and it was while I was in a psychiatric ward in 2002. There was a Reverend Sterling I talked to in there that said Bush was behind the 911 attacks and was hiding Osama, etc. I wanted to talk to him more about it as he claimed he had proof, but about four security guards took him away to go to a different location.
the program gold. All the interface ever was is eye candy. I only tell the truth, and get modded as a troll because of it.
The only reason, I aruge, that OSS got its ass kicked on the desktop, is that consumers are not aware of the benefits of OSS over COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software. Any OSS developer can tell you that almost any OSS designed for X, can be tweaked to take advantage of almost any Windows Manager, be it GNOME, KDE, AfterStep, GNUStep, OpenStep, OSX, whatever. The real meat and bones are what part of the OSS program that does not touch the graphics part. If designed properly, the OSS program will have the GUI part in modules using libraries that can easily be replaced with new libraries.
So if I have Firefox running on OSX and Firefox running in Linux with GNOME, they are going to both do the same thing, even if they both look different in the GUI part. How then can someone claim the Firefox in Linux with GNOME is inferior to the one on OSX? In what way, besides the way it looks? If there is no real difference, then what about the rest of the software bundled with OSX? Granted in some of them, Apple did make inprovements and new features to them. I hope that Apple shares these improvements and new features with the OSS projects they borrowed code from.
Now if you go by Marketshare, Linux has already caught up to Apple's marketshare of the Macintosh. Despite the Macintosh being out longer than Linux has. Consumer Linux Desktops are being sold like Linspire (nee Lindows), Xandros, and others. Linspire systems sell for $300 to $400 at Wal-Mart. While they cannot match the graphic GUI that OSX has, or the three CDs of bundled applications (Unless you buy the $159 enhanced version of Linspire and not the $50 Core OS) they can beat OSX and the Macintosh in price. They are also easy to use, install, and configure. For $50 I was able to buy a download of Linspire with just the core of the OS that I needed. If I needed the extra two CDs full of applications, I could have paid $109 more. Recently the Linspire download was free. Apple needs to recognize Linux as a threat, every year it gets better and the GUI enhancements get better. Apple used to have MKLinux, so they know how Linux operates.
we cannot have scams and fraud from third world countries clog up the Internet. If a certain percentage of their population is causing the scams and frauds, then by all means blacklist them. After all, if they are not able to Police themselves and put the fraudsters in jail, then something has to be done to stop them.
If they don't like it, they can form their own Internet, or move to a country that does not suffer from such fraud and scams. We are not in the Global Welfare business of supporting poor nations that have to rely on scams and fraud to earn an income.
Thanks for proving my point. If there was a minimal install option, it would not install a program that depended on a file it relies on. Other software install programs do this, why not OSX? I hope Tiger fixes this problem.
Even that other companies have a "minimal install" option with just the basics or core of the software.
I am trying to avoid using extra keystrokes and mousestrokes due to my carpal tunnel syndrome. It takes me extra time to select a bunch of icons and drag them into the trash due to the pain involved. So it would be easier for me not to have them installed in the first place.
for all the Apps that I don't want to use? Isn't using OSX all about it being easier? The easiest thing would be to have an option not to install the stuff I don't want. Why should I have to drag and drop hundreds of icons to the trash can? Think of the time I have to waste to do that.
Ironic that a lot of the software bundled on OSX are based on the same OSS projects that are used under Linux, is it not? All Apple did was tweak some OSS projects to work with the OSX GUI and API and change the name. I don't really see much of a difference between Linux OSS and OSX OSS projects other than the GUI enhancements. Eye Candy can only account for so much.
Next I'll suppose you will tell me that BSD Unix is second rate? Ignore the fact that OSX is based on it. Apparently whatever Apple touches turns gold. So a second rate OSS project becomes gold because Apple modified it? Or does it turn gold because you, like the rest of the MacJihad, decide to use it instead of Windows or Linux applications? If it is gold, as you have said, then the marketshare of an obviously superior product must increase. Why if that were true, Apple shoud have at least half of the marketshare out there. Yet Mac Users still run those PC Emulator programs to run those cracked shareware or adware Windows applications, why is that? If the OSX platform is so superior, there would be no need to run inferior software on it via emulators, right? Thus the emulator companies should go out of business?;)
The MacJihad will mod this one down to a troll status as well. Why? Because I've offended their God.
