So instead of listening to science, you believe the marketing/"news" crap that's spouted from the "mainstream" media. Brilliant. I can't wait until all of the Atkins diet people start needing some new kidneys. They ain't gettin' mine.
I'm not all paranoid about privacy. I think that convenience is more important than any information people my glean from me ("He drinks PBR! We've got him now"). So, that being said, I think that so far, Yahoo does one of the best jobs of any kind of convergence. While it's not open, they've got enough services where you really can start to integrate. You can sync your Yahoo mail with any mail client, you can store your browser bookmarks there, files, notes, etc. You can get all of your Yahoo info already personalized in a Sprint phone. You can take care of scheduling with your Yahoo, your cell phone, or even text messaging to almost any device. It's not perfect, but it's the best I've seen. I'm even willing to buy some of their upgrades (premium mail, for example).
First off, nobody in their right mind would expect this ruling to actually go through. Microsoft is bending over backwards to cripple their own product so that competitors can have a better shot. What they're doing is like me putting a nice big map in my retail store, complete with my competitor's locations, phone numbers, and prices. So no, I wouldn't expect them to ship the initial product crippled ("compliant"). But, that's not what this article is about...
What does the.Net runtime have to do with anything at all?.Net is the new COM. It's part of the package. If you don't like.Net, then don't buy XP, or stick with W2K.
CRL Interpreter? I have no clue what you're talking about. You're trying to make this entirely too difficult. See that button that says "Start"? It's in the lower left hand corner of your screen. KDE and Gnome have the same thing. Well, you move the mouse cursor over it, and press the left button on your mouse. With SP3/SP1 installed, there's a big pretty icon with words next to it that say "Set Program Access and Defaults". If you can't read, then just trace the letters with your finger to find the ones that match.
I agree. I'm not really happy with *having* to install this shit on my box if I want SP3 for W2K. I'd like the SP (although, really... in W2K, I don't see any problems with SP2), but I don't want that shit that some dumbass judgement made them put in.
But then, if they didn't put it in a service pack, I'm sure that this group, or some other made up group would bitch that it should come with the Service Packs so that everybody will be forced to get it.
But, if you don't get it in one sitting, you can resume whenever you want. I get all of my updates over dialup just fine. I either leave it running in the background, I let it go at night, or if I have to turn a machine off, I just pick it up later. Not a big deal, at all.
First, they claim that it's hard to get. Jesus Christ, it's in a service pack. That's how MS has *ALWAYS* distributed their software. Now, with automatic update, it'll even come over automatically. And the whole download doesn't have to be done in one sitting either.
Secondly, it doesn't provide Start Menu access? Well, I'm looking at a big icon for it right now, not even in the "Programs" section. They must have blind software testers working for them.
Thirdly, they claim that it's hard to use. I understand usability. Really, I do. But THIS being hard to use? A fucking 10 year old could use it.
This "ProComp" group, whoever they are, certainly are fucking clueless. ZDNet even reporting this garbage is really, really irresponsible. Crackpots send letters to the gov't all of the time. Even worse, this isn't just some random crackpot, this is a fake group created by some of MS competitors.
I highly doubt Microsoft makes their own Mice/Keyboard hardware. So if you want to give out props to someone, give it to the real manufacturer of their products, not to Microsoft. Microsoft just sticks their name on it for marketing reasons because their name is more likely to sell then if it said "Chuwing Yokung Inc."
That doesn't matter. What does matter are they are the ones that bring them to market. There aren't a whole lot of retail companies that manufacture their own stuff. But, who cares? Do you investigate every car part branded "Toyota" to see who manufactured it? What about stereo equipment? Hell.... anything bought retail. You may be aware that MS doesn't actually have their own manufacturing facilities, but you're woefull unaware that most retail products that you buy are done the same way. Whether MS manufactures them or not doesn't matter. The little hardware that they do sell is fantastic, and if that's any indicator, their wireless stuff will be great, too.
