It is sure good to live in Canada. Where the wild untamed Moose, and Eskimos roam the internet in search of AOL, MSN users to insult. Being free from the invasion of mad hatter butterflies from MSN broadband and AOL broadband, I am free to receive all the spam I desire. I get satisfaction in watching the filters send it strait to trash. Looking at all the goofy code attached to it's source is an enlightening experience. Its a hoot to mess with it then sent it back, after making it do something else more fun. Like open IE5 in the original senders computer and reset their home page to some religious fundamentalist web site. If they haven't upgraded, use Mozilla or know how to block scripts.
Thats why I filter all mail with @hot, @aol, @yahoo. So I have to go fishing through the junk to read mail from some brain dead people that I know that use these services. Most of the mail that I receive from them are forwarded from other brain dead goofy mail users anyway. This mail usually contains jokes, flash and pics that only a moron would find interesting anyway.
AOL and MSN do not need to worry. There are still lots of sheep south of the boarder that have not caught on to how to use a real computer yet. Guess I might have trouble getting a MSCE, but thats alright I'm too old for it anyway!
Wow. now you won't need to worry as long as you have windows! A PC with no expansion slots, fantastic.
You can bet the hardware will all be proprietary with exclusive Win system commands. Too bad the future of home computing has been perverted by monopolists.
I say blow the junk out of the water with HAMMER and a chip based version of 64 bit LINUX that will boot from pci non fixed non mechanical drive, or a bios that will boot usb using a 1 gig memory card. Given that the Linux desktop is getting easy enough for even the most brain dead user to get a handle on, it's time some really enterprising high tech firms get the picture.
Yes you can take a big chunk out of Windows buisiness in one heck of a hurry if you are willing to innovate. Something which MS relies on others to do, then buys them out or stomps on em!
Holy COW What a concept. Forget about making money from IT, forget about buisiness and networking. Just make money from cheesy journalism. It's like not having to actually do anything. Just write a book and sell it. If I were to write a book about software admin, I would Include lots of pics of secretaries doing nasty things to hardware, while the server admin is writing a book about how many nodes can sit on the head of a pin per dollar.
How do you get alsa and jack to do anthing usefull, when you can't use them because of library deps that are needed but can't be used because of your sound card config? (I've had screwy issues with Cakewalk in windows that are almost as bad) so I sold my copy to some other sucker. I have tried to install Rosegarden4, which seems to be a nicely thought out recording app, but always run into no config because alsa just won't config on my system.
What would be really nice is if some company could come up with an embeded Linux 4 track hard disk recording device. I would even pay money for that! Like the Xbox hacks. Computer sound cards suck for a to d conversion anyway. Sound quality is not a PC priority, just look sound card analog inputs Hmmmmm... Why not just take the f'in things right out of the loop.
For now I will just stick to using a two track dat machine, mixed down from a Sony r to r 4 channel off a Mackie 1202! Clumbsy, lots of wires, but quiet with good s/n ratios and it WORKS! I only record acoustic music so I don't need to mix 24 tracks with fade, flange and fudge anyway.
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Oh yah, active desktop, didn't that evolve into some wierd interface called XP? I kept trying ctrl-alt-backspace but shucks the shit just wouldn't go away so I nuked it with a dd, and reformatted type 83.
Well as you can see I am a complete moron, because I do not subscribe to the integrate, and obfuscate everthing credo.
If I do not install active x, then how will IE run Windbloze media player? Unless active x controls do something other than control video motion and sound integration, and other processor hogging bells and whistles.
Perhaps if you see the source code you might enlighten us all to the purpose. However that is not how MS programming works, "just use the library, you do not need to know how it works, it was written by those who are much smarter than you are".
As flakey as Xfree86 is I prefer to be able to crash hack things to my liking in Linux. It is my right under the GNU licence. I do not do XP, because I like to have some hacking control. I have run the same install of Win98se for 3 years and have managed to hack it to where it boots and runs better than any XP box I have seen!
Hey it might be like XP but with one real dividend; SPEED. If your graphics apps can then include specific vid card instructions then who needs X. Problem is that graphics adapters require Asshole Active X Controls, and Open GL and other stuff that is proprietary to work right.
