This was about a year ago. Fox News did a "story" about the Subway Diet, and how Jared lost 200 pounds eating at Subway. This was about a week before the Subway commercials featuring Jared started airing on Fox.
I think that was the day I stopped watching TV news for good.
I'm pretty sure the US gets only 25% of its oil from the Middle East, so we don't really "need" it per se...
I've heard it suggested that the real reason the US needs to control the oil in the Mideast is to stabilize and control the countries that do depend on it, like Japan (100% dependant) and to a lesser extent Europe and China.
They're not out to get you, they're out to do exactly what they want, and want to limit the ways in which you can interfere with them.
Although, I sometimes I truly wish I could believe as you do. To believe that my government was righteous and good and heroic and wanted to protect me. I'd probably sleep better, and I'm pretty sure I'd have a lot thinner FBI file.
Unfortunately I'm what... too old-fashioned? too well read? too attentive? I don't know. But it sucks to be as worried as I am.
I'm currently reading Julius Evola's "Revolt Against the Modern World" to prepare my mind for the superstitious sort of Fascism America is headed for. It raises a lot of interesting points. Perhaps if I keep an open mind, one day I can learn to love Big Brother as well.
Wait, I thought refresh interlock issues were only problems with video cameras. As plain ol' celuloid film has no refresh rate, I don't see how it would apply to movies. (Television is another matter.)
I'm not sure the floating panel was an asthetic decision. I'm think it was designed to:
- Take up less space, and
- Be easy to move around.
I watch TV and movies on my clunky 17" PC monitor, meaning I have to spend about 30 seconds rotating the sucker without knocking things off my desk.
If this iMac is designed to be used as more than a desktop computer for doing the budget, (say for showing movies, playing music, displaying pictures for digital cameras) then this floating monitor looks really really usable.
I've had this discussion repeatedly with my Japanese coworkers. I think there really is a major cultural difference here.
Frankly I can't stand the types of games that are made and sold in Japan. Basically, you can only play them once and there is no concept of "replay value". And the stories are very linear. My friends say they like them because they get engrossed in the story. The combat, levels, and other "gameplay" features are seen as superfluous.
My friends also said that they tried "American" style games like the Ultima series, but the world was so big and they had so many options that they didn't know what they were "supposed to do" all the time. I tried to tell them that it's an adventure; you go explore and find the towns, dungeons, quests, etc. They thought that was to troublesome and "not fun."
At least the Final Fantasy series makes an attempt to update the interface and graphics every version. There is a whole slew of RPG's that sell for 8000 yen a pop that have used the same boxy 2D engine and graphics literally since 1991 (think of the first Legend of Zelda.) These games are only kept fresh by slightly altering the story and adding new female characters to seduce.
Actually, seriously messed up English is rapidly giving way to even more seriously messed up French. America just isn't as cool and exotic as it used to be (I live in Japan, BTW.)
Consider these examples:
Dir En Grey (a band)
L'arc en Ciel (a band)
Comme ca du Mode (a daepartment store)
Olive des Olive (a department store)
I kept a wrapper for a piece of bite-size chocolate with the name "Petit Bit."
...which in French means "small penis."
One of my coworkers tried it out over New Year's break. He said it's almost exactly like Everquest. It has a level system, and is pretty much just a hack&slash game.
He says he's bored with it, and is going back to UltimaOnline.
I dunno... TurboLinux seems to be fading fast in Japan. The popular disros now are RedHat Vine (which is RedHat), and Laser5. RedHat 7.2 has the best Japanese support of any Unix I have ever seen (I'm using it now).
In Korea, Hancom Linux is getting pretty darned popular.
However, the solution is not to remove raw sockets, it's to (a) forcibly educate the users, such as making them run through a tutorial on first-boot from a PC, or (b) lock down the system, instead of leaving it open, like MS typically does.
Keep in mind that XP is a rework of NT/2000 into a desktop OS.
MS didn't forget to secure XP, they broke the security on purpose for greater compatibility with 95/98 apps (which have no user-level security whatsoever.)
