AMEN! I've been saying for years (and getting flamed accordingly) that LP is the format of choice for atoms on which music is stored. Of course record companies realized there was more profit in making $.18 plastic discs cost $17.00. Now they bitch that we're using their own means of gouging against them. Boo Hoo! I buy vinyl because it's the only medium where you actually get a physical something for your hard-earned cash. And for less $$ too! A full album costs around $12.00 on LP. Singles can be had for under $2.00! Not to mention, you can pick up oldies at garage sales for pennies, and records are actually worth collecting, unlike worthless (except for the data) CDs, with their puny j-cards.
Censorship is only a problem if the information is made unavailible to adults. Precident has already been set for age-restricting certain materials (pr0n, R-rated movies). In fact, creating a.kids domain doesn't keep information out of the hands of kids, it only restricts it to a certain namespace. In order to answer concerns of those that say information might be kept away from children because it is too contriversial, you might make any.kids content adhere to the LCD of content-offensiveness. In other words, on materials that no-one finds offensive. There might not be much there, but as a parent, it's a lot easier to talk to your kids about homosexuality than it is to un-talk to your kids about NAMBLA.
US scientists built the internet. US companies and individuals provided 99% of the content, shopping, and entertainment on the internet just until this year. US companies manufacture most of the hardware involved, wrote all of the software involved, and host 98+% of the domains involved. Pardon us if we think that maybe we have made a huge investment, and therefore think we are somewhat entitled to some control over what goes on. The 'net is not a gift from us to the world, it is the result of years of work, and billions of dollars in software and infrastructure. It may not seem fair, I think we'll keep it for a little while, thanks.
Outlook is merely a programmable email client. Just as programmable as Word, Excel, and, IIRC, The GIMP. The problem was people running executables sent to them without checking the file extensions. This could have just as easily been done with VB, C++, etc, using pipes to send email. Outlook only provided an object model to make it easier for less experienced programmers.
We can't be responsible for other people's crimes. Leaving your car parked outside is not the same as dropping a $20 bill on the ground. You are right in that you have some responsibility to protect your property, but it's a shame that you do. That "responsibility" costs Americans $1000s annually in insurance, security systems, and, yes, computer security consultants.
God forbid (that's right, I said "God". Gasp.) someone tell your little brats to shut up for a minute while other kids try to pray. America is NOT getting better. Open your eyes. Everyone got excited when violent crime rate growth slowed slightly. Children are shooting each other in school, for crying out loud!
The USA was never a wonderland, but now it's a laughing stock. If you think religion is a fairy-tale, then don't buy into it. I'm not a Jehovah's Witness, so I don't care if you put your ass in a pew or not. Just stop undermining the efforts of other parents when they try to instill some values in their kids.
P.S.: maybe a little time in church could mellow you out a little too.
Prayer was never outlawed in schools, institutionally lead prayer was, and it should be. Our society has become too diverse for any single faith to be able to claim it has the right to force others to participate in its rites. That's what that minute of silence was all about.
Actually, thanks to the ACLU, NO prayer is allowed in schools, student-lead or not. Why do you think millions of Americans attend parochial schools? Why do you think your parents probably would have put you in one, too, if they could have afforded it (assuming you didn't go to one)? Americans as a majority want prayer in their children's lives. It is through the efforts of a very vocal minority that prayer has been eliminated from government activities. If anything, allowing our children to pray together would give them opportunity to learn about each other's faiths.
they need to do a much better job of explaining the basis of morality. "God said so" isn't good enough.
You're right, "Mom said so" works better, except that Mom needs to get her guidance from someplace, doesn't she? Without a higher power laying down the rules, it's every man/woman for him/herself, and that's pretty much where we are right now. Want something besides "God said so"? Why don't you get off your ass and read a little? There are thousands of books written by saints, scholars, and psychologists about morality. Unfortunately you're not going to find any of those in your school library because they pissed off some athiest.
Civil behavior starts not at home, but at church, or mosque, or temple, or whatever. We need to know that there is something bigger than us, or else it's all just somebody else's opinion on how we should live.
So? Seriously. So fucking what? Is that what you're so upset about? Excuse my rant, but you can't buy ANY computer with more than one OS pre-installed on it. Of course, some nerd is going to come back with one, but who cares? Even if anyone besides 10% of the readers of this post gave a shit, how hard is it for one of you Linux geniuses to dual-boot on your own? To respond to the article: MS is taking steps to do what all of you bitch about them not doing;i.e.:letting OEMs ship Windows without i.e.. I.E. integration is part of Windows' charm, to some people. Personally, I'd be happier if I didn't have Dell or Compaq changing my computer's interface.
