Astroturf == false grassroots. Microsoft does it all the time, here and elsewhere. They got caught submitting fake letters to the editor at the LA Times, remember?
Slashdot has always been Anti-MS, and usually this place is very MS enthusiast-free. It just seems that whenever something truly important happens to Microsoft, the MS shills just come out of the woodwork. Like today, posting with their AC accounts, or accounts created today.
Astroturf is used quite a bit around here, so you're obviously not a regular reader. Where exactly do you come from, hm?
The same money and resources MS has been trying to cut? Please tell me you're not bringing influence peddling to the argument on the side of Microsoft.
Funny you should mention that. That barely started happening, and the current trial is probably the reason that Microsoft has decided not to retaliate.
It's truth time, AC. The computers are not that bad? I have one thing to say to you: 170272
170272 was the number of a "Master CD", the one the PB rep. would make you use to completely reinstall your system. 170272 was the worst (it left you with an unusable machine), but we pressed 4 or 5 more *replacements* that were just as useless. 60% of my time on the phone was replacing CD's, or going back to fix broken Win95 installations from the Master CD. I remember when 170369 hit the street...
And how about the daughterboard-modem floating com port fiasco? PB pentiums in 1995-1996 had this slot for a daughterboard modem that was never disabled properly. This would cause Win95 to develop a numberless com port that would float around and conflict with existing real com ports. This happened quite often.
My last day at PB, I had a customer on the phone who had just bought one of our pieces of crap. The hard drive was corrupted right out of the box, _and_ the floppy drive was broken. I recommended that this distraught person would have a happier life if he just took it back to Sears, as it would probably be months before he got to use his machine. But oops! My supervisor was listening (to assure quality service). He tried to reprimand me for helping this poor person! So I quit, buncha bastards.
The refurbished PB monitor I had died, and I waited 6 months for a replacement. I got sick of waiting and just went and got a new Viewsonic. 'Couple weeks later, the PB home tech came to appartment during the day, for some reason the door wasn't locked, he came inside (!!!), took my new Viewsonic and replaced it with a yellowing PB monitor that also didn't work.
I managed to catch my monitor at the Denver airport and get it back...
I worked tech support for PB for about a year. A more unethical company I have never encountered in my life.
We had people call us up and threaten us with physical violence on a daily basis. Some people waited on parts for 6 months or more.
One time there was a suspected fire in the Magna, UT building (there was smoke) but our higher-ups made us stay on the phone while they called the fire department.
We had 2 bomb threats.
They gave us techs good training. They just actively discouraged us from helping customers.
Could X be hacked in such a way that it was double-headed, but displayed nearly the same thing on each monitor? Next all you would have to do is take apart 2 pair of crummy LCD glasses (where each eyepiece is the same screen) and reassemble them so each eyepiece goes into a different video card. Therefore, IIRC, you could have a truly 3D Linux system, and change the depth by altering the relative positions of windows on each monitor.
Forgive me if this is a retarded question. I am no wizard in the affairs of the kernel...
The first module I'm meant to install, anp82.o fails saying:
unresolved symbol vfree
unresolved symbol vmalloc
unresolved symbol printk
A search of my system reveals no modules (or anything else) by that name, and a search of the net indicates that these are all *libraries* ? What gives?
The mpeg2player that the docs talk about is conspicuously missing. I got mpeg2play from mpeg.org, but it doesn't recognize the outputted.vob file as a data stream. Also, the arguments are different, so I suspect they're probably different programs.
BTW, Dark City cracked, Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" did not.
Ah, but the capitalist does not use money as a medium of exchange, but rather the commodity. You & I use money to trade corn for iron or some such thing. The capitalist uses the iron (or film, or whatever) as the intermediary to trade money for more money, the money being the end desired.
Thus the function of the capitalist (or filmmaker) is only to siphon cash out of circulation.
The filmmaker need not entertain me to get my money. He just needs to make the movie appear entertaining enough in a 30 second TV spot to get me to pay for the ticket. Before I see ANY movie anymore, I watch the first 5-10 minutes from an.ASF off IRC. Some movies have been good enough that I paid the money to see them in the theatre (Thomas Crowne, Mystery Men). The rest is, frankly, crap.
