> they that can give up speed(fibre channel), to > obtain ease of use (fibrewire), deserve neither;)
Hey! Nintendo uses firewire for the GameCube controllers and GBA links.
You try telling Godzilla 2000 (www.godzillaoncube.com) and King Ghidora that they don't deserve speed and ease of use! (If you have a death wish..;)
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape." Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges. "Godzilla X Megagiras", 2000
> Those Asian character sets that you speak of > don't have the concept of uppercase and lowercase. > (Seriously, what would a lowercase kanji look > like?)
The Japanese don't have lowercase, but their "alphabets" aren't going to easily map to the English one any time soon. For one thing, they have three "alphabets": two that represent sylables (hiragana - for japanese words, and katakana - for foreign borrow words and names like "Gojira"), and one that represents ideograms (kanji) that has as many as 45,000 characters. It is rare (vowels and 'n' in the hiragana and katakana, and a few kanji) that a Japanese character will exactly map to an English one. Even then, you are going to have multiple characters mapping to an English one. The kanji up the anti, as they have two to ten readings per kanji, and tens of thousands of kanji.
Oh, and in case you are wondering, Jaguar handles all that just fine. I ripped my "Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Ghidora: Daikaiju Soukogeki" soundtrack in iTunes, and got its titles, in kanji, off the web database. The mp3s and the folder they are in are all named in kanji, just as nice as you please. What's more, they appear on my iPod's playlist in kanji.
"Compassionate Sun, Sun Goddess, Great Mothra! Great Mothra! Mothra!" Japanese language "Mothra's Song", "Ebirah, Horror of the Deep"
> I wonder how many people who are against cutting > down the trees are also against nuclear power.
Trees are a renewable resource. Cut down all you like, as long as you replace them. Burning them, and fossil fuels, releases pollutants. Even if you don't subscribe to the global warming theory, the particulant pollution is nasty for people with chronic sinusitus and other health problems.
> A conflict of interest I'd say.
No it's not. Nuclear power can be even nastier than a coal plant, especially when run by stupid people. Just ask the nice folks in Tokai how they liked Godzilla's 1999 visit to their plant.
> If we had more research in nuclear power, maybe > we can make less radioactive waste (more > efficient) and dump it all in Nevada's desert > (to lazy to make link).
Making less would be an improvement, but we already have a Godzilla-sized lump of it to dispose of. In 10 years, we will have made enough to fill up Yucca mountain (77,000 ton capacity, larger than even the largest Godzilla at 66,000 tons). Yucca mountain will take 25-38 years to get all the waste there, and will be hot for at least 10,000 years. What are you going to do with waste in ten years? How will we keep Yucca Mountain safe, when worse case scenario has it destroying the life carrying capacity of this planet? How many more Yucca Mountains are you prepared to create?
Godzilla's definition of clean energy forbids both fossil fuels and nuclear (including fussion). It pays to listen to the big guy, as he has a tendency of destroying plants he doesn't like. Search Google for "tokai nuclear criticality" if you don't believe me.
Sonora:"New Godzilla reading. He's moving inward toward Tokai." Shinoda: "The nuclear plants, I knew it. Sonora: "Afraid so." Yuki: "Well, that's just lovely. Another Chernobyl." "Godzilla 2000" (US version dialog)
Well, if you live in the US, you would probably know that we had our own share of mammoth forest fires this summer. Some were started by arson, some by natural causes like lightning. Our fearless president has ordained the "trimming" of our forests by the logging industry to avoid such problems in the future. Now that he has a Congress dominated by his party, he is rubbing his hands thinking of all the lovely gifts he can give his friends in the logging and energy industries: gifts like the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge. He's using our problems with the Middle East as an excuse to loot an essential wildlife refuge that won't produce oil for at least ten years.
If you want something practical to do, save our national treasures from exploitation and ruin. Find a sane, intelligent group to join (personally I prefer the Natural Resources Defense Council - http://www.nrdc.org/), and get cracking.
The important thing to remember is that protecting the environment has to be wise and practical to do any good. Nobody is going to take measures that are outrageous, and doing harm in other areas, such as jobs, harms your fellow humans (who are also part of the environment and deserving of protection).
For example, if you like wood, but want to be environmentally sound about it, and want to help people, tree farms are the way to go. The trees as they grow provide shelter for animals and protect against erosion. Farming, rather than clear cutting, also provides jobs for the community that do not dry up and blow away.
"What do you think Mothra would do?" Moll, "Mosura" 1996
> My impression is that this whole trial was a joke, > and served only to line the pockets of many, many > J.D.'s.
I don't think the whole trial was a joke, just the non-penalty phase. The original prosecutors did a good job, and despite Jackson's big mouth, an appeals court did uphold most of the counts. The supremes told Microsoft what to do with its appeal.;)
Then we had an election, and a Microsoft funded (just under $20,000) senate candidate lost to a dead man (and his widow). That candidate, John Ashcroft, became the new boss of the Department of Justice. He tossed a curtain over the statue of Justice.
That's when things changed. Suddenly we had a joke of a settlement (settling after someone has been found guilty of crimes, that's new to me). According to the Turney Act, the judge asked for, and got, public commentary. Aside from those discarded as frivolous, two thirds of the comments were against the settlement. The judge blessed it anyway, with minimumal changes.
> Maybe I'm wrong and this decision really will > stop Microsoft's efforts to squash any > innovations that it doesn't own...
Microsoft's recent actions indicate otherwise. The EU's case may give us some hope. If not, the only hope may be to take them down in the marketplace, if their customer's rising anger, and innovative stuff from the likes of Apple, will offset their anticompetitive behavior.
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world. And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it." Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
Yes,.Net will be everywhere. So will the operating system Microsoft is building on top of it. Why don't you all just hand Apple and Linux's marketshare to Microsoft now, complete with silver platter?
You were warned two years ago that Millenium was coming, and that it would attack Macs and open source machines. What part of "Embrace, extend, and extinguish." do you not get? The trial is over, we all lost, and Microsoft has become a monster. Keep the Borg JVM (.Net) off your Macs while the government is still allowing you the luxury of a choice. Otherwise your Mac *will* be assimilated, when Millennium awakens and devours the internet.
There is still some hope, and a battle royale to fight. The anger of Microsoft's customers, and the strength still left to Apple and Linux gives us a chance. Don't blow it by giving in to Microsoft's bait, and giving them a chance at gobbling up your Mac.
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world. And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it." Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
> As long as future versions of Windows include > Internet Explorer, the masses will continue to use > it.
Windows XP very nearly didn't include Internet Explorer. Longhorn will probably not include Internet Explorer. It will be replaced with MSN Explorer.
