I'm not arguing with your premises, the fact of the matter is that IE3 was on par with NS3. IE4 was a significant improvement (the last time there was one as a matter of fact) where as NS4 was an enormous overbloated monster. The first time I installed NS4 it took something like 5 minutes (no exaggeration) to "write registry values". Anti-trust got their foot in the door, but IMO MS legitimately won _that_ particular battle through superior product. Of course, that was the exception. Most of the time MS stuff is inferior. Today IE is dominant only because it's bundled with the OS. If it weren't, people would have tossed it overboard much more than they have,
But knowing how that M$ almost always uses totally unimaginative descriptors as product names
Yeah, but Origami must be a code name since the real name will probably be something like "Microsoft Thing". What past names have they used? "Windows", "Office", "Media Player", "Explorer", mostly very generic.
It will probably be something like new version of Windows Media Player but with 2 important changes:
1. 3 more butt-ugly usability-challenged "skins" 2. Even less screen real estate available for content.
Or wait... "origami" means folding something up in a complicated way...
Yeah, that's it! It's a new kind of DRM that folds up your content into a confusing shape that you can't unfold (unencrypt) without tearing.
Doesn't this just smell ripe for a class-action lawsuit? Seriously I can see a group of pissed off owners of these devices crying "Fraud" over the fact that the player automatically downgrades the signal to their televisions.
Yeah, that'll help. They'll just switch to some scheme that screws you out of the hardware you paid for and Fair Use another way. Oh, and you'll get a check for $4.12.
I have no intentions of even considering HD for another 5 years or more, just to see how it plays out. As a long-time gadget freak and frequent early adopter, I've looked that the HD situation and said, "No way am I going into that byzantine morass."
Besides, all I watch are Simpsons and MST3K reruns on DVD.
We had a movie lunch at mylast job once. Until it was ended after the organizer was "spoken to" for bringing an inappropriate movie. The movie- Ferris Beuller's Day Off.
Yeah, those hentai freaks won't watch anything else...
I will say that it seems that the Muslem terrorists tend to get more press and more emphasis on their religion than others do
The day Christians, Jews, Buddhists, or acolytes of the Flying Spaghetti Monster effects the death of dozens, hundreds or thousands of innocent people in an act of terrorism in the name of their religion, I'm sure it will be big news, but those kinds of things aren't happening.
That's why you don't see it in the news.
p.s. In fact, you do see news every time Pat Robertson spews out the effects of whatever random neuron-firing causes him to say the insane stuff he says. He's about as close to a Christian terrorist you can get shy of the couple of nutcakes that shoot abortion doctors.
1. They may agree with the sentiment. 2. They are scared of retaliation. 3. There seems to be no definitive interpretation that that kind of violence is against Islam. One group says, "Yes". The other says "No." Fortunately the "Yes" votes outweigh in this "democracy" of doctrine, but there's nothing saying it will stay that way.
The RIAA is desperately clinging to a business model that relies on a monopoly on 19th century style distribution (physical media needs to shipped to a store where consumers buy it).
The problem is, in terms of the automobile, it's 1910 and the RIAA are the horse-and-buggy manufacturers.
The big asteroid already hit. The walnut-sized brain hasn't figured out that the rest of the body is dead and the agile little mammals are eating its lunch.
"...screw Oasis and Weezer, every Beatles' album is far greater than all of theirs combined." Now, in real life, I'd say that with a malevolent shit-eating grin on my face signaling that I know it's not true.
At which point, you'd have a full-on, in-person flame war with at least me.;-)
I started using Apple II's in high school and even wrote a game.
In college starting in 1982, I spent a ton of time using the IBM PC's (good old model 5150, dual floppy) and wrote some BASIC stuff and a ton in Turbo Pascal.
I never actually had my _own_ machine until I picked up an Amiga 500 in late 1988. What a wonderful machine. AmigaDOS was "the slowest disk-based operating system ever written" but boy was it ever cool (but the Amiga also the beginning of games that featured cool graphics over good design). I even tried some ray-tracing on it, but even after days of processing, it could never get far enough to give usable results.
In '89 I got a '386 20. In '92 I picked up a 486DX rather than an SX just so I could run POV-Ray. It's been uphill since then.
After they let 4-year-olds design the ass-ugly default theme for XP, not to mention the WMP which gets uglier and less useful with every release, what chance is there that the "high end" UI will not look like more angry fruit salad.
And futhermore, is _any_ of this related to functionality, or is it strictly eye-candy, which is all MS seems to do these days, UI-wise.
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Better yet, I listen to groups that routinely create 20-30 minute epics. I love the way everyone assumes a "song" or "track" is 3 minutes of music.
I'm still in a diaper, you insensitive clod!
Actually, with Tesla, if you did it right, you wouldn't need a grid... just stick a metal rod in the ground where you want the power delivered. ;-)
Game Voice over: Finish him!
... and they lived happily ever after!
Fighter 1:
Fighter 2: Zzzzzzzz! [sucks thumb]
Player 1: I win! You're pwned, Player 2!
Player 2: That tummy-kiss combo is too hard! I shoulda gone for the foot tickle.
I'm not arguing with your premises, the fact of the matter is that IE3 was on par with NS3. IE4 was a significant improvement (the last time there was one as a matter of fact) where as NS4 was an enormous overbloated monster. The first time I installed NS4 it took something like 5 minutes (no exaggeration) to "write registry values". Anti-trust got their foot in the door, but IMO MS legitimately won _that_ particular battle through superior product. Of course, that was the exception. Most of the time MS stuff is inferior. Today IE is dominant only because it's bundled with the OS. If it weren't, people would have tossed it overboard much more than they have,
For instance, if she has to treat a cow with antibiotics they can't put that cows milk into the cooler for at least several days.
