Known for its poor software? By whom, the Slashdot community, which is hardly representative of this thing called the real world? Just because some Slashdot geeks don't like Microsoft doesn't mean their software is poor, sorry. In fact, a lot of their software is quite useful -- just because people think everything should be free doesn't make the software bad.
Monopolistic practices happen, all the time, the companies gets reined in by the gov't. But you don't see the rhetoric when people talk about cable companies, phone companies, power companies, etc., only Microsoft. Curious...
You are jumping to conclusions about my post. I'm not pretentious. But think about why you posted your comment in the first place. It bore no insight; it conveyed no useful information. All you did was jump on the Slashdot bandwagon and yell "Microsoft sucks! Look at me I'm one of you!"
Yep. Slashdot has a sheep mentality regarding Microsoft.
1. Say negative things about Microsoft 2. If anyone dissents from the negative Microsoft opinion, accuse them of working for Microsoft.
It's just stupid, and it pisses me off; if people could back their anti-Microsoft rhetoric up with facts, it wouldn't bother me, but 99% of the time, it's just morons following the herd. BAA!
I don't watch. Who the hell needs to sit in front of the TV and watch a long, boring suck-everybody's-dick-fest? Awards shows are for morons. If a movie is good, people will see it, regardless of how some overpaid fuckass in a tuxedo votes.
As far as your "must own" comment goes, all I have to say is: Gran Turismo 3 A-spec.
Gamecube has some OK stuff, but I'm pretty much convinced that the only reason Nintendo still manages to sell hardware is because of their in-house games/franchises (Zelda, Mario, Metroid), to which a lot of people that grew up on NES/SNES are loyal... but none of the other Gamecube games really grab anyone by the yaggs and say "BUY ME!"
That doesn't work if it is 10 below zero outside, or you are old, or you are in a bad neighborhood (case in point: Bill Cosby's son), or you are on the New Jersey Turnpike...
AFAIK, the Infinite Corridor is open 24/7... are they going to have to beef up security to ensure none of the plasma screens get damaged/stolen, or do the people up there generally behave and not destroy things for fun like at other colleges?
Same thing needs to happen for Usenet that needs to happen for e-mail. They have both grown larger than anyone ever thought they would, and the design was vulnerable to abuse. Ban this, ban that, block this, block that, it doesn't matter, because people whose primary goal in life is to make money by annoying the living shit out of other people will just find ways to circumvent the latest and greatest filter/banning/whatever.
It's time to design newer, more secure infrastructures so we can scrap the old stuff and (hopefully) deal with less of this bullshit in the future.
Actually, what'd be really cool is if NASA got these corporations to sponsor missions.
Think about it: a moon mission. They could put all kinds of logos on the shuttle, have real-time telemetry data on the top of your screen while you watch, and the mission could be called something like the MBNA 480000.
OK... so obviously I'm excited about the race this weekend...
That is like saying everyone should have to pay a flat rate for gasoline, regardless of how much gasoline they use. If you have a 30 mile per week total commute, you're paying the same amount for gasoline as a truck driver that goes cross country all day every day? That is ridiculous.
Pay for what you use; a flat rate penalizes light use.
You know, I hadn't thought right away about long-distance emergencies, like people in remote areas who might live hundreds of miles away from a heart surgeon and all of a sudden have a heart attack one day... in that case I'm all for it.
But if you're going to go under the knife willingly in a non-emergency, I don't see why you wouldn't just buy a plane ticket instead of risking your life over a network outage.
I don't mind this kind of stuff being done over a LAN, but over the Internet? Packet loss, DDoS, a critical routing point decides to crap out in the middle of surgery...
Halfway across the world seems retarded to me. In the same room using robotics seems absolutely delightful.
Speaking of long-distance stuff, though, it's a shame the FuFme site is no longer running...:-)
Best case: surgery is fine, patient recovers. Worst case: link gets disrupted, surgery machine goes Max Headroom on the patient -- "sl-sl-sl-sl-slice!!"
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I'm assuming you mean that Windows is a ripoff of MacOS? Let's conveniently forget that the GUI was invented by Xerox, not Apple, right?
Let's use that as a starting point. Your turn.
Known for its poor software? By whom, the Slashdot community, which is hardly representative of this thing called the real world? Just because some Slashdot geeks don't like Microsoft doesn't mean their software is poor, sorry. In fact, a lot of their software is quite useful -- just because people think everything should be free doesn't make the software bad.
Monopolistic practices happen, all the time, the companies gets reined in by the gov't. But you don't see the rhetoric when people talk about cable companies, phone companies, power companies, etc., only Microsoft. Curious...
