At the beginning, I had a lot of hope for the Mozilla project. I thought it would kick Microsoft's ass like you can't believe. But it took forever for anything to materialize out of it. When stuff finally started to happen, it was much too complicated.
The Mozilla browser is based on so many layers of stuff that it boggles the mind how the thing even works. Actually, it doesn't boggle the mind because it really doesn't work all that well. Every time I tried out Mozilla, with a little hope that this time it would function better, I was disappointed.
Mozilla is bloated, huge, ugly and complicated. Its three zillion layers of features, languages, protocols and other elements make this perhaps the most complicated piece of software in proportion to what it does. In other words, I used to think that emacs was much too complicated for what it did... but Mozilla is so much worse! It's simply supposed to give you access to endless piles of advertisements and spam all over the Internet. It's not supposed to become "The Everything Program." I mean, hell, if it had to be that, then the Mozilla project should add:
an integrated word processor that includes all the features of every word processor ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
an integrated spreadsheet that includes all the features of every spreadsheet ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
an integrated presentation maker that includes all the features of every presentation maker ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
an integrated development environment that includes every programming language ever invented plus a virtual machine for every architecture and chipset ever invented, all of which include all the features of every integrated development environment and virtual machine system ever released plus more, utilizing 165,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
an integrated CAD/CAE/FEA/CAM (computer aided design, computer aided engineering, finite element analysis, computer aided machining) environment that includes all the features of every CAD/CAE/FEA/CAM environment ever released plus more, utilizing 671,051 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
an integrated video game engine that includes all the features of every video game engine ever released plus more, and supports every video game data file ever invented, even from game consoles, in order to play any video game inside the web browser utilizing only the data files and no other executable... all of which would, of course, utilize 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
an integrated operating system that includes all the features of every operating system ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
an integrated video editing suite that includes all the features of every video editing suite ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
an integrated photo editing studio that includes all the features of every photo editing studio ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
an integrated vector drawing and animation program that includes all the features of every vector drawing and animation program ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
an integrated enterprise multi-tier database solution that includes all the features of every enterprise multi-tier database solution ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
and last but not least, an ad-blocking solution that, you guessed it, includes all the features of every ad-blocking solution ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity.
I think these antipiracy labels should outweigh everything else on the package. In other words, albums and other products that have copy protection would not have a nice cover image, or the ability to put anything on the box. Instead, the entire package would be red, like the color of communism, and in yellow letters, would state the following warning:
THE PRODUCT IN THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS TECHNOLOGIES DESIGNED TO TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS. IF YOU PURCHASE OR OTHERWISE TAKE THIS PACKAGE INTO YOUR POSSESSION FOR USE OR OTHER PURPOSES, YOU ARE STUPID AND DESERVE TO LOSE ALL YOUR RIGHTS. THE PRODUCER OF THIS PRODUCT WANTS YOU TO BECOME A SLAVE.
Furthermore, anybody who places copy protection of any sort into their product will be prohibited from advertising or doing any form of marketing whatsoever. Instead, they will have to give all incoming money (not profits but rather ALL the money, including money owed to others as payment for whatever) to a special government agency that keeps track of companies that utilize these innovative technologies, and that government agency will advertise warnings to consumers to avoid those defective products, kind of like the way the government is trying to stop smoking in some parts of the country.
Well, the best way to avoid trouble with the FBI is to avoid getting into crimes and all sorts of other trouble. Living an honest life is the best way anyway...
Consider this: If you lead a dishonest life, you have to continually work at keeping a lid on everything because lies want to spring out like a jack-in-the-box. And it gets worse and worse all the time. When people know you're honest, they'll respect you a lot more and you'll be able to get a lot more things your way. Sure, you might have to put a little more effort into things, which might seem stupid in the short run, but in the long run, it pays off big.
I knew this idiot some years ago... back in high school, to be specific. The idiot wrote an essay about causing bodily harm and/or death to a person who, at that time, happened to be a prominent member of the community. And he handed this essay in as homework. No kidding! The teacher, of course, notified the appropriate authorities, or something like that. They came to this guy's house in their fancy suits, carrying a really fancy search warrant with the official seal of the king and everything, and they ripped apart his entire house... Cut open pillows, mattresses and sofa cushions... Dumped out the contents of all the drawers in his house... Dug up his entire yard... Took away a bunch of stuff... And on top of that, he had to pay a large monetary fine. He never got his stuff back but he didn't care because it earned him a lot of respect in the local marijuana smoking community. Marijuana is, of course, really bad for one's health, and as such, one should avoid doing it. Just like one should avoid dishonesty.
One other thing... This is all made up, like make-believe. The above story about the guy with the authorities and whatnot was totally made up right now. I'm really just trying to fill up space with crap. That's because of several things:
I have excellent karma, so I can afford it.
Sometimes I get bored, in between 12 hour stretches of calculus homework.
Sometimes, trolling Slashcrack is just so much fun.
