"It turns out that two of the high-jacked Internet offerings were recorded with hand-held digital video cameras carried into early screenings of the film. Can you imagine it? `Excuse me! Coming through with popcorn!`"
Those versions (especially the early vcdeu one) were indeed terrible. The Malay screener rip made up for it though. Exceptional video, exceptional audio - the only minor annoyance is the Malaysian subtitles, which are easy to ignore. I guess they didn't want the readers to know that their carefully-controlled, well-oiled machine didn't work as well as one would like to think (otherwise, how would someone have gotten their hands on a screener in the first place?)
"So, the next time someone tells you -- `You just can't stop information from being passed around the Internet!` -- think twice. We can stop most of it with a little determination."
Uh huh. I'll go back to downloading MP3s now. Not that I do that or anything.
- A.P. --
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The iMac is probably the most extreme example... Those little tiny speakers sound absolutely horrid, and there's nothing you can do about it short of buying new separate speakers, which sort of seems equally silly. I imagine this Amiga - if it ever ships in my lifetime - will sound yucky too.
- A.P. --
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Why the hell are we getting excited over a styrofoam mock-up of a WebTV clone?
- A.P. --
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Some dude on the street told me this!!!!
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Guy who lives in back of 7-11 is big into the whole technology thing. For 5 dollars and a package of Winstons he told me this incredible news!!!!
The new Amiga CPU will be the fastest CPU ever created and there will never be one faster than it. It was so fast that the Bytemark tests needed to be re-coded to use long doubles instead of integers for the resulting score. He said it can encode an entire CD into MP3s in under 12 seconds, it's cracked RC5-DES in just under 4 minutes (the encoded message was "Eat your liverwurst, it's good for you," by the way), and it rendered all the water scenes in the Titanic sequel during the union-mandated lunch break yesterday afternoon. It beat Deep Blue the other day at checkers and tomorrow it's playing tennis against Agassi (the Amiga is a 3-2 favorite). Steve Jobs saw it and had to change his pants, and Andy Grove is still semi-catatonic over the whole deal. Wcarchive replaced cdrom.com's old machine with one just yesterday and upped the user limit to 65,535. It makes the lightest, fluffiest pancakes you've ever tasted and it brews a mean lager. It downed a bottle of JD and didn't even flinch.
Suffice it to say, everyone will want one. It also comes in puce.
Woo!
- A.P. --
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"You can't just copy things around between the different Linuxes."
I have an ancient Slackware box I've been upgrading diligently for the past few years by hand. The other day I needed a copy of sshd 1.x, but I was buggered if I was going to download the whole thing and recompile it (I already had all the other crap compiled). FTP'd over to my friend's Debian 2.1 box, grabbed his copy, it ran fine. I can run libc6 binaries from another friend's Redhat 6 machine on mine, and have done so. I can run my own libc5 binaries from another old machine if I need to. I routinely compile binaries on my machine and run them on others' machines. Saves me from having to drag all my source code over to their boxes (I only have a 56k modem link) and do it there. Never have I had a problem with it, and I've been doing this for years.
There is *one* Linux. There are *several* distributions. There is *one* Linux kernel. When you hear Alan Cox announce that he's forking the codebase, you can call me and we'll talk.
- A.P. --
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In my experience, it seems that, while the OS is first-rate (I *really* like FreeBSD, for example), its higher-echelon users (the coders, maintainers, etc) are, for the most part, really horrid, arrogant people.
Have a look at the FreeBSD mailinglists sometime. I have a friend who's been using the OS for 5 or 6 years now, since back in the days of FreeBSD 1.x. He asked a rather difficult question on the -questions mailinglist a month or so ago, and was torn to shreds by the denizens of the list, who seem hell-bent on ego-stroking rather than offering any real help. He was treated as if he'd just installed the thing and he *certainly* was no "newbie" to the BSD scene.
Take a look at some of the comments here. I bet you'll see a lot of "Hah! I TOLD you so!"'s. Again, more blatant egomaniacal behavior offering little to no substance. Fun stuff.