The solution is if Linux users start really supporting sympathetic card and chip manufactures world wide, there are quite a few who are getting ticked off by not being considered important enough hardware partners. Apps like the Gimp could easily be compiled to include card specific instructions. Individual Linux apps could each be tailored to their own graphics resource needs. Sounds like the good old days, when programmers built real programs that didn't lean on the OS to the point where things got silly.
Trying to find a dep that is already there but not in the right friggin' directory is the biggest pain in the arse building X apps. It is also a pain for Windows programmers and hardware techs who are on the frindge and shunted by Gates and Co.!
Build the friggin' libraries into the apps. You can't do that in windows anymore! Just try it (This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down), XP does not even display it anymore, it just does it.
So if you want to build for Gates in the future check to see if you have been circumcised, and you have adaquate status to be considered for a trusted computing certificate number code. That is what is coming, get sanctified or die. $cat dog eat if dog eat=dog | echo dog eat
I think I know whats up with Charlie. He is waiting for Billy to see the light! The same dos situation, that occured when IBM first courted Billy. Charlie is inspired. Patent web commerce, why not?
If our fearless leader, "Oh one of great digital bits, Praise Windows", decides, that to actually take over the net, one needs its patent. Then Charlie could sell the patent to MS$ and become another American living off the work of others. The greatest aim of todays entreprenuers.
French, English, good language no longer matters in journalism. Syntax, grammar and dangling participles, who cares?
Ever since the introduction of computer aided grammar no one has needed to be well educated in language arts. Least of all Americans, or computer programmers. The exception is lawyers, who for reasons of employement need great language skills. That is the reason why a jounalist today needs a publisher with good legal represention.
"If you do not agree sue me, I need the publicity!". The war cry of todays jounalists.
Just tried to open this odious and malicious htm in Outlook, would not recognize it so it cannot crash the preview. Tried with altered file extentions and all the other tricks. Sent it formatted in mail, no crash or problem.
It will not render a form, or even format as htm. So my guess is that its IE poison is specific to the wierd htm rendering done by Microsoft for IE5 and up. Can anybody guess why IE5 and up renders htm so wierdly? Couldn't be that its part of.NET stupidity?
Well fortunately htm is not a patented file format, like.pst, as much as Microshaft would like to patent there own version of.htm, they have not yet succeeded in taking over all of the net. If users keep buying into.NET file formating stupidity then they will.
Don't worry even if it would nuke outlook then the world would would not come to an end.
Spam, You guys just do not get it!
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Unfortunately there is money to be made sending spam. ISPs make money from spam. Some internet users, like those using Aol, MSN, and other tricked out ISPs, have not got the brains to read anthing in depth anyway so they need to have flash, groovy pics, colored text etc to have the computer work.
These types of users GO to the URLs that pop up in spam and could'nt use a real email program if they knew what it was in the first place. The only thing they do with the computer is use IE or AOL to tell them where and what to veiw on the net.
The problem with spam is the same problem with paper flyers and junk mail, unfortunately they work!
Did any Americans really read Silent Spring?
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The main problem with modern agriculture is not the use of herbacides or, in some cases, pestacides. It is their OVERUSE due to MONO CULTURE, so called organic or otherwise. You can bet the herbacide industry, because of falling revenues, modern intense (organic) cultivation, and rotation techniques is just trying to sell more new expensive targeted patent poisons.
Problems caused by mono culture could, at least in part, be solved by robotics. The advancement of crop interplanting with targeted symbiotic and bio-chemical pest control of both invasive plants and insects with robotic aid is the way of the future farm. Efficiency problems inherent with large scale planting, spacing, monitoring and harvesting of intercropped plants is the main reason why Farmers are slow to adopt these tested techniques. The exception is greenhouse farming.
Robotic intercropping research is not yet on the radar screen of the current American Government or the international chemical and industrial farming corporations. As long as mono culture dominates our food production, then we will keep up the vicious circle that is leading us to a silent spring.
There is nothing wrong with using chemicals. There is everthing wrong with not understanding how to use them from an environmental perspective. Life is afterall an organic chemical process.
Silent PC? WTF for? The usual computer gamester, mp3 boosted mega bass moron couldn't hear a 5db drop anyway. Anybody that doesn't disable windows or even kde sound events deserves to have a rattle hiss and hum box PC, and wouldn't hear harmonic distortion diffs from a PC sound card anyway. So whats all this about a silent PC. Who cares. If sound and design quaility were a real issue to PC hardware manufactures, then the PC would not be the P iece of C rap that we all love to hate!
