What I don't understand is that if you want it to be just like Linux, then why not just run Linux?
Because I have software that runs under Windows. Some of it is several years old and ran under 3.1 or win 95, but I still need an OS to run this legacy stuff on.
Don't do that. No one should be forced to have Real on their system. Don't punish the users.
It would only be temporary, anyway, as Real is actually a subscription. The player expires and you have to go through their crap to get the latest and greatest, which does for you all you ever needed, which was no doubt done adequately by their first release.
He passionately believes, for example, that Media Player is intrinsc to Windows as Microsoft moves towards melding all sorts of media into one more or less cohesive bunch.
And the damn thing is, you end up with piles of crap in your memory on boot-up that you never will use, but they include "Just In Case" so if you do fire up apps they appear to just start right up, unlike those clunky competitors products.
I'd still love to see Windows stripped of all the bundled crap and truly customizable on set-up, like Linux. It's too much to ask for tho, as you note, because Bill wants every desktop to be the same and once you install Windows, there's a indefinite part of your computer that no longer belongs to you, as they have dictated and will continue to do so.
Oh, sure, there's a market. The laundromat I do my clothes at has had the same video machines in there for 3+ years. There's about 1hr of waiting, assuming you don't go somewhere and risk someone stealing your clothes or dumping them in a basket because you didn't get back in time. Nothing fancy, just toss in a Pacman or Asteroids and you've got quarters coming in. I drew the line back when they upped the ante to 50 cents a game. Charge me a quarter and I'll play a few games. Charge me 50 cents and I won't play any. Got it?
Who didn't see this coming? While I have some issues with "quality" of games at home (mostly because few are
original ideas), they now have the graphics and sound I went to the arcade for, even when I had a plethora at home.
Playing over networks (whether mud or NSnipes) was exciting in its infancy, and had the same issues the online player has now (campers, noobs, thugs, spoilers), but short
of a Game Cafe approach (which would be great in airports, BTW) I can't see where these companies and products had much of a future. That they planned poorly says something about
their business acumen. (1. Start Company, 2. Collect Huge Salaries, 3....the medium advances..., 4. Profit?)
I'm still happy with mining all the old 8bit games, though, so I can't get too worked up about the current state of games (most bore me just looking at the box, "Oh, another FPS") and haven't bought a
game box in years. Longing for the golden years of games I've been working on some game builder ideas and maybe they'll amount to something in the coming months.
There'll always be a tender spot in my heart for the hundreds of bucks I spent at Alladin's Castle, back in the day, and some of those really cool games, but most of them are available on collection CD's for $10 now. All that's missing is the atmosphere and that's unlikely to be coming back in any form, let alone a living room.
Stick with a laptop, they're already annoying enough to type on (5x the typos of a desktop keyboard due to no contour.) Get a PDA if you need to scribble. Or better yet, a pad of paper and a scanner.
Personelly I em steell expecteeng Leteen to-a meke-a e-a huge-a comebeck... bork!bork!bork!
Yes, vell I zeenk Bork ees ze-a lenguege-a of ze-a future-a, how cen you-a deny zees posseebleety. It only stends to-a reeson. bork!bork!bork!
Now, we aren't anywhere close to having a world language, but I think that within 100 years English will be the primary language of everybody.
And which 'english' with that be?
The US Southern Drawl
The US Northern US 'Ya sure ya betcha'
The Queen's
The commoners
The Aussie
The Canadian, eh!
Those of us who like to say 'virii' and are relentlessly persecuted by fascist AC's
Valley Girl
etc.
I think the whole thing is a myth, languages may be going away, but as language is dynamic, new dialects or variations appear and will continue to diverge. For the most part we have some idea what the other is saying, but as new meanings or words come out of a small population and someone doesn't understand it, you still have the very mechanics which created all the languages in the first place.
I've been usuing The Bat (www.ritlabs.com) for about 5 years now, and it's great. No worms, no virii, no pop-ups, no crap. I view all my email as text. And they've been continuously improving the product.
The the first duke nukem wasn't supposed to be for the amiga orginally, was it...
Not as far as I can remember. Back in the day of Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (ID?) I bought one title, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, it's still a pretty cool game, but the graphics look a bit dated.
I really wonder if this will be true 20 years from now when gamers like me who grew up playing games and have pay checks to buy what we want become a larger portion of the people who buy video games then teens.
You won't. Take my word for it. You'll spend the money on rent, toys (like bikes, telescopes, computers), tickets, golf, golf, big screen TV, sports car and dozens of other things. And despite the fact that you're reading this, you might even hook up with a woman and that'll be the end of your disposable income.
You mean people aren't holding their breath waiting for DNF to get released? The YEARS of delays have damaged the possibility of sales? Gasp! Say it isn't so!
One problem is, missing the strike while the iron is hot. Duke Nukem was hot, now it's cool, now it's cold, and finally it's a dead fish on your doorstep and you wonder where it came from, now that you've moved on.
