I thought that the reason that closed source software was so great was that when you buy it from someone, you've got indemnification? Someone to turn to when it all goes wrong?
So - when it all goes wrong every other day - isn't the point that MS has to indemnify their users, i mean, that's why we bought it, right? If your software goes to shit - then Microsfot will indemnify you if you lose everything important, or if you die when your BMW 740 goes crazy. That's why OSS sucks, right? Cause you get no indemnification?
I like this lawsuit because of this reason, than if no other.. MS is clear in its EULA - MS WILL NOT INDEMNIFY USERS. Not any more than IBM will... or HP will, or any OSS...
other than purchse price - and if that's the case - then wtf don't you start off with free to being with?
And what's worse - users MAY get indemnification - its just for a portion of the cost of the product... like $10 for that OEM copy of Windows or $75 OEM copy of Office - since they will be found only partically at fault for the virus/worm problem.
I like this lawsuit because the whole bitchfest about indemnification will be exposed to the light - IT TOTAL BULLSHIT.
You get jack-shit indemnification from Open Source software, just like you get it from Microsoft.
the ACLU were the ones fighting for Diebold and for the death of paper voting.
and you who bitched about punch cards... feel pretty smart now, do you? at least with punch cards, the only thing stopping you was the moron voter.... now, we have the moron system running things.
this is obviously another location where it costs more money for T-Mobile to meter the usage than it does for each Starbucks to install a $50/month DSL connection and a $300 (Cisco, strong and stable, not a POS linksys) base station.
i would spend money hand over fist if i could go to starbucks and surf. in fact, Starbucks LOSES money from me because i have broadband at home - and don't want to pay for it twice. I often find myself too interested in doing something online than to go up the street and keep on working on it there - which would be no problem at all.
well, the only problem for Starbucks is that i'm not there buying $.10 of coffee for $4
every - and i do mean EVERY single person i've met that's ever seen or dealt with Chuck Yeager (given General for the hell of it) has used the word "asshole" to describe him.
(i'm former AF officer and have dealt with enough guys at Edwards to have been able to "trend" this)
that is how much 1 man - Reginald Broughton - has made since June on SCOX stock sales. which would have previously, at their price of of one year ago would havbe been under $150k (115,000 shares sold since june)
Now, if this is not a pump-and-dump, could someone point a case of it out to me, because i obviously dont fuscking get it.
and since i'm a network guy, and not a financial analyst - how the heck does 1 person make 10% of the company's entire profit in stock sales in less than 6 months, and this not affect anything?
that is how much 1 man - Reginald Broughton - has made since June on SCOX stock sales. which would have previously, at their price of of one year ago would havbe been under $150k (115,000 shares sold since june)
Now, if this is not a pump-and-dump, could someone point a case of it out to me, because i obviously dont fuscking get it.
I am a engineer/scientist for a major aerospace company. I am a user of various computer operating systems, including Mac OS X, OpenBSD, and GNU/Linux. It was brought to my attention that The SCO Group has declared that by using Linux, Mac OS X, or OpenBSD for my work/pleasure, that me and my company would be infringing on their IP.
They have already licensed me to use GNU/Linux (I downloaded Linux from their website and was licensed under the General Public License). Apple has licensed me to use Mac OS X, and OpenBSD was licensed to me under the BSD License. But SCO claims that use of these is IP infringement. See http://www.sco.com/scosource/description.html . They claim that unless I use their "new" license, for a fee (see previous link), I will be held liable for IP infringement in the future.
My complaint is a) they already licensed me to use the code under the GPL (GNU/Linux). b) they claim that I am infringing on their copyrighted code both in software that they licensed to me (Linux) and software totally unrelated to SCO but refuse to explain which code is infringing.
All of the code I am using is open source, so it should be a simple matter for them to simply list infringing code. I am happy to remove all infringing code. I do not have a contract with them in any respect, nor do I desire to use their IP.
I have attempted to contact them, however, their phone number appears to be perpetually busy. I do not know if this is a stall tactic.
I do not know the legal term for this - but if they desire paymnt for something I don't even want to use (their IP) and provide no proof that I have any of it beyond press releases (http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarc hives.asp?ArticleID=41480) "System V is the basis for all operating systems outside of Redmond-AIX, HP UX, Solaris, Apple [Mac OS X] and Linux.", that seems to be a form of legal extortion or wrongful prosecution.
If they will provide to me what code is infringing, I will most certainly remove their code from my systems.
for the hairy smelly putrid ass kissing dog licking dirt sucking shit eating grinning hole in the head turd flipping inbread hippo humping kentucky fried love of God....
its copyright infringment - it is not stealing, damnit. the SCOTUS has made that clearer than the hole in your head.
Skype is a p2p VOIP technology... addressing all the problems of legacy VoIP solutions...Windows only beta client available."
well, then by definition, they are not addressing all of the problems of legacy VoIP - and no, i'm not going to go look and see if there's a Linux or Mac OS X version planned..
one of my best friends is a Canadian immigrant. it took him two years and about $10k to get legal immigration status here in California.
