When this happens with Windows XP, you will no longer be able to change parts in an old computer, because doing so would require re-activation, which Microsoft won't make available after a date the company picks.
This is so goddamn true, and has never even occurred to the mainstream press. Or it has and they are just ignoring it. Sometime in the future, probably after the 2003 "end of life" for WIn98, WindowsXP.NET will appear, and MS will say "We no longer reactivate unsupported products" - i.e., Windows XP.
This is the reason I am going for Windows 2000 because hopefully by the time games are no longer made to work on it, say by 2003 or 2004 (whenever the future.NET/XP codebase splits from the 2k one irrevocably), Linux will be mature enough to be a true alternative (playing catch-up with Win32 by KDE and GNOME is not my idea of an alternative, unless you are a MacOS freak who thinks that running Office 98 on MacOS really is "Thinking Different").
Why would it be a problem? To sll you the shit, they have to identify themselves or their company, or give you a contact number, and address, website.
BUt essentially, they circumvent Caller ID to get you wonder who it is calling, but after that they have to tell who they are to get you to buy, so it's all okay to go after them.
Just to be bitching, there are no "degrees" Kelvin, they are just called Kelvin. It's just "below 10 Kelvin". At least that's something I remember from 10 years ago........
Isn't that around the time when Atlantis was meant to be around, and the large earthquake in the mid-Atlantic raised the sealevel and all of the people spread to what are the "highlands" above water in Africa, Europa and the Americas. (hence the theory goes why there are pyramids in South America and Egypt - different offshoots of the same original civilisation).
At least that's a theory I read. All we need to find then is if there is evidence of meteorite craters in the Atlantic seabed like the middle-east one from a few days ago.
The new Jornada 560 series has the same 206MHz CPU but doesn't have the gay button problem. Also, the battery life on the iPAQs are lousy, so until those new X-Scale PDAs arrive next year a GBA is a better bet (plus, the GBA is getting Tekken and Speedball 2 and that whups any Norse mythology all over the place).
No, but it's better that he doesn't do all that and then go home and work on building chemical/biological weapons, etc., . Hence why you need US citizenship to work in CDC, and so on.
I am not saying to stop anybody - that would be insance - but it is very easy for a "subversive" to get a visa.
For example, a $500,000 investment in the US gets you a green card. Yes, straight up, half a million (at least). I am not talking about stopping students, I am saying that they are easily influenced by outside opinions (e.g., Taliban propaganda or whatever - of course the fact that it is illegal under Taliban for women to be educated is a point the girls missed when saying to leave them alone)....but rich fuckers like Bin Laden could easily have bought enough visas for whatever reason for whoever he wanted.
I know that each instance of IE needs around 10-15 MB, and bad resource management like that - stealing RAM and swap for each app instance no matter what it's used for - contributes.
OK, I just opened 90 Notepads. Only 128MB RAM, on Windows 98SE. I guess Notepad isn't IE.
Also, on linux, I was under the impression that the virtual terminals *were* limited - when you compile a kernel the default is 256 ptys; I may just be utterly wrong here, but I thought that meant there was a 256 virtual terminal limit. I would presume it also applies to X - but does X open all of it's stuff in a single console terminal?
OK you might be getting pissed at all the Anti-Terrorist crap going around; I was watching a recent documentary about schooling in Pakistan and the outlook/opinions of the students on the Afghan war, and they were as usual doing the "America is the real global terrorist" thing as the interviewers were asking questions as they were taking exams, etc., .
He also asked them what exam were they taking and it turned out that around 80% of the particular school were all applying for US high-schools and colleges; when they mentioned this, the students were like "Oh yes we know we hate America", etc., "but all the good schools are there"....
The fact that student visas are openly available for just about anything, and that every dickless dot-com was throwing out H1Bs like there was no tomorrow (ironic that), I can't say it's a bad move. Green cards and citizenship take much longer - longer than freak terrorists have. $1000 gets you 2 week H1B processing, or whatever fast track visa processed that you want.
