Now would be the perfect time to upgrade to Microsoft's new state of the art operating system 'Windows XP'. I'm sure once everyone does this sort of thing will never happen again!
That assumes that everyone gettin ginfected with this is an "admin" of some sort. I know of more than a few people who were regular (generally computer illitarate) windows 9x users who swiched over to Windows 2000 because they had heard so much of the buzz that it was more stable. And naturally because of the naming scheme, more than a few people I'm sure thought it was the succesor to windows 98. Are these people patching? Hell no. Guess this is one of those times that 'user friendly' becomes a double edged sword: easy enough to use, so that people don't have to know what in the hell is going on.
yeah, I was extremely surprised to see that song on there. I mean that's a highly requested song that's played on the radio quite often. I mean I really don't see how stairway to heaven could even offend anyone.
Microsoft has a huge market share of the media player market since they shove it down everyone's throat. I wouldn't count on them to officially support anything they don't control. Why do you think they're trying to get away from mp3 in favor of their OWN audio format?
Unfortunatly I'm not sure the Real media people are going to be up for it either. Why does everyone download Realplayer? Because somewhere there is some "realmedia" that requires it. Real media survives because of their own format - although I would expect that they would be much more open to at least supporting mpeg-4. Other than the fact that it requires a special player, I really don't have much of a problem with realmedia. But in all seriousness I have never used a version of Realplayer that wasn't total shit, and having a form of media that only one player will play that crashes all the time seriously detracts from any 'real' format.
actually if you have time to waiste Tords Homepage (the guy who came up with blade encode - mp3) has quite a bit of interesting information scattered about his page concerning closed formats. Noteably, he also believes Ogg Vorbis to be the next best audio format.
I'll tell you one reason: marketing. Simply put, those people who actually buy the processor separate actually want to see something that looks like a processor. Imagine that hardcore gamers face when he opens up the latest athlon processor box and pulls out something that looks like a miniturized alien mothership, and exclaimes "WTF is this?!".
AMD actually recommends using a power supply with its air intake on the bottom"
I'm sure if it were up to AMD we'd have fans sticking out of every end of the computer. I recall a friend of mine telling me about someone who bought (at the time) a blazing fast AMD 450Mhz processor. They nicknamed the computer "the hovercraft", since it had so many fans in it, they claimed it almost had lift... Like I want to listen to THAT. I'd be more than happy to have a liquid cooled system of some sort that didn't make any noise. The less fans, the better in my opinion.
Okay, I've only seen the first episdoe of Cowboy Bebop - and it didn't impress me so I didn't watch the rest. Think I made my generalization a bit too broad... Anyway, what happened to the WTC is shocking because people got killed. Now people get killed every day, stabbings, shootings etc. The WTC was a victim of terrorism - terrorism happens all the time - Isreal, Irleand (until recently). I think that perhaps this is just another example of how stuck up the US has been until recently, and now we're suddenly shocked because it happened to us (which of course doesn't make it any better). It just strikes me as odd that people are suddenly offended by terrorism. Cartoon Network obviously didn't have a problem with scheduling those programs before. I just don't think shielding ourselves from anything showing terroism is going to help. (And yes I know about Gundam Wing - with the exception of Nadesco, Evangelion, and Macross; I avoid mecha anime like the plague).
what is this? Suddenly all violence is related to the terrorist attacks? It also might be possible that they're just going to yank these titles temporarily - until all this blows over. I'm sure the majority of the audience for cartoon network (which are kids) probably don't need to be reminded about what happened at this point. Make no mistake, Holywood can't live without violence very long, I mean that's the basis for their movies nowdays (sex + violence + pretty special effects + plot/10 = good movie) I mean take out the violence and all you have left is a lame porno with cool special effects... which actually might be a nice change of pace now that I think about it.
oh really? [I admit I'm pretty uninformed] but I was under the impression that it was written with Java - which is why I thought it was so slow and clunky. Hmm... wonder what they're excuse is now? Overall I have no problem with star office... but having loading race between Mozilla and Star office is like watching a tractor pull with all the vehicles stuck in neutral.
I hope the do well with it... but I have the feeling they won't. Out of any linux distribution I've tried, the Corel distro was by FAR the easiest. I mean even Windows isn't this easy to install! I think the Linux distribution market (at this point) has reached saturation. I mean even SuSE had to be bailed out. I just can't see where this distro is going to find a place.
"How long does it take you to reinstall your operating system? My personal system takes a couple of evenings for the basics and won't be right for weeks. "
Two words dude: Norton Ghost
Besides which as most any computer oriented person will tell you, backing everything up is most important.