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What if the brain scan finds a black hole. Does this mean the conception was from a big bang or just the back seat of a 57 Chevy while on acid?
I have been reading Slashdot for about 2 years. Thanks for telling me how it is distributed. I thought Slashdot was run by the US postal service, and read by Bucky Fuller and Einstein through quantum time effects postings. In general AOL and MSN do not suffer the same effect, as they work by the million monkeys using mice effect.
Au contrar my punktuashun and and grammar is just fine. I was making fun of AOL and MSN, My family has been in Canada since 1796. I guess if I think in a stream of consciousness it is because of my obsession with thought. Something AOL Canada users spend little time doing. Most AOL Canada users, when confronted by an intellectual challenge drown the headache it causes with copious pints of brewskies. This usually goes on until there is little intellectual thought left to trouble the mind. Yes I am Canadian, but different and as such have always been a stranger in a strange land of Grog. Groc.
Being Canadian we up in the great white north have only limited knowledge of the Slashdot effect. Most of us not being use to AOL key words to access the internet, do not suffer from the Slashdot effect. There are a large group of lemmings which unfortunately is growing. They occasionaly create some website hangs, coming from the illiterate lemming communities at MSN and AOL Canada, fortunately there is as yet only very limited MSN and AOL Canada broad band access! As this changes and more keyboard challenged individuals gain broad band internet access then certainly isolation of that segment might become necessary. Signs and symptoms of the disease are everywhere, heres a list. 1. does your computer not work if you unplug the mouse 2. does your computer desktop require 15 or 20 guis at boot to make you feel comfortable. 3. if screen freezes and the net goes do you panic, and call AOL Canada 4. do you require AOL or MSN to tell you what to access and how to use the internet. 5. do you answer emails that promise penial enlargement. 6. do you need to rush out and buy the latest copy of an anti virus software every year. 7. someone turned off (load images) on your browser and in your panic you took in your computer, and after consultation was convinced you needed a new one, so you got Windows XP because you can now control things. If you answered yes to any of these questions then you are exibiting symptoms of lemmingitis and need to do something other than use up band width.
The reason why the law used was not just common theft is obvious. If the charge was common theft then all the lawyers in IT companies would need to hire vets to deliver millions of kittens. Was he a virgin, or was he not? How much original code did he steal? The current goings on in IT encription are the most fleeting secrets of all. The satelite TV industry cannot afford to start a flame war of litigation over their technologies, which might be shown to have been lifted from other sources in the first place. Far better to involve the Government at the highest level rather than risk the lower courts chucking out the case. It is far easier to keep the public and competitors in the dark, by using secrets act legislation.
As I see it the old Irix chips are hindered by old outdated arch, thats why they suck. I was refering to the new 64 bit specs that are showing up on Hammer. With the ability to natively run (without emulation) 32 bit code AMD has got a big advantage for the future of desktop imaging, sound and motion processing. One will not have to software stream old apps. New native 64 will smoke. My wife is part of a medical imaging software implimentation, and the biggest problem is the speed at which high res images can be viewed through 32 bit work stations. The new 32 bit Windows desk tops are necessary, only because the client patient data process software is strictly Microsoft based, and the cost of 64 bit Microsoft work stations is out of the question. However the diagnostic quality image viewers are exclusively 64 bit image transfer, and rely on Linux based image transfer software from the individual CTs, Exray, etc. Even if one were to convert to all MS NT servers the system still would not deliver diagnostic quality to the PC desk tops, because the Microsoft based servers are just too slow and not reliable enough for situations like ER real time imaging transfer and storage. The reason for this is that the code added by Microsoft image file transfer formats usually causes havock on the ram time translation of image data files to work stations, and is way too slow for Emergency Medical Imaging. Microsoft excels (pun intended) at buisiness data solutions but is way behind in digital image processing and transfer. The images that are viewed on the 32bit Windows desk tops therefore are scaled down from diagnostic image quality and are only used for chart reference.