Besides, wireless is still very, very niche. With MS marketing behind it, you'll see wireless everywhere in a matter of years, and you'll see pricing drop. I don't know about you, but I'm much more likely to buy a "MS Wireless" card, than a "ChunKing Wireless" card.
'Crime' is basically whatever those bozos in congress say it is
Yes, it's called "civilization". Welcome to it. You must be new. "Civilization" is this thing where groups of people live and work together, organized by things called "governments" which make rules that everybody abides by called "laws". Luckily, there are many governments on the planet Earth that you can choose to live under.
but what's a guy to do when you got 20+ popups at a time and after you close one and anothe r pops in its place? and those fu*king pop unders and little ads that won't DIE, or crash IE if you kill them, advertisers are ruthless.
The only advertisers that do this are very very aggressive shitty porn site (so now we know what you do in your free time). I suggest that you stick with a few trusted porn sites, or else pay for porn.
Its easy as hell to work on a computer, and hell if you want to do it right you could even get the WROX manual for the program and just follow the step by step instructions with pictures.
Teachers are paid on salary. They are already overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated. Asking one of these teachers to fight with a relatively obscure OS, and find non-existant software to say, help to teach her kids chemistry is fucking ridiculous. Computers are cute and all, but next time you get in a car, remember that the whole thing was deisgned by engineers (not IT grunts), the whole thing was manufactured by manufacturing experts, and the whole process was brought together by businesspeople. Computer people are just grunts, like like any other blue-collar profession. True, it needs to be done, but to teach it in school is completely arbitrary. I can get by without a computer. I can't get by without plumbing and electricity. Why not teach kids plumbing in schools? All kids aren't gonna be plumbers, that's why.
I agree. Part of Bill Gates being lucky was that he was born in the US. Again, life ain't fair, but artifically limiting what people can do in the US is bullshit. What he had was a combination of luck, knowledge, and lots of hard work. But, if China were to become a republic and a place where private property is valued, I wouldn't doubt for a second that we'd see a ton of billionaires come out of China just due to that culture's work ethic.
Kids should not be learning how to make a web server in school. That's asinine. That's as useless as going to shop class to learn how to weld. Adminstration is a trade, and now a relatively low-end trade at that. Kids shold not be spending what little time they have in school concentrating on any one or two trades. That's ridiculous. Computers should be in schools as tools to help teachers teach, and as an after-school activity for a few young geeklings. That's it.
And if you want to argue as to usefulness of trades, I'd say that auto work is more useful than administration. Any fucking monkey can start a webserver or turn on a firewall. Not anybody can work on car engines. Besides, which is more useful in real life? Yeah. I thought so.
You are full of shit At any given time there is a limited amount of money on this planet. Money decides what gets done. If I break my arm and don't have any money, I'm SOL. What kind of society do we live in when a person with a broken arm can't go to the nearest hospital and get it set? Something is very wrong with the system.
I'm assuming that you're talking about the US? If any hospital turned you away for having a broken arm, then you need to contact some federal or state group of some kind. If you've EVER been in a hospital (and I doubt you have), you'd see a BIG HUGE poster in the triage room that says (in several languages, usually), "If you don't have money, you are still entitled to basic health care. You cannot be turned away."
Moron.
I don't have a problem with someone making 100K/year. Really, I don't. Some people are acutally worth that much. Ex: Doctors, really good engineers, etc. What I have a problem with is people who are worth 10 billion dollars. When one person has the economic and (arguably) the political influence of 10,000 people making 100k/year, something is fucked up. What this country needs is a cap on individual wealth. Set it at say $20 million dollars. Assuming the average person makes $2 mil in their lifetime, this person can support himself and his family very well off half of that money. The other half he can use to buy 5 perrsonal slaves. What's that you say, slave ownership is illegal? Technically, yes, but if he has enough money to pay someone to do his whims for their entire life, they're basically his "economic" slave. Yes the specfic person could quit and go work somewhere else, but he would just hire someone else and own half of two lives. Remember that this person has enough money so he himself will never have to do any work to contribute to society at all.