"All muslims are NOT psychopathic mass murderers, like some people seem to think. There simply aren't that many people like this."
I completely agree with you, but most Americans (and even myself) are having a hard time believing that when we see Middle Eastern (for lack of a better term) people in the streets celebrating and handing out candy...
Iraq may have had some fighting with Iran, but they certainly didn't have to screw with the likes of the Soviet Union. I admit that the strength of Iraq was way out of perportion, but Iraq also was set up to mainly fight head to head with the US (so it didn't really take a genious to see who would lose there). Afghanastan on the other hand has fought against a super power, and NOT lost. Believe me, even if we did manage to win, I have this bad feeling it would be at a "costly" price.
"Most people involved in this attack were, by Wednesday, either unscathed or dead."
Yeah, the blood drive thing sort of struck me as awkward as well. I mean how many times do you have a tradedy killing so many, with so few people wounded (in ratio to those who were killed). Since the blood shortage in this country was approaching critical levels, this will hopefully be a small ammount of good that came out of this. Maybe those who are giving blood now will be saving lives that arent' related to this incedent.
actually I imagine if Mozilla becomes widespread (?!) that pop up ads would probably find themselves being embeded in the click event via links. Sure some pages you visit might not have any links for you to follow, but most places you go probably have links to other pages or relavent media. It certainly isn't hard to figure out what to do from there...
I have nothing against Linus, but I think that's the last thing we need : Linus suddenly playing God over distributions (visibly). Currently developers and such, understand that Linus has the final say on a lot of things, but regular people just think that "he came up with it", and that's all. If Linus starts jumping in to legal issues, you can bet that M$ will immidiatly jump up saying "Do you want this ONE PERSON controlling everthing?". I think letting the FSF handle everything would be best, and maybe only drag Linus into it as a last resort.
I imagine this would be especially bad since an office could literally be just a few feet away. Although if you read the article, you would also note that it says:
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Wind turbines in rural areas are often criticised for detracting from the landscape and for generating noise pollution. Stankovic says noise insulation around the turbines could dampen sound. Traffic in cities would also drown out most of the noise, he suggests."
Not that I believe it, but watching birds fly through the thing might make up for the noise... if anything else, just to give you something else to look at during a boring workday.
underclocking so you can do away with the fan, strikes me as a very interesting idea. I know 386's do would be good since they didn't really have a fan, but I only have stuff in the pentium range.
um, Stephen Hawkings position has nothing to do with this really. He was completely normal, and didn't even know anything was wrong until he was a grad student at college. Besides which his phisical condition has never had anything to do with his mind; using him in that scenarios is apples to oranges.
That's partially true. I'm actually surprised that the world has reacted as it did. Although we've done a lot for the world, we've also messed with a lot of things we shouldn't have - sometimes well intentioned, sometimes not. I doubt this tradgedy would have happened if we never mucked around in the middle east. But I wonder what the world would be like now if we hadn't gotten involved in WWII? In essence, it's a double edged sword.
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I think that perhaps if this scenario happens again it might be a bit different. A few weeks ago, had someone hijacked a plane, I would have just sat there. I mean we've seen this on TV; plane is hijacked, hijackers demand stuff - they get it or they don't, most people get out alive.
If I were on a plane now and a plane were hijacked, I'd jump the closest hijacker immediatly and try to tear out his throat before the other guys stabbed me to death. I think this tradgedy that has taken place might change the minds of how people behave in these situations. I'd sure as hell rather die gouging some terrorist eyes out than end up a passenger watching in terror as the plane hits the side of a sky scraper.
I wonder... if the government decides not to punish MS in some way, if other companies will continue to push the issue. I think that perhaps Microsoft is going to start seeing the repercussions for relentlessly stomping out various companies, and pissing off the ones that managed to stay in business (thus far). I don't think I can think of any other business that has accumulated so many enemies. Making money is one thing, but when you set yourself up on a pedestal with no one supporting you, you can fall down pretty hard. I think IBM found that out.
I used to play EQ where 'farming' items was a problem. Eventually I got sick of it and stopped playing (but not just because of the farming). I think if other people can get ahead by purchasing digital items with real cash on the side, I need to find a different game to play. I know that modern gaming is supposed to support exchanging "things" but I guess I'm too old fashioned. I'd rather play a game where the determining difference is how much skill I have in the game, and when you can swap badges of these skill or (as is often the case now days) SELL them, there's really no way you can tell if someone really has the skill/dedication, or just shelled out some money to look cooler.
yeah, I mean the guy states that he gets good money, so that's a plus. But all in all I'd have to ask: "do you LIKE your job"? Personally I think finding enjoyment in your work is most important, but nowdays I'm not sure you can quite be so picky (lot of tech layoffs lately). I might talk to the boss about it, but if I liked my job I wouldn't push the matter. Crap code is unfortunatly a reality in many places.
