MS may have the BSOD a lot of the time. This generally occurs to me due to 3rd party software, buggy hardware drivers that mess up Windows HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) are a great example. Yes I get the BSOD, but it is generally due to my uncommon IDE card or to my brand spankin' new 3D Whizmo card with 128Megs of RAM on it. If you use the latest MS software (ie 2000 and OXP) exclusively and you use recomended hardware from well know hardware manufacturers (Intel) then you will not have many, if any, major problems, this equates to no BSOD after 10 minutes of operations.
The only real problem you are advocating is MS uptime, and this isnt a major issue for a game console, especially when the game console has standard hardware configs, even more so than the "standard" winblows PC.
This is how a very modern MS system operates. It operates without to many session of the BSOD if, and only if, you stick to MS and stick to major/common HCL hardware vendors. This is not saying that MS is an angel, it has many other faults in its OS model appart from uptime issues. (read-security)
Like it or not MS will be a major player in the market. The proliferation of the units will inevitably come down to the ease at which people can chip the console and copy the games. Sony has the lead. MS is well behind, however we all know that MS makes it very easy to break copy protection, the race could get interesting from here!
Teachers & Admin need to be educated about what actually constitutes hacking and cracking.
During my time in school (a good 12 years ago) while I was 14 years old I plonked a few REM statements into a BASIC program that was stored on the school network, Basically leaving my tag there. Of course I was found out and was threatend and blamed for the effected codes malfunction, however this code was written by a student with no computer skills and was taught by *teacher* with no computer skills. The changed code had no structure to it and did not work in anyway whatsoever, it was the equivalent of my attempts to speak German (I knew about 8 phrases) I was threatened with criminal damage and was from that day blamed or held in contempt for anything that happened in the computer labs, even the insertion of a chocolate bar into a disk drive!
The educators need to be educated on what is really an offence, not the FUD that is spread by MS, but the real deal.
My heart goes out to the family and friends involved.
These places will never die out because of the secondary use of arcades.
If anyone has ever been downtown Melbourne, Australia, then they will see 100s of video arcades packed with machines. These machines take cash. The machine can be easily fixed to say that they have had $1000 passed through them for every $1. When put onto accounting books this looks legit. I would be willing to bet that this is an excellent opportunity to clean drug money, because every second arcade deals smack right outta the change booth. If this doesnt make any sense, then you need to get outta your glass house, away from the computer screen and down into the street where this sort of thing is common place.
While this is great that a *rev head* might now want to look at electric cars, and that electric cars will start even more to move into the mainstream we must remember the premise and real drive for electric cars - polution control. The air quality will improve with these things, but electricity has to be generated somehow, and we need to have cleaner production of power overall, hydro/wind/solar still doesnt cut it.
Just think about offshore gambling, and offshore drug trading, and offshore oil, and off shore tax havens, and offshore... damn... if i wanted to avoid drug laws then I would setup (buy) my own island and produce drugs. Same goes for napster. The only fear that you would have is the wrath of the US navy because the US navy is owned by the filthy rich, who also own all the IP technologies and rights to songs/music.
Get a grip on reality and come down from your glass tower to the real world with all of us theives and prostitutes.
The OfficeXP warez version that has started to float around lots of different places requires no activation. It only requires a serial number to be entered once. It hasnt been cracked. I havent bothered to find anything out about the final product, but if this is any indication....
A quick quote taken directly from the nfo on the warez release:
Unzip, unrar, install.. This is your cd-key..
(NOTE this cdkey will bypass the product activation crap.. This is a
'all in wonder' cdkey (just before someone says "you didnt crack the
activation crap!!"))
Now if only MS was located in Australia they wouldnt have had any antitrust problems. The DOJ wouldnt have been able to forward email onto the Judge Jackson.
The fact that they didnt hassle you and the assumption that they wont hassle you are two entierly different things.
What would happen when a young gun lawyer comes along with no morals and heaps of ambitions to make a name for itself?