Roll up your sleeves, pull them down, bend over and lookout here it comes 64 bit/with 32 bit emu home computing. So all you need is software emu, the national bird of New Zealand, that does not fly too well. Will hardware manufacturers be in any hurry to rewite their 32 drivers for the Win/Intel emu world, not if they can sell suckers new stuff. Get real you guys do you really think all the driver issues that are going to come out of the wood work will be that easy to address? The pci card issues alone will make your hair stand on end, so you will have to make sure you buy only Intel certified hardware. At higher prices, naturally. Forget your raid array buddy it will crap big ones. SCSI where are you? Will the emu do a good enough job of rerouting the instructions? Will the I64/32 be now portable or even possible, (given Microshaft software patents) in Linux? Hey they are talking about core Win32 code in the emu here, not just the stuff that Wine emulates. How easily one forgets Windows 3.0 and the first release of Windows 95, Win 98, not to mention the biggest piece of software crap ever unloaded on the public Windows ME/2000. We all had to rush out and buy new hardware, and hope that there were no driver and software issues. Well its happenning all over again, the hardware manufacturers, (so called MS hardware partners) are getting hungy and they are about to feast on the beast. Intel and Microshaft have got more crap up their sleeves, and it is aimed directly at your wallet. Save money buy the Hammer! Or an Apple if you have lots of cash. Save yourself future head aches, learn to use real computers, with real software.
All this kaffuffle over DRM and music on the web sure makes real musicians crindge. The very thought of using a junky sound card and cheap crap audio to play compressed junk downloaded off the web tells me more about the state of the recording industry than any slashdot article to date. Todays recordings are so heavely saturated with production added tracks. The music sounds equally bad with obligatory boosted db under 200 Hertz, to kill the crap added in the mids. Over 200 Hertz is where most real music happens and a lack of real musicianship becomes obvious. The fact is that todays average web music listener has no sense of what they are hearing anyway. What is a music video anyway? It is usually an excuse for a lack of musicianship. Bill Gates is right. The average computer user needs to see everything. Why should a real music listener want to use todays computers for music in the first place. How hot would Brittany be if she was a chunky 200 lb diva, NOT. Musical talent and merit means nothing to todays pop music scene. Thats why pop music web sites selling mp3s are doomed. The great music productions of the 50s 60s still are far better than any crap being turned out today. There are still a few record companies, who re-release great classical, jazz, rock, r&b, folk etc. Apart from that there is no future for the modern record companies, as the visual image of a performer has become more important than the musical content on a disk. Is the record turntable a real musical instrument? Are generated rythym loops good groove? Call me old fashioned. I consider it a compliment. Give me real fingers on strings and someone who can do justice to a good tune, on a well mixed release. For that I will always gladly pay. Who cares about the DRM of the crap coming out of todays one hit wonders, in two years it's mostly worthless and forgotten anyway.
Who said Penguins can't fly. The best way to educate the public is to tell them that a 64 bit os will be available with Flying Penguins much sooner and cheaper than XP pro, and to learn how to run 64 Penguins is not a big hassle. If the camera manufactures come on board, with Linux, which might be the case soon, because of cheap 64 bit processing, then watch out. Linux will be in poster heaven. How much will video editing and photo processing software cost the manufacturers to licence for XP? Lets see, will the average consumer be willing spend $300 on a scaled down version of PhotoShop, $1200 for a decent motion/still camera, $400 for a scaled down version of FinalCut pro, and another 2-3 thousand for a Windows computer that can run 64 bits. Or will they turn to Apple and Linux because the software and hardware is already available, and built in.
WHY IPOD ALWAYS IPOD it don't do email, maybe an IPOD cell phone with Email and instant massaging, as well as tunes and vibro massage! whats with you and this Ipod thing anyway, does it make me money, no, then what the hell is it good for anyway. I've seen some brain dead characters driving down the road with an Ipod earpiece in one ear, cell phone in the other and a Starbucks running down their crotch. If an Ipod becomes another way to send and receive spam then maybe it might be usefull but I dought it.
Seems to me that the majority of spam is not traceable, and the spam problem is exacerbated by.NET stupidity. If ISPs get their act together and set up filtering to route only verifiable addressed mail then the problem will go away. There are many ways to detect and differentiate between mail that is direct and mail that does the spam central routing crap. Some filters that I have set up already do exactly that. There is no reason to believe that legitimate ISPs cannot do the same. However is blocking spam in the interest of ISPs? Perhaps not if their main source of revenue is automailers! The sensible solution is to pressure your ISP to block and refuse bulk mail that is from phony addresses. One good filter blocks any mail with @yahoo if the address before @yahoo is longer than 9 characters. Likewise with @hotmail, @aol etc. Sure this might block some legit mail but so far this has not been the case. Setting up bounties to bust email spammers is like putting sheep in wolves clothing. Alot of bah bah bah and then loud howling, when the spam revenue stream dries up.