While self-styled "audiophiles" may argue about the fidelity of analog vs. digital recording...
I never mentioned audio quality. To %99.999999 of listeners, they sound practically the same. In fact, most people's ears prefer CDs (even mine). The point I was trying to make in all this was in the rush to digitize everything, the pleasure in owning an object has been forgotten. I don't buy LPs because they sound better on my POS Radio Shack turntable. I buy them because when I own a record, I actually own something. A big, shiny, black vinyl thing. You can use all the extra real estate on a 12" jacket to make art you could never make on a little CD J-card. You can include posters and catalogs. And don't even get me started on choices for artists:10"s, 7"s, 12"s, 5"s, they all play on a turntable, and you can package them however you want, unlike CDs. I am not a "self-styled 'audiophile'" (I like punk rock). I just enjoy the feeling of owning something irreplacable.
Same thing goes for books. They look cool, they smell cool, they have different features, and jackets. Unless, of course, they're paperbacks. There's nothing wrong with them. I've got a bunch of those too. Those are great for when you just want the bits, but more often than not, I'll buy media for the atoms.
OTOH
it would be cool to start allowing all of the MS DCOM services to run on a linux platform. that way if some MS.Net server had anything of interest on it a Linux user could get to the information quickly and easily.
What I got from the article is that it does do hardcover. It doesn't matter anyway, because with hardcover books, the author usually has a lot of input into the layout of the book, a la McSweeney's. Also, publishers often make harcover books in unique aspect ratios, materials, endplates, color plates inside, edging styles, bleeds, etc, etc. I could see this replacing paperbacks maybe, but this will do to good quality harcovers what CDs did to LPs: make elitists out of real readers.
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IANAF (I am not a farmer), but I was a rancher for a few years before I got my start in computers. Ranching and farming is some of the hardest work on earth, starting at 4AM, and ending at sundown. The average rancher makes half of what the average dotcommer made, and works twice as hard. I don't pity myself for having to bail myself out of problems I created, I pity people who break their backs, only to have their living taken from them.
Ever walk into a car dealership and ask them where the electric cars are? Ever try to get a job without a phone (supplied by the monopolistic telco)? Let's face it: personal computers are luxury items, used for entertainment, mostly. Getting all worked up about the unavailibility of Linux at Best Buy is like getting all worked up about the unavailibility of Holy Bibles in motel rooms put there by somebody else than the Gideons. Microsoft has done more for the American economy than Sun, Oracle, Apple, and the DOJ put together, not to mention made the PC commercially viable. As far as my paycheck is concerned, I hope they never get broken up, or at least are succeded by somebody better. A real company, selling products to fund developers like me. Not the Free Software movement. My kids can't eat freedom.
Aside from Radiohead, major-label music is terrible. If you think Tool is great, there's about 30 bands that sound just like them, and have been doing so for years before Tool was out. Linkin Park, same thing. Check out Refused, or Helmet, or Shellac. And those are just the larger indie acts. If major-label music dropped off the face of the earth, you'd never even notice, except that radio would actually be exciting for a change. Check out www.insound.com, which is the 5hit.
And you, sir, are pretty bitchy. Have trouble compiling your kernel this morning?
No, I'm from New Jersey. I just get pissed off when somebody comes up with a valid point, and somebody else spouts off with some reason why it's only 99% correct, and therefore crap.
Good post, except that there's probably less than 1/10th of 1% of programs written that are larger than 100MB. I think we're on the same page, anyway, so who cares.
As for VB, the VB IDE has become the reference standard for visual debuggers. I don't know what you mean by "legs behind your neck". Unless you mean looking at the heap, in which case you have to use a seperate tool anyway. It can still be done, though. If you think COM is ugly, then you might want to stay away from object-based development altogether, or maybe go with CORBA. If I was a C++ guy, I'd write my objects in that, and my GUI in VB. The only machine without the VB runtime would not be running Windows, and if that's a problem, just download the SOAP toolkit, and stop caring about platforms.
How about the Fightin' Irish? Like all we do is fight? How about the lucky charms mascot, who may as well be in the Irish version of blackface? Irish Spring, or those annoying Irish bistro radio commercials (Bennegin's? Benigens? How the Hell do you spell that?). Anyway, I used to live on an Indian reservation in Northwest Montana. We used to play an all-Indian school in basketball. They were fiercely proud of their NA heritage. Guess what their mascot was? The braves! The moral: lighten the fuck up.
