No no, NOT console games (I hate arcade crap). I mean things like Half-Life, Deus Ex, Homeworld, etc. Half-Life is perfect in wine but most of the other such games I've tried are fair to middlin or DOA. This is virtually the ONLY reason I have and use wine. There is no point to Windoze software otherwise.
Wine works for some things I have tried. The only things I really care about thus far are games. A couple games work, most don't (that I have tried).
I may have need to get Word or some other non-game app to work but so far, I haven't managed to get them to work. I have found BIG problems with trying to get wine to work with virtually any WinME app. I can't even get notepad or minesweeper to run under wine. What of Win2k? How does wine fare with that one? I have that available to me too and would almost prefer to replace ME.
OK...I haven't been keeping abreast of Java details. Nonetheless, I feel that the liklihood of Java becoming a significant player along the lines originally suggested is a pipe dream.
I would LIKE for Java to win out over C# but with the still rampant M$ gorilla behind it, leveraging its ongoing monopoly, I just can't see Java overcoming C# once the latter takes off.
I wouldn't even mind THIS so much if it weren't for the ASSURED hooks that M$ will place in its own C# variants so that only M$ platforms will FULLY play with it well. If C# were taken out of M$'s hands and then M$ required to go along with the same C# standards that everyone else would have to go along with, then it wouldn't matter to me if C# OR Java took off.
A look and comment on the personality of the head cheese IS valid. His egomania or any other foibles, deficiencies, etc, have a DIRECT link to the likely future behavior of the company the person directs.
Gates is an egomaniac with a number of personality failings (along with Ballmer) that DIRECTLY lead to the monopolist, unethical and illegal behavior of the company they run. Personality traits ARE validly considered.
Ain't gonna happen (20% of software being Java). You MAY see a few digits percent of software being C# but Java? No.
Unless M$ is, as the holdout hero states in the M$ lawsuit want, required to supply a fully compatible/functional Java with doze, Java is looking to go flat as C#, leveraged by monopoly power, is forced down everyone's throat.
In any case, sorry, but Java apps are OK now and again but I fricking HATE the way, just like netscape and all Motif/lesstif apps, Java apps break your theme(s). They have their own willy-nilly and ugly look and feel and do NOT integrate well or properly into ANY system theme (in KDE or Gnome).
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Hmmm, let's see. The problem with Win4lin is that IT REQUIRES ONE TO OWN WINDOZE. You STILL must purchase windoze, register windoze, feed the Beast, serve the monopoly. If EVERYONE used Win4Lin, Gates would be happy as a clam because it effectively does the same thing for him and M$ as everyone using just straight windoze. The money and propriatory software and APIs are still "accepted" as "standards".
Win4lin and VMWare are ONLY useful for those who own or have windoze by other means (ahem). It doesn't do anything to eliminate or reduce the monopoly power and abuse of M$. It serves to perpetuate it.
Wine, on the other hand, has the potential to HURT M$ and its monopoly hold on the desktop. ONLY Wine is set for this. It doesn't require windoze. No one need purchase or acquire by other means (ahem) windoze. This directly impacts negatively on M$. The more successful Wine is, the better. M$ gets hit, money is saved (a GREAT deal of wasted, unethically obtained money).
It is FAR better to not have to pay M$ a dime than to STILL have to purchase their crapOS. It is far more satisfactory on an emotional level too to thumb your nose at Gates and say "Na-na! I am running windoze software without owning or paying for windoze! Na-na! I don't NEED you!."
Wine (and Lindows, if it actually turns out to be more than vapor...like Freedows) is the ONLY viable future means to use the software you want from the windoze world without feeding the Beast money.
The analogy IS correct. M$ need not own the grocery store, nor the power company. All M$ needs is a contract to provide the network/computer system for either or both. From that point on, passport is the de facto standard for "convenient" shopping. If you don't have cash, then it is simple to "encourage" or require you to create a passport account to pay by credit.
Problem is, with such a scheme where you are expected/required to use passport to actually do something useful you cannot get away with providing nothing but bogus information. You would HAVE to give real name, real address, etc, or the money transaction would not validate and would fail (try providing bogus credit card information to avoid giving your name or social, etc , to some company you are purchasing from). In this case, instead of the legitimate use of your information by the credit card company you have M$ as the mediator of your information. An extra intermediary who can now track your purchases - tied to YOU specifically.