The masses will be browsing Microsoft's network, not the internet.
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world. And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it." Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
> WTF is this article about? The "Power of the > Interweb" is turning dirt farmers into city > slickers? > > How did we go from taxpayer-financed broadband to > a Hyperlinked Bill Gates Quote?
Allow me to explain. You see,.Net and all things built on top of.Net (like the next version of Windows) need broadband. The content streamed to Mr. Gates' shiny new Media PCs needs broadband. Mr. Gates' plan for total world domination needs broadband.
Of course, we do not yet have world-wide broadband (slight oversight on Mr. Gates' part). Due to its proximity to Microsoft and the wisdom of its government, the blessed state of Idaho has chosen the broadband path to prosperity and Gates servitude. All of Idaho's farmers will now leave their farms and march into the city, to get high paying jobs to afford Mr. Gates' high monthly payments.
Prosperity and Microsoft servitude will be cut short when Godzilla comes to town. He will smite Microsoft for its evil wrongdoing, and its kingdom will be no more. The farmers will be free to return to their farms and their most honorable professions (they don't get enough credit for their most essential work in producing food for us).
Whether broadband will remain in place is pretty much up to Godzilla. My guess is it will be left in place if his next game requires it, or Toho deigns to sell decent copies of its movies online to us in the US.
Shinoda: "The age of Millennium." Io: "What does that mean?" Shinoda: "A thousand year kingdom. It wants to create a home for itself. There is one flaw in its plan: Godzilla." "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
> Microsoft opted out, because Godzilla looks too > much like Mozilla, and they don't want to be > construed as supporting a competing product over > their own. It's bad for the share price.
Nope, Godzilla's been Apple's biggest fan since 1993's "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2". He hates Microsoft with a nuclear passion.
What do you think "Godzilla 2000 Millenium" was about? The alien in the movie was Microsoft! The "Millenium" reference was to the Microsoft Research project "Millenium" (http://research.microsoft.com/research/sn/Millenn ium/mgoals.html, Millenium's boot screen actually appeared on three monitors of computers the alien attacked, only in the Japanese version). The alien tried to embrace and extend Godzilla, and he nuked it.;)
Don't believe me? Answer me this: who or what has "control of systems all over the world"? (Particularly since the Windows XP Service Pack 1 release.)
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world. And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it." Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
Shinoda: "The age of Millennium." Io: "What does that mean?" Shinoda: "A thousand year kingdom. It wants to create a home for itself. There is one flaw in its plan: Godzilla." "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
Millennium's Message (words appeared on all computer monitors before the tower was destroyed): "Earth Destroy Erase Suppression Dominate Terror Prosperity Oppulence Oppression Revolution Kingdom" "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
> I will be investigating the wonderful world of > non-label bands.
You've got it right. That is the way to stop them.
Give your money to the artists, not the sharks.
Make your own music even if it is just beating rocks together or singing. Then share it with anyone who wants to listen.
Let the greedy sharks keep their monopoly of broken records and shattered dreams.
Music is sacred. It belongs to the artists and the people, not those nasty evil sharks!
Bells are ringing: Mothra, Mothra! Every heart is calling: Mothra, Mothra! Come on, Tok Wira, these sharks have gotta pay! New Kirk calling Mothra, we need you today!
> bring back the joystick on the right!!! Screw with > the nintendo generation!
Nintendo has brought back a joystick on the right.
Godzilla (http://www.godzillaoncube.com) doesn't know how he would aim at flying foes without it.
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape." Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges. "Godzilla X Megagiras", 2000
Yep, Infogrames is as Atari as you can get these days.
I have their "Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee" game (http://www.godzillaoncube.com/) for the GameCube (very good game btw, with the real Godzilla and friends from Toho). The box had "Atari" on the front, an Atari splash during the startup, and an Atari logo on a building rooftop billboard in the intro movie. If you play at normal or hard difficulty level, some of the buildings you smash will have Atari icons in them. Collect them, and you unlock gallery pictures.
If Infogrames is putting out a joystick/console with old Atari games, believe you me, it is as legit as it can be.
Funny thing about that Godzilla game: it has not only brought Atari and Nintendo together, but Sony has been promoting it in their "Godzilla Ultimate Collection" videos, and lines from their "Godzilla 2000" promo material have appeared in the game.
Atari. Nintendo. Sony. Only one Godzilla is leaving out of this little club of his: Microsoft!;)
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape." Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges. "Godzilla X Megagiras", 2000
> And finally, Apple isn't "cozy" with the DMCA at > all. It was the quickest path to get a vendor from > illegally distributing iDVD, which is Apple > proprietary material, with OEM CD-RW/DVD-RW > drives. Though the DMCA may make us cringe, Apple > was 100% in the right:
Even if Apple would have been in the right, I still don't believe Apple even made the threat. All we ever got was the other party's word (no posted copies of actual documents), and that word changed from the original story a few weeks before.
The original story was that Apple had asked *nicely* for him to stop distributing iDVD with his drives that competed with the SuperDrive, and he agreed to keep good relations with Apple. It was weeks later that the story broke again, this time with him claiming Apple had used the DMCA.
This struck me as a smear campaign on his part to blacken Apple's good name. The DMCA is a bad law, and it gives any company fool enough to use it plenty of bad PR.
Apple does not deserve this. Steve Jobs is one of the very few leaders of the computer industry to actually stand up to the RIAA and MPAA for his customers. He is the only one with the courage to do so during his Grammy Awards acceptance speech:
"If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own." Steve Jobs, 2002 Grammy Awards
> Oh wait, that sniper is most likely to be a > fellow American using their constitutionally > protected right to be a gun nut.
Sorry, but the Constitution does not protect breaking court orders. The elder sniper was barred from playing with guns at the time he and his "partner" went on their multi-state murder spree. It seems his previous hobby was kidnapping his kids.
As with DRM and so much else, gun control laws only control honest, law-abiding citizens. Evil people don't bother with restrictions on what they can purchase, they just steal whatever they want.
Face it, no amount of regulation is going to make us all safe and secure, because this is not a safe and secure world. The only real security is the kind the heroes of Flight 93 bought with their lives: by confronting and stopping evil men even though they were just ordinary people riding an airplane. Their example has done a lot of good, as it has been the ordinary people on the airplanes, not the endless barrage of airport security, that has stopped further threats, like the Shoe Bomber.
Such evils can and have been defeated. But it has not been by casting liberty to the wind, ruining happiness, or destroying our future.
"Lola, kindness is not enough, look for the reason of hatred and anger. When you find and understand that, love becomes the strongest power.. " Belabera, "Mothra 3: King Ghidora Attacks"
> There's plenty more room for more platforms in the > world, but it's sad to see the once great Amiga > being shoved back to novelty value.
