The typical twenty-first-century person's day, he predicts, will include: "Skimming five hundred channel program listings, two hours; viewing television programs selected, four hours; catching up on recorded programs, six hours; exploring the hyperweb, six hours; and adventuring in artificial reality, four hours." He didn't even mention checking e-mail, answering fax-spewing and stock-listing cellphones, or responding to pagers and beepers.
This sounds more alarmist than anything else, in my opinion. There are people that do this kind of thing today -- browse the web for hours on end, watch way too much television, IRC and MU* all damn day. These kind of people generally don't amount to much, though. They certainly aren't -- and, I think, won't become -- "typical". I don't envision a world filled with unwashed, television-and-computer-addicted losers, at least not any more so than it's been for the past forty years.
Heck, the typical people of the 21st century would be the ones working 8 hours a day, just as they do now, so the addicts they come home to can sit in front of their TVs and computers. Addicts generally don't have jobs (how could they, if they spend, apparently, 22 hours watching TV and browsing "the hyperweb"?). Typical people of the 21st century will be the same as they are now, only older.
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The only incoming ports that are available are ftp and telnet. There are absolutely no outgoing ports available that I've found. You can telnet nowhere. You can't connect to any web servers, IRC servers, FTP servers -- nothing. There's no way to use these machines as springboards to hack other sites. Compaq thought this out well.
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My brother's on the beta testers list for some reason. I brought it into work and installed it on my (expendable) PII-333 NT 4.0 Compaq box.
Or I tried to.
Easy to install? Not really. RC1 took two hour-long installs to actually get to the point where it would boot. When it did boot, the high-end video card in the machine (An Elsa GLoria) didn't work in anything other than 640x480 in 16 vibrant colors. There were no drivers for the card on Elsa's site, but I managed to convince the NT 4 drivers to work, after a fashion.
Easy to use? I guess, if you don't mind waiting. The default install came with all the needless crap turned on -- menus that fade into existance, all the ugly extras in Explorer that seemed to chew up CPU time rather than offer any useful features, even a cute little shadow under the mouse pointer that probably took up its fair share of processor cycles. Even after turning all the cruft off, the machine still ran like a three-legged horse. It felt _much_ slower than NT 4, which really is saying something. The video was unbearably slow, though using NT 4 drivers might have been the cause of that. Programs loaded slower. The machine took longer to boot and longer to shut down (which needed to be done often, even moreso than NT 4). Although it had a later version of DirectX than NT 4 SP3 did, none of the games I tried to use worked with it. (A few of them did in NT 4.) Internet Explorer kept forgetting that I'd told it to use a proxy server. Eventually I got sick of it and reinstalled NT 4.
The SP2 CDs just arrived yesterday. I'm very afraid.
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So I no longer have the right to steal others' content and redirect their potential, unwitting users to my filthy porn sites. Boo hoo. Cry me a river. How can this be misconstrued as a *bad* thing?
Honestly, did anyone read the FTC's summary? These bastards disabled the back/forward buttons on the browser with Javascript so people would be barraged with pr0n. Imagine if you unsuspectingly did this at work and were fired for it. Would you be crying "foul" then?
There are a lot of reasons to be mad at the government. We don't need to manufacture any.
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How is the software industry any different from any other, so much so that it shouldn't be scrutinized by the government in the same fashion every other industry is? Software vendors are in the business to make money, just like anyone else.
Your assertion that "even if they did break a law, it's a stupid law to begin with" holds absolutely no water. I happen to think having to stop at a red light is outdated and stupid, too. I think I'll start running them from now on. Let's see how far that gets me. The fact of the matter is, the antitrust laws in this country *are* specific and to-the-point. If they weren't, there would be countless cases prosecuted under them every year. I don't see too many going to court, do you?
Microsoft broke the rules. Now it's time to pay up.
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The Alpha always has been, and will continue to be the hottest-running CPU out there. I've read that they dissipate *35 watts* of heat, which is nearly double what a Pentium can do. Sitting in the back room of our UNIX lab at school is a good way to keep warm - it's where all the old Alpha 233s are. The heat that comes off those things feels like a hair dryer. Without a CPU fan and a lot of internal airflow, those poor things would fizzle up in a minute or so. As for the other CPUs, I don't know, except to say that the Ultra Is tend to get a little warm, too.
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He could have done what you suggest and stated the facts clearly and succinctly without spewing vitriol and digital vomit everywhere in that article.
But then would it have gotten linked here on/.? Imagine how many hits ZDnet's getting right about now. The money from those ad banners is *pouring* in.
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They had 6 billion in sales last year, compared to 4.5 billion for AOL (which owns Netscape, of course.) It's not that they're not relevant, it's just that they're trying to make themselves appear relevant -- trying to force themselves into relevance -- in a market area where they never had any pull before.
