This Ars Technicia article in which he claims the only books on the Amiga he could find where technical manuals?
After that he started to make up stuff based on biased PBS shows like "Triumph of the Nerds" that was basically Steve Jobs and Bill Gates bragging about how awesome they are and how they invented everything first except for Xerox, and the Amiga is just a footnote in that story. In fact Steve Jobs admits to stealing ideas to make the Macintosh "Ultimately it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing. I mean Picasso had a saying he said good artists copy great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas ehm and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."
He admits that Apple has always been shameless in stealing ideas. That proves my version of history about Commodore and the Amiga and Steve Jobs and Apple stealing ideas from them.
Amiga Forever is an emulator, not as good as Amithlon, but based on Fellows and UAE. Those DVDs are not that accurate and you cannot get a good feel for how an Amiga works by simply using an emulator. Those DVDs are marketing hype for Amiga Forever and selling you more Amiga disk images and ROMs for later.
You want the true history of the Amiga, you talk to Atari, Commodore, and Amiga employees like I have. The history of the Amiga was written before the world wide web was invented, but the history of the Amiga over the Internet is a complete and total fabrication by Microsoft and Apple to downplay the Amiga into a failed gaming system and those Amiga Forever DVDs play on the Microsoft and Apple version of history that was posted on the Internet, but later found to be false and part of a propaganda effort to downplay the Amiga.
I got my info from the Amiga by reading books on the Amiga and Commodore, talking to Atari, Amiga, Commodore employees, going to Amiga conventions to meet them, plus I have over 20 years of Amiga use and programming experience.
All you have is someone who posted as anonymous coward, who doesn't have jack squat to back up his/her research except for propoganda marketing DVDs and Ars Technicia bullsh*t written 20+ years after the Amiga history had already been written with little to no research except biased opinions by Microsoft and Apple and their users who totally hate the Amiga and anyone who dares to use it or speak about it.
Ars Technica? Might as well ask the Weekly World News about the origins of the Amiga? They'll tell you Batboy, UFO Aliens, and Bigfoot helped create the Amiga in the 1950's as part of Area 51, and it will be more accurate than anything posted on Ars Technica ever has or will be.
I guess next you'll be telling me that Wikipedia is factual and not liberal biased at all?
For every DRM technology there exists 12 pirate hacker crackers who can defeat it and release it over the Internet.
Yes software companies take things out on their customers by annoying them with DRM and raising their prices and making false positives for invalid keys for people who actually bought the software.
It is enough to drive a person to only play open source games and stop buying commercial ones in protest.
I won't link to it, but gamecopyworld.com is the domain name for those who want the NO-CD or cracked versions of the games. It is mirrored by various web sites throughout the world.
A warning that some of the cracks may have malware in them. You bought the ticket, so take the ride. As Hunter S. Thompson would say.
Solution #1 Allow users to download the game for free, but have to pay an Internet subscription to use it online for multiplayers and buy items in the game. (Like the Pirates of the Caribbean Online game does).
Solution #2 Users can buy the game with no DRM, but at a much larger fee like $100+ to cover the costs of people pirating the game from their copy.
Solution #3 Make the game web based, and users have to suffer through advertising to play it for free, otherwise a small monthly fee makes it add free. The game is released on Facebook and MySpace (like Battle Stations) and thus the game can be played by any OS user that has a web browser with shockwave flash players. The game has Action Points, to play it and the user can buy more action points or earn them by completing offers or just wait every hour for them to refresh.
Solution #4 sell the game for $35 without DRM, but each version of the game only works for a year, after that you have to buy a new version number to use it after that year. Minor version numbers do not count, only major version numbers. Year one will be the 1.X versions, year two will be the 2.X versions, etc.
Solution #5 Open Source the game and make it a free version without all of the features of the commercial version that requires a CD-Key and register an Internet account to play the game. The commercial version won't play unless the user has an Internet account set up with the game maker that they log into each time they play the game. The game server will check IPs and if the same account logs into the game server from two different IPs at the same time, the first one will be allowed to log in but not the second one, until the first one times out or logs out.
Solution #6 Sell the game and if the user does not enter a valid CD-Key that can be verified, they have to play the game with advertising and limited features, until they pay for a CD-Key online and it removes the advertising. No DRM, but the game will still play with conditions if it is pirated.
Solution #7 Stop supporting the PC and Mac, and only develop the game for game consoles. Don't release a PC or/and Mac version until you can figure out a way to make money on game sales without DRM and still stop most piracy.
Most game developers are starting to look at option #7, because they ignore the Mod-chips that bypass DRM for game consoles, because most game console owners don't know what a mod-chip is or how to install one and actually buy the retail version of the game instead of pirating it. They are mostly Luddites that can't figure out how to install a program on a PC or Mac, and bought a game console instead because it was easier for them to play games on.
