Don't flame, just wanted to make sure that Steve Jobs didn't proprietarize yet another piece of networking. BTW, what exactly does it stand for? (and I never took Networking yet; I learned all I know about TCP through experience. So don't be so arrogant as to criticize the professor of experience; he will smite you someday.)
Great, another of those morons blindly filling Creative's coffers. Can't you see that EAX is not the answer? If it was implemented better, A3D could have taken Creative by storm. The problem, as usual, was in funding.
Anything software that Creative releases is utter and total crap. Their hardware is always outsourced nowadays, so that's the only reliable piece which falls under their damned name. IMHO, the only reliable Creative product is an Annihilator running the NVidia reference drivers.
Do you disagree with my position on Creative? Send a message to their tech support and try to get a reply within 6 aeons.
Remember? Steve Jobs dropped acid often while they had their first Apple Computer. With his money, Bill Gates could buy his weight in cocaine ten times over (that is, if he wasn't so insanely nerdy). And Linus Torvalds? He lives in the continent famous for its Ecstasy spawning vats. Good thing he's not hooked on anything, but who's to say he's completely clean?
And then, of course, there's those companies (Digital:Convergence, AOL, Sony, just to name a few) which spawn those insanely stupid products that make you blurt out, "What in the hell were they smoking?!?!"
"Microsoft has dropped legal threats against them and apologized."
Okay, it would've been nice if they had given them some specs to NTFS 5. But it's widely known that in the corporate paradigm, you never guide your foe's knife to your own heart. Still, it would've been a nice olive branch gesture on Gates' part.
Seriously, there's trolls getting moderated up, and legitimate arguments against Linux getting moderated down, just because the posters are GNU gnay-sayers. (there, that oughta make those bible-thumping moderators happy.) How many times does Bob Abooey have to post "Bababooey to you all !" before he is booted off of Slashdot?
I think there should be an impeachment hearing accusing Steve Case of corrupting the Internet. So far, he has bought out Nullsoft and Netscape,and has brought their webpages to a crawl by moving them to that antiquated UNIX machine in the overheated refrigeration closet in Virginia, the very same one with the AOL server.
Seriously, how many legitimate ICANN members can honestly say that they condone (or even support) Case's actions? He has corrupted the Internet by his very existence (just look at the daily hacks into AOL's central server, causing the dissemination of member account data).
I'm sick of this stupid "e-commerce" and "dot-commerce" concept. First off, it has the most smarmy nomenclature structure of anything I've ever seen since the iMac. Who coined these terms? Is he related in any way to Steve Jobs or TBWA/Chiat/Day? (I find that those two moronic entities are responsible for over 66% of the whoring of the digital world.)
I hate shopping online because you can never see, hold, feel the product (tactile response is VERY important when purchasing a laptop; the iBook is a tactile orgasm, if little else). Personally, I've only bought two things online: my Pentium III 500 (last year), and my DSL modem (August). I got those online cause I knew very well what those were like and I just needed somewhere to get them. (Note to CPU buyers going OEM: Don't trust your shipment unless it has a buttload of packing foam or bubble wrap. I got my P3 in a FedEx Box about 20 times as big as the processor itself; it was in an anti-static bag inside a roll of big bubble wrap. They learn well.)
When it comes to signatures on paper, they must be done in permanent ink. No exceptions. I feel that this stupid e-signature fiasco will undermine all that. Sure, perhaps some e-sigs will change by only a few bytes, but that's corruption nonetheless, akin to this.
If you have a SPARC system, how exactly did you get it? Through Sun, right? I thought this was the only way you could get a SPARC machine (correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, there aren't any mom and pop computer stores which build SPARC systems.) This plea for SPARC Linux is almost akin to the anti-Microsoft movement. Dell makes great x86 servers and still bible thumpers complain that they only ship with either Windows 2000 Advanced Server or RedHat; they want it to have BSD or Debian. Sorry to spoil your/usr/lib/bible/thump moment, but that's the way the computer business goes: components (hardware and OSes alike) are provided by the lowest bidder. VIA makes chipsets which crash the operating system; RedHat makes driver modules which foul up the hardware.
yeah, but in the 0.0000000000001 pre-pre-pre-alpha stage. There really should've been more demand for GUIs in Linux. In my opinion, only daemons and tty clients should be in textmode.
"Consider this: file-sharing systems work best when they reach critical mass -- only once they have a significant number of users is it likely that someone out there will have the file you want. That's why Napster has continued to grow; with 30 million users, the odds are in your favor that one or two of them will have what you need. But as soon as a file-sharing system has critical mass, it's big enough and threatening enough to become the copyright protectorate's next legal target...
Whoa! Critical mass? Threatening? Target?
This sounds more like a plan to build a thermonuclear device with intent to obliterate the RIAA. Geeze, if this article isn't stealthily inflammatory, I don't know what is.
Good thing it's not us on the wrong side of the cannon, though.
Remember, even ENIAC was digital, but it wasn't binary (it was base-10). I don't quite remember which one was the first binary computer (was it UNIVAC?), but this didn't come along until about the mid-50's (if I'm right.)