Is there an Ipod that runs on hydrogen yet? If there was an Ipod with a built in fuel cell and water to hydrogen solar powered interface I might consider buying one. Just Imagine unlimited solar powered tunes, millions of grooving bicycle riding freaks oblivious to the world, riding around listening to techno bop, midi and canned rythyms. Makes a musician or scientists heart proud to see how far technology has come. Why not a methane powered Ipod or dual fueled Ipod, the methane for vegetarian Ipod users. I sense an overall all American jealousy to the Icelanders, we have an energy technology gap going on here. America get with it! you have won the first round of nuke technology, why leave it to the international petro-chemical industry to dictate your future!
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Looking at all the goofy code attached to it's source is an enlightening experience. Its a hoot to mess with it then sent it back, after making it do something else more fun. Like open IE5 in the original senders computer and reset their home page to some religious fundamentalist web site. If they haven't upgraded, use Mozilla or know how to block scripts.
Thats why I filter all mail with @hot, @aol, @yahoo. So I have to go fishing through the junk to read mail from some brain dead people that I know that use these services. Most of the mail that I receive from them are forwarded from other brain dead goofy mail users anyway. This mail usually contains jokes, flash and pics that only a moron would find interesting anyway.
AOL and MSN do not need to worry. There are still lots of sheep south of the boarder that have not caught on to how to use a real computer yet.
Guess I might have trouble getting a MSCE, but thats alright I'm too old for it anyway!
You can bet the hardware will all be proprietary with exclusive Win system commands.
Too bad the future of home computing has been perverted by monopolists.
I say blow the junk out of the water with HAMMER and a chip based version of 64 bit LINUX that will boot from pci non fixed non mechanical drive, or a bios that will boot usb using a 1 gig memory card. Given that the Linux desktop is getting easy enough for even the most brain dead user to get a handle on, it's time some really enterprising high tech firms get the picture.
Yes you can take a big chunk out of Windows buisiness in one heck of a hurry if you are willing to innovate. Something which MS relies on others to do, then buys them out or stomps on em!
Holy COW What a concept.
Forget about making money from IT, forget about buisiness and networking. Just make money from cheesy journalism. It's like not having to actually do anything. Just write a book and sell it.
If I were to write a book about software admin, I would Include lots of pics of secretaries doing nasty things to hardware, while the server admin is writing a book about how many nodes can sit on the head of a pin per dollar.
What would be really nice is if some company could come up with an embeded Linux 4 track hard disk recording device. I would even pay money for that! Like the Xbox hacks. Computer sound cards suck for a to d conversion anyway. Sound quality is not a PC priority, just look sound card analog inputs Hmmmmm... Why not just take the f'in things right out of the loop.
For now I will just stick to using a two track dat machine, mixed down from a Sony r to r 4 channel off a Mackie 1202! Clumbsy, lots of wires, but quiet with good s/n ratios and it WORKS! I only record acoustic music so I don't need to mix 24 tracks with fade, flange and fudge anyway.
Oh yah, active desktop, didn't that evolve into some wierd interface called XP? I kept trying ctrl-alt-backspace but shucks the shit just wouldn't go away so I nuked it with a dd, and reformatted type 83.
If I do not install active x, then how will IE run Windbloze media player? Unless active x controls do something other than control video motion and sound integration, and other processor hogging bells and whistles.
Perhaps if you see the source code you might enlighten us all to the purpose. However that is not how MS programming works, "just use the library, you do not need to know how it works, it was written by those who are much smarter than you are".
As flakey as Xfree86 is I prefer to be able to crash hack things to my liking in Linux. It is my right under the GNU licence. I do not do XP, because I like to have some hacking control. I have run the same install of Win98se for 3 years and have managed to hack it to where it boots and runs better than any XP box I have seen!
SPEED.
If your graphics apps can then include specific vid card instructions then who needs X. Problem is that graphics adapters require Asshole Active X Controls, and Open GL and other stuff that is proprietary to work right.
The solution is if Linux users start really supporting sympathetic card and chip manufactures world wide, there are quite a few who are getting ticked off by not being considered important enough hardware partners. Apps like the Gimp could easily be compiled to include card specific instructions. Individual Linux apps could each be tailored to their own graphics resource needs. Sounds like the good old days, when programmers built real programs that didn't lean on the OS to the point where things got silly.