Passport must be prevented by ANY means from becoming a real, overreaching "standard" or requirement for anything important. It must be prevented from being used so as to make any other means of purchasing or using consumer products or services inordinately painful or slow. There must ALWAYS be convenient alternatives so that there is NO pressure to have a passport.
It is one thing if you are giving bogus information, from name to email, etc, just to play some online game. Quite another if it gets ANYWHERE beyond that. Voting? Paying for utilities? Acquiring or using phone services? All it requires is for M$ to have the network/computer services contract awarded to it and the jig is up. M$ forthwith owns ALL your REAL information.
Err...you mean windoze is not secure and linux is really secure (and *BSD is really REALLY secure - or the NSA linux is also really REALLY secure).
Insecure is what windoze is and always will be, simply because to make money, Gates and Co. insist on having their fingers directly in your database and information transfer, PARTICULARLY with their.Net nonsense.
The treaty is by corporations for corporations. It is slanted heavily in favor of corporations and their "property".
The treaty is intended to feed into the hands of RIAA and M$ and anyone else who thinks you don't buy music or software, just a single-use license to hear or use the item on a device, and by a person, THEY approve of.
This doesn't negate the original statement. Only Congress can OK a treaty. Until they do, signing the paper means nothing (see the treaty on Global Warming, signed but essentially dead in the US because it hasn't gotten past Congress).
Without amending/revoking Constitutional Amendments, the treaty STILL cannot override the Bill of Rights, period. The ONLY way to beat something in the Bill of Rights and all Amendments attached to it is via another Amendment.
What the fuh? This wasn't a troll message, it took a point from the treaty and expanded on it to its absurd endpoint.
Forgetting everything you did wrong is OK for a US President (Reagan, Bush senior, even Clinton) but forgetting a password is NOT OK for regular citizens under the cyber"crime" treaty. Forget and go to jail for obstruction of justice.
The Hindenburg's catastrophic burning was due to the highly flammable paint used on the dirigable's skin, NOT the hydrogen. Sure, hydrogen burns, but the Hindi would not have gone the way it did if not for the very nasty paint.
Hydrogen doesn't burn hot enough or slow enough to have done the damage that hot, burning jet fuel did to the WTC.
The Moller Skycar actually doesn't need a runway anywhere. It was designed to be able to take off and land vertically anywhere.
Its pricetag is STEEP so few will have them (only rich/elitist bastards) and they will merely pull out of their garage and off it goes to the destination driveway/parking lot.
It also eliminates most danger posed by buttloads of new air traffic by taking the flying out of the passenger's hands. The Moller Skycar flys automatically to the destination. The passengers don't get to willy-nilly traipse this way that that to check out sights, pollute the Grand Canyon with noise and haze, patrol over someones yard to watch nude sunbathers, etc. They get to sit tight and let the skycar take them to a destination.
Dump/opt. It is redundant philosophically to/usr/local for the most part. Each non-system addon app gets its own directory in/usr/local and the package manager/installer automatically creates a symlink in/usr/local/bin to the apps real binary in its own directory.
I still don't get/opt. Really. I see no logical or real difference to simply using/usr/local or, if you wish, stick it in its own directory in/usr. Instead of sticking files all over/usr or/usr/local everything specific to the app goes into its own/usr/ or/usr/local/ directory tree and symlinks are created in/usr/bin or/usr/local/bin. Path stays simple and you ALWAYS know where all the files for any app are.
Hrmmm. Apple is up and coming (again) with its nice PPCs and MacOS X (UNIX!). This and the fact that even MacOS 9 doesn't use Direct X means that software that goes out there for Macs and PCs, and seeks to stick with the growing (again) Apple market will have to stick with OpenGL. Mac doesn't do DirectX (thank GAWD!).
Many still do lots of graphics stuff on Macs, this means OpenGL. Games on Macs will have to be OpenGL.
Fortunately, since there is but a relatively minor difference between MacOS X and Linux/*BSD, support for Macs means easier time getting support for Linux/*BSD in this area. DirectX is not and has not killed OpenGL. It cannot.