So really it's not a bad move; what may be the real problem is if they start to censor actual students, etc., and restrict free speech, etc., and confuse free opinion with subversive activity. That's called "China".
If HP had to pay a "royalty" like charge in Germany for CD Writer sales and the "damage" they were doing, they are going to be in real trouble with this.
Assuming of course it isn't sold as a mini-PC....because we all know that Microsoft is under *no* threat with *it's* contribution to music piracy by including ripping and encoding in it's OS.
Right, this "i" prefix shit is getting out of hand. What the hell does it mean? Is it supposed to mean it's hi-tech or something?
I thought Apple were meant to be the "marketeers" of the computer industry - making a fortune from selling shitty overpriced blue-Mactinosh's with limited expandability. But iTunes? iMac? iWalk?
I won't start on Compaq. iPAQ? WTF is the "i" for? Anybody?
No, I meant in terms of past tense. Before the last 2-3 years and the heavy investment in DirectX, the advent of Windows 95, etc., Linux would have been better off in a direction besides hardcore-compile-your-own, and office. I would have thought that Linux would have been better off if OSS programmers concentrated on creating an equivalent of DX on Linux before Windows/MS ever got around to it. In 1998 OPenGL was still the main 3D API, e.g,. Quake 2, Half-Life, Unreal (I think, but it also used Glide as well).
For a time, looking back, Windows was aweful for games, and the demise of the home computer market lead to choiceless progression to Windows.
As it stands right now, no, Windows major major asset is gaming, and I was saying that it is ironic because for years and years I heard "Amiga is for games, get a real computer like a PC", and now the market perspective is exactly that. Windows merely was the choice at the time when the mainstream gaming market was about to boom. If linux had taken that direction things may hav ebeen different.
The recent article on moving the direction of linux towards an ultimate developer platform may be the next step, but again, MS realises this and is exploiting their ever increasing cement-hold on the industry with the ultimate developer platform being for.NET . So, like business/desktop was the first thing, then gaming, and with it internet, and next with internet comes.NET and solid hold on networks and development.
Apple were undoubtedly better on the desktop, but lost
Amiga, Atari..all the home comps were *the* game machines, they lost too
Linux, the real "internet" OS (free, powerful), loses on the next (last?) field.
I would very much like Linus to quit the reserved crap and get with a decent direction and program objective. MS has created a world dependent on them and as such is difficult ot get rid of (like Alien:) ).
This may be a very good thing, if not *the* best thing to happen Linux Distro's in a long time.
1. People who know what they are doing will build their own customised version from whatever version or distro they downloaded to work from.
2. I am firmly of the opinion that Linux should stop trying to compete with Windows on Windows's home ground - the office market. Those people are sluggish and resistant to change (we'll see how many even upgrade to Office 2000, not to mind Office XP, or Windows XP)
3. I think the linux missed out on exploiting a weakness in Windows - gaming - by the OS community concentrating on Windows one-upmanship with StarOffice vs. MS Office, etc., . WIn32 GUI vs. Gnome/KDE (who cares, like I said, people who know what they want will use FVWM if needs be, and the Office-lethargic group will stick with Windows/MS as has been shown).
Years ago (like 10 maybe) people would say to quit using that Amiga - it's a kid's computer and all you do is games or graphics, etc., . These days the thing that drives PC sales is exactly what MS lackey's would have scorned - games sell new PCs; that Clippy fucker doesn't.
Linux, if a direction should be made (I realise that that goes against general OS consenus, but I see more inventiveness and ingenuity from the demoscene (the real demoscene) with no OS at all IMHO), should aim to beat Windows at what it's weaknesses are, not by trying to beat it on it's strengths (Office, hardware support....I'd happily buy that one video card supporting everything than have a choice of 50 with shitty support).
What's new? All they do these days is get news after everybody else......ah but remember the times when Slashdot was where to get the latest info....
What would you bring on a Desert Island.....