I think what Cringely said was that Microsoft left this hole open intentionally in order to create that "super worm". Then when the worm actually appears, to use that as a pretext to ditch the insecure TCP/IP protocol that allowed such a worm to be spawned (this is MS talking, mind you), and move to a more secure MS-TCP or MS-IPv6. And that will be the death of the internet.
Far fetched I know, but similar things have been tried before.
I don't get this "Linux doesn't offer anything" crap. I seriously think people who say this just aren't keeping up with where we actually are (today, December 28, 2001)
Redhat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1, IMO, are easier to install than any kind of Windows. And smoother, (much) better looking, faster...
I don't get it, I can't think of anything wrong with it other than that it isn't windows.
(I'm talking current versions here.)
Anybody could deploy Mandrake 8.1 in the workplace and be up and working in a heartbeat, and that's the truth.
Yes, but as soon as the first company kicks XP out of the datacenter (or off the desktop, why not?), that is the beginning of the end for MS.
Can you imagine if people in that company's, say, IT department recieved an email attachment from a vendor in OfficeXP format, and then called that vendor up and told them to re-send it in some cross-platform format?
Chances are it would prompt that company's vendors and business partners to switch OS's also.
And so on,
And so forth.
And since "compatibility" and monopoly are all MS has going for it, MS will disintegrate like an loaf of bread in a warm bath.
I'm more sure that those three organizations are most likely running their own home-brewed OS so at least they can have the sources under their control and their security levels can be assessed in the intrest of national security.
I believe that OS is called "Wildcat". I have no sources on that, I heard it from someone.
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This was about a year ago. Fox News did a "story" about the Subway Diet, and how Jared lost 200 pounds eating at Subway. This was about a week before the Subway commercials featuring Jared started airing on Fox.
I think that was the day I stopped watching TV news for good.
It turns out that the KKK motto is "Non Silba Sed Anthar" (not for self, but for others.)
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So I will keep my
The KKK motto?
I found it in a book. I thought it meant:
"That which is for everyone, is everywhere and will live forever."
...which kinda sums up my feelings on Linux, et al. If its the KKK motto, I'll change it immediately...
You know the constitution?
You must be a terrorist. Real Americans are never taught the constitution.
"Links" nothin', Bush and Cheney comprise just about the whole frikkin chain.
I'm pretty sure the US gets only 25% of its oil from the Middle East, so we don't really "need" it per se...
I've heard it suggested that the real reason the US needs to control the oil in the Mideast is to stabilize and control the countries that do depend on it, like Japan (100% dependant) and to a lesser extent Europe and China.
They're not out to get you, they're out to do exactly what they want, and want to limit the ways in which you can interfere with them.
Although, I sometimes I truly wish I could believe as you do. To believe that my government was righteous and good and heroic and wanted to protect me. I'd probably sleep better, and I'm pretty sure I'd have a lot thinner FBI file.
Unfortunately I'm what... too old-fashioned? too well read? too attentive? I don't know. But it sucks to be as worried as I am.
I'm currently reading Julius Evola's "Revolt Against the Modern World" to prepare my mind for the superstitious sort of Fascism America is headed for. It raises a lot of interesting points. Perhaps if I keep an open mind, one day I can learn to love Big Brother as well.
Wait, I thought refresh interlock issues were only problems with video cameras. As plain ol' celuloid film has no refresh rate, I don't see how it would apply to movies. (Television is another matter.)
The only example I gave was Ultima. Origin is not going belly-up.
Are you personally offended by criticism of Japanese games? I certainly didn't mean it as any kind of attack on Chinese-Americans.
I'm not sure the floating panel was an asthetic decision. I'm think it was designed to:
- Take up less space, and
- Be easy to move around.
I watch TV and movies on my clunky 17" PC monitor, meaning I have to spend about 30 seconds rotating the sucker without knocking things off my desk.
If this iMac is designed to be used as more than a desktop computer for doing the budget, (say for showing movies, playing music, displaying pictures for digital cameras) then this floating monitor looks really really usable.
I understand Hollywood likes the look of Macs because Apple gives computers to them for free.
Gotta make sure the apple logo is plainly displayed though, which means lots of shots from the back.
Gosh, somebody got another one of Dave Barry's jokes.
Of course it's to make more money. That's why the last version is called "Windows Let's Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont."