Wow. You obviously have no education whatsoever, or if you do, it didn't go past high school. Economics is NOT zero sum. I don't have the time to explain it, but suffice to say that everybody's standard of living has increased very dramatically over the past century, making EVERYBODY wealthier. So don't give me this zero sum shit. Pick up an Economics 101 textbook. You can find 'em in junior high schools all across the country.
A personal cap on income? That's just plain stupid. You don't want wealthy people in this country contributing to income taxes, buying things (sales taxes), and running large companies that employ thousands of people? Well, that's what you'll get. A country full of subsistence farmers.
Oh yeah, and who the fuck are you to decide how much money everybody can make, you fucking pretentious, gas-bag? Who made you God? Go fuck yourself. If you wanna live where everyone's salary is set by the gov't, try Cuba. After all, it is a "Worker's Paradise". So's North Korea. And the USSR. Notice how well those turned out? Your ideas are selfish, idealistic bullshit which has already been tried and has failed miserably. And I know your type. Let me guess... either academic or student, or perhaps failed, bitter techie? Everybody in the US has the right to make it on their own if they want to. If you don't want to make any more than $20 million, fine. But don't step on my rights to do so.
Hey, I'm not saying I'm not jealous of lucky people... I am. But that's how the cookie crumbles. Life ain't fair. But at the same time, you don't just get lucky into starting a company and growing it into one of the largest in the world in a span of 20 years. People get incredibly, astronomically lucky and hit a lottery, they become multi-millionaires. I've never heard of anybody "lucking" into a billion dollars, unless they were born into it. So yeah, I'm sure there was a good bit of luck thrown in the mix, but there you go. Someone asked how anyone could earn a billion bucks, and I'm just saying that Bill Gates is how you earn a billion bucks. There are plenty of other people, but he's just one of 'em.
Another one is Warren Buffet. There's another way to earn a billion dollars.
I also find it hard to imagine how anybody could really "warrant/earn" that much money. But that's more of a philosophical question.
Well, all you gotta do is to read a Bill Gates biography. That'll tell you how someone can earn that much money. The basics are that he put together the most popular software packages in the world, and marketed them well.
You're full of shit. You can't say what you'd do with $1B because you don't have it. Anybody can say, "Those rich guys are assholes. They should give it all away." I'm sure that homeless people are thinking that those rich assholes that make $100K/year should give all but like $20K/year away, because that's all you need.
There's nothing wrong with the system, you're just whining.
Well, *sometimes* the 40 gig jobbies are useful... like when you have gigs and gigs of porn. But hell, I jsut need some reliable, rock solid drives for my retail biz. I don't care how big the drive is on my Point of Sale box. I want reliability. 900 Meg (Jesus.. how did just an OS get so damn big) for W2K, and another gig for my POS software and database. I'd buy a 2 gig at the same price as a 40 or 60 gig if I could be assured that it was reliable as hell. A warranty is useless to me. A dead drive puts me in one fuck of a lurch. I don't care about the money. A hundred bucks is nothing. I don't want it to fucking die in the first place.
PCI NICS are great if you don't have a lot of perfectly good ISA NICS laying around. And yes, I have lost parallel ports before. It used to be easy to just replace an I/O card. Now, you gotta disable the motherboard one, and hope you have a free slot.
I agree. I just bought a new hard drive, and the smallest thing I could get was 40 gig. What the FUCK do I need 40 gig for unless I'm an MP3 freak? I wanted to get a small, rock solid drive. I got something bigger than I need, insanely faster than I need, and I just hope to god it lasts a while (No, of course I didn't get a Western Digital!). Fuck size. I want reliability.
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So instead of listening to science, you believe the marketing/"news" crap that's spouted from the "mainstream" media. Brilliant. I can't wait until all of the Atkins diet people start needing some new kidneys. They ain't gettin' mine.