Oh course, that may just be the alcohol speaking. (Did I mention that I am drunk out of my mind?!) Just like the sig says... Denial is MOST DEFINITELY a river in Egypt.
Hmmmmmmmm... Win the video game, get money. Lose the video game, lose money.
Gee... I wonder what happens if one cheats?
See, in a casino, the casino management has video cameras on every table, slot machine, card, chip, and urinal. They make sure from EVERY singleangle that there is NO cheating going on inside their premises. And if there is, you're gonna be BUSTED!!!
But how do you defend against this in an online playing environment where you don't have a video camera pointing in the user's face and stuff? How do you know that it isn't a modified version of the software with exceedingly smart "AI" doing the game play, and that such "AI" is specially formulated to avoid being picked up for happening too fast, etc. by anti-cheat technologies? How do you know that some crafty assembly language programmer hasn't put together some ingenious plot to jack a bunch of money, occasionally losing a game so as to appear honest? I don't think any such technology exists, so...
... ANYBODY WHO BETS MONEY ON STUPID STUFF LIKE THIS IS STUPID!
And most folks who play combat games online know about the problem of cheating, which is currently an annoyance as opposed to a real theft, but...
...I have a feeling that this business is gonna disappear faster than it has appeared because it just makes no sense whatsoever. If I'm the kind of foo' who whoops ass, and if there was a guarantee that cheating absolutely cannot take place, which is impossible, and if I was a gambler, which I ain't cuz I know enough math to know better, then sure, I'd probably think to sign up to some stupid scheme like this... but most people don't have the aforementioned qualities. Most people are smarter than that. Oh, and most people know that such a crafty assembly language programmer, if the earnings potential was high enough, WOULD DEFINITELY put forth the effort to make the aforementioned modified version of the game, just as cheaters have put mind boggling resources into copying casino coins and other stupid stuff.
I bought several copies of this editor (UltraEdit) for use on those machines at work that are Windows-based. As it turns out, this is the most popular editor we have at work. It was definitely a good buy.
This rumor has been going around for many years. I think it would be rather stupid for Apple to do something like this. However, I think they could do something that would have huge technical advantages... add an x86 processor to the Mac, while leaving the existing Motorola processor, in a hybrid architecture. Their operating system would be modified to know the difference between the two processors and to put code compiled for each processor on the correct processor. Advantages include the ability to natively run applications made for PCs without the need for virtualization software that slows everything down.
Microsoft must be really, really stupid to think that anybody is going to fall for that. The reliability of their software is a joke across the industry that EVERYBODY knows about.
Being an advocate of alternative software, I talk to a lot of people about Microsoft before I even mention that I advocate other stuff. I have never heard someone say that Microsoft's stuff is reliable. As a matter of fact, even the most naive computer users have stated plainly that Microsoft causes all kinds of trouble for them. It is a widely known fact.
So why would Microsoft make a stupid claim like this? My feeling is that they have a serious break in communication between their marketing department, which probably uses blueberry candy-apple Macs to make glossy, lickable presentations, and all other departments, which use UNIX for all of their operations because they know how much Windows sucks (because they made it) and refuse to use it.
I have read each word of the new Microsoft license and firmly believe that it is superior in all ways to the viral GPL license which plagues so much software that is forced onto the modern consumer through the power of monopoly.
Contrary to such atrocities against humanity and the larger population of the world, the Microsoft license liberates every person by empowering them to use high quality tools for crashing computers at ten times the price, while simultaneously giving them the power to do almost as much as nothing in terms of repairing problems that arise when the liberation software fails (in other words, when it actually works properly and thus does not fulfill its purpose of crashing the aforementioned computer), thus creating value for the consumer and keeping the economy strong.
If the open source world actually used its brain, every developer of open source software would sign his intellectual property over to Microsoft for free, on the sole condition that Microsoft will also take away everything that person owns and leave them hungry in the streets.
Microsoft is such a noble and ethical entity that most developers would die to defend it.
What I would like to see is a laptop that doesn't burn up in the first place. I have one of those Sony laptops where an internal fan comes on when it begins to overheat. The hotter the computer gets, the faster (and louder) this fan becomes. It is actually quite annoying.
Now I find it acceptable that a computer can heat up somewhat during computationally intensive functions, like performing a huge batch job with Photoshop or something, but what annoys me a lot about this fan thing is that it seems to come on at the darnedest times. For example, if some application crashes, the fan comes on, then goes faster, then goes even faster, and finally it's spinning at its maximum speed, which sounds like a bunch of banshees flying around when there are heavy winds. All of this while the computer remains totally unresponsive to any input.
This has annoyed me so much on many occasions that I often consider disassembling the computer and removing that stupid fan. Yeah, it'll overheat, but at least I don't have to listen to that shit.
My suggestion, as far as heat is concerned, is that laptops can be built utilizing processors that use little energy and stay cool. Yes, these are much slower than your Pentium CXXVCVXIIIXCIX, but if you put about 5 of them in there, it won't be so bad. In fact, it might even be a bit faster in some cases. I wish people would consider that.