Don't believe that myth. Cops tell you that so that you let them search your vehicle. Most counties don't even have K-9 units, and if they do, are not about to call them out to search your car at 2AM. Also, a judge still has to sign a warrant. Again, at 2AM. They also have to have probable cause. Exercising your rights as an American doesn't quite qualify. You get just as much jail time if cops find your stash as you do when dogs find it, and no matter what they say, cops can't make your sentence any shorter. That's the DA's job, and he's still in bed. So, sweat it out, and plead the fifth.
Sure, to academics like yourself. To the rest of us, working for money is a way of life. Research is paid for by taxes collected from commercial entities, and working stiffs like me. Just like research is sponsored from the outside, ultimately, the OSS movement is made possible by companies like Microsoft.
Aside from the HDD-saving properties (which are the least important, they way disk prices have fallen), don't forget the importance of DLLs to object-based programming. DLLs make great black boxes, instantly adding functionality to programs without having to understand how it's done. Believe it or not, when you're writing a large app with a small piece of functionality needed that is unrelated to the rest of the app (i.e.: image manipulation in a database program, or database manipulation in an image-editing program), you'll be happy not to have to learn complex techniques you'll never need to remember. This is a good thing, for those of us on a deadline, or for those of us that want to sell libraries for money. Also, it's a boon for project management. I can assign several DLLs to several different developers, and they can just exchange binaries, not source. That introduces a lot less errors into code over time. Oh, yeah, and don't forget: VB.
What are you, his wife trying to win an argument over what TV show to watch? The spirit of his post is what's important, not the letter. Him lumping all Linux users together and using the word "never" probably wasn't the best idea, but it got your attention, and the fact of the matter is: you never mentioned what software you've actually bought for your computer, did you? Sure, you might reply with some now, but you didn't even bother to refute his claim. His post was modded up for a reason. It's not a troll, it's the truth, and it hurts.
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AMEN! I've been saying for years (and getting flamed accordingly) that LP is the format of choice for atoms on which music is stored. Of course record companies realized there was more profit in making $.18 plastic discs cost $17.00. Now they bitch that we're using their own means of gouging against them. Boo Hoo! I buy vinyl because it's the only medium where you actually get a physical something for your hard-earned cash. And for less $$ too! A full album costs around $12.00 on LP. Singles can be had for under $2.00! Not to mention, you can pick up oldies at garage sales for pennies, and records are actually worth collecting, unlike worthless (except for the data) CDs, with their puny j-cards.
Censorship is only a problem if the information is made unavailible to adults. Precident has already been set for age-restricting certain materials (pr0n, R-rated movies). In fact, creating a .kids domain doesn't keep information out of the hands of kids, it only restricts it to a certain namespace. In order to answer concerns of those that say information might be kept away from children because it is too contriversial, you might make any .kids content adhere to the LCD of content-offensiveness. In other words, on materials that no-one finds offensive. There might not be much there, but as a parent, it's a lot easier to talk to your kids about homosexuality than it is to un-talk to your kids about NAMBLA.
US scientists built the internet. US companies and individuals provided 99% of the content, shopping, and entertainment on the internet just until this year. US companies manufacture most of the hardware involved, wrote all of the software involved, and host 98+% of the domains involved. Pardon us if we think that maybe we have made a huge investment, and therefore think we are somewhat entitled to some control over what goes on. The 'net is not a gift from us to the world, it is the result of years of work, and billions of dollars in software and infrastructure. It may not seem fair, I think we'll keep it for a little while, thanks.
Outlook is merely a programmable email client. Just as programmable as Word, Excel, and, IIRC, The GIMP. The problem was people running executables sent to them without checking the file extensions. This could have just as easily been done with VB, C++, etc, using pipes to send email. Outlook only provided an object model to make it easier for less experienced programmers.
We can't be responsible for other people's crimes. Leaving your car parked outside is not the same as dropping a $20 bill on the ground. You are right in that you have some responsibility to protect your property, but it's a shame that you do. That "responsibility" costs Americans $1000s annually in insurance, security systems, and, yes, computer security consultants.
No, ROPE.dll is the SOAP handler library. The term "SOAP on ROPE" is merely a pun, and it can run under regular COM or Win32.
Not true. The setup program for any application that contained these controls included all the necessary files.