This isn't novelty value, this is the first baby steps of a real rebirth. They put something out, best as they can manage, and get a limited release out to the long time fans. This gives them capital for more development, so they can move Amiga all the way to the modern world and beyond.
> And novelty value isn't going to cut it any > more. Heck, look at the demise of Be. Great > innovative things even miss out. I'm glad Apple > has made it so far as it's truly the one > platform that innovates out there anymore.
Apple is but the first of many that will be returning. Just as Linux is the first alternative OS on the x86 platform to be a successful contender to Windows.
Back before the plague of Windows, there were many personal and small home computers, and many flavors of Unix. They could have played together nicer, but at least there were choices. While some died off due to stumbles by the various makers, the coming of Windows had a tragic chilling effect.
By 95 and 96, most of those computer makers had died or faded into obscurity. Apple nearly died, but was rescued by a kindly Moth, who dropped Steve Jobs off to tend her poor tree. Microsoft trumpeted the demise of Unix, not noticing the infant Tux playing in its shadow.
By the late 90's, anger at Microsoft was kindling. They were confronted with a Unix they could not kill (that adorable baby penguin grew up). And that charred Apple sappling put forth new branches and bore fruit: first the iMac, and then their future.. OS X!
Now look at where we are! Thanks to Mozilla, Netscape is back. Word Perfect and Lotus 123 ship on new computers (not to mention Star/Open Office and the other office suites that have sprouted up). Apple is knocking on enterprise doors, and being welcomed inside. In less than a year, Apple has gone from no server product to being the fifth largest US server maker! Linux is running on all kinds of stuff from PDAs to supercomputers. Be will be back in the form of Palm 6. Amiga is coming back, and even OS/2 has shown some signs of new development.
If we can avoid the Hollings' bill, all of Microsoft's rampaging about will only hasten its demise by further driving away its customers. Already, according to ZDNet, 40% of companies are looking for alternatives. The more alternatives, the healthier the market will get.
Let's make life easier on ourselves this time, and use some open standards to make all those lovely choices play well together.;)
"It's a miracle! The sea water has once again created new life." Moll, "Rebirth of Mothra 2" Released in Japan 5 months before the announcement of the iMac (Rainbow Mothra) and OS X (Aqua Mothra).
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> Since W3.1, you can upgrade to the next/ more > recent version without a problem. (except of > course the problem caused by the bsod) !
Obviously, you didn't try to upgrade to Windows 95 when it first came out. Took me eleven months of reformats and reinstalls, corrupted registry, and a near useless (and getting worse) computer before I gave up. I reformatted, reinstalled Windows 3.1, swore eternal hatred towards the Microsoft I once loved, and started looking for alternatives. Why did this take eleven months? Because I loved the concept and GUI of Windows 95 and really wanted it to work. I had been looking forward to it coming out, and had even preordered it.
In the late 90's, I experimented with various Linux distributions, built my own Linux server, etc. I eventually settled on Suse. Installation was fairly easy even then (a breeze compared to Windows 95), and I handled the lack of distribution "upgrades" by upgrading my hard drive at the same time. I'd install the new version on the new hard drive, then just copy my files and stuff over. Upgrades were fun, gave me more room, and I'd spend an hour or more carefully selecting what packages I wanted. I still have fond feelings for Linux, and I currently own the Linux based Zaurus PDA.
In the fall of 2000, thanks to the coming of OS X and some prodding by Godzilla (courtesy of the extremely pro-Apple movie "Godzilla 2000"), I took a look at Apple's Macs for the first time since a chance encounter in a college book store back in 1985. This time I appreciated what I saw, and fell in love. I bought an iMac, and when OS X first released, I installed it without any headaches.
Exactly seven years after my Windows 95 nightmare began, Apple released OS X Jaguar. Again I brought an OS of great promise home to install it. This time, though, the results were very different: everything I'd hoped for for the past seven years came true.
On December 14, 1996, Mothra resurrected a charred Apple sapling ("Mosura" 1996). On December 14, 2001, Mothra returned to see its fruit ("Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Ghidora: Daikaiju Soukougeki"). OS X Jaguar: truly the Apple of Mothra's Aqua eye.
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> MacOS is essentially an MS operating system with > different branding.
Mac OS X is a genuine UNIX, descended mostly from NeXT, with fresh stuff from the *BSD trees, and the coolest GUI on the planet. None of it comes from Microsoft (though Microsoft would certainly wish it did). The only code it would remotely have in common with anything Microsoft, would be the stuff from the BSD side of the family, and at best, they would be cousins in a few small areas.
> MS got control over what apps to ship (Internet > Exploiter) in exchange for paying $ to Apple.
That is rubbish. Steve Jobs did a five year deal with Microsoft, which consisted of Microsoft buying some non-voting shares and providing Office on the Mac in return for the Mac shipping with Internet Explorer (Netscape was also frequently shipping on OS 9 Macs during the same time period). That deal is now over.
> So while it may not be 100% owned by MS,
The non-voting shares were dumped on the market in fall of 2000, in an effort to tank Apple's stock. It (and some mistakes on Apple's part) worked, and for a few days all gloated over Apple's apparent demise. It didn't last long though, as the entire PC industry then tanked, and fell farther than Apple, who recovered the next quarter.
> Apple is at least heavily influnced by Redmond.
Exactly what part of the Switch campaign are you not getting? Apple is flinging itself at Microsoft's jugular these days.
Windows: "Go talk to my friend, an 800 pound monopoly-abusing gorilla!" Mac: "And here's my good buddy, the 66,000 ton Godzilla!" Godzilla: Stomp!;)
Been found guilty (upheld in appeals court) of multiple counts of breaking antitrust law.
Engaged in terror marketing; using fear of audits to sell more licenses to companies than they need.
Produced and sold products so notoriously insecure that the FBI has had to warn the public.
Caused (through a bug in their SQL Server) nuclear materials in Russia and possibly in the US to slip through the cracks. The materials could be safe in a warehouse or in unfriendly hands, the database no longer has a record of them.
Left a trail of broken and dead companies in their wake, not through fair competition, but through dirty (and frequently illegal) tricks.
Caused huge amounts of lost documents and lost productivity to corporate customers, and an endless amount of frustration, stress, and blue screens of death to users.
Audited poor school systems and a children's charity, to grab what little funding those organizations had to feed their endless greed.
Attempted to force Licensing 6 on their customers, then publicly bragged about the resulting "unearned profits".
Refused to share their big wad of cash with their shareholders in the form of dividends. Since the stock is down from its glory days, what do the shareholders get in return for their investment? Nothing.