What annoys me the most about this is that the computer seems to heat up during computing-intensive
The heat-dissipating tiles on the bottom surface of the space shuttle are made of a specially engineered material that is like a sponge with many microscopic holes. I once had the privelege of holding a piece of this material in my hand. It looks and feels like a cross between metal, ceramic and glass. And it feels cold to the touch. I am told that this material dissipates heat so rapidly that it can be placed in a flame, as of a blowtorch, for any period of time, and be touched with one's hand immediately upon removal, yet still feel cold to the touch. Truly a magnificent material.
I believe that if the packaging of processor chips was made of this material, processor manufacturers could immediately forget all about heat, heatsinks, fans, and all that other BS.
To counter arguments against NASA, they always say that space exploration has furthered technology here on Earth in ways that benefit us all. I believe that this is something they should figure out how to manufacture less expensively in order to eliminate heat problems from multitudes of electronic products and save time to market since engineers won't have to worry about this anymore.
First a bunch of people get kidnapped in Utawawawaah (that's how the natives over there pronounce Utah), and then their court system gets all screwed up and dismisses anti-spam law case. What is going to happen next? I think they should secede from the union, relocate to antarctica (lifting the entire state with helicopters and placing it on top of the antarctic ice), and leave the rest of us alone. Oh well.
The only thing this teaches me is that: EVIL WILL ALWAYS TRIUMPH BECAUSE GOOD IS DUMB.
Build it out of stones. The smallest allowable size is an eight foot cube. Cut them with lasers to exacting dimensions so they fit like a perfect jigsaw puzzle and then use the lazers to round off the edges such that it appears as though these rocks had been carved with a hammers and chizels. Build it on top of a mountain using military-strength helicopters to lift the stones up there and place them in position. Across a river at the bottom of said mountain, scatter a few more of these stones. In 1000 years, when we're all dead and gone, some scientists will look at this house of yours on the mountain, see the similar rocks across a river at the bottom of the mountain, and wonder, how did these ancients manage to carry enormous rocks across the river and up the hill (on their backs, no doubt), and then manage to carve them to exacting shapes with primitive tools (such as other rocks) to build this thing up here?
Oh well. Because Negra Modelo is better than Dos Equis.
Now this is a huge problem for some people, but for someone like me (or possibly you, if you're in the right business), this is an enormous opportunity.
Consider this: In my business, people are using machines as old as 30 years and some may be quite a bit older than those. These machines have everything from punch card readers to tape readers to special floppy drives that are impossible to find nowadays. And of course, these parts go bad, and as luck would have it in this industry, replacing one of these pieces of machinery can completely break a business. Especially with the economy doing as badly as it is now, and manufacturing is at such a low that everybody in this industry is suffering. But I digress.
The point I'm trying to make is this: If these things (CRTs with mold, rubber wheels melting, etc) are critical to the operation of a really old computer, then someone needs to manufacture them, just like people still manufacture replacement parts for old cars. This is most likely a better idea than replacing these systems with new ones for the following reason: These old systems are proven. A lot was invested into making them reliable and whatever bugs exist are well known by now. Replacing these systems would introduce problems for a long time to come... problems like software not working properly, which is a problem that management has a very difficult time accepting. Try telling your boss that some buffer wasn't flushed and therefore $50,000 just went down the drain. A rubber wheel melting and being replaced is a lot easier to explain to one's manager because everybody knows what a rubber wheel is. And how much does a rubber wheel cost? Even if it has to be specially manufactured and costs the end user $100.00, that's a hell of a lot cheaper than re-engineering the whole damn computer network. And putting up with stupid management (of which I am a member) giving you shit because three months have passed and the new computer network STILL isn't operational due to some stupid SQL program or perl script that has yet to be written, and we've gone ahead and ordered that rubber wheel anyway.
Negra Modelo. Me llamo Juanito Rodriguez y soy alcoholico.
It is a FACT that all electronic equipment classified under the title "computer" has the following uses, exclusively:
Watching movies.
Listening to music.
There are NO other uses for computers. As such, a new branch of International Law should be started immediately to mandate processor utilization meters, similar to electric meters and/or gas meters, for the sole purpose of taxing computer usage in order to compensate multinational corporate content providers (including companies that market media but explicitely excluding so-called artists, who actually create the work) for the fact that ALL copies of content worldwide are pirated and NONE are paid for. The law should further designate three multinational corporations as the recipients of these funds, and all artists and/or other types of content producers will be mandated to sign their copyrights over to these three entities for no compensation whatsoever.
Initially, the aforementioned tax would be set at $0.0199 USD (similarly to gas stations that charge 2.09+9/10 per gallon of gasoline) per utilized processor cycle, including cycles during which the computer invokes the busy form of waiting, as in an empty loop or during polling for an event.
