No. Microsoft did not give IE away for free, they were simply buying marketshare. The money they spent on IE was much better spent than any money they could have spent to advertise their products. MS might let you have something for free, but they are not giving it away. There is a big difference.
And I'll say it again. I have the perfect solution for this mess. All the courts have to do is throw the whole case out of the courts. Yep, throw it out and stop wasting money, money that should rightfully be wasted on some other nonsense.
Then, instead of breaking them up or imposing minor fines all they have to do is come out with this order:
From this point, until the end of time, all male employees, with no exeption, will be forced to wear a dress during the working hours or while they are at work for Microsoft.
That'll calm em down a bit. Think about it, who is going to be afraid to negotiate with Bill and Steve when they see them in a cople of flowery sun dresses. I think that's just the thing to take the edge off and remove the barriers of entry.
I had been working at Apple for about one year and I was on the list of fast trackers (that's an Apple insider term for engineers who get the series A projects) which I would soon regret. I was put in charge of the project to port the two button mouse over to the Mac OS, due to a serious outcry by all the people who were buying Macs and found them to be utterly useless with only one mouse button.
I had my team working day and night to try to get a prototype ready for Comdex but we knew it was not going to be possible. All of our code was in C++ and it was too slow and buggy due to the flaws of the language, and we were looking at doing a total rewrite to try to get to right. That would be the first of many, by the way.
Well we told Steve what we needed to do and I suggested he cancel the big two button Comdex demo, and he went friggin nuts. I thought he was going to belt me right in the chopper. No, he insisted that we "just rig the fucking thing up" over and over. So I ended up taking a one button mouse and cutting it in half, right down the center, so it looked like there were two buttons. Of course you would get the same results reagrdless of which button you pressed, but Steve could work through that. Well, as it turns out, the demo got canceled anyways and we all breathed a huge sigh of relief. I think Steve never really liked me from then on though, he's a tough guy to get along with.
Actually... You can easily convert an mp3 to a wav file then burn it onto a CD which you can play in your car or anywhere you have a standard CD player. It's very easy and raises the cost to the price of a blank CD.. less than 20 cents. Yes, the quality is roughly 80% of what you would get if you bought the real deal at the store, but for most cases that's okay for me.
I want to make it clear, and I want to say with no ambiguity or doubt, that I have not bought a single CD since I started stealing music from Napster. Not one. So therefore I have to say, speaking totally for myself, that Napster has caused me to buy less music. I also want to go on the record as saying that I believe it is stealing. I am a thief.
I never worked on the one button mouse for Apple. I was the crew leader for the port from one button to two buttons until a few weeks ago. We had a full prototype two button mouse working and Steve Jobs decided he wanted us to re-write all the code into object oriented xml. That was the last straw for me, I asked for a transfer into the financial division. I'm now tasked with getting the price for an Apple down to where it's only twice as much as a comparable PC. It's going to be a tough battle but I'm up for it
This depends on how you define cyborg. Is the definition "A living brain with a robot body," or is it, "A mixture of living and technological parts that make a functioning whole?"
If you ask me, the latter definition makes more sense, and therefore I submit that cyborgs have been around for a long time, at least since the first feasible artificial hearts were successfully implanted; and I'm sure someone could come up with examples that predate that
The geek subculture has truly lost its status as subculture, and is rapidly being assimilated into the rest of pop culture as a whole. We've all noticed it, some of us have said it, and I really wonder how many of us want it.
Thanks to MP3, Silicon Valley cash, www.everyfuckingthingyouwantinporno.com and media hype over anything and everything to do with the Internet, it seems like things created by geeks have really done a number on society. The evolution of 2600 into semi-responsible corporate wannabes rather than Phiber Optik wannabes was expected, by me at least. When all is said and done, the more morally-ambiguous types will tend toward the path of least resistance, which these days, appears to be the corporate grind for the remnants of the dot-cash.
Just look at Think Geek. Hey, there's a lot of cool stuff there. But who other than a corporate flunky can actually afford any of it? Geeks have to be rich now, to stay geeks. We're being driven to it.