God forbid (that's right, I said "God". Gasp.) someone tell your little brats to shut up for a minute while other kids try to pray. America is NOT getting better. Open your eyes. Everyone got excited when violent crime rate growth slowed slightly. Children are shooting each other in school, for crying out loud!
The USA was never a wonderland, but now it's a laughing stock. If you think religion is a fairy-tale, then don't buy into it. I'm not a Jehovah's Witness, so I don't care if you put your ass in a pew or not. Just stop undermining the efforts of other parents when they try to instill some values in their kids.
P.S.: maybe a little time in church could mellow you out a little too.
Prayer was never outlawed in schools, institutionally lead prayer was, and it should be. Our society has become too diverse for any single faith to be able to claim it has the right to force others to participate in its rites. That's what that minute of silence was all about.
Actually, thanks to the ACLU, NO prayer is allowed in schools, student-lead or not. Why do you think millions of Americans attend parochial schools? Why do you think your parents probably would have put you in one, too, if they could have afforded it (assuming you didn't go to one)? Americans as a majority want prayer in their children's lives. It is through the efforts of a very vocal minority that prayer has been eliminated from government activities. If anything, allowing our children to pray together would give them opportunity to learn about each other's faiths.
they need to do a much better job of explaining the basis of morality. "God said so" isn't good enough.
You're right, "Mom said so" works better, except that Mom needs to get her guidance from someplace, doesn't she? Without a higher power laying down the rules, it's every man/woman for him/herself, and that's pretty much where we are right now. Want something besides "God said so"? Why don't you get off your ass and read a little? There are thousands of books written by saints, scholars, and psychologists about morality. Unfortunately you're not going to find any of those in your school library because they pissed off some athiest.
Civil behavior starts not at home, but at church, or mosque, or temple, or whatever. We need to know that there is something bigger than us, or else it's all just somebody else's opinion on how we should live.
So? Seriously. So fucking what? Is that what you're so upset about? Excuse my rant, but you can't buy ANY computer with more than one OS pre-installed on it. Of course, some nerd is going to come back with one, but who cares? Even if anyone besides 10% of the readers of this post gave a shit, how hard is it for one of you Linux geniuses to dual-boot on your own? To respond to the article: MS is taking steps to do what all of you bitch about them not doing;i.e.:letting OEMs ship Windows without i.e.. I.E. integration is part of Windows' charm, to some people. Personally, I'd be happier if I didn't have Dell or Compaq changing my computer's interface.
While self-styled "audiophiles" may argue about the fidelity of analog vs. digital recording...
I never mentioned audio quality. To %99.999999 of listeners, they sound practically the same. In fact, most people's ears prefer CDs (even mine). The point I was trying to make in all this was in the rush to digitize everything, the pleasure in owning an object has been forgotten. I don't buy LPs because they sound better on my POS Radio Shack turntable. I buy them because when I own a record, I actually own something. A big, shiny, black vinyl thing. You can use all the extra real estate on a 12" jacket to make art you could never make on a little CD J-card. You can include posters and catalogs. And don't even get me started on choices for artists:10"s, 7"s, 12"s, 5"s, they all play on a turntable, and you can package them however you want, unlike CDs. I am not a "self-styled 'audiophile'" (I like punk rock). I just enjoy the feeling of owning something irreplacable.
Same thing goes for books. They look cool, they smell cool, they have different features, and jackets. Unless, of course, they're paperbacks. There's nothing wrong with them. I've got a bunch of those too. Those are great for when you just want the bits, but more often than not, I'll buy media for the atoms.
OTOH it would be cool to start allowing all of the MS DCOM services to run on a linux platform. that way if some MS .Net server had anything of interest on it a Linux user could get to the information quickly and easily.
You can. Look at SOAP.
What I got from the article is that it does do hardcover. It doesn't matter anyway, because with hardcover books, the author usually has a lot of input into the layout of the book, a la McSweeney's. Also, publishers often make harcover books in unique aspect ratios, materials, endplates, color plates inside, edging styles, bleeds, etc, etc. I could see this replacing paperbacks maybe, but this will do to good quality harcovers what CDs did to LPs: make elitists out of real readers.
I drive a Volvo. It's not a stick. It is certainly a quality car. Also, I'd like to find out where I can get a hand-made Boxster.
Isn't Linux just like that? Free?
In your system, who takes away the garbage?
IANAF (I am not a farmer), but I was a rancher for a few years before I got my start in computers. Ranching and farming is some of the hardest work on earth, starting at 4AM, and ending at sundown. The average rancher makes half of what the average dotcommer made, and works twice as hard. I don't pity myself for having to bail myself out of problems I created, I pity people who break their backs, only to have their living taken from them.