Processor idling technologies (such as SpeedStep and/or other energy-saving and/or temperature-reducing technologies, which cause the processor to "sleep" or reduce its clock speed during idle cycles) would be outlawed to maximize profits for the three multinational corporations. Ten percent of the funds would be wire-transferred to terrorists, who shall be mandated by the aforementioned International Law to purchase weapons of mass destruction (as the U.N. is running out of work and might otherwise lay off some of its staff).
This will have the following advantages:
Taxes will be lowered.
Individuals will have more discretionary spending money.
This will keep the economy strong. (To borrow from California Governor Gray Davis' speech about how he screwed over everyone in the state with regards to their electric bill and then had the nerve to invoke doublespeak when telling everyone how he's keeping the economy strong.)
It will save the poor, starving artists who slave over an album for a year only to see it all over the Internet the next day. (Disregarding the fact, of course, that they are required to sign over their copyrights and therefore end up earning less than a garbage truck driver even if the album is a best-selling hit.)
And last, but certainly not least, the United States Constitution will begin, "We the Multinational Corporations of the United States of America hereby declare that we have the God-given right to eternal, perpetually increasing profits. To achieve these ends..."
This is what scientists should do. They should figure out interfaces to each part of the brain. By the time all of this is figured out, nanotechnology, biotechnology and quantum computing will have come a long way and become nearly perfected. Utilizing these technologies, implants would be placed in the brain which connect it to the Internet through all the wireless technologies present, satellites, etc. They'll put satellites out in space, orbiting all over the planet, so that no matter where you are, you'll get high speed internet access directly from your brain. Your conciousness will spread all over the internet, as will everyone else's. Ten years after this process begins, every human being on the planet will have these implants in their brains. Then, scientists will figure out a way to cause a little bit of evolution so that people will eventually be born with the implants already present. When that is complete, we'll be the Borg. The only thing they'll have to do after that is put big rocket engines sticking out of two opposite sides of the Earth so that Spaceship Earth really will be a spaceship and we can all fly around the universe without ever leaving our planet. That's also a lot safer than taking spaceships which might have hull breaches or get lost in space or whatever. This way, if we do get lost, who cares? We're still at home anyway, kind of like a turtle. Oh yeah, and since our sun will stay behind, they'll install big huge lights in the lots of satellites that I talked about a moment ago, and these will provide the light that we need. They'll be bright enough that we won't notice. Did I mention that we'll also control the weather, the tides, the animals and everything else? Yeah. I think all of this will happen in ten years time. (Or only five or six, if Microsoft goes out of business so that we can stop worrying about all the problems they're causing and concentrate on ADVANCING technology instead of stopping it for the purpose of making a quick buck, or 100 billion, whichever is larger.)
Ah... I remember the good ol' days when there was this operating system called BeOS. They were going to be in all kinds of high-end audio equipment. I remember getting excited that after being somewhat involved in the tightly-knit community of BeOS users and developers for a number of years, the software started to gain recognition in one area of its technical superiority over competing systems of the time. Then, when a number of high quality audio and graphics applications were being produced by some of the biggest names in the aforementioned subjects, they made an announcement that they were shifting focus to refrigerators with email access. And everything went into the trash. Developers couldn't distance themselves from this crap fast enough.
With several more years of improvement, Linux and other free operating systems are starting to gain on the technical advantages present in that several year old operating system. I feel confident that given a few more years and the efforts of individuals and companies worldwide, Linux will soon be the operating system of choice for everything from coffee makers to the next generation space shuttle. So I'm happy to hear about this conference and all this exciting stuff.
The greatest patriotism is getting America off these damned fossil fuels. Especially the ones that fund the very same terrorism that comes back to kill us and that we have to die to defend against.
All those stupid people with "No blood for oil" bumper stickers are stupid. They think, ok, instead of fighting and getting killed over oil, we'll discuss our differences with the terrorists (who, by the way, just so happen to want us dead, but that's an unimportant detail) and understand them, because terrorists are just good people who want to make a difference. Yeah, right. See, that's what's wrong with all these idiot liberals. They fail to understand that terrorists are EVIL. They don't give a damn about us understanding them. They want us dead. And all these damn liberals who think otherwise are, in the terrorists' view, a weakness that they can and will take advantage of. Therefore, we should get America off this gasoline and onto something else. And do it as soon as possible. The advantages of this move are:
Environmental friendliness.
The terrorists can drink their damn oil.
Oh yeah, and we should still kick the crap out of Iraq and all those other countries while we're at it.
If it was me, I wouldn't stop at agreeing not to renew / buy Microsoft crap. I'd go so far as to throw away all the Microsoft based crap on campus and replace it with something useful. Sure, this money might not sound like a big fortune at first but it should be enough considering that with free operating systems, you don't have to pay for so-called licenses. The best part is that you can pick out some bright computer-savvy students and have them do much of the work, for money, of course. This would provide student jobs and a good learning experience. To make a long story short, getting rid of Microsoft crap is all advantages and has no disadvantages. Because Microsoft crap is all disadvantages and has no advantages. Know what I'm saying?
Windows down in the car is great around town for saving fuel.