For me the best thing about perl is the huge CPAN library...just about anything you could think of, all categorised and indexed...and the cpan.pm module makes everything really easy to download and install too. i don't see that newer scripting languages like Ruby can take off unless they have a similar centralised mass of ready to go modules...a clean object model can only get you so far when you have to code everything yourself 'cos there's no huge library of modules. does anyone know what the state of the supporting Ruby modules are like? anything approaching CPAN yet?
How closely does the primary Python development team interact with the other language binding efforts (mainly Jython)? Anyone who's hung out in Slashdot seems to have a rabid attachment towards their native tounge, so to speak, and I've found it refreshing that the Python community "plays nice". Is there a lot of cross-pollenation(sic) between the groups?
How true, so very true. I must speak out here as a core developer for Apple for a number of years. I don't wish to flame the debate about the Mach (or simple M as the dev team calls it) and the Linux kernel, we all know the differences and have read all the debates. The thing that really bothers me is that Apple fans have been treated as outcasts for years and treated with disrespect by all the hardcore computer people. They have suffered through the whole "one button mouse" fiasco and crash after crash due to the lack of any true memory protection and yet they have stayed true to their Macs.
Now we finally get a real OS to run on our PPC's and we are still shuned and mistreated by the computer industry. We fianlly get beyond all the jokes about the pretty iMac's and the box thing and now we have to deal with Linux calling the M crap. Just remember Linus, it could have been the Linux kernel if you had been willing to play ball with us, and you know what I'm talking about.
That's the deciding factor for the most part. Although I can search for "Lexus dealership New York" and still get a hit for Hanks homepage. Maybe hank has the word dealership on it somewhere and that was all it took. However for the most part if you know the correct words to search on you will get the proper results.
IBM is surely missing the boat here then. The whole computing paradigm is shifting to small hand held devices like the MS TabletPC or the iPAQ. Are there any plans on porting the z/OS to these platforms? It's really a wonder how IBM has stayed in business all these years with such a conservative outlook. People want mainframe functionality on their iPAQ, after all this is the year 2001...IBM had better wake up and smell the coffee.
You are spot on. One might go so far as to say that innovation will be stagnate until America finds a new enemy. It's fairly well documented that we invented the Internet as a function of building a distributed network, just in case those pesky Russians tried to take out our communications. Heck, you can even go back to the original internet, the telegraph. We developed that too.
I also tend to agree with you about the difference between discovering something and innovating. I think most *innovations* are more a function of timing, take the invention of penicillin... lots of luck mixed in with some good timing. Anyways, I doubt people wake up in the morning and dacide to innovate. That's the funny thing about all the hot air our friends in Redmond blow around.
In an effort to streamline my efforts and become a more effective troll I have devised a new Do It Yourself (TM) troll, patent pending. The premise should be fairly self evident however in the true spirit of trolling I would encourage you to choose the selection which would build the most offensive troll for your personal tastes.
As a (a: long time computer programmer b: fortune 500 consultant c: linux user since 1994) I feel I must speak my mind here. Normally I sit quietly on the sidelines but my voice must be heard. As most professionals in the field I'm sure will agree, I can safely say that as a technology (a: java b: c++ c: OOP d: Visual Basic) has been a complete and total failure. While fans of (same as last selection) have reached the rabid state of a (a: amiga user b: Apple Mac user c:Debian/GNU/Linux user) that cannot detract from that fact that (same as selection 2) is a (a: bloated convoluted mess b: terrible crime against humanity c: the most braindead idea since (a: Betamax b: freeBSD c: Python))
For (a: God's sake b: Buddha's sake c: fuck's sake) how in the hell can they expect us to (a: use a mouse with only one button b: remember to free all the mallocs c: fight for our freedoms when we can't carry a handgun in public)
I have in fact seen benchmarks which (a: show IIS cruching Apache b: even a scientologist couldn't deny c: Linus Torvalds advocates) when compared with (a: the efficiency of the Nazi regime b: OS/2 c: Fortran 77) Why this data is not readily made available to the public is beyond me. I shudder to think that (a: Microsoft is paying to stop the documents from being published b: the one click patent is not valid c: Debian/GNU/Linux is impossible to install) but that is the only conclusion I can come to. Please post information to the contrary if you posses it. Until then I will maintain my position. If you think I am over-reacting let me assure you that I (a: have written a patch which adds multi-threading to the BSD kernel b: have installed Gnome hundreds of times with no problems c: think KDE r0x hard) and my reputation is un-impeachable.