Apple Geniuses and Vista Gurus are both forms of a shill. Apple Geniuses shill for Apple, and Vista Gurus shill for Microsoft. They are paid money to actually promote that company's products and nothing else.
So they will automatically downplay Linux, AROS, ReactOS, and other alternatives to the products they are shilling for.
Microsoft already had Shills working at Best Buy named Geek Squad, but they failed at marketing and shilling and the only tech skills they have is booting up those MRI Boot CDs to remove viruses from a Windows system and almost get lost doing anything else. Yes they charge $300 to use a MRI Boot CD that uses command line malware scanners that update over their Ethernet network, and we real Geeks just boot into Safe Mode with Networking via F8 and use the same scanners, or create our own boot CD via BartPE, Reatogo, UBCD, or some other boot CD making with a mini version of Windows or Linux.
I had a tech support business from 1995 to 2000 that did a better job than Geek Squad ever could, but it is hard to beat an 18 year old with an MRI boot CD that works out of a consumer electronics store and calls themselves a Geek even if all they do is run a Boot CD and can't fix half the stuff I can fix. Because my company couldn't afford to advertise on TV or have our store inside a consumer electronics store or have those $300 to $500 rebates that the customer has to wait six months for anyway an by then a new better computer will be out.
My business supported Windows, Mac OS, Linux, AmigaOS, OS/2, BeOS, anything the customer wanted to use but couldn't advertise on TV or afford those rebates to be offered to the customers, so we eventually went out of business.
those commercials are Seinfeld commercials in which they are commercials about nothing much like "Seinfeld" was a Sitcom about nothing, much like Microsoft Windows is an operating system about nothing.:)
The Twilight 2000 War that was supposed to start in 1999 and cause an oil and gas shortage and a big war in Europe with Russia.
The reign of terror of President Al Gore. But as a side effect we got a reign of terror of President George W. Bush, but that helps set up the next election to, ah but that would be telling. At least I stopped the reign of terror of President Hillary Clinton, for now. Unfortunately John McCain got the nomination instead of Ron Paul. So I have some work to do.
I gave Richard Branson some starship designs and helped get the X-Prize started to get the Solimani space projects back on track. Hopefully that will lead to Jump technology or at least some better tech for when the Solimanis meet the Imperium, plus with the social manipulation I have done (learned from the Hivers) Solimanis should be less racist in the near future.
So unless you can time travel back and change all of that, your chances are slim and none.:)
Also since I am a pirate and was lying to the TL-35 computers they thought I was broken and "fixed" me beyond what is considered human in evolution. But later I worked for them in exchange for technology and upgrades.
I can see the fourth and fifth dimensions, most humans can only see three dimensions, most humans only think in two dimensions and it is rare to think in three much less four or five. The fourth is time and the fifth is space. Yeah I developed schizoaffective disorder as a result, you can't see time and space and not go crazy in some way. So I had to develop a reality filter to filter them out to keep my sanity, but I can turn it off to see in the fourth and fifth dimensions.
You'll be amazed at what TL-35 can do, meson guns the size of a pistol, web armor, but I'm getting ahead of myself. You most likely haven't discovered those yet and I moved everything so you couldn't find them. I even later discovered TL-40 and beyond as well as Gun Kata, which is a rare skill to learn.
Oh the Research Station Gamma debacle? We had that in our time line as well.
I got better than that by finding a time warp gate on Jupiter's moon Io that Grandfather left there, and I moved it to a new location. I also discovered portals to pocket universes that grandfather created and the TL-35 computers that ran them made deals with me in exchange for my services.
Plus I ran into some fellow called The Doctor who claims to be a Doctor of everything, nice fellow, all of him.
Not to mention I discovered CVEs that lead to other universes like Terminators and Cyclons, and I got tech from them as well.
You see in our Traveller universe, we play a version of Traveller that is like no other, and borrows technology and other things from other universes plus things we developed for ourselves. You might even get lost in one of our games.:)
Yeah we got custom character creation, and our GMs wrote a lot of campaigns and materials and sometimes we release some of it on our Yahoo group as "fan based" material under an open source license.
P.S. "Serenity", "Firefly" stole a lot from Traveller and some of our campaigns. I've played as Orion Blastar since 1985 and make Malcolm Reynolds look like a n00b.:)
Yeah but in 8193AD you'll have to deal with the Vampire Fleets because in 8192 all Imperial and Solimani star ships got converted to the Microsoft Windows MCXXI codename "Pasidy" as Microsoft contracted out the Vargrs to outsource the design of it. It replaced the Amiga Research OS 4096 as the standard for your star ships, but in doing so made your star ships vulnerable to malware. The Twelve Colonies made the same mistake when they went to Microsoft to outfit their new Battlestars and Vipers with the latest and greatest from Microsoft until Cylon malware infected them and Commander Adama had to pull out the old Viper designs that still used Amiga Research OS and were immune to the malware.