And he is a dumbass chump.
He should have just worked here illegally and then in Janary gotten himself a drivers license, which is basically all you need for a job, to register to vote, or get on an airplane.
California has much more sensible immigration policy than the right wing anti-immigration folks in the EU... who are doing everything, including shooting, at folks trying to make it into Spain from North Africa.
There has never been in the last 15 years a platform which survived without it.
I'd dare say, forget MS Office. I'd cut it off at Microsft Word.
this is not an endorcement of Word, Lord knows those who've ever worked near me in a cubicle could attest to the terets (sp?)-like totally random "FSCK!" or "MOTHERFSCKING PIECE OF SHIT!" that spews from my office/cubicle over the years.
But i've supported labs, sold computers at Computer City (the shame), and have gone against the grain installing Macs on networks all by themselves when I was told there was no way it could be done (which was totally bogus) - and the first, deciding, and vectoring question is, has been, and seems like it always shall be...
does it have Microsoft Word installed?
and until there is a form/fit/finish application called Triclosloth Werd for Linux (or anything else, for that matter) - you have no possibility of survival in a PHB-powered environment.
i am damn scared and petrified at the prospect of Mac OS X 10.3 and its ability to read/write.doc files.. because Microsoft only has to get the HINT that Apple is going to "go it alone", and all of us Mac users, in my very pessimistic opinion, are totaly and completely fscked.
i'm not saying i like it - i'm saying tell me i'm wrong, and prove it to me.
well, i was gonna start it, but i'll follow this comedy with a serious question.
there have now been (at least) 2 non-releases of Mandrake 9.2 for x68. I can't seem to locate the PPC ISOs. There are only two possibilities.. they are unable to respond, they are unwilling to respond.. sorry.. damnit.
1. there are none because they are not doing these pre-release releases for PPC 2. I'm a total choad and i'm just missing it.
I loved Mandrake on my POS AMD k2-500.. but my brother in law needed a machine, so i gave it to him... so now, my only "not doing anything" computer is an iBook a friend of mine gave me to give someone that refuses to call me back.. so screw him, i wanna install Mandrake on it.
which leads me to the point of this..
am i missing something, or are there no Mandrake 9.2x ISO releases? If there are, can you post where they are/how to get them?
then put a fiber optic cable at the focal point, beam the light down into your office, and focus the light as desired?
granted - not much use for citizens of Seattle, but here in 70 & Sunny every fscking day of the fscking year Los Angeles.. i don't know why that wouldn't provide everyone with cheap light for a great portion of the year?
okay - you need to add computer controlled pointing devices.. but that's a simple matter of giving a tiny computer the pointing angles and using some small motors to move.... a simple PC could generate the pointing angles and then transmit them to all the little computer controlled motors? maybe expensive up front, but would work forever assuming you pointed the fiber input down, away from the sky and covered the dish with a plastic cover.
* A new video card, if you're still using onboard video. A Radeaon 9200 PCI is $80 from Compusa and probably be several orders faster than the onboard Rage Pro chip.
pffff.. okay.. i'll give you this. $80.
* Faster hard drive. If you're stuck on some old 5400RPM your perfrormance can suffer -- this goes in hand with the next thing:
$80 for your average everyday 80 gig 7200 RPM hard drive.
* New IDE controller. The onboard IDE doesn't do DMA/66/100/133 and is a real dog performance-wise. Something new can give you a surprising performance boost.
i'm sure we'll be using it not only for Photoshop, but for video editing too... so lets get ATA 133 and USB 2 and Firewire all at the same time... because i'm starting to wonder wtf all these PCI cards are going to go in a machine with only 3 slots....
* Ethernet controller. If you have to push the limits, can even think about a new ethernet controller that will have less CPU utilization.... plus, if you do this and later want to move to a slightly faster machine like a Blue&White G3 , which can be had for as little as $100 in 400mHz/0M/0M configs, the RAM and video card will carry over.
personal experience tell me this is a $20 item.
what's that all cost us bob???
$710 for a screaming G3 Frankenmac with every slot filled much like a high priced porno actress.
add $140 for a G4 500 to give you an amazing, unaccelerated, PCI based 500 megahurts piece of shit for $850 flat!
I mean - its only got a worse video card, slower bus speed, and no free 17 inch monitor when compared to a perfectly overpriced eMac.
you'll see dramatic improvements that may make it useable. oh - and load up on some ram. you'll also do well to pick up a decent 7200 rpm IDE drive.
oh for the love of gawd DON'T BE SUCH A PAIN IN THE ASS, LUCILLE!
by the time you drop $120 on the new OS, $350 on those fscked up "short" (you can't use normal PC 100/133 DIMMS because they don't FIT physically unless you leave the top off and if you're going to do that, Susan, just go and buy a PC for $150 and stop being such a girl) can't-be-found-anywhere memory except at some obscure "We have memory for the Mac IIvx" company for that hunk of ancient computing you have there to max it out to, what, 512 megs? - and the $100 for a decent sized hard drive, you prat, you've got yourself only a few pesos away from a refurbished eMac with 5 times the speed and a video card fruu uu UUUM THIS century.
you know.. i had this fight with someone who decided it was time to ditch all the Macs because the B&W G3/300's were to slow to run PowerPoint or Keynote compared to a new Dell 2.4 machine... and just throw out all that hardware and software investment (those B&w's are righteous OpenBSD file and email servers) because he thought "hey, why don't i just shove a pencil up my ass and say it hurts, so i sould go buy some PC instead".