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The new HP Jornada 560 series can bitch slap the iPAQs around now that they both are competing with 206MHz CPUs. Jornada has built in CF slot, removable battery, case cover, BUT:
The new iPAQ has this awesome GSM/GPRS mobile phone sleeve, which makes a fully functional Windows CE/PocketPC 2002 organiser and all that *that* allows, plus full GSM, SMS from the sleeve (with a stumpy little aerial at the top).
So while the 560 series was looking cool for a few weeks, the iPAQ can whoopass as a Nokia Communicator beater now, for around the same price. Also, they are releasing a dual PCMCIA adaptor so you could conceivable have the mother-of-all gadgets with a GPS, GSM and 2GB Microdrive with 5 movies and loads of MP3s.
Check Compaq's site for the details on the GSM/GPRS attachment (yes there is a PCMCIA solution from Nokia, but this new one is really really slick because it's built into the sleeve).
I would say that the car industry is different because a lot of the development is in say, looks. Now in GUIs, you can make any OS look like virtually any other (yes, Apple included!).
So while parts may increase in cost, it's fair enough because it's a specific part being built on an assembly line that requires work. Furthermore, you really don't ever need many parts replaced in a car.....you can still get parts for old Mustang's, Corvettes, etc., .
But, imagine if your old car STOPPED WORKING because a new version was out....that's the way Microsoft want computers to be (because they also assume that a computer is a singular item in the EULAs). There's a big difference because I can go out and buy and get parts for a 76 Continental, but the chances of getting Windows XP running in 3 years is unlikely (unless I never ever ever change the hardware and need it re-authenticated).
A lot of people *like* to change the car, because it may have nicer seats, may be bigger, a 4x4, faster, cool shape. But Windows, for all intents and purposes, is Windows. And the software that makes it "moderised" like DirectX upgrades, are all free anyway (e.g., IE as well).
Stereos? I might buy a new stereo, but my JVC Adagio from 1996 is doing just fine. It's not flashy, but it sounds awesome. People also don't really upgrade PCs because most of them aren't aware of the whole point being easy cheap upgrades like GFX card, etc., .
Phasing out models is one thing, but requiring that you stop using an older model because a newer one exists is purely a Microsoft invention.
Sure, but they all require the extra app to be installed, whereas remote access is built into the next OS that average consumers will buy with their PCs (assuming of course, they actually buy more PCs).
Yes there are loads of tools that can do the job, but imagine where you allow remote desktop access on XP Home to download an Mp3 or something....you or I may not use it, but millions might if the software already comes preconfigured for MP3 rights management and so on......
Dude, with Windows XP "Remote Administration" they won't need any backdoors, or any fancy stuff at all. I am surprised that no-one so far (at least on the comments I read) has mentioned this as XP Remote Control is like built in cDc BO.
Maybe if the.gov.us (it should NOT EVER BE.gov - the US dosn't run the world (although it tries hard))
But they did invent the goddamn internet and so sort of reserve the right to do whatever they want with it. If you start you're own internet, make it.hippy-commune instead of.gov if that makes you feel better. Any country that connects itself to the net has to accept that they are connected to a network that is not theirs. I'm sure in France the government have some reserved "domain" on Minitel, but like, who gives a shit about what's on that, eh?
No, the future of gaming is when people like Romero, Carmack and the rest of the talentless (regarding GAMEPLAY) cesspool-of-patch-release inhabitants quit the crap and stop making games like Quake 3, etc., . It's a real cop-out to say "it's multiplayer only" and therefore they don't need to bother making a half-decent game but just make a fancy 3D engine to sell.
Deus Ex was a GREAT game, and has a lot of factors that you won't find in big name releases; how about the incessant crap from Romero and Daikatana? and it turned out the less hyped game whupped it and most other games of 2000 collective asses.
End the tyranny of arcade shoot-em-ups! Death to the FPS and bring back a decent PLOT structured game to the PC!
