Sorry -- as long as you have to do stuff like this, then it won't be an alternative to MacOS or Windows...
Grandma: my cdrom letter isn't there!
support: go to start run and type command enter. now type edit space c colon backslash config dot sys. Can you see an entry for mscdex?
Grandma doesn't HAVE to go into the startup scripts any more than she has to edit the registry.
The scientific community must recognize the harms these rules pose and provide guidance about how to improve the anticircumvention rules.
Translated to Slashdot-speak:
D00d, DMCA is fsckin LAME! IANAL but we need to get this fscker struck down. I heard you can go to jail and stuff just for ROT13ing your name. There are real examples of this but I'm not gonna bother quoting them or posting links.
Congratulations! Your troll has netted quite a few responses. At least, I hope it's a troll since anyone smart enough to get a computer on the internet and type full sentences certainly can't be that stupid.
Exactly what I was thinking. Other things the study could have concluded:
Knowledge of chess causes lunch money to be stolen.
Hot chicks fear chess boards (since dammit, none of them would date any members)
Chess causes acne.
I stumbled apon what I now know is a simulation of Haptic feedback several times in the past. To enable this simulation, simply eat corn/potato chips in the general vicinity of your mousepad.
Of course, the bumps don't really correspond to whats on the screen, but every once in a while, damned if it doesn't seem that way!
I wonder when people will get the notion that there is no "best" programming language.
People will never get this. It's much like fat people getting exercise machines: if every time they watched an infomercial they'd just get on the floor and do sit ups and push ups for a half hour they'd be good to go. (ok maybe some aerobic too).
It seems to me that with the absurdly powerful processors that can be purchased sub $500 now, equally complicated compression algorithms could be used to trade processor work for file size. I remember seeing work on fractal encoding and the like. That was done for still images, but if processors were now fast enough to decode them at 30 fps, or even better if those algorithms could be applied over frames AND frame delta over time, it could be a possibility.
And a great opportunity for chip and pc makers to push the latest and greatest processors....
(just imagine that you had to explicitly connect your telephone to use it, then disconnect it again afterwards)
Yes, that would be horrendous! You'd have to have some kind of "cradle" or "talk button" to turn the telephone on, and THEN you'd be forced to type in the IP of the phone you're trying to connect to (perhaps they'd call that IP# the "phone number"). Imagine!
Eventually, you'll have things like "AT&T would like you to get 3 months of free cable modem service, but only if you go see the great movie 'Plotless'!"
LOL! I loved Plotless!. I especially like the tearful farewell between Julia Roberts and Haley Joel Osment, right before all the ninjas attacked (led, of course, by John Travolta).
The author of the article only grazes the truly insidious issue that could jeapardize the 'democratization' of the net. He talks about access via WebTV et. al. We don't care what sites the majority of people spend the majority of time using, so long as we don't lose functionality. However I have experienced this problem with @Home. It's the 'consumerization' of your internet connection.
Don't you want a fast pipe to the internet? Well sign up here. OK, now that we have you, we've noticed that while a vast majority of you are happily hitting our cache of MSN, AOL, etc. there are some of you RUNNING SERVERS, using bandwidth, connecting to IRC, etc. Please stop that; we'll artificially limit your upstream speed to discourage that non-consumer activity. Oh, and we've decided to get rid of the Usenet newgroups that take up too much bandwidth, since the vast majority don't use them anyway. Oh, and your emails are getting lost but you should only be using @Home email for 'recreational purposes'.
And "go back to dialup" is NOT the answer.
We must be vigilant that the regular actions of the vast majority don't become the de facto standard and remove the abilities and freedoms we've come to know as the internet.
Software is never the bottleneck... run software on a system that does double the instructions per second and it will run twice as fast....(I often think this is how Microsoft develops products: "in a couple years, all this bloat won't matter because processors will be so fast and hard drives will be so big") your bottleneck is in how fast you can get data to the processor. It may be your network speed, your system bus speed, hard drive speed, memory speed, graphics card speed.....