There is far more. Get your head out of MS Sand(TM) and read the news for a change. Microsoft has broken the law, failed their shareholders, and wronged their customers. That is wrong, even by the standards of business ethics. By the standards of human compassion, well gotr00t was right when they said Microsoft was a jerk. "Greedy Shark" works for me.
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world. And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it." Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version) Hmm, do you think Godzilla will blow Microsoft's candles out for his 48th birthday on Sunday?
> Basically gives MS the right to access data in you > computer.
Close. It gives MS the right to access data and install anything it wants to (like a certain distributed network OS called Millenium).
If your business is in the health care, banking, or financial fields, you may not be able to install this service pack (or sp1 for XP) due to the EULA being in conflict with the guidelines and laws your business must operate under. If you are not in those fields, you would still be advised to run the EULA past legal to make sure it won't cause problems.
BTW, 2000 sp 3 and XP (sp1?) will be the minimum requirements for Office 11 due out in 2003. Previous versions either will not be supported, or plain won't run it.
"All our tomorrows, Great Sun, by the Light, are very forgotten.
The Light dies. We pray and it sleeps." "Oh Peace Oh Light Return" (national song of mourning) From "Gojira", November 3, 1954
> set up a "trusted" system and then use your > Passport account to charge you by the bit.
You mean like this "trusted" system?
http://research.microsoft.com/research/sn/Millen ni um/mgoals.html
Yep, Microsoft already has their Millenium planned out. Of course, Godzilla already has their destruction planned out.;)
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world. And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it." Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version) Godzilla's 48th Birthday will be this Sunday.
Wow, that just gave me a great idea of what to do with all those high priced import kaiju eiga soundtracks I've been collecting. They tend to have sound effects tracks. A little magic with iTunes and iPod (connected to my stereo system), and I will have Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidora, Baragon, Death Ghidora, Megagiras, etc. answering those pesky telemarketers: "Growl.. roar.. chirp.. stomp.. bzzt.. whoosh.. flap.."
Gee, I hope Baragon doesn't get carried away and *eat* the poor dears.;)
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape." Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges. "Godzilla X Megagiras", 2000
Speed isn't the issue. These are two different beasties with different purposes:
J2EE is a language/platform on which to build tools to run your business.
Microsoft's.Net is a johnny-come-lately Java-alike that is designed to be a last minute substitute for the Borg JVM (I kid you not, they actually called it that). It is the platform to run Millenium on so Microsoft can finally achieve world domination. Microsoft Research didn't spend all that time and money on an "operating system for the next millenium" just to scrap it, you know.
So what do you want to do? Run your business? Or be a loyal vassal and bow to King Microsoft?
Funny thing about thousand year kingdoms by tin plate dictators: they don't last a day when the one true King of Monsters comes to town.;)
Shinoda: "The age of Millennium." Io: "What does that mean?" Shinoda: "A thousand year kingdom. It wants to create a home for itself. There is one flaw in its plan: Godzilla." "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
> Are you saying that Linux will stop being Free and > free?
Business needs a prepackaged, pretested, and supported OS that they can slap on hundreds of machines at a time. That is where the big distributions and their shareholders will find their money. That will also be a good place for Apple to sell Macs running OS X.
For the geek or group of geeks willing to lovingly craft their own distribution, Linux (or as Godzilla calls it: My Custom OS) will always find a way to be Free and free. It will always do things ten times faster than Windows. And if geeks ever get bored of it, they will just write something else that will be Free and free.
The only threats to Linux are Microsoft's Palladium and Millenium, and the Holling's bill. If we can avoid those, the future for Open Source OSs will be bright for both geeks and business.
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape." Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges. "Godzilla X Megagiras", December 2000
> but last time I checked, the US government doesn't > maintain a specially horrific prision for the > children of dissidents,
No, but the US did toss Japanese-Americans into concentration camps during WWII.
> doesn't gas its own citizens,
Wrong. Deadly nerve gasses were at one time released for testing purposes in several states. What's worse, above ground nuclear testing irradiated numerous states (and most of the planet) at its height. Godzilla is not the only child of nuclear testing, just the only one of us that became a god because of it. Genetic disorders and cancers are *not* fun. I know, I have the former, and I watched my mother die of the latter.
> doesn't execute military officers by the > hundreds,
Nope (except for the above nerve gas and nuclear testing). The Native Americans did get massacred a lot, though.
> doesn't explicitly repress free speech, etc.
The DMCA has not been kind to free speech. CNN's government correspondents (government PR people more like) have lately been acting like first amendment advocates are some kind of wacked loonies, though. They've said Congress doesn't believe in it anymore. The USA Patriot Act did a real number on most of the other amendments.
> Which the Iraqi government, controlled by > Hussein, does.
Yes, it does (or so we are told, having never been there myself).
The US has done some pretty nasty things in its history. But they pale in comparison to the doings of madmen like Hitler or Stalin. The US has ideals to aspire to. It isn't always successful at following them, but they make it possible for one to love one's country, despite its warts and its checkered history (and despite what some of that history has done to one's body).
However bad it looks now, we are actually handling things better this time around. Our government has been careful to make a distinction between Bin Laden's goons and followers of Islam, the religion (whose rights to their faith are protected by the First Amendment). We haven't nuked anybody (despite all the postings on Slashdot on 9/11/01 calling for it). We can, and should, do better though.
I don't like or approve of President Bush. I have serious questions about the way he came into his office. His economic and environmental policies are a disaster. He is a warmonger like his father. His stupid pet project at Yucca Mountain is likely to draw the wrath of the gods on our nation and get us all killed (same stupidity as the Tokai criticality accident, and the same angry god).
That being said, I highly doubt that most of what I don't like him doing is the result of malice. I can only pray he either gets a boatload of wisdom, or gets some wiser advisors.
"Our people.. stricken with disease.
You.. you played with the fires of the gods.
And you dare to come here and ask us for help!
You betrayed us! You expect us to trust you after what you have done?" Infant Island Chief, "Godzilla vs. Mothra" (US Version), 1964
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> they that can give up speed(fibre channel), to
> obtain ease of use (fibrewire), deserve neither
Hey! Nintendo uses firewire for the GameCube controllers and GBA links.
You try telling Godzilla 2000 (www.godzillaoncube.com) and King Ghidora that they don't deserve speed and ease of use! (If you have a death wish
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape."
Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges.
"Godzilla X Megagiras", 2000
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> (Seriously, what would a lowercase kanji look
> like?)