I'm not all paranoid about privacy. I think that convenience is more important than any information people my glean from me ("He drinks PBR! We've got him now"). So, that being said, I think that so far, Yahoo does one of the best jobs of any kind of convergence. While it's not open, they've got enough services where you really can start to integrate. You can sync your Yahoo mail with any mail client, you can store your browser bookmarks there, files, notes, etc. You can get all of your Yahoo info already personalized in a Sprint phone. You can take care of scheduling with your Yahoo, your cell phone, or even text messaging to almost any device. It's not perfect, but it's the best I've seen. I'm even willing to buy some of their upgrades (premium mail, for example).
Now before you say, "BUT IT IS THERE YOU STUPID, BLIND TROLL!"
I would never say anything like that. Not me. hehe...
I really shouldn't post before I have my morning smoke and beer.
First off, nobody in their right mind would expect this ruling to actually go through. Microsoft is bending over backwards to cripple their own product so that competitors can have a better shot. What they're doing is like me putting a nice big map in my retail store, complete with my competitor's locations, phone numbers, and prices. So no, I wouldn't expect them to ship the initial product crippled ("compliant"). But, that's not what this article is about...
.Net runtime have to do with anything at all? .Net is the new COM. It's part of the package. If you don't like .Net, then don't buy XP, or stick with W2K.
What does the
CRL Interpreter? I have no clue what you're talking about. You're trying to make this entirely too difficult. See that button that says "Start"? It's in the lower left hand corner of your screen. KDE and Gnome have the same thing. Well, you move the mouse cursor over it, and press the left button on your mouse. With SP3/SP1 installed, there's a big pretty icon with words next to it that say "Set Program Access and Defaults". If you can't read, then just trace the letters with your finger to find the ones that match.
I agree. I'm not really happy with *having* to install this shit on my box if I want SP3 for W2K. I'd like the SP (although, really... in W2K, I don't see any problems with SP2), but I don't want that shit that some dumbass judgement made them put in.
But then, if they didn't put it in a service pack, I'm sure that this group, or some other made up group would bitch that it should come with the Service Packs so that everybody will be forced to get it.
But, if you don't get it in one sitting, you can resume whenever you want. I get all of my updates over dialup just fine. I either leave it running in the background, I let it go at night, or if I have to turn a machine off, I just pick it up later. Not a big deal, at all.
First, they claim that it's hard to get. Jesus Christ, it's in a service pack. That's how MS has *ALWAYS* distributed their software. Now, with automatic update, it'll even come over automatically. And the whole download doesn't have to be done in one sitting either.
Secondly, it doesn't provide Start Menu access? Well, I'm looking at a big icon for it right now, not even in the "Programs" section. They must have blind software testers working for them.
Thirdly, they claim that it's hard to use. I understand usability. Really, I do. But THIS being hard to use? A fucking 10 year old could use it.
This "ProComp" group, whoever they are, certainly are fucking clueless. ZDNet even reporting this garbage is really, really irresponsible. Crackpots send letters to the gov't all of the time. Even worse, this isn't just some random crackpot, this is a fake group created by some of MS competitors.
This article is complete garbage.
I highly doubt Microsoft makes their own Mice/Keyboard hardware. So if you want to give out props to someone, give it to the real manufacturer of their products, not to Microsoft. Microsoft just sticks their name on it for marketing reasons because their name is more likely to sell then if it said "Chuwing Yokung Inc."
That doesn't matter. What does matter are they are the ones that bring them to market. There aren't a whole lot of retail companies that manufacture their own stuff. But, who cares? Do you investigate every car part branded "Toyota" to see who manufactured it? What about stereo equipment? Hell.... anything bought retail. You may be aware that MS doesn't actually have their own manufacturing facilities, but you're woefull unaware that most retail products that you buy are done the same way. Whether MS manufactures them or not doesn't matter. The little hardware that they do sell is fantastic, and if that's any indicator, their wireless stuff will be great, too.
Besides, wireless is still very, very niche. With MS marketing behind it, you'll see wireless everywhere in a matter of years, and you'll see pricing drop. I don't know about you, but I'm much more likely to buy a "MS Wireless" card, than a "ChunKing Wireless" card.