This is the kind of crap I've come to expect from BSD people; I've come to the conclusion that, while a lot of linux users are clueless, a lot of BSD users are heartless, and it seems to be a pretty even trade-off.
- A.P. --
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They use a bunch of Solaris boxes running a hacked-up qmail to do all the mail work, and BSD for the web frontend. I guess it's just a question of using the proper tool for the job, so it isn't surprising why NT isn't included in that short list.
- A.P. --
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I've lost track of the number of times they've completely and totally fucked up delivering stuff for me - misrouted packages, packages delivered to the wrong address, late packages. I had one package delivered to my old address (their mistake) which was signed for by some OTHER tenant of the apartment and LEFT at my doorstep for TWO WEEKS. It was only through the kindness of a tenant of the apartment and the thoroughness of four11.com that I was able to retrieve it at all! The US Postal Service, on the other hand, has NEVER let me down. They got a package across the continent in two days for about 2 bucks! Let's see UPS beat that! They got another package from Boston to Australia in a week and a half for $3.50. I heartily recommend first the USPS, and then FedEx, to people. I wouldn't wish UPS on my worst enemy. Well, perhaps.
- A.P. --
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You'd think that, if you depend on this for a *living*, you'd make sure you had a bit of failover protection to cover your ass should the main website -- over which you have no control -- ever go south. Do you whine every time its uplink has backbone trouble, too, or were you just posting to piss on slashdot?
- A.P. --
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I hated -- loathed -- it at first. Then 4.3 came out. I've found it to be the easiest Unix -- commercial or otherwise -- to administer and use (I've adminned IRIX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD in a professional setting.) The administrative tool is incredibly well-done and the OS itself is rock-solid to boot.
- A.P. --
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The Elsa GLoria card (EXTREMELY high-end, last year) in my machine didn't have a Win2K driver. I was running a $750 video card at 640x480 on a 21" monitor. It was not fun. I managed to get Win2K to grudgingly accept the NT 4.0 drivers, but it gives weird error messages in the Monitors control panel. At least it's at 1280x1024 now though.
That's the only thing I've had to scrounge for drivers with so far though (mostly because everything else in this Compaq is stock stuff.)
- A.P. --
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...it won't get much support at all. Some drivers would be nice, Microsoft. (Yeah, I know it's the hardware manufacturers' faults, but, shit, W2K doesn't support much of *anything*.)
I won't be recommending Win2K to my company anytime soon. It's more aggravating than NT 4 is, which says a lot.
- A.P. --
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You're fully welcome to go dig out your old -- oh, I should say "vintage" -- 286 with beautiful 4-color EGA graphics and spacious 13" display and play Civ to your heart's content. I fail to understand your need to piss on games that others find enjoyable though. Does it make you feel adequate? Is it really worth the trouble? Do you think everyone else is going to say, "Hey! You know, he's right! These 3D games really suck! Let's all go back to playing LORD on BBSes in 16 colors and be happy!"?
It's 1999. Things have changed.
- A.P. --
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Consider that the vast majority of DVD purchases are for people with standalone DVD players. They are the ones driving the market for DVD, and as long as that fact remains, anything that happens in the PC movie-playing arena won't matter one bit to the companies producing DVD discs. The outcome of some battles is predetermined, and we've already lost this one.
- A.P.
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Before me sits a Win2k Release Candidate 1 CD set. 8 CDs in all. I have just installed it as an upgrade from NT 4 onto my personal Compaq workstation at work (expendable, to be sure, as I never use it).
I think Microsoft would do good to ensure the final product actually fucking BOOTS before they release it.
End of experiment. Back to NT 4.
- A.P. (Win2K sucks _hard_.) --
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Slashdot Mirror
If you don't defend a copyright, you don't lose anything, except perhaps money.
- A.P.
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One Country, One flag, One Language"
I woulda taken a black marker to it if I'd seen it in a parking lot, and written "one bigot" under that line. It would have made me feel good.