That USED to be a valid use of Hotmail, but now with the forced "gift" from M$ of a passport account, it is no longer useful. Of course, I suppose it would be cool if you created the account (and thus received the passport account) from a TOTALLY bogus persona then it wouldn't matter. Nail M$ Snotmail servers with your spam all your want - jut do NOT give them real information when you signup.
The BIGGEST difference is that no one knows when you are listening to radio, or even who you are. Your radio listening cannot be tied to you or your vehicle, etc. With OnStar, your vehicle is specifically and explicitely known, and with that YOU are known. A specific advert or move on your part in response to an add is instantly known of and tied to you directly in time and space. HUGE difference.
That personal information about your likes and dislikes is part of a larger puzzle...YOU. Such information can be used to create a profile of you in your entirety, not just your shopping habits. The more information, seemingly irrelevant, that a single entity or group of collaborating entities obtain, the easier it is to piece together a FULL personal profile on you that goes well beyond your like of good coffee or music CDs.
There is a balance that can get seriously out of whack with this personal information. The good thing (tm) of having your interests served by targeted advertising of only that stuff you are interested in is counter-balanced by a wider evil of a corporate entity (or bad player(s) within such an entity) creating a full personal profile on you as a person.
Since it appears that you have no problem with this idea, perhaps you would permit me to rumage through your drawers, checkbook, bank statements, library, software, diary or journal, and a record all your phonecalls? I promise I wont do anything with any information I obtain. I just want to know EXACTLY who you are without the filter of your personal idea of who you are. I may, on occassion, use the information to manipulate you into doing something I would like you to do but that is as far as it goes, I promise.
Unfortunately I have to lose my DSL and go back to a normal modem again. I'm moving to a rural area in Indiana and there is no cable, no DSL, and Sprint wireless broadband appears to be cacking - they are no longer looking for new users.
I LOVE my DSL. Fast, reliable, painless...I really do not look forward to conflicting phonelines - busy signals to those calling in, errant pickups of the phone to make a phonecall only to hear the squeal of a modem, the curse from downstairs because the connection was trashed.
I hate the idea of going back to this that I am seriously considering giving a shot to the "roll your own DSL" projects previously mentioned on slashdot. Sorry, but once you go to a good DSL, you NEVER want to go back.
would be to require M$, from now to infinity, to publish ALL the protocols/APIs/perversions they make to standard communication protocols AND do the same for any completely M$ created protocols under GPL.
I don't give a crap for their software, per say, but I would like to see a termination now and forever, of "embrace and extend" simply for the purpose of breaking what is fully working and OK - in order to lock people in to M$ shitcode.
If M$ can't produce propriatory APIs or communication protocols, they would have to accept real competition because ANYONE could produce fully interfunctioning alternatives to any M$ app. Only the best would survive and M$ would actually have to work and, for the first time EVER, innovate and produce robust code. They would never again be able to artificially lockout an alternative app because the app doesn't (and cannot) know the communication protocols.
I would think that in the scheme I mentioned, you would have to forgoe the unreality of Quake, vis a vis, physics and physical capability, and accept actual physics and real personal physical capabilities.
What you lose in the long jumps and long falls, etc, you gain by almost really being there in the flesh.
I simply see this as virtually enhanced reality rather than classic VR. Using what is really there to build on to create the illusion of a place/world, subject to your actual physical capabilities.
Good, cool fun plus exercise/physical activity. What more could you want?
It is the ONLY news in this that is interesting or of any importance because those 6 states totally queer any possibility of a settlement. The other states are not interesting or important, they don't affect the outcome, only the 6 holdouts affect the outcome.
Pull your head out of Gate's ass and take a breath of clean oxygenated atmosphere. Monopolies suck, end of story. Monopolies ALWAYS abuse their position, no argument.
Can't recall the link but do a search for "tetanizing laser". COOL! It shoots an electric bolt, of sorts, for hundreds of meters. Using twin UV laser beams to ionize an airpath between you and your target, a very high voltage (user-settable and with enough power behind it you could dial in anything from stun to kill) is sent down the ionized path.
It is, in principle, even able to shoot around corners with appropriate mirrors properly situated.
