This might actually be helpful to some webcasters if they win. All of the web radio stations I've played with have been non-interactive, so if the broadcasters win this one it might apply to them as well.
What _would_ be a useful Windows UI hack would be some kind of on-the-fly conversion of context menus into pie-style menus... I don't even know whether this is possible, but it's a neat idea.
[you said]you can not be using MS products, and call your self a loyal Linux user.[/you said]
"Hi! We're the Linux Nazis, and we don't want anyone that doesn't hate MS with unbridled passion in our little club! The whole point of USING Linux is to SPITE Microsoft! Nyaah!"
Honestly. This kind of attitude is dumb, dumb, DUMB. Didn't he say he'd been using the OS since.97a? That long without abandoning something qualifies someone for "loyal" status in my book. Use what works for you. If it happens to be Linux, great. If it happens to be MS products, great. Doesn't MATTER.
This really sounds like about a 3rd-grade level set of clique rules, right here. "Oh, you want to be friends with us? Well, you can't like HIM. He's a DORK."
The breakup wasn't a particularly good solution anyway. Rather than having one company with a monopoly on 3 sections of market, we'd have had 3 companies each with a monopoly on one section of market. Not much of an improvement.
What they should have done was have some kind of vertical separation and created >=2 OS companies, >=2 office/business software companies, >=2 browser companies, etc, etc. At least then there would have been some competition.
You didn't read the goddamn options well enough when you installed the software. People, I'm pretty sure that the days when you can install a piece of software with the default options and trust it not to do heinous things to your computer's settings are over. This applies more to downloaded free (not Free, put away the flamethrower) software like KaZaA than to retail software, but I've made it a habit to NEVER do a default install of anything without at least reading the options. In the case of KaZaA, I just unchecked the box for whatever-this-crap's-name-is, and haven't had a problem.
I don't know... I'm pretty sure the SA screen shots speak for themselves. Also, Lowtax tends to be a really honest guy (if awfully, terribly humorously blunt).
I have the same feeling, but I just don't understand how the judges could be so far off. The MPAA makes utterly nonsensical arguments in its reply to the questions ("It is no more 'speech' than a key to a library or museum (or a crowbar that could force open their doors) is 'speech.'"). I have a sinking feeling that 2600 is going to be raped again by big money, but the more people that realize how entirely unjust that is, the better.
I called Yamaha because my CD-RW drive stopped reading rewritable discs. After I described the problem, the guy on the other end said things like, "The circuitry might have gone bad" and "you might want to look into getting another drive." After I hung up, I remembered that I (stupidly) hadn't tried cleaning the lens first. Voila! I could read RWs again. However, the fact that the guy didn't even suggest cleaning the lens gives me serious doubts about his competence.
*rant*
I'm so sick and goddamn tired of hearing about how great the X-Box will be. It ISN'T yet. People seem to forget this, like the geniuses at Salon.com, who said, roughly, "Sure, PS2's the best hardware on the market NOW. But why buy one when you could wait for X-Box or Dolphin?" It's about as ridiculous as saying, "Yeah, the NES has great graphics NOW. But it's going to suck hard when PS2 comes out, so why bother?" Sheesh.
Seems that although this was far from a complete success, they got a couple important ones. I think that more can be read into the second exception (literary works, etc.) because of the use of the term "obsolescence." A lot can be crammed under the heading "obsolete," and it wouldn't surprise me to see someone more clever than I manage to cram things like DVD-CSS into this category.
.... are they finally going to get us some desks in the lecture halls that aren't BROKEN so we have somewhere on which to rest them during class?
Seriously, though, this is a good thing, if only because it gives me an excuse to buy a laptop. Now I'm going to unabashedly troll and ask for opinions here: Windows laptop or Mac laptop? Windows laptop hardware tends to be kind of crappy, but a Mac laptop is, well, a Mac at the core... But it does have OS X, which I have seen and really looks pretty nice. Suggestions?
Why don't they recommend that the dealer keep the Windows CD, because the customer will probably just give it to a friend? Plus, the customer can't possibly be capable of installing the OS him/herself, so why should they even have this?
