And what happens when they figure out that you aren't really paying a few hundred extra dollars and that the difference is actually under $100?
Well, I don't know exactly how much the 'windows tax' is, do you? Ok, so lets rephrase and say that they paid between $50 and $100 dollars too much per computer. It is still siginificant. I said several hundred because it isn't exactly a published number. I imagine microsoft has individual deals cut with every windows pc mfg. based on volume and magnitude of evil.
Bollocks. All my work machines come with XP on them. The first thing I have to do is purge the damn thing and install Linux.
You should tell your company that they are paying a few hundred extra dollars for a computer that will never run some sofware that they unwittingly puchased along with it. And write your own operating system, with blackjack..... and hookers.......
a prime candidate for a google whack !!!!!
As guessed, it returned 1 search result. gugel
great link too, funny asian / english sign enclosed.
(only offensive if you really passionately love vegetables.)
Ok, FINE FINE. I downloaded it because I am an amoral criminal and also a communist. I am EVIL and will go straight to HELL!
I see a lot of fancy robots here today. Made of real shiny metal. But that don't impress the Robot Devil, no sir!
No sir!
Cos if you're a sinner, he's gonna plug his infernal modem in the wall belchin' smoke and flame. Amd he's gonna download ya straight to Robot Hell!
Straight to hell!
Matrix was interesting back in 1999 or 2000. This is almsot 2005. Time to move on.
I wanted to mod this up, but it is presented in such flame bait fashion... I feel the same way. The original matrix was great, surprising, cool effects, cool plot, etc. The revolution and the revisit or whatever never even had a chance to live up to the original. I harbored a hope, though, I think many of us hoped the cool would continue. Sigh, it was not to be. This was no Drunken Master 2, or Die Harder type sequel, it was just lame like the star wars prequel crap that stomped on so may of my 4th grade Star Wars memories. I am still waiting for my mind to be blown again by the next big thing. X2 was kind of cool though.
Yah the origial radio show is what got me started on the whole HHGTG trip. I had a contraption of one of those automatic light timers connected to my Quasar 3 in one stereo set to turn it on (with play/record already depressed) and record the NPR broadcast while I was at my boy scout meeting. How's that for super nerd style. I grabbed a collection of the mp3's last year, and listened for 7 hours straight. Something about the radio drama really capured my imagination in the way that only a book or really good spoke word can. You can buy a CD set from BBC.... Or just looked and you can buy a mp3 cd of them too.
bbcshop
I am still looking for the jack flanders adventures that aired on NPR back then. I can't remember what they were about, some sort of mystery with mystical elements ( a big soft chair that transported Jack to another world if I remember). Reply if you can point me there.
he says: In 16 years I've never had a HD crash (and in an average year my wife and own a total of 4 computers, 2 desktop and 2 laptop, plus 1 iPod).
This is so f * ed up. I now feel like I have some wierd magnetic aura that destroys HDs. I have had plenty o' drives fail, and one 40 gigger that really really hurt (futurama mpg's that I had not yet backed up). Working on desktop support I have acquired a stack of 30 or so dead IDE drives, I preach about backing up data to users constantly. Consider yourself lucky , or from your post maybe you just upgrade before the mech. fails.
I think all the personal angst stems from the fact that most of us grew up in the hacker subculture. Programs that install stuff on the sneak violate an unspoken code of ethics. Vendors that aggressively lock in with proprietary codecs and stuff are A Bad Thing(tm). We are used to going to open forums and *Flame On* writing long diatribes about how much they suxor and why. These are the bad guys. They always have been the bad guys. They are now desperately trying not to be the bad guys. Apple and Real have been battling about online media for ages ! They were the two original players.. quicktime and realplayer.
Glaser acts like this is the first time they have butted heads.. Oh we approached apple, we wanted to make a deal. Bah that was just a show for the media. That is like osama and bush sitting down for tea. This war is in its second decade, and don't you forget it.