Not where I live. (Mexico, D.F.) Over here, you drive with your windows up around town, down on the highway, and nobody uses air conditioning. Especially if you're from out of town.
If only they could figure out how to turn human shit into electricity... I would call the electric company and cancel their rotten service right now. Seriously, my dumps nearly always clog the toilet and I have to reach for the plunger. In fact, I'm almost ashamed to say that I have several plungers, one of which is named Lucille and has a mohogany handle with its name engraved on it in gold. I have also discovered that plunging toilets is all an art of the wrist, and I have the motion down perfectly. When I flush the toilet, I stand over it with the plunger ready, as it will clog nearly every time, and when it does, I perform the aforementioned movement with a flourish, instantly unclogging the damn thing.
What can we learn from this?
One: If only someone would tell me that you can buy a REAL toilet on the black market--that is, a non-water-saving toilet that actually uses more than two teaspoons of water and has the power to get the job done--then I wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
Two: That if I was smart, I'd invent a toilet that flushes every time AND turns your shit into electricity, all at the same time.
This post is a bunch of shit, by the way... None of it is true.
Internet censorship SUCKS. The Internet is the last outpost of freedom, where individuals can get whatever information they want, share ideas, and basically be themselves. Any government that wants to take that away is attempting to become BIG BROTHER.
Taking a computer along on a road trip is just plain wrong. Shit, man, I'm a geek if I ever saw one, but when I go out in nature or when I take a road trip across country, both of which I do as OFTEN as possible, I don't take along a cell phone. I don't take along a computer. I just take along a backpack containing a bunch of clothes and lots of food. It's like when I went to Sequoia last year during the winter. I was in the lodge for breakfast and I saw someone on the other end of the lodge on his laptop and I thought, "What a loser... Giant trees, clean air, lots of snow, possibilities for skiing, snoe shoeing, sledding, hiking, etc. and he's wasting away on his computer. Blah."
Try living in the desert for a week or so. Personally, I like to go in the winter, when it's cold, because I don't like heat. There is no running water, no electricity. I sleep in a tent if it's wet or under the stars if it's a clear night, and believe me, it gets COLD. But the best part? Being able, in the complete darkness, to see every single star in the universe and just imagine the grandness of everything. The last thing I want crossing my mind is how life revolves around computers nowadays.
...he had all these bitchen games on his dad's 486 DX4...
Yeah... Those were the good ol' days when everybody's DAD had the faster/cooler computer, because everyone basically got their dad's old computer when he replaced it with a better, faster one. Nowadays, I think it's the other way around. The kids are the ones with the faster computers, and the parents get to use them sometimes.
What I'd like to know is - who else (besides me) out there still has machines running 2.2 and intends to keep it that way?
2.2, eh? That's high tech stuff. I have an old machine in my garage, a 486 SX, running an old Yggdrasil Linux from at least 10 years ago. I don't remember what the kernel version is, but it's OLD. Still running. I use it for text editing and a few other boring things.
And hey, it's COOL! It reminds me of the early days of Linux, when most of my friends had never heard of it and were still using DOS and Windows 3.1. Hell, one guy had Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, and he had all these bitchen games on his dad's 486 DX4--100 mhz--and he was COOL! Nowadays, that's not fast enough to run an operating system, let alone any games.
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The Mozilla browser is based on so many layers of stuff that it boggles the mind how the thing even works. Actually, it doesn't boggle the mind because it really doesn't work all that well. Every time I tried out Mozilla, with a little hope that this time it would function better, I was disappointed.
Mozilla is bloated, huge, ugly and complicated. Its three zillion layers of features, languages, protocols and other elements make this perhaps the most complicated piece of software in proportion to what it does. In other words, I used to think that emacs was much too complicated for what it did... but Mozilla is so much worse! It's simply supposed to give you access to endless piles of advertisements and spam all over the Internet. It's not supposed to become "The Everything Program." I mean, hell, if it had to be that, then the Mozilla project should add:
features of every word processor ever released plus more,
utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
of every spreadsheet ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000
new layers of unnecessary complexity,
features of every presentation maker ever released plus more,
utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
programming language ever invented plus a virtual machine for
every architecture and chipset ever invented, all of which
include all the features of every integrated development
environment and virtual machine system ever released plus
more, utilizing 165,000 new layers of unnecessary
complexity,
computer aided engineering, finite element analysis, computer
aided machining) environment that includes all the features of
every CAD/CAE/FEA/CAM environment ever released plus more,
utilizing 671,051 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
features of every video game engine ever released plus more,
and supports every video game data file ever invented, even
from game consoles, in order to play any video game inside the
web browser utilizing only the data files and no other
executable... all of which would, of course, utilize 6,000 new
layers of unnecessary complexity,
features of every operating system ever released plus more,
utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
features of every video editing suite ever released plus more,
utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
features of every photo editing studio ever released plus
more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary
complexity,
includes all the features of every vector drawing and
animation program ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new
layers of unnecessary complexity,
includes all the features of every enterprise multi-tier
database solution ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new
layers of unnecessary complexity,
guessed it, includes all the features of every ad-blocking
solution ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new layers
of unnecessary complexity.