I've had this discussion repeatedly with my Japanese coworkers. I think there really is a major cultural difference here.
Frankly I can't stand the types of games that are made and sold in Japan. Basically, you can only play them once and there is no concept of "replay value". And the stories are very linear. My friends say they like them because they get engrossed in the story. The combat, levels, and other "gameplay" features are seen as superfluous.
My friends also said that they tried "American" style games like the Ultima series, but the world was so big and they had so many options that they didn't know what they were "supposed to do" all the time. I tried to tell them that it's an adventure; you go explore and find the towns, dungeons, quests, etc. They thought that was to troublesome and "not fun."
At least the Final Fantasy series makes an attempt to update the interface and graphics every version. There is a whole slew of RPG's that sell for 8000 yen a pop that have used the same boxy 2D engine and graphics literally since 1991 (think of the first Legend of Zelda.) These games are only kept fresh by slightly altering the story and adding new female characters to seduce.
Actually, seriously messed up English is rapidly giving way to even more seriously messed up French. America just isn't as cool and exotic as it used to be (I live in Japan, BTW.)
Consider these examples:
Dir En Grey (a band)
L'arc en Ciel (a band)
Comme ca du Mode (a daepartment store)
Olive des Olive (a department store)
I kept a wrapper for a piece of bite-size chocolate with the name "Petit Bit."
...which in French means "small penis."
One of my coworkers tried it out over New Year's break. He said it's almost exactly like Everquest. It has a level system, and is pretty much just a hack&slash game.
He says he's bored with it, and is going back to UltimaOnline.
I dunno... TurboLinux seems to be fading fast in Japan. The popular disros now are RedHat Vine (which is RedHat), and Laser5. RedHat 7.2 has the best Japanese support of any Unix I have ever seen (I'm using it now).
In Korea, Hancom Linux is getting pretty darned popular.
Don't you pronounce XML as "eXzeeMaL"?
However, the solution is not to remove raw sockets, it's to (a) forcibly educate the users, such as making them run through a tutorial on first-boot from a PC, or (b) lock down the system, instead of leaving it open, like MS typically does.
Keep in mind that XP is a rework of NT/2000 into a desktop OS.
MS didn't forget to secure XP, they broke the security on purpose for greater compatibility with 95/98 apps (which have no user-level security whatsoever.)
I think what Cringely said was that Microsoft left this hole open intentionally in order to create that "super worm". Then when the worm actually appears, to use that as a pretext to ditch the insecure TCP/IP protocol that allowed such a worm to be spawned (this is MS talking, mind you), and move to a more secure MS-TCP or MS-IPv6. And that will be the death of the internet.
Far fetched I know, but similar things have been tried before.
I agree.
I don't get this "Linux doesn't offer anything" crap. I seriously think people who say this just aren't keeping up with where we actually are (today, December 28, 2001)
Redhat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1, IMO, are easier to install than any kind of Windows. And smoother, (much) better looking, faster...
I don't get it, I can't think of anything wrong with it other than that it isn't windows.
(I'm talking current versions here.)
Anybody could deploy Mandrake 8.1 in the workplace and be up and working in a heartbeat, and that's the truth.
Yes, but as soon as the first company kicks XP out of the datacenter (or off the desktop, why not?), that is the beginning of the end for MS.
Can you imagine if people in that company's, say, IT department recieved an email attachment from a vendor in OfficeXP format, and then called that vendor up and told them to re-send it in some cross-platform format?
Chances are it would prompt that company's vendors and business partners to switch OS's also.
And so on,
And so forth.
And since "compatibility" and monopoly are all MS has going for it, MS will disintegrate like an loaf of bread in a warm bath.
Developers!
(bump bump, grind grind)
Developers!
(wiggle wiggle shake shake)
Developers!
(oooh yeah!)
Developers!
I'm more sure that those three organizations are most likely running their own home-brewed OS so at least they can have the sources under their control and their security levels can be assessed in the intrest of national security.
I believe that OS is called "Wildcat". I have no sources on that, I heard it from someone.
Ummm...
I use both.
The linux decision was more expediency-driven than hate-driven.
I keep my supermodels in the broom closet.
I'm not parking my car on the street when it rains, yeesh!