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Re:Right. Animal Cruelty is a Laugh a Minute.
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Hey I love your reactionary, knee-jerk observation! Allow me to make one of my own: Any poster that quotes Nietzsche in his sig and whines about harassing a cat did not get the Nietzsche he read.
The Uberman has no need for "Animal Rights", as Human rights are what the weak hide behind from Darwin.
Personally I don't harass my cat, as he would claw my face off gleefully. But that's just me.
I love the idea of eradicating entire species of human-hostile insects.
If an alien species were to stumble upon our rock and declare that we were a virulent race of parasites, well then 'bring it on'. We can launch huge swarms of horrificly sterile tse tse flys at them.
Sorry but your enviro-sensitvity is making me sick. This kind of jack ass, kneejerk stupid asshole remark is the result of too many hippies not realizing they were exploited in the 60's and 70's and seizing control of publc education to render a generation of children docile and useless.
Heh, just last night I was caught in a dilemma: "I am lazy and I have to take the two drives full of Mac applications and work from G4 A. and transfer them into my pristine new G4 B."...
Both are running OSX.1 so I thought, "fine swap the drives out of each and swap them." but remember... i was feeling really really lazy. so then I thought, "hey just do a firewire transfer of both drives" since i can, it took longer (I don't have any drive image software yet for OSX) but all 5.5GB of apps and data from A. are now on a firewire drive.
So i slap the firewire cable into B. and boot it, all ready to transfer the entire mottled contents of A. to B. when, just for the hell of it I decided to see if Illustrator 10 would run from the firewire drive on the new box (it was never installed "formally" on it) Yeah, it launched, perfectly.
So did photoshop, OffficeX and everything else i tried.
This is why Apple gets it. This is why I have a SuSE Box, a Mandrake Box and a WIn2K box and even a WinXP box... but my main computer, my daily computer, the one I am typing this on... well It's titanium colored and you can crack it open without unplugging a single cable...
Let me get this straight, there are two boxes sitting on a shelf, one is from sony one from phillips, they are both cd burners, the phillips box has a bright yellow sticker that says, "phillips does not inhibit the legal copying of digital data" or better "the only 30X cd burner that lets you copy audio CDs and MP3 files!!!" and you are saying that Joe Consumer will still be too stupid to make an informed choice... who exactly is being ignorant (as opposed to stupid, thanks for filling me in on the difference Northwestern isn't that great of a university)?
like all the work and money MS has been throwing into SDMI like digital copywrite detection and prevention.
From what I understand MS sees an opportunity to vector the DMCA-like drum beating of the music and film industry with it's own "application as services" subscriber model.
don't know when that shoe is going to drop, but when it does well... here is a quote for you:
"Piracy is not a technological issue. It's a behavior issue," Apple CEO Steve Jobs
All hail alternative operating systems
where have i heard this before?...
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"I'm waking you 30 minutes early because heavy rain has developed, delaying traffic to the airport. I changed your shuttle reservation to 5.30. Here's the light rock you requested."
...Oh yeah, wasn't this from an episode of The Prisoner? Man you have to love British Broadcasting
apple has been the most vigilant prosecutor of anything that violates their copyrights yet they seem doing better and better
Interesting, I have a a couple of G4 Towers and a G4 TiPowerbook. I have been useing Apples for many a year. Never once have they prevented me from burning MP3s onto my Nomad Juke or duplicating copywritten digital data (for my own personal use) to and from any other medium.
What Apple won't let me do is this: 1. Duplicate Apple system design or software for resale 2. Use Apple Logos and Branding to confuse or perpetuate myself as haveing affiliation with Apple or Apple corp Information.
What I am speaking to isn't just Sony coming down on people that Hack the doggy or the PS/PS2 boxes, It's that Sony has positioned itself through it's commanding leverage in say, the MPAA and the RIAA to lobby legislation such as the DMCA and of course the misguided attempt to get the RIAA almost federal authority in the "Patriot" anti-terrorism bill.
That is just vile. Show me how my beloved Apple has done anything anti-American other then force fruity flavored beachballs on it's consumers.