Look at all the stuff they cram into OSX. Who really needs all of that stuff anyway? If I used OSX I'd want a minimual install option to just install what I wanted. What next, Dancing Screen Otters while you wait for the massive programs to load?
Apple, do me a favor, put your geegaw GUI on top of Darwin, that is all I ever wanted. That is all I ever need. Everything else I'll install will be OSS products. Then maybe I will switch to your platform. If not, your OS is too bloated for me to use, and I am going to stick to Linux anyway.
Watch the MacJihad moderate this post to troll status, thus proving that they do indeed exist.
#1 1000 Channels to subscribe to, different SAP channels for different languages so it can go global.
#2 On demand video, this will mean that a media provider will have each show or movie stored digitally and can serve the show or movie on demand at any time the viewer wants to see it. An additional fee will be charged for this service.
#3 Digital Video Recorders will replace VHS Tapes and DVD disks. Instead of disks, memory sticks or memory cubes will be used which can store gigabytes of information on them. Your Computer or Digital Video Recorder can read these sticks or cubes. There will be a new form of copy protection added to the media format used to store these shows and movies on the cubes and sticks.
#4 Movie Theaters will change from the movie film format to the digital movie format. Using sticks and cubes, the movies will be in a much better quality. This will also allow a much faster time to be released on home video than DVD or VHS tapes would be converted. This will be done to foil the Internet Video Pirates by releasing the movie in a quicker time and a better quality. A video screen format will be used to reflect light off the screen in such a way that digital cam corders cannot record it, but the human eye can see it.
#5 We will see partnerships of movie companies to cable and satelite companies.
#6 Cable and Satelite will find they are competing with Wireless media companies. As the WIFI and Cell phone technology gets cheaper, companies will be providing the same programming via Wireless means in various neighborhoods. Soon the technology will be so cheap and so fast than normal shows and movies can be transmitted over it. Also the wireless service can be used for cell phones, broadband Internet conections, security systems, and Voice over IP home and business phones.
#7 Media companies will provide shopping, something so revolutionary that you can pause a movie or show and click on any object on the screen and bring up more information on it to buy it or find out more about it. This will give new meaning to commercials, were the whole movie is one big commercial and anything in the movie can be ordered or gotten more information on.
#8 Once wireless and satelite compete with cable, there will be a big price war. The Federal Government might have to step in to regulate things.
#9 Wireless media means you can take your receiver with you anywhere there is service for it. Not as messy as adjusting a dish or getting cable hooked up again. It will revolutionizethe media business.
#10 The cost of having your own cable/satelite/wireless channel will go down, more organizations and people will start to offer more of them, giving the viewers more of a choice. If Howard Stern gets banned from one channel, he can simply start his own channel, for example. There also will be music channels for bands that want to have their music listened to without going through a recording company.
I am just being honest. I know what happens to computers donated to third world countries. Piracy is very common in third world economies that are not doing too well. Usually they also have weak copyright laws.
Install whatever you want on the computers, they will just reformat them anyway. You won't get in trouble with Slackware using the 1.0 kernel, and in fact it will work great on the older hardware.
You really expect them to use a English version of Windows when English is not their first language?
Now who is the jackass here? At least post with your real handle, show some guts.
30% who modded Interesting have good taste. 40% who modded troll still use IE. 30% who modded redundant wished that they would have made the post first.
the estate of Terry Nation is composed of Daleks. They are tired of being cast as the bad guys, so they made an insane demand of creative control of the film/tv show. They wanted the Daleks seen as the good guys and Doctor Who as the bad guy who lures scantily clad young women into his TARDIS for who knows what?