The same thing that happens when a young gun copper comes along and gives you a ticket for treating a red light the same as a stop sign at 3am in the morning when there is no other traffic around! Just to help get a promotion.
While not everyone in the world is like this, as I have met some real cool coppers and lawyers in my time, some people only care about climbing on top of others and profiting from their misery. Dont let the inaction of the MS legal team fool you.
We should be aware that while there is a lot of available bw on a normal phone line that it isnt infinite. Limits should be placed on the types of services offered. After all what will happen when MS decides to release.NET2 and it requires 1000 times processing power and 1000 times the bw? Remeber that precedents have been set.
Im sure this is redundant, but the only way to be assured of getting privacy is to go live out in the bush, grow your own food, have a cow and a few chickens, have no contact with the outside world and become a smelly ferrel.
Instead of sending a high tech piece of machinery across the system which will be obsolete by the time it gets there, why not send high tech equipment (or even food) half way around the world to real people who can use it before its expiry date comes of age.
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Yes I can see how the database would be usefull.....
I give you my information:
my user names : asdf, bigfarter, fhkhfdha, larsisgay, etc
my email : root@microsoft.com
my details: all optional, so why waste brain cycles on them?
Every few months I change details because of a computer rebuild or some other legit reason and the fact I cant remember that pesky password.
Quite simply Elite 0wn3d...... It was the best game I ever played when growing up as a kid, and still ranks up there along with wolf, quake, and civs.
I played the game for countless weeks trying to build myself to eventually become elite.
Well, even after playing the newfangled versions (clones) like X:Beyond the frontier, I still play it on the emulator on my psion 5mx palm computer while waiting for the bus. Maybe one day I will be elite.
But what I wanna know is can we mod-chip em and play without paying the huge corporations tax. I'd much rather support my local Thai cd dealer who is getting a good deal outta selling the games rather than a pimply teenager working for a monopoly who is getting shafted by the pitiful wage.
This last year at the sydney olympics net radio stations were shut down here in.au, the reason being that they were broadcasting simulcast with AM/FM and the good old USA (MSNBC/AOL/TimeWarner in disguse) didnt want its slaves to be able to listen in on live broadcasts so that it could continue its enslaving consumer propaganda machine. Now where I work is in a basement in a building on the side of a hill, well out of line of sight of the local radio transmission towers, so I regularly listen to the local aunty ABC streaming radio ( http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/ ) These radios were forced to stop streaming. I had no hope of listening in to see how my friend was doing in the swimming, I never expected him to win, I just wanted to cheer him on and remember that when we were kids I beat him in the swimming pool. The fact that I couldnt leave my mission critical workstation and walk up the hill and sit with an old trannie for an hour pissed me orrrf. The IOC, just like other international.orgs, are influenced way to heavily by the imperialistic views of the USA.
You lost the per/capita medal count anyway, SEPPOS.
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Since (of course) the majority of Chinese character using individuals reside within their borders
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Ummm, well the majority may be living within the borders of China, but if you travel here to.au then I can assure you the number of manderin speaking individuals is rather large.
While I dont have figures on me to give out numbers of people who do speak manderin or hindi or japanese or any other character driven language, these people make up a very large proportion of the.au landscape.
With this semi-sun-dried-fact in mind also consider that.au has the highest or second highest penetration of internet users per-capita in the world.
Now for the final bit of this soup (conclusion), there are a hell of a lot of people outside of the chinese borders who would use non-latin ASCII characters in their daily lives whilst using the internet.
This is complete dribble. No good arguments in this article. Mind you, my counter-argument is rather lame and very quickly sketched up.
This brings me to my point. Have you noticed that few, if any, Napster advocates are arguing that it should be legal to purchase a copy of Windows 2000 and share it with a community of Windows fans on the Internet via a peer-to-peer networking system? Why not? Is it because there are no fans or potential fans of Windows 2000? Or is it because they know Microsoft's lawyers would have them thrown in the hoosegow before they could finish their next morning's Wheaties?
Blah.... Windows fans. Sure, everyone who has windows doesnt need to share it because they are more than likely running it anyway, as are most of the people they know.