So try to fight us space pirate ninjas from 4096AD when your starships turn into vampire fleets and your technology in 8193 AD turns against you.
John Titor failed in his mission because he took IBM technology and it got infected with malware, had he taken Amiga technology like AROS, he'd succeeded. So then I was sent to the past to get Amiga technology so we could help fight the malware.
Even your guns and light blades get infected and turn against you. Pwn3d!
Yes and also a "Learn to use your bionic limb" class for those who accidentally amputate their own hands or had a fellow Jedi or Sith amputate theirs by mistake or on purpose, whatever. After passing that class, you get a neat black glove and matching black outfit to go with the bionic hand.
Also don't forget "How to speak with R2 units", "How to speak Wookie", and "How to tell if that hot babe in the metal bikini is really your long lost twin sister or not" courses.
You know, unless they start them training out young the Jedi council won't approve them to be trained. Also Master Yoda won't approve if he senses much fear in students. If these requirements are not met, chances are they will turn to the dark side and use their hate and anger instead of logic and reason.
I also heard rumor that Harvard and Yale have started their Sith Lords training course for those who don't fit the Jedi criteria.
There is also a "Using the Force for Dummies" book that is being written so the drop outs of those courses can still use the force even if they fail college.
As for me, I am a space pirate ninja from 4096 AD, I already have psionics training that far exceeds what the force training can do.
Point taken, but Slashdot has a mostly liberal user base. Since Liberals are anti-establishment they are more likely to make derogatory comments about former employers online. I base this on research I did on liberal web sites like The Daily Kos, Kuro5hin, IWETHEY, and Slashdot that are mostly liberal (based on the political compass app they used at various times) and based on the number of derogatory comments they actually made about former employers, it stood to reason and was logical that any comments they made about former employers would be derogatory.
I used to be a liberal myself, until I wised up and became a libertarian.
But point well made, remove all derogatory comments about your former employers online. If there are any non-derogatory comments like "I'd wish they open source my old programs so I could show them to potential employers as proof of my work." while not derogatory could be seen as damaging to their careers as a potential employer might not hire them because they would be afraid the person would open source their programs he/she writes for them and not hire them because of it as they want a closed license on all their projects. By all means keep those comments, and you'll end up only working for a company that wants open source licensed programs, but not so much for companies that want you to write closed source programs. It will garendamn-tee you not to ever work in a Microsoft shop ever again in your life. If you are cool with that, keep your non-derogatory comments about your former employers as well, if you are not cool about that, take my advice and scub all comments just to be safe.
I'm looking to switch to Ubuntu to get this new support to make it more user friendly. I used to use Red Hat Fedora and Open SUSE, but I think this news will help me switch to Ubuntu. That and Linspire contributes to Ubuntu from their Linspire and Freespire projects that tried to make Linux more like Windows (originally it was called Lindows until Microsoft sued them over the name being too much like Windows).
Yeah the ironic thing was that Apple already had an MKLinux port for their Macintosh systems, and all they really needed to do was integrate the Mac OS GUI with MKLinux and then just use the OpenStep enhancements because they too are open sourced like MKLinux and could have saved the money they used to buy out Next and bring Steve Jobs back and just do it all better by themselves.
Instead they got Steve Jobs and Next and a much more bigger and bloated operating system than they expected to get.
The other option, besides buying up Be Inc. was to license AROS and then build Carbon and Mac OS systems on top of that as it is already object oriented and based on the AmigaOS that IBM licensed from Commodore to give OS/2 2.0 an object oriented WPS system as Commodore got there already in 1985 before anyone else did, and Apple was basically doing the same thing with OSX that Commodore did with AmigaDOS/Workbench in 1985.
The Amiga was already object oriented even going back to its 1970's roots as the Atari Lorianne project that was basically an Atari 2600 mod to turn the Atari 2600 into an object oriented GUI computer, but the Atari 400/800 projects put Lorianne on the back burner until Commodore bought out the team in the 1980's. The Amiga project predated the Apple Lisa project, and the Lorianne/Amiga team offered Apple to buy them out first, but gave Steve Jobs his idea for the Lisa computer (and later the Macintosh) and he told them no, and visited Xerox's PARC to get some more good ideas.
He mixed Apple iTunes sloppy code with Microsoft Vista sloppy code.
That is why I don't use iTunes or Vista, both have sloppy code in them that cause crashed. When you cross both of them together you crash the system or at least cause it to lock up.
It is also why my G3 iMac was never upgraded to Mac OSX and still runs Mac OS9, because of Apple's sloppy code in OSX. If I convert it to a new OS it will either be Linux or AROS, because both of them are stable and being ported to the PowerPC platform or have a port already.