I swear, Sally, if i hear about one more person ask "how can i get a 5 year old mac to run the lastest software from Apple that has system requirements for G4 and a video card with some memory and i wear this gigantic "i'm a cheap asshole" hat al the time, why?" - i'm gonna go off on a rant.
Look - there are no 6 year old PC's (Pentium II 200 with ISA slots and 8 meg AGP 1x ATI Rage Pros) running windows XP playing DiVX files, ripping DVDs, and running gawddamned Photoshop 7, okay? So while it may be novel and interesting to see you try this - why not pony up the money for that Commodore 64 web server while you're at it?
Look - i'm not saying you have to go sell your mother's body parts for cash - but you did say.. and let me get this right.
i want to run Photoshop & and Quark 6 on Mac OS X 10.2...
two of the most CPU and video card intensive apps out there on a computer from 1997?
well hell, Gertrude, i want to shit in my hand and sell it for $5 a handfull but i guess we're both in for big steaming bowl of toofsckingbad, aren't we?
And i hate to break this to you - but while you may actually succeed in this little game of Chinese "red-hot-fire-poker-in-the-crotch" torture you've concoted for yourself and actually.... physically.... get Photoshop to launch on that newfangled steam-powered machine running Mac OS X - you first must realize that when you are trying to run software worth 5 TIMES the value of your computer... ON that computer, that's as useless as picking up Beth Ostrosky on a Pee Wee's Playhouse moped.
Its quite a bitch, sometimes, that software ISN'T like hardware.. because if you're really so cash strapped that you can't scrounge up enough wampum by playing "pound the clown" at the corner sperm bank to buy a Mac from THIS millennium - but miraculously have on hand, and want to run the latest and greatest $700 photo editing software that would have made spy satellite guys from 1970 cream their pants at the site of the opening spalsh screen of Photoshop on a computer that really is as washed up as Gary Coleman (wait, he may be my next governor... hmm...) - then i can only assume that either there is some knucle dragging asshat boss out there that thinks "here, Christine, slap this shiny metal disk into your abacus at home" and figured you'd just work out the tiny new cunundrum by asking slashdot a question as improbable as "how can i make a device that will get Carmen Electra to fsck my brains out even tho i have automatic Karma bonus on slashdot?"
ORRRR
you ripped of your copy of Photoshop.
Because if you're plunking down the bling-bling for Photoshop and quark for Mac OS X 10.2 - yet you want to run those 20" s
this is no different than the pre-release builds of Apple software like Mac OS X.
when i use these things - i understand fully that they are not ready for use, they may cause all my data to be horked, and could cause the end of the universe. In fact, I recently had to completely reformat my hard drive and reinstall 10.2 clean after a 10.3 release screwed up just about everything on my machine. I didn't complain 1 second because I knew that was a possibility... I also had all my data backed up and it took me about 2 hours to get back situated to a completely good machine again.
MOST people in the open public would NOT act this way if Apple let out pre-release software. They would send nasty emails, they would complain that this or that doesn't function (i've heard people whine about how unstable iChat AV Beta is - BETA PEOPLE)
This is why Apple is conservative - because if they are not - their stuff would not "Just Work (tm)" and Mac users would get upset.
As for this hack - that is exactly what it is.. a hack. I waited nearly a week after the first time i heard about this - waited to see if anyone out there was having trouble with it - and so i took the pluge OF MY OWN RESPONSIBILITY. If i bork my laptop - well, i bork it. its my problem, not Apple's. I dont' go to Disneylnd hoping to slip on some water to make a million bucks - and i don't hold Apple responsible if i kill my computer because i wanted to burn DVDs at 2x.
If people could accept responsiblity in this lawyer-soaked country - then people could do more ans experience more in their lives... but we live in a place where a burglar can sue for getting shot while breaking into your home, where if you spill coffee on yourself because you are a klutzy moron - you can win $1M, and where OJ can walk free because if Chewbacca lives on Endor, that doesn't make sense.
Of COURSE Apple goes conservative - and they do it for many reasons. And when i need a machine that works well - for work - I use a Mac, and i don't dork with it.