I wonder if a projection exists in the corporate organs of Sony that demonstrates how much loss of revenue and market share Sony Consumer Electronics Division stands to loose in the next five years thanks to the aggressive lobbying, litigation and posturing of the Sony media and content creation divisions.
It just seems to me that the money in consumer electronics is going to go to companies like Phillips and other (smaller) manufacturers that help consumers exploit and enjoy content any damn way they want.
Sony makes some marvelous and high quality components and gadgets, but revenue will go to the companies that offer devices that accommodate the way consumers want to use them, rather then devices that will accommodate the way a company wants to use consumers.
Trying to have a market created and tamed through legislation and ill conceived laws damn well should torpedo your empire.
My friend started saying things like this after he got a girlfriend too. We had to set up an intervention session. I propose we do the same before Taco starts posting reviews of "A Walk to Remember".:)
Okay, it's a cheap shot, but I'll still take it: Well maybe it's because Mac users are actually getting work done instead of managing their kit, that they have time to read literature other then, "the advanced dungeons and dragons guide to theoretical fifth dimensional kernel hacking".
since when was style "less manly"? Oh dear god no, people, no: Chicks Dig Style.
Motherheads Law: The mediocrity of a mans kit is directly proportional to the amount of downloaded porno he has saved on it
and no, racing stripes on an antec case do not count
I refuse to use a nvidia because of thier unstable drivers
Yes, well, the TNT drivers are part of a unified nVidia driver package. The nvidia X drivers on linux don't spaz any more then X spazzes on anything else. On the Mac it's more about OpenGL implimentation, and Giants looks better on Windows because of it... but still...
i guess that matrox card from 1996 must be as stable as shit.
good for you.
The CPU is attatched to a tiny earpiece and transmits to say... zeiss optical contact lenses that would provide a variable translucancy Heads Up Display overlayed against my cornea.
That would be Schweet. We could all reference google during light conversation and perhaps be able to hold some worth having.
I might not even mind it running WinCE...
You can't wear this thing anywhere but college towns. This thing pretty much screams, "mug me, I have surplus cash on me at all time,also: I am a helpless sheep"
over the last five years i have had a number of PalmOS devices, four Palms (Pilot, Pilot Pro, IIIC, VII) and a Handspring Visor Prism Deluxe (door prize at a tech conference). I like the PalmOS and can write in graphitti as quickly as i can english with pen and paper.
with that said i just picked up an HP Journada 568. Yes i feel traitorous and wrong. no i am probably not going to install embedded linux on it. this is why i bought it: blah blah memory, blah blah expandibility, blah blah resolution, blah blah handheld gaming (which is why the HP and not the iPaq)
this is my point: Sony is evil.
I will explain; i love the PalmOS and the sexiest version is probably the Clie, it stinks of quality and chicks dig it. but the fact is sony is only allowed to sell me DVD players and a Playstation2, Why: because they feel they have a right to dictate and mitigate what digital media i choose to store on my personal devices. they are a major backbone of the MPAA/RIAA mafia and they support that vile little storage device protocol that will "inhibit" consumers from duplicating copywritten materials. They were the company behind getting the DMCA forced through washington.
for these sins against humanity i can never bring myself to blowing coin on any media device that stores my personal data that they produce.(if you want to tell me how a PS2 is just such a device, blow me, i am not putting mp3s, oggs, and whatever else on my PS2)
too bad because i love sony consumer electronic devices. but no, politically they are the anti-christ.
easy there friend, it happens, for instance: southeastern wisconsin is pretty much a chicago suburb and a good deal of connecticut commutes to NYC. though it is somewhat cute your calling for OC to get it's "props"...
the HP Journada 568 i just picked specifically mentions that the CF slot was designed with IBM microdrives in mind.
My Olympus E-10 camera as well.
sooo... ya.
Re:hope this does better than the newton!
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First of all unless you rushed right out to buy a newton in it's premature birth, the newton rocked. very hard.
as for platform dependancy... well i would think apple would want to be able to jack these things on every box sold on the planet since they are up against the likes of the Compaq iPaq and the HP Journada (which don't have Mac Client apps. Apple seems serious about the gadget market and jobs hinted at a windows version of iTunes.I am just guessing that it will be more fulfilling if used with apple OSs'.
