This is truely the most interesting defenition of the word "upgrade" i've ever seen. I always thought an upgrade had something to do with improving the featues that already exist. Here it seems more like an upgrade means more hd-space required and more unwanted programs in your system.
From this moment on I'll have to stop calling Windows an operating system. My defenition of an operating system is more in the direction of 'that piece of software that makes the computer able to use the hardware and run programs'.
When will microsoft start making different distributions? This would make things more interesting. One with a lot of extra features and programms added. One other with a minimal install. Just like you have Linux distributions in different flavours based on the same kernel. Microsoft should do this too. I thing that would make some more friends.
I think one thing that upsets people is that they really have no choice.
"You're not forced to upgrade" is no choice.
For many applications which are strongly ahem, 'encouraged' by the developers, my first reaction is to find an alternative from companies who are less aggressive.
If a product is good i will install it. If a company really needs to convince me that their product is good, somehow I don't believe them.
Let's put it this way. I think it's a moral obligation for the stronger and the wealthiest to protect the weaker and to give them the opportunities to reach a higher standard of living. Just becaust you're able to help them.
I fully agree on the point of freedom you bring up. Maybe I don't live in Amerika, but that doesn't change much about my point. Here in Europe there also is freedom. An other thing we have in common is wealth. Something that is missing terribly in a continent as Africa. Just as endless opportunities are missing there.
The good thing about heaving wealth and freedom is that you are able to share with or help less fortunate people.
Ofcource there is a bifference between an adopted child an your own "flesh and blood". But my point is that instead of spending thousands of dollars on IF you also can adopt a child and spend that money on helping the less-fortunate.
This will not give you profit or personal gain, but it WILL make others who have no opportunities a little bit happier.
THAT is a thought that, I think, is missing not only in Amerika, but also in Europe.
I could (and love to) go on about this, but I'd rather do it by E-mail than here.
AC, feel free to react.
Watermarking as in money-watermarks?
I imagine large company's can buy 'watermark' time. A subcinscious can of Coke on your screen;)
After that a penguin.
Or do I really misunderstand their idea of watermarking??
Maybe it's a bit offtopic, but when i read this the next thought came up.
What happened to adoption? I still think adopting a child and give him parents is a better solution than adjust the patents and give them children. This will just create more hungry mouths to feed.
Maybe there sould a ethical law that for every child you give life to you should also adopt a child in the 3rd world. Just to geve them a chance also.
If the FBI wants to have the type of commection used by this person and also the connections FROM that server to OTHER servers I think the FBI is not really interested in posts of this person.
How about a hacker?
He would use several defferent connection types (ftp-, telnet-, ssh-stuff) to install scripts and hack other systems from that computer.
Suddenly it also becomes clear why they're "forbidding them to talk about this".
Let's look at cloning. At the moment everybody agrees man should not clone humans.
Now think about sheep Dolly. How many years ago was that? Were people against cloning animals? Yup. Did people agree on cloning animans? Nope.
DNA engineering is used already on a very large scale. Hey, who eats cornflakes over here? Here (the Netherlands) you can find the word 'gemodificeerd' (modified) on the list of ingredients. What should they mean by modified?
It only sounds better.
As I see it these things will develop stop by step very slowly. You simply can't stop progress. Sou can slow it down, but not stop it.
As I see it MD5 is already used for a long time to checksum strings. md5 is already used to check filechanges (tripwire) so I would say the practice to use md5 to check data(changes) in general. So what's new with md5-ing webpages? I would think they can put their patent in their dark place where the sun never shines.
I'm not so sure if it's a good thing to have a lot of companys writing games for linux. One thing i expect (and fear) is that they will write Direct-X-like (for example) drvers which HAVE to be installed if you want to run the game. I remember earlyer windows-games which absolutely needed quicktime to run. Next to the media player, Real-player, this player and that player I don't need yet another moveplayer
Well. What will happen? Game-companys will write drivers, accelerators, movieplayers and more and that will improve the possibilities of Linux. On the other hand it's just waiting until those drivers will be compiled in the kernel as default-options, overloading it with unneccesary code and 'features', like the other os...
(ok. you can recompile a kernel, but there will be a lot of people running OOTB systems, but maybe they will be happy with a 'game-kernel'.
First of all, i'm very happy with my Netscape 4.72. I know where to find my options and setting. Ok. It craches every once in a while, but that comes with windows, so I'm used to that too. I've set the 'Java' option off. 98% of the pages I visit work perfectly without. So there is no need for me to upgrade.
I don't see why I need all the 'extra features' is in my browser and on web-pages. Flash makes my P166 rather slow. For 'happy tunes' I have a radio. Also extra features often contain serious security-bugs. (Outlook??)
