If I was a troll I can guarentee I wouldn't be making you look like a dumbass like, well I just did in my previous post. Don't be bitter because this cunning linguist made you look foolish. It is okay, just don't be throwing out names, when it is obvious that the best insult you could come up with is... troll. OMG! Not TROLL! I would take offense because I am not one, but I figure coming from you is the equivalent to a couple jewish kids getting in a shoving match. Anyways, have a great day and I hope next time you intend to argue... you get some better material or a point that makes sense and not a rant. Goodluck and Godspeed.
Yeah, I would like to seethe bank statement that clearly says MS donated to the think tank. I bet this is merely speculation. Oh well, one would only like to hope that instead of/. posting the latest trash on MS they would post somthing of interest, like the coolest gadget from thinkgeek, like that capucino computer. That thing is smaller than a mac cube I believe but dang cool at that.
Calling copyright infringement stealing is a propaganda device from the real thieves, the "intellectual property" cartel, that rob future generations of our heritage
That was poetic, pathetic, but poetic. If you mean to tell me one who developes code for the sole purpose of selling said software is part of an IP Cartel then you are a very silly individual. Anyone who developes software and makes it for sale and not for free is not only an innovator(?) but a business man who does want their talent to go to waste. They want to make some money so the can retire and use their talent for other things.
Hate to tell you but it is stealing. If it wasn't meant for you to have for free and you take it, it is stealing. Don't sugar coat it with words like propaganda, deprived and heritage. Face the facts. Frankly by that comment. I think you are an idiot, I am done with you and your mafia theories.
Let me start by saying I am a Windows fanatic. Probably by this first sentence I will get modded to a negative one. Read on.
I read Slashdot every day. Generally the theme, besides news for nerds, is all about Linux. This is fine with me. There are plenty of topics for me to choose from. Linux does interest me though.
In my time of reading/. I have noticed two important themes. Down with Microsoft. Up with Linux. Again this is fine with me. Everyone has the right to choose the OS that suits their needs. However, with the sudden rise of United Linux I have noticed one problem. Bias.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
If you want Linux to be mainstream and hit consumer desktops, you have to start somewhere. UL is that somewhere. Since the birth of Linux, the OS has boomed to be somthing of comparison. In the buisness world it offers a low-cost solution to workstations and servers. It can get the job done and without hassle. One problem. There is no standard. None. You look at Windows and it is standardized. From top to bottom it is standardized. It is also on 90 percent of all computers or somthing like that.
Standardization plays a huge roll.
UL is what Linux needs. To create a standard. To charge a little money to keep revenues up so development will always move forward. With a business standard a consumer standard will follow. It is guarenteed. The Linux community needs to stand behind UL and be with them. To support them and give feedback. If you want Linux Mainstream you have to pitch in.
So what if it isn't entirely free. Free doesn't mean profit, it means loss. Money going into developement isn't being returned on sales.
I just think that all GPL/OSS/Linus Worshipers need to rally up and say "HEY! UL is it, watch out!"
I am not referring to invasion of privacy but I look at software and material items as the same thing. Say you go out and steal a Big Ghetto Blaster Stereo from Walmart. This is known as theft or in many cases shop lifting. Now look at it from this perspective and not the free software, open source perspective. Did you build the stereo sold at Walmart. More than likely not. As there are no schematics for you to view as well as free parts to use to follow said schematic to build the stereo in the exact way as the manufacturer did. Let alone change it all for free. Granted it is material, but still it is an object sold for consumer use.
Now take that model and put it in the software world. You have a program. No source code is available and the company only allows you to obtain the software in question by purchasing it through, cash/credit/debit whatever. Some way you have to pay for it to get your hands on it. Or... you could pirate the software and obtain it for free and use it with out paying for it. This, applied to the same model as above is stealing. You stole from the company because you did not pay for the software written by them, the work put forth by them, (just like the stereo) and you use it anyways. This is stealing. It may not have a physical manifestation but I bet most companies offer it on CD which would make it, theoretically, physical property. Which you do not own. You took and use without paying for. I don't care what your movement is, it is still stealing.
