The Seventh Segment. That almost sounds like a good name for a game, doesn't it? Perhaps I'm thinking of The Seventh Guest. But I digress... This elusive seventh segment of the gaming market is people like me: Non-gamers. And believe it or not, it is the largest segment of this market. Please allow me to explain: People who have nothing better to do with their time than being a gamer are seriously a bunch of lusers. I can think of a zillion better things to do than waste my time screwing with the joystick on a gaming console. Like having a social life, for crying out loud. So where is a video game targeted to people like me? I would say that when you buy this game, it should be an empty box. No game inside. So you can look cool buying it, but you don't have to waste your time with it afterwards. They could sell this game in bars, and just add it to your bar tab. When people are drunk, they'll gladly buy it.
Ok, so you build a spaceship that costs a zillion billion trillion quadrillion googleplexes of dollars to build, and then send it up into outer space, and when the friggin thing is about to crash because your department of aeronautics doesn't know what the fog it's doing, you publicly exclaim that it was a grand success?! What in the fsck is going through your head?!
In my company, we dispose of cellular telephones and other information technology equipment in the proper manner. First, we place that of which we are disposing on a steel platform. Then, a gentleman wielding an enormous iron sledgehammer approaches the aforementioned device, after which he proceeds to smash the fscking thing to bits. Finally, the aforementioned device is placed into the appropriate refuse recepticle. Thus, we are assured that the privacy of our employees is protected from unwanted breaches.
This sounds like an interesting book to read over coffee or something. But does it cover that weird thing where the RGB values are 16-bit in some places and 24-bit in others? That really confused me in the past.
What in the heck business does the United States government have with research libraries for crying out loud?! This is all the fault of the Bush Administration, as is Hurricane Katrina. No, not the results of the hurricane, the hurricane itself. That's right. Bush is in office, so the hurricane, which would otherwise be an act of God if we had any other president, is Bush's fault. After all, the hurricane took place on Bush's watch. He should have personally gone to the ocean, held up his hand, and yelled, "Halt!" But he didn't do that, so the hurricane was his fault. You know what? I'm also having a headache right now. And since it's happening on Bush's watch, that's his fault, too.
So all we have to do, if we want Linux to overtake Windows in market share, is take a flame thrower to a shrinkwrapped Windows store shelf display box, and then tell people that Windows catches on fire. Everyone will get scared and switch.
I understand the GPL completely. It means that if I use Microsoft Word to write a novel, I have to give the rights to my novel to the free software community.
Yeah, this is exactly the nonsense that stupid PHBs worry about. They think that if they use Linux in their organization, say, as an Apache web server to serve up static "about us" web pages, they have to give the rights to their own proprietary software, which has nothing to do with Linux, to the community. I just don't "get" where the heck people come up with this nonsense.
AOhell is the Micro$oft of the Internet Service Provider industry. Why in the world would anybody want to use AOhell? It's time for people like us to tell our friends, neighbors, and grandparents who use AOhell that it's time to dump a chunk of long term memory like Just Johnny and switch to the "real" Internet. Then, AOhell will stop sending us those darn coasters that clutter our home and increase global warming (if you throw them away, you screw up the environment by increasing the garbage crisis; if you install them, you heat up the world because your CPU runs at full speed and generates more heat to run the slow, buggy, bloated software that's on the CD)... That would be of benefit to the entire world.
One of these days, it will be a good idea if the FOSS community gets together with some trend-setting companies, and invents a single language for the web. Instead of combining many different things that were invented for many different purposes, it would be a purpose-built language that will provide all the the client-side interactivity that users expect and all the server-side operations that content providers need to supply. Whether it's the AJAX-style interactivity you seek or the Flash-style content, the web is expected to do much more than the mess of languages that implement it are capable of without some 1337 h4x0ring.
Stream music to nearby strangers? In the traditional Microsoft fashion, this will probably work ONLY when those strangers do NOT want music streamed to them.
All the software companies in the world, and the FOSS communities, should buy Microsoft, free all its IP under a FOSS license, and dissolve the company. This will at last allow real innovation to take place in the industry.
The court system is being overrun by a bunch of crazy people who have no appreciation for the consequences of their decisions. Every time something like this threatens the FOSS community, it is because of this.
Just because some scientists say it, that makes it true? Pluto is a planet whether they like it or not.
I'll tell you why they're doing this. It's not because there is any scientific reason to do so. It's because they simply have nothing better to do. They don't know what to research. They probably don't have the money to do so even if they did know what to research. So instead, they go declaring that Pluto is an asteroid or some stupid thing like that, in order to gain attention and most probably funding, so they can spend millions to discover that Jupiter is really just a dust particle, and Uranus has a bunch of Klingons around it.
I think it would be cool if Windows' screensaver were programmed to automatically join this thing, no matter which screensaver the user chose. That way, there would be zillions and zillions of petaflops available to this process, without having to do anything special to achieve it.
