Every death is a tradgedy, and you should care. People not caring about others dying is why wars happen, genocides happen, and many other bad things happen. Do you think that the Maryland sniper cares about his victims or their lives, or their families? How would you like it if you were killed and no one cared, or worse, people made endless jokes about your death?
I don't see why everyone is acting like this is a big joke or something. The guy was unemployed, and likely depressed, and he spent the last 86 hours of his life playing a pointless game, that he coudn't escape from. This isn't funny, it's very sad. That's his 24 year life gone, just like that. You don't know what he did, or who he was. Think about what his friends and family must feel like right now.
I'll probably be modded down as a troll or something, but I don't think death is a joking matter. If someone you knew died, even in a pathetic manner like that, you would not be joking about it. I think all the jokes here are completly tasteless.
And I do think the games are _partly_ to blame. (Note that I said partly, not completly.) Some games are very addictive, and can trap people in for hours. I've had my school mark drop because I've wasted my time on pointless games.
I learned most of what I know about Afghanistan from CNN's amazing Beneath the Veil. It's filmed from within Afghanistan. I saw a Commercial for it a few hours ago and it's being aired again at 7 EST, I think Sunday, though I'm not 100% sure of the date.
...that I am _very_ thankful I'm Canadian and the US is not the Policeman of the World (yet). But then again, looking at poor Dmitry Sklyarov, you might get a different picture...
That's the problem here. Dmitry is not a patriot for the US any more than I am. If I went to the US and got arrested for doing something that was completly legal here in Canada, but illeagal under a contraversial law in the US and wasn't allowed to see my family in Canada until the court case was over, I would consider myself a US patriot much less than I do now (which is already less than nothing).
My school did something like this. They got a deal with IBM to get a whole bunch of ThinPad 365EDs. The result was a complete disaster. Kids were playing catch with them, messing with the BIOS, ripping out huge portions of Windows and other unspeakable things.
Anyways, they have been sitting on a shelf in the library for a few years now. My dad is the auto teacher there and found them and asked if he could borrow them for my brother and I to use. We've had about 6 so far, two had physiclly wreaked hard drives, only one had the port covers still in place, two were missing _many_ drivers, on one someone had gone into the BIOS and disabled the cache, making it unbearably slow. One had Corel Suite 8 (the office app on these things) deleted and most had a few games and stuff installed. None had the PCMCIA modem that might have been there.
So basiclly of these 17,000 Laptops expect about 1,700 of them to be in perfect working order.
Off Topic Finish to my story: I currently have two working ones working: The one I'm writing this on, that I could just bearly get back working under Windows 95 and the other one was missing 3/4 of Windows 95 so I installed Linux on it. Then found out that Linux+X does not like a 486/100 with 12mb of memory as well as I have been told, so I dug out my 386's old copy of MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 and installed it. I really wish I could morph them into a G4 Titanium PowerBook though...
To Celebrate MS has changed their slogan to: Microsoft: Inferior for twenty years and counting!
Seriously though, in Twenty Years, Microsoft STILL hasn't made an original Operating System:
MS-DOS: Bought QDOS for $50,000, which was in turn was a ripoff of CP/M Windows 1, 2 and 3: Too crappy for comment. Windows NT : Innovated directly from OS/2. Windows 95 : MS innovated huge hunks of it from Apple and even bigger hunks from NeXTstep. Windows 98: Win95 with the Finder ripoff replaced by a Web Browser innovated from Netscape. Windows XP: Windows NT with just about everyone's (AOL, Real, etc.) product innovated into the Operating System.
What I find scary is that Windows ME still is based off of a Twenty Year old OS originaly called 'Quick and Dirty Operating System'.
Shouldn't it be possible to use and AMD Athlon to do the same thing to PC? Now that would be entertainment!!:-)
OT: The r and n in 'Burn' merge together on my Mac/iCab and I get the subject 'How to Bum a Magnesium NeXT Cube'...
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The sad thing is, awhile ago one of my Mom's friends, the type who can't understand there is more to a PC than C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\, got one something like this in the mail.
She forwarded it on to everybody she knew, genuinly panicked, wondering how it could do all that, beliving every word...
I knew a nice Linux developer. Today he downloaded the Windows CE code to look at it. Between then and now he has been killed. He laughed himself to death. This is a BIG Microsoft conspiracy to kill and Macintosh and Linux developers. And what is left of the BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga developers. And finally all two of the AtheOS developers.