You could be part of a movement that believes all physical objects should be for free, does it make it right to go out and just take items because it is your movement. No. No matter how you look at it. It is stealing whether software or material. You can deny it up and down but it is still stealing whenyou get to the bottom of it.
I don't troll. I express opinions that others have a tendancy to dislike. If I was a troller I would be more obnoxious and less opinionated. Either way I care not about my karma score. I care about speaking my mind on the opinion I carry.
Yeah, it is stealing. Look at it however you want to look at it and throw as many words at it as you want but... If it doesn't belong to you, and you didn't purchase it; it is stealing in all its beauty and splendor.
From your perspective it would be okay for me to walk into your place of living and copy off your private emails. For in your eyes it isn't stealing because you don't lose anything.
So it's OK for Microsoft to impose conditions after the point of sale, so long as they claim you're anonymous in the reg^H^H^Hactivation process? (If you activate via the net, your IP is known--there is no way around this. If you activate by phone, ANI logs your number for billing. If you use a pay phone, you're too paranoid to be using any version of Windows.)
What the, Hell are you talking about? What conditions? I signed neither agreed to nothing except the EULA. Yeah if I activate Via the net my IP is known, until I reboot. Then it is unknown. Dynamic. If ANI log my number, what bill am I receiving? No bills here. I will disregard your last comment, just Slashdot silliness.
I find it quite admirable that the team refused to support XP. If there are knowledgeable enough people who want XP, they can port and recomplie. If they're arent, then I guess that tells us something.
Well of course you find it admirable. Any Windows user who reads this site has to expect segregation. We ride on the back of the bus here and drink from water fountains you assign us to drink out of.
What is most upsetting is the lack of XP support by choice. I was going to try it out but alas I cannot for I use XP. What is even more upsetting is the lack oif knowledge on the XP activation feature. Microsoft doesnot force you to register with them but they do ask you, not force you, to activate Windows XP.
Granted if you do not activate XP it will fail to work in 30 days but still there is no registration process. Activation is just a new way to type in your CD Code. Except it takes a digital picture of your motherboard and completely relates it to your copy of XP. So that copy is only for that said motherboard and can only be changed under certain circumstances.
When I bought XP I was running an Asus somthing or other that had an older ALI chipset that was completely incompatible with my nVidia GeForce 2 MX 400. (Except under Win98 but even then the stablility was horrible due to the fact of the conflicting card and chipset, XP and W2K were even worse. At least it wasn't an OS problem)
End result was I had to go out and buy an Asus A7V266. Everything is swanky but inorder to run XP I had to call up MS and say look this was the problem, now give me a solution. They did with out hassle and without me having to buy a new copy of XP. They just had me re-activate under the telephone section of the activation process of XP and they switched everything for me so that my copy of XP and my new motherboard were complimentart of eachother. This took no longer than 10 minutes. (Including the time I was on hold)
Other than that. I guess all I have to say is that FreeCraft has potential but what is holding them back is the graphics side of the game. (Horrible) Looks like a spin off of Microsofts Age of Empires. Even as old as WarCraft 2 is, it looks way better than FreeCraft. This also displays how the game base for Linux is really lacking. FreeSoftware is not in ever case in every area better. This just shows how it can be worse. Lack of developers dedicated to one project. It is free so the people developing for it aren't getting paid. It is slow death. Breeding in weakness.
it is impossible to steal music or media with one of these machines
I am not sure which machine you are referring to but if it is stealing with the iPod, it is very possible. Happened about 2 months ago at the CompUSA. Kid walked in jamming out to an iPod. Walked up to his local Macintosh display computer. Hooked it up throught the (Firewire) port and compied off some program. Forgot which one.