I'm really happy without all those fancy features, shopping buttons and more. To me a good page is text and some graphics. If you need more to tell your message, your message is wrong. KISS. Keep it simple, stupid!
I think maybe it's time to start a campain to make all sites LYNX-compatible.
Sue the phone company. Sue OS-writers.
They're the ones providing a means of transport for shild-porn as well as an operating system to view it with. Oh, and of course the power company for making my computer run. I think they should be held responsable too. Sue camera company's for not having anti-child-porn devices in their cameras! Maybe photo-developers should, by law, check all the negatives they develop aswell.
Get real! Should every ISP have a crew go to all the mail is a newsgroup? Doesn't sound realistic to me.
Of course there are features missing in linux. Hot swappable cpu's and stuff. But at least I have a choise to put that in my system what I really need. Windows, on the other hand, has features, like accessing excel-sheets through the internet, that I host likely will never use, but still they're installed.
I agree, Linux can be a pain in the **** sometimes, but I'm sure not missing the feature BSOD. (which also come pre-installed with Windows). If you install Linux, you have to spend a lot of time installing extra features and with windows you spend a lot of time uninstalling features. It's just a different approach;)
Role 2d6, move your satellite 6 hexagones, next comes the attack-fase. Add two attack-points for heavy laser. Add one defense-point for deflection mirror. ---
Somewhere some Aliens have found earth on their scanner. By now they know quite a lot about the surface, and now they're sending comets to collide with the earth for some extra readings... ---
getting fired for having bad genes. that is something you especially expect from a country where a lot of people have the genetical defect to think deathpenalty is normal and weapons are for protection.
Steve Reich makes very interesting minimal music.
Long live Napster, but if I was looking for 'Reich' (should do the trick i thought) Napster also offered me several speeches from different nazi's. Not really the stuff I was looking for:(
Oh, if you're interested in minimal music, also try Stockhausen and Glass;)
Bendable is something different than foldable. The carrier of the data should be, err 'preparated' to bend back to it's original state, but we also have 'intelligent' metals which reshape themselve to their original form after being 'mutulated'. So, Why not?
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This is truely the most interesting defenition of the word "upgrade" i've ever seen. I always thought an upgrade had something to do with improving the featues that already exist. Here it seems more like an upgrade means more hd-space required and more unwanted programs in your system.
From this moment on I'll have to stop calling Windows an operating system. My defenition of an operating system is more in the direction of 'that piece of software that makes the computer able to use the hardware and run programs'.
When will microsoft start making different distributions? This would make things more interesting. One with a lot of extra features and programms added. One other with a minimal install. Just like you have Linux distributions in different flavours based on the same kernel. Microsoft should do this too. I thing that would make some more friends.
I think one thing that upsets people is that they really have no choice.
"You're not forced to upgrade" is no choice.
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I'd say Microsoft is interested in the software, and buying napster is cheaper than reconstructing the source.
Maybe Microsoft will use napster to make some kind of..... fileserver!!!??
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It would be more like "my first ____" with nice bright red, yellow and blue color on the screen, large keys for the small kid-hands and stuff ;)
The startup-logo would be a teddybear I think.
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For many applications which are strongly ahem, 'encouraged' by the developers, my first reaction is to find an alternative from companies who are less aggressive.
If a product is good i will install it. If a company really needs to convince me that their product is good, somehow I don't believe them.
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Let's put it this way. I think it's a moral obligation for the stronger and the wealthiest to protect the weaker and to give them the opportunities to reach a higher standard of living. Just becaust you're able to help them.
---
I fully agree on the point of freedom you bring up. Maybe I don't live in Amerika, but that doesn't change much about my point. Here in Europe there also is freedom. An other thing we have in common is wealth. Something that is missing terribly in a continent as Africa. Just as endless opportunities are missing there.
The good thing about heaving wealth and freedom is that you are able to share with or help less fortunate people.
Ofcource there is a bifference between an adopted child an your own "flesh and blood". But my point is that instead of spending thousands of dollars on IF you also can adopt a child and spend that money on helping the less-fortunate.
This will not give you profit or personal gain, but it WILL make others who have no opportunities a little bit happier.
THAT is a thought that, I think, is missing not only in Amerika, but also in Europe.
I could (and love to) go on about this, but I'd rather do it by E-mail than here.
AC, feel free to react.
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Watermarking as in money-watermarks? I imagine large company's can buy 'watermark' time. A subcinscious can of Coke on your screen ;)
After that a penguin.
Or do I really misunderstand their idea of watermarking??
---
Maybe it's a bit offtopic, but when i read this the next thought came up. What happened to adoption? I still think adopting a child and give him parents is a better solution than adjust the patents and give them children. This will just create more hungry mouths to feed.