I hate to say it as a very long time Palm user, but i have been taking a long hard look at the journada 565 and i am glad i didn't blow coin on it just yet. apple makes slick toys. this may be just what i have been looking for.
oh yeah... you realize that if the videos download too fast... you can hit that arrow pointing right button, and like magic you can see the video again and again and again...
Free OS, free code, and now free support... i am wondering if some of our best brains are going to have to (in the future) put their open source projects on the back burner so that they can earn enough to make rent.
Not knocking GNU or opensource mind you. Just pointing out that geeks like toys as well as the next guy. Toys cost.
"...after all, we are not communists." ~ The Godfather
back in October of 1997 mine was one of three Chicago suburbs selected to test
Mediaone Express/Roadrunner broadband cable modems. I could not have been happier
with them and it since. The tech support was 24/7 stocked with real geeks with
real solutions and did not flinch when you said dirty words like "Linux"
"Mac" or "Routers". I have never had that luck with any
tech support anywhere, ever.
Then it happened, the great Satan AT&T bought my beloved Mediaone Express
about a year ago. I knew then that I should have jumped ship. But nothing really
changed except the address on the bills, so... well, why not. I stayed.
Then once day I logged on and when I opened my browser... well looky that... it
was the great "non-shall-pass-until-you-obey" AT&T registration page, that I never
received the info-packet that was necessary to "obey"... well then, I
was f*cked, until I realized that if I went straight to the cable modem from the PC
(no matter the OS) there was no such directed url... well, hmmm... it was router blocks they were attacking... pissed at me for not buying extra IP.. Still I called and swore bloody murder and though
I knew I should have jumped ship...the guy on the phone (ex-mediaone mind
you) got me my info, set up a proper new email addy, had all my mediaone services
completely replaced with auto-responders and services that when I eventually
received my "info packer" were never mentioned and then proceeded
to instruct me on how to set up my programmable router to function exactly the
way it was with AT&T leaving my shit alone, all without their software,
their shitty IE browser, and they rest of the crap they insisted I must use
to remain a customer... so I stayed.
Well now I've been bent over and raped. I never got a message, an email, a
phone call, whatever. I just went to check email this morning and the "cable"
light is dead, no connectivity. Nothing. Then the calls from friends in the
area with the same service came in... yep. pooched. I read about the excite@home
problems, but it never mentioned my area, and the truth is... I never heard
of excite@home in my life. Hell AT&T@home, is like 11 months old around
here. So I call, all I get is this message, "If you are calling in regards
to broadband internet service, AT&T is no longer providing it"... what
the fuck, then they mention a phone number they are going to be installing soon
to call... heh.
I am jumping ship. forever. No more AT&T long distance, no more AT&T
digital cable (about time I got me a dish) and in two phone calls I set up DSL
service (I am going ameritech first because they can get me up the fastest but
I hate them too, so then once I am on and happy, a leisurely switch to Earthlink
DSL or whoever sucks less then ameritech). I am lucky enough that I live near
major trunks and hubs and pretty much can get whatever is offered. Oh and Ameritech
was kind enough to set me up with the dial up that I am using currently to post
this. Thank god my G4 had a built in modem that I almost forgot about since
all I have is another apple laptop with one... I haven't installed a modem in
a box of mine in years. Though... all my Linux boxen are now hung out until
I pick up a 3com.
My point is this, I knew AT&T was shit, have known it for a while and my
complacency f@cked me in the end. I really could not care if they restore service
this afternoon, or in 2-10 days. They are history, they f@cked me before and
they will again, and again and again...
that is until I stop bending over for them, I encourage all of you to do the
same.