How about C&C Renegade or whatever it is. It's another FPS, just like ANY other standard fare shootemup, but woohoo you can blow up a stealth tank or an obelisk of Nod because it's in C&C land so that obviously makes it the "biggest" game of the year.............fucking cretins. And Peter Molyneux and that 15 year old bloke from Theme Park have gone nuts. Black & White was a big tamagotchi, and this Republic just stinks of utter un-gameness.
Fuck this, I'm off to play Speedball 2. Wake me when Speedball Arena comes out - now THAT will be the way future games will go.
It would be cool if Microsoft did something like this, and called it "Window Maker" for a laugh.
Is it possible to mod entire Katz threads to -1?
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Yes that would have made more sense, but it's Katz we're talking about here, and he just wants to appear like he can do movie "reviews" like the guys who write the stuff on the back of rental boxes.
Is Jon Katz paid for these movie reviews? It seems like that's all he does, and he doesn't even do it very well.
Surely he has some intelligent insights in the current technology & financial climate, forthcoming OS developments or interesting tales or stories from the net.
Oh, except HE DOESN'T HAVE A FUCKING CLUE ABOUT ANY OF THOSE THINGS. My bad.
So like Johnny Mnemonic yeah? Surely this can not be a new thing.......I thought those gyroscope things have been around for ages (e.g., that joystick that you held in mid air that detected where it was and whether it was upright, etc., ).
Well done to them but unless they provide armrests my arms will get tired real quick. Think of the bodyguards in Payback if you don't see my point.
It would look very cool to use them, but only if there was some 3D holographic display.......and it was....er....tactile...or something.
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This is so goddamn true, and has never even occurred to the mainstream press. Or it has and they are just ignoring it. Sometime in the future, probably after the 2003 "end of life" for WIn98, WindowsXP .NET will appear, and MS will say "We no longer reactivate unsupported products" - i.e., Windows XP.
This is the reason I am going for Windows 2000 because hopefully by the time games are no longer made to work on it, say by 2003 or 2004 (whenever the future .NET/XP codebase splits from the 2k one irrevocably), Linux will be mature enough to be a true alternative (playing catch-up with Win32 by KDE and GNOME is not my idea of an alternative, unless you are a MacOS freak who thinks that running Office 98 on MacOS really is "Thinking Different").
BUt essentially, they circumvent Caller ID to get you wonder who it is calling, but after that they have to tell who they are to get you to buy, so it's all okay to go after them.
Just to be bitching, there are no "degrees" Kelvin, they are just called Kelvin. It's just "below 10 Kelvin". At least that's something I remember from 10 years ago........
At least that's a theory I read. All we need to find then is if there is evidence of meteorite craters in the Atlantic seabed like the middle-east one from a few days ago.
The new Jornada 560 series has the same 206MHz CPU but doesn't have the gay button problem. Also, the battery life on the iPAQs are lousy, so until those new X-Scale PDAs arrive next year a GBA is a better bet (plus, the GBA is getting Tekken and Speedball 2 and that whups any Norse mythology all over the place).
I am not saying to stop anybody - that would be insance - but it is very easy for a "subversive" to get a visa.
For example, a $500,000 investment in the US gets you a green card. Yes, straight up, half a million (at least). I am not talking about stopping students, I am saying that they are easily influenced by outside opinions (e.g., Taliban propaganda or whatever - of course the fact that it is illegal under Taliban for women to be educated is a point the girls missed when saying to leave them alone)....but rich fuckers like Bin Laden could easily have bought enough visas for whatever reason for whoever he wanted.
OK, I just opened 90 Notepads. Only 128MB RAM, on Windows 98SE. I guess Notepad isn't IE.
Also, on linux, I was under the impression that the virtual terminals *were* limited - when you compile a kernel the default is 256 ptys; I may just be utterly wrong here, but I thought that meant there was a 256 virtual terminal limit. I would presume it also applies to X - but does X open all of it's stuff in a single console terminal?
He also asked them what exam were they taking and it turned out that around 80% of the particular school were all applying for US high-schools and colleges; when they mentioned this, the students were like "Oh yes we know we hate America", etc., "but all the good schools are there"....
