate lameness with no value that nobody will visit.
You're only hurting yourself, wiki.