There was some game, back in the day, I waited for eagerly on the Amiga. It looked like the be-all, end-all RPG and I wanted it so bad I'd scream in frustration each time I heard it was futher delayed (for quality control, etc.) Well, eventually I gave up. I don't know if it ever came out. I was onto something else.. NetHack, IIRC
I use an older version of Mozilla at home, to read USENET news and get strange messages with extremely long lines at times. Possibly the browser sees the.txt extension and assumes PREformatting.
Microsoft downplaying the escape and distribution of their code is like the town water supply telling you there's some mercury in the water, but don't work about it, it probably won't harm you (much).
Then, it's probably the best their spin-meisters can come up with while Bill calls an emergency meeting in his office and yells at people (he has yelled at people in his office before.) I can just picture it:
Bill: <SHOUTING>How did this happen? I want names! I want places! I want heads on poles! And fergodsake don't tell me someone is already distributing versions of Windows(tm) with the registration requirement bypassed!</SHOUTING>
I wouldn't read e-books either if they have this same problem with no-word-wrap. Horizontal scrolling to read in my humble experience is annoying, too bad someone didn't do a better job of formatting it.
I can't think of many examples where I've prefered an e-reference over printed matter. The paradigm is that paper is portable and requires no power (aside from a light source) to read, never expires, never needs an upgrade (other than me needing glasses, which would apply equally in either case) and is durable (drop my Zaurus or laptop and I'll cry, drop my book and I'll just pick it back up.)
Complimenting e-books and paper seems reasonable, though I'll go to the paper first every time.
Henry Luce and Charlie Soong lobbied in Washington to support 'christian' Chang Kai Shek. Many millions of dollars were funneled from Washington, but very little of it reached the troops fighting on the ground. Most of the money appears to have ended in Charlie Soong's sons and Chang Kai Shek's
You have Charlie confused with T.V. and 'sons' with H.H. Kung, Ai-ling Kung, T.V.'s son and a few others. Chiang was always brutal, favoring the interests of the Green Gang and businesses over that of the peasants. Small wonder the reds were so successful when Chiang was eventually executing the KMT generals who were appalled by the corruption and starved his own conscript soldiers. Chiang's batpism was for show, to appease May-ling Soong's mother (Charlie's wife), but it's evident Chiang didn't embrace any virtues. Luce, among others, believed the way to save post-war China from Moscow was to support Chiang, which, was a major blunder and typical of the disconnected-from-reality idealism of the time.
Anyway, it's nice to see being a blind, hack journalist still pays. I'd like to hear how W. Russell Jones feels about Microsoft NT-base Code released into the wild.
A friend and his associate left a previous employer to form a start-up. They began work on a product, much like the one their former employer was developing. Though my friend largely contributed the code and many fixes to his associates code, the project died when the former employer had detectives raid the associates house. The former employer claimed they were copying the firmware, though my friend had mostly written it. However, an old code listing was found in his associates house after they had both vehemently denied copying any code from their former employer. In light of the discovery, the issue of stole-did not steal became a moot point, as they would need a company of lawyers, time and lots of money to defend themselves. If he had tossed all prior employer related junk from his home office, the burden would have been much greater on the former employer. Having some code at home which looked suspiciously like product code (particularly to the untrained eye) killed their start-up and put the associate in jail.
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You should have voted for Kodos.
India doesn't sound so bad, at least you can get lost in the anonymity of a crowd.
Because I have software that runs under Windows. Some of it is several years old and ran under 3.1 or win 95, but I still need an OS to run this legacy stuff on.
It would only be temporary, anyway, as Real is actually a subscription. The player expires and you have to go through their crap to get the latest and greatest, which does for you all you ever needed, which was no doubt done adequately by their first release.
How about Ogg?
And the damn thing is, you end up with piles of crap in your memory on boot-up that you never will use, but they include "Just In Case" so if you do fire up apps they appear to just start right up, unlike those clunky competitors products.
I'd still love to see Windows stripped of all the bundled crap and truly customizable on set-up, like Linux. It's too much to ask for tho, as you note, because Bill wants every desktop to be the same and once you install Windows, there's a indefinite part of your computer that no longer belongs to you, as they have dictated and will continue to do so.
Oh, sure, there's a market. The laundromat I do my clothes at has had the same video machines in there for 3+ years. There's about 1hr of waiting, assuming you don't go somewhere and risk someone stealing your clothes or dumping them in a basket because you didn't get back in time. Nothing fancy, just toss in a Pacman or Asteroids and you've got quarters coming in. I drew the line back when they upped the ante to 50 cents a game. Charge me a quarter and I'll play a few games. Charge me 50 cents and I won't play any. Got it?
I'm still happy with mining all the old 8bit games, though, so I can't get too worked up about the current state of games (most bore me just looking at the box, "Oh, another FPS") and haven't bought a game box in years. Longing for the golden years of games I've been working on some game builder ideas and maybe they'll amount to something in the coming months.