When i'm having fun - i try things and see what happens - and take responsibility.
f you, you lawyer-bought liberals and your safety first must wear a fscking helmet bullshit. Its my life, not yours, you cockbites.
i just installed it on a 12" PowerBook G4 with superdrive.
just burned 4.2 gigs of DiVX DVD rips onto Apple 2x media in thin jewel cases with Toast 5.1.2 at 2x. Burned in 30 minutes flat. No errors. Formerly could only burn at 1x.
just burned mandrake ix86 9.2b iso onto Memorex black CD-R 700 meg media with Toast 5.1.2 at 16x Burned in 4 minutes and 15 seconds. formerly could only burn at 8x.
it works for me. Of course, I installed a PowerMax ata-33 ide card, Intrega USB for Windows only PCI card, a SonnetTech G4/450 CPU card, and Firewire PCI card in a PowerMac 7500 running Mac OS X 10.2 and used it as my primary email server until 6 months ago..... so i'm not exactly the conservative computer user...
ymmv and if your powerbook blows up, don't blame me.
I don't care if its Microsoft, SCO, or Linus "Himself" - software patents are bad. Micro Soft is wrong in a great many things... but they should not have to defend themselves against "(obvious idea) over the internet" patents or any other silly patents. No one should.
like Dennis Miller said, "Why hate someone (for something irrelevant) when, if you take the time to get to know them..., you can find so many other things to hate them for?"
be upset and angry at Microsoft for the things they do, not for those things that are not fair.
Lets look at your generally assumed positions - 1 at a time...
They pay taxes. Federal taxes deducted from their paychecks.
Where exactly is that fscking line item on the envelope full of singles that they get at the end of the day?
They are not a draw on social programs?
The county of Los Angeles ALONE - in 1 year paid out $350 MILLION (one county, one year) last year in medical expendatures to "undocumented workers". How do they know this? If you have a valid SSN, you get MediCAL. If you don't have a valid SSN, they simply bill your (ficticious) residence. The cost last year was $380 million. (LA Times)
They do not have to pay any insurance costs for their "vehicles" because they do not bother to register them, because, like you said, they avoid the DMV.
They most often use public transportation - which is by all accounts in every location in California a tax user, not a tax producer - because all state county, and city public transportation systems run at a loss, they do not make the cities/state money.
They do not pay for the cost of their children's education - because they do not pay income tax because they do not, on average, make enough to pay taxes since most of them make less than $22k a year.. below which, you do not pay federal income tax, and they can actually GET money back from the federal govnerment because you get $1000 for each child you have - the child tax credit.. so in the end, they MAKE more money off of the tax system alone than they put in.
They pay sale tax (on good that they buy in stores, but not on goods such as private sale of foodstuffs like what the farmers will sell to them at the end of the day). And they pay property tax (as part of their cost of rent) - but since they live disproportionately more people/dwelling, the revenue generated per captia is far below non-Latino rates.
In short - California is 100 times better than where they came from. Where they cam from they did not get free medical, free childbirth medical, free schooling for their kids, nearly free transportation costs, they don't get extorted by the cops as much as they did back in Mexico, China, Korea or whetever central American country they are from... and they get to be guarded by the best police, fire, and military protection in the world - without paying most of those nasty taxes that go to provide it all.
The employers of these people have an unfair tax advantage - but far far more importantly, they do not have to pay worker's compensation insurance on them - which in the State of California is running around 75% of worker's wages right now/year... it may go to 125% within 5 years. That means if you hire a guy for $40k a year, it will cost you nrealy $100k to hire them - when its all said and done...
This state is on the verge of total colapse - and it is because this state is responsible for the care, feeding (school lunches and breakfasts), and medical of non-trivial portions of other country's populations.
I did not sign up for the recall because I want to see at what point people will "get it" - that you cannot run a state like this, or it will collapse. With the party in power now standing up things like the "end poverty in California committee" movement in the state legislature - perhapse you remember that from the past.. Stalin and Lennin were both big proponents of the same ideals.
I want Americans to feel first hand what socialism does to a state... i want them to experience total colapse of a state under the weight of open borders and unlimited government programs. Because it is obvious to me that most people still left i
i have never before, nor shall i dare say, ever again by myself with no one around spontaneously shoot milk out nose and laugh out loud at the funniest cartoon character of all time.
Huzzah!!! Someone is noticing me! (/Zoidberg)
i am truly bent that my TiVo shall no longer grab for me the funniest and best written 22 minutes of my TV viewing week. Fox can bite my shiny metal ass for cancelling Futurama
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dude... there's this thing called..
INSURANCE..
perhapse you've heard of it?
it will run on Windows.
despite all of the horror befalling windows users - the govt., esp the military, does not get it.
I thought that the reason that closed source software was so great was that when you buy it from someone, you've got indemnification? Someone to turn to when it all goes wrong?
So - when it all goes wrong every other day - isn't the point that MS has to indemnify their users, i mean, that's why we bought it, right? If your software goes to shit - then Microsfot will indemnify you if you lose everything important, or if you die when your BMW 740 goes crazy. That's why OSS sucks, right? Cause you get no indemnification?
I like this lawsuit because of this reason, than if no other.. MS is clear in its EULA - MS WILL NOT INDEMNIFY USERS. Not any more than IBM will... or HP will, or any OSS...
other than purchse price - and if that's the case - then wtf don't you start off with free to being with?