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Now would be the perfect time to upgrade to Microsoft's new state of the art operating system 'Windows XP'. I'm sure once everyone does this sort of thing will never happen again!
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That assumes that everyone gettin ginfected with this is an "admin" of some sort. I know of more than a few people who were regular (generally computer illitarate) windows 9x users who swiched over to Windows 2000 because they had heard so much of the buzz that it was more stable. And naturally because of the naming scheme, more than a few people I'm sure thought it was the succesor to windows 98. Are these people patching? Hell no. Guess this is one of those times that 'user friendly' becomes a double edged sword: easy enough to use, so that people don't have to know what in the hell is going on.
yeah, I was extremely surprised to see that song on there. I mean that's a highly requested song that's played on the radio quite often. I mean I really don't see how stairway to heaven could even offend anyone.
Microsoft has a huge market share of the media player market since they shove it down everyone's throat. I wouldn't count on them to officially support anything they don't control. Why do you think they're trying to get away from mp3 in favor of their OWN audio format?
Unfortunatly I'm not sure the Real media people are going to be up for it either. Why does everyone download Realplayer? Because somewhere there is some "realmedia" that requires it. Real media survives because of their own format - although I would expect that they would be much more open to at least supporting mpeg-4. Other than the fact that it requires a special player, I really don't have much of a problem with realmedia. But in all seriousness I have never used a version of Realplayer that wasn't total shit, and having a form of media that only one player will play that crashes all the time seriously detracts from any 'real' format.
actually if you have time to waiste Tords Homepage (the guy who came up with blade encode - mp3) has quite a bit of interesting information scattered about his page concerning closed formats. Noteably, he also believes Ogg Vorbis to be the next best audio format.
I'll tell you one reason: marketing. Simply put, those people who actually buy the processor separate actually want to see something that looks like a processor. Imagine that hardcore gamers face when he opens up the latest athlon processor box and pulls out something that looks like a miniturized alien mothership, and exclaimes "WTF is this?!".
AMD actually recommends using a power supply with its air intake on the bottom"
I'm sure if it were up to AMD we'd have fans sticking out of every end of the computer. I recall a friend of mine telling me about someone who bought (at the time) a blazing fast AMD 450Mhz processor. They nicknamed the computer "the hovercraft", since it had so many fans in it, they claimed it almost had lift... Like I want to listen to THAT. I'd be more than happy to have a liquid cooled system of some sort that didn't make any noise. The less fans, the better in my opinion.
Okay, I've only seen the first episdoe of Cowboy Bebop - and it didn't impress me so I didn't watch the rest. Think I made my generalization a bit too broad... Anyway, what happened to the WTC is shocking because people got killed. Now people get killed every day, stabbings, shootings etc. The WTC was a victim of terrorism - terrorism happens all the time - Isreal, Irleand (until recently). I think that perhaps this is just another example of how stuck up the US has been until recently, and now we're suddenly shocked because it happened to us (which of course doesn't make it any better). It just strikes me as odd that people are suddenly offended by terrorism. Cartoon Network obviously didn't have a problem with scheduling those programs before. I just don't think shielding ourselves from anything showing terroism is going to help. (And yes I know about Gundam Wing - with the exception of Nadesco, Evangelion, and Macross; I avoid mecha anime like the plague).
what is this? Suddenly all violence is related to the terrorist attacks? It also might be possible that they're just going to yank these titles temporarily - until all this blows over. I'm sure the majority of the audience for cartoon network (which are kids) probably don't need to be reminded about what happened at this point. Make no mistake, Holywood can't live without violence very long, I mean that's the basis for their movies nowdays
(sex + violence + pretty special effects + plot/10 = good movie)
I mean take out the violence and all you have left is a lame porno with cool special effects... which actually might be a nice change of pace now that I think about it.
oh really? [I admit I'm pretty uninformed] but I was under the impression that it was written with Java - which is why I thought it was so slow and clunky. Hmm... wonder what they're excuse is now? Overall I have no problem with star office... but having loading race between Mozilla and Star office is like watching a tractor pull with all the vehicles stuck in neutral.
I hope the do well with it... but I have the feeling they won't. Out of any linux distribution I've tried, the Corel distro was by FAR the easiest. I mean even Windows isn't this easy to install! I think the Linux distribution market (at this point) has reached saturation. I mean even SuSE had to be bailed out. I just can't see where this distro is going to find a place.