Apple "borrowed" a lot from Commodore, first it was the Vic-20 Commodore logo key copied as the Apple logo key on the Apple//e, then it was the Commodore Vic-20 and Commodore 64 compact design copied with the Apple//c, then it was the Amiga Workbench and co-processor support for 4096 colors and above with the Commodore Amiga in the Macintosh II (The Macintosh II was basically an Amiga 2000 rip-off after the Mr. Coffee Classic black and white Macintosh series was an epic fail), and then NeXT was an AmigaOS rip-off using BSD Unix (AmigaOS/AmigaDOS was based on the Unix-like TriPOS and Steve Jobs learned from his epic fail to use Unix as it is more like the Amiga to help make Next survive), Pixar ripped off the Newtek Video Toaster that Amigas had used (Steve Jobs saw how Amiga 2000s with the Video Toaster did great desktop video for movies and wanted to borrow that tech for Pixar), and then Mac OSX got the AROS and AmigaOS 3.X look and feel but with the Microsoft Windows bloat. AROS does not have the Windows bloat but still has the AmigaDOS/Workbench "less is more" approach in that it is memory efficient and doesn't need a high end processor with tons of memory to run it.
Basically Apple started to slowly evolve into Microsoft, and Amiga and the Amiga technology evolved into what the Macintosh should have been in 1985, and evolved into what it should be with AROS into modern times.
Apple even is suing people like Microsoft did like Pystar because of its EULA, which is very much like the one Microsoft has. Apple vs. Pystar is very much like Microsoft vs. IBM over OS/2, so Apple is evolving to what Microsoft was during the OS/2 years in the 1990's.
and it is called being dooced when you get fired for blogging on the Internet or using a social networking profile. I suppose you can call it getting dooced if you are not hired for the job because of your Internet profiles or activities.
Which is why I use the nickname Orion Blastar, instead of my real name for blogging, social networking, Internet activity, etc.
I am an old BBSer, and we always used handles or nick names instead of our real names.
A tip for those looking for a job: Scrub your online profiles of all party pictures and comments about former employers. Or better yet just disable your real name profiles and use your nick name for a new profile. One that bares nothing to your real name or personal info.
Which explains much as nobody is like me, therefore nobody will help me. I'm a space pirate ninja from 4096AD from the Deneb sector. I am from the Vilani Imperium and rebelled, and not an Earther. We call Earth as Terra in the future, part of the Solimani empire that the Vilani Imperium took over. So I traveled back into the past to make a better future.:)
Careful you'll upset the OS/2 fanboys and they'll rate your comment as "Troll" for revenge as they rated mine. They have meta moderator points to make sure their revenge sticks via multiple accounts and proxy servers.
The only person who thinks OS/2 is better than anything else is Commander Spock on the CNet forums who meta mod trolls here and mods down any comment that talks about something being better than OS/2.
AROS is more modern and has better driver support and better virtual machine support than OS/2 currently has. Some virtual machines cannot run OS/2 for some reason and modern processors cause SYS errors in OS/2 and it fails to even install. Which are reasons why AROS is better than OS/2 as it supports more processors and is multi platform in that it supports more than 32 bit Intel X86 processors. Also AROS has a much lower memory footprint than OS/2 so it runs faster. The OLPC laptop got AmigaOS running on it while OS/2 wouldn't run on it as an example.
Besides OS/2 would not be the way it is today without IBM licensing the best parts of AmigaOS for OS/2 Warp and above and AROS builds on AmigaOS and makes it more modern, unlike OS/2 Warp and eComStation that are still based on AmigaOS 2.0 but does not have the AmigaOS 3.1 improvements that AROS has.
So there, I just proved myself right in the parent post. Please mod it back up if you moderators are indeed fair. If not, I'll know you modded it down for revenge and petty jealousy.
Stole the Commodore logo key to make the Apple logo keys in the Apple//e.
Stole the compact design of the Vic-20 and Commodore 64 to make the Apple//c.
Stole the Amiga design to make the Macintosh II and Apple//gs computers use 4096 or more colors and co-processors and most of the OS in ROM like Amiga Kickstart.
Stole the Amiga Video Toaster to make the iLife and Mac OSX video applications and hardware.
Stole the Mac OSX interface from AmigaOS/Workbench and AROS.
That helped drive Commodore out of business, and Microsoft had a hand in it as well taking features of AmigaDOS/AmigaOS/Workbench to make Windows 95 and Windows NT/2000/XP.
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This Ars Technicia article in which he claims the only books on the Amiga he could find where technical manuals?
After that he started to make up stuff based on biased PBS shows like "Triumph of the Nerds" that was basically Steve Jobs and Bill Gates bragging about how awesome they are and how they invented everything first except for Xerox, and the Amiga is just a footnote in that story. In fact Steve Jobs admits to stealing ideas to make the Macintosh "Ultimately it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing. I mean Picasso had a saying he said good artists copy great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas ehm and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."