As for setting up a peer-to-peer network to share it, isnt that what FTP when everyone has both clients and servers built in (ala IIS), or are the people who actually buy it just ignorant enough not to know about FTP.
As for legal action with windows, the only people I know of who actually own windows (appart from commercial business) had it come with a system and they were forced to pay for it. No-one is affraid of MS lawyers, just like no-one is afraid of smoking a bit of pot in the backyard.
With the plethora of open source software available, it is almost certain that porting to MacOS X will be dominant and Steve Jobs will have propelled Macintosh into and above the mainstream.
Depending on how open MacOS X is, and how easy porting is, we could see Macintosh being the dominant desktop OS again within our lifetimes.
Quite simply the ban on napster wont go away. I only use napster as a last resort to find music though. How long until the rest of the world finds another way to get free music? In case a whole lot of you hadnt noticed a lot of files that can be gathered from napster contain rns or bmi or ndb or 2db or.... many other variations. Ever wondered what these are? Well they are the sigs of the actual groups who rip and first distribute these mp3s. The primary method of disemination is via ftp, and is available to those in the know and then only via a very sketchy pecking order. Of course this is the same as how warez are distributed. Well, I am nowhere near the top of the pecking order, but I do know of sites that link directly to some of these ftp sites. This is one primary method of getting mp3s. It may not be as easy and clean as napster, but then again ftp servers can resume and you dont have to search for the same song if the serving computer drops out and reconnects to a different napster server, you just reconnect and continue from where you left off. Why am I using ftp to get my genre of music pleasure? Simply because to buy imported European electronic music here in Australia can cost you up to $50 per cd. Well, I am simply not going to pay that. If an artist I like comes here, sure I will go and support them in concert. A lot of the music I find complete crap, but then again once in a while you find a complete gem, and I still prefer cd quality as opposed to mp3 192/160/128 quality. Yes I will buy it.
The Internet now has a limited number of suffixes, including ``.com``, ``.mil``, ``.int``, ``.gov``, ``.org``, and ``.net``, in addition to special two-letter codes assigned to countries, such as ``.us'' for the United States.
I just wish that Americans would take more note of the current.us domain and not assume that they dont have a domain because the internet was "invented" in that part of the world.
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MS may have the BSOD a lot of the time. This generally occurs to me due to 3rd party software, buggy hardware drivers that mess up Windows HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) are a great example. Yes I get the BSOD, but it is generally due to my uncommon IDE card or to my brand spankin' new 3D Whizmo card with 128Megs of RAM on it. If you use the latest MS software (ie 2000 and OXP) exclusively and you use recomended hardware from well know hardware manufacturers (Intel) then you will not have many, if any, major problems, this equates to no BSOD after 10 minutes of operations.
The only real problem you are advocating is MS uptime, and this isnt a major issue for a game console, especially when the game console has standard hardware configs, even more so than the "standard" winblows PC.
This is how a very modern MS system operates. It operates without to many session of the BSOD if, and only if, you stick to MS and stick to major/common HCL hardware vendors. This is not saying that MS is an angel, it has many other faults in its OS model appart from uptime issues. (read-security)
Like it or not MS will be a major player in the market. The proliferation of the units will inevitably come down to the ease at which people can chip the console and copy the games. Sony has the lead. MS is well behind, however we all know that MS makes it very easy to break copy protection, the race could get interesting from here!
Teachers & Admin need to be educated about what actually constitutes hacking and cracking.
During my time in school (a good 12 years ago) while I was 14 years old I plonked a few REM statements into a BASIC program that was stored on the school network, Basically leaving my tag there. Of course I was found out and was threatend and blamed for the effected codes malfunction, however this code was written by a student with no computer skills and was taught by *teacher* with no computer skills. The changed code had no structure to it and did not work in anyway whatsoever, it was the equivalent of my attempts to speak German (I knew about 8 phrases) I was threatened with criminal damage and was from that day blamed or held in contempt for anything that happened in the computer labs, even the insertion of a chocolate bar into a disk drive!