So when you're a parent, and you hear your kid saying "oh oh" from the bathroom, that means, what, that Windows crashed and therefore there is now a turd floating down the hall? Talk about a buffer overflow.
MS and their nonsense. The following introduction may appear to stray from the topic, but I assure you that I am building up to something meaningful and on-topic.
It's like the secret agreements they have with computer manufacturers like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. If you look at any IT or technology magazine, you'll notice that every advertisement for every computer states something to the effect that "HP/Dell/Lenovo/[Insert company name here] Recommends Microsoft Windows XP Professional." I would be willing to bet that these companies don't actually recommend anything, but are required by their secret agreements with MS to make this statement, in order to qualify for their "discount" -- or else they'd be paying $299.99 for every copy of Windows they install on every computer, which would price them right out of the market.
Now I don't know if this is still the case, but it was a few years ago: MS also had, in those secret agreements, a clause that these computer manufacturers could not also install MS's competitor's OSes on the machines (Linux, for example). This was "proven" by then Be, Inc.'s then CEO "JLG", who offered BeOS for free to any computer manufacturer, to include free on any computer they build. Nobody took his offer. Now, you say that Be was not a competitor to MS, with only.0000000001% of the market at its peak? Then why did MS cite Be as a competitor in court, to prove that MS doesn't have a monopoly?
It is this monopoly power that allows MS to do what it does best: Crush its competitors and blackmail its customers (in this case, the computer manufacturers) with agreements that could not possibly exist if MS did not have a monopoly.
And here is where the above comes into the range of the topic: Since MS has a monopoly, they can now also blackmail those who write drivers. "Oh, you write drivers for Linux/Mac OS X, too? Well, then, we won't sign your Windows drivers." Which means that 90% of the market won't buy this piece of hardware, or they will return it to the store when they realize that it doesn't play full HD, even on 64 bit Vista, since the driver is not signed. Which means that you can expect the major graphics card vendors to stop producing drivers for other systems.
Blackmail. Where do you want to pay us against your will for software you don't want today?
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MySQL is one of the most basic pieces of software that should be used in a business. It's so reliable!
It's not just windows; MacOS lacks such stuff at the moment too (though it will undoubtedly be much easier to integrate into it than into Windows). Really only SE Linux is set up to handle this sort of thing.
Mac OS X has ACLs now. This means that Apple could set up the system to prevent or allow certain types of access on a file-by-file basis. All of this, if done correctly, could certainly increase the security of a system.
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The Seventh Segment. That almost sounds like a good name for a game, doesn't it? Perhaps I'm thinking of The Seventh Guest. But I digress... This elusive seventh segment of the gaming market is people like me: Non-gamers. And believe it or not, it is the largest segment of this market. Please allow me to explain: People who have nothing better to do with their time than being a gamer are seriously a bunch of lusers. I can think of a zillion better things to do than waste my time screwing with the joystick on a gaming console. Like having a social life, for crying out loud. So where is a video game targeted to people like me? I would say that when you buy this game, it should be an empty box. No game inside. So you can look cool buying it, but you don't have to waste your time with it afterwards. They could sell this game in bars, and just add it to your bar tab. When people are drunk, they'll gladly buy it.
Ok, so you build a spaceship that costs a zillion billion trillion quadrillion googleplexes of dollars to build, and then send it up into outer space, and when the friggin thing is about to crash because your department of aeronautics doesn't know what the fog it's doing, you publicly exclaim that it was a grand success?! What in the fsck is going through your head?!
In my company, we dispose of cellular telephones and other information technology equipment in the proper manner. First, we place that of which we are disposing on a steel platform. Then, a gentleman wielding an enormous iron sledgehammer approaches the aforementioned device, after which he proceeds to smash the fscking thing to bits. Finally, the aforementioned device is placed into the appropriate refuse recepticle. Thus, we are assured that the privacy of our employees is protected from unwanted breaches.
This sounds like an interesting book to read over coffee or something. But does it cover that weird thing where the RGB values are 16-bit in some places and 24-bit in others? That really confused me in the past.
What in the heck business does the United States government have with research libraries for crying out loud?! This is all the fault of the Bush Administration, as is Hurricane Katrina. No, not the results of the hurricane, the hurricane itself. That's right. Bush is in office, so the hurricane, which would otherwise be an act of God if we had any other president, is Bush's fault. After all, the hurricane took place on Bush's watch. He should have personally gone to the ocean, held up his hand, and yelled, "Halt!" But he didn't do that, so the hurricane was his fault. You know what? I'm also having a headache right now. And since it's happening on Bush's watch, that's his fault, too.
So all we have to do, if we want Linux to overtake Windows in market share, is take a flame thrower to a shrinkwrapped Windows store shelf display box, and then tell people that Windows catches on fire. Everyone will get scared and switch.
Information was always meant to be free anyway.