As a longtime proud builder of "Naked PCs" for myself and my friends, this REALLY pissed me off. Thank you, Redmond.
Actually, though, how is this different (or less complicated) than, say, using PGP and an IRC client (with DCC) to effect the same sort of transfer?
For one thing it sounds a HUGE amount easier. I don't know about anyone else, but I think I'd rather take my chances on the Feds sniffing my mail than go through the kind of crap described here. This system basically does what GUIs do for OSes: make them available to and usuable by the masses.
Ok, I'm going to be an asshole for just a second. "Voila" is the word used for that "poof!" effect. A "viola" is a stringed musical instrument. I've seen this in too many posts now not to comment.
... I can't figure out how the "father of the internet" seems to have garnered so much support at a tech-oriented website. I don't agree with much that Bush stands for, but on principle I refuse to vote for a complete idiot, especially one egotistical enough to make that kind of exaggerated claim about his own importance. Then again, we could all just VOTE MONKEY.
Kind of ironic that we're blaming MS for removing the "feature" that causes a huge number of bugs and compatibility issues from their OS. Backwards compatibility doesn't last forever; ask anyone who's ever owned a Mac. It's time to move on, folks. This may be a pain for some folks, but if it bothers you that much just MAKE A BOOTDISK.
Yes. I have to credit Evangelion with having (with the exception of a few scenes, generally involving Misato) the most disturbing, least sexual use of nudity EVER.
I agree completely. I blew my 5 points just yesterday on a whole series of excessively long "You won't believe this deal" clones in boldface. I usually leave shorter stuff alone, but I hate having to scroll through this much crap just to read comments. Maybe it's time to turn up my threshold to 1 instead of 0.
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This might actually be helpful to some webcasters if they win. All of the web radio stations I've played with have been non-interactive, so if the broadcasters win this one it might apply to them as well.
Good grief, yes. The easier songs don't count much, but do a set of Catas and tell me you're not sweating afterwards :)
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- Twon
What _would_ be a useful Windows UI hack would be some kind of on-the-fly conversion of context menus into pie-style menus... I don't even know whether this is possible, but it's a neat idea.
[you said]you can not be using MS products, and call your self a loyal Linux user.[/you said]
.97a? That long without abandoning something qualifies someone for "loyal" status in my book. Use what works for you. If it happens to be Linux, great. If it happens to be MS products, great. Doesn't MATTER.
"Hi! We're the Linux Nazis, and we don't want anyone that doesn't hate MS with unbridled passion in our little club! The whole point of USING Linux is to SPITE Microsoft! Nyaah!"
Honestly. This kind of attitude is dumb, dumb, DUMB. Didn't he say he'd been using the OS since
This really sounds like about a 3rd-grade level set of clique rules, right here. "Oh, you want to be friends with us? Well, you can't like HIM. He's a DORK."
Dumb.
- Twon
The breakup wasn't a particularly good solution anyway. Rather than having one company with a monopoly on 3 sections of market, we'd have had 3 companies each with a monopoly on one section of market. Not much of an improvement.
What they should have done was have some kind of vertical separation and created >=2 OS companies, >=2 office/business software companies, >=2 browser companies, etc, etc. At least then there would have been some competition.
You didn't read the goddamn options well enough when you installed the software. People, I'm pretty sure that the days when you can install a piece of software with the default options and trust it not to do heinous things to your computer's settings are over. This applies more to downloaded free (not Free, put away the flamethrower) software like KaZaA than to retail software, but I've made it a habit to NEVER do a default install of anything without at least reading the options. In the case of KaZaA, I just unchecked the box for whatever-this-crap's-name-is, and haven't had a problem.
I don't know... I'm pretty sure the SA screen shots speak for themselves. Also, Lowtax tends to be a really honest guy (if awfully, terribly humorously blunt).
I have the same feeling, but I just don't understand how the judges could be so far off. The MPAA makes utterly nonsensical arguments in its reply to the questions ("It is no more 'speech' than a key to a library or museum (or a crowbar that could force open their doors) is 'speech.'"). I have a sinking feeling that 2600 is going to be raped again by big money, but the more people that realize how entirely unjust that is, the better.