I would like to (a: thank slahsdot for giving me this forum to express myself b: drink potato vodka and have sex with my cousin c: know if these pants make my butt look big)
I've always thought that maybe "the score may be early morning up" or at best "the score may be mid afternoon up" but never, never have I thought
"the score may be evening up"
Actually, no. I suggest you carry on with the benefit concert, Peter Frampton is fine, see if maybe Tiffany and Metallica are available too. We need to get the word out about how it's bad to try to oppress freedom of speech. In fact, I risk being on topic for once as this story is about freedom of speech, but here goes.
We all learned the story about how Pablo Cruise was imprisoned in 1802 in Spain because he spoke out about the oppression of the Spanish government. We know that Pablo spent 20 years of his life in prison fighting that fight. We also remember back to the early 1900's when a little known man named Bob Segar who ran a printing press was put in jail for 10 years because he stood up for freedom of speech. These are some of the lessons we learned about in grade school as we were growing up, but they don't tell the whole tale. They don't tell about a man from Nicarauga named Ted Nugent who was shot by the federalies because he yelled the truth from the top of buildings...Or the thousands of others who have given their lives for freedom...
So yes, please do continue on and get the word out about how Bob Abooey has been oppressed on Slashdot and had his freedoms taken away from. THE TRUTH MUST GET OUT ! Say, by the way, do these pants make my butt look big?
Being right or wrong is always, and will always be relative, so that's a bit of a moot issue here. I think we have the technology here to do what needs to be done, it's just a matter of getting the proper people behind it.
This little problem reminds me of one of the great lessons from history that I studied in depth while I was getting my Phd from Yale. Back in the early 1700's the Spanish colonies had great reserves of stolen gold that they wanted to sneak out of the country. The problem was that the leader at that time, Pablo Cruise, was running the country with an iron fist. However he was more interested in his upcoming war with the French and the great general DeGauss. So the renegade spanairds used the conflict with general DeGauss as a diversion. They also bribed any offial who found out what they were doing with the stolen gold. Thus they were able to sneak out most of the gold while Pablo Cruise never knew about it, as he was too concerned with the upcoming war.
The lesson here is perhaps napster needs to create a diversion here, and instead of paying the RIAA a billion dollars, perhaps start taking that money and bribing officials with it.
Some interesting references: "The war of 1707" by Andrew Peugout, isbn# 2107843 and "General DeGauss, the Man" by Simon Lebleuo, isbn# 32986723 - Both of these books go into great detail about the great gold heist and can be purchased at amazon.com
I would like to go on record here as saying that debian users are turning into the BSD's of the Linux distro's. They are pompous and annoying and 31337 and probably all descendants of Amiga users.
I am therefore going public with an official statement:
I Bob Abooey, am hereby and do officially proclaim that I will never ever ever, ever, use debian Linux. If debian is the only Linux distro left on earth I will drive to Best Buy and give my last dollar to the wild eyed clerk for a copy of Microsoft Windows. If debian was the only OS left on the planet I will chop down a tree and build an abacas. In fact from this point in time I refuse to even acknowledge the rumor that debian even exists. And lastly, all of you apt-get-morons can kiss my big hairy white arse.
True, but solaris blows on X86 while it runs great on a Sparc, especially under heavy load. Sun pretty much could care less about X86 and it shows. You have to be real carefull with the HCL and you better be ready to compile averything for it because nobody makes binaries for X86. Solaris on X86 is great if you just want to learn it, but it's not real functional for a desktop user.
If you have a sparc you're best bet is to run Solaris on it because it was designed specifically for it and it shows. But yeah... for $1500 you can get a PC that will outperform this WRT the desktop.
Amen to that my brother. I just bought Quake, yes thats Quake I, for my Linux box because it runs fine in an xterm. And actually it plays very well in a full screen xterm except the mouse stuff sucks.
I may be a software genius but I'm without clue WRT video cards and drivers and the like, and I don't have a month to search the web for obsure howto's on getting my card to run in openGL mode, or whatever. So come on ya open source zealots, make the process a little easier and they will come. Oh yeah, I need to formally apologize to the KDE people. I have been using KDE 2.0 for a week now and I have to say I like it. They de-klunked it and it actually looks a lot better than the crappy 1.0 did. So, ahem, I Bob Abooey am formally endorsing both Gnome and KDE. Thank you.