The Japanese don't have lowercase, but their "alphabets" aren't going to easily map to the English one any time soon. For one thing, they have three "alphabets": two that represent sylables (hiragana - for japanese words, and katakana - for foreign borrow words and names like "Gojira"), and one that represents ideograms (kanji) that has as many as 45,000 characters. It is rare (vowels and 'n' in the hiragana and katakana, and a few kanji) that a Japanese character will exactly map to an English one. Even then, you are going to have multiple characters mapping to an English one. The kanji up the anti, as they have two to ten readings per kanji, and tens of thousands of kanji.
Oh, and in case you are wondering, Jaguar handles all that just fine. I ripped my "Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Ghidora: Daikaiju Soukogeki" soundtrack in iTunes, and got its titles, in kanji, off the web database. The mp3s and the folder they are in are all named in kanji, just as nice as you please. What's more, they appear on my iPod's playlist in kanji.
"Compassionate Sun, Sun Goddess, Great Mothra! Great Mothra! Mothra!"
Japanese language "Mothra's Song", "Ebirah, Horror of the Deep"
Fascist Christ wrote:
> I wonder how many people who are against cutting
> down the trees are also against nuclear power.
Trees are a renewable resource. Cut down all you like, as long as you replace them. Burning them, and fossil fuels, releases pollutants. Even if you don't subscribe to the global warming theory, the particulant pollution is nasty for people with chronic sinusitus and other health problems.
> A conflict of interest I'd say.
No it's not. Nuclear power can be even nastier than a coal plant, especially when run by stupid people. Just ask the nice folks in Tokai how they liked Godzilla's 1999 visit to their plant.
> If we had more research in nuclear power, maybe
> we can make less radioactive waste (more
> efficient) and dump it all in Nevada's desert
> (to lazy to make link).
Making less would be an improvement, but we already have a Godzilla-sized lump of it to dispose of. In 10 years, we will have made enough to fill up Yucca mountain (77,000 ton capacity, larger than even the largest Godzilla at 66,000 tons). Yucca mountain will take 25-38 years to get all the waste there, and will be hot for at least 10,000 years. What are you going to do with waste in ten years? How will we keep Yucca Mountain safe, when worse case scenario has it destroying the life carrying capacity of this planet? How many more Yucca Mountains are you prepared to create?
Godzilla's definition of clean energy forbids both fossil fuels and nuclear (including fussion). It pays to listen to the big guy, as he has a tendency of destroying plants he doesn't like. Search Google for "tokai nuclear criticality" if you don't believe me.
Sonora:"New Godzilla reading. He's moving inward toward Tokai."
Shinoda: "The nuclear plants, I knew it.
Sonora: "Afraid so."
Yuki: "Well, that's just lovely. Another Chernobyl."
"Godzilla 2000" (US version dialog)
Well, if you live in the US, you would probably know that we had our own share of mammoth forest fires this summer. Some were started by arson, some by natural causes like lightning. Our fearless president has ordained the "trimming" of our forests by the logging industry to avoid such problems in the future. Now that he has a Congress dominated by his party, he is rubbing his hands thinking of all the lovely gifts he can give his friends in the logging and energy industries: gifts like the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge. He's using our problems with the Middle East as an excuse to loot an essential wildlife refuge that won't produce oil for at least ten years.
If you want something practical to do, save our national treasures from exploitation and ruin. Find a sane, intelligent group to join (personally I prefer the Natural Resources Defense Council - http://www.nrdc.org/), and get cracking.
The important thing to remember is that protecting the environment has to be wise and practical to do any good. Nobody is going to take measures that are outrageous, and doing harm in other areas, such as jobs, harms your fellow humans (who are also part of the environment and deserving of protection).
For example, if you like wood, but want to be environmentally sound about it, and want to help people, tree farms are the way to go. The trees as they grow provide shelter for animals and protect against erosion. Farming, rather than clear cutting, also provides jobs for the community that do not dry up and blow away.
"What do you think Mothra would do?"
Moll, "Mosura" 1996
EccentricAnomaly wrote:
;)
> My impression is that this whole trial was a joke,
> and served only to line the pockets of many, many
> J.D.'s.
I don't think the whole trial was a joke, just the non-penalty phase. The original prosecutors did a good job, and despite Jackson's big mouth, an appeals court did uphold most of the counts. The supremes told Microsoft what to do with its appeal.
Then we had an election, and a Microsoft funded (just under $20,000) senate candidate lost to a dead man (and his widow). That candidate, John Ashcroft, became the new boss of the Department of Justice. He tossed a curtain over the statue of Justice.
That's when things changed. Suddenly we had a joke of a settlement (settling after someone has been found guilty of crimes, that's new to me). According to the Turney Act, the judge asked for, and got, public commentary. Aside from those discarded as frivolous, two thirds of the comments were against the settlement. The judge blessed it anyway, with minimumal changes.
> Maybe I'm wrong and this decision really will
> stop Microsoft's efforts to squash any
> innovations that it doesn't own...
Microsoft's recent actions indicate otherwise. The EU's case may give us some hope. If not, the only hope may be to take them down in the marketplace, if their customer's rising anger, and innovative stuff from the likes of Apple, will offset their anticompetitive behavior.
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world.
And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it."
Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
Yes, .Net will be everywhere. So will the operating system Microsoft is building on top of it. Why don't you all just hand Apple and Linux's marketshare to Microsoft now, complete with silver platter?
You were warned two years ago that Millenium was coming, and that it would attack Macs and open source machines. What part of "Embrace, extend, and extinguish." do you not get? The trial is over, we all lost, and Microsoft has become a monster. Keep the Borg JVM (.Net) off your Macs while the government is still allowing you the luxury of a choice. Otherwise your Mac *will* be assimilated, when Millennium awakens and devours the internet.
There is still some hope, and a battle royale to fight. The anger of Microsoft's customers, and the strength still left to Apple and Linux gives us a chance. Don't blow it by giving in to Microsoft's bait, and giving them a chance at gobbling up your Mac.
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world.
And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it."
Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
timmyf2371 wrote:
> As long as future versions of Windows include
> Internet Explorer, the masses will continue to use
> it.
Windows XP very nearly didn't include Internet Explorer. Longhorn will probably not include Internet Explorer. It will be replaced with MSN Explorer.
The masses will be browsing Microsoft's network, not the internet.
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world.
And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it."
Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
Qrlx wrote:
.Net and all things built on top of .Net (like the next version of Windows) need broadband. The content streamed to Mr. Gates' shiny new Media PCs needs broadband. Mr. Gates' plan for total world domination needs broadband.
> WTF is this article about? The "Power of the
> Interweb" is turning dirt farmers into city
> slickers?
>
> How did we go from taxpayer-financed broadband to
> a Hyperlinked Bill Gates Quote?
