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The excuse that, "they did it first so if they can do it why can't we?" Only serves to perpetuate the disregard the industry has for logical versioning. Netscape is trying to outversion Microsoft. This is a casualty of an open source project becoming a corporate strategy. Adding fuel to the argument that Open Source and big business don't mix.
And it's complete bullshit. I usually use my not-very-legal copies of 3D Studio MAX, and Lightwave 3D as an example. Because sure as hell there's no way I'd ever go and pay in excess of $1000 (AUD) for a piece of software.
As for MP3's. Most of the ones I've downloaded have been the sort of song that was good, but never really good enough to buy.
You always see these figures on piracy. But what I've wanted to know for ages is how they work it out.
Do they assume that every song pirated is a lost CD sale? Surely noone is stupid enough to suggest that if people didn't pirate it they'd go out and buy it?
These companies jumped onto the internet with a view to selling something, they wanted to mould the net into one big online store, with advertisements left right and center. They did this with no regard for what the internet actually is (a community) and how it works.
It's not their internet, it's not the governments internet... it's our internet, and the sooner they wake up to that fact the better. These cracking attempts aren't an "attack", they're a suggestion. A suggestion that they, and other 'e-commerce' sites behave themselves on our internet!
I was speaking to someone who works for a pathology department of a hospital a few days before new years. He said they had heaps of old equipment, including lots of test gear that was very reliant on the date, most of which needed replacing, but they couldn't afford to replace hundereds of thousands of dollars worth of gear. So he was going to just wait and see.
It turns out that everything seems to be running perfectly.
Meanwhile I was running around madly trying to get everything where I work Y2K compliant... now I feel like a bit of an idiot!
All this Y2K frenzy seems to have given the "It's not really the start of the new millenium, the new millenium doesn't start until 2001" people more of an excuse to raise their anally retentive voices. The fact is, that the calendar is made up, it's wrong (ie. due to a guess made on Jesus' birth the damn thing wasn't even started on the date it purports to be), and whichever way you look at it, it's symbolic, so there's not much point bitching about one year difference is there? If we were to take B.C. seriously, the new milennium would have started in 1997 (or somewhere thereabouts). So all the complaining is rather pointless eh?
Bill Gates, although not a nice man, is nothing compared to the tyrants that exist in other industries.
You see, the thing about a good bastard, is that the public never gets to know about what they do. What's more, they never let you know just how much money, and how many of the cards they hold.
Other industries (oil, automobiles, cancer etc.) posess far more evil people, far richer, and far far far more powerful people than Gates could ever dream of being.
In short. Gates is a prick, but he's only at the bottom of the heap. You don't even know who the big pricks are!
I'd just like to raise my hand as a member of the B5 camp. It had a 5 year pre-writtern storyline in which they set up components in the first season, that didn't become apparent until the last two. Sheer genius.
Everyone knows that Star Wars is the mainstream crap for halfwits. It's the sci-fi you watch when you're not watching sci-fi... why? Because it's lacking the first component of sci-fi. The science. Which makes it just fiction.
Personally, however, I think that if you dress up as a Wookie, a Klingon, a Vorlon or whatever you're beyond stupid. It's one thing to watch it, enjoy it, and even contemplate it. But it's another thing altogether to think you're part of it.
I couldn't care less whether it is an Amiga or not. Whether they brand it a Amiga or something completely new, who even cares.
I'm just hanging out for something new, ANYTHING new. Whether it's good or not remains to be seen. I'm completely sick and tired of the current hardware situation. Intel think that putting serial numbers in CPU's is the way to go, and I can't buy a Mac because I don't look like a hippie. Maybe something new, and intelligent (like the Amiga was back then) would help re-instate my trust in the industry. If it weren't for Linux and open source I would've got the Abacus out ages ago.
"You frequently did get the feeling that the upper management of Commodore were quite possibly the stupidest beings ever to stand on the face of the planet, but that's a different story."
HAHAHAHA!!!!
This would have to be the best quote relating to the mismanagement abilities of Commodore yet!!:)
I'd love to be given the chance to buy an Amiga again. I really think that Linux has a place in the server environment. But I doubt very much that it's ever going to take over the desktop market. The UNIX structure is just too complicated for many users. I'd like to see Amiga on the desktop and Linux at the server.
But can we trust Amiga any more? Remember AAA, and the Walker? They dropped AAA at the last moment. And the Walker was a hoax. Who's to say that this is much the same thing? I honestly can't think what they have to gain by leading us on, but all we have to go by is a vague letter from the president and a sketch that I could've done.
It doesn't change the fact that Linux is a freely available worldwide effort. It's helping bridge the gap between the information rich and the information poor.
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The excuse that, "they did it first so if they can do it why can't we?" Only serves to perpetuate the disregard the industry has for logical versioning.
Netscape is trying to outversion Microsoft. This is a casualty of an open source project becoming a corporate strategy. Adding fuel to the argument that Open Source and big business don't mix.
I LOVE this...
Talk about poetic justice at it's best.
"Power to the People!"
Exactly.
And it's complete bullshit. I usually use my not-very-legal copies of 3D Studio MAX, and Lightwave 3D as an example. Because sure as hell there's no way I'd ever go and pay in excess of $1000 (AUD) for a piece of software.
As for MP3's. Most of the ones I've downloaded have been the sort of song that was good, but never really good enough to buy.
This is an extremely misleading method.
You always see these figures on piracy. But what I've wanted to know for ages is how they work it out.
Do they assume that every song pirated is a lost CD sale?
Surely noone is stupid enough to suggest that if people didn't pirate it they'd go out and buy it?