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What we need now is a "box this crack" contest: drive through Harlem and pick up a few dealers and have them compete to see how fast they can get a shipment packed, false-bottomed, filled with Beanie Babies, and sent out via UPS.
I don't care what state you're from or what beliefs and value system you subscribe to. The "girl" in this case was one third his age. That's absolutely revolting.
NEWSFLASH: Most teenagers in the US are sexually active WAY before the age of 18.
Are you using this as some sort of justification for what he was going to do? "She was menstruating anyway, what's the big deal?"
I remember sweating and stressing when I was in high school and I turned 18, but my girlfriend for the last year was still 16. The way these laws are enforced today, I could have been considered a "child sex offender" and forced to register for the next 20 years or whatever.
Most states' laws provide for cases like this, so long as one partner is within three years' age of the other, which seems reasonable.
I, for one, think these particular laws serve their purpose well.
- A.P. --
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So I suppose that when a dog is humping against your leg, he wants to be taken for a walk, right?
No, he wants to be fucked up the ass. But he might just think you're an ugly, hairless canine and it's the best he can do on short notice. It'd be quite a rude awakening for the dog if you took him up on his offer and he woke up and saw you in his bed, naked and smoking a Pall Mall. It'd probably be enough to send him chasing cars on the freeway or freebasing crack for the rest of his miserable days.
- A.P. ("It didn't tie!") --
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
So I suppose that when a dog is humping against your leg, he wants to be taken for a walk, right?
No, he wants to be fucked up the ass. But he might just think you're an ugly, hairless canine and it's the best he can do on short notice. It'd be quite a rude awakening for the dog if you took him up on his offer and he woke up and saw you in his bed, naked and smoking a Pall Mall. It'd probably be enough to send him chasing cars on the freeway or freebasing crack for the rest of his miserable days.
- A.P. ("It didn't tie!")
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It looks to me that when someone is not praising Linux as in "linux is THE operating system", "Linux is the best" etc , Linux zealots scream "FUD".
It's fully possible to praise BSD without (rather dubiously) citing the flaws in another operating system. The article itself seemed to be rather bereft of factual information both for the BSDs and against Linux, instead relying on the gullibility of the intended audience in believing everything the author said without any concrete evidence.
Not really a fair article, IMO.
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Three messages were just posted today on Bugtraq regarding FreeBSD security issues. Another one came over the line at the beginning of the month that included a local root compromise for FreeBSD and other variants. I've seen and used quite a few root-giving exploits for *BSD in the past year, yet the only exploit that gave me a root shell on my linux box was the recent termcap vulnerability. I'm not saying Linux is more secure than FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD (God knows, I'd get eaten alive for that. ..), but, at the same time, I think it smacks of arrogance to say *BSD is more secure than Linux.
Making the blithe assumption that "this OS is more secure than that one" and using that as an excuse for poor administration and auditing of the OS you've chosen is a great way to set yourself up to be hacked.
- A.P. --
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A bootleg of these bands would probably phase when synched up to their respective CDs... >:)
Anyhow, as far as live bands go, another great one that also allows taping is Moxy Fruvous. I just plonked down quite a considerable amount of change for a portable DAT (a sony, go figure) and related stuff so I could record some of their shows for myself. Sounds like I've found a new as-expensive-as-computers hobby.:)
- A.P. --
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This is getting out-of-hand. This post was tagged as a "troll" just now. Can whoever moderated it, in your infinite wisdom (or, more probably, complete lack thereof) tell the rest of us *why*?
It would seem that moderator priviledges are being given out to trained monkeys now.
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This is getting out-of-hand. This post was tagged as a "troll" just now. Can whoever moderated it, in your infinite wisdom (or, more probably, complete lack thereof) tell the rest of us *why*?
It would seem that moderator priviledges are being given out to trained monkeys now.
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Slashdot Mirror
- A.P.
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This sounds more alarmist than anything else, in my opinion. There are people that do this kind of thing today -- browse the web for hours on end, watch way too much television, IRC and MU* all damn day. These kind of people generally don't amount to much, though. They certainly aren't -- and, I think, won't become -- "typical". I don't envision a world filled with unwashed, television-and-computer-addicted losers, at least not any more so than it's been for the past forty years.
Heck, the typical people of the 21st century would be the ones working 8 hours a day, just as they do now, so the addicts they come home to can sit in front of their TVs and computers. Addicts generally don't have jobs (how could they, if they spend, apparently, 22 hours watching TV and browsing "the hyperweb"?). Typical people of the 21st century will be the same as they are now, only older.