The fact that student visas are openly available for just about anything, and that every dickless dot-com was throwing out H1Bs like there was no tomorrow (ironic that), I can't say it's a bad move. Green cards and citizenship take much longer - longer than freak terrorists have. $1000 gets you 2 week H1B processing, or whatever fast track visa processed that you want.
So really it's not a bad move; what may be the real problem is if they start to censor actual students, etc., and restrict free speech, etc., and confuse free opinion with subversive activity. That's called "China".
Assuming of course it isn't sold as a mini-PC....because we all know that Microsoft is under *no* threat with *it's* contribution to music piracy by including ripping and encoding in it's OS.
I thought Apple were meant to be the "marketeers" of the computer industry - making a fortune from selling shitty overpriced blue-Mactinosh's with limited expandability. But iTunes? iMac? iWalk?
I won't start on Compaq. iPAQ? WTF is the "i" for? Anybody?
1GHz? Man my Pentium 4 2GHz beats all these supposedly "fast" chips. It's HALF the speed, for christ's sake. That is sooooooooo quarter 3 2000.
For a time, looking back, Windows was aweful for games, and the demise of the home computer market lead to choiceless progression to Windows.
As it stands right now, no, Windows major major asset is gaming, and I was saying that it is ironic because for years and years I heard "Amiga is for games, get a real computer like a PC", and now the market perspective is exactly that. Windows merely was the choice at the time when the mainstream gaming market was about to boom. If linux had taken that direction things may hav ebeen different.
The recent article on moving the direction of linux towards an ultimate developer platform may be the next step, but again, MS realises this and is exploiting their ever increasing cement-hold on the industry with the ultimate developer platform being for .NET . So, like business/desktop was the first thing, then gaming, and with it internet, and next with internet comes .NET and solid hold on networks and development.
Apple were undoubtedly better on the desktop, but lost Amiga, Atari..all the home comps were *the* game machines, they lost too Linux, the real "internet" OS (free, powerful), loses on the next (last?) field.
I would very much like Linus to quit the reserved crap and get with a decent direction and program objective. MS has created a world dependent on them and as such is difficult ot get rid of (like Alien :) ).
1. People who know what they are doing will build their own customised version from whatever version or distro they downloaded to work from.
2. I am firmly of the opinion that Linux should stop trying to compete with Windows on Windows's home ground - the office market. Those people are sluggish and resistant to change (we'll see how many even upgrade to Office 2000, not to mind Office XP, or Windows XP)
3. I think the linux missed out on exploiting a weakness in Windows - gaming - by the OS community concentrating on Windows one-upmanship with StarOffice vs. MS Office, etc., . WIn32 GUI vs. Gnome/KDE (who cares, like I said, people who know what they want will use FVWM if needs be, and the Office-lethargic group will stick with Windows/MS as has been shown).
Years ago (like 10 maybe) people would say to quit using that Amiga - it's a kid's computer and all you do is games or graphics, etc., . These days the thing that drives PC sales is exactly what MS lackey's would have scorned - games sell new PCs; that Clippy fucker doesn't.
Linux, if a direction should be made (I realise that that goes against general OS consenus, but I see more inventiveness and ingenuity from the demoscene (the real demoscene) with no OS at all IMHO), should aim to beat Windows at what it's weaknesses are, not by trying to beat it on it's strengths (Office, hardware support....I'd happily buy that one video card supporting everything than have a choice of 50 with shitty support).
What's new? All they do these days is get news after everybody else......ah but remember the times when Slashdot was where to get the latest info....
The new iPAQ has this awesome GSM/GPRS mobile phone sleeve, which makes a fully functional Windows CE/PocketPC 2002 organiser and all that *that* allows, plus full GSM, SMS from the sleeve (with a stumpy little aerial at the top).
