I guess you're one of those people whose start menu has 3 columns and it takes you 30 seconds to find anything. The first thing I do when I install a program is get rid of all that useless cruft.
Uninstall icons are stupid since you can do that through "Add/Remove Software". Help files are accessed by F1. The only conceivable icons would be for additional programs, and those are usually unnecessary.
I can't stand it when a program installs all that garbage. It doesn't help me, it only clutters up my life.
_And_ it's now the Microsoft standard. Even Microsoft agrees with me, which is a rare occurrance.
But when was the last significant invasion of American soil. 1812?
So there's only 9 out of the first 10 that you can't find blatant violations of. It's still an abysmal record and Congress, the Supreme Court and the last 10 Presidents or so should be ashamed of that record.
I'll see your DMCA and raise you a First Amendment. http://www.anti-dmca.org [anti-dmca.org]
Thanks to the DMCA, the Patriot Act, the Ninth Circuit, the ACLU, the opponents of school vouchers, the flag burning bans, the Federal Hate Crime law and many, many others, the First Amendment has been slated to be repealed. It's become irrelevant.
Same for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th,.... the whole Bill of Rights is a joke these days. No one bothers to consider the Bill of Rights any more.
Political correctness, homeland security, animal rights, copyright, intellectual property laws and illegal aliens all trump such an outdated concept as individual rights.
This is the FBI. You have violated Federal law in bypassing a copy-protection scheme. Please report to your nearest DMCA-violators detention center for sentencing, from whence, thanks to the Patriot Act 2, we can now deport you to Morocco for questioning and Iraq to serve out your sentence.
Hmmmm... IBM as the Evil Empire, with their long tradition of user-hostile software. That's scary.
When Microsoft software is hard to use, it's because it's poorly designed, clumsily written, and/or buggy. IBM's software is hard to use because they hate users.
You need to follow the progression of "innovations" in consumer electronics:
1. Put in a digital clock. 2. Put in a voice recorder chip. 3. Put in internet connectivity. 4. Put in a color display. 5. Put in a digital camera.
You notice how cell phone commercials often don't even mention anything about actually _talking_ on the phone. Rather they push all kinds of useless or nearly useless gimmicks like text messaging with a phone keypad (hopelessly tedious and slow) or taking pictures of Little Richard, which is great as soon as you find the other 100 people out of 6 billion in the world who have your exact same phone.
Cell phones have become a commodity, so we are now in a phase of silly "improvements" without a goal. The companies are taking advantage of ridiculously cheap technology to throw all kinds of bizarre features in phones in the hopes, I suppose, that a new killer app for cell phones will emerge even though no one quite knows what that will be.
Now the wheel has been commoditized for thousands of years, so people rarely think about it. I think the market is wide-open for innovations that might not improve the wheel per se, but will look good on commercials with celebrity has-beens and catchy music, or awkward but attractive young 20-somethings with bad haircuts.
Here are a few examples of new features you can have gratis:
Not to mention xeroxed copies of docs for old Infocom games, a dot-matrix listing of a D&D gem generator program, stray Virginia Tech punchcards, printouts of maps from Ultima 2, and other stuff I should be embarrassed to admit owning...:-)
I would just go back to Bill Gates' first chance encounter with an electronic calculator and exchange it for a Matchbox car so he grows up to be a gas station attendant or Nascar technician.
When I was in high school, I had to write my own games... in BASIC... on Apple II's.
And I did, too: "Su/bterranean Odyssey", wherein you managed to steer your single pixel craft through caves of increasing numbers of stactites and stalagmites. plus you could laser away at them after getting a certain number of points.
Scary thing is, I may still actually have a printout of the code somewhere...
I can't believe this movie was meant to be anything more than a spoof of Battlestar Galactica considering these quotes and the fact that they used BG footage.
Not to mention the fact that Captain Santa Claus had more than a passing resemblance to Commander Adama. At least, it appeared that they were trying to have him have more than a passing resemblance to Commander Adama.