Allow me to explain. You see,
Of course, we do not yet have world-wide broadband (slight oversight on Mr. Gates' part). Due to its proximity to Microsoft and the wisdom of its government, the blessed state of Idaho has chosen the broadband path to prosperity and Gates servitude. All of Idaho's farmers will now leave their farms and march into the city, to get high paying jobs to afford Mr. Gates' high monthly payments.
Prosperity and Microsoft servitude will be cut short when Godzilla comes to town. He will smite Microsoft for its evil wrongdoing, and its kingdom will be no more. The farmers will be free to return to their farms and their most honorable professions (they don't get enough credit for their most essential work in producing food for us).
Whether broadband will remain in place is pretty much up to Godzilla. My guess is it will be left in place if his next game requires it, or Toho deigns to sell decent copies of its movies online to us in the US.
Shinoda: "The age of Millennium."
Io: "What does that mean?"
Shinoda: "A thousand year kingdom. It wants to create a home for itself. There is one flaw in its plan: Godzilla."
"Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
User 956 wrote:
n ium/mgoals.html, Millenium's boot screen actually appeared on three monitors of computers the alien attacked, only in the Japanese version). The alien tried to embrace and extend Godzilla, and he nuked it. ;)
> Microsoft opted out, because Godzilla looks too
> much like Mozilla, and they don't want to be
> construed as supporting a competing product over
> their own. It's bad for the share price.
Nope, Godzilla's been Apple's biggest fan since 1993's "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2". He hates Microsoft with a nuclear passion.
What do you think "Godzilla 2000 Millenium" was about? The alien in the movie was Microsoft! The "Millenium" reference was to the Microsoft Research project "Millenium" (http://research.microsoft.com/research/sn/Millen
Don't believe me? Answer me this: who or what has "control of systems all over the world"? (Particularly since the Windows XP Service Pack 1 release.)
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world.
And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it."
Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
Shinoda: "The age of Millennium."
Io: "What does that mean?"
Shinoda: "A thousand year kingdom. It wants to create a home for itself. There is one flaw in its plan: Godzilla."
"Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
Millennium's Message (words appeared on all computer monitors before the tower was destroyed):
"Earth Destroy Erase Suppression Dominate Terror Prosperity Oppulence Oppression Revolution Kingdom"
"Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
teamhasnoi wrote:
> I will be investigating the wonderful world of
> non-label bands.
You've got it right. That is the way to stop them.
Give your money to the artists, not the sharks.
Make your own music even if it is just beating rocks together or singing. Then share it with anyone who wants to listen.
Let the greedy sharks keep their monopoly of broken records and shattered dreams.
Music is sacred. It belongs to the artists and the people, not those nasty evil sharks!
Bells are ringing: Mothra, Mothra! Every heart is calling: Mothra, Mothra!
Come on, Tok Wira, these sharks have gotta pay! New Kirk calling Mothra, we need you today!
EnderWiggnz wrote:
> bring back the joystick on the right!!! Screw with
> the nintendo generation!
Nintendo has brought back a joystick on the right.
Godzilla (http://www.godzillaoncube.com) doesn't know how he would aim at flying foes without it.
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape."
Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges.
"Godzilla X Megagiras", 2000
Yep, Infogrames is as Atari as you can get these days.
;)
I have their "Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee" game (http://www.godzillaoncube.com/) for the GameCube (very good game btw, with the real Godzilla and friends from Toho). The box had "Atari" on the front, an Atari splash during the startup, and an Atari logo on a building rooftop billboard in the intro movie. If you play at normal or hard difficulty level, some of the buildings you smash will have Atari icons in them. Collect them, and you unlock gallery pictures.
If Infogrames is putting out a joystick/console with old Atari games, believe you me, it is as legit as it can be.
Funny thing about that Godzilla game: it has not only brought Atari and Nintendo together, but Sony has been promoting it in their "Godzilla Ultimate Collection" videos, and lines from their "Godzilla 2000" promo material have appeared in the game.
Atari. Nintendo. Sony. Only one Godzilla is leaving out of this little club of his: Microsoft!
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape."
Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges.
"Godzilla X Megagiras", 2000
daveschroeder wrote:
> And finally, Apple isn't "cozy" with the DMCA at
> all. It was the quickest path to get a vendor from
> illegally distributing iDVD, which is Apple
> proprietary material, with OEM CD-RW/DVD-RW
> drives. Though the DMCA may make us cringe, Apple
> was 100% in the right:
Even if Apple would have been in the right, I still don't believe Apple even made the threat. All we ever got was the other party's word (no posted copies of actual documents), and that word changed from the original story a few weeks before.
The original story was that Apple had asked *nicely* for him to stop distributing iDVD with his drives that competed with the SuperDrive, and he agreed to keep good relations with Apple. It was weeks later that the story broke again, this time with him claiming Apple had used the DMCA.
This struck me as a smear campaign on his part to blacken Apple's good name. The DMCA is a bad law, and it gives any company fool enough to use it plenty of bad PR.
Apple does not deserve this. Steve Jobs is one of the very few leaders of the computer industry to actually stand up to the RIAA and MPAA for his customers. He is the only one with the courage to do so during his Grammy Awards acceptance speech:
"If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own."
Steve Jobs, 2002 Grammy Awards
myowntrueself wrote:
.. "
> Oh wait, that sniper is most likely to be a
> fellow American using their constitutionally
> protected right to be a gun nut.
Sorry, but the Constitution does not protect breaking court orders. The elder sniper was barred from playing with guns at the time he and his "partner" went on their multi-state murder spree. It seems his previous hobby was kidnapping his kids.
As with DRM and so much else, gun control laws only control honest, law-abiding citizens. Evil people don't bother with restrictions on what they can purchase, they just steal whatever they want.
Face it, no amount of regulation is going to make us all safe and secure, because this is not a safe and secure world. The only real security is the kind the heroes of Flight 93 bought with their lives: by confronting and stopping evil men even though they were just ordinary people riding an airplane. Their example has done a lot of good, as it has been the ordinary people on the airplanes, not the endless barrage of airport security, that has stopped further threats, like the Shoe Bomber.
Such evils can and have been defeated. But it has not been by casting liberty to the wind, ruining happiness, or destroying our future.
"Lola, kindness is not enough, look for the reason of hatred and anger.
When you find and understand that, love becomes the strongest power
Belabera, "Mothra 3: King Ghidora Attacks"
An AC wrote:
;)
:)
> But it's not Linux.
It's *different*.
But it still runs all of one's favorite Linux programs, with a recompile and the help of an X server.
> Apple is yesterday's old soldier in the war
> against MS.
At 11 years old, Linux ain't no spring chicken either.