Like the hydrogen fuels that went before, this one is destined to the same life of suppression.
This will be the last you hear of it. All the while we go on using fossil fuels!
Am I the only person who sees this sort of thing happening... and immediately goes out and downloads the item in question?
Wow.
This process of elimination to get the list of sites down to 64 is quite unbelievable!
It's probably just the worst case if making-it-up-as-you-go-along ever.
*I* care about the truth at least!
It's poetic justice if you ask me...
These companies jumped onto the internet with a view to selling something, they wanted to mould the net into one big online store, with advertisements left right and center.
They did this with no regard for what the internet actually is (a community) and how it works.
It's not their internet, it's not the governments internet... it's our internet, and the sooner they wake up to that fact the better.
These cracking attempts aren't an "attack", they're a suggestion. A suggestion that they, and other 'e-commerce' sites behave themselves on our internet!
Which is worse DoS attacks, or Spam?
Nothing could beat the smell of a dead whale carcass rotting in the hot sun...
Except maybe, a dead whale carcass exploding in the hot sun!
The Exploding Whale Page:
http://www.perp.com/whale/
Definitely a candidate!
Um.... am I the only person who wondered where the MS hardware division comes into the separation, which acts as if MS only sell software?
The thought of someone recreating one of the worst graphical OSes in existence really isn't very appealing.
Some things are just better left to die.... I believe this is one of them!
I was speaking to someone who works for a pathology department of a hospital a few days before new years. He said they had heaps of old equipment, including lots of test gear that was very reliant on the date, most of which needed replacing, but they couldn't afford to replace hundereds of thousands of dollars worth of gear. So he was going to just wait and see.
It turns out that everything seems to be running perfectly.
Meanwhile I was running around madly trying to get everything where I work Y2K compliant... now I feel like a bit of an idiot!
All this Y2K frenzy seems to have given the "It's not really the start of the new millenium, the new millenium doesn't start until 2001" people more of an excuse to raise their anally retentive voices. The fact is, that the calendar is made up, it's wrong (ie. due to a guess made on Jesus' birth the damn thing wasn't even started on the date it purports to be), and whichever way you look at it, it's symbolic, so there's not much point bitching about one year difference is there? If we were to take B.C. seriously, the new milennium would have started in 1997 (or somewhere thereabouts). So all the complaining is rather pointless eh?
Bill Gates, although not a nice man, is nothing compared to the tyrants that exist in other industries.
You see, the thing about a good bastard, is that the public never gets to know about what they do. What's more, they never let you know just how much money, and how many of the cards they hold.
Other industries (oil, automobiles, cancer etc.) posess far more evil people, far richer, and far far far more powerful people than Gates could ever dream of being.
In short. Gates is a prick, but he's only at the bottom of the heap. You don't even know who the big pricks are!
Only satan himself could gain so much at the cost of so many...
Q: So Bill - Is 640k still enough for everyone?
I can sense the collective shaking of heads of the Mac/Amiga community...
;)
They'll probably introduce us to custom chips next!
L8r.
I'd just like to raise my hand as a member of the B5 camp.
It had a 5 year pre-writtern storyline in which they set up components in the first season, that didn't become apparent until the last two. Sheer genius.
Everyone knows that Star Wars is the mainstream crap for halfwits. It's the sci-fi you watch when you're not watching sci-fi... why?
Because it's lacking the first component of sci-fi. The science. Which makes it just fiction.
Personally, however, I think that if you dress up as a Wookie, a Klingon, a Vorlon or whatever you're beyond stupid.
It's one thing to watch it, enjoy it, and even contemplate it. But it's another thing altogether to think you're part of it.
Isn't this like someone trying to give away whaling harpoons to Greenpeace!!??
I mean, the Linux community, I feel, wouldn't be very supportive of Microsoft products!
Who needs another bloated browser anyway?
In quoting C:\windows you've already invalidated your own point.
/usr, /bin, /etc
C:\"windows"--- Note the actual word.
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I couldn't care less whether it is an Amiga or not.
Whether they brand it a Amiga or something completely new, who even cares.
I'm just hanging out for something new, ANYTHING new. Whether it's good or not remains to be seen.
I'm completely sick and tired of the current hardware situation. Intel think that putting serial numbers in CPU's is the way to go, and I can't buy a Mac because I don't look like a hippie. Maybe something new, and intelligent (like the Amiga was back then) would help re-instate my trust in the industry. If it weren't for Linux and open source I would've got the Abacus out ages ago.
"You frequently did get the feeling that the upper management of Commodore were quite possibly the stupidest beings ever to stand on the face of the planet, but that's a different story."
:)
HAHAHAHA!!!!
This would have to be the best quote relating to the mismanagement abilities of Commodore yet!!
It's time people stopped thinking that you have to have the latest computer to do anything useful.
If you don't want to play Quake XXXVIIII then even old Amigas are fine. You can utilise information on any computer.
I'd love to be given the chance to buy an Amiga again. I really think that Linux has a place in the server environment. But I doubt very much that it's ever going to take over the desktop market. The UNIX structure is just too complicated for many users.
I'd like to see Amiga on the desktop and Linux at the server.
But can we trust Amiga any more? Remember AAA, and the Walker?
They dropped AAA at the last moment. And the Walker was a hoax. Who's to say that this is much the same thing? I honestly can't think what they have to gain by leading us on, but all we have to go by is a vague letter from the president and a sketch that I could've done.
I'll get excited when I see more.
Let M$ beat Linux.
It doesn't change the fact that Linux is a freely available worldwide effort.
It's helping bridge the gap between the information rich and the information poor.
We're not just thinking about lining our wallets!