And what's worse - users MAY get indemnification - its just for a portion of the cost of the product... like $10 for that OEM copy of Windows or $75 OEM copy of Office - since they will be found only partically at fault for the virus/worm problem.
I like this lawsuit because the whole bitchfest about indemnification will be exposed to the light - IT TOTAL BULLSHIT.
You get jack-shit indemnification from Open Source software, just like you get it from Microsoft.
On Apple Keyboards, "Control" is spelled out....
as is "option", "delete"... or is that "baskpace"?
sorry, i'm on a Dell at work using an Apple Extended Keyboard II because Dell's office-drone keyboards are total shit.
the ACLU were the ones fighting for Diebold and for the death of paper voting.
and you who bitched about punch cards... feel pretty smart now, do you? at least with punch cards, the only thing stopping you was the moron voter.... now, we have the moron system running things.
holy crap... New Zealand, here i come.
this is obviously another location where it costs more money for T-Mobile to meter the usage than it does for each Starbucks to install a $50/month DSL connection and a $300 (Cisco, strong and stable, not a POS linksys) base station.
i would spend money hand over fist if i could go to starbucks and surf. in fact, Starbucks LOSES money from me because i have broadband at home - and don't want to pay for it twice. I often find myself too interested in doing something online than to go up the street and keep on working on it there - which would be no problem at all.
well, the only problem for Starbucks is that i'm not there buying $.10 of coffee for $4
"Guys become, if you'll pardon my expression, sexual intellectuals. You know what the phrase is for that?"
I have to admit no, I'm not familiar with the term. Sexual what?
"Sexual intellectuals. They're fucking know-it-alls, that's what."
i shot my Dr. Pepper out my nose reading that.
every - and i do mean EVERY single person i've met that's ever seen or dealt with Chuck Yeager (given General for the hell of it) has used the word "asshole" to describe him.
(i'm former AF officer and have dealt with enough guys at Edwards to have been able to "trend" this)
this gets in Computer World, eWeek, or even mabe a link to this from the SCOX page on finance.yahoo.
$1 says we don't see this attributed anywhere in the "major IT media".
those rat bastard rich-loving Republicans will do anything to stop this....
wait, Brownback is a Republican?
that is how much 1 man - Reginald Broughton - has made since June on SCOX stock sales. which would have previously, at their price of of one year ago would havbe been under $150k (115,000 shares sold since june)
Now, if this is not a pump-and-dump, could someone point a case of it out to me, because i obviously dont fuscking get it.
and since i'm a network guy, and not a financial analyst - how the heck does 1 person make 10% of the company's entire profit in stock sales in less than 6 months, and this not affect anything?
http://biz.yahoo.com/t/80/4661.html
that is how much 1 man - Reginald Broughton - has made since June on SCOX stock sales. which would have previously, at their price of of one year ago would havbe been under $150k (115,000 shares sold since june)
Now, if this is not a pump-and-dump, could someone point a case of it out to me, because i obviously dont fuscking get it.
http://biz.yahoo.com/t/80/4661.html
I am a engineer/scientist for a major aerospace company. I am a user of various computer operating systems, including Mac OS X, OpenBSD, and GNU/Linux. It was brought to my attention that The SCO Group has declared that by using Linux, Mac OS X, or OpenBSD for my work/pleasure, that me and my company would be infringing on their IP.
c hives.asp?ArticleID=41480)
They have already licensed me to use GNU/Linux (I downloaded Linux from their website and was licensed under the General Public License). Apple has licensed me to use Mac OS X, and OpenBSD was licensed to me under the BSD License. But SCO claims that use of these is IP infringement. See http://www.sco.com/scosource/description.html . They claim that unless I use their "new" license, for a fee (see previous link), I will be held liable for IP infringement in the future.
My complaint is a) they already licensed me to use the code under the GPL (GNU/Linux). b) they claim that I am infringing on their copyrighted code both in software that they licensed to me (Linux) and software totally unrelated to SCO but refuse to explain which code is infringing.
All of the code I am using is open source, so it should be a simple matter for them to simply list infringing code. I am happy to remove all infringing code. I do not have a contract with them in any respect, nor do I desire to use their IP.
I have attempted to contact them, however, their phone number appears to be perpetually busy. I do not know if this is a stall tactic.
I do not know the legal term for this - but if they desire paymnt for something I don't even want to use (their IP) and provide no proof that I have any of it beyond press releases (http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyar
"System V is the basis for all operating systems outside of Redmond-AIX, HP UX, Solaris, Apple [Mac OS X] and Linux.", that seems to be a form of legal extortion or wrongful prosecution.
If they will provide to me what code is infringing, I will most certainly remove their code from my systems.
for the hairy smelly putrid ass kissing dog licking dirt sucking shit eating grinning hole in the head turd flipping inbread hippo humping kentucky fried love of God....
its copyright infringment - it is not stealing, damnit. the SCOTUS has made that clearer than the hole in your head.
