That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. I have to believe that Bill Gates making various Unix vendors froth at the pie hole is good. It keeps things moving forward.
As other posts have pointed out, media degrades. CDs suffer, DVDs suffer, the new HD-DVDs will eventually give out also. I'm sure in time the materials will improve, consumers will learn to properly handle and store media and the longevity will increase.
So let's end the Angry Mob Justice and give the MPAA and movie industry a big, warm, fuzzy bear hug!
Proprietary software -- as we know it today, has so many things wrong with it I can't even begin to tell you..
1> Documentation is usually 2nd priority. In my world, if there's no documentation, there's no product.
2> The product is usually 2nd rate. Because there's often money on the line, my experience has been that the programmers take less accountability for their efforts. Big bug? Guess you have to wait until the programmer (or someone else) gets around to it. Big bug in a program you paid thousands of dollars for? My experience is that enough screaming will make your throat hurt.
3> The user interace is lacking severely. Bigger companies hire people who specialize in HORRID user interfaces (A perfect example of this would be MSN Explorer- the software sucks.. the documentation sucks, and the awkward user interface effectively makes the product useless for large-scale deployments).
The only application the article suggests that sounds compelling is information access. Getting a land line or wireless access at affordable rates to remote areas means someone has to shell out big bucks for infrastructure, the cost of which most likely far exceeds the cost of the device.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/06/12/hyd rogen.ozone.ap/
Where I went wrong was that sheep farts cause global warming, not destruction of ozone.
Didn't a recent article say hydrogen was as bad for the ozone as sheep farts?
Shit! I've mispelled a word on Slashdot. I'll burn in hell for sure.
Is that a euphamism for BSODs?
Her tits aren't big enough. Now Chewey and Jolene Blalock, that's romance!
Give him a break, Job's brand Kool Aid is strong stuff!
Wouldn't that be called parallel?
Yes, but it will piss it off! Then it will fly to Earth and kill us all.
That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
I have to believe that Bill Gates making various Unix vendors froth at the pie hole is good. It keeps things moving forward.
The lines for T-Shirts are long enough. I can't imagine trying to burn enough CDs as 20000 people show up to the counter.
So let's end the Angry Mob Justice and give the MPAA and movie industry a big, warm, fuzzy bear hug!
It actually doesn't hurt that bad, but thanks for your concern.
Hilary Rosen
A little off topic, but has anyone noticed how closely Balmer resembles (in behavior and appearance) the monster from the movie "Young Frankenstein"? .
the media falls apart and send shards of plastic into your jugular and eye socket?
You are right, according to my Pentium:
1/0 = 47.2
0/0 = 0.0000003
Proprietary software -- as we know it today, has so many things wrong with it I can't even begin to tell you..
1> Documentation is usually 2nd priority. In my world, if there's no documentation, there's no product.
2> The product is usually 2nd rate. Because there's often money on the line, my experience has been that the programmers take less accountability for their efforts. Big bug? Guess you have to wait until the programmer (or someone else) gets around to it. Big bug in a program you paid thousands of dollars for? My experience is that enough screaming will make your throat hurt.
3> The user interace is lacking severely. Bigger companies hire people who specialize in HORRID user interfaces (A perfect example of this would be MSN Explorer- the software sucks.. the documentation sucks, and the awkward user interface effectively makes the product useless for large-scale deployments).
"I was entering my quest plans on a PC and it went, like, beep beep beep..."
OK, you know the rest.
As a matter of fact, liquid helium spilling on your pants does brighten my day.
Neither. Suffering is caused by desire and I am on the noble path.
The only application the article suggests that sounds compelling is information access. Getting a land line or wireless access at affordable rates to remote areas means someone has to shell out big bucks for infrastructure, the cost of which most likely far exceeds the cost of the device.
I wonder which is worse, Beowulf posts or goatse.cx links?
Because the previous attempt to implement a campus wide supercomputer using an RFC 1149 based network caused the pigeons to burst into flames.
By broadcast spreading Diazinon on your entire lawn you can make them move to your neighbors yard. Problem solved :-)
Unfortunately they recently outlawed Diazinon. Must be toxic or something.
"First off: we are not all gonna die."
I'm pretty sure we are, just not from magnetic pole shifting.
"Steers and crappy software."
And I don't see no horns!
Damn my happy posting trigger finger.