"How long does it take you to reinstall your operating system? My personal system takes a couple of evenings for the basics and won't be right for weeks. "
Two words dude: Norton Ghost
Besides which as most any computer oriented person will tell you, backing everything up is most important.
"All muslims are NOT psychopathic mass murderers, like some people seem to think. There simply aren't that many people like this."
I completely agree with you, but most Americans (and even myself) are having a hard time believing that when we see Middle Eastern (for lack of a better term) people in the streets celebrating and handing out candy...
Iraq may have had some fighting with Iran, but they certainly didn't have to screw with the likes of the Soviet Union. I admit that the strength of Iraq was way out of perportion, but Iraq also was set up to mainly fight head to head with the US (so it didn't really take a genious to see who would lose there). Afghanastan on the other hand has fought against a super power, and NOT lost. Believe me, even if we did manage to win, I have this bad feeling it would be at a "costly" price.
"Most people involved in this attack were, by Wednesday, either unscathed or dead."
Yeah, the blood drive thing sort of struck me as awkward as well. I mean how many times do you have a tradedy killing so many, with so few people wounded (in ratio to those who were killed). Since the blood shortage in this country was approaching critical levels, this will hopefully be a small ammount of good that came out of this. Maybe those who are giving blood now will be saving lives that arent' related to this incedent.
actually I imagine if Mozilla becomes widespread (?!) that pop up ads would probably find themselves being embeded in the click event via links. Sure some pages you visit might not have any links for you to follow, but most places you go probably have links to other pages or relavent media. It certainly isn't hard to figure out what to do from there...
I have nothing against Linus, but I think that's the last thing we need : Linus suddenly playing God over distributions (visibly). Currently developers and such, understand that Linus has the final say on a lot of things, but regular people just think that "he came up with it", and that's all. If Linus starts jumping in to legal issues, you can bet that M$ will immidiatly jump up saying "Do you want this ONE PERSON controlling everthing?". I think letting the FSF handle everything would be best, and maybe only drag Linus into it as a last resort.
Not that I believe it, but watching birds fly through the thing might make up for the noise... if anything else, just to give you something else to look at during a boring workday.
underclocking so you can do away with the fan, strikes me as a very interesting idea. I know 386's do would be good since they didn't really have a fan, but I only have stuff in the pentium range.
um, Stephen Hawkings position has nothing to do with this really. He was completely normal, and didn't even know anything was wrong until he was a grad student at college. Besides which his phisical condition has never had anything to do with his mind; using him in that scenarios is apples to oranges.
That's partially true. I'm actually surprised that the world has reacted as it did. Although we've done a lot for the world, we've also messed with a lot of things we shouldn't have - sometimes well intentioned, sometimes not. I doubt this tradgedy would have happened if we never mucked around in the middle east. But I wonder what the world would be like now if we hadn't gotten involved in WWII? In essence, it's a double edged sword.
I think that perhaps if this scenario happens again it might be a bit different. A few weeks ago, had someone hijacked a plane, I would have just sat there. I mean we've seen this on TV; plane is hijacked, hijackers demand stuff - they get it or they don't, most people get out alive.
If I were on a plane now and a plane were hijacked, I'd jump the closest hijacker immediatly and try to tear out his throat before the other guys stabbed me to death. I think this tradgedy that has taken place might change the minds of how people behave in these situations. I'd sure as hell rather die gouging some terrorist eyes out than end up a passenger watching in terror as the plane hits the side of a sky scraper.
I wonder... if the government decides not to punish MS in some way, if other companies will continue to push the issue. I think that perhaps Microsoft is going to start seeing the repercussions for relentlessly stomping out various companies, and pissing off the ones that managed to stay in business (thus far). I don't think I can think of any other business that has accumulated so many enemies. Making money is one thing, but when you set yourself up on a pedestal with no one supporting you, you can fall down pretty hard. I think IBM found that out.
I used to play EQ where 'farming' items was a problem. Eventually I got sick of it and stopped playing (but not just because of the farming). I think if other people can get ahead by purchasing digital items with real cash on the side, I need to find a different game to play. I know that modern gaming is supposed to support exchanging "things" but I guess I'm too old fashioned. I'd rather play a game where the determining difference is how much skill I have in the game, and when you can swap badges of these skill or (as is often the case now days) SELL them, there's really no way you can tell if someone really has the skill/dedication, or just shelled out some money to look cooler.
yeah, I mean the guy states that he gets good money, so that's a plus. But all in all I'd have to ask: "do you LIKE your job"? Personally I think finding enjoyment in your work is most important, but nowdays I'm not sure you can quite be so picky (lot of tech layoffs lately). I might talk to the boss about it, but if I liked my job I wouldn't push the matter. Crap code is unfortunatly a reality in many places.