I think that there may be a substitute, let us see what evil alien or robot bad guys are not being used much anymore, shall we?
Cylons, not from that Sci Fi channel show, the original ones. The ones that could not shoot the broad side of a barn, and could not fly a Cylon Raider properly even if there are three of them in the cockpit.
The Slayers from Krull, slow moving, dim-witted, and get taken out by a super Japanese throwing star named a Glave.
The Peacekeepers from FarScape. Well FarScape fans want to see more action and are made that the series was cancled. Using these aliens means no special make-up is required, just uniforms need to be made. They speak British anyway.;) Maybe they go after Doctor Who to learn how the TARDIS works, to use it as a weapon?
The Geldts from Red Dwarf. If I spelled it right. Doctor Who is captured with his companion, and told that he would die if he didn't marry the Geldts' leader's daughter. He marries, but grabs the Oxygen Generator his TARDIS needs to recycle air and runs. The Geldts chase him all over the galaxy.
Bring in Servalan and the Federation from Blake's Seven. New actress if you have to. It should prove interesting.
The robots from Ice Pirates, hey, enough said!
Borrow the Ferrengi from Star Trek, I haven't seen anything from them since Deep Space Nine went off the air.
Better yet, have Doctor Who run away from time travelling Lawyers who are trying to issue him a subpeona about the file sharing program he runs in his TARDIS computers.;)
That was one decent PC, the Commodore Colt. Too bad they discontinued it after only using an 8088 and 80286. I think rarely did they have a 386 Commodore PC.
I remember having a C64 with a music player that did MIDI, MOD, and other file formats. It all fit on one floppy disk. I turned my C64 into a Jukebox. Now Tulip has turned a Vic-20 or C64 into a MP3 player.
Mail via UPS your broken laptop to yourself. Insure it for twice what it is worth. After recieving it, report that the laptop was broken in the shipment and demand the full payment. Then buy a new laptop. Or hope that they lose it, and you get the money for a new laptop anyway.
like the Iraqi War, George W. Bush, SCO, Linux, Anime, Cyberculture, Amiga, Science, Censorship, the RIAA, and many other popular topics.
My post was half Interesting and half Troll. 50% of the moderators have good taste and rated my post Interesting, 50% of the others did not get the humor or point of the post, like you.
It sounds as if I get some sort of virus by installing this. Couldn't they choose a different name to use?
I tried to download it, and the download link did not work.
Also I don't see a Debian package, nor a Linspire one. They also claim to have had VB.NET support, but I was not able to access it in previous versions. I stuck a fork in it, and it was not done yet.
Be careful, Microsoft might also accidentally copy open sourced licensing from Tiger into Longhorn as well, can't have that now can we?;)
I wonder if Apple did anything to Tiger to prevent it from being used in that Pear PPC emulator?
I also wonder what Tiger Woods thinks about the next MacOSX being named in his honor? If not Tiger Woods, then who, Tony the Tiger?;)
Also nice to see rather than offering a free upgrade ala BSD Unix, that Apple is charging for the Tiger upgrade. Very good for those who want to pay for service packs that fix the exploits that Panther had.;)
If Nintendo competes with its own used gaming equipment, the used gaming equipment wins over the new stuff as far as price goes.
If Nintendo is going to scrape the bottom of the barrel to offer 8 bit games on a modern game console, the least they can do is offer at least 10 of those 8 bit games for a modern price. Then it would be worth it to people like me to buy their crap.
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and it was while I was in a psychiatric ward in 2002. There was a Reverend Sterling I talked to in there that said Bush was behind the 911 attacks and was hiding Osama, etc. I wanted to talk to him more about it as he claimed he had proof, but about four security guards took him away to go to a different location.
the program gold. All the interface ever was is eye candy. I only tell the truth, and get modded as a troll because of it.