Just think of it. In a way, Apple and amazon.com have just contributed to the "instant gratification, now, damnit!" mentality. Pretty soon, hackers will design the "one-click DDoS" (oh wait, that's already been done) and the "one-click Carnivore killer." Corporations will demand the "one-click litigation" and "one-click buyout." Terrorists will spend millions to acquire the "one-click remote EMP." Gee, what will be the next threat to civilization spawned by this?
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Looks like someone spraypainted it and poured on Bon-Ami. Is that the ghetto method of trimming a christmas tree?
A troll with a 33 karma, I might add!
I gereally buy from a resleer instead of Sun directly nad get a better price? Isn't that illegal in 6 states?
Don't flame, just wanted to make sure that Steve Jobs didn't proprietarize yet another piece of networking. BTW, what exactly does it stand for? (and I never took Networking yet; I learned all I know about TCP through experience. So don't be so arrogant as to criticize the professor of experience; he will smite you someday.)
Anything software that Creative releases is utter and total crap. Their hardware is always outsourced nowadays, so that's the only reliable piece which falls under their damned name. IMHO, the only reliable Creative product is an Annihilator running the NVidia reference drivers.
Do you disagree with my position on Creative? Send a message to their tech support and try to get a reply within 6 aeons.
And then, of course, there's those companies (Digital:Convergence, AOL, Sony, just to name a few) which spawn those insanely stupid products that make you blurt out, "What in the hell were they smoking?!?!"
I meant like a forged state driver's license that you use to get into over-21 parties.
I'm reporting you right to Pater to have your UID revoked! 224634 shall live no more! (hey, I made it rhyme!)
The MAC address has absolutely nothing to do with Apple Computer in Cup-of-tea-now, right?
"Remember, corporate greed comes before ethics!" -TBWA/Chiat/Day board meeting
Okay, it would've been nice if they had given them some specs to NTFS 5. But it's widely known that in the corporate paradigm, you never guide your foe's knife to your own heart. Still, it would've been a nice olive branch gesture on Gates' part.
Seriously, there's trolls getting moderated up, and legitimate arguments against Linux getting moderated down, just because the posters are GNU gnay-sayers. (there, that oughta make those bible-thumping moderators happy.) How many times does Bob Abooey have to post "Bababooey to you all !" before he is booted off of Slashdot?
Why not just adopt the same marketing ploys as DeBeers? Steve Case probably already brought this up, in his Jay Leno-esque way.
With your grammatical blunder, it's hard to believe that your claim is any more credible than your fake ID.
Seriously, how many legitimate ICANN members can honestly say that they condone (or even support) Case's actions? He has corrupted the Internet by his very existence (just look at the daily hacks into AOL's central server, causing the dissemination of member account data).
I hate shopping online because you can never see, hold, feel the product (tactile response is VERY important when purchasing a laptop; the iBook is a tactile orgasm, if little else). Personally, I've only bought two things online: my Pentium III 500 (last year), and my DSL modem (August). I got those online cause I knew very well what those were like and I just needed somewhere to get them. (Note to CPU buyers going OEM: Don't trust your shipment unless it has a buttload of packing foam or bubble wrap. I got my P3 in a FedEx Box about 20 times as big as the processor itself; it was in an anti-static bag inside a roll of big bubble wrap. They learn well.)
Have you ever posted something other than "Bababooey to you all"?
When it comes to signatures on paper, they must be done in permanent ink. No exceptions. I feel that this stupid e-signature fiasco will undermine all that. Sure, perhaps some e-sigs will change by only a few bytes, but that's corruption nonetheless, akin to this.
If you have a SPARC system, how exactly did you get it? Through Sun, right? I thought this was the only way you could get a SPARC machine (correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, there aren't any mom and pop computer stores which build SPARC systems.) This plea for SPARC Linux is almost akin to the anti-Microsoft movement. Dell makes great x86 servers and still bible thumpers complain that they only ship with either Windows 2000 Advanced Server or RedHat; they want it to have BSD or Debian. Sorry to spoil your /usr/lib/bible/thump moment, but that's the way the computer business goes: components (hardware and OSes alike) are provided by the lowest bidder. VIA makes chipsets which crash the operating system; RedHat makes driver modules which foul up the hardware.
yeah, but in the 0.0000000000001 pre-pre-pre-alpha stage. There really should've been more demand for GUIs in Linux. In my opinion, only daemons and tty clients should be in textmode.
Whoa! Critical mass? Threatening? Target?
This sounds more like a plan to build a thermonuclear device with intent to obliterate the RIAA. Geeze, if this article isn't stealthily inflammatory, I don't know what is.Good thing it's not us on the wrong side of the cannon, though.
Now I remember. They were also the first to use magnetic-core memory, weren't they?
Remember, even ENIAC was digital, but it wasn't binary (it was base-10). I don't quite remember which one was the first binary computer (was it UNIVAC?), but this didn't come along until about the mid-50's (if I'm right.)
Just think of it. In a way, Apple and amazon.com have just contributed to the "instant gratification, now, damnit!" mentality. Pretty soon, hackers will design the "one-click DDoS" (oh wait, that's already been done) and the "one-click Carnivore killer." Corporations will demand the "one-click litigation" and "one-click buyout." Terrorists will spend millions to acquire the "one-click remote EMP." Gee, what will be the next threat to civilization spawned by this?
One had to stay back to fly the CSM. Kinda sorry that I forgot that!