So what you are saying is you support theft for educational purposes. So if I was to go out and steal your car for a few months, you would be okay with it because I was teaching myself to drive. Or if I came over and just took your Game Console of the moment, you would have no problems because I was educating myself to see if I wanted said console. What you just said is, you agree and are in compliance with theft. So it is okay to take your stuff at will or anyones because I could say it is for educational purposes.
Lousiest damn controller on Earth, though. GameCube isn't much better, but better controls definitely
Oh and like the PS2 controller is God's Gift to ergonomics. Talk about inconvienence. They are smaller than the original Nintendo controllers.
But PS2 has the best selection and is overall the best to me
Well when the console was released a year before that makes a nice impact on games. Plus it is compatible with nearly every PS1 games. (nearly) So yes the selection is better. HOWEVER! XBox has a huge developer base that is working on games that will appeal to the crowds. It also wouldn't surprise me that at some point games from PC's have the ability to be ported to XBox since the big X is virtually a PC in itself.
Game content is more important than the name on it
Okay, well guess what. PS1 had a shotty game content when it was first released and you can't argue otherwise. What console can actually say they had a killer game content on first release. Not many save Nintendo because Mario brothers rocked. (imho)
You are judging a console while it is in its infant stages. Give it time. I will bet... just bet... XBox will rule. Not because it is Microsoft, but because it is PC Developers writing the games.
That Digital isn't what I expected. I recently bought the Under Siege DVD and noticed that is was, well, shotty. The Digital encoding sucked. I have noticed this among a lot of movies in general. The backrounds in Saving Private Ryan, Black or generally dark backrounds in Aliens, etc. I start to wonder if Digital is better then analog is better when it comes to movies. I know some movies look awesome but when it comes to greys and blacks it just doens't seem to cut it. Not like analog.
To put it simply, my VHS tape of Saving Private Ryan, (which I bought before I got a DVD player) looks ten times better then my DVD.
This is what Icall Linux FUD. I know for a fact that MS would not release such a statment for public viewing which would, in the end, destroy their business with the corporate world as we know it. Just chalk another one up to the Linux FUD Department.
Cost of Linux FUD? Free. Written by a group of disgruntled Linux Techs who are still making 14/hr.
Oh also the Force was rebalanced again in Return of the Jedi when Vader was killed. His son, Luke both held anger within him and peace as clearly displayed in Jedi. He is a balanced individual. Containing both qualities.
The way I look at it is this. The good side of the Force is used for peace keeping decisions. Knowing a form of Zen and being one with yourself. The Dark side, (it is way more powerful), is used for battle. Use your anger to destroy your enemy. If One is balanced in all ways, Neither side will ever gain control of you.
Anakin wasn't born to join the Jedi. Yoda knew this and feared his training. Look how many Sith really are around in "Phantom Menace,"... 2.
Now look how many Jedi are around? Couple 1000 maybe more. The Force has to be balance. %)% good, 50% "bad". It is like Peaceful Shaolin Monks and Hardcore Marines. You have to have both. (Well maybe not those two) Anakin no matter if he joined the Jedi at an earlier age or not would have become Vader. He is the balance between the Light side and the Dark Side. After all there are 2 sides to the force like a Yin Yang.
Anakin wasn't the Jedi's Messiah, he was The Jedi's balance.
I don't bash MS because I am a fan fo theres. My computers don't crash. They run stable and to date I have only recieved one computer virus that a friend sent me. It was immediately deleted before any damage could result. I am running Windows XP and everything is fine. No problems. No signs of problems. In fact it rocks. Better that having to update my whole system with god knows how many files because the newest release of glib came out or Sawfish and it requires rev13 not rev9 or whatever the fuck it was called. I tried Linux out and reinstalled Windows on the machine after a week because I got sick of it run around.
I know Slashdot is a pro linux site and not a news site. I can see why. It is run by Linux fans.