Obviously, no one brought a Coleman Francis film. The man who looks like Curly Howard's evil twin brother makes horrible dreary movies that compare unfavorably to fever dreams. Compared to those, "Space Mutiny" is a light-hearted romp (with railing kills).
Not only was that effect used over and over BG, but also in a really awful Z-grade BG-ripoff movie called "Space Mutiny" riffed ever-so-eloquently by Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Sick individual that I am, I actually rented "Space Mutiny" to watch it in its unmitigated awfulness. Picture a space opera filmed almost entirely in an abandoned factory of some sort, and a couple of drop-ceiling offices with surplus late-80's office computer equipment, with costumes consisting almost entirely of lycra.
However, it does feature Cissy Cameron in all her middle-aged-waitressy glory dressed like Denise Austin in "Thin Thighs in 30 Days" the musical, by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
A couple years ago/. ran a story about Israel developing a quantum computer that rendered all modern cryptographic systems obsolete. Man, those guys over there sure are busy.
I'd like to see more publicity about the non-RIAA success stories like the album The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince released and marketed himself over the Internet. Doing his own distribution, he was able to make 95% profit. I don't know how accurate this story is, and of course, Prince has many years of success and noteriety behind him.
Still, with organizations like MP3.com growing and the record companies constantly pushing themselves into irrelevance by hyping the same old boring crap (of course, it sells...) and tenaciously holding on to a 19th century distribution scheme, the demise of the RIAA is imminent. But unfortunately, as Disney has shown, they can buy their way into continued existence and monopoly.
Seriously folks, the phone is the simplest computer interface in the world, don't ruin it.
Too late. Have you seen some of the wireless phones these days? Just like every other consumer electronic device, phones are getting close to being unuseable without the user's guide. Each cell phone I've gotten over the last 6 years I like less than the one before. I can't wait until this absurd marketing-executive-spawned nonsense of phones that take pictures and phones that do text messaging through the numeric pad and other stupid gimmicks dies a well-deserved death. I want a phone to call people! I don't need companies Microsoft-ing cell phones so that they do a bunch of unrelated useless tasks and do nothing well. I don't need to friggin' surf the Internet on an 80x120 pixel screen!
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I'm the biggest gadget freak I know, but these new phones just look stupid to me.
You'll have to bring me up-to-date on the history of "insane" boycotting "for any reason" being a "proud American tradition".
Because the tradition of free speech extends to the freedom to say stupid, immoral, countercultural or downright insane things.
Are you saying it is RIGHT to boycott WB because they have too many shows featuring African-Americans? Is it right to boycott Outback Steakhouse because they make donations to the Special Olympics and you think that the mentally retarded should be euthanized?
It's not right, but you have the right to do it, if you so choose.
If you're for free speech and the freedom to pursue your preferred religious faith, then it becomes problematic if you suggest that believers in a certain faith should not be allowed to obtain a certain kind of employment.
The fact of the matter is, the original poster, however misguided he or she might be, is exercising his or her rights, and is not infringing on anyone else's rights. "Problematic" != illegal.
We should use _our_ rights of free speech to inform the poster that his or her motives are questionable, which is what you have done.
In regards to your specific comments about the show, our research shows that one person cannot make a difference, no matter how big a screwball he or she is.
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I guess you're one of those people whose start menu has 3 columns and it takes you 30 seconds to find anything. The first thing I do when I install a program is get rid of all that useless cruft.
Uninstall icons are stupid since you can do that through "Add/Remove Software". Help files are accessed by F1. The only conceivable icons would be for additional programs, and those are usually unnecessary.
I can't stand it when a program installs all that garbage. It doesn't help me, it only clutters up my life.
_And_ it's now the Microsoft standard. Even Microsoft agrees with me, which is a rare occurrance.
I blew all mine modding up ALL YOUR BASE jokes. ;-)
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
Radical feminism is the notion that men aren't.