But I Digress........So, in conclusion, it is because we like to go onto online forums and talk about evil software that violates hacker ethics.
Well I was going to use some mod points here, but couldn't resist chiming in on video toaster. I wasn't an amiga user, but I was a RAVER! in the SF bay area in the early 90's (hello sf-raves, brian behlendorf, et al, superhigh comin back atcha). All of the good parties included visual artists, and the predominant medium was a video toaster set up. I remember fondly zoning out on huge projections of trippy graphics, and none of this was "taped" these guys were up there mixing live, and it was way ahead of its time to be running on a lil old amiga. These projections looked great, and the operators would be reacting to the live dj's and do their fades, transitions, effects to the music or rhythm. It was a great integration of sound and light. Seems like there hasn't been anything new in this vein, wonder what happened? any video artists care to respond? I have always been curious about what they did, but didn't know any of them personally.
Another cool program, but for the atari ST, was the Trip-a-Tron, but I never saw that used for projections, and it was more for just generating trippy graphic patterns and stuff.
o'contrarie, slashdot is teeming with old bearded grizzlies that have been around the proverbial block several times. I'm only 35 and I know what token ring is. Matter of fact, this is one of the best jokes in the thread!
Slashdot Mirror
And what happens when they figure out that you aren't really paying a few hundred extra dollars and that the difference is actually under $100?
Well, I don't know exactly how much the 'windows tax' is, do you? Ok, so lets rephrase and say that they paid between $50 and $100 dollars too much per computer. It is still siginificant. I said several hundred because it isn't exactly a published number. I imagine microsoft has individual deals cut with every windows pc mfg. based on volume and magnitude of evil.
You would have to be a complete knob
But this one goes to 11.
Bollocks. All my work machines come with XP on them. The first thing I have to do is purge the damn thing and install Linux.
You should tell your company that they are paying a few hundred extra dollars for a computer that will never run some sofware that they unwittingly puchased along with it.
And write your own operating system, with blackjack..... and hookers.......
Well, thats less than half isn't it? Thats pretty good in my view.
So who exactly paid for the study?
yah i tried gish. fun stuff. I am into slower games now anyway. All the super fast twitchy stuff gives me motion sickness and headaches.
Well said my friend.
(puts on ring of conflict and hides in the corner behind a boulder)
This contest is so much BS there are only 2 real indy games worth playing: Nethack and BZFlag.
and Nethack is the obvious winner.
a prime candidate for a google whack !!!!! .
As guessed, it returned 1 search result
gugel great link too, funny asian / english sign enclosed. (only offensive if you really passionately love vegetables.)
Ok, FINE FINE. I downloaded it because I am an amoral criminal and also a communist. I am EVIL and will go straight to HELL!
I see a lot of fancy robots here today. Made of real shiny metal. But that don't impress the Robot Devil, no sir!
No sir!
Cos if you're a sinner, he's gonna plug his infernal modem in the wall belchin' smoke and flame. Amd he's gonna download ya straight to Robot Hell!
Straight to hell!
Matrix was interesting back in 1999 or 2000. This is almsot 2005. Time to move on.
I wanted to mod this up, but it is presented in such flame bait fashion... I feel the same way. The original matrix was great, surprising, cool effects, cool plot, etc. The revolution and the revisit or whatever never even had a chance to live up to the original. I harbored a hope, though, I think many of us hoped the cool would continue. Sigh, it was not to be. This was no Drunken Master 2, or Die Harder type sequel, it was just lame like the star wars prequel crap that stomped on so may of my 4th grade Star Wars memories. I am still waiting for my mind to be blown again by the next big thing. X2 was kind of cool though.
thanks, im psyched!!!