The biggest problem I have with Oog Vorbis, other than the massive disk thrashing that happens due to the fact that they still use a double buffered Kleinheimer algorithim, (Sure it's very efficient with regards to lines of code, but the Schmidt-Hefelman routines are much faster and don't write to any temp files), is the total lack of music available in the vorbis format.
When I want to blatently and willfully steal copyrighted material I go right for Napster and mp3's. There is no song out there that I can't find, and find quickly. I really don't see much gain for me by taking my stolen music and converting it to the vorbis format when I burn it onto a CD for my listeneing pleasure. So if they want to gain any popularity, they better make if easy for me to take money from the Recording Industry by having all my favorite songs easily available for free.
Bah, who gives a hoot about the new kernel. I jsut want a God Damn linux distro that works like it should right out of the box. I lament the day I went from Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2. Don't they test these things before boxing them up? Jesus H Christ on a city bus, it takes a week to update and fix all the borken stuff before you get back to where you were before the upgrade.
Linux has a big problem with trying to do too much cool stuff and not enough quality stuff. I'm a friggin geeky nerd too, I can't imagine what Joe Bagadonuts would do with this mess, probably go running right back to Windows 9x while talking about how all those Linux zealots are a bunch of fools. Yeah yeah yeah, I can here you, "well Bob, why did you upgrade if 7.1 was working fine for you?" That's a real good question.... maybe I bought into the Linux hype myself, maybe I wanted to believe sooooo badly that I overlooked all the crap. Sigh... now if you'll excuse me I have to spend some time and research why my fucking sound keeps dieing under KDE 2. Then I have to spend some time to figure out why my network card keeps getting these dirty node errors which are filling up my/var/log/messages pretty quickly.
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No. Microsoft did not give IE away for free, they were simply buying marketshare. The money they spent on IE was much better spent than any money they could have spent to advertise their products. MS might let you have something for free, but they are not giving it away. There is a big difference.
And I'll say it again. I have the perfect solution for this mess. All the courts have to do is throw the whole case out of the courts. Yep, throw it out and stop wasting money, money that should rightfully be wasted on some other nonsense.
Then, instead of breaking them up or imposing minor fines all they have to do is come out with this order:
From this point, until the end of time, all male employees, with no exeption, will be forced to wear a dress during the working hours or while they are at work for Microsoft.
That'll calm em down a bit. Think about it, who is going to be afraid to negotiate with Bill and Steve when they see them in a cople of flowery sun dresses. I think that's just the thing to take the edge off and remove the barriers of entry.
Yours,
Bob
bababooey to you all !!! !! !
I had been working at Apple for about one year and I was on the list of fast trackers (that's an Apple insider term for engineers who get the series A projects) which I would soon regret. I was put in charge of the project to port the two button mouse over to the Mac OS, due to a serious outcry by all the people who were buying Macs and found them to be utterly useless with only one mouse button.
I had my team working day and night to try to get a prototype ready for Comdex but we knew it was not going to be possible. All of our code was in C++ and it was too slow and buggy due to the flaws of the language, and we were looking at doing a total rewrite to try to get to right. That would be the first of many, by the way.
Well we told Steve what we needed to do and I suggested he cancel the big two button Comdex demo, and he went friggin nuts. I thought he was going to belt me right in the chopper. No, he insisted that we "just rig the fucking thing up" over and over. So I ended up taking a one button mouse and cutting it in half, right down the center, so it looked like there were two buttons. Of course you would get the same results reagrdless of which button you pressed, but Steve could work through that. Well, as it turns out, the demo got canceled anyways and we all breathed a huge sigh of relief. I think Steve never really liked me from then on though, he's a tough guy to get along with.
Actually... You can easily convert an mp3 to a wav file then burn it onto a CD which you can play in your car or anywhere you have a standard CD player. It's very easy and raises the cost to the price of a blank CD.. less than 20 cents. Yes, the quality is roughly 80% of what you would get if you bought the real deal at the store, but for most cases that's okay for me.