The only reason, I aruge, that OSS got its ass kicked on the desktop, is that consumers are not aware of the benefits of OSS over COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software. Any OSS developer can tell you that almost any OSS designed for X, can be tweaked to take advantage of almost any Windows Manager, be it GNOME, KDE, AfterStep, GNUStep, OpenStep, OSX, whatever. The real meat and bones are what part of the OSS program that does not touch the graphics part. If designed properly, the OSS program will have the GUI part in modules using libraries that can easily be replaced with new libraries.
So if I have Firefox running on OSX and Firefox running in Linux with GNOME, they are going to both do the same thing, even if they both look different in the GUI part. How then can someone claim the Firefox in Linux with GNOME is inferior to the one on OSX? In what way, besides the way it looks? If there is no real difference, then what about the rest of the software bundled with OSX? Granted in some of them, Apple did make inprovements and new features to them. I hope that Apple shares these improvements and new features with the OSS projects they borrowed code from.
Now if you go by Marketshare, Linux has already caught up to Apple's marketshare of the Macintosh. Despite the Macintosh being out longer than Linux has. Consumer Linux Desktops are being sold like Linspire (nee Lindows), Xandros, and others. Linspire systems sell for $300 to $400 at Wal-Mart. While they cannot match the graphic GUI that OSX has, or the three CDs of bundled applications (Unless you buy the $159 enhanced version of Linspire and not the $50 Core OS) they can beat OSX and the Macintosh in price. They are also easy to use, install, and configure. For $50 I was able to buy a download of Linspire with just the core of the OS that I needed. If I needed the extra two CDs full of applications, I could have paid $109 more. Recently the Linspire download was free. Apple needs to recognize Linux as a threat, every year it gets better and the GUI enhancements get better. Apple used to have MKLinux, so they know how Linux operates.
I am using speech to text converters to write text on Slashdot as my wrists cannot take the strain. How dare you make fun of my disability.
we cannot have scams and fraud from third world countries clog up the Internet. If a certain percentage of their population is causing the scams and frauds, then by all means blacklist them. After all, if they are not able to Police themselves and put the fraudsters in jail, then something has to be done to stop them.
If they don't like it, they can form their own Internet, or move to a country that does not suffer from such fraud and scams. We are not in the Global Welfare business of supporting poor nations that have to rely on scams and fraud to earn an income.
Thanks for proving my point. If there was a minimal install option, it would not install a program that depended on a file it relies on. Other software install programs do this, why not OSX? I hope Tiger fixes this problem.
Even that other companies have a "minimal install" option with just the basics or core of the software.
I am trying to avoid using extra keystrokes and mousestrokes due to my carpal tunnel syndrome. It takes me extra time to select a bunch of icons and drag them into the trash due to the pain involved. So it would be easier for me not to have them installed in the first place.
Funny, I admit that.
I was looking for a minimal install option. Not the advanced install that I have to turn things off with.
for all the Apps that I don't want to use? Isn't using OSX all about it being easier? The easiest thing would be to have an option not to install the stuff I don't want. Why should I have to drag and drop hundreds of icons to the trash can? Think of the time I have to waste to do that.
Ironic that a lot of the software bundled on OSX are based on the same OSS projects that are used under Linux, is it not? All Apple did was tweak some OSS projects to work with the OSX GUI and API and change the name. I don't really see much of a difference between Linux OSS and OSX OSS projects other than the GUI enhancements. Eye Candy can only account for so much.
Next I'll suppose you will tell me that BSD Unix is second rate? Ignore the fact that OSX is based on it. Apparently whatever Apple touches turns gold. So a second rate OSS project becomes gold because Apple modified it? Or does it turn gold because you, like the rest of the MacJihad, decide to use it instead of Windows or Linux applications? If it is gold, as you have said, then the marketshare of an obviously superior product must increase. Why if that were true, Apple shoud have at least half of the marketshare out there. Yet Mac Users still run those PC Emulator programs to run those cracked shareware or adware Windows applications, why is that? If the OSX platform is so superior, there would be no need to run inferior software on it via emulators, right? Thus the emulator companies should go out of business?;)
The MacJihad will mod this one down to a troll status as well. Why? Because I've offended their God.