Once they all have downloaded the source and laughed themselves to death,the only ones able to survive will be the Windows developers, as they already have to use Microsoft's joke of an OS. If this isn't anti-competitive than what is...
I downloaded this 'Linux' 2.4.7 like you told me to and after figuring how to unstuff a 'tar.gz' file all that I have are about 8000 files! And none of them seem to be installers!
How am I supposed to use this 'Linux' everyone here seems to be talking about if I can't install it on my PowerMac 6100? And now you are telling me to run 'LILO' before rebooting? I don't have a 'LILO'! And why do I have to reboot to run this 'Linux'?
Is this some evil Wintel only program? Can someone find me the Mac version of 'Linux'? For that matter can someone tell me what Linux does? Is it a Word Processor? A browser? A Graphics program? HELP!!
Stupidity Disclaimer: That was an attempt to be funny. I know what Linux is. I've run it before. I use a Mac. I was making fun of some computer newbie's posts I've seen on some message boards.
At News.Com you can get the movies from MacWorld in WM or RealMedia for you UNIX people. I personly like the new G4 with the SuperDrive, I just wish I had the cash to buy it rather than stick with my Power Macintosh 6100/60. BTW, this info is from the News.Com Movies.
If you care as well as Mac OS X.I Apple also had new iMacs from 500-700MHz all with CD-RWs and 128-256MB of RAM, starting at $999US. Thankfully they ditched the "Flower Power" stuff and went with Indigo, Snow and Graphite.
There is a new case for the G4s, QuickSilver it looks like it matchs the Titanium PowerBook better. And they go upto 2x 800MHz G4s, doing 12 gigaflops. And they are cheaper too, unless you're a high school student, $1,699US for the 733MHz G4.
For those who want to see the current state of AI you might want to try Alice Bot. It's very good and I tricked one of my friends into thinking it was a chat room....
A good ChatterBot site is The Simon Laven Page. It has listings of interesting ChatterBots. My favorite is NIALL. It learns from what you tell it and comes up with some very funny responses.
Crap. They chose Linuxbase.org for a domain name. I can see the bad jokes approching:
All your LinuxBase are belong to us!
All your standards are belong to LinuxBase!
All your base are belong to LinuxBase!
All you standards are belong to us!
What I find Strange is that right now, as I post this there is a VA Banner suggesting I buy 2GB or RAM or something (it doesn't say). If they have quit the HardWare business then why are there still VA ads?
OT: And why are there Intel Ads in Flash?.GIF wasn't good enought for Intel?
They compounded this on the PowerMac 6100 by putting the power button just underneath and to the right of the floppy drive! That was good for a few laughs...
I agree, that has got to be among the stupider things Apple has done:
Me: Hey dude! Come see my new Mac! I'm just copying a big file off of my 2x CD-ROM right now. Friend: Okay dude! I've never seen a Mac before! Me: I've only got a old PowerMac 6100, dude! Friend: Dude! I here Macs don't have floppy drives. Me: Dude, that's only iMacs and stuff. I'm broke so I've only got an old Mac that I bought off some other dude. Mine has a floppy. Friend: Dude!
[Puts floppy in drive.]
Me: And it's cool how it ej--- Dude, NOOOOOOO!!!
[Friend shuts down Power Mac 6100 while trying to eject floppy. Big file still copying.]
Me: Are you an idiot dude? That's the power button! I was copying a big file! You eject it by dragging it to the trash, dude!
[I start Mac back up only to be greeted by floppy with a flashing Question Mark]
Me: Oh crap, dude! You screwed up my disk! And I don't have Mac OS 8.1 on me!
Something like this did happen. Three days later I managed to aquire a burnt copy of OS 8.1 and found out only my Sytem File had crapped out.
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Every death is a tradgedy, and you should care. People not caring about others dying is why wars happen, genocides happen, and many other bad things happen. Do you think that the Maryland sniper cares about his victims or their lives, or their families? How would you like it if you were killed and no one cared, or worse, people made endless jokes about your death?
Every death is a tradgedy, show a little respect.
I don't see why everyone is acting like this is a big joke or something. The guy was unemployed, and likely depressed, and he spent the last 86 hours of his life playing a pointless game, that he coudn't escape from. This isn't funny, it's very sad. That's his 24 year life gone, just like that. You don't know what he did, or who he was. Think about what his friends and family must feel like right now.