Skype is a p2p VOIP technology ... addressing all the problems of legacy VoIP solutions...Windows only beta client available."
well, then by definition, they are not addressing all of the problems of legacy VoIP - and no, i'm not going to go look and see if there's a Linux or Mac OS X version planned..
and that name is CHUMPS!
a fr icanmigrants/
one of my best friends is a Canadian immigrant. it took him two years and about $10k to get legal immigration status here in California.
And he is a dumbass chump.
He should have just worked here illegally and then in Janary gotten himself a drivers license, which is basically all you need for a job, to register to vote, or get on an airplane.
California has much more sensible immigration policy than the right wing anti-immigration folks in the EU... who are doing everything, including shooting, at folks trying to make it into Spain from North Africa.
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/bordercrossings/
Microsoft Office.
.doc files.. because Microsoft only has to get the HINT that Apple is going to "go it alone", and all of us Mac users, in my very pessimistic opinion, are totaly and completely fscked.
There has never been in the last 15 years a platform which survived without it.
I'd dare say, forget MS Office. I'd cut it off at Microsft Word.
this is not an endorcement of Word, Lord knows those who've ever worked near me in a cubicle could attest to the terets (sp?)-like totally random "FSCK!" or "MOTHERFSCKING PIECE OF SHIT!" that spews from my office/cubicle over the years.
But i've supported labs, sold computers at Computer City (the shame), and have gone against the grain installing Macs on networks all by themselves when I was told there was no way it could be done (which was totally bogus) - and the first, deciding, and vectoring question is, has been, and seems like it always shall be...
does it have Microsoft Word installed?
and until there is a form/fit/finish application called Triclosloth Werd for Linux (or anything else, for that matter) - you have no possibility of survival in a PHB-powered environment.
i am damn scared and petrified at the prospect of Mac OS X 10.3 and its ability to read/write
i'm not saying i like it - i'm saying tell me i'm wrong, and prove it to me.
well, i was gonna start it, but i'll follow this comedy with a serious question.
there have now been (at least) 2 non-releases of Mandrake 9.2 for x68. I can't seem to locate the PPC ISOs. There are only two possibilities.. they are unable to respond, they are unwilling to respond.. sorry.. damnit.
1. there are none because they are not doing these pre-release releases for PPC
2. I'm a total choad and i'm just missing it.
I loved Mandrake on my POS AMD k2-500.. but my brother in law needed a machine, so i gave it to him... so now, my only "not doing anything" computer is an iBook a friend of mine gave me to give someone that refuses to call me back.. so screw him, i wanna install Mandrake on it.
which leads me to the point of this..
am i missing something, or are there no Mandrake 9.2x ISO releases? If there are, can you post where they are/how to get them?
Thanks.
then put a fiber optic cable at the focal point, beam the light down into your office, and focus the light as desired?
granted - not much use for citizens of Seattle, but here in 70 & Sunny every fscking day of the fscking year Los Angeles.. i don't know why that wouldn't provide everyone with cheap light for a great portion of the year?
okay - you need to add computer controlled pointing devices.. but that's a simple matter of giving a tiny computer the pointing angles and using some small motors to move.... a simple PC could generate the pointing angles and then transmit them to all the little computer controlled motors? maybe expensive up front, but would work forever assuming you pointed the fiber input down, away from the sky and covered the dish with a plastic cover.
* Max the RAM (which, IIRC, is 768M), but is getting more expensive since it's special voltage RAM for this line.
... plus, if you do this and later want to move to a slightly faster machine like a Blue&White G3 , which can be had for as little as $100 in 400mHz/0M/0M configs, the RAM and video card will carry over.
$180 don't forget - its not just voltage - its gotta be THIS ram, else its too tall for the case.
* Get a G3 CPU upgrade either new or used (G3 Upgrades are hundreds less than G4 Upgrades)
$169 for a G3/500, 300 for a G4/500 and $500 for a G4/1GHz (on a 100 mhz buss, YEAH!)
* A new video card, if you're still using onboard video. A Radeaon 9200 PCI is $80 from Compusa and probably be several orders faster than the onboard Rage Pro chip.
pffff.. okay.. i'll give you this. $80.
* Faster hard drive. If you're stuck on some old 5400RPM your perfrormance can suffer -- this goes in hand with the next thing:
$80 for your average everyday 80 gig 7200 RPM hard drive.
* New IDE controller. The onboard IDE doesn't do DMA/66/100/133 and is a real dog performance-wise. Something new can give you a surprising performance boost.
i'm sure we'll be using it not only for Photoshop, but for video editing too... so lets get ATA 133 and USB 2 and Firewire all at the same time... because i'm starting to wonder wtf all these PCI cards are going to go in a machine with only 3 slots....
$180
* Ethernet controller. If you have to push the limits, can even think about a new ethernet controller that will have less CPU utilization.
personal experience tell me this is a $20 item.
what's that all cost us bob???
$710 for a screaming G3 Frankenmac with every slot filled much like a high priced porno actress.
add $140 for a G4 500 to give you an amazing, unaccelerated, PCI based 500 megahurts piece of shit for $850 flat!