Ever walk into a car dealership and ask them where the electric cars are? Ever try to get a job without a phone (supplied by the monopolistic telco)? Let's face it: personal computers are luxury items, used for entertainment, mostly. Getting all worked up about the unavailibility of Linux at Best Buy is like getting all worked up about the unavailibility of Holy Bibles in motel rooms put there by somebody else than the Gideons. Microsoft has done more for the American economy than Sun, Oracle, Apple, and the DOJ put together, not to mention made the PC commercially viable. As far as my paycheck is concerned, I hope they never get broken up, or at least are succeded by somebody better. A real company, selling products to fund developers like me. Not the Free Software movement. My kids can't eat freedom.
Aside from Radiohead, major-label music is terrible. If you think Tool is great, there's about 30 bands that sound just like them, and have been doing so for years before Tool was out. Linkin Park, same thing. Check out Refused, or Helmet, or Shellac. And those are just the larger indie acts. If major-label music dropped off the face of the earth, you'd never even notice, except that radio would actually be exciting for a change. Check out www.insound.com, which is the 5hit.
And you, sir, are pretty bitchy. Have trouble compiling your kernel this morning?
No, I'm from New Jersey. I just get pissed off when somebody comes up with a valid point, and somebody else spouts off with some reason why it's only 99% correct, and therefore crap.
Good post, except that there's probably less than 1/10th of 1% of programs written that are larger than 100MB. I think we're on the same page, anyway, so who cares.
As for VB, the VB IDE has become the reference standard for visual debuggers. I don't know what you mean by "legs behind your neck". Unless you mean looking at the heap, in which case you have to use a seperate tool anyway. It can still be done, though. If you think COM is ugly, then you might want to stay away from object-based development altogether, or maybe go with CORBA. If I was a C++ guy, I'd write my objects in that, and my GUI in VB. The only machine without the VB runtime would not be running Windows, and if that's a problem, just download the SOAP toolkit, and stop caring about platforms.
How about the Fightin' Irish? Like all we do is fight? How about the lucky charms mascot, who may as well be in the Irish version of blackface? Irish Spring, or those annoying Irish bistro radio commercials (Bennegin's? Benigens? How the Hell do you spell that?). Anyway, I used to live on an Indian reservation in Northwest Montana. We used to play an all-Indian school in basketball. They were fiercely proud of their NA heritage. Guess what their mascot was? The braves! The moral: lighten the fuck up.
Don't believe that myth. Cops tell you that so that you let them search your vehicle. Most counties don't even have K-9 units, and if they do, are not about to call them out to search your car at 2AM. Also, a judge still has to sign a warrant. Again, at 2AM. They also have to have probable cause. Exercising your rights as an American doesn't quite qualify. You get just as much jail time if cops find your stash as you do when dogs find it, and no matter what they say, cops can't make your sentence any shorter. That's the DA's job, and he's still in bed. So, sweat it out, and plead the fifth.
Research is a way of life...
Sure, to academics like yourself. To the rest of us, working for money is a way of life. Research is paid for by taxes collected from commercial entities, and working stiffs like me. Just like research is sponsored from the outside, ultimately, the OSS movement is made possible by companies like Microsoft.
Aside from the HDD-saving properties (which are the least important, they way disk prices have fallen), don't forget the importance of DLLs to object-based programming. DLLs make great black boxes, instantly adding functionality to programs without having to understand how it's done. Believe it or not, when you're writing a large app with a small piece of functionality needed that is unrelated to the rest of the app (i.e.: image manipulation in a database program, or database manipulation in an image-editing program), you'll be happy not to have to learn complex techniques you'll never need to remember. This is a good thing, for those of us on a deadline, or for those of us that want to sell libraries for money. Also, it's a boon for project management. I can assign several DLLs to several different developers, and they can just exchange binaries, not source. That introduces a lot less errors into code over time. Oh, yeah, and don't forget: VB.
What are you, his wife trying to win an argument over what TV show to watch? The spirit of his post is what's important, not the letter. Him lumping all Linux users together and using the word "never" probably wasn't the best idea, but it got your attention, and the fact of the matter is: you never mentioned what software you've actually bought for your computer, did you? Sure, you might reply with some now, but you didn't even bother to refute his claim. His post was modded up for a reason. It's not a troll, it's the truth, and it hurts.