'Crime' is basically whatever those bozos in congress say it is
Yes, it's called "civilization". Welcome to it. You must be new. "Civilization" is this thing where groups of people live and work together, organized by things called "governments" which make rules that everybody abides by called "laws". Luckily, there are many governments on the planet Earth that you can choose to live under.
And if you don't want me using your car, you'd better keep it locked, booted, and use The Club. Otherwise, you left the door unlocked.
They're stealing bandwidth. That sounds like theft to me.
Actually, it's closer to somebody chalking sidewalks/streets in front of houses with no security systems. It's aiding and abetting thieves.
but what's a guy to do when you got 20+ popups at a time and after you close one and anothe r pops in its place? and those fu*king pop unders and little ads that won't DIE, or crash IE if you kill them, advertisers are ruthless.
The only advertisers that do this are very very aggressive shitty porn site (so now we know what you do in your free time). I suggest that you stick with a few trusted porn sites, or else pay for porn.
Its easy as hell to work on a computer, and hell if you want to do it right you could even get the WROX manual for the program and just follow the step by step instructions with pictures.
Teachers are paid on salary. They are already overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated. Asking one of these teachers to fight with a relatively obscure OS, and find non-existant software to say, help to teach her kids chemistry is fucking ridiculous. Computers are cute and all, but next time you get in a car, remember that the whole thing was deisgned by engineers (not IT grunts), the whole thing was manufactured by manufacturing experts, and the whole process was brought together by businesspeople. Computer people are just grunts, like like any other blue-collar profession. True, it needs to be done, but to teach it in school is completely arbitrary. I can get by without a computer. I can't get by without plumbing and electricity. Why not teach kids plumbing in schools? All kids aren't gonna be plumbers, that's why.
I agree. Part of Bill Gates being lucky was that he was born in the US. Again, life ain't fair, but artifically limiting what people can do in the US is bullshit. What he had was a combination of luck, knowledge, and lots of hard work. But, if China were to become a republic and a place where private property is valued, I wouldn't doubt for a second that we'd see a ton of billionaires come out of China just due to that culture's work ethic.
Kids should not be learning how to make a web server in school. That's asinine. That's as useless as going to shop class to learn how to weld. Adminstration is a trade, and now a relatively low-end trade at that. Kids shold not be spending what little time they have in school concentrating on any one or two trades. That's ridiculous. Computers should be in schools as tools to help teachers teach, and as an after-school activity for a few young geeklings. That's it.
And if you want to argue as to usefulness of trades, I'd say that auto work is more useful than administration. Any fucking monkey can start a webserver or turn on a firewall. Not anybody can work on car engines. Besides, which is more useful in real life? Yeah. I thought so.
You are full of shit At any given time there is a limited amount of money on this planet. Money decides what gets done. If I break my arm and don't have any money, I'm SOL. What kind of society do we live in when a person with a broken arm can't go to the nearest hospital and get it set? Something is very wrong with the system.
I'm assuming that you're talking about the US? If any hospital turned you away for having a broken arm, then you need to contact some federal or state group of some kind. If you've EVER been in a hospital (and I doubt you have), you'd see a BIG HUGE poster in the triage room that says (in several languages, usually), "If you don't have money, you are still entitled to basic health care. You cannot be turned away."
Moron.
I don't have a problem with someone making 100K/year. Really, I don't. Some people are acutally worth that much. Ex: Doctors, really good engineers, etc.
What I have a problem with is people who are worth 10 billion dollars. When one person has the economic and (arguably) the political influence of 10,000 people making 100k/year, something is fucked up.
What this country needs is a cap on individual wealth. Set it at say $20 million dollars. Assuming the average person makes $2 mil in their lifetime, this person can support himself and his family very well off half of that money. The other half he can use to buy 5 perrsonal slaves. What's that you say, slave ownership is illegal? Technically, yes, but if he has enough money to pay someone to do his whims for their entire life, they're basically his "economic" slave. Yes the specfic person could quit and go work somewhere else, but he would just hire someone else and own half of two lives. Remember that this person has enough money so he himself will never have to do any work to contribute to society at all.