I mean - its only got a worse video card, slower bus speed, and no free 17 inch monitor when compared to a perfectly overpriced eMac.
i need to drink less dr pepper before bed.
you'll see dramatic improvements that may make it useable.
oh - and load up on some ram.
you'll also do well to pick up a decent 7200 rpm IDE drive.
oh for the love of gawd DON'T BE SUCH A PAIN IN THE ASS, LUCILLE!
by the time you drop $120 on the new OS, $350 on those fscked up "short" (you can't use normal PC 100/133 DIMMS because they don't FIT physically unless you leave the top off and if you're going to do that, Susan, just go and buy a PC for $150 and stop being such a girl) can't-be-found-anywhere memory except at some obscure "We have memory for the Mac IIvx" company for that hunk of ancient computing you have there to max it out to, what, 512 megs? - and the $100 for a decent sized hard drive, you prat, you've got yourself only a few pesos away from a refurbished eMac with 5 times the speed and a video card fruu uu UUUM THIS century.
you know.. i had this fight with someone who decided it was time to ditch all the Macs because the B&W G3/300's were to slow to run PowerPoint or Keynote compared to a new Dell 2.4 machine... and just throw out all that hardware and software investment (those B&w's are righteous OpenBSD file and email servers) because he thought "hey, why don't i just shove a pencil up my ass and say it hurts, so i sould go buy some PC instead".
I swear, Sally, if i hear about one more person ask "how can i get a 5 year old mac to run the lastest software from Apple that has system requirements for G4 and a video card with some memory and i wear this gigantic "i'm a cheap asshole" hat al the time, why?" - i'm gonna go off on a rant.
Look - there are no 6 year old PC's (Pentium II 200 with ISA slots and 8 meg AGP 1x ATI Rage Pros) running windows XP playing DiVX files, ripping DVDs, and running gawddamned Photoshop 7, okay? So while it may be novel and interesting to see you try this - why not pony up the money for that Commodore 64 web server while you're at it?
Look - i'm not saying you have to go sell your mother's body parts for cash - but you did say.. and let me get this right.
i want to run Photoshop & and Quark 6 on Mac OS X 10.2...
two of the most CPU and video card intensive apps out there on a computer from 1997?
well hell, Gertrude, i want to shit in my hand and sell it for $5 a handfull but i guess we're both in for big steaming bowl of toofsckingbad, aren't we?
And i hate to break this to you - but while you may actually succeed in this little game of Chinese "red-hot-fire-poker-in-the-crotch" torture you've concoted for yourself and actually.... physically.... get Photoshop to launch on that newfangled steam-powered machine running Mac OS X - you first must realize that when you are trying to run software worth 5 TIMES the value of your computer... ON that computer, that's as useless as picking up Beth Ostrosky on a Pee Wee's Playhouse moped.
Its quite a bitch, sometimes, that software ISN'T like hardware.. because if you're really so cash strapped that you can't scrounge up enough wampum by playing "pound the clown" at the corner sperm bank to buy a Mac from THIS millennium - but miraculously have on hand, and want to run the latest and greatest $700 photo editing software that would have made spy satellite guys from 1970 cream their pants at the site of the opening spalsh screen of Photoshop on a computer that really is as washed up as Gary Coleman (wait, he may be my next governor... hmm...) - then i can only assume that either there is some knucle dragging asshat boss out there that thinks "here, Christine, slap this shiny metal disk into your abacus at home" and figured you'd just work out the tiny new cunundrum by asking slashdot a question as improbable as "how can i make a device that will get Carmen Electra to fsck my brains out even tho i have automatic Karma bonus on slashdot?"
ORRRR
you ripped of your copy of Photoshop.
Because if you're plunking down the bling-bling for Photoshop and quark for Mac OS X 10.2 - yet you want to run those 20" s
this is no different than the pre-release builds of Apple software like Mac OS X.
when i use these things - i understand fully that they are not ready for use, they may cause all my data to be horked, and could cause the end of the universe. In fact, I recently had to completely reformat my hard drive and reinstall 10.2 clean after a 10.3 release screwed up just about everything on my machine. I didn't complain 1 second because I knew that was a possibility... I also had all my data backed up and it took me about 2 hours to get back situated to a completely good machine again.
MOST people in the open public would NOT act this way if Apple let out pre-release software. They would send nasty emails, they would complain that this or that doesn't function (i've heard people whine about how unstable iChat AV Beta is - BETA PEOPLE)
This is why Apple is conservative - because if they are not - their stuff would not "Just Work (tm)" and Mac users would get upset.
As for this hack - that is exactly what it is.. a hack. I waited nearly a week after the first time i heard about this - waited to see if anyone out there was having trouble with it - and so i took the pluge OF MY OWN RESPONSIBILITY. If i bork my laptop - well, i bork it. its my problem, not Apple's. I dont' go to Disneylnd hoping to slip on some water to make a million bucks - and i don't hold Apple responsible if i kill my computer because i wanted to burn DVDs at 2x.