I thought all OSS fans were about innovation and moving forward. It seems that no matter how far Microsoft moves forward all they receive is flak from the OSS front. Then they get all shocked and shaken when Microsoft returns with an anti-linux campaign when in reality they [OSS Fans] started this FUD war. Maybe not in the way Microsoft is acting on it but seriously. Look through this site. It is the eqauivalent to a Nazi Youth Rally directed against Microsoft.
How can participants of this website bitch about MS FUD when OSS activists started the flinging FUD first. Talk about the ability to dish it out but the inability to take it. "OH MY GOD! Microsoft just said Linux is bad. Those FUD Packing Goons. Lets go to Slashdot and rally together by posting a News Article that says Microsoft sucks because IE has holes" Who cares if it has holes. They fix them. You also have to take in account how hard it must be to find the bad code and fix it. After all Mozilla is small and IE is fucking huge! It is more than a browser, it is a structured part of Windows. No wonder it took so long and the hunt to find the misbehaving code else where must suck. I will bet a hundred bucks of my own money the Mozilla source code isn't even a 1/10 as long as IE Code considering all that it has too do on top of show a user the internet.
Talk about s ingle track mind for OSS Supporters. It is like A---->B and that is it. I love this site as it is the best to find what interestes me but just once I would like to see someone say somthing positive about Windows and Microsoft. I am going to start because I have two nice things.
1. Man they sure know how to make an OS from the common man (and woman)
2. Talk about hardware support! No other OS offers the wide variety and the ability to support as many hardware devices as Microsoft Windows can. No one. That is impressive. Go MS, you are on the right track!
It don't believe it is a design limit. I believe they are serious when they say that. Or they wouldn't preach it in a room full of their very own customers. One of the hottest topics at the OPK Fest was the WMA and SLP. (Windows Media Activation and another acronym which I cannot talk about due to the NDA I sign upon entering the party);)
But alas in your very own words.
"Don't confuse JFS design limits with real world actual limits"
I attended the OPK Fest for the release of WIndows XP about... maybe less than a year ago and found out some interesting tidbits about how the new filesystem (NTFS) is used within XP.
I know one big complaint about the W2K OS is that it takes forever too boot. Talk about truth. (I started cooking oatmeal for 2 minutes and it took W2K about the same amount of time too boot) Then with the release of XP it suddenly got faster, much faster. Well at the OPK Fest I learned 2 things.
1. Being that there are 8 megs of space reserved for Windows use that are unmounted upon boot and are never really viewable unless you know the OS call. At the fest the explained they used this space to optimize the boot time on XP. When you shut XP down windows saves a current mini-image of all the important files it needs to boot upon next startup. When the system boots it reads from this partition and utilizes that information to boot Windows so it knows what programs need to be run, what services have been configured, etc. This in the end made XP boot up almost double the speed. (If not faster)
2. The second most intriging feature they annouced, (well the feature my jaw dropped over) was NTFS 5.0, which is also used on 2K. Even though there are some weird limitations that they talked about. NTFS 5 has the ability to handle harddisks as large as 16 pica bytes. 1000 gigs make a terra, 1000 teras make an exo 1000 exos make a pica.) On a good day that is the whole Kazaa network with room to spare.
I don't know all the specifics as a lot of that is in house info only but still, that is a lot of formattabel information. What would you do with 16000 exo bytes?
Looks like Red hat just tried to start a Linux monopoly. And you open source people say you look out for your own. Just goes to show you that business is business and they are all out to make a buck. HA HA HA! Long live capitalism.
This makes Microsoft for once look good on this site. And to think all these years it has been MS bashing. HA HA! Oh I love Fridays!
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If I was a troll I can guarentee I wouldn't be making you look like a dumbass like, well I just did in my previous post. Don't be bitter because this cunning linguist made you look foolish. It is okay, just don't be throwing out names, when it is obvious that the best insult you could come up with is... troll. OMG! Not TROLL! I would take offense because I am not one, but I figure coming from you is the equivalent to a couple jewish kids getting in a shoving match. Anyways, have a great day and I hope next time you intend to argue... you get some better material or a point that makes sense and not a rant. Goodluck and Godspeed.