So while the 560 series was looking cool for a few weeks, the iPAQ can whoopass as a Nokia Communicator beater now, for around the same price. Also, they are releasing a dual PCMCIA adaptor so you could conceivable have the mother-of-all gadgets with a GPS, GSM and 2GB Microdrive with 5 movies and loads of MP3s.
Check Compaq's site for the details on the GSM/GPRS attachment (yes there is a PCMCIA solution from Nokia, but this new one is really really slick because it's built into the sleeve).
So while parts may increase in cost, it's fair enough because it's a specific part being built on an assembly line that requires work. Furthermore, you really don't ever need many parts replaced in a car.....you can still get parts for old Mustang's, Corvettes, etc., .
But, imagine if your old car STOPPED WORKING because a new version was out....that's the way Microsoft want computers to be (because they also assume that a computer is a singular item in the EULAs). There's a big difference because I can go out and buy and get parts for a 76 Continental, but the chances of getting Windows XP running in 3 years is unlikely (unless I never ever ever change the hardware and need it re-authenticated).
A lot of people *like* to change the car, because it may have nicer seats, may be bigger, a 4x4, faster, cool shape. But Windows, for all intents and purposes, is Windows. And the software that makes it "moderised" like DirectX upgrades, are all free anyway (e.g., IE as well).
Stereos? I might buy a new stereo, but my JVC Adagio from 1996 is doing just fine. It's not flashy, but it sounds awesome. People also don't really upgrade PCs because most of them aren't aware of the whole point being easy cheap upgrades like GFX card, etc., .
Phasing out models is one thing, but requiring that you stop using an older model because a newer one exists is purely a Microsoft invention.
Yes there are loads of tools that can do the job, but imagine where you allow remote desktop access on XP Home to download an Mp3 or something....you or I may not use it, but millions might if the software already comes preconfigured for MP3 rights management and so on......
Dude, with Windows XP "Remote Administration" they won't need any backdoors, or any fancy stuff at all. I am surprised that no-one so far (at least on the comments I read) has mentioned this as XP Remote Control is like built in cDc BO.
But they did invent the goddamn internet and so sort of reserve the right to do whatever they want with it. If you start you're own internet, make it .hippy-commune instead of .gov if that makes you feel better. Any country that connects itself to the net has to accept that they are connected to a network that is not theirs. I'm sure in France the government have some reserved "domain" on Minitel, but like, who gives a shit about what's on that, eh?
Deus Ex was a GREAT game, and has a lot of factors that you won't find in big name releases; how about the incessant crap from Romero and Daikatana? and it turned out the less hyped game whupped it and most other games of 2000 collective asses.
End the tyranny of arcade shoot-em-ups! Death to the FPS and bring back a decent PLOT structured game to the PC!
How about C&C Renegade or whatever it is. It's another FPS, just like ANY other standard fare shootemup, but woohoo you can blow up a stealth tank or an obelisk of Nod because it's in C&C land so that obviously makes it the "biggest" game of the year.............fucking cretins. And Peter Molyneux and that 15 year old bloke from Theme Park have gone nuts. Black & White was a big tamagotchi, and this Republic just stinks of utter un-gameness.
Fuck this, I'm off to play Speedball 2. Wake me when Speedball Arena comes out - now THAT will be the way future games will go.
Windows is soon to be renamed Closed-Source/Gates/Windows which is far more informative.
It would be cool if Microsoft did something like this, and called it "Window Maker" for a laugh.
Yes that would have made more sense, but it's Katz we're talking about here, and he just wants to appear like he can do movie "reviews" like the guys who write the stuff on the back of rental boxes.
Surely he has some intelligent insights in the current technology & financial climate, forthcoming OS developments or interesting tales or stories from the net.
Oh, except HE DOESN'T HAVE A FUCKING CLUE ABOUT ANY OF THOSE THINGS. My bad.
Well done to them but unless they provide armrests my arms will get tired real quick. Think of the bodyguards in Payback if you don't see my point.
It would look very cool to use them, but only if there was some 3D holographic display.......and it was....er....tactile...or something.