Yours,
Bob
I want to make it clear, and I want to say with no ambiguity or doubt, that I have not bought a single CD since I started stealing music from Napster. Not one. So therefore I have to say, speaking totally for myself, that Napster has caused me to buy less music. I also want to go on the record as saying that I believe it is stealing. I am a thief.
Yours,
Bob
I never worked on the one button mouse for Apple. I was the crew leader for the port from one button to two buttons until a few weeks ago. We had a full prototype two button mouse working and Steve Jobs decided he wanted us to re-write all the code into object oriented xml. That was the last straw for me, I asked for a transfer into the financial division. I'm now tasked with getting the price for an Apple down to where it's only twice as much as a comparable PC. It's going to be a tough battle but I'm up for it
Yours,
Bob
This depends on how you define cyborg. Is the definition "A living brain with a robot body," or is it, "A mixture of living and technological parts that make a functioning whole?" If you ask me, the latter definition makes more sense, and therefore I submit that cyborgs have been around for a long time, at least since the first feasible artificial hearts were successfully implanted; and I'm sure someone could come up with examples that predate that
Yours,
Bob
The geek subculture has truly lost its status as subculture, and is rapidly being assimilated into the rest of pop culture as a whole. We've all noticed it, some of us have said it, and I really wonder how many of us want it. Thanks to MP3, Silicon Valley cash, www.everyfuckingthingyouwantinporno.com and media hype over anything and everything to do with the Internet, it seems like things created by geeks have really done a number on society. The evolution of 2600 into semi-responsible corporate wannabes rather than Phiber Optik wannabes was expected, by me at least. When all is said and done, the more morally-ambiguous types will tend toward the path of least resistance, which these days, appears to be the corporate grind for the remnants of the dot-cash. Just look at Think Geek. Hey, there's a lot of cool stuff there. But who other than a corporate flunky can actually afford any of it? Geeks have to be rich now, to stay geeks. We're being driven to it.
Yours,
Bob
For me the best thing about perl is the huge CPAN library...just about anything you could think of, all categorised and indexed...and the cpan.pm module makes everything really easy to download and install too. i don't see that newer scripting languages like Ruby can take off unless they have a similar centralised mass of ready to go modules...a clean object model can only get you so far when you have to code everything yourself 'cos there's no huge library of modules. does anyone know what the state of the supporting Ruby modules are like? anything approaching CPAN yet?
Yours,
Bob
How closely does the primary Python development team interact with the other language binding efforts (mainly Jython)? Anyone who's hung out in Slashdot seems to have a rabid attachment towards their native tounge, so to speak, and I've found it refreshing that the Python community "plays nice". Is there a lot of cross-pollenation(sic) between the groups?
Yours,
Bob
Bravo my good sir, Bravo !!
Yours,
Bob
How true, so very true. I must speak out here as a core developer for Apple for a number of years. I don't wish to flame the debate about the Mach (or simple M as the dev team calls it) and the Linux kernel, we all know the differences and have read all the debates. The thing that really bothers me is that Apple fans have been treated as outcasts for years and treated with disrespect by all the hardcore computer people. They have suffered through the whole "one button mouse" fiasco and crash after crash due to the lack of any true memory protection and yet they have stayed true to their Macs.
Now we finally get a real OS to run on our PPC's and we are still shuned and mistreated by the computer industry. We fianlly get beyond all the jokes about the pretty iMac's and the box thing and now we have to deal with Linux calling the M crap. Just remember Linus, it could have been the Linux kernel if you had been willing to play ball with us, and you know what I'm talking about.
Yours,
Bob
That's the deciding factor for the most part. Although I can search for "Lexus dealership New York" and still get a hit for Hanks homepage. Maybe hank has the word dealership on it somewhere and that was all it took. However for the most part if you know the correct words to search on you will get the proper results.
Yours,
Bob
IBM is surely missing the boat here then. The whole computing paradigm is shifting to small hand held devices like the MS TabletPC or the iPAQ. Are there any plans on porting the z/OS to these platforms? It's really a wonder how IBM has stayed in business all these years with such a conservative outlook. People want mainframe functionality on their iPAQ, after all this is the year 2001...IBM had better wake up and smell the coffee.