If people could accept responsiblity in this lawyer-soaked country - then people could do more ans experience more in their lives... but we live in a place where a burglar can sue for getting shot while breaking into your home, where if you spill coffee on yourself because you are a klutzy moron - you can win $1M, and where OJ can walk free because if Chewbacca lives on Endor, that doesn't make sense.
Of COURSE Apple goes conservative - and they do it for many reasons. And when i need a machine that works well - for work - I use a Mac, and i don't dork with it.
When i'm having fun - i try things and see what happens - and take responsibility.
f you, you lawyer-bought liberals and your safety first must wear a fscking helmet bullshit. Its my life, not yours, you cockbites.
i just installed it on a 12" PowerBook G4 with superdrive.
just burned 4.2 gigs of DiVX DVD rips onto Apple 2x media in thin jewel cases with Toast 5.1.2 at 2x. Burned in 30 minutes flat. No errors. Formerly could only burn at 1x.
just burned mandrake ix86 9.2b iso onto Memorex black CD-R 700 meg media with Toast 5.1.2 at 16x Burned in 4 minutes and 15 seconds. formerly could only burn at 8x.
it works for me. Of course, I installed a PowerMax ata-33 ide card, Intrega USB for Windows only PCI card, a SonnetTech G4/450 CPU card, and Firewire PCI card in a PowerMac 7500 running Mac OS X 10.2 and used it as my primary email server until 6 months ago..... so i'm not exactly the conservative computer user...
ymmv and if your powerbook blows up, don't blame me.
I don't care if its Microsoft, SCO, or Linus "Himself" - software patents are bad. Micro Soft is wrong in a great many things... but they should not have to defend themselves against "(obvious idea) over the internet" patents or any other silly patents. No one should.
..., you can find so many other things to hate them for?"
like Dennis Miller said, "Why hate someone (for something irrelevant) when, if you take the time to get to know them
be upset and angry at Microsoft for the things they do, not for those things that are not fair.
Lets look at your generally assumed positions - 1 at a time...
They pay taxes. Federal taxes deducted from their paychecks.
Where exactly is that fscking line item on the envelope full of singles that they get at the end of the day?
They are not a draw on social programs?
The county of Los Angeles ALONE - in 1 year paid out $350 MILLION (one county, one year) last year in medical expendatures to "undocumented workers". How do they know this? If you have a valid SSN, you get MediCAL. If you don't have a valid SSN, they simply bill your (ficticious) residence. The cost last year was $380 million. (LA Times)
If they get arrested they get tossed out?
It costs the state of California 7 times more to incarcerate "undocumented" Californians than it will cost to run this recall election.
They do not have to pay any insurance costs for their "vehicles" because they do not bother to register them, because, like you said, they avoid the DMV.
They most often use public transportation - which is by all accounts in every location in California a tax user, not a tax producer - because all state county, and city public transportation systems run at a loss, they do not make the cities/state money.
They do not pay for the cost of their children's education - because they do not pay income tax because they do not, on average, make enough to pay taxes since most of them make less than $22k a year.. below which, you do not pay federal income tax, and they can actually GET money back from the federal govnerment because you get $1000 for each child you have - the child tax credit.. so in the end, they MAKE more money off of the tax system alone than they put in.
They pay sale tax (on good that they buy in stores, but not on goods such as private sale of foodstuffs like what the farmers will sell to them at the end of the day). And they pay property tax (as part of their cost of rent) - but since they live disproportionately more people/dwelling, the revenue generated per captia is far below non-Latino rates.
In short - California is 100 times better than where they came from. Where they cam from they did not get free medical, free childbirth medical, free schooling for their kids, nearly free transportation costs, they don't get extorted by the cops as much as they did back in Mexico, China, Korea or whetever central American country they are from... and they get to be guarded by the best police, fire, and military protection in the world - without paying most of those nasty taxes that go to provide it all.
The employers of these people have an unfair tax advantage - but far far more importantly, they do not have to pay worker's compensation insurance on them - which in the State of California is running around 75% of worker's wages right now/year... it may go to 125% within 5 years. That means if you hire a guy for $40k a year, it will cost you nrealy $100k to hire them - when its all said and done...
This state is on the verge of total colapse - and it is because this state is responsible for the care, feeding (school lunches and breakfasts), and medical of non-trivial portions of other country's populations.
I did not sign up for the recall because I want to see at what point people will "get it" - that you cannot run a state like this, or it will collapse. With the party in power now standing up things like the "end poverty in California committee" movement in the state legislature - perhapse you remember that from the past.. Stalin and Lennin were both big proponents of the same ideals.
I want Americans to feel first hand what socialism does to a state... i want them to experience total colapse of a state under the weight of open borders and unlimited government programs. Because it is obvious to me that most people still left i
i have never before, nor shall i dare say, ever again by myself with no one around spontaneously shoot milk out nose and laugh out loud at the funniest cartoon character of all time.
Huzzah!!! Someone is noticing me! (/Zoidberg)
i am truly bent that my TiVo shall no longer grab for me the funniest and best written 22 minutes of my TV viewing week. Fox can bite my shiny metal ass for cancelling Futurama