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No no, NOT console games (I hate arcade crap). I mean things like Half-Life, Deus Ex, Homeworld, etc. Half-Life is perfect in wine but most of the other such games I've tried are fair to middlin or DOA. This is virtually the ONLY reason I have and use wine. There is no point to Windoze software otherwise.
Wine works for some things I have tried. The only things I really care about thus far are games. A couple games work, most don't (that I have tried).
I may have need to get Word or some other non-game app to work but so far, I haven't managed to get them to work. I have found BIG problems with trying to get wine to work with virtually any WinME app. I can't even get notepad or minesweeper to run under wine. What of Win2k? How does wine fare with that one? I have that available to me too and would almost prefer to replace ME.
OK...I haven't been keeping abreast of Java details. Nonetheless, I feel that the liklihood of Java becoming a significant player along the lines originally suggested is a pipe dream.
I would LIKE for Java to win out over C# but with the still rampant M$ gorilla behind it, leveraging its ongoing monopoly, I just can't see Java overcoming C# once the latter takes off.
I wouldn't even mind THIS so much if it weren't for the ASSURED hooks that M$ will place in its own C# variants so that only M$ platforms will FULLY play with it well. If C# were taken out of M$'s hands and then M$ required to go along with the same C# standards that everyone else would have to go along with, then it wouldn't matter to me if C# OR Java took off.
A look and comment on the personality of the head cheese IS valid. His egomania or any other foibles, deficiencies, etc, have a DIRECT link to the likely future behavior of the company the person directs.
Gates is an egomaniac with a number of personality failings (along with Ballmer) that DIRECTLY lead to the monopolist, unethical and illegal behavior of the company they run. Personality traits ARE validly considered.
Ain't gonna happen (20% of software being Java). You MAY see a few digits percent of software being C# but Java? No.
Unless M$ is, as the holdout hero states in the M$ lawsuit want, required to supply a fully compatible/functional Java with doze, Java is looking to go flat as C#, leveraged by monopoly power, is forced down everyone's throat.
In any case, sorry, but Java apps are OK now and again but I fricking HATE the way, just like netscape and all Motif/lesstif apps, Java apps break your theme(s). They have their own willy-nilly and ugly look and feel and do NOT integrate well or properly into ANY system theme (in KDE or Gnome).
Hmmm, let's see. The problem with Win4lin is that IT REQUIRES ONE TO OWN WINDOZE. You STILL must purchase windoze, register windoze, feed the Beast, serve the monopoly. If EVERYONE used Win4Lin, Gates would be happy as a clam because it effectively does the same thing for him and M$ as everyone using just straight windoze. The money and propriatory software and APIs are still "accepted" as "standards".
Win4lin and VMWare are ONLY useful for those who own or have windoze by other means (ahem). It doesn't do anything to eliminate or reduce the monopoly power and abuse of M$. It serves to perpetuate it.
Wine, on the other hand, has the potential to HURT M$ and its monopoly hold on the desktop. ONLY Wine is set for this. It doesn't require windoze. No one need purchase or acquire by other means (ahem) windoze. This directly impacts negatively on M$. The more successful Wine is, the better. M$ gets hit, money is saved (a GREAT deal of wasted, unethically obtained money).
It is FAR better to not have to pay M$ a dime than to STILL have to purchase their crapOS. It is far more satisfactory on an emotional level too to thumb your nose at Gates and say "Na-na! I am running windoze software without owning or paying for windoze! Na-na! I don't NEED you!."
Wine (and Lindows, if it actually turns out to be more than vapor...like Freedows) is the ONLY viable future means to use the software you want from the windoze world without feeding the Beast money.
The analogy IS correct. M$ need not own the grocery store, nor the power company. All M$ needs is a contract to provide the network/computer system for either or both. From that point on, passport is the de facto standard for "convenient" shopping. If you don't have cash, then it is simple to "encourage" or require you to create a passport account to pay by credit.
Problem is, with such a scheme where you are expected/required to use passport to actually do something useful you cannot get away with providing nothing but bogus information. You would HAVE to give real name, real address, etc, or the money transaction would not validate and would fail (try providing bogus credit card information to avoid giving your name or social, etc , to some company you are purchasing from). In this case, instead of the legitimate use of your information by the credit card company you have M$ as the mediator of your information. An extra intermediary who can now track your purchases - tied to YOU specifically.