Yours,
Bob
You are spot on. One might go so far as to say that innovation will be stagnate until America finds a new enemy. It's fairly well documented that we invented the Internet as a function of building a distributed network, just in case those pesky Russians tried to take out our communications. Heck, you can even go back to the original internet, the telegraph. We developed that too.
I also tend to agree with you about the difference between discovering something and innovating. I think most *innovations* are more a function of timing, take the invention of penicillin... lots of luck mixed in with some good timing. Anyways, I doubt people wake up in the morning and dacide to innovate. That's the funny thing about all the hot air our friends in Redmond blow around.
Yours,
In an effort to streamline my efforts and become a more effective troll I have devised a new Do It Yourself (TM) troll, patent pending. The premise should be fairly self evident however in the true spirit of trolling I would encourage you to choose the selection which would build the most offensive troll for your personal tastes.
As a (a: long time computer programmer b: fortune 500 consultant c: linux user since 1994) I feel I must speak my mind here. Normally I sit quietly on the sidelines but my voice must be heard. As most professionals in the field I'm sure will agree, I can safely say that as a technology (a: java b: c++ c: OOP d: Visual Basic) has been a complete and total failure. While fans of (same as last selection) have reached the rabid state of a (a: amiga user b: Apple Mac user c:Debian/GNU/Linux user) that cannot detract from that fact that (same as selection 2) is a (a: bloated convoluted mess b: terrible crime against humanity c: the most braindead idea since (a: Betamax b: freeBSD c: Python))
For (a: God's sake b: Buddha's sake c: fuck's sake) how in the hell can they expect us to (a: use a mouse with only one button b: remember to free all the mallocs c: fight for our freedoms when we can't carry a handgun in public)
I have in fact seen benchmarks which (a: show IIS cruching Apache b: even a scientologist couldn't deny c: Linus Torvalds advocates) when compared with (a: the efficiency of the Nazi regime b: OS/2 c: Fortran 77) Why this data is not readily made available to the public is beyond me. I shudder to think that (a: Microsoft is paying to stop the documents from being published b: the one click patent is not valid c: Debian/GNU/Linux is impossible to install) but that is the only conclusion I can come to. Please post information to the contrary if you posses it. Until then I will maintain my position. If you think I am over-reacting let me assure you that I (a: have written a patch which adds multi-threading to the BSD kernel b: have installed Gnome hundreds of times with no problems c: think KDE r0x hard) and my reputation is un-impeachable.
I would like to (a: thank slahsdot for giving me this forum to express myself b: drink potato vodka and have sex with my cousin c: know if these pants make my butt look big)
Yours,
I've always thought that maybe "the score may be early morning up" or at best "the score may be mid afternoon up" but never, never have I thought "the score may be evening up"
Yours,
Actually, no. I suggest you carry on with the benefit concert, Peter Frampton is fine, see if maybe Tiffany and Metallica are available too. We need to get the word out about how it's bad to try to oppress freedom of speech. In fact, I risk being on topic for once as this story is about freedom of speech, but here goes.
We all learned the story about how Pablo Cruise was imprisoned in 1802 in Spain because he spoke out about the oppression of the Spanish government. We know that Pablo spent 20 years of his life in prison fighting that fight. We also remember back to the early 1900's when a little known man named Bob Segar who ran a printing press was put in jail for 10 years because he stood up for freedom of speech. These are some of the lessons we learned about in grade school as we were growing up, but they don't tell the whole tale. They don't tell about a man from Nicarauga named Ted Nugent who was shot by the federalies because he yelled the truth from the top of buildings...Or the thousands of others who have given their lives for freedom...
So yes, please do continue on and get the word out about how Bob Abooey has been oppressed on Slashdot and had his freedoms taken away from. THE TRUTH MUST GET OUT ! Say, by the way, do these pants make my butt look big?
Yours,
Being right or wrong is always, and will always be relative, so that's a bit of a moot issue here. I think we have the technology here to do what needs to be done, it's just a matter of getting the proper people behind it.
This little problem reminds me of one of the great lessons from history that I studied in depth while I was getting my Phd from Yale. Back in the early 1700's the Spanish colonies had great reserves of stolen gold that they wanted to sneak out of the country. The problem was that the leader at that time, Pablo Cruise, was running the country with an iron fist. However he was more interested in his upcoming war with the French and the great general DeGauss. So the renegade spanairds used the conflict with general DeGauss as a diversion. They also bribed any offial who found out what they were doing with the stolen gold. Thus they were able to sneak out most of the gold while Pablo Cruise never knew about it, as he was too concerned with the upcoming war.