"Pretty neat but I still prefer an iPaq or an HP Journada with the Cell phone PC card attatched, 16-bit color and all"
yeah yeah yeah, preview, i know...
pretty neat but i still say an i[aq or a jouda with bit color and the cell phone card trumps it for overall useability/timewasting factor
by the way, i prefer the "taco is christmas shopping again" stories to the half assed "scientists discover strange gas in uranus - discuss" or the "i have a really specific and vertical question about a really arcane protocol, sugestions?" topics that usually come up this early in the mornin'
well it's true, there is no reason that Linux can't be a superior game platform, it certainly has nothing to do with hardware limitation. the problem is this that Microsoft aggressivly went out and courted game developers, then they started the whole active/direct X program, while it was full of fits and starts ultimately it ensured that PC games led driving force behind PC sales and upgrades.
meaning it's wicked easier for developers to make stunning games on a Windows platform, and then it's stunningly more lucrative.
three years ago Steve jobs tried to start the same initiative and john carmack (who you should damn well know) was brought in to consult/lend legitimacy. still, three years later the state of Mac gaming is "much better" then it was but still "shitty" compared to what is released exclusively on Windows.
now the point i am making is this (and this refers to gaming so don't read too much into it), MS spends billions, and won. Apple Spends millions and stays alive, linux does not spend.
there are native linux games that kick so much ass, we should all be assless. and dammit, i will buy them, i will buy them all just because of the penguin on the freaking box.
but i like games. A lot. so I have to have a 2k box running. that's all there is to it. yes i have a PS2 and a Dreamcast and a game cube on the way. but that is for the tony hawks and the grand turismo's and the sports games. the stuff i prefer to play is not available on consoles (and would suck if they were) not available on Linux, and might be available for the Mac next Christmas (maybe).
So I hope WineX kicks all the ass left after all the native linux games got tired and stopped kicking so much ass. that way I won't have to duel boot my wee 12Gig laptop HD. and i can play Arcanum and Tux Racer on the same platform when i am out of town. (or hiding in my office)
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Hey I love your reactionary, knee-jerk observation! Allow me to make one of my own: Any poster that quotes Nietzsche in his sig and whines about harassing a cat did not get the Nietzsche he read.
The Uberman has no need for "Animal Rights", as Human rights are what the weak hide behind from Darwin.Personally I don't harass my cat, as he would claw my face off gleefully. But that's just me.
Oh that's me all over, motherhead milktoast, no sex drugs and rock & roll for anyone who didnt vote for nader eh'?
sorry chap, not so simple. actually i am quite liberal, only my kind of liberal is neither stupid nor socialist.
as for the sixties, yes i was born in 68 so i missed everything. but i did a lot of acid in the 80's...
I love the idea of eradicating entire species of human-hostile insects.
If an alien species were to stumble upon our rock and declare that we were a virulent race of parasites, well then 'bring it on'. We can launch huge swarms of horrificly sterile tse tse flys at them.
Sorry but your enviro-sensitvity is making me sick. This kind of jack ass, kneejerk stupid asshole remark is the result of too many hippies not realizing they were exploited in the 60's and 70's and seizing control of publc education to render a generation of children docile and useless.
whoops, time for bed.
Heh, just last night I was caught in a dilemma: "I am lazy and I have to take the two drives full of Mac applications and work from G4 A. and transfer them into my pristine new G4 B."...
Both are running OSX.1 so I thought, "fine swap the drives out of each and swap them." but remember... i was feeling really really lazy. so then I thought, "hey just do a firewire transfer of both drives" since i can, it took longer (I don't have any drive image software yet for OSX) but all 5.5GB of apps and data from A. are now on a firewire drive.
So i slap the firewire cable into B. and boot it, all ready to transfer the entire mottled contents of A. to B. when, just for the hell of it I decided to see if Illustrator 10 would run from the firewire drive on the new box (it was never installed "formally" on it) Yeah, it launched, perfectly.
So did photoshop, OffficeX and everything else i tried.
This is why Apple gets it. This is why I have a SuSE Box, a Mandrake Box and a WIn2K box and even a WinXP box... but my main computer, my daily computer, the one I am typing this on... well It's titanium colored and you can crack it open without unplugging a single cable...
it is dark times indeed when a man that quotes a vonnegut trout line in his sig and speaks the truth is modded down to -1 automatically.
must have gone heavy on goatse and the taco web porn or something.
anyways, yeah, agreed... rage on brother... rage on brother.