Trying to find a dep that is already there but not in the right friggin' directory is the biggest pain in the arse building X apps. It is also a pain for Windows programmers and hardware techs who are on the frindge and shunted by Gates and Co.!
Build the friggin' libraries into the apps. You can't do that in windows anymore! Just try it (This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down), XP does not even display it anymore, it just does it.
So if you want to build for Gates in the future check to see if you have been circumcised, and you have adaquate status to be considered for a trusted computing certificate number code. That is what is coming, get sanctified or die. $cat dog eat if dog eat=dog | echo dog eat
If our fearless leader, "Oh one of great digital bits, Praise Windows", decides, that to actually take over the net, one needs its patent. Then Charlie could sell the patent to MS$ and become another American living off the work of others.
The greatest aim of todays entreprenuers.
Ever since the introduction
of computer aided grammar no one has needed to be well educated in language arts. Least of all Americans, or computer programmers. The exception is lawyers, who for reasons of employement need great language skills. That is the reason why a jounalist today needs a publisher with good legal represention.
"If you do not agree sue me, I need the publicity!".
The war cry of todays jounalists.
It will not render a form, or even format as htm. So my guess is that its IE poison is specific to the wierd htm rendering done by Microsoft for IE5 and up. Can anybody guess why IE5
and up renders htm so wierdly? Couldn't be that its part of
Well fortunately htm is not a patented file format, like
Don't worry even if it would nuke outlook then the world would would not come to an end.
Unfortunately there is money to be made sending spam.
ISPs make money from spam. Some internet users, like those using Aol, MSN, and other tricked out ISPs,
have not got the brains to read anthing in depth anyway so they need to have flash, groovy pics, colored text etc to have the computer work.
These types of users GO to the URLs that pop up in spam and could'nt use a real email program if they knew what it was in the first place. The only thing they do with the computer is use IE or AOL to tell them where and what to veiw on the net.
The problem with spam is the same problem with paper flyers and junk mail, unfortunately they work!
The main problem with modern agriculture is not the use of herbacides or, in some cases, pestacides. It is their OVERUSE due to MONO CULTURE, so called organic or otherwise. You can bet the herbacide industry, because of falling revenues, modern intense (organic) cultivation, and rotation techniques is just trying to sell more new expensive targeted patent poisons.
Problems caused by mono culture could, at least in part, be solved by robotics. The advancement of crop interplanting with targeted symbiotic and bio-chemical pest control of both invasive plants and insects with robotic aid is the way of the future farm.
Efficiency problems inherent with large scale planting, spacing, monitoring and harvesting of intercropped plants is the main reason why Farmers are slow to adopt these tested techniques. The exception is greenhouse farming.
Robotic intercropping research is not yet on the radar screen of the current American Government or the international chemical and industrial farming corporations. As long as mono culture dominates our food production, then we will keep up the vicious circle that is leading us to a silent spring.
There is nothing wrong with using chemicals. There is everthing wrong with not understanding how to use them from an environmental perspective. Life is afterall an organic chemical process.
Silent PC? WTF for? The usual computer gamester, mp3 boosted mega bass moron couldn't hear a 5db drop anyway. Anybody that doesn't disable windows or even kde sound events deserves to have a rattle hiss and hum box PC, and wouldn't hear harmonic distortion diffs from a PC sound card anyway. So whats all this about a silent PC. Who cares. If sound and design quaility were a real issue to PC hardware manufactures, then the PC would not be the P iece of C rap that we all love to hate!
What if the brain scan finds a black hole. Does this mean the conception was from a big bang or just the back seat of a 57 Chevy while on acid?
I have been reading Slashdot for about 2 years. Thanks for telling me how it is distributed. I thought Slashdot was run by the US postal service, and read by Bucky Fuller and Einstein through quantum time effects postings. In general AOL and MSN do not suffer the same effect, as they work by the million monkeys using mice effect.
Au contrar my punktuashun and and grammar is just fine. I was making fun of AOL and MSN,
My family has been in Canada since 1796. I guess if I think in a stream of consciousness it is because of my obsession with thought. Something AOL Canada users spend little time doing. Most AOL Canada users, when confronted by an intellectual challenge drown the headache it causes
with copious pints of brewskies. This usually goes on until there is little intellectual thought left to trouble the mind. Yes I am Canadian, but different and as such have always been a stranger in a strange land of Grog. Groc.