OK, you got me there.
But when was the last significant invasion of American soil. 1812?
So there's only 9 out of the first 10 that you can't find blatant violations of. It's still an abysmal record and Congress, the Supreme Court and the last 10 Presidents or so should be ashamed of that record.
I think the only things they pirate there are old Donny and Marie recordings and episodes of Battlestar Galactica.
I'll see your DMCA and raise you a First Amendment. http://www.anti-dmca.org [anti-dmca.org]
.... the whole Bill of Rights is a joke these days. No one bothers to consider the Bill of Rights any more.
Thanks to the DMCA, the Patriot Act, the Ninth Circuit, the ACLU, the opponents of school vouchers, the flag burning bans, the Federal Hate Crime law and many, many others, the First Amendment has been slated to be repealed. It's become irrelevant.
Same for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th,
Political correctness, homeland security, animal rights, copyright, intellectual property laws and illegal aliens all trump such an outdated concept as individual rights.
This is the FBI. You have violated Federal law in bypassing a copy-protection scheme. Please report to your nearest DMCA-violators detention center for sentencing, from whence, thanks to the Patriot Act 2, we can now deport you to Morocco for questioning and Iraq to serve out your sentence.
Have a nice day.
Hmmmm... IBM as the Evil Empire, with their long tradition of user-hostile software. That's scary.
When Microsoft software is hard to use, it's because it's poorly designed, clumsily written, and/or buggy. IBM's software is hard to use because they hate users.
You need to follow the progression of "innovations" in consumer electronics:
1. Put in a digital clock.
2. Put in a voice recorder chip.
3. Put in internet connectivity.
4. Put in a color display.
5. Put in a digital camera.
You notice how cell phone commercials often don't even mention anything about actually _talking_ on the phone. Rather they push all kinds of useless or nearly useless gimmicks like text messaging with a phone keypad (hopelessly tedious and slow) or taking pictures of Little Richard, which is great as soon as you find the other 100 people out of 6 billion in the world who have your exact same phone.
Cell phones have become a commodity, so we are now in a phase of silly "improvements" without a goal. The companies are taking advantage of ridiculously cheap technology to throw all kinds of bizarre features in phones in the hopes, I suppose, that a new killer app for cell phones will emerge even though no one quite knows what that will be.
Now the wheel has been commoditized for thousands of years, so people rarely think about it. I think the market is wide-open for innovations that might not improve the wheel per se, but will look good on commercials with celebrity has-beens and catchy music, or awkward but attractive young 20-somethings with bad haircuts.
Here are a few examples of new features you can have gratis:
1. Raspberry-flavored
2. Permanent press
3. High-fiber, low-fat
4. Picture-in-picture
and my personal favorite:
5. Super-Size it!
Not to mention xeroxed copies of docs for old Infocom games, a dot-matrix listing of a D&D gem generator program, stray Virginia Tech punchcards, printouts of maps from Ultima 2, and other stuff I should be embarrassed to admit owning... :-)
I would just go back to Bill Gates' first chance encounter with an electronic calculator and exchange it for a Matchbox car so he grows up to be a gas station attendant or Nascar technician.
When I was in high school, I had to write my own games... in BASIC... on Apple II's.
And I did, too: "Su/bterranean Odyssey", wherein you managed to steer your single pixel craft through caves of increasing numbers of stactites and stalagmites. plus you could laser away at them after getting a certain number of points.
Scary thing is, I may still actually have a printout of the code somewhere...
If I have a lot of time on my hands when they call then it's make-up-a-religion-and-try-to-gain-converts time.
Ron, I thought you were dead!
I can't believe this movie was meant to be anything more than a spoof of Battlestar Galactica considering these quotes and the fact that they used BG footage.
Not to mention the fact that Captain Santa Claus had more than a passing resemblance to Commander Adama. At least, it appeared that they were trying to have him have more than a passing resemblance to Commander Adama.