Some people really do suck.
- A.P.
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That might have been *preferable* to Jar Jar.
- A.P.
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Those versions (especially the early vcdeu one) were indeed terrible. The Malay screener rip made up for it though. Exceptional video, exceptional audio - the only minor annoyance is the Malaysian subtitles, which are easy to ignore. I guess they didn't want the readers to know that their carefully-controlled, well-oiled machine didn't work as well as one would like to think (otherwise, how would someone have gotten their hands on a screener in the first place?)
"So, the next time someone tells you -- `You just can't stop information from being passed around the Internet!` -- think twice. We can stop most of it with a little determination."
Uh huh. I'll go back to downloading MP3s now. Not that I do that or anything.
- A.P.
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
- A.P.
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
- A.P.
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
- A.P.
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
The new Amiga CPU will be the fastest CPU ever created and there will never be one faster than it. It was so fast that the Bytemark tests needed to be re-coded to use long doubles instead of integers for the resulting score. He said it can encode an entire CD into MP3s in under 12 seconds, it's cracked RC5-DES in just under 4 minutes (the encoded message was "Eat your liverwurst, it's good for you," by the way), and it rendered all the water scenes in the Titanic sequel during the union-mandated lunch break yesterday afternoon. It beat Deep Blue the other day at checkers and tomorrow it's playing tennis against Agassi (the Amiga is a 3-2 favorite). Steve Jobs saw it and had to change his pants, and Andy Grove is still semi-catatonic over the whole deal. Wcarchive replaced cdrom.com's old machine with one just yesterday and upped the user limit to 65,535. It makes the lightest, fluffiest pancakes you've ever tasted and it brews a mean lager. It downed a bottle of JD and didn't even flinch.
Suffice it to say, everyone will want one. It also comes in puce.
Woo!
- A.P.
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
It frigging runs on anything.
- A.P.
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
I have an ancient Slackware box I've been upgrading diligently for the past few years by hand. The other day I needed a copy of sshd 1.x, but I was buggered if I was going to download the whole thing and recompile it (I already had all the other crap compiled). FTP'd over to my friend's Debian 2.1 box, grabbed his copy, it ran fine. I can run libc6 binaries from another friend's Redhat 6 machine on mine, and have done so. I can run my own libc5 binaries from another old machine if I need to. I routinely compile binaries on my machine and run them on others' machines. Saves me from having to drag all my source code over to their boxes (I only have a 56k modem link) and do it there. Never have I had a problem with it, and I've been doing this for years.
There is *one* Linux. There are *several* distributions. There is *one* Linux kernel. When you hear Alan Cox announce that he's forking the codebase, you can call me and we'll talk.
- A.P.
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
Have a look at the FreeBSD mailinglists sometime. I have a friend who's been using the OS for 5 or 6 years now, since back in the days of FreeBSD 1.x. He asked a rather difficult question on the -questions mailinglist a month or so ago, and was torn to shreds by the denizens of the list, who seem hell-bent on ego-stroking rather than offering any real help. He was treated as if he'd just installed the thing and he *certainly* was no "newbie" to the BSD scene.
Take a look at some of the comments here. I bet you'll see a lot of "Hah! I TOLD you so!"'s. Again, more blatant egomaniacal behavior offering little to no substance. Fun stuff.
This is the kind of crap I've come to expect from BSD people; I've come to the conclusion that, while a lot of linux users are clueless, a lot of BSD users are heartless, and it seems to be a pretty even trade-off.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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That's the only thing I've had to scrounge for drivers with so far though (mostly because everything else in this Compaq is stock stuff.)
- A.P.
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I won't be recommending Win2K to my company anytime soon. It's more aggravating than NT 4 is, which says a lot.
- A.P.
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It's 1999. Things have changed.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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I think Microsoft would do good to ensure the final product actually fucking BOOTS before they release it.
End of experiment. Back to NT 4.
- A.P. (Win2K sucks _hard_.)
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