You are jumping to conclusions about my post. I'm not pretentious. But think about why you posted your comment in the first place. It bore no insight; it conveyed no useful information. All you did was jump on the Slashdot bandwagon and yell "Microsoft sucks! Look at me I'm one of you!"
You exercise "piece of shit grammar".
When is the last time you used a Microsoft product? Why was it shitty?
Yep. Slashdot has a sheep mentality regarding Microsoft.
1. Say negative things about Microsoft
2. If anyone dissents from the negative Microsoft opinion, accuse them of working for Microsoft.
It's just stupid, and it pisses me off; if people could back their anti-Microsoft rhetoric up with facts, it wouldn't bother me, but 99% of the time, it's just morons following the herd. BAA!
Why? Do you have anything insightful to say, or are you just being a lame bitch and bashing Microsoft because it's cool to do that on Slashdot?
I don't watch. Who the hell needs to sit in front of the TV and watch a long, boring suck-everybody's-dick-fest? Awards shows are for morons. If a movie is good, people will see it, regardless of how some overpaid fuckass in a tuxedo votes.
Or all of you could just quit pirating shit that doesn't belong to you.
How the fuck was this modded insightful? It's legal to make personal copies for yourself!
As far as your "must own" comment goes, all I have to say is: Gran Turismo 3 A-spec.
Gamecube has some OK stuff, but I'm pretty much convinced that the only reason Nintendo still manages to sell hardware is because of their in-house games/franchises (Zelda, Mario, Metroid), to which a lot of people that grew up on NES/SNES are loyal... but none of the other Gamecube games really grab anyone by the yaggs and say "BUY ME!"
That doesn't work if it is 10 below zero outside, or you are old, or you are in a bad neighborhood (case in point: Bill Cosby's son), or you are on the New Jersey Turnpike...
It's stupid to not have a cell phone in your car.
The second I read about this AFM bug, I ran down to the lab... as it turns out, I really *do* have a penis after all!
I think the idea of driving a vehicle around without a phone is just wrong. What if it breaks down or you get in an accident?
AFAIK, the Infinite Corridor is open 24/7... are they going to have to beef up security to ensure none of the plasma screens get damaged/stolen, or do the people up there generally behave and not destroy things for fun like at other colleges?
There was a supergirl-esque porno movie... some girl giving a guy a BJ whilst flying over metropolis...
Same thing needs to happen for Usenet that needs to happen for e-mail. They have both grown larger than anyone ever thought they would, and the design was vulnerable to abuse. Ban this, ban that, block this, block that, it doesn't matter, because people whose primary goal in life is to make money by annoying the living shit out of other people will just find ways to circumvent the latest and greatest filter/banning/whatever.
It's time to design newer, more secure infrastructures so we can scrap the old stuff and (hopefully) deal with less of this bullshit in the future.
Actually, what'd be really cool is if NASA got these corporations to sponsor missions.
Think about it: a moon mission. They could put all kinds of logos on the shuttle, have real-time telemetry data on the top of your screen while you watch, and the mission could be called something like the MBNA 480000.
OK... so obviously I'm excited about the race this weekend...
8 letters is longer than 7, though. At Slashdot, it's all about quantity, not quality! ;-)
That is like saying everyone should have to pay a flat rate for gasoline, regardless of how much gasoline they use. If you have a 30 mile per week total commute, you're paying the same amount for gasoline as a truck driver that goes cross country all day every day? That is ridiculous.
Pay for what you use; a flat rate penalizes light use.
And I'm sure every system ever designed was failsafe and foolproof and no one has ever, ever died as a result of use.
Riiiight. Grow up.
You know, I hadn't thought right away about long-distance emergencies, like people in remote areas who might live hundreds of miles away from a heart surgeon and all of a sudden have a heart attack one day... in that case I'm all for it.
But if you're going to go under the knife willingly in a non-emergency, I don't see why you wouldn't just buy a plane ticket instead of risking your life over a network outage.
My bad, folks, my bad. Looks like I got the URL wrong... or maybe they changed it. Anyways:
http://www.fu-fme.com/
Enjoy!!!
LOL
The cool thing about the Canadian health care system is that ANY citizen can get free Internet surgery!
I don't mind this kind of stuff being done over a LAN, but over the Internet? Packet loss, DDoS, a critical routing point decides to crap out in the middle of surgery...
:-)
Halfway across the world seems retarded to me. In the same room using robotics seems absolutely delightful.
Speaking of long-distance stuff, though, it's a shame the FuFme site is no longer running...
Best case: surgery is fine, patient recovers.
Worst case: link gets disrupted, surgery machine goes Max Headroom on the patient -- "sl-sl-sl-sl-slice!!"