I'll probably be modded down as a troll or something, but I don't think death is a joking matter. If someone you knew died, even in a pathetic manner like that, you would not be joking about it. I think all the jokes here are completly tasteless.
And I do think the games are _partly_ to blame. (Note that I said partly, not completly.) Some games are very addictive, and can trap people in for hours. I've had my school mark drop because I've wasted my time on pointless games.
Just my thoughts.
Will there be a time when all computer users will talk about adding mibibytes of RAM, rather than a megabytes?
In a word, NO!
Man I hate dumb sounding words.....
I'm Canadian, not American. I used to have that in my sig...
I learned most of what I know about Afghanistan from CNN's amazing Beneath the Veil. It's filmed from within Afghanistan. I saw a Commercial for it a few hours ago and it's being aired again at 7 EST, I think Sunday, though I'm not 100% sure of the date.
3D Browser? For the love of god, keep that thing away from goatse.cx!!! It's bad enough as it is...
*Shudder*
...that I am _very_ thankful I'm Canadian and the US is not the Policeman of the World (yet). But then again, looking at poor Dmitry Sklyarov, you might get a different picture...
From my BeOS days I remember Gobe Productive having pretty good Microsoft Office Filters.
That's the problem here. Dmitry is not a patriot for the US any more than I am. If I went to the US and got arrested for doing something that was completly legal here in Canada, but illeagal under a contraversial law in the US and wasn't allowed to see my family in Canada until the court case was over, I would consider myself a US patriot much less than I do now (which is already less than nothing).
My school did something like this. They got a deal with IBM to get a whole bunch of ThinPad 365EDs. The result was a complete disaster. Kids were playing catch with them, messing with the BIOS, ripping out huge portions of Windows and other unspeakable things.
Anyways, they have been sitting on a shelf in the library for a few years now. My dad is the auto teacher there and found them and asked if he could borrow them for my brother and I to use. We've had about 6 so far, two had physiclly wreaked hard drives, only one had the port covers still in place, two were missing _many_ drivers, on one someone had gone into the BIOS and disabled the cache, making it unbearably slow. One had Corel Suite 8 (the office app on these things) deleted and most had a few games and stuff installed. None had the PCMCIA modem that might have been there.
So basiclly of these 17,000 Laptops expect about 1,700 of them to be in perfect working order.
Off Topic Finish to my story: I currently have two working ones working: The one I'm writing this on, that I could just bearly get back working under Windows 95 and the other one was missing 3/4 of Windows 95 so I installed Linux on it. Then found out that Linux+X does not like a 486/100 with 12mb of memory as well as I have been told, so I dug out my 386's old copy of MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 and installed it. I really wish I could morph them into a G4 Titanium PowerBook though...
The FBI has already got a Wireless Carnivore. It only effects CPIP right now, but it's a disturbing start.
To Celebrate MS has changed their slogan to:
Microsoft: Inferior for twenty years and counting!
Seriously though, in Twenty Years, Microsoft STILL hasn't made an original Operating System:
MS-DOS: Bought QDOS for $50,000, which was in turn was a ripoff of CP/M
Windows 1, 2 and 3: Too crappy for comment.
Windows NT : Innovated directly from OS/2.
Windows 95 : MS innovated huge hunks of it from Apple and even bigger hunks from NeXTstep.
Windows 98: Win95 with the Finder ripoff replaced by a Web Browser innovated from Netscape.
Windows XP: Windows NT with just about everyone's (AOL, Real, etc.) product innovated into the Operating System.
What I find scary is that Windows ME still is based off of a Twenty Year old OS originaly called 'Quick and Dirty Operating System'.
Shouldn't it be possible to use and AMD Athlon to do the same thing to PC? Now that would be entertainment!! :-)
OT: The r and n in 'Burn' merge together on my Mac/iCab and I get the subject 'How to Bum a Magnesium NeXT Cube'...
The sad thing is, awhile ago one of my Mom's friends, the type who can't understand there is more to a PC than C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\, got one something like this in the mail.
She forwarded it on to everybody she knew, genuinly panicked, wondering how it could do all that, beliving every word...
There is a good page about wh the Pentium 4 sucks. It's written by an assembly-level programmer, so he know quite a bit about processors.