Obviously, no one brought a Coleman Francis film. The man who looks like Curly Howard's evil twin brother makes horrible dreary movies that compare unfavorably to fever dreams. Compared to those, "Space Mutiny" is a light-hearted romp (with railing kills).
What's even better, you get to see the Hula-Hoop Techno-Disco OF THE FUTURE!
Not to mention the indoor garden complete with astroturf and the infamous dental drilling scene, the same one they show in "That's Entertainment!"
You can bet your crepe beard this is a great movie.
Ho. Ho. Ho?
"That's a hundred and five to you and me."
Not only was that effect used over and over BG, but also in a really awful Z-grade BG-ripoff movie called "Space Mutiny" riffed ever-so-eloquently by Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Sick individual that I am, I actually rented "Space Mutiny" to watch it in its unmitigated awfulness. Picture a space opera filmed almost entirely in an abandoned factory of some sort, and a couple of drop-ceiling offices with surplus late-80's office computer equipment, with costumes consisting almost entirely of lycra.
However, it does feature Cissy Cameron in all her middle-aged-waitressy glory dressed like Denise Austin in "Thin Thighs in 30 Days" the musical, by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Punt Speedchunk!
Big McLarge Huge!
Yes, and you'd only be competing against the nearly limitless wealth of the corporatocracy that is making a killing from the system the way it is now.
:-P
It needs to be done, but Good Luck!
A couple years ago /. ran a story about Israel developing a quantum computer that rendered all modern cryptographic systems obsolete. Man, those guys over there sure are busy.
Call me when the vapor clears...
I'd like to see more publicity about the non-RIAA success stories like the album The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince released and marketed himself over the Internet. Doing his own distribution, he was able to make 95% profit. I don't know how accurate this story is, and of course, Prince has many years of success and noteriety behind him.
Still, with organizations like MP3.com growing and the record companies constantly pushing themselves into irrelevance by hyping the same old boring crap (of course, it sells...) and tenaciously holding on to a 19th century distribution scheme, the demise of the RIAA is imminent. But unfortunately, as Disney has shown, they can buy their way into continued existence and monopoly.
Seriously folks, the phone is the simplest computer interface in the world, don't ruin it.
Too late. Have you seen some of the wireless phones these days? Just like every other consumer electronic device, phones are getting close to being unuseable without the user's guide. Each cell phone I've gotten over the last 6 years I like less than the one before. I can't wait until this absurd marketing-executive-spawned nonsense of phones that take pictures and phones that do text messaging through the numeric pad and other stupid gimmicks dies a well-deserved death. I want a phone to call people! I don't need companies Microsoft-ing cell phones so that they do a bunch of unrelated useless tasks and do nothing well. I don't need to friggin' surf the Internet on an 80x120 pixel screen!
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I'm the biggest gadget freak I know, but these new phones just look stupid to me.
You'll have to bring me up-to-date on the history of "insane" boycotting "for any reason" being a "proud American tradition".
Because the tradition of free speech extends to the freedom to say stupid, immoral, countercultural or downright insane things.
Are you saying it is RIGHT to boycott WB because they have too many shows featuring African-Americans? Is it right to boycott Outback Steakhouse because they make donations to the Special Olympics and you think that the mentally retarded should be euthanized?
It's not right, but you have the right to do it, if you so choose.
If you're for free speech and the freedom to pursue your preferred religious faith, then it becomes problematic if you suggest that believers in a certain faith should not be allowed to obtain a certain kind of employment.
The fact of the matter is, the original poster, however misguided he or she might be, is exercising his or her rights, and is not infringing on anyone else's rights. "Problematic" != illegal.
We should use _our_ rights of free speech to inform the poster that his or her motives are questionable, which is what you have done.
+1 Informative, +1 Interesting
I wish you could mod up others' replies to your own posts.
Thanks!
A response from Fox:
In regards to your specific comments about the show, our research shows that one person cannot make a difference, no matter how big a screwball he or she is.