Or that's my opinio
THE PRODUCT IN THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS TECHNOLOGIES DESIGNED TO TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS. IF YOU PURCHASE OR OTHERWISE TAKE THIS PACKAGE INTO YOUR POSSESSION FOR USE OR OTHER PURPOSES, YOU ARE STUPID AND DESERVE TO LOSE ALL YOUR RIGHTS. THE PRODUCER OF THIS PRODUCT WANTS YOU TO BECOME A SLAVE.
Furthermore, anybody who places copy protection of any sort into their product will be prohibited from advertising or doing any form of marketing whatsoever. Instead, they will have to give all incoming money (not profits but rather ALL the money, including money owed to others as payment for whatever) to a special government agency that keeps track of companies that utilize these innovative technologies, and that government agency will advertise warnings to consumers to avoid those defective products, kind of like the way the government is trying to stop smoking in some parts of the country.
COPY PROTECTION SUCKS!!!
Consider this: If you lead a dishonest life, you have to continually work at keeping a lid on everything because lies want to spring out like a jack-in-the-box. And it gets worse and worse all the time. When people know you're honest, they'll respect you a lot more and you'll be able to get a lot more things your way. Sure, you might have to put a little more effort into things, which might seem stupid in the short run, but in the long run, it pays off big.
I knew this idiot some years ago... back in high school, to be specific. The idiot wrote an essay about causing bodily harm and/or death to a person who, at that time, happened to be a prominent member of the community. And he handed this essay in as homework. No kidding! The teacher, of course, notified the appropriate authorities, or something like that. They came to this guy's house in their fancy suits, carrying a really fancy search warrant with the official seal of the king and everything, and they ripped apart his entire house... Cut open pillows, mattresses and sofa cushions... Dumped out the contents of all the drawers in his house... Dug up his entire yard... Took away a bunch of stuff... And on top of that, he had to pay a large monetary fine. He never got his stuff back but he didn't care because it earned him a lot of respect in the local marijuana smoking community. Marijuana is, of course, really bad for one's health, and as such, one should avoid doing it. Just like one should avoid dishonesty.
One other thing... This is all made up, like make-believe. The above story about the guy with the authorities and whatnot was totally made up right now. I'm really just trying to fill up space with crap. That's because of several things:
Oh course, that may just be the alcohol speaking. (Did I mention that I am drunk out of my mind?!) Just like the sig says... Denial is MOST DEFINITELY a river in Egypt.
Gee... I wonder what happens if one cheats?
See, in a casino, the casino management has video cameras on every table, slot machine, card, chip, and urinal. They make sure from EVERY single angle that there is NO cheating going on inside their premises. And if there is, you're gonna be BUSTED!!!
But how do you defend against this in an online playing environment where you don't have a video camera pointing in the user's face and stuff? How do you know that it isn't a modified version of the software with exceedingly smart "AI" doing the game play, and that such "AI" is specially formulated to avoid being picked up for happening too fast, etc. by anti-cheat technologies? How do you know that some crafty assembly language programmer hasn't put together some ingenious plot to jack a bunch of money, occasionally losing a game so as to appear honest? I don't think any such technology exists, so...
... ANYBODY WHO BETS MONEY ON STUPID STUFF LIKE THIS IS STUPID!
And most folks who play combat games online know about the problem of cheating, which is currently an annoyance as opposed to a real theft, but...
...I have a feeling that this business is gonna disappear faster than it has appeared because it just makes no sense whatsoever. If I'm the kind of foo' who whoops ass, and if there was a guarantee that cheating absolutely cannot take place, which is impossible, and if I was a gambler, which I ain't cuz I know enough math to know better, then sure, I'd probably think to sign up to some stupid scheme like this... but most people don't have the aforementioned qualities. Most people are smarter than that. Oh, and most people know that such a crafty assembly language programmer, if the earnings potential was high enough, WOULD DEFINITELY put forth the effort to make the aforementioned modified version of the game, just as cheaters have put mind boggling resources into copying casino coins and other stupid stuff.
I bought several copies of this editor (UltraEdit) for use on those machines at work that are Windows-based. As it turns out, this is the most popular editor we have at work. It was definitely a good buy.
This rumor has been going around for many years. I think it would be rather stupid for Apple to do something like this. However, I think they could do something that would have huge technical advantages... add an x86 processor to the Mac, while leaving the existing Motorola processor, in a hybrid architecture. Their operating system would be modified to know the difference between the two processors and to put code compiled for each processor on the correct processor. Advantages include the ability to natively run applications made for PCs without the need for virtualization software that slows everything down.
Microsoft must be really, really stupid to think that anybody is going to fall for that. The reliability of their software is a joke across the industry that EVERYBODY knows about.