Both Apple and Linux have their strengths in the war on Microsoft. I like Apple, you like Linux. Works great for me.
"Your way of thinking is completely different from mine!"
Shinoda, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
Erik K. Veland wrote:
.. OS X!
;)
> There's plenty more room for more platforms in the
> world, but it's sad to see the once great Amiga
> being shoved back to novelty value.
This isn't novelty value, this is the first baby steps of a real rebirth. They put something out, best as they can manage, and get a limited release out to the long time fans. This gives them capital for more development, so they can move Amiga all the way to the modern world and beyond.
> And novelty value isn't going to cut it any
> more. Heck, look at the demise of Be. Great
> innovative things even miss out. I'm glad Apple
> has made it so far as it's truly the one
> platform that innovates out there anymore.
Apple is but the first of many that will be returning. Just as Linux is the first alternative OS on the x86 platform to be a successful contender to Windows.
Back before the plague of Windows, there were many personal and small home computers, and many flavors of Unix. They could have played together nicer, but at least there were choices. While some died off due to stumbles by the various makers, the coming of Windows had a tragic chilling effect.
By 95 and 96, most of those computer makers had died or faded into obscurity. Apple nearly died, but was rescued by a kindly Moth, who dropped Steve Jobs off to tend her poor tree. Microsoft trumpeted the demise of Unix, not noticing the infant Tux playing in its shadow.
By the late 90's, anger at Microsoft was kindling. They were confronted with a Unix they could not kill (that adorable baby penguin grew up). And that charred Apple sappling put forth new branches and bore fruit: first the iMac, and then their future
Now look at where we are! Thanks to Mozilla, Netscape is back. Word Perfect and Lotus 123 ship on new computers (not to mention Star/Open Office and the other office suites that have sprouted up). Apple is knocking on enterprise doors, and being welcomed inside. In less than a year, Apple has gone from no server product to being the fifth largest US server maker! Linux is running on all kinds of stuff from PDAs to supercomputers. Be will be back in the form of Palm 6. Amiga is coming back, and even OS/2 has shown some signs of new development.
If we can avoid the Hollings' bill, all of Microsoft's rampaging about will only hasten its demise by further driving away its customers. Already, according to ZDNet, 40% of companies are looking for alternatives. The more alternatives, the healthier the market will get.
Let's make life easier on ourselves this time, and use some open standards to make all those lovely choices play well together.
"It's a miracle! The sea water has once again created new life."
Moll, "Rebirth of Mothra 2"
Released in Japan 5 months before the announcement of the iMac (Rainbow Mothra) and OS X (Aqua Mothra).
denisbergeron wrote:
> Since W3.1, you can upgrade to the next/ more
> recent version without a problem. (except of
> course the problem caused by the bsod) !
Obviously, you didn't try to upgrade to Windows 95 when it first came out. Took me eleven months of reformats and reinstalls, corrupted registry, and a near useless (and getting worse) computer before I gave up. I reformatted, reinstalled Windows 3.1, swore eternal hatred towards the Microsoft I once loved, and started looking for alternatives. Why did this take eleven months? Because I loved the concept and GUI of Windows 95 and really wanted it to work. I had been looking forward to it coming out, and had even preordered it.
In the late 90's, I experimented with various Linux distributions, built my own Linux server, etc. I eventually settled on Suse. Installation was fairly easy even then (a breeze compared to Windows 95), and I handled the lack of distribution "upgrades" by upgrading my hard drive at the same time. I'd install the new version on the new hard drive, then just copy my files and stuff over. Upgrades were fun, gave me more room, and I'd spend an hour or more carefully selecting what packages I wanted. I still have fond feelings for Linux, and I currently own the Linux based Zaurus PDA.
In the fall of 2000, thanks to the coming of OS X and some prodding by Godzilla (courtesy of the extremely pro-Apple movie "Godzilla 2000"), I took a look at Apple's Macs for the first time since a chance encounter in a college book store back in 1985. This time I appreciated what I saw, and fell in love. I bought an iMac, and when OS X first released, I installed it without any headaches.
Exactly seven years after my Windows 95 nightmare began, Apple released OS X Jaguar. Again I brought an OS of great promise home to install it. This time, though, the results were very different: everything I'd hoped for for the past seven years came true.
On December 14, 1996, Mothra resurrected a charred Apple sapling ("Mosura" 1996).
On December 14, 2001, Mothra returned to see its fruit ("Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Ghidora: Daikaiju Soukougeki").
OS X Jaguar: truly the Apple of Mothra's Aqua eye.
ArmorFiend wrote:
;)
> MacOS is essentially an MS operating system with
> different branding.
Mac OS X is a genuine UNIX, descended mostly from NeXT, with fresh stuff from the *BSD trees, and the coolest GUI on the planet. None of it comes from Microsoft (though Microsoft would certainly wish it did). The only code it would remotely have in common with anything Microsoft, would be the stuff from the BSD side of the family, and at best, they would be cousins in a few small areas.
> MS got control over what apps to ship (Internet
> Exploiter) in exchange for paying $ to Apple.
That is rubbish. Steve Jobs did a five year deal with Microsoft, which consisted of Microsoft buying some non-voting shares and providing Office on the Mac in return for the Mac shipping with Internet Explorer (Netscape was also frequently shipping on OS 9 Macs during the same time period). That deal is now over.
> So while it may not be 100% owned by MS,
The non-voting shares were dumped on the market in fall of 2000, in an effort to tank Apple's stock. It (and some mistakes on Apple's part) worked, and for a few days all gloated over Apple's apparent demise. It didn't last long though, as the entire PC industry then tanked, and fell farther than Apple, who recovered the next quarter.
> Apple is at least heavily influnced by Redmond.
Exactly what part of the Switch campaign are you not getting? Apple is flinging itself at Microsoft's jugular these days.
Windows: "Go talk to my friend, an 800 pound monopoly-abusing gorilla!"
Mac: "And here's my good buddy, the 66,000 ton Godzilla!"
Godzilla: Stomp!
This is just off the top of my head.
Microsoft has:
Been found guilty (upheld in appeals court) of multiple counts of breaking antitrust law.
Engaged in terror marketing; using fear of audits to sell more licenses to companies than they need.
Produced and sold products so notoriously insecure that the FBI has had to warn the public.
Caused (through a bug in their SQL Server) nuclear materials in Russia and possibly in the US to slip through the cracks. The materials could be safe in a warehouse or in unfriendly hands, the database no longer has a record of them.
Left a trail of broken and dead companies in their wake, not through fair competition, but through dirty (and frequently illegal) tricks.
Caused huge amounts of lost documents and lost productivity to corporate customers, and an endless amount of frustration, stress, and blue screens of death to users.