Let me get this straight, there are two boxes sitting on a shelf, one is from sony one from phillips, they are both cd burners, the phillips box has a bright yellow sticker that says, "phillips does not inhibit the legal copying of digital data" or better "the only 30X cd burner that lets you copy audio CDs and MP3 files!!!" and you are saying that Joe Consumer will still be too stupid to make an informed choice... who exactly is being ignorant (as opposed to stupid, thanks for filling me in on the difference Northwestern isn't that great of a university)?
Am I going to have to be the first one here to make the Obligatory Quake Refference? Okay then.
Ahem...LoOkz ShWeET, HoW faST DoES it RUn QUaKE 3? Woot!!
Thanks alot, I'm going to go take a shower now.
like all the work and money MS has been throwing into SDMI like digital copywrite detection and prevention.
From what I understand MS sees an opportunity to vector the DMCA-like drum beating of the music and film industry with it's own "application as services" subscriber model.
don't know when that shoe is going to drop, but when it does well... here is a quote for you: "Piracy is not a technological issue. It's a behavior issue," Apple CEO Steve Jobs
All hail alternative operating systems
"I'm waking you 30 minutes early because heavy rain has developed, delaying traffic to the airport. I changed your shuttle reservation to 5.30. Here's the light rock you requested."
...Oh yeah, wasn't this from an episode of The Prisoner? Man you have to love British Broadcasting
apple has been the most vigilant prosecutor of anything that violates their copyrights yet they seem doing better and better
Interesting, I have a a couple of G4 Towers and a G4 TiPowerbook. I have been useing Apples for many a year. Never once have they prevented me from burning MP3s onto my Nomad Juke or duplicating copywritten digital data (for my own personal use) to and from any other medium.
What Apple won't let me do is this: 1. Duplicate Apple system design or software for resale 2. Use Apple Logos and Branding to confuse or perpetuate myself as haveing affiliation with Apple or Apple corp Information.
What I am speaking to isn't just Sony coming down on people that Hack the doggy or the PS/PS2 boxes, It's that Sony has positioned itself through it's commanding leverage in say, the MPAA and the RIAA to lobby legislation such as the DMCA and of course the misguided attempt to get the RIAA almost federal authority in the "Patriot" anti-terrorism bill.
That is just vile. Show me how my beloved Apple has done anything anti-American other then force fruity flavored beachballs on it's consumers.
I wonder if a projection exists in the corporate organs of Sony that demonstrates how much loss of revenue and market share Sony Consumer Electronics Division stands to loose in the next five years thanks to the aggressive lobbying, litigation and posturing of the Sony media and content creation divisions.
It just seems to me that the money in consumer electronics is going to go to companies like Phillips and other (smaller) manufacturers that help consumers exploit and enjoy content any damn way they want.
Sony makes some marvelous and high quality components and gadgets, but revenue will go to the companies that offer devices that accommodate the way consumers want to use them, rather then devices that will accommodate the way a company wants to use consumers.
Trying to have a market created and tamed through legislation and ill conceived laws damn well should torpedo your empire.
seriously make me want a Mac.
My friend started saying things like this after he got a girlfriend too. We had to set up an intervention session. I propose we do the same before Taco starts posting reviews of "A Walk to Remember". :)
Okay, it's a cheap shot, but I'll still take it: Well maybe it's because Mac users are actually getting work done instead of managing their kit, that they have time to read literature other then, "the advanced dungeons and dragons guide to theoretical fifth dimensional kernel hacking".
since when was style "less manly"? Oh dear god no, people, no: Chicks Dig Style.