I knew a nice Linux developer. Today he downloaded the Windows CE code to look at it. Between then and now he has been killed. He laughed himself to death. This is a BIG Microsoft conspiracy to kill and Macintosh and Linux developers. And what is left of the BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga developers. And finally all two of the AtheOS developers.
Once they all have downloaded the source and laughed themselves to death,the only ones able to survive will be the Windows developers, as they already have to use Microsoft's joke of an OS. If this isn't anti-competitive than what is...
--Volrath50
I downloaded this 'Linux' 2.4.7 like you told me to and after figuring how to unstuff a 'tar.gz' file all that I have are about 8000 files! And none of them seem to be installers!
How am I supposed to use this 'Linux' everyone here seems to be talking about if I can't install it on my PowerMac 6100? And now you are telling me to run 'LILO' before rebooting? I don't have a 'LILO'! And why do I have to reboot to run this 'Linux'?
Is this some evil Wintel only program? Can someone find me the Mac version of 'Linux'? For that matter can someone tell me what Linux does? Is it a Word Processor? A browser? A Graphics program? HELP!!
Stupidity Disclaimer: That was an attempt to be funny. I know what Linux is. I've run it before. I use a Mac. I was making fun of some computer newbie's posts I've seen on some message boards.
--Volrath50
MacCentral:
Keynote
Mac OS X.I
iDVD 2
New iMacs
New G4s
New Apple Stores
The Register:
Hardware
Software
News.Com
Macintouch
Low End Mac
And lastly:
Apple's Official News
--Volrath50
At News.Com you can get the movies from MacWorld in WM or RealMedia for you UNIX people. I personly like the new G4 with the SuperDrive, I just wish I had the cash to buy it rather than stick with my Power Macintosh 6100/60. BTW, this info is from the News.Com Movies.
If you care as well as Mac OS X.I Apple also had new iMacs from 500-700MHz all with CD-RWs and 128-256MB of RAM, starting at $999US. Thankfully they ditched the "Flower Power" stuff and went with Indigo, Snow and Graphite.
There is a new case for the G4s, QuickSilver it looks like it matchs the Titanium PowerBook better. And they go upto 2x 800MHz G4s, doing 12 gigaflops. And they are cheaper too, unless you're a high school student, $1,699US for the 733MHz G4.
--Volrath50
For those who want to see the current state of AI you might want to try Alice Bot. It's very good and I tricked one of my friends into thinking it was a chat room....
A good ChatterBot site is The Simon Laven Page. It has listings of interesting ChatterBots. My favorite is NIALL. It learns from what you tell it and comes up with some very funny responses.
--Volrath50
All your LinuxBase are belong to us!
All your standards are belong to LinuxBase!
All your base are belong to LinuxBase!
All you standards are belong to us!
--Volrath50
OT: And why are there Intel Ads in Flash?
--Volrath50
Was the San Francisco Linux "Graffiti" part of a bigger, broader conspiracy to take over the world or was it just marketing-gone-wrong(tm)?
--Volrath50
They compounded this on the PowerMac 6100 by putting the power button just underneath and to the right of the floppy drive! That was good for a few laughs...
I agree, that has got to be among the stupider things Apple has done:
Me: Hey dude! Come see my new Mac! I'm just copying a big file off of my 2x CD-ROM right now.
Friend: Okay dude! I've never seen a Mac before!
Me: I've only got a old PowerMac 6100, dude!
Friend: Dude! I here Macs don't have floppy drives.
Me: Dude, that's only iMacs and stuff. I'm broke so I've only got an old Mac that I bought off some other dude. Mine has a floppy.
Friend: Dude!
[Puts floppy in drive.]
Me: And it's cool how it ej--- Dude, NOOOOOOO!!!
[Friend shuts down Power Mac 6100 while trying to eject floppy. Big file still copying.]
Me: Are you an idiot dude? That's the power button! I was copying a big file! You eject it by dragging it to the trash, dude!
[I start Mac back up only to be greeted by floppy with a flashing Question Mark]
Me: Oh crap, dude! You screwed up my disk! And I don't have Mac OS 8.1 on me!
Something like this did happen. Three days later I managed to aquire a burnt copy of OS 8.1 and found out only my Sytem File had crapped out.
--Volrath50
I mean who is this CmdrTaco guy and how the heck did he get UID #1???
It's obvious that this isn't the real Rob Malda, we all know that Slashdot editors NEVER post at Slashdot....
--Volrath50