Look at all the stuff they cram into OSX. Who really needs all of that stuff anyway? If I used OSX I'd want a minimual install option to just install what I wanted. What next, Dancing Screen Otters while you wait for the massive programs to load?
Apple, do me a favor, put your geegaw GUI on top of Darwin, that is all I ever wanted. That is all I ever need. Everything else I'll install will be OSS products. Then maybe I will switch to your platform. If not, your OS is too bloated for me to use, and I am going to stick to Linux anyway.
Watch the MacJihad moderate this post to troll status, thus proving that they do indeed exist.
Here is what I see in the next decade:
#1 1000 Channels to subscribe to, different SAP channels for different languages so it can go global.
#2 On demand video, this will mean that a media provider will have each show or movie stored digitally and can serve the show or movie on demand at any time the viewer wants to see it. An additional fee will be charged for this service.
#3 Digital Video Recorders will replace VHS Tapes and DVD disks. Instead of disks, memory sticks or memory cubes will be used which can store gigabytes of information on them. Your Computer or Digital Video Recorder can read these sticks or cubes. There will be a new form of copy protection added to the media format used to store these shows and movies on the cubes and sticks.
#4 Movie Theaters will change from the movie film format to the digital movie format. Using sticks and cubes, the movies will be in a much better quality. This will also allow a much faster time to be released on home video than DVD or VHS tapes would be converted. This will be done to foil the Internet Video Pirates by releasing the movie in a quicker time and a better quality. A video screen format will be used to reflect light off the screen in such a way that digital cam corders cannot record it, but the human eye can see it.
#5 We will see partnerships of movie companies to cable and satelite companies.
#6 Cable and Satelite will find they are competing with Wireless media companies. As the WIFI and Cell phone technology gets cheaper, companies will be providing the same programming via Wireless means in various neighborhoods. Soon the technology will be so cheap and so fast than normal shows and movies can be transmitted over it. Also the wireless service can be used for cell phones, broadband Internet conections, security systems, and Voice over IP home and business phones.
#7 Media companies will provide shopping, something so revolutionary that you can pause a movie or show and click on any object on the screen and bring up more information on it to buy it or find out more about it. This will give new meaning to commercials, were the whole movie is one big commercial and anything in the movie can be ordered or gotten more information on.
#8 Once wireless and satelite compete with cable, there will be a big price war. The Federal Government might have to step in to regulate things.
#9 Wireless media means you can take your receiver with you anywhere there is service for it. Not as messy as adjusting a dish or getting cable hooked up again. It will revolutionizethe media business.
#10 The cost of having your own cable/satelite/wireless channel will go down, more organizations and people will start to offer more of them, giving the viewers more of a choice. If Howard Stern gets banned from one channel, he can simply start his own channel, for example. There also will be music channels for bands that want to have their music listened to without going through a recording company.
I am just being honest. I know what happens to computers donated to third world countries. Piracy is very common in third world economies that are not doing too well. Usually they also have weak copyright laws.
Install whatever you want on the computers, they will just reformat them anyway. You won't get in trouble with Slackware using the 1.0 kernel, and in fact it will work great on the older hardware.
You really expect them to use a English version of Windows when English is not their first language?
Now who is the jackass here? At least post with your real handle, show some guts.
40% Troll
30% Redundant
30% Interesting
30% who modded Interesting have good taste. 40% who modded troll still use IE. 30% who modded redundant wished that they would have made the post first.
Give them an old version of Slackware Linux, the 1.0 Kernel should do nicely.
They will most likely reformat the hard drive and install a pirated copy of DOS and Windows 3.X for their third world language anyway.
the estate of Terry Nation is composed of Daleks. They are tired of being cast as the bad guys, so they made an insane demand of creative control of the film/tv show. They wanted the Daleks seen as the good guys and Doctor Who as the bad guy who lures scantily clad young women into his TARDIS for who knows what?
;) Maybe they go after Doctor Who to learn how the TARDIS works, to use it as a weapon?