- A.P.
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It's all there in the article.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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Or I tried to.
Easy to install? Not really. RC1 took two hour-long installs to actually get to the point where it would boot. When it did boot, the high-end video card in the machine (An Elsa GLoria) didn't work in anything other than 640x480 in 16 vibrant colors. There were no drivers for the card on Elsa's site, but I managed to convince the NT 4 drivers to work, after a fashion.
Easy to use? I guess, if you don't mind waiting. The default install came with all the needless crap turned on -- menus that fade into existance, all the ugly extras in Explorer that seemed to chew up CPU time rather than offer any useful features, even a cute little shadow under the mouse pointer that probably took up its fair share of processor cycles. Even after turning all the cruft off, the machine still ran like a three-legged horse. It felt _much_ slower than NT 4, which really is saying something. The video was unbearably slow, though using NT 4 drivers might have been the cause of that. Programs loaded slower. The machine took longer to boot and longer to shut down (which needed to be done often, even moreso than NT 4). Although it had a later version of DirectX than NT 4 SP3 did, none of the games I tried to use worked with it. (A few of them did in NT 4.) Internet Explorer kept forgetting that I'd told it to use a proxy server. Eventually I got sick of it and reinstalled NT 4.
The SP2 CDs just arrived yesterday. I'm very afraid.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
- A.P.
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Honestly, did anyone read the FTC's summary? These bastards disabled the back/forward buttons on the browser with Javascript so people would be barraged with pr0n. Imagine if you unsuspectingly did this at work and were fired for it. Would you be crying "foul" then?
There are a lot of reasons to be mad at the government. We don't need to manufacture any.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Your assertion that "even if they did break a law, it's a stupid law to begin with" holds absolutely no water. I happen to think having to stop at a red light is outdated and stupid, too. I think I'll start running them from now on. Let's see how far that gets me. The fact of the matter is, the antitrust laws in this country *are* specific and to-the-point. If they weren't, there would be countless cases prosecuted under them every year. I don't see too many going to court, do you?
Microsoft broke the rules. Now it's time to pay up.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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But then would it have gotten linked here on
- A.P.
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As for your pointed stab at the poor guy's NIC, maybe you'd be willing to donate the $20? 'Till then, it'll work fine in Linux, hey.
- A.P.
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- A.P. (perhaps to CVS?)
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That's real, honest-to-God, cutthroat competition.
- A.P.
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NEWSFLASH: Most teenagers in the US are sexually active WAY before the age of 18.
Are you using this as some sort of justification for what he was going to do? "She was menstruating anyway, what's the big deal?"
I remember sweating and stressing when I was in high school and I turned 18, but my girlfriend for the last year was still 16. The way these laws are enforced today, I could have been considered a "child sex offender" and forced to register for the next 20 years or whatever.
Most states' laws provide for cases like this, so long as one partner is within three years' age of the other, which seems reasonable.
I, for one, think these particular laws serve their purpose well.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
No, he wants to be fucked up the ass. But he might just think you're an ugly, hairless canine and it's the best he can do on short notice. It'd be quite a rude awakening for the dog if you took him up on his offer and he woke up and saw you in his bed, naked and smoking a Pall Mall. It'd probably be enough to send him chasing cars on the freeway or freebasing crack for the rest of his miserable days.
- A.P. ("It didn't tie!")
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
No, he wants to be fucked up the ass. But he might just think you're an ugly, hairless canine and it's the best he can do on short notice. It'd be quite a rude awakening for the dog if you took him up on his offer and he woke up and saw you in his bed, naked and smoking a Pall Mall. It'd probably be enough to send him chasing cars on the freeway or freebasing crack for the rest of his miserable days.
- A.P. ("It didn't tie!")
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Word has it Danielle Steele is interested.
- A.P.
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It's fully possible to praise BSD without (rather dubiously) citing the flaws in another operating system. The article itself seemed to be rather bereft of factual information both for the BSDs and against Linux, instead relying on the gullibility of the intended audience in believing everything the author said without any concrete evidence.
Not really a fair article, IMO.
-A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Making the blithe assumption that "this OS is more secure than that one" and using that as an excuse for poor administration and auditing of the OS you've chosen is a great way to set yourself up to be hacked.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Anyhow, as far as live bands go, another great one that also allows taping is Moxy Fruvous. I just plonked down quite a considerable amount of change for a portable DAT (a sony, go figure) and related stuff so I could record some of their shows for myself. Sounds like I've found a new as-expensive-as-computers hobby.
- A.P.
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It would seem that moderator priviledges are being given out to trained monkeys now.
- A.P.
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It would seem that moderator priviledges are being given out to trained monkeys now.
- A.P.
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