I understand the GPL completely. It means that if I use Microsoft Word to write a novel, I have to give the rights to my novel to the free software community.
Yeah, this is exactly the nonsense that stupid PHBs worry about. They think that if they use Linux in their organization, say, as an Apache web server to serve up static "about us" web pages, they have to give the rights to their own proprietary software, which has nothing to do with Linux, to the community. I just don't "get" where the heck people come up with this nonsense.
So that means he's not going to write anymore books?
So if we replace ALL the 60-watt bulbs with these higher efficiency models, that means gas prices will come back down to a nickel a gallon?
Great, just what we all need... More ads and more telemarketers calling.
AOhell is the Micro$oft of the Internet Service Provider industry. Why in the world would anybody want to use AOhell? It's time for people like us to tell our friends, neighbors, and grandparents who use AOhell that it's time to dump a chunk of long term memory like Just Johnny and switch to the "real" Internet. Then, AOhell will stop sending us those darn coasters that clutter our home and increase global warming (if you throw them away, you screw up the environment by increasing the garbage crisis; if you install them, you heat up the world because your CPU runs at full speed and generates more heat to run the slow, buggy, bloated software that's on the CD)... That would be of benefit to the entire world.
One of these days, it will be a good idea if the FOSS community gets together with some trend-setting companies, and invents a single language for the web. Instead of combining many different things that were invented for many different purposes, it would be a purpose-built language that will provide all the the client-side interactivity that users expect and all the server-side operations that content providers need to supply. Whether it's the AJAX-style interactivity you seek or the Flash-style content, the web is expected to do much more than the mess of languages that implement it are capable of without some 1337 h4x0ring.
...finally grew a brain.
Stream music to nearby strangers? In the traditional Microsoft fashion, this will probably work ONLY when those strangers do NOT want music streamed to them.
...this decision is hogwash.
All the software companies in the world, and the FOSS communities, should buy Microsoft, free all its IP under a FOSS license, and dissolve the company. This will at last allow real innovation to take place in the industry.
The court system is being overrun by a bunch of crazy people who have no appreciation for the consequences of their decisions. Every time something like this threatens the FOSS community, it is because of this.
I'll tell you why they're doing this. It's not because there is any scientific reason to do so. It's because they simply have nothing better to do. They don't know what to research. They probably don't have the money to do so even if they did know what to research. So instead, they go declaring that Pluto is an asteroid or some stupid thing like that, in order to gain attention and most probably funding, so they can spend millions to discover that Jupiter is really just a dust particle, and Uranus has a bunch of Klingons around it.
I think it would be cool if Windows' screensaver were programmed to automatically join this thing, no matter which screensaver the user chose. That way, there would be zillions and zillions of petaflops available to this process, without having to do anything special to achieve it.
So when you're a parent, and you hear your kid saying "oh oh" from the bathroom, that means, what, that Windows crashed and therefore there is now a turd floating down the hall? Talk about a buffer overflow.
(Where does he get those wonderful toys?)
It's like the secret agreements they have with computer manufacturers like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. If you look at any IT or technology magazine, you'll notice that every advertisement for every computer states something to the effect that "HP/Dell/Lenovo/[Insert company name here] Recommends Microsoft Windows XP Professional." I would be willing to bet that these companies don't actually recommend anything, but are required by their secret agreements with MS to make this statement, in order to qualify for their "discount" -- or else they'd be paying $299.99 for every copy of Windows they install on every computer, which would price them right out of the market.
Now I don't know if this is still the case, but it was a few years ago: MS also had, in those secret agreements, a clause that these computer manufacturers could not also install MS's competitor's OSes on the machines (Linux, for example). This was "proven" by then Be, Inc.'s then CEO "JLG", who offered BeOS for free to any computer manufacturer, to include free on any computer they build. Nobody took his offer. Now, you say that Be was not a competitor to MS, with only .0000000001% of the market at its peak? Then why did MS cite Be as a competitor in court, to prove that MS doesn't have a monopoly?
It is this monopoly power that allows MS to do what it does best: Crush its competitors and blackmail its customers (in this case, the computer manufacturers) with agreements that could not possibly exist if MS did not have a monopoly.
And here is where the above comes into the range of the topic: Since MS has a monopoly, they can now also blackmail those who write drivers. "Oh, you write drivers for Linux/Mac OS X, too? Well, then, we won't sign your Windows drivers." Which means that 90% of the market won't buy this piece of hardware, or they will return it to the store when they realize that it doesn't play full HD, even on 64 bit Vista, since the driver is not signed. Which means that you can expect the major graphics card vendors to stop producing drivers for other systems.
Blackmail. Where do you want to pay us against your will for software you don't want today?
MySQL is one of the most basic pieces of software that should be used in a business. It's so reliable!
Mac OS X has ACLs now. This means that Apple could set up the system to prevent or allow certain types of access on a file-by-file basis. All of this, if done correctly, could certainly increase the security of a system.