There'll always be a tender spot in my heart for the hundreds of bucks I spent at Alladin's Castle, back in the day, and some of those really cool games, but most of them are available on collection CD's for $10 now. All that's missing is the atmosphere and that's unlikely to be coming back in any form, let alone a living room.
Stick with a laptop, they're already annoying enough to type on (5x the typos of a desktop keyboard due to no contour.) Get a PDA if you need to scribble. Or better yet, a pad of paper and a scanner.
Personelly I em steell expecteeng Leteen to-a meke-a e-a huge-a comebeck... bork!bork!bork! Yes, vell I zeenk Bork ees ze-a lenguege-a of ze-a future-a, how cen you-a deny zees posseebleety. It only stends to-a reeson. bork!bork!bork!
Fer ah=1 ta 5
ya'll gosub thingamajig(ah)
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next ah
Cuneiform is awl write!
And which 'english' with that be?
The US Southern Drawl
The US Northern US 'Ya sure ya betcha'
The Queen's
The commoners
The Aussie
The Canadian, eh!
Those of us who like to say 'virii' and are relentlessly persecuted by fascist AC's
Valley Girl
etc.
I think the whole thing is a myth, languages may be going away, but as language is dynamic, new dialects or variations appear and will continue to diverge. For the most part we have some idea what the other is saying, but as new meanings or words come out of a small population and someone doesn't understand it, you still have the very mechanics which created all the languages in the first place.
Support shareware :-)
A: A sixpack.
"Alcohol: Helping men get sex for thousands of years."
"The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys."
A video game system isn't even in the toy category, it's an expense. "Toys" are big ticket toys.
Not as far as I can remember. Back in the day of Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (ID?) I bought one title, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, it's still a pretty cool game, but the graphics look a bit dated.
You won't. Take my word for it. You'll spend the money on rent, toys (like bikes, telescopes, computers), tickets, golf, golf, big screen TV, sports car and dozens of other things. And despite the fact that you're reading this, you might even hook up with a woman and that'll be the end of your disposable income.
One problem is, missing the strike while the iron is hot. Duke Nukem was hot, now it's cool, now it's cold, and finally it's a dead fish on your doorstep and you wonder where it came from, now that you've moved on.
There was some game, back in the day, I waited for eagerly on the Amiga. It looked like the be-all, end-all RPG and I wanted it so bad I'd scream in frustration each time I heard it was futher delayed (for quality control, etc.) Well, eventually I gave up. I don't know if it ever came out. I was onto something else.. NetHack, IIRC
Foster Brooks takes a drive: "Honesht Offishur, I washunt drinking, I hadda shiphon shom gash *hic*"
Haha! How about 'Evil Worm Which Exploits Security Holes We Deny Exist Distributes Code'
Nah, I can't see them fessing up to something like that.
I use an older version of Mozilla at home, to read USENET news and get strange messages with extremely long lines at times. Possibly the browser sees the .txt extension and assumes PREformatting.
Then, it's probably the best their spin-meisters can come up with while Bill calls an emergency meeting in his office and yells at people (he has yelled at people in his office before.) I can just picture it:
I can't think of many examples where I've prefered an e-reference over printed matter. The paradigm is that paper is portable and requires no power (aside from a light source) to read, never expires, never needs an upgrade (other than me needing glasses, which would apply equally in either case) and is durable (drop my Zaurus or laptop and I'll cry, drop my book and I'll just pick it back up.)
Complimenting e-books and paper seems reasonable, though I'll go to the paper first every time.
You have Charlie confused with T.V. and 'sons' with H.H. Kung, Ai-ling Kung, T.V.'s son and a few others. Chiang was always brutal, favoring the interests of the Green Gang and businesses over that of the peasants. Small wonder the reds were so successful when Chiang was eventually executing the KMT generals who were appalled by the corruption and starved his own conscript soldiers. Chiang's batpism was for show, to appease May-ling Soong's mother (Charlie's wife), but it's evident Chiang didn't embrace any virtues. Luce, among others, believed the way to save post-war China from Moscow was to support Chiang, which, was a major blunder and typical of the disconnected-from-reality idealism of the time.
Anyway, it's nice to see being a blind, hack journalist still pays. I'd like to hear how W. Russell Jones feels about Microsoft NT-base Code released into the wild.
"First, we clamp down on boobies. Boobies on TV and boobies on the internet. Next, gwbush.com..."
A friend and his associate left a previous employer to form a start-up. They began work on a product, much like the one their former employer was developing. Though my friend largely contributed the code and many fixes to his associates code, the project died when the former employer had detectives raid the associates house. The former employer claimed they were copying the firmware, though my friend had mostly written it. However, an old code listing was found in his associates house after they had both vehemently denied copying any code from their former employer. In light of the discovery, the issue of stole-did not steal became a moot point, as they would need a company of lawyers, time and lots of money to defend themselves. If he had tossed all prior employer related junk from his home office, the burden would have been much greater on the former employer. Having some code at home which looked suspiciously like product code (particularly to the untrained eye) killed their start-up and put the associate in jail.