Yah the origial radio show is what got me started on the whole HHGTG trip. I had a contraption of one of those automatic light timers connected to my Quasar 3 in one stereo set to turn it on (with play/record already depressed) and record the NPR broadcast while I was at my boy scout meeting. How's that for super nerd style. I grabbed a collection of the mp3's last year, and listened for 7 hours straight. Something about the radio drama really capured my imagination in the way that only a book or really good spoke word can. You can buy a CD set from BBC.... Or just looked and you can buy a mp3 cd of them too. bbcshop I am still looking for the jack flanders adventures that aired on NPR back then. I can't remember what they were about, some sort of mystery with mystical elements ( a big soft chair that transported Jack to another world if I remember). Reply if you can point me there.
yeah , pity they are what every dell and apple come with.
he says:
In 16 years I've never had a HD crash (and in an average year my wife and own a total of 4 computers, 2 desktop and 2 laptop, plus 1 iPod).
This is so f * ed up. I now feel like I have some wierd magnetic aura that destroys HDs. I have had plenty o' drives fail, and one 40 gigger that really really hurt (futurama mpg's that I had not yet backed up). Working on desktop support I have acquired a stack of 30 or so dead IDE drives, I preach about backing up data to users constantly. Consider yourself lucky , or from your post maybe you just upgrade before the mech. fails.
I think all the personal angst stems from the fact that most of us grew up in the hacker subculture. Programs that install stuff on the sneak violate an unspoken code of ethics. Vendors that aggressively lock in with proprietary codecs and stuff are A Bad Thing(tm). We are used to going to open forums and *Flame On* writing long diatribes about how much they suxor and why. .. quicktime and realplayer.
These are the bad guys. They always have been the bad guys. They are now desperately trying not to be the bad guys. Apple and Real have been battling about online media for ages ! They were the two original players
Glaser acts like this is the first time they have butted heads.. Oh we approached apple, we wanted to make a deal. Bah that was just a show for the media. That is like osama and bush sitting down for tea. This war is in its second decade, and don't you forget it.
But I Digress........So, in conclusion, it is because we like to go onto online forums and talk about evil software that violates hacker ethics.
Hey, don't you go awakening my Apple ][e lust! Now I am doomed to spend an hour on ebay drooling over them.
but she's really worn herself out since then...
actually, I think it was Billy Bob Thronton that wore her out.
"There's a sucker born every minute."
"This way to the egress ----->"
excuse me, I have much grifting to do.
Oh boy, I can't wait for a new bzflag with ummmm..... shades?
apparently newtek has opened their source code, spawning open video toaster previously mentioned on slashdot
Well I was going to use some mod points here, but couldn't resist chiming in on video toaster. I wasn't an amiga user, but I was a RAVER! in the SF bay area in the early 90's (hello sf-raves, brian behlendorf, et al, superhigh comin back atcha). All of the good parties included visual artists, and the predominant medium was a video toaster set up. I remember fondly zoning out on huge projections of trippy graphics, and none of this was "taped" these guys were up there mixing live, and it was way ahead of its time to be running on a lil old amiga. These projections looked great, and the operators would be reacting to the live dj's and do their fades, transitions, effects to the music or rhythm. It was a great integration of sound and light. Seems like there hasn't been anything new in this vein, wonder what happened? any video artists care to respond? I have always been curious about what they did, but didn't know any of them personally.
Another cool program, but for the atari ST, was the Trip-a-Tron, but I never saw that used for projections, and it was more for just generating trippy graphic patterns and stuff.
and all the ravers say
ACIEEEEEEEEEED
he sez
*disc disintegrates in hands*
My entire pr0n collection.... NOOOO!!!
I told you not to drop your inventory on the chaotic altar!!!!!!!
o'contrarie, slashdot is teeming with old bearded grizzlies that have been around the proverbial block several times. I'm only 35 and I know what token ring is. Matter of fact, this is one of the best jokes in the thread!
Velkommen Lady Grolschie, welcome to NetHack! You are a neutral human Valkyrie.
0NLY M1RC H4S T3H 7337 SCR1PTS. 1nv1s10n, 3TC....
seriously though, x-chat aqua is pretty nice for mac os x users.