I agree. This analogy may be way off, but think of Hitler. He (single-handedly?) convinced an enormous group of people that he knew who deserved to live and he knew what the world should be like and proceeded from there. And look what he did.
What did he do? The German people were already familiar with eugenics, the idea of the Neitzschian superman/race, and were sick and tired of nearly half of the officials in the inept post WWI government being non-Germans (Jews) who got richer while the Germans got poorer. Hell, the idea of "genocide" came to Hitler from Talaat Pashah of the Young Turks.
I'm not trying to defend what Hitler did, but heaping all the blame for everything on one guy strikes me as very dogmatic.
A genius at what? To my knowledge, the only innovative thing he ever did was port BASIC to the Altair. The rest of his success was 100% power-brokering. The sale of DOS to IBM which essentially made Microsoft was essentially buying the OS for 50K from SCP, and turning around and licensing it to IBM the next day for more. Where's the genius in that? He could have done the same with oranges, leather jackets, or carpets from Afghanistan.
MS had a monopoly from day one. That's 100% market share of the IBM PC market. If you look at the legal and market shenanigans that ensued in the DOS world up to the early 90's, its pretty clear why that total monopoly didn't decline much.
Hell, it took MS eight years to come up with a GUI that even came close to matching the MacOS, yet they still retained near total power during that period. And this is in the computer industry. Continents have risen from the ocean faster than that in this business.
Bill's no genius. He has aptitides, but they have nothing to do with computing.
Government does not protect corporations. The Law does. It grants me, and everyone else, the same privileges and rights that allow me to pursue my business.
I see. So when George Bush went to Japan with the big 3 auto makers to get MITI to lower trade barriers, it was in his capacity as a lawyer? Your nose must be full of goofballs if you think the government never intervenes on behalf of corporations. The only reason the DOJ is going after MS at all this time is to intervene on behalf of Novell, Netscape, Sun, and Caldera. If it were just you & I being screwed, there would be no trial.
This is a war after all. Redmond has vowed to destroy us, and everything we stand for.
If they unleash everything they've got (money, disinfo, and connections) on us, it's to be expected that we would use everything we've got (bandwidth clogging, en-masse bitching, computer crime) on them.
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Astroturf == false grassroots. Microsoft does it all the time, here and elsewhere. They got caught submitting fake letters to the editor at the LA Times, remember?
Slashdot has always been Anti-MS, and usually this place is very MS enthusiast-free. It just seems that whenever something truly important happens to Microsoft, the MS shills just come out of the woodwork. Like today, posting with their AC accounts, or accounts created today.
Astroturf is used quite a bit around here, so you're obviously not a regular reader. Where exactly do you come from, hm?
The same money and resources MS has been trying to cut? Please tell me you're not bringing influence peddling to the argument on the side of Microsoft.
I'll go call Sun and IBM and tell them that Solaris, AIX, OS/400, and MVS aren't real. Boy will Scott McNeally be pissed.
Don't you Microsoft boys have work to do or something? Don't you have several million lines of Windows 2000 code to debug?
Funny you should mention that. That barely started happening, and the current trial is probably the reason that Microsoft has decided not to retaliate.
I feel like doing the Ewok dance!
Echelon is your friend.
Oceania has always been at war with EastAsia.
Eat your spam.
Drink your purple kool-aid.
It's truth time, AC. The computers are not that bad?
I have one thing to say to you: 170272
170272 was the number of a "Master CD", the one the PB rep. would make you use to completely reinstall your system. 170272 was the worst (it left you with an unusable machine), but we pressed 4 or 5 more *replacements* that were just as useless. 60% of my time on the phone was replacing CD's, or going back to fix broken Win95 installations from the Master CD. I remember when 170369 hit the street...
And how about the daughterboard-modem floating com port fiasco? PB pentiums in 1995-1996 had this slot for a daughterboard modem that was never disabled properly. This would cause Win95 to develop a numberless com port that would float around and conflict with existing real com ports. This happened quite often.
My last day at PB, I had a customer on the phone who had just bought one of our pieces of crap. The hard drive was corrupted right out of the box, _and_ the floppy drive was broken. I recommended that this distraught person would have a happier life if he just took it back to Sears, as it would probably be months before he got to use his machine.