He admits that Apple has always been shameless in stealing ideas. That proves my version of history about Commodore and the Amiga and Steve Jobs and Apple stealing ideas from them.
How did I become a "they" instead of a "he"?
Amiga Forever is an emulator, not as good as Amithlon, but based on Fellows and UAE. Those DVDs are not that accurate and you cannot get a good feel for how an Amiga works by simply using an emulator. Those DVDs are marketing hype for Amiga Forever and selling you more Amiga disk images and ROMs for later.
You want the true history of the Amiga, you talk to Atari, Commodore, and Amiga employees like I have. The history of the Amiga was written before the world wide web was invented, but the history of the Amiga over the Internet is a complete and total fabrication by Microsoft and Apple to downplay the Amiga into a failed gaming system and those Amiga Forever DVDs play on the Microsoft and Apple version of history that was posted on the Internet, but later found to be false and part of a propaganda effort to downplay the Amiga.
If it is on the Internet, it must be true! is your thinking and you are wrong.
I got my info from the Amiga by reading books on the Amiga and Commodore, talking to Atari, Amiga, Commodore employees, going to Amiga conventions to meet them, plus I have over 20 years of Amiga use and programming experience.
All you have is someone who posted as anonymous coward, who doesn't have jack squat to back up his/her research except for propoganda marketing DVDs and Ars Technicia bullsh*t written 20+ years after the Amiga history had already been written with little to no research except biased opinions by Microsoft and Apple and their users who totally hate the Amiga and anyone who dares to use it or speak about it.
Ars Technica? Might as well ask the Weekly World News about the origins of the Amiga? They'll tell you Batboy, UFO Aliens, and Bigfoot helped create the Amiga in the 1950's as part of Area 51, and it will be more accurate than anything posted on Ars Technica ever has or will be.
I guess next you'll be telling me that Wikipedia is factual and not liberal biased at all?
If it is on the Internet it must be true!
For every DRM technology there exists 12 pirate hacker crackers who can defeat it and release it over the Internet.
Yes software companies take things out on their customers by annoying them with DRM and raising their prices and making false positives for invalid keys for people who actually bought the software.
It is enough to drive a person to only play open source games and stop buying commercial ones in protest.
I won't link to it, but gamecopyworld.com is the domain name for those who want the NO-CD or cracked versions of the games. It is mirrored by various web sites throughout the world.
A warning that some of the cracks may have malware in them. You bought the ticket, so take the ride. As Hunter S. Thompson would say.
Solution #1 Allow users to download the game for free, but have to pay an Internet subscription to use it online for multiplayers and buy items in the game. (Like the Pirates of the Caribbean Online game does).
Solution #2 Users can buy the game with no DRM, but at a much larger fee like $100+ to cover the costs of people pirating the game from their copy.
Solution #3 Make the game web based, and users have to suffer through advertising to play it for free, otherwise a small monthly fee makes it add free. The game is released on Facebook and MySpace (like Battle Stations) and thus the game can be played by any OS user that has a web browser with shockwave flash players. The game has Action Points, to play it and the user can buy more action points or earn them by completing offers or just wait every hour for them to refresh.
Solution #4 sell the game for $35 without DRM, but each version of the game only works for a year, after that you have to buy a new version number to use it after that year. Minor version numbers do not count, only major version numbers. Year one will be the 1.X versions, year two will be the 2.X versions, etc.
Solution #5 Open Source the game and make it a free version without all of the features of the commercial version that requires a CD-Key and register an Internet account to play the game. The commercial version won't play unless the user has an Internet account set up with the game maker that they log into each time they play the game. The game server will check IPs and if the same account logs into the game server from two different IPs at the same time, the first one will be allowed to log in but not the second one, until the first one times out or logs out.
Solution #6 Sell the game and if the user does not enter a valid CD-Key that can be verified, they have to play the game with advertising and limited features, until they pay for a CD-Key online and it removes the advertising. No DRM, but the game will still play with conditions if it is pirated.
Solution #7 Stop supporting the PC and Mac, and only develop the game for game consoles. Don't release a PC or/and Mac version until you can figure out a way to make money on game sales without DRM and still stop most piracy.
Most game developers are starting to look at option #7, because they ignore the Mod-chips that bypass DRM for game consoles, because most game console owners don't know what a mod-chip is or how to install one and actually buy the retail version of the game instead of pirating it. They are mostly Luddites that can't figure out how to install a program on a PC or Mac, and bought a game console instead because it was easier for them to play games on.
Apple Geniuses and Vista Gurus are both forms of a shill. Apple Geniuses shill for Apple, and Vista Gurus shill for Microsoft. They are paid money to actually promote that company's products and nothing else.