Yeah, I would like to seethe bank statement that clearly says MS donated to the think tank. I bet this is merely speculation. Oh well, one would only like to hope that instead of /. posting the latest trash on MS they would post somthing of interest, like the coolest gadget from thinkgeek, like that capucino computer. That thing is smaller than a mac cube I believe but dang cool at that.
FUD? Simple meaning really.
The true meaning is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
It is also commonly known as another word for bullshit.
Preach on Brother! Preach the Word!
That is too true about Windows. Talk about hardware compatibility.
Calling copyright infringement stealing is a propaganda device from the real thieves, the "intellectual property" cartel, that rob future generations of our heritage
That was poetic, pathetic, but poetic. If you mean to tell me one who developes code for the sole purpose of selling said software is part of an IP Cartel then you are a very silly individual. Anyone who developes software and makes it for sale and not for free is not only an innovator(?) but a business man who does want their talent to go to waste. They want to make some money so the can retire and use their talent for other things.
Hate to tell you but it is stealing. If it wasn't meant for you to have for free and you take it, it is stealing. Don't sugar coat it with words like propaganda, deprived and heritage. Face the facts. Frankly by that comment. I think you are an idiot, I am done with you and your mafia theories.
Let me start by saying I am a Windows fanatic. Probably by this first sentence I will get modded to a negative one. Read on.
/. I have noticed two important themes. Down with Microsoft. Up with Linux. Again this is fine with me. Everyone has the right to choose the OS that suits their needs. However, with the sudden rise of United Linux I have noticed one problem. Bias.
I read Slashdot every day. Generally the theme, besides news for nerds, is all about Linux. This is fine with me. There are plenty of topics for me to choose from. Linux does interest me though.
In my time of reading
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
If you want Linux to be mainstream and hit consumer desktops, you have to start somewhere. UL is that somewhere. Since the birth of Linux, the OS has boomed to be somthing of comparison. In the buisness world it offers a low-cost solution to workstations and servers. It can get the job done and without hassle. One problem. There is no standard. None. You look at Windows and it is standardized. From top to bottom it is standardized. It is also on 90 percent of all computers or somthing like that.
Standardization plays a huge roll.
UL is what Linux needs. To create a standard. To charge a little money to keep revenues up so development will always move forward. With a business standard a consumer standard will follow. It is guarenteed. The Linux community needs to stand behind UL and be with them. To support them and give feedback. If you want Linux Mainstream you have to pitch in.
So what if it isn't entirely free. Free doesn't mean profit, it means loss. Money going into developement isn't being returned on sales.
I just think that all GPL/OSS/Linus Worshipers need to rally up and say "HEY! UL is it, watch out!"
I am not referring to invasion of privacy but I look at software and material items as the same thing. Say you go out and steal a Big Ghetto Blaster Stereo from Walmart. This is known as theft or in many cases shop lifting. Now look at it from this perspective and not the free software, open source perspective. Did you build the stereo sold at Walmart. More than likely not. As there are no schematics for you to view as well as free parts to use to follow said schematic to build the stereo in the exact way as the manufacturer did. Let alone change it all for free. Granted it is material, but still it is an object sold for consumer use.
Now take that model and put it in the software world. You have a program. No source code is available and the company only allows you to obtain the software in question by purchasing it through, cash/credit/debit whatever. Some way you have to pay for it to get your hands on it. Or... you could pirate the software and obtain it for free and use it with out paying for it. This, applied to the same model as above is stealing. You stole from the company because you did not pay for the software written by them, the work put forth by them, (just like the stereo) and you use it anyways. This is stealing. It may not have a physical manifestation but I bet most companies offer it on CD which would make it, theoretically, physical property. Which you do not own. You took and use without paying for. I don't care what your movement is, it is still stealing.