Being an advocate of alternative software, I talk to a lot of people about Microsoft before I even mention that I advocate other stuff. I have never heard someone say that Microsoft's stuff is reliable. As a matter of fact, even the most naive computer users have stated plainly that Microsoft causes all kinds of trouble for them. It is a widely known fact.
So why would Microsoft make a stupid claim like this? My feeling is that they have a serious break in communication between their marketing department, which probably uses blueberry candy-apple Macs to make glossy, lickable presentations, and all other departments, which use UNIX for all of their operations because they know how much Windows sucks (because they made it) and refuse to use it.
Contrary to such atrocities against humanity and the larger population of the world, the Microsoft license liberates every person by empowering them to use high quality tools for crashing computers at ten times the price, while simultaneously giving them the power to do almost as much as nothing in terms of repairing problems that arise when the liberation software fails (in other words, when it actually works properly and thus does not fulfill its purpose of crashing the aforementioned computer), thus creating value for the consumer and keeping the economy strong.
If the open source world actually used its brain, every developer of open source software would sign his intellectual property over to Microsoft for free, on the sole condition that Microsoft will also take away everything that person owns and leave them hungry in the streets.
Microsoft is such a noble and ethical entity that most developers would die to defend it.
Now I find it acceptable that a computer can heat up somewhat during computationally intensive functions, like performing a huge batch job with Photoshop or something, but what annoys me a lot about this fan thing is that it seems to come on at the darnedest times. For example, if some application crashes, the fan comes on, then goes faster, then goes even faster, and finally it's spinning at its maximum speed, which sounds like a bunch of banshees flying around when there are heavy winds. All of this while the computer remains totally unresponsive to any input.
This has annoyed me so much on many occasions that I often consider disassembling the computer and removing that stupid fan. Yeah, it'll overheat, but at least I don't have to listen to that shit.
My suggestion, as far as heat is concerned, is that laptops can be built utilizing processors that use little energy and stay cool. Yes, these are much slower than your Pentium CXXVCVXIIIXCIX, but if you put about 5 of them in there, it won't be so bad. In fact, it might even be a bit faster in some cases. I wish people would consider that. What annoys me the most about this is that the computer seems to heat up during computing-intensive
I believe that if the packaging of processor chips was made of this material, processor manufacturers could immediately forget all about heat, heatsinks, fans, and all that other BS.
To counter arguments against NASA, they always say that space exploration has furthered technology here on Earth in ways that benefit us all. I believe that this is something they should figure out how to manufacture less expensively in order to eliminate heat problems from multitudes of electronic products and save time to market since engineers won't have to worry about this anymore.
The only thing this teaches me is that: EVIL WILL ALWAYS TRIUMPH BECAUSE GOOD IS DUMB.
Oh well. Because Negra Modelo is better than Dos Equis.
Consider this: In my business, people are using machines as old as 30 years and some may be quite a bit older than those. These machines have everything from punch card readers to tape readers to special floppy drives that are impossible to find nowadays. And of course, these parts go bad, and as luck would have it in this industry, replacing one of these pieces of machinery can completely break a business. Especially with the economy doing as badly as it is now, and manufacturing is at such a low that everybody in this industry is suffering. But I digress.
The point I'm trying to make is this: If these things (CRTs with mold, rubber wheels melting, etc) are critical to the operation of a really old computer, then someone needs to manufacture them, just like people still manufacture replacement parts for old cars. This is most likely a better idea than replacing these systems with new ones for the following reason: These old systems are proven. A lot was invested into making them reliable and whatever bugs exist are well known by now. Replacing these systems would introduce problems for a long time to come... problems like software not working properly, which is a problem that management has a very difficult time accepting. Try telling your boss that some buffer wasn't flushed and therefore $50,000 just went down the drain. A rubber wheel melting and being replaced is a lot easier to explain to one's manager because everybody knows what a rubber wheel is. And how much does a rubber wheel cost? Even if it has to be specially manufactured and costs the end user $100.00, that's a hell of a lot cheaper than re-engineering the whole damn computer network. And putting up with stupid management (of which I am a member) giving you shit because three months have passed and the new computer network STILL isn't operational due to some stupid SQL program or perl script that has yet to be written, and we've gone ahead and ordered that rubber wheel anyway.
Negra Modelo. Me llamo Juanito Rodriguez y soy alcoholico.
But I bet the idiots who bought 4 large crates of these guns didn't bother to ask about the little red button on the side.
- Watching movies.
- Listening to music.
There are NO other uses for computers. As such, a new branch of International Law should be started immediately to mandate processor utilization meters, similar to electric meters and/or gas meters, for the sole purpose of taxing computer usage in order to compensate multinational corporate content providers (including companies that market media but explicitely excluding so-called artists, who actually create the work) for the fact that ALL copies of content worldwide are pirated and NONE are paid for. The law should further designate three multinational corporations as the recipients of these funds, and all artists and/or other types of content producers will be mandated to sign their copyrights over to these three entities for no compensation whatsoever.Initially, the aforementioned tax would be set at $0.0199 USD (similarly to gas stations that charge 2.09+9/10 per gallon of gasoline) per utilized processor cycle, including cycles during which the computer invokes the busy form of waiting, as in an empty loop or during polling for an event.