So they will automatically downplay Linux, AROS, ReactOS, and other alternatives to the products they are shilling for.
Microsoft already had Shills working at Best Buy named Geek Squad, but they failed at marketing and shilling and the only tech skills they have is booting up those MRI Boot CDs to remove viruses from a Windows system and almost get lost doing anything else. Yes they charge $300 to use a MRI Boot CD that uses command line malware scanners that update over their Ethernet network, and we real Geeks just boot into Safe Mode with Networking via F8 and use the same scanners, or create our own boot CD via BartPE, Reatogo, UBCD, or some other boot CD making with a mini version of Windows or Linux.
I had a tech support business from 1995 to 2000 that did a better job than Geek Squad ever could, but it is hard to beat an 18 year old with an MRI boot CD that works out of a consumer electronics store and calls themselves a Geek even if all they do is run a Boot CD and can't fix half the stuff I can fix. Because my company couldn't afford to advertise on TV or have our store inside a consumer electronics store or have those $300 to $500 rebates that the customer has to wait six months for anyway an by then a new better computer will be out.
My business supported Windows, Mac OS, Linux, AmigaOS, OS/2, BeOS, anything the customer wanted to use but couldn't advertise on TV or afford those rebates to be offered to the customers, so we eventually went out of business.
those commercials are Seinfeld commercials in which they are commercials about nothing much like "Seinfeld" was a Sitcom about nothing, much like Microsoft Windows is an operating system about nothing. :)
You can try, but I already prevented:
The Twilight 2000 War that was supposed to start in 1999 and cause an oil and gas shortage and a big war in Europe with Russia.
The reign of terror of President Al Gore. But as a side effect we got a reign of terror of President George W. Bush, but that helps set up the next election to, ah but that would be telling. At least I stopped the reign of terror of President Hillary Clinton, for now. Unfortunately John McCain got the nomination instead of Ron Paul. So I have some work to do.
I gave Richard Branson some starship designs and helped get the X-Prize started to get the Solimani space projects back on track. Hopefully that will lead to Jump technology or at least some better tech for when the Solimanis meet the Imperium, plus with the social manipulation I have done (learned from the Hivers) Solimanis should be less racist in the near future.
So unless you can time travel back and change all of that, your chances are slim and none. :)
Also since I am a pirate and was lying to the TL-35 computers they thought I was broken and "fixed" me beyond what is considered human in evolution. But later I worked for them in exchange for technology and upgrades.
I can see the fourth and fifth dimensions, most humans can only see three dimensions, most humans only think in two dimensions and it is rare to think in three much less four or five. The fourth is time and the fifth is space. Yeah I developed schizoaffective disorder as a result, you can't see time and space and not go crazy in some way. So I had to develop a reality filter to filter them out to keep my sanity, but I can turn it off to see in the fourth and fifth dimensions.
You'll be amazed at what TL-35 can do, meson guns the size of a pistol, web armor, but I'm getting ahead of myself. You most likely haven't discovered those yet and I moved everything so you couldn't find them. I even later discovered TL-40 and beyond as well as Gun Kata, which is a rare skill to learn.
Oh the Research Station Gamma debacle? We had that in our time line as well.
I got better than that by finding a time warp gate on Jupiter's moon Io that Grandfather left there, and I moved it to a new location. I also discovered portals to pocket universes that grandfather created and the TL-35 computers that ran them made deals with me in exchange for my services.
Plus I ran into some fellow called The Doctor who claims to be a Doctor of everything, nice fellow, all of him.
Not to mention I discovered CVEs that lead to other universes like Terminators and Cyclons, and I got tech from them as well.
You see in our Traveller universe, we play a version of Traveller that is like no other, and borrows technology and other things from other universes plus things we developed for ourselves. You might even get lost in one of our games. :)
Our Yahoo Group has more info but most of our players moved on to Facebook or got real jobs and stopped playing. :)
Yeah we got custom character creation, and our GMs wrote a lot of campaigns and materials and sometimes we release some of it on our Yahoo group as "fan based" material under an open source license.
P.S. "Serenity", "Firefly" stole a lot from Traveller and some of our campaigns. I've played as Orion Blastar since 1985 and make Malcolm Reynolds look like a n00b. :)
Actually MkLinux + OpenStep = GNUStep on your favorite Linux distro. It is fun to try out and develop for.
Yeah but in 8193AD you'll have to deal with the Vampire Fleets because in 8192 all Imperial and Solimani star ships got converted to the Microsoft Windows MCXXI codename "Pasidy" as Microsoft contracted out the Vargrs to outsource the design of it. It replaced the Amiga Research OS 4096 as the standard for your star ships, but in doing so made your star ships vulnerable to malware. The Twelve Colonies made the same mistake when they went to Microsoft to outfit their new Battlestars and Vipers with the latest and greatest from Microsoft until Cylon malware infected them and Commander Adama had to pull out the old Viper designs that still used Amiga Research OS and were immune to the malware.