You could be part of a movement that believes all physical objects should be for free, does it make it right to go out and just take items because it is your movement. No. No matter how you look at it. It is stealing whether software or material. You can deny it up and down but it is still stealing whenyou get to the bottom of it.
I don't troll. I express opinions that others have a tendancy to dislike. If I was a troller I would be more obnoxious and less opinionated. Either way I care not about my karma score. I care about speaking my mind on the opinion I carry.
Will Solaris 9 run on an Athlon Platform.
Yeah, it is stealing. Look at it however you want to look at it and throw as many words at it as you want but... If it doesn't belong to you, and you didn't purchase it; it is stealing in all its beauty and splendor.
From your perspective it would be okay for me to walk into your place of living and copy off your private emails. For in your eyes it isn't stealing because you don't lose anything.
So it's OK for Microsoft to impose conditions after the point of sale, so long as they claim you're anonymous in the reg^H^H^Hactivation process? (If you activate via the net, your IP is known--there is no way around this. If you activate by phone, ANI logs your number for billing. If you use a pay phone, you're too paranoid to be using any version of Windows.)
What the, Hell are you talking about? What conditions? I signed neither agreed to nothing except the EULA. Yeah if I activate Via the net my IP is known, until I reboot. Then it is unknown. Dynamic. If ANI log my number, what bill am I receiving? No bills here. I will disregard your last comment, just Slashdot silliness.
I find it quite admirable that the team refused to support XP. If there are knowledgeable enough people who want XP, they can port and recomplie. If they're arent, then I guess that tells us something.
Well of course you find it admirable. Any Windows user who reads this site has to expect segregation. We ride on the back of the bus here and drink from water fountains you assign us to drink out of.
What is most upsetting is the lack of XP support by choice. I was going to try it out but alas I cannot for I use XP. What is even more upsetting is the lack oif knowledge on the XP activation feature. Microsoft doesnot force you to register with them but they do ask you, not force you, to activate Windows XP.
Granted if you do not activate XP it will fail to work in 30 days but still there is no registration process. Activation is just a new way to type in your CD Code. Except it takes a digital picture of your motherboard and completely relates it to your copy of XP. So that copy is only for that said motherboard and can only be changed under certain circumstances.
When I bought XP I was running an Asus somthing or other that had an older ALI chipset that was completely incompatible with my nVidia GeForce 2 MX 400. (Except under Win98 but even then the stablility was horrible due to the fact of the conflicting card and chipset, XP and W2K were even worse. At least it wasn't an OS problem)
End result was I had to go out and buy an Asus A7V266. Everything is swanky but inorder to run XP I had to call up MS and say look this was the problem, now give me a solution. They did with out hassle and without me having to buy a new copy of XP. They just had me re-activate under the telephone section of the activation process of XP and they switched everything for me so that my copy of XP and my new motherboard were complimentart of eachother. This took no longer than 10 minutes. (Including the time I was on hold)
Other than that. I guess all I have to say is that FreeCraft has potential but what is holding them back is the graphics side of the game. (Horrible) Looks like a spin off of Microsofts Age of Empires. Even as old as WarCraft 2 is, it looks way better than FreeCraft. This also displays how the game base for Linux is really lacking. FreeSoftware is not in ever case in every area better. This just shows how it can be worse. Lack of developers dedicated to one project. It is free so the people developing for it aren't getting paid. It is slow death. Breeding in weakness.
That is just my 2.5 cents worth
it is impossible to steal music or media with one of these machines
I am not sure which machine you are referring to but if it is stealing with the iPod, it is very possible. Happened about 2 months ago at the CompUSA. Kid walked in jamming out to an iPod. Walked up to his local Macintosh display computer. Hooked it up throught the (Firewire) port and compied off some program. Forgot which one.