But oops! My supervisor was listening (to assure quality service). He tried to reprimand me for helping this poor person! So I quit, buncha bastards.
The refurbished PB monitor I had died, and I waited 6 months for a replacement. I got sick of waiting and just went and got a new Viewsonic.
'Couple weeks later, the PB home tech came to appartment during the day, for some reason the door wasn't locked, he came inside (!!!), took my new Viewsonic and replaced it with a yellowing PB monitor that also didn't work.
I managed to catch my monitor at the Denver airport and get it back...
I worked tech support for PB for about a year. A more unethical company I have never encountered in my life.
We had people call us up and threaten us with physical violence on a daily basis. Some people waited on parts for 6 months or more.
One time there was a suspected fire in the Magna, UT building (there was smoke) but our higher-ups made us stay on the phone while they called the fire department.
We had 2 bomb threats.
They gave us techs good training. They just actively discouraged us from helping customers.
Could X be hacked in such a way that it was double-headed, but displayed nearly the same thing on each monitor?
Next all you would have to do is take apart 2 pair of crummy LCD glasses (where each eyepiece is the same screen) and reassemble them so each eyepiece goes into a different video card.
Therefore, IIRC, you could have a truly 3D Linux system, and change the depth by altering the relative positions of windows on each monitor.
What do you think sirs?
The first module I'm meant to install, anp82.o fails saying:
unresolved symbol vfree
unresolved symbol vmalloc
unresolved symbol printk
A search of my system reveals no modules (or anything else) by that name, and a search of the net indicates that these are all *libraries* ? What gives?
TIA
Oh, I don't think so. He advocates divesting in Microsoft, not the entire market. I favor a slow deflation of Microsoft over a depression anyday.
BTW, Dark City cracked, Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" did not.
I have it in front of me. Which section is the one that discusses economics? I forget.
Thus the function of the capitalist (or filmmaker) is only to siphon cash out of circulation.
Capital by Karl Marx. Read it.
The filmmaker need not entertain me to get my money. He just needs to make the movie appear entertaining enough in a 30 second TV spot to get me to pay for the ticket. Before I see ANY movie anymore, I watch the first 5-10 minutes from an .ASF off IRC. Some movies have been good enough that I paid the money to see them in the theatre (Thomas Crowne, Mystery Men). The rest is, frankly, crap.
Nephi
Lehi
Korihor
Helaman
Mahonrimoriankomer
Adam-God
Kolob
Hiryu
Akagi
Musashi
Yamato
etc.
What did he do? The German people were already familiar with eugenics, the idea of the Neitzschian superman/race, and were sick and tired of nearly half of the officials in the inept post WWI government being non-Germans (Jews) who got richer while the Germans got poorer. Hell, the idea of "genocide" came to Hitler from Talaat Pashah of the Young Turks.
I'm not trying to defend what Hitler did, but heaping all the blame for everything on one guy strikes me as very dogmatic.
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Site License for same:
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Priceless.
MS had a monopoly from day one. That's 100% market share of the IBM PC market. If you look at the legal and market shenanigans that ensued in the DOS world up to the early 90's, its pretty clear why that total monopoly didn't decline much.
Hell, it took MS eight years to come up with a GUI that even came close to matching the MacOS, yet they still retained near total power during that period. And this is in the computer industry. Continents have risen from the ocean faster than that in this business.
Bill's no genius. He has aptitides, but they have nothing to do with computing.
I see. So when George Bush went to Japan with the big 3 auto makers to get MITI to lower trade barriers, it was in his capacity as a lawyer?
Your nose must be full of goofballs if you think the government never intervenes on behalf of corporations. The only reason the DOJ is going after MS at all this time is to intervene on behalf of Novell, Netscape, Sun, and Caldera. If it were just you & I being screwed, there would be no trial.
If they unleash everything they've got (money, disinfo, and connections) on us, it's to be expected that we would use everything we've got (bandwidth clogging, en-masse bitching, computer crime) on them.
May the real geeks win.
Silly customer, Taco Bell is owned by Pepsi.
As are Pizza Hut, KFC, and Frito Lay. Not sure who owns Pepsi.