Motherheads Law: The mediocrity of a mans kit is directly proportional to the amount of downloaded porno he has saved on it
and no, racing stripes on an antec case do not count
I refuse to use a nvidia because of thier unstable drivers
Yes, well, the TNT drivers are part of a unified nVidia driver package. The nvidia X drivers on linux don't spaz any more then X spazzes on anything else. On the Mac it's more about OpenGL implimentation, and Giants looks better on Windows because of it... but still...
i guess that matrox card from 1996 must be as stable as shit. good for you.The CPU is attatched to a tiny earpiece and transmits to say... zeiss optical contact lenses that would provide a variable translucancy Heads Up Display overlayed against my cornea. That would be Schweet. We could all reference google during light conversation and perhaps be able to hold some worth having. I might not even mind it running WinCE... You can't wear this thing anywhere but college towns. This thing pretty much screams, "mug me, I have surplus cash on me at all time,also: I am a helpless sheep"
over the last five years i have had a number of PalmOS devices, four Palms (Pilot, Pilot Pro, IIIC, VII) and a Handspring Visor Prism Deluxe (door prize at a tech conference). I like the PalmOS and can write in graphitti as quickly as i can english with pen and paper.
with that said i just picked up an HP Journada 568. Yes i feel traitorous and wrong. no i am probably not going to install embedded linux on it. this is why i bought it: blah blah memory, blah blah expandibility, blah blah resolution, blah blah handheld gaming (which is why the HP and not the iPaq)
this is my point: Sony is evil.
I will explain; i love the PalmOS and the sexiest version is probably the Clie, it stinks of quality and chicks dig it. but the fact is sony is only allowed to sell me DVD players and a Playstation2, Why: because they feel they have a right to dictate and mitigate what digital media i choose to store on my personal devices. they are a major backbone of the MPAA/RIAA mafia and they support that vile little storage device protocol that will "inhibit" consumers from duplicating copywritten materials. They were the company behind getting the DMCA forced through washington.
for these sins against humanity i can never bring myself to blowing coin on any media device that stores my personal data that they produce.(if you want to tell me how a PS2 is just such a device, blow me, i am not putting mp3s, oggs, and whatever else on my PS2)
too bad because i love sony consumer electronic devices. but no, politically they are the anti-christ.
easy there friend, it happens, for instance: southeastern wisconsin is pretty much a chicago suburb and a good deal of connecticut commutes to NYC. though it is somewhat cute your calling for OC to get it's "props"...
the HP Journada 568 i just picked specifically mentions that the CF slot was designed with IBM microdrives in mind. My Olympus E-10 camera as well. sooo... ya.
First of all unless you rushed right out to buy a newton in it's premature birth, the newton rocked. very hard.
as for platform dependancy... well i would think apple would want to be able to jack these things on every box sold on the planet since they are up against the likes of the Compaq iPaq and the HP Journada (which don't have Mac Client apps. Apple seems serious about the gadget market and jobs hinted at a windows version of iTunes.I am just guessing that it will be more fulfilling if used with apple OSs'.
I hate to say it as a very long time Palm user, but i have been taking a long hard look at the journada 565 and i am glad i didn't blow coin on it just yet. apple makes slick toys. this may be just what i have been looking for.
oh yeah... you realize that if the videos download too fast... you can hit that arrow pointing right button, and like magic you can see the video again and again and again...
Free OS, free code, and now free support... i am wondering if some of our best brains are going to have to (in the future) put their open source projects on the back burner so that they can earn enough to make rent.
Not knocking GNU or opensource mind you. Just pointing out that geeks like toys as well as the next guy. Toys cost.
"...after all, we are not communists." ~ The Godfather
back in October of 1997 mine was one of three Chicago suburbs selected to test Mediaone Express/Roadrunner broadband cable modems. I could not have been happier with them and it since. The tech support was 24/7 stocked with real geeks with real solutions and did not flinch when you said dirty words like "Linux" "Mac" or "Routers". I have never had that luck with any tech support anywhere, ever.
Then it happened, the great Satan AT&T bought my beloved Mediaone Express about a year ago. I knew then that I should have jumped ship. But nothing really changed except the address on the bills, so... well, why not. I stayed.