So what you are saying is you support theft for educational purposes. So if I was to go out and steal your car for a few months, you would be okay with it because I was teaching myself to drive. Or if I came over and just took your Game Console of the moment, you would have no problems because I was educating myself to see if I wanted said console. What you just said is, you agree and are in compliance with theft. So it is okay to take your stuff at will or anyones because I could say it is for educational purposes.
God Damn! you are an idiot.
Okay here comes the rant.
Lousiest damn controller on Earth, though.
GameCube isn't much better, but better controls definitely
Oh and like the PS2 controller is God's Gift to ergonomics. Talk about inconvienence. They are smaller than the original Nintendo controllers.
But PS2 has the best selection and is overall the best to me
Well when the console was released a year before that makes a nice impact on games. Plus it is compatible with nearly every PS1 games. (nearly) So yes the selection is better. HOWEVER! XBox has a huge developer base that is working on games that will appeal to the crowds. It also wouldn't surprise me that at some point games from PC's have the ability to be ported to XBox since the big X is virtually a PC in itself.
Game content is more important than the name on it
Okay, well guess what. PS1 had a shotty game content when it was first released and you can't argue otherwise. What console can actually say they had a killer game content on first release. Not many save Nintendo because Mario brothers rocked. (imho)
You are judging a console while it is in its infant stages. Give it time. I will bet... just bet... XBox will rule. Not because it is Microsoft, but because it is PC Developers writing the games.
That Digital isn't what I expected. I recently bought the Under Siege DVD and noticed that is was, well, shotty. The Digital encoding sucked. I have noticed this among a lot of movies in general. The backrounds in Saving Private Ryan, Black or generally dark backrounds in Aliens, etc. I start to wonder if Digital is better then analog is better when it comes to movies. I know some movies look awesome but when it comes to greys and blacks it just doens't seem to cut it. Not like analog.
To put it simply, my VHS tape of Saving Private Ryan, (which I bought before I got a DVD player) looks ten times better then my DVD.
I can't believe they used revenue and Linux in the same sentence.
This is what Icall Linux FUD. I know for a fact that MS would not release such a statment for public viewing which would, in the end, destroy their business with the corporate world as we know it. Just chalk another one up to the Linux FUD Department.
Cost of Linux FUD? Free. Written by a group of disgruntled Linux Techs who are still making 14/hr.
Oh also the Force was rebalanced again in Return of the Jedi when Vader was killed. His son, Luke both held anger within him and peace as clearly displayed in Jedi. He is a balanced individual. Containing both qualities.
The way I look at it is this. The good side of the Force is used for peace keeping decisions. Knowing a form of Zen and being one with yourself. The Dark side, (it is way more powerful), is used for battle. Use your anger to destroy your enemy. If One is balanced in all ways, Neither side will ever gain control of you.
Anakin wasn't born to join the Jedi. Yoda knew this and feared his training. Look how many Sith really are around in "Phantom Menace,"... 2.
Now look how many Jedi are around? Couple 1000 maybe more. The Force has to be balance. %)% good, 50% "bad". It is like Peaceful Shaolin Monks and Hardcore Marines. You have to have both. (Well maybe not those two) Anakin no matter if he joined the Jedi at an earlier age or not would have become Vader. He is the balance between the Light side and the Dark Side. After all there are 2 sides to the force like a Yin Yang.
Anakin wasn't the Jedi's Messiah, he was The Jedi's balance.
I don't bash MS because I am a fan fo theres. My computers don't crash. They run stable and to date I have only recieved one computer virus that a friend sent me. It was immediately deleted before any damage could result. I am running Windows XP and everything is fine. No problems. No signs of problems. In fact it rocks. Better that having to update my whole system with god knows how many files because the newest release of glib came out or Sawfish and it requires rev13 not rev9 or whatever the fuck it was called. I tried Linux out and reinstalled Windows on the machine after a week because I got sick of it run around.