Being Canadian we up in the great white north have only limited knowledge of the Slashdot effect. Most of us not being use to AOL key words to access the internet, do not suffer from the Slashdot effect. There are a large group of lemmings which unfortunately is growing. They occasionaly create some website hangs, coming from the illiterate lemming communities at MSN and AOL Canada, fortunately there is as yet only very limited MSN and AOL Canada broad band access!
As this changes and more keyboard challenged individuals gain broad band internet access then certainly isolation of that segment might become necessary. Signs and symptoms of the disease are everywhere, heres a list. 1. does your computer not work if you unplug the mouse 2. does your computer desktop require 15 or 20 guis at boot to make you feel comfortable.
3. if screen freezes and the net goes do you panic, and call AOL Canada 4. do you require AOL or MSN to tell you what to access and how to use the internet. 5. do you answer emails that promise penial enlargement. 6. do you need to rush out and buy the latest copy of an anti virus software every year. 7. someone turned off (load images) on your browser and in your panic you took in your computer, and after consultation was convinced you needed a new one, so you got Windows XP because you can now control things. If you answered yes to any of these questions then you are exibiting symptoms of lemmingitis and need to do something other than use up band width.
The reason why the law used was not just common theft is obvious. If the charge was common theft then all the lawyers in IT companies would need to hire vets to deliver millions of kittens. Was he a virgin, or was he not? How much original code did he steal? The current goings on in IT encription are the most fleeting secrets of all. The satelite TV industry cannot afford to start a flame war of litigation over their technologies, which might be shown to have been lifted from other sources in the first place. Far better to involve the Government at the highest level rather than risk the lower courts chucking out the case. It is far easier to keep the public and competitors in the dark, by using secrets act legislation.
As I see it the old Irix chips are hindered by old outdated arch, thats why they suck. I was refering to the new 64 bit specs that are showing up on Hammer. With the ability to natively run (without emulation) 32 bit code AMD has got a big advantage for the future of desktop imaging, sound and motion processing. One will not have to software stream old apps. New native 64 will smoke. My wife is part of a medical imaging software implimentation, and the biggest problem is the speed at which high res images can be viewed through 32 bit work stations.
The new 32 bit Windows desk tops are necessary, only because the client patient data process software is strictly Microsoft based, and the cost of 64 bit Microsoft work stations is out of the question. However the diagnostic quality image viewers are exclusively 64 bit image transfer, and rely on Linux based image transfer software from the individual CTs, Exray, etc. Even if one were to convert to all MS NT servers the system still would not deliver diagnostic quality to the PC desk tops, because the Microsoft based servers are just too slow and not reliable enough for situations like ER real time imaging transfer and storage. The reason for this is that the code added by Microsoft image file transfer formats usually causes havock on the ram time translation of image data files to work stations, and is way too slow for Emergency Medical Imaging.
Microsoft excels (pun intended) at buisiness data solutions but is way behind in digital image processing and transfer. The images that are viewed on the 32bit Windows desk tops therefore are scaled down from diagnostic image quality and are only used for chart reference.
Roll up your sleeves, pull them down, bend over and lookout here it comes 64 bit/with 32 bit emu home computing. So all you need is software emu, the national bird of New Zealand, that does not fly too well. Will hardware manufacturers be in any hurry to rewite their 32 drivers for the Win/Intel emu world, not if they can sell suckers new stuff. Get real you guys do you really think all the driver issues that are going to come out of the wood work will be that easy to address? The pci card issues alone will make your hair stand on end, so you will have to make sure you buy only Intel certified hardware. At higher prices, naturally. Forget your raid array buddy it will crap big ones. SCSI where are you? Will the emu do a good enough job of rerouting the instructions? Will the I64/32 be now portable or even possible, (given Microshaft software patents) in Linux? Hey they are talking about core Win32 code in the emu here, not just the stuff that Wine emulates. How easily one forgets Windows 3.0 and the first release of Windows 95, Win 98, not to mention the biggest piece of software crap ever unloaded on the public Windows ME/2000. We all had to rush out and buy new hardware, and hope that there were no driver and software issues.