Audited poor school systems and a children's charity, to grab what little funding those organizations had to feed their endless greed.
Attempted to force Licensing 6 on their customers, then publicly bragged about the resulting "unearned profits".
Refused to share their big wad of cash with their shareholders in the form of dividends. Since the stock is down from its glory days, what do the shareholders get in return for their investment? Nothing.
There is far more. Get your head out of MS Sand(TM) and read the news for a change. Microsoft has broken the law, failed their shareholders, and wronged their customers. That is wrong, even by the standards of business ethics. By the standards of human compassion, well gotr00t was right when they said Microsoft was a jerk. "Greedy Shark" works for me.
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world.
And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it."
Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
Hmm, do you think Godzilla will blow Microsoft's candles out for his 48th birthday on Sunday?
ComSon0 wrote:
> Basically gives MS the right to access data in you
> computer.
Close. It gives MS the right to access data and install anything it wants to (like a certain distributed network OS called Millenium).
If your business is in the health care, banking, or financial fields, you may not be able to install this service pack (or sp1 for XP) due to the EULA being in conflict with the guidelines and laws your business must operate under. If you are not in those fields, you would still be advised to run the EULA past legal to make sure it won't cause problems.
BTW, 2000 sp 3 and XP (sp1?) will be the minimum requirements for Office 11 due out in 2003. Previous versions either will not be supported, or plain won't run it.
"All our tomorrows, Great Sun, by the Light, are very forgotten.
The Light dies. We pray and it sleeps."
"Oh Peace Oh Light Return" (national song of mourning)
From "Gojira", November 3, 1954
EverlastingPhelps wrote:
n ni um/mgoals.html
;)
> set up a "trusted" system and then use your
> Passport account to charge you by the bit.
You mean like this "trusted" system?
http://research.microsoft.com/research/sn/Mille
Yep, Microsoft already has their Millenium planned out. Of course, Godzilla already has their destruction planned out.
"At this moment, it has control of systems all over the world.
And...we can't do a damn thing to stop it."
Miyasaka, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
Godzilla's 48th Birthday will be this Sunday.
Wow, that just gave me a great idea of what to do with all those high priced import kaiju eiga soundtracks I've been collecting. They tend to have sound effects tracks. A little magic with iTunes and iPod (connected to my stereo system), and I will have Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidora, Baragon, Death Ghidora, Megagiras, etc. answering those pesky telemarketers: "Growl.. roar.. chirp.. stomp.. bzzt.. whoosh.. flap.."
;)
Gee, I hope Baragon doesn't get carried away and *eat* the poor dears.
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape."
Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges.
"Godzilla X Megagiras", 2000
Speed isn't the issue. These are two different beasties with different purposes:
.Net is a johnny-come-lately Java-alike that is designed to be a last minute substitute for the Borg JVM (I kid you not, they actually called it that). It is the platform to run Millenium on so Microsoft can finally achieve world domination. Microsoft Research didn't spend all that time and money on an "operating system for the next millenium" just to scrap it, you know.
;)
J2EE is a language/platform on which to build tools to run your business.
Microsoft's
So what do you want to do? Run your business? Or be a loyal vassal and bow to King Microsoft?
Funny thing about thousand year kingdoms by tin plate dictators: they don't last a day when the one true King of Monsters comes to town.
Shinoda: "The age of Millennium."
Io: "What does that mean?"
Shinoda: "A thousand year kingdom. It wants to create a home for itself. There is one flaw in its plan: Godzilla."
"Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (Japanese version)
geekster wrote:
> Are you saying that Linux will stop being Free and
> free?
Business needs a prepackaged, pretested, and supported OS that they can slap on hundreds of machines at a time. That is where the big distributions and their shareholders will find their money. That will also be a good place for Apple to sell Macs running OS X.
For the geek or group of geeks willing to lovingly craft their own distribution, Linux (or as Godzilla calls it: My Custom OS) will always find a way to be Free and free. It will always do things ten times faster than Windows. And if geeks ever get bored of it, they will just write something else that will be Free and free.
The only threats to Linux are Microsoft's Palladium and Millenium, and the Holling's bill. If we can avoid those, the future for Open Source OSs will be bright for both geeks and business.
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape."
Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges.
"Godzilla X Megagiras", December 2000
iocat wrote:
> but last time I checked, the US government doesn't
> maintain a specially horrific prision for the
> children of dissidents,
No, but the US did toss Japanese-Americans into concentration camps during WWII.
> doesn't gas its own citizens,
Wrong. Deadly nerve gasses were at one time released for testing purposes in several states. What's worse, above ground nuclear testing irradiated numerous states (and most of the planet) at its height. Godzilla is not the only child of nuclear testing, just the only one of us that became a god because of it. Genetic disorders and cancers are *not* fun. I know, I have the former, and I watched my mother die of the latter.
> doesn't execute military officers by the
> hundreds,
Nope (except for the above nerve gas and nuclear testing). The Native Americans did get massacred a lot, though.
> doesn't explicitly repress free speech, etc.
The DMCA has not been kind to free speech. CNN's government correspondents (government PR people more like) have lately been acting like first amendment advocates are some kind of wacked loonies, though. They've said Congress doesn't believe in it anymore. The USA Patriot Act did a real number on most of the other amendments.
> Which the Iraqi government, controlled by
> Hussein, does.
Yes, it does (or so we are told, having never been there myself).
The US has done some pretty nasty things in its history. But they pale in comparison to the doings of madmen like Hitler or Stalin. The US has ideals to aspire to. It isn't always successful at following them, but they make it possible for one to love one's country, despite its warts and its checkered history (and despite what some of that history has done to one's body).
However bad it looks now, we are actually handling things better this time around. Our government has been careful to make a distinction between Bin Laden's goons and followers of Islam, the religion (whose rights to their faith are protected by the First Amendment). We haven't nuked anybody (despite all the postings on Slashdot on 9/11/01 calling for it). We can, and should, do better though.
I don't like or approve of President Bush. I have serious questions about the way he came into his office. His economic and environmental policies are a disaster. He is a warmonger like his father. His stupid pet project at Yucca Mountain is likely to draw the wrath of the gods on our nation and get us all killed (same stupidity as the Tokai criticality accident, and the same angry god).
That being said, I highly doubt that most of what I don't like him doing is the result of malice. I can only pray he either gets a boatload of wisdom, or gets some wiser advisors.
"Our people.. stricken with disease.
You.. you played with the fires of the gods.
And you dare to come here and ask us for help!
You betrayed us! You expect us to trust you after what you have done?"
Infant Island Chief, "Godzilla vs. Mothra" (US Version), 1964