I called Yamaha because my CD-RW drive stopped reading rewritable discs. After I described the problem, the guy on the other end said things like, "The circuitry might have gone bad" and "you might want to look into getting another drive." After I hung up, I remembered that I (stupidly) hadn't tried cleaning the lens first. Voila! I could read RWs again. However, the fact that the guy didn't even suggest cleaning the lens gives me serious doubts about his competence.
The X-Box does NOT SHIP, yet.
*rant*
I'm so sick and goddamn tired of hearing about how great the X-Box will be. It ISN'T yet. People seem to forget this, like the geniuses at Salon.com, who said, roughly, "Sure, PS2's the best hardware on the market NOW. But why buy one when you could wait for X-Box or Dolphin?" It's about as ridiculous as saying, "Yeah, the NES has great graphics NOW. But it's going to suck hard when PS2 comes out, so why bother?" Sheesh.
Oh, SHITE. I read that wrong. The word used was "permit," not "prevent." That's utterly useless. Never mind any of that.
See, I thought that you could break something that failed to PREVENT access because it sucked. Silly me. *sigh*
Seems that although this was far from a complete success, they got a couple important ones. I think that more can be read into the second exception (literary works, etc.) because of the use of the term "obsolescence." A lot can be crammed under the heading "obsolete," and it wouldn't surprise me to see someone more clever than I manage to cram things like DVD-CSS into this category.
.... are they finally going to get us some desks in the lecture halls that aren't BROKEN so we have somewhere on which to rest them during class?
Seriously, though, this is a good thing, if only because it gives me an excuse to buy a laptop. Now I'm going to unabashedly troll and ask for opinions here: Windows laptop or Mac laptop? Windows laptop hardware tends to be kind of crappy, but a Mac laptop is, well, a Mac at the core... But it does have OS X, which I have seen and really looks pretty nice. Suggestions?
Why don't they recommend that the dealer keep the Windows CD, because the customer will probably just give it to a friend? Plus, the customer can't possibly be capable of installing the OS him/herself, so why should they even have this?
As a longtime proud builder of "Naked PCs" for myself and my friends, this REALLY pissed me off. Thank you, Redmond.
And further, I can't think of ANY reason this wouldn't run PalmOS... y'know, their house handheld OS... Your fears of WinCE can stand abated, for now.
Could it reek of Microsoft because it sounds geared toward being used by the average person? I'll give you 10 to one you're blowing anti-M$ smoke.
Actually, though, how is this different (or less complicated) than, say, using PGP and an IRC client (with DCC) to effect the same sort of transfer?
For one thing it sounds a HUGE amount easier. I don't know about anyone else, but I think I'd rather take my chances on the Feds sniffing my mail than go through the kind of crap described here. This system basically does what GUIs do for OSes: make them available to and usuable by the masses.
I don't know about killing, but MTG (which I used to play) is certainly in no way an RPG.
Ok, I'm going to be an asshole for just a second. "Voila" is the word used for that "poof!" effect. A "viola" is a stringed musical instrument. I've seen this in too many posts now not to comment.
... I can't figure out how the "father of the internet" seems to have garnered so much support at a tech-oriented website. I don't agree with much that Bush stands for, but on principle I refuse to vote for a complete idiot, especially one egotistical enough to make that kind of exaggerated claim about his own importance. Then again, we could all just VOTE MONKEY.
Remember, a zebra does not change its spots.
Kind of ironic that we're blaming MS for removing the "feature" that causes a huge number of bugs and compatibility issues from their OS. Backwards compatibility doesn't last forever; ask anyone who's ever owned a Mac. It's time to move on, folks. This may be a pain for some folks, but if it bothers you that much just MAKE A BOOTDISK.
Yes. I have to credit Evangelion with having (with the exception of a few scenes, generally involving Misato) the most disturbing, least sexual use of nudity EVER.
TROLL!
Where're my moderator points when I need 'em,
- Twon
I agree completely. I blew my 5 points just yesterday on a whole series of excessively long "You won't believe this deal" clones in boldface. I usually leave shorter stuff alone, but I hate having to scroll through this much crap just to read comments. Maybe it's time to turn up my threshold to 1 instead of 0.