Passport must be prevented by ANY means from becoming a real, overreaching "standard" or requirement for anything important. It must be prevented from being used so as to make any other means of purchasing or using consumer products or services inordinately painful or slow. There must ALWAYS be convenient alternatives so that there is NO pressure to have a passport.
It is one thing if you are giving bogus information, from name to email, etc, just to play some online game. Quite another if it gets ANYWHERE beyond that. Voting? Paying for utilities? Acquiring or using phone services? All it requires is for M$ to have the network/computer services contract awarded to it and the jig is up. M$ forthwith owns ALL your REAL information.
Err...you mean windoze is not secure and linux is really secure (and *BSD is really REALLY secure - or the NSA linux is also really REALLY secure).
Insecure is what windoze is and always will be, simply because to make money, Gates and Co. insist on having their fingers directly in your database and information transfer, PARTICULARLY with their .Net nonsense.
No, no, no times 1000
The treaty is by corporations for corporations. It is slanted heavily in favor of corporations and their "property".
The treaty is intended to feed into the hands of RIAA and M$ and anyone else who thinks you don't buy music or software, just a single-use license to hear or use the item on a device, and by a person, THEY approve of.
This doesn't negate the original statement. Only Congress can OK a treaty. Until they do, signing the paper means nothing (see the treaty on Global Warming, signed but essentially dead in the US because it hasn't gotten past Congress).
Without amending/revoking Constitutional Amendments, the treaty STILL cannot override the Bill of Rights, period. The ONLY way to beat something in the Bill of Rights and all Amendments attached to it is via another Amendment.
What the fuh? This wasn't a troll message, it took a point from the treaty and expanded on it to its absurd endpoint.
Forgetting everything you did wrong is OK for a US President (Reagan, Bush senior, even Clinton) but forgetting a password is NOT OK for regular citizens under the cyber"crime" treaty. Forget and go to jail for obstruction of justice.
The Hindenburg's catastrophic burning was due to the highly flammable paint used on the dirigable's skin, NOT the hydrogen. Sure, hydrogen burns, but the Hindi would not have gone the way it did if not for the very nasty paint.
Hydrogen doesn't burn hot enough or slow enough to have done the damage that hot, burning jet fuel did to the WTC.
The Moller Skycar actually doesn't need a runway anywhere. It was designed to be able to take off and land vertically anywhere.
Its pricetag is STEEP so few will have them (only rich/elitist bastards) and they will merely pull out of their garage and off it goes to the destination driveway/parking lot.
It also eliminates most danger posed by buttloads of new air traffic by taking the flying out of the passenger's hands. The Moller Skycar flys automatically to the destination. The passengers don't get to willy-nilly traipse this way that that to check out sights, pollute the Grand Canyon with noise and haze, patrol over someones yard to watch nude sunbathers, etc. They get to sit tight and let the skycar take them to a destination.
Dump /opt. It is redundant philosophically to /usr/local for the most part. Each non-system addon app gets its own directory in /usr/local and the package manager/installer automatically creates a symlink in /usr/local/bin to the apps real binary in its own directory.
I still don't get /opt. Really. I see no logical or real difference to simply using /usr/local or, if you wish, stick it in its own directory in /usr. Instead of sticking files all over /usr or /usr/local everything specific to the app goes into its own /usr/ or /usr/local/ directory tree and symlinks are created in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. Path stays simple and you ALWAYS know where all the files for any app are.
Hrmmm. Apple is up and coming (again) with its nice PPCs and MacOS X (UNIX!). This and the fact that even MacOS 9 doesn't use Direct X means that software that goes out there for Macs and PCs, and seeks to stick with the growing (again) Apple market will have to stick with OpenGL. Mac doesn't do DirectX (thank GAWD!).
Many still do lots of graphics stuff on Macs, this means OpenGL. Games on Macs will have to be OpenGL.
Fortunately, since there is but a relatively minor difference between MacOS X and Linux/*BSD, support for Macs means easier time getting support for Linux/*BSD in this area. DirectX is not and has not killed OpenGL. It cannot.