Wow. You obviously have no education whatsoever, or if you do, it didn't go past high school. Economics is NOT zero sum. I don't have the time to explain it, but suffice to say that everybody's standard of living has increased very dramatically over the past century, making EVERYBODY wealthier. So don't give me this zero sum shit. Pick up an Economics 101 textbook. You can find 'em in junior high schools all across the country.
A personal cap on income? That's just plain stupid. You don't want wealthy people in this country contributing to income taxes, buying things (sales taxes), and running large companies that employ thousands of people? Well, that's what you'll get. A country full of subsistence farmers.
Oh yeah, and who the fuck are you to decide how much money everybody can make, you fucking pretentious, gas-bag? Who made you God? Go fuck yourself. If you wanna live where everyone's salary is set by the gov't, try Cuba. After all, it is a "Worker's Paradise". So's North Korea. And the USSR. Notice how well those turned out? Your ideas are selfish, idealistic bullshit which has already been tried and has failed miserably.
And I know your type. Let me guess... either academic or student, or perhaps failed, bitter techie? Everybody in the US has the right to make it on their own if they want to. If you don't want to make any more than $20 million, fine. But don't step on my rights to do so.
Asshole.
Hey, I'm not saying I'm not jealous of lucky people... I am. But that's how the cookie crumbles. Life ain't fair. But at the same time, you don't just get lucky into starting a company and growing it into one of the largest in the world in a span of 20 years. People get incredibly, astronomically lucky and hit a lottery, they become multi-millionaires. I've never heard of anybody "lucking" into a billion dollars, unless they were born into it. So yeah, I'm sure there was a good bit of luck thrown in the mix, but there you go. Someone asked how anyone could earn a billion bucks, and I'm just saying that Bill Gates is how you earn a billion bucks. There are plenty of other people, but he's just one of 'em.
Another one is Warren Buffet. There's another way to earn a billion dollars.
Jack Welch. There's another.
I also find it hard to imagine how anybody could really "warrant/earn" that much money. But that's more of a philosophical question.
Well, all you gotta do is to read a Bill Gates biography. That'll tell you how someone can earn that much money. The basics are that he put together the most popular software packages in the world, and marketed them well.
You're full of shit. You can't say what you'd do with $1B because you don't have it. Anybody can say, "Those rich guys are assholes. They should give it all away." I'm sure that homeless people are thinking that those rich assholes that make $100K/year should give all but like $20K/year away, because that's all you need.
There's nothing wrong with the system, you're just whining.
Attracting bitches with money? I call 'em whores. Whether or not you actually say, "I will give you $xxxx to fuck me" or not is irrelevant.
Well, *sometimes* the 40 gig jobbies are useful... like when you have gigs and gigs of porn. But hell, I jsut need some reliable, rock solid drives for my retail biz. I don't care how big the drive is on my Point of Sale box. I want reliability. 900 Meg (Jesus.. how did just an OS get so damn big) for W2K, and another gig for my POS software and database. I'd buy a 2 gig at the same price as a 40 or 60 gig if I could be assured that it was reliable as hell. A warranty is useless to me. A dead drive puts me in one fuck of a lurch. I don't care about the money. A hundred bucks is nothing. I don't want it to fucking die in the first place.
PCI NICS are great if you don't have a lot of perfectly good ISA NICS laying around.
And yes, I have lost parallel ports before. It used to be easy to just replace an I/O card. Now, you gotta disable the motherboard one, and hope you have a free slot.
I agree. I just bought a new hard drive, and the smallest thing I could get was 40 gig. What the FUCK do I need 40 gig for unless I'm an MP3 freak? I wanted to get a small, rock solid drive. I got something bigger than I need, insanely faster than I need, and I just hope to god it lasts a while (No, of course I didn't get a Western Digital!). Fuck size. I want reliability.