The educators need to be educated on what is really an offence, not the FUD that is spread by MS, but the real deal.
My heart goes out to the family and friends involved.
How about a graphical history... and also include unix, linux, blah, blah, blah...
These places will never die out because of the secondary use of arcades.
If anyone has ever been downtown Melbourne, Australia, then they will see 100s of video arcades packed with machines. These machines take cash. The machine can be easily fixed to say that they have had $1000 passed through them for every $1. When put onto accounting books this looks legit. I would be willing to bet that this is an excellent opportunity to clean drug money, because every second arcade deals smack right outta the change booth. If this doesnt make any sense, then you need to get outta your glass house, away from the computer screen and down into the street where this sort of thing is common place.
While this is great that a *rev head* might now want to look at electric cars, and that electric cars will start even more to move into the mainstream we must remember the premise and real drive for electric cars - polution control. The air quality will improve with these things, but electricity has to be generated somehow, and we need to have cleaner production of power overall, hydro/wind/solar still doesnt cut it.
Well, duh......
Just think about offshore gambling, and offshore drug trading, and offshore oil, and off shore tax havens, and offshore... damn... if i wanted to avoid drug laws then I would setup (buy) my own island and produce drugs. Same goes for napster. The only fear that you would have is the wrath of the US navy because the US navy is owned by the filthy rich, who also own all the IP technologies and rights to songs/music.
Get a grip on reality and come down from your glass tower to the real world with all of us theives and prostitutes.
The OfficeXP warez version that has started to float around lots of different places requires no activation. It only requires a serial number to be entered once. It hasnt been cracked. I havent bothered to find anything out about the final product, but if this is any indication....
A quick quote taken directly from the nfo on the warez release:
Unzip, unrar, install.. This is your cd-key..
(NOTE this cdkey will bypass the product activation crap.. This is a
'all in wonder' cdkey (just before someone says "you didnt crack the
activation crap!!"))
I am more interested in windows programs for linux, WINE is a much more important project that should have the title "thin end of the wedge"
Now if only MS was located in Australia they wouldnt have had any antitrust problems. The DOJ wouldnt have been able to forward email onto the Judge Jackson.
The fact that they didnt hassle you and the assumption that they wont hassle you are two entierly different things.
What would happen when a young gun lawyer comes along with no morals and heaps of ambitions to make a name for itself?
The same thing that happens when a young gun copper comes along and gives you a ticket for treating a red light the same as a stop sign at 3am in the morning when there is no other traffic around! Just to help get a promotion.
While not everyone in the world is like this, as I have met some real cool coppers and lawyers in my time, some people only care about climbing on top of others and profiting from their misery. Dont let the inaction of the MS legal team fool you.
We should be aware that while there is a lot of available bw on a normal phone line that it isnt infinite. Limits should be placed on the types of services offered. After all what will happen when MS decides to release .NET2 and it requires 1000 times processing power and 1000 times the bw? Remeber that precedents have been set.
Mini disc does not allow a full digital copy via the optical input.
This seems to be a first for Microsoft eh?
Making their end products smaller and less bloatish than everyone else, while at the same time getting the jump on the market as a whole.
;)
Im sure this is redundant, but the only way to be assured of getting privacy is to go live out in the bush, grow your own food, have a cow and a few chickens, have no contact with the outside world and become a smelly ferrel.
Instead of sending a high tech piece of machinery across the system which will be obsolete by the time it gets there, why not send high tech equipment (or even food) half way around the world to real people who can use it before its expiry date comes of age.
Yes I can see how the database would be usefull.....
I give you my information:
my user names : asdf, bigfarter, fhkhfdha, larsisgay, etc
my email : root@microsoft.com
my details: all optional, so why waste brain cycles on them?
Every few months I change details because of a computer rebuild or some other legit reason and the fact I cant remember that pesky password.
The suits behind napster arent that bright!
Quite simply Elite 0wn3d...... It was the best game I ever played when growing up as a kid, and still ranks up there along with wolf, quake, and civs.