Maybe there sould a ethical law that for every child you give life to you should also adopt a child in the 3rd world. Just to geve them a chance also.
---
If the FBI wants to have the type of commection used by this person and also the connections FROM that server to OTHER servers I think the FBI is not really interested in posts of this person.
How about a hacker?
He would use several defferent connection types (ftp-, telnet-, ssh-stuff) to install scripts and hack other systems from that computer.
Suddenly it also becomes clear why they're "forbidding them to talk about this".
---
Let's look at cloning. At the moment everybody agrees man should not clone humans.
Now think about sheep Dolly. How many years ago was that? Were people against cloning animals? Yup. Did people agree on cloning animans? Nope.
DNA engineering is used already on a very large scale. Hey, who eats cornflakes over here? Here (the Netherlands) you can find the word 'gemodificeerd' (modified) on the list of ingredients. What should they mean by modified? It only sounds better.
As I see it these things will develop stop by step very slowly. You simply can't stop progress. Sou can slow it down, but not stop it.
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- cloning,
- free mp3 music,
- a cheap medicine for aids for the 3rd world,
- more, more more.
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As I see it MD5 is already used for a long time to checksum strings. md5 is already used to check filechanges (tripwire) so I would say the practice to use md5 to check data(changes) in general. So what's new with md5-ing webpages? I would think they can put their patent in their dark place where the sun never shines.
---
I'm not so sure if it's a good thing to have a lot of companys writing games for linux. One thing i expect (and fear) is that they will write Direct-X-like (for example) drvers which HAVE to be installed if you want to run the game. I remember earlyer windows-games which absolutely needed quicktime to run. Next to the media player, Real-player, this player and that player I don't need yet another moveplayer
Well. What will happen? Game-companys will write drivers, accelerators, movieplayers and more and that will improve the possibilities of Linux. On the other hand it's just waiting until those drivers will be compiled in the kernel as default-options, overloading it with unneccesary code and 'features', like the other os...
(ok. you can recompile a kernel, but there will be a lot of people running OOTB systems, but maybe they will be happy with a 'game-kernel'.
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I don't see why I need all the 'extra features' is in my browser and on web-pages. Flash makes my P166 rather slow. For 'happy tunes' I have a radio. Also extra features often contain serious security-bugs. (Outlook??)
I'm really happy without all those fancy features, shopping buttons and more. To me a good page is text and some graphics. If you need more to tell your message, your message is wrong. KISS. Keep it simple, stupid!
I think maybe it's time to start a campain to make all sites LYNX-compatible.
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Get real! Should every ISP have a crew go to all the mail is a newsgroup? Doesn't sound realistic to me.
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D*mn, it's a long time 'till christmas!
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Of course there are features missing in linux. Hot swappable cpu's and stuff. But at least I have a choise to put that in my system what I really need. Windows, on the other hand, has features, like accessing excel-sheets through the internet, that I host likely will never use, but still they're installed.
;)
I agree, Linux can be a pain in the **** sometimes, but I'm sure not missing the feature BSOD. (which also come pre-installed with Windows). If you install Linux, you have to spend a lot of time installing extra features and with windows you spend a lot of time uninstalling features. It's just a different approach
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Role 2d6, move your satellite 6 hexagones, next comes the attack-fase. Add two attack-points for heavy laser. Add one defense-point for deflection mirror.
---
Somewhere some Aliens have found earth on their scanner. By now they know quite a lot about the surface, and now they're sending comets to collide with the earth for some extra readings...
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I'm just waiting for the day people fall on their knees and start crying when Bill announces a new Windows version ;)
"Thank you Bill, old buddy! Please keep up the good work!
You must know using your procucts since DOS 3.30. I-LOVE-YOU, man!"
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getting fired for having bad genes. that is something you especially expect from a country where a lot of people have the genetical defect to think deathpenalty is normal and weapons are for protection.
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Steve Reich makes very interesting minimal music. :(
;)
Long live Napster, but if I was looking for 'Reich' (should do the trick i thought) Napster also offered me several speeches from different nazi's. Not really the stuff I was looking for
Oh, if you're interested in minimal music, also try Stockhausen and Glass
Bendable is something different than foldable. The carrier of the data should be, err 'preparated' to bend back to it's original state, but we also have 'intelligent' metals which reshape themselve to their original form after being 'mutulated'. So, Why not?
Netscape: erase all data from the cookies.txt and make it read-only.
:)
This way netscape WILL accept coocies, but next time you run Netscape they're all gone
So, for the clarity, let's register "this-url-does-not-belong-to-guinness.com".