So try to fight us space pirate ninjas from 4096AD when your starships turn into vampire fleets and your technology in 8193 AD turns against you.
John Titor failed in his mission because he took IBM technology and it got infected with malware, had he taken Amiga technology like AROS, he'd succeeded. So then I was sent to the past to get Amiga technology so we could help fight the malware.
Even your guns and light blades get infected and turn against you. Pwn3d!
Yes and also a "Learn to use your bionic limb" class for those who accidentally amputate their own hands or had a fellow Jedi or Sith amputate theirs by mistake or on purpose, whatever. After passing that class, you get a neat black glove and matching black outfit to go with the bionic hand.
Also don't forget "How to speak with R2 units", "How to speak Wookie", and "How to tell if that hot babe in the metal bikini is really your long lost twin sister or not" courses.
You know, unless they start them training out young the Jedi council won't approve them to be trained. Also Master Yoda won't approve if he senses much fear in students. If these requirements are not met, chances are they will turn to the dark side and use their hate and anger instead of logic and reason.
I also heard rumor that Harvard and Yale have started their Sith Lords training course for those who don't fit the Jedi criteria.
There is also a "Using the Force for Dummies" book that is being written so the drop outs of those courses can still use the force even if they fail college.
As for me, I am a space pirate ninja from 4096 AD, I already have psionics training that far exceeds what the force training can do.
Point taken, but Slashdot has a mostly liberal user base. Since Liberals are anti-establishment they are more likely to make derogatory comments about former employers online. I base this on research I did on liberal web sites like The Daily Kos, Kuro5hin, IWETHEY, and Slashdot that are mostly liberal (based on the political compass app they used at various times) and based on the number of derogatory comments they actually made about former employers, it stood to reason and was logical that any comments they made about former employers would be derogatory.
I used to be a liberal myself, until I wised up and became a libertarian.
But point well made, remove all derogatory comments about your former employers online. If there are any non-derogatory comments like "I'd wish they open source my old programs so I could show them to potential employers as proof of my work." while not derogatory could be seen as damaging to their careers as a potential employer might not hire them because they would be afraid the person would open source their programs he/she writes for them and not hire them because of it as they want a closed license on all their projects. By all means keep those comments, and you'll end up only working for a company that wants open source licensed programs, but not so much for companies that want you to write closed source programs. It will garendamn-tee you not to ever work in a Microsoft shop ever again in your life. If you are cool with that, keep your non-derogatory comments about your former employers as well, if you are not cool about that, take my advice and scub all comments just to be safe.
I'm looking to switch to Ubuntu to get this new support to make it more user friendly. I used to use Red Hat Fedora and Open SUSE, but I think this news will help me switch to Ubuntu. That and Linspire contributes to Ubuntu from their Linspire and Freespire projects that tried to make Linux more like Windows (originally it was called Lindows until Microsoft sued them over the name being too much like Windows).
Yeah the ironic thing was that Apple already had an MKLinux port for their Macintosh systems, and all they really needed to do was integrate the Mac OS GUI with MKLinux and then just use the OpenStep enhancements because they too are open sourced like MKLinux and could have saved the money they used to buy out Next and bring Steve Jobs back and just do it all better by themselves.
Instead they got Steve Jobs and Next and a much more bigger and bloated operating system than they expected to get.
The other option, besides buying up Be Inc. was to license AROS and then build Carbon and Mac OS systems on top of that as it is already object oriented and based on the AmigaOS that IBM licensed from Commodore to give OS/2 2.0 an object oriented WPS system as Commodore got there already in 1985 before anyone else did, and Apple was basically doing the same thing with OSX that Commodore did with AmigaDOS/Workbench in 1985.
The Amiga was already object oriented even going back to its 1970's roots as the Atari Lorianne project that was basically an Atari 2600 mod to turn the Atari 2600 into an object oriented GUI computer, but the Atari 400/800 projects put Lorianne on the back burner until Commodore bought out the team in the 1980's. The Amiga project predated the Apple Lisa project, and the Lorianne/Amiga team offered Apple to buy them out first, but gave Steve Jobs his idea for the Lisa computer (and later the Macintosh) and he told them no, and visited Xerox's PARC to get some more good ideas.
He mixed Apple iTunes sloppy code with Microsoft Vista sloppy code.
That is why I don't use iTunes or Vista, both have sloppy code in them that cause crashed. When you cross both of them together you crash the system or at least cause it to lock up.