So you're saying my milk will have antibiotics and be spoiled as well?!
Don't forget 10 years of C# experience.
But knowing how that M$ almost always uses totally unimaginative descriptors as product names
Yeah, but Origami must be a code name since the real name will probably be something like "Microsoft Thing". What past names have they used? "Windows", "Office", "Media Player", "Explorer", mostly very generic.
It will probably be something like new version of Windows Media Player but with 2 important changes:
1. 3 more butt-ugly usability-challenged "skins"
2. Even less screen real estate available for content.
Or wait... "origami" means folding something up in a complicated way...
Yeah, that's it! It's a new kind of DRM that folds up your content into a confusing shape that you can't unfold (unencrypt) without tearing.
I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. -- Douglas Adams
I'm happy I don't have to commute more than 27 miles each way for a change. 27 miles is pretty close in these parts. (The D.C. metropolitan area).
Doesn't this just smell ripe for a class-action lawsuit? Seriously I can see a group of pissed off owners of these devices crying "Fraud" over the fact that the player automatically downgrades the signal to their televisions.
Yeah, that'll help. They'll just switch to some scheme that screws you out of the hardware you paid for and Fair Use another way. Oh, and you'll get a check for $4.12.
I have no intentions of even considering HD for another 5 years or more, just to see how it plays out. As a long-time gadget freak and frequent early adopter, I've looked that the HD situation and said, "No way am I going into that byzantine morass."
Besides, all I watch are Simpsons and MST3K reruns on DVD.
Nice of Slashdot to let me edit my own damn posts :/
/.
Hey, this is 1998. Maybe by 2002 we'll be able to edit posts on
We had a movie lunch at mylast job once. Until it was ended after the organizer was "spoken to" for bringing an inappropriate movie. The movie- Ferris Beuller's Day Off.
Yeah, those hentai freaks won't watch anything else...
I'm not confused at all, I have already figured out that the exact version that will be best for my use: Windows 2000 Professional
Really, it's very simple.
I will say that it seems that the Muslem terrorists tend to get more press and more emphasis on their religion than others do
The day Christians, Jews, Buddhists, or acolytes of the Flying Spaghetti Monster effects the death of dozens, hundreds or thousands of innocent people in an act of terrorism in the name of their religion, I'm sure it will be big news, but those kinds of things aren't happening.
That's why you don't see it in the news.
p.s. In fact, you do see news every time Pat Robertson spews out the effects of whatever random neuron-firing causes him to say the insane stuff he says. He's about as close to a Christian terrorist you can get shy of the couple of nutcakes that shoot abortion doctors.
I think it's threefold.
1. They may agree with the sentiment.
2. They are scared of retaliation.
3. There seems to be no definitive interpretation that that kind of violence is against Islam. One group says, "Yes". The other says "No." Fortunately the "Yes" votes outweigh in this "democracy" of doctrine, but there's nothing saying it will stay that way.
The RIAA is desperately clinging to a business model that relies on a monopoly on 19th century style distribution (physical media needs to shipped to a store where consumers buy it).
The problem is, in terms of the automobile, it's 1910 and the RIAA are the horse-and-buggy manufacturers.
The big asteroid already hit. The walnut-sized brain hasn't figured out that the rest of the body is dead and the agile little mammals are eating its lunch.
Just because they say it's illegal doesn't mean it is.
That's a much better difference.
I've not seen a single person ever just let their home land line phone just ring without answering it
I do that all the time. So do, I imagine, most people. That's what answering machines are for.
Another difference is that your landline does not ring in the movie theater, restaurant or other public place.
Pretty simple, really.
Spam is often referred to as UCE "Unsolicited Commercial Email", which his emails were not.
I think it's reasonable to assume any political activity is at its heart, at least in part, commercial.
"...screw Oasis and Weezer, every Beatles' album is far greater than all of theirs combined." Now, in real life, I'd say that with a malevolent shit-eating grin on my face signaling that I know it's not true.
;-)
At which point, you'd have a full-on, in-person flame war with at least me.
This being /., we all know which organ should be first to go, seeing as how it's the least used.
The brain?
I started using Apple II's in high school and even wrote a game.
In college starting in 1982, I spent a ton of time using the IBM PC's (good old model 5150, dual floppy) and wrote some BASIC stuff and a ton in Turbo Pascal.
I never actually had my _own_ machine until I picked up an Amiga 500 in late 1988. What a wonderful machine. AmigaDOS was "the slowest disk-based operating system ever written" but boy was it ever cool (but the Amiga also the beginning of games that featured cool graphics over good design). I even tried some ray-tracing on it, but even after days of processing, it could never get far enough to give usable results.
In '89 I got a '386 20. In '92 I picked up a 486DX rather than an SX just so I could run POV-Ray. It's been uphill since then.
I don't know what's worse... this lame joke, or the moderators who gave it "Insightful".
Chester Lampwick invented Mickey in 1919. Beat them all by years.
No, wait... that was Itchy. Never mind.
Will it really look better?
After they let 4-year-olds design the ass-ugly default theme for XP, not to mention the WMP which gets uglier and less useful with every release, what chance is there that the "high end" UI will not look like more angry fruit salad.
And futhermore, is _any_ of this related to functionality, or is it strictly eye-candy, which is all MS seems to do these days, UI-wise.