The lesson here is perhaps napster needs to create a diversion here, and instead of paying the RIAA a billion dollars, perhaps start taking that money and bribing officials with it.
Some interesting references: "The war of 1707" by Andrew Peugout, isbn# 2107843 and "General DeGauss, the Man" by Simon Lebleuo, isbn# 32986723 - Both of these books go into great detail about the great gold heist and can be purchased at amazon.com
Yours,
I would like to go on record here as saying that debian users are turning into the BSD's of the Linux distro's. They are pompous and annoying and 31337 and probably all descendants of Amiga users.
I am therefore going public with an official statement:
I Bob Abooey, am hereby and do officially proclaim that I will never ever ever, ever, use debian Linux. If debian is the only Linux distro left on earth I will drive to Best Buy and give my last dollar to the wild eyed clerk for a copy of Microsoft Windows. If debian was the only OS left on the planet I will chop down a tree and build an abacas. In fact from this point in time I refuse to even acknowledge the rumor that debian even exists. And lastly, all of you apt-get-morons can kiss my big hairy white arse.
Yours,
True, but solaris blows on X86 while it runs great on a Sparc, especially under heavy load. Sun pretty much could care less about X86 and it shows. You have to be real carefull with the HCL and you better be ready to compile averything for it because nobody makes binaries for X86. Solaris on X86 is great if you just want to learn it, but it's not real functional for a desktop user.
If you have a sparc you're best bet is to run Solaris on it because it was designed specifically for it and it shows. But yeah... for $1500 you can get a PC that will outperform this WRT the desktop.
Yours,
Amen to that my brother. I just bought Quake, yes thats Quake I, for my Linux box because it runs fine in an xterm. And actually it plays very well in a full screen xterm except the mouse stuff sucks.
I may be a software genius but I'm without clue WRT video cards and drivers and the like, and I don't have a month to search the web for obsure howto's on getting my card to run in openGL mode, or whatever. So come on ya open source zealots, make the process a little easier and they will come. Oh yeah, I need to formally apologize to the KDE people. I have been using KDE 2.0 for a week now and I have to say I like it. They de-klunked it and it actually looks a lot better than the crappy 1.0 did. So, ahem, I Bob Abooey am formally endorsing both Gnome and KDE. Thank you.
Yours,
The biggest problem I have with Oog Vorbis, other than the massive disk thrashing that happens due to the fact that they still use a double buffered Kleinheimer algorithim, (Sure it's very efficient with regards to lines of code, but the Schmidt-Hefelman routines are much faster and don't write to any temp files), is the total lack of music available in the vorbis format.
When I want to blatently and willfully steal copyrighted material I go right for Napster and mp3's. There is no song out there that I can't find, and find quickly. I really don't see much gain for me by taking my stolen music and converting it to the vorbis format when I burn it onto a CD for my listeneing pleasure. So if they want to gain any popularity, they better make if easy for me to take money from the Recording Industry by having all my favorite songs easily available for free.
Yours
Bob
Yours,
Bah, who gives a hoot about the new kernel. I jsut want a God Damn linux distro that works like it should right out of the box. I lament the day I went from Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2. Don't they test these things before boxing them up? Jesus H Christ on a city bus, it takes a week to update and fix all the borken stuff before you get back to where you were before the upgrade.
/var/log/messages pretty quickly.
Linux has a big problem with trying to do too much cool stuff and not enough quality stuff. I'm a friggin geeky nerd too, I can't imagine what Joe Bagadonuts would do with this mess, probably go running right back to Windows 9x while talking about how all those Linux zealots are a bunch of fools. Yeah yeah yeah, I can here you, "well Bob, why did you upgrade if 7.1 was working fine for you?" That's a real good question.... maybe I bought into the Linux hype myself, maybe I wanted to believe sooooo badly that I overlooked all the crap. Sigh... now if you'll excuse me I have to spend some time and research why my fucking sound keeps dieing under KDE 2. Then I have to spend some time to figure out why my network card keeps getting these dirty node errors which are filling up my
Yours,