I played the game for countless weeks trying to build myself to eventually become elite.
Well, even after playing the newfangled versions (clones) like X:Beyond the frontier, I still play it on the emulator on my psion 5mx palm computer while waiting for the bus. Maybe one day I will be elite.
Long live the C64 and its many wonders!!!!!
But what I wanna know is can we mod-chip em and play without paying the huge corporations tax. I'd much rather support my local Thai cd dealer who is getting a good deal outta selling the games rather than a pimply teenager working for a monopoly who is getting shafted by the pitiful wage.
Well, this is gonna be a pain in the rear end.
.au, the reason being that they were broadcasting simulcast with AM/FM and the good old USA (MSNBC/AOL/TimeWarner in disguse) didnt want its slaves to be able to listen in on live broadcasts so that it could continue its enslaving consumer propaganda machine. Now where I work is in a basement in a building on the side of a hill, well out of line of sight of the local radio transmission towers, so I regularly listen to the local aunty ABC streaming radio ( http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/ http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/ ) These radios were forced to stop streaming. I had no hope of listening in to see how my friend was doing in the swimming, I never expected him to win, I just wanted to cheer him on and remember that when we were kids I beat him in the swimming pool. The fact that I couldnt leave my mission critical workstation and walk up the hill and sit with an old trannie for an hour pissed me orrrf. The IOC, just like other international .orgs, are influenced way to heavily by the imperialistic views of the USA.
This last year at the sydney olympics net radio stations were shut down here in
You lost the per/capita medal count anyway, SEPPOS.
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.au then I can assure you the number of manderin speaking individuals is rather large.
.au landscape.
.au has the highest or second highest penetration of internet users per-capita in the world.
Since (of course) the majority of Chinese character using individuals reside within their borders
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Ummm, well the majority may be living within the borders of China, but if you travel here to
While I dont have figures on me to give out numbers of people who do speak manderin or hindi or japanese or any other character driven language, these people make up a very large proportion of the
With this semi-sun-dried-fact in mind also consider that
Now for the final bit of this soup (conclusion), there are a hell of a lot of people outside of the chinese borders who would use non-latin ASCII characters in their daily lives whilst using the internet.
As for setting up a peer-to-peer network to share it, isnt that what FTP when everyone has both clients and servers built in (ala IIS), or are the people who actually buy it just ignorant enough not to know about FTP.
As for legal action with windows, the only people I know of who actually own windows (appart from commercial business) had it come with a system and they were forced to pay for it. No-one is affraid of MS lawyers, just like no-one is afraid of smoking a bit of pot in the backyard.
With the plethora of open source software available, it is almost certain that porting to MacOS X will be dominant and Steve Jobs will have propelled Macintosh into and above the mainstream.
Depending on how open MacOS X is, and how easy porting is, we could see Macintosh being the dominant desktop OS again within our lifetimes.
Quite simply the ban on napster wont go away. I only use napster as a last resort to find music though. How long until the rest of the world finds another way to get free music? In case a whole lot of you hadnt noticed a lot of files that can be gathered from napster contain rns or bmi or ndb or 2db or.... many other variations. Ever wondered what these are? Well they are the sigs of the actual groups who rip and first distribute these mp3s. The primary method of disemination is via ftp, and is available to those in the know and then only via a very sketchy pecking order. Of course this is the same as how warez are distributed. Well, I am nowhere near the top of the pecking order, but I do know of sites that link directly to some of these ftp sites. This is one primary method of getting mp3s. It may not be as easy and clean as napster, but then again ftp servers can resume and you dont have to search for the same song if the serving computer drops out and reconnects to a different napster server, you just reconnect and continue from where you left off. Why am I using ftp to get my genre of music pleasure? Simply because to buy imported European electronic music here in Australia can cost you up to $50 per cd. Well, I am simply not going to pay that. If an artist I like comes here, sure I will go and support them in concert. A lot of the music I find complete crap, but then again once in a while you find a complete gem, and I still prefer cd quality as opposed to mp3 192/160/128 quality. Yes I will buy it.