Well its happenning all over again, the hardware manufacturers, (so called MS hardware partners) are getting hungy and they are about to feast on the beast. Intel and Microshaft have got more crap up their sleeves, and it is aimed directly at your wallet. Save money buy the Hammer! Or an Apple if you have lots of cash. Save yourself future head aches, learn to use real computers, with real software.
All this kaffuffle over DRM and music on the web sure makes real musicians crindge. The very thought of using a junky sound card and cheap crap audio to play compressed junk downloaded off the web tells me more about the state of the recording industry than any slashdot article to date. Todays recordings are so heavely saturated with production added tracks. The music sounds equally bad with obligatory boosted db under 200 Hertz, to kill the crap added in the mids. Over 200 Hertz is where most real music happens and a lack of real musicianship becomes obvious. The fact is that todays average web music listener has no sense of what they are hearing anyway. What is a music video anyway? It is usually an excuse for a lack of musicianship. Bill Gates is right. The average computer user needs to see everything. Why should a real music listener want to use todays computers for music in the first place. How hot would Brittany be if she was a chunky 200 lb diva, NOT. Musical talent and merit means nothing to todays pop music scene. Thats why pop music web sites selling mp3s are doomed. The great music productions of the 50s 60s still are far better than any crap being turned out today. There are still a few record companies, who re-release great classical, jazz, rock, r&b, folk etc. Apart from that there is no future for the modern record companies, as the visual image of a performer has become more important than the musical content on a disk. Is the record turntable a real musical instrument? Are generated rythym loops good groove? Call me old fashioned. I consider it a compliment. Give me real fingers on strings and someone who can do justice to a good tune, on a well mixed release. For that I will always gladly pay. Who cares about the DRM of the crap coming out of todays one hit wonders, in two years it's mostly worthless and forgotten anyway.
Who said Penguins can't fly. The best way to educate the public is to tell them that a 64 bit os will be available with Flying Penguins much sooner and cheaper than XP pro, and to learn how to run 64 Penguins is not a big hassle. If the camera manufactures come on board, with Linux, which might be the case soon, because of cheap 64 bit processing, then watch out. Linux will be in poster heaven. How much will video editing and photo processing software cost the manufacturers to licence for XP? Lets see, will the average consumer be willing spend $300 on a scaled down version of PhotoShop, $1200 for a decent motion/still camera, $400 for a scaled down version of FinalCut pro, and another 2-3 thousand for a Windows computer that can run 64 bits. Or will they turn to Apple and Linux because the software and hardware is already available, and built in.
WHY IPOD ALWAYS IPOD it don't do email, maybe an IPOD cell phone with Email and instant massaging, as well as tunes and vibro massage! whats with you and this Ipod thing anyway, does it make me money, no, then what the hell is it good for anyway. I've seen some brain dead characters driving down the road with an Ipod earpiece in one ear, cell phone in the other and a Starbucks running down their crotch. If an Ipod becomes another way to send and receive spam then maybe it might be usefull but I dought it.
Seems to me that the majority of spam is not traceable, and the spam problem is exacerbated by .NET stupidity. If ISPs get their act together and set up filtering to route only verifiable addressed mail then the problem will go away. There are many ways to detect and differentiate between mail that is direct and mail that does the spam central routing crap. Some filters that I have set up already do exactly that. There is no reason to believe that legitimate ISPs cannot do the same. However is blocking spam in the interest of ISPs? Perhaps not if their main source of revenue is automailers! The sensible solution is to pressure your ISP to block and refuse bulk mail that is from phony addresses. One good filter blocks any mail with @yahoo if the address before @yahoo is longer than 9 characters. Likewise with @hotmail, @aol etc. Sure this might block some legit mail but so far this has not been the case. Setting up bounties to bust email spammers is like putting sheep in wolves clothing. Alot of bah bah bah and then loud howling, when the spam revenue stream dries up.
Is there an Ipod that runs on hydrogen yet?
If there was an Ipod with a built in fuel cell and water to hydrogen solar powered interface I might consider buying one. Just Imagine unlimited solar powered tunes, millions of grooving bicycle riding freaks oblivious to the world, riding around listening to techno bop, midi and canned rythyms. Makes a musician or scientists heart proud to see how far technology has come. Why not a methane powered Ipod or dual fueled Ipod, the methane for vegetarian Ipod users.
I sense an overall all American jealousy to the Icelanders, we have an energy technology gap going on here. America get with it! you have won the first round of nuke technology, why leave it to the international petro-chemical industry to dictate your future!