;)
I think that there may be a substitute, let us see what evil alien or robot bad guys are not being used much anymore, shall we?
Cylons, not from that Sci Fi channel show, the original ones. The ones that could not shoot the broad side of a barn, and could not fly a Cylon Raider properly even if there are three of them in the cockpit.
The Slayers from Krull, slow moving, dim-witted, and get taken out by a super Japanese throwing star named a Glave.
The Peacekeepers from FarScape. Well FarScape fans want to see more action and are made that the series was cancled. Using these aliens means no special make-up is required, just uniforms need to be made. They speak British anyway.
The Geldts from Red Dwarf. If I spelled it right. Doctor Who is captured with his companion, and told that he would die if he didn't marry the Geldts' leader's daughter. He marries, but grabs the Oxygen Generator his TARDIS needs to recycle air and runs. The Geldts chase him all over the galaxy.
Bring in Servalan and the Federation from Blake's Seven. New actress if you have to. It should prove interesting.
The robots from Ice Pirates, hey, enough said!
Borrow the Ferrengi from Star Trek, I haven't seen anything from them since Deep Space Nine went off the air.
Better yet, have Doctor Who run away from time travelling Lawyers who are trying to issue him a subpeona about the file sharing program he runs in his TARDIS computers.
I use Mozilla and Firefox now. I got tired of the IE exploits being more in number than the IE fixes.
It was pathetic, but it was a PC Clone. Other Commodore PCs were called the PC-XXX but basically were just like the Commodore Colt.
Commodore made PC Laptops too!.
Commodore's last attempts at the PC Market.
Too bad they were not enough to save a company that was bleeding millions.
almost everyone had MS BASIC on their 8 bit system, even Radio Shack and Atari.
I remember having a C64 with a music player that did MIDI, MOD, and other file formats. It all fit on one floppy disk. I turned my C64 into a Jukebox. Now Tulip has turned a Vic-20 or C64 into a MP3 player.
Mail via UPS your broken laptop to yourself. Insure it for twice what it is worth. After recieving it, report that the laptop was broken in the shipment and demand the full payment. Then buy a new laptop. Or hope that they lose it, and you get the money for a new laptop anyway.
like the Iraqi War, George W. Bush, SCO, Linux, Anime, Cyberculture, Amiga, Science, Censorship, the RIAA, and many other popular topics.
My post was half Interesting and half Troll. 50% of the moderators have good taste and rated my post Interesting, 50% of the others did not get the humor or point of the post, like you.
It sounds as if I get some sort of virus by installing this. Couldn't they choose a different name to use?
I tried to download it, and the download link did not work.
Also I don't see a Debian package, nor a Linspire one. They also claim to have had VB.NET support, but I was not able to access it in previous versions. I stuck a fork in it, and it was not done yet.
Be careful, Microsoft might also accidentally copy open sourced licensing from Tiger into Longhorn as well, can't have that now can we? ;)
;)
;)
I wonder if Apple did anything to Tiger to prevent it from being used in that Pear PPC emulator?
I also wonder what Tiger Woods thinks about the next MacOSX being named in his honor? If not Tiger Woods, then who, Tony the Tiger?
Also nice to see rather than offering a free upgrade ala BSD Unix, that Apple is charging for the Tiger upgrade. Very good for those who want to pay for service packs that fix the exploits that Panther had.
If Nintendo competes with its own used gaming equipment, the used gaming equipment wins over the new stuff as far as price goes.
If Nintendo is going to scrape the bottom of the barrel to offer 8 bit games on a modern game console, the least they can do is offer at least 10 of those 8 bit games for a modern price. Then it would be worth it to people like me to buy their crap.
RTFM and follow directions on how to make a bootable BartPE CDR, and then how you can install BartPE to a hard drive.
Then download and install OOO.
Then give Microsoft and Billy Boy the middle finger. ;)
Or try this alternative and install it to your hard drive for a Non-Windows edition and still give Microsoft and Billy Boy the middle finger.