That USED to be a valid use of Hotmail, but now with the forced "gift" from M$ of a passport account, it is no longer useful. Of course, I suppose it would be cool if you created the account (and thus received the passport account) from a TOTALLY bogus persona then it wouldn't matter. Nail M$ Snotmail servers with your spam all your want - jut do NOT give them real information when you signup.
The BIGGEST difference is that no one knows when you are listening to radio, or even who you are. Your radio listening cannot be tied to you or your vehicle, etc. With OnStar, your vehicle is specifically and explicitely known, and with that YOU are known. A specific advert or move on your part in response to an add is instantly known of and tied to you directly in time and space. HUGE difference.
That personal information about your likes and dislikes is part of a larger puzzle...YOU. Such information can be used to create a profile of you in your entirety, not just your shopping habits. The more information, seemingly irrelevant, that a single entity or group of collaborating entities obtain, the easier it is to piece together a FULL personal profile on you that goes well beyond your like of good coffee or music CDs.
There is a balance that can get seriously out of whack with this personal information. The good thing (tm) of having your interests served by targeted advertising of only that stuff you are interested in is counter-balanced by a wider evil of a corporate entity (or bad player(s) within such an entity) creating a full personal profile on you as a person.
Since it appears that you have no problem with this idea, perhaps you would permit me to rumage through your drawers, checkbook, bank statements, library, software, diary or journal, and a record all your phonecalls? I promise I wont do anything with any information I obtain. I just want to know EXACTLY who you are without the filter of your personal idea of who you are. I may, on occassion, use the information to manipulate you into doing something I would like you to do but that is as far as it goes, I promise.
How does one use cdparanoia to avoid such CD corruption and get a decent recording?
Unfortunately I have to lose my DSL and go back to a normal modem again. I'm moving to a rural area in Indiana and there is no cable, no DSL, and Sprint wireless broadband appears to be cacking - they are no longer looking for new users.
I LOVE my DSL. Fast, reliable, painless...I really do not look forward to conflicting phonelines - busy signals to those calling in, errant pickups of the phone to make a phonecall only to hear the squeal of a modem, the curse from downstairs because the connection was trashed.
I hate the idea of going back to this that I am seriously considering giving a shot to the "roll your own DSL" projects previously mentioned on slashdot. Sorry, but once you go to a good DSL, you NEVER want to go back.
would be to require M$, from now to infinity, to publish ALL the protocols/APIs/perversions they make to standard communication protocols AND do the same for any completely M$ created protocols under GPL.
I don't give a crap for their software, per say, but I would like to see a termination now and forever, of "embrace and extend" simply for the purpose of breaking what is fully working and OK - in order to lock people in to M$ shitcode.
If M$ can't produce propriatory APIs or communication protocols, they would have to accept real competition because ANYONE could produce fully interfunctioning alternatives to any M$ app. Only the best would survive and M$ would actually have to work and, for the first time EVER, innovate and produce robust code. They would never again be able to artificially lockout an alternative app because the app doesn't (and cannot) know the communication protocols.
I would think that in the scheme I mentioned, you would have to forgoe the unreality of Quake, vis a vis, physics and physical capability, and accept actual physics and real personal physical capabilities.
What you lose in the long jumps and long falls, etc, you gain by almost really being there in the flesh.
I simply see this as virtually enhanced reality rather than classic VR. Using what is really there to build on to create the illusion of a place/world, subject to your actual physical capabilities.
Good, cool fun plus exercise/physical activity. What more could you want?
Imagine a cluster of beowulf clusters - each system running multiple instances of linux!
It is the ONLY news in this that is interesting or of any importance because those 6 states totally queer any possibility of a settlement. The other states are not interesting or important, they don't affect the outcome, only the 6 holdouts affect the outcome.
Pull your head out of Gate's ass and take a breath of clean oxygenated atmosphere. Monopolies suck, end of story. Monopolies ALWAYS abuse their position, no argument.
Can't recall the link but do a search for "tetanizing laser". COOL! It shoots an electric bolt, of sorts, for hundreds of meters. Using twin UV laser beams to ionize an airpath between you and your target, a very high voltage (user-settable and with enough power behind it you could dial in anything from stun to kill) is sent down the ionized path.
It is, in principle, even able to shoot around corners with appropriate mirrors properly situated.
I want one.