Then once day I logged on and when I opened my browser... well looky that... it was the great "non-shall-pass-until-you-obey" AT&T registration page, that I never received the info-packet that was necessary to "obey"... well then, I was f*cked, until I realized that if I went straight to the cable modem from the PC (no matter the OS) there was no such directed url... well, hmmm... it was router blocks they were attacking... pissed at me for not buying extra IP.. Still I called and swore bloody murder and though I knew I should have jumped ship...the guy on the phone (ex-mediaone mind you) got me my info, set up a proper new email addy, had all my mediaone services completely replaced with auto-responders and services that when I eventually received my "info packer" were never mentioned and then proceeded to instruct me on how to set up my programmable router to function exactly the way it was with AT&T leaving my shit alone, all without their software, their shitty IE browser, and they rest of the crap they insisted I must use to remain a customer... so I stayed.
Well now I've been bent over and raped. I never got a message, an email, a phone call, whatever. I just went to check email this morning and the "cable" light is dead, no connectivity. Nothing. Then the calls from friends in the area with the same service came in... yep. pooched. I read about the excite@home problems, but it never mentioned my area, and the truth is... I never heard of excite@home in my life. Hell AT&T@home, is like 11 months old around here. So I call, all I get is this message, "If you are calling in regards to broadband internet service, AT&T is no longer providing it"... what the fuck, then they mention a phone number they are going to be installing soon to call... heh.
I am jumping ship. forever. No more AT&T long distance, no more AT&T digital cable (about time I got me a dish) and in two phone calls I set up DSL service (I am going ameritech first because they can get me up the fastest but I hate them too, so then once I am on and happy, a leisurely switch to Earthlink DSL or whoever sucks less then ameritech). I am lucky enough that I live near major trunks and hubs and pretty much can get whatever is offered. Oh and Ameritech was kind enough to set me up with the dial up that I am using currently to post this. Thank god my G4 had a built in modem that I almost forgot about since all I have is another apple laptop with one... I haven't installed a modem in a box of mine in years. Though... all my Linux boxen are now hung out until I pick up a 3com.
My point is this, I knew AT&T was shit, have known it for a while and my complacency f@cked me in the end. I really could not care if they restore service this afternoon, or in 2-10 days. They are history, they f@cked me before and they will again, and again and again...
that is until I stop bending over for them, I encourage all of you to do the same.
"Pretty neat but I still prefer an iPaq or an HP Journada with the Cell phone PC card attatched, 16-bit color and all" yeah yeah yeah, preview, i know...
pretty neat but i still say an i[aq or a jouda with bit color and the cell phone card trumps it for overall useability/timewasting factor
by the way, i prefer the "taco is christmas shopping again" stories to the half assed "scientists discover strange gas in uranus - discuss" or the "i have a really specific and vertical question about a really arcane protocol, sugestions?" topics that usually come up this early in the mornin'
well it's true, there is no reason that Linux can't be a superior game platform, it certainly has nothing to do with hardware limitation. the problem is this that Microsoft aggressivly went out and courted game developers, then they started the whole active/direct X program, while it was full of fits and starts ultimately it ensured that PC games led driving force behind PC sales and upgrades.
meaning it's wicked easier for developers to make stunning games on a Windows platform, and then it's stunningly more lucrative.
three years ago Steve jobs tried to start the same initiative and john carmack (who you should damn well know) was brought in to consult/lend legitimacy. still, three years later the state of Mac gaming is "much better" then it was but still "shitty" compared to what is released exclusively on Windows.
now the point i am making is this (and this refers to gaming so don't read too much into it), MS spends billions, and won. Apple Spends millions and stays alive, linux does not spend.
there are native linux games that kick so much ass, we should all be assless. and dammit, i will buy them, i will buy them all just because of the penguin on the freaking box.
but i like games. A lot. so I have to have a 2k box running. that's all there is to it. yes i have a PS2 and a Dreamcast and a game cube on the way. but that is for the tony hawks and the grand turismo's and the sports games. the stuff i prefer to play is not available on consoles (and would suck if they were) not available on Linux, and might be available for the Mac next Christmas (maybe).
So I hope WineX kicks all the ass left after all the native linux games got tired and stopped kicking so much ass. that way I won't have to duel boot my wee 12Gig laptop HD. and i can play Arcanum and Tux Racer on the same platform when i am out of town. (or hiding in my office)