It is also why my G3 iMac was never upgraded to Mac OSX and still runs Mac OS9, because of Apple's sloppy code in OSX. If I convert it to a new OS it will either be Linux or AROS, because both of them are stable and being ported to the PowerPC platform or have a port already.
Apple "borrowed" a lot from Commodore, first it was the Vic-20 Commodore logo key copied as the Apple logo key on the Apple //e, then it was the Commodore Vic-20 and Commodore 64 compact design copied with the Apple //c, then it was the Amiga Workbench and co-processor support for 4096 colors and above with the Commodore Amiga in the Macintosh II (The Macintosh II was basically an Amiga 2000 rip-off after the Mr. Coffee Classic black and white Macintosh series was an epic fail), and then NeXT was an AmigaOS rip-off using BSD Unix (AmigaOS/AmigaDOS was based on the Unix-like TriPOS and Steve Jobs learned from his epic fail to use Unix as it is more like the Amiga to help make Next survive), Pixar ripped off the Newtek Video Toaster that Amigas had used (Steve Jobs saw how Amiga 2000s with the Video Toaster did great desktop video for movies and wanted to borrow that tech for Pixar), and then Mac OSX got the AROS and AmigaOS 3.X look and feel but with the Microsoft Windows bloat. AROS does not have the Windows bloat but still has the AmigaDOS/Workbench "less is more" approach in that it is memory efficient and doesn't need a high end processor with tons of memory to run it.
Basically Apple started to slowly evolve into Microsoft, and Amiga and the Amiga technology evolved into what the Macintosh should have been in 1985, and evolved into what it should be with AROS into modern times.
Apple even is suing people like Microsoft did like Pystar because of its EULA, which is very much like the one Microsoft has. Apple vs. Pystar is very much like Microsoft vs. IBM over OS/2, so Apple is evolving to what Microsoft was during the OS/2 years in the 1990's.
and it is called being dooced when you get fired for blogging on the Internet or using a social networking profile. I suppose you can call it getting dooced if you are not hired for the job because of your Internet profiles or activities.
Which is why I use the nickname Orion Blastar, instead of my real name for blogging, social networking, Internet activity, etc.
I am an old BBSer, and we always used handles or nick names instead of our real names.
A tip for those looking for a job:
Scrub your online profiles of all party pictures and comments about former employers. Or better yet just disable your real name profiles and use your nick name for a new profile. One that bares nothing to your real name or personal info.
Which explains much as nobody is like me, therefore nobody will help me. I'm a space pirate ninja from 4096AD from the Deneb sector. I am from the Vilani Imperium and rebelled, and not an Earther. We call Earth as Terra in the future, part of the Solimani empire that the Vilani Imperium took over. So I traveled back into the past to make a better future. :)
It was done long ago at Habbo and they closed the pool due to "AIDS". Habbo's admins and users were proven to be racist. :)
Careful you'll upset the OS/2 fanboys and they'll rate your comment as "Troll" for revenge as they rated mine. They have meta moderator points to make sure their revenge sticks via multiple accounts and proxy servers.
The only person who thinks OS/2 is better than anything else is Commander Spock on the CNet forums who meta mod trolls here and mods down any comment that talks about something being better than OS/2.
AROS is more modern and has better driver support and better virtual machine support than OS/2 currently has. Some virtual machines cannot run OS/2 for some reason and modern processors cause SYS errors in OS/2 and it fails to even install. Which are reasons why AROS is better than OS/2 as it supports more processors and is multi platform in that it supports more than 32 bit Intel X86 processors. Also AROS has a much lower memory footprint than OS/2 so it runs faster. The OLPC laptop got AmigaOS running on it while OS/2 wouldn't run on it as an example.
Besides OS/2 would not be the way it is today without IBM licensing the best parts of AmigaOS for OS/2 Warp and above and AROS builds on AmigaOS and makes it more modern, unlike OS/2 Warp and eComStation that are still based on AmigaOS 2.0 but does not have the AmigaOS 3.1 improvements that AROS has.
So there, I just proved myself right in the parent post. Please mod it back up if you moderators are indeed fair. If not, I'll know you modded it down for revenge and petty jealousy.
AROS is based on AmigaOS 3.1 and historically
Stole the Commodore logo key to make the Apple logo keys in the Apple //e.
Stole the compact design of the Vic-20 and Commodore 64 to make the Apple //c.
Stole the Amiga design to make the Macintosh II and Apple //gs computers use 4096 or more colors and co-processors and most of the OS in ROM like Amiga Kickstart.
Stole the Amiga Video Toaster to make the iLife and Mac OSX video applications and hardware.
Stole the Mac OSX interface from AmigaOS/Workbench and AROS.
That helped drive Commodore out of business, and Microsoft had a hand in it as well taking features of AmigaDOS/AmigaOS/Workbench to make Windows 95 and Windows NT/2000/XP.
But at least AROS is better than OS/2.