Processor idling technologies (such as SpeedStep and/or other energy-saving and/or temperature-reducing technologies, which cause the processor to "sleep" or reduce its clock speed during idle cycles) would be outlawed to maximize profits for the three multinational corporations. Ten percent of the funds would be wire-transferred to terrorists, who shall be mandated by the aforementioned International Law to purchase weapons of mass destruction (as the U.N. is running out of work and might otherwise lay off some of its staff).
This will have the following advantages:
- Taxes will be lowered.
- Individuals will have more discretionary spending money.
- This will keep the economy strong. (To borrow from California Governor Gray Davis' speech about how he screwed over everyone in the state with regards to their electric bill and then had the nerve to invoke doublespeak when telling everyone how he's keeping the economy strong.)
- It will save the poor, starving artists who slave over an album for a year only to see it all over the Internet the next day. (Disregarding the fact, of course, that they are required to sign over their copyrights and therefore end up earning less than a garbage truck driver even if the album is a best-selling hit.)
And last, but certainly not least, the United States Constitution will begin, "We the Multinational Corporations of the United States of America hereby declare that we have the God-given right to eternal, perpetually increasing profits. To achieve these ends..."This post is serious. Don't laugh.
With several more years of improvement, Linux and other free operating systems are starting to gain on the technical advantages present in that several year old operating system. I feel confident that given a few more years and the efforts of individuals and companies worldwide, Linux will soon be the operating system of choice for everything from coffee makers to the next generation space shuttle. So I'm happy to hear about this conference and all this exciting stuff.
All those stupid people with "No blood for oil" bumper stickers are stupid. They think, ok, instead of fighting and getting killed over oil, we'll discuss our differences with the terrorists (who, by the way, just so happen to want us dead, but that's an unimportant detail) and understand them, because terrorists are just good people who want to make a difference. Yeah, right. See, that's what's wrong with all these idiot liberals. They fail to understand that terrorists are EVIL. They don't give a damn about us understanding them. They want us dead. And all these damn liberals who think otherwise are, in the terrorists' view, a weakness that they can and will take advantage of. Therefore, we should get America off this gasoline and onto something else. And do it as soon as possible. The advantages of this move are:
- Environmental friendliness.
- The terrorists can drink their damn oil.
Oh yeah, and we should still kick the crap out of Iraq and all those other countries while we're at it.If it was me, I wouldn't stop at agreeing not to renew / buy Microsoft crap. I'd go so far as to throw away all the Microsoft based crap on campus and replace it with something useful. Sure, this money might not sound like a big fortune at first but it should be enough considering that with free operating systems, you don't have to pay for so-called licenses. The best part is that you can pick out some bright computer-savvy students and have them do much of the work, for money, of course. This would provide student jobs and a good learning experience. To make a long story short, getting rid of Microsoft crap is all advantages and has no disadvantages. Because Microsoft crap is all disadvantages and has no advantages. Know what I'm saying?
Not where I live. (Mexico, D.F.) Over here, you drive with your windows up around town, down on the highway, and nobody uses air conditioning. Especially if you're from out of town.
What can we learn from this?
- One: If only someone would tell me that you can buy a REAL toilet on the black market--that is, a non-water-saving toilet that actually uses more than two teaspoons of water and has the power to get the job done--then I wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
- Two: That if I was smart, I'd invent a toilet that flushes every time AND turns your shit into electricity, all at the same time.
This post is a bunch of shit, by the way... None of it is true.Internet censorship SUCKS. The Internet is the last outpost of freedom, where individuals can get whatever information they want, share ideas, and basically be themselves. Any government that wants to take that away is attempting to become BIG BROTHER.
Try living in the desert for a week or so. Personally, I like to go in the winter, when it's cold, because I don't like heat. There is no running water, no electricity. I sleep in a tent if it's wet or under the stars if it's a clear night, and believe me, it gets COLD. But the best part? Being able, in the complete darkness, to see every single star in the universe and just imagine the grandness of everything. The last thing I want crossing my mind is how life revolves around computers nowadays.
Yeah... Those were the good ol' days when everybody's DAD had the faster/cooler computer, because everyone basically got their dad's old computer when he replaced it with a better, faster one. Nowadays, I think it's the other way around. The kids are the ones with the faster computers, and the parents get to use them sometimes.
2.2, eh? That's high tech stuff. I have an old machine in my garage, a 486 SX, running an old Yggdrasil Linux from at least 10 years ago. I don't remember what the kernel version is, but it's OLD. Still running. I use it for text editing and a few other boring things.
And hey, it's COOL! It reminds me of the early days of Linux, when most of my friends had never heard of it and were still using DOS and Windows 3.1. Hell, one guy had Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, and he had all these bitchen games on his dad's 486 DX4--100 mhz--and he was COOL! Nowadays, that's not fast enough to run an operating system, let alone any games.