I know Slashdot is a pro linux site and not a news site. I can see why. It is run by Linux fans.
I thought all OSS fans were about innovation and moving forward. It seems that no matter how far Microsoft moves forward all they receive is flak from the OSS front. Then they get all shocked and shaken when Microsoft returns with an anti-linux campaign when in reality they [OSS Fans] started this FUD war. Maybe not in the way Microsoft is acting on it but seriously. Look through this site. It is the eqauivalent to a Nazi Youth Rally directed against Microsoft.
How can participants of this website bitch about MS FUD when OSS activists started the flinging FUD first. Talk about the ability to dish it out but the inability to take it. "OH MY GOD! Microsoft just said Linux is bad. Those FUD Packing Goons. Lets go to Slashdot and rally together by posting a News Article that says Microsoft sucks because IE has holes" Who cares if it has holes. They fix them. You also have to take in account how hard it must be to find the bad code and fix it. After all Mozilla is small and IE is fucking huge! It is more than a browser, it is a structured part of Windows. No wonder it took so long and the hunt to find the misbehaving code else where must suck. I will bet a hundred bucks of my own money the Mozilla source code isn't even a 1/10 as long as IE Code considering all that it has too do on top of show a user the internet.
Talk about s ingle track mind for OSS Supporters. It is like A---->B and that is it. I love this site as it is the best to find what interestes me but just once I would like to see someone say somthing positive about Windows and Microsoft. I am going to start because I have two nice things.
1. Man they sure know how to make an OS from the common man (and woman)
2. Talk about hardware support! No other OS offers the wide variety and the ability to support as many hardware devices as Microsoft Windows can. No one. That is impressive. Go MS, you are on the right track!
It appears you missing out on the "funny" mod. I guess your attempt at a joke turned out to be.... not funny.
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Think about it.
It don't believe it is a design limit. I believe they are serious when they say that. Or they wouldn't preach it in a room full of their very own customers. One of the hottest topics at the OPK Fest was the WMA and SLP. (Windows Media Activation and another acronym which I cannot talk about due to the NDA I sign upon entering the party) ;)
But alas in your very own words.
"Don't confuse JFS design limits with real world actual limits"
I attended the OPK Fest for the release of WIndows XP about... maybe less than a year ago and found out some interesting tidbits about how the new filesystem (NTFS) is used within XP.
I know one big complaint about the W2K OS is that it takes forever too boot. Talk about truth. (I started cooking oatmeal for 2 minutes and it took W2K about the same amount of time too boot) Then with the release of XP it suddenly got faster, much faster. Well at the OPK Fest I learned 2 things.
1. Being that there are 8 megs of space reserved for Windows use that are unmounted upon boot and are never really viewable unless you know the OS call. At the fest the explained they used this space to optimize the boot time on XP. When you shut XP down windows saves a current mini-image of all the important files it needs to boot upon next startup. When the system boots it reads from this partition and utilizes that information to boot Windows so it knows what programs need to be run, what services have been configured, etc. This in the end made XP boot up almost double the speed. (If not faster)
2. The second most intriging feature they annouced, (well the feature my jaw dropped over) was NTFS 5.0, which is also used on 2K. Even though there are some weird limitations that they talked about. NTFS 5 has the ability to handle harddisks as large as 16 pica bytes. 1000 gigs make a terra, 1000 teras make an exo 1000 exos make a pica.) On a good day that is the whole Kazaa network with room to spare.
I don't know all the specifics as a lot of that is in house info only but still, that is a lot of formattabel information. What would you do with 16000 exo bytes?
Looks like Red hat just tried to start a Linux monopoly. And you open source people say you look out for your own. Just goes to show you that business is business and they are all out to make a buck. HA HA HA! Long live capitalism.
This makes Microsoft for once look good on this site. And to think all these years it has been MS bashing. HA HA! Oh I love Fridays!