I hearby move that two new moderation categories be added to the choices for moderation. The categories I would like to see are FUD (-1) and BULLSHIT (also -1).
Good Lord! If they do that I'll have to browse at -1 to read anything at all!
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Well I dick taken this reply with we a voice and left me tell you, it's grape! Now I kin speak things at have the speed I can type them.
You mean if I boot from the 8.1 cd and choose 'UPGRADE' it toasts my existing config?
That doesn't seem right. Anyone?
3 CD's? There's now a 'supp' cd. This better be good....
Grandma: my cdrom letter isn't there! support: go to start run and type command enter. now type edit space c colon backslash config dot sys. Can you see an entry for mscdex?
Grandma doesn't HAVE to go into the startup scripts any more than she has to edit the registry.
But isn't that better than just having licensed 200 copies of Windows2000 and done an enterprise install right before XP comes out?
Hey! Stop-um rain dance! Cloud gods cause Chief Carpel-Tunnel's Quake game to lag.
Translated to Slashdot-speak:
D00d, DMCA is fsckin LAME! IANAL but we need to get this fscker struck down. I heard you can go to jail and stuff just for ROT13ing your name. There are real examples of this but I'm not gonna bother quoting them or posting links.
Congratulations! Your troll has netted quite a few responses. At least, I hope it's a troll since anyone smart enough to get a computer on the internet and type full sentences certainly can't be that stupid.
Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!
Sadly, I must face the fact that I've entered the world of parenthood when I see "Tolkien's World" and immediately think of "Elmo's World".
La la la-la, (la la la-la), Tolkien's World...
Exactly what I was thinking. Other things the study could have concluded:
Knowledge of chess causes lunch money to be stolen.
Hot chicks fear chess boards (since dammit, none of them would date any members)
Chess causes acne.
Now there's a game idea!
SimJail
Do you save up your cigarettes and buy a shiv from Jimmy the Rat?
Or maybe you better invest in some Vaseline in case Big Bubba Love decides you'd make a "damn perty bitch".
I stumbled apon what I now know is a simulation of Haptic feedback several times in the past. To enable this simulation, simply eat corn/potato chips in the general vicinity of your mousepad.
Of course, the bumps don't really correspond to whats on the screen, but every once in a while, damned if it doesn't seem that way!
People will never get this. It's much like fat people getting exercise machines: if every time they watched an infomercial they'd just get on the floor and do sit ups and push ups for a half hour they'd be good to go. (ok maybe some aerobic too).
"That's a lovely function you've got there, Mrs. Cleaver."
-Eddie 'Lambda' Haskell
And a great opportunity for chip and pc makers to push the latest and greatest processors....
Yes, that would be horrendous! You'd have to have some kind of "cradle" or "talk button" to turn the telephone on, and THEN you'd be forced to type in the IP of the phone you're trying to connect to (perhaps they'd call that IP# the "phone number"). Imagine!
No, it's a video of screenshots of 'Pong': Compresses over 28.8 reeal nice. "Your results may vary".
"Oh and we've fired the marketing MORON who didn't realize that eVilla starts with EVIL."
Uh, unless you're a student. Or know how to get to a public library.
LOL! I loved Plotless!. I especially like the tearful farewell between Julia Roberts and Haley Joel Osment, right before all the ninjas attacked (led, of course, by John Travolta).
Don't you want a fast pipe to the internet? Well sign up here. OK, now that we have you, we've noticed that while a vast majority of you are happily hitting our cache of MSN, AOL, etc. there are some of you RUNNING SERVERS, using bandwidth, connecting to IRC, etc. Please stop that; we'll artificially limit your upstream speed to discourage that non-consumer activity. Oh, and we've decided to get rid of the Usenet newgroups that take up too much bandwidth, since the vast majority don't use them anyway. Oh, and your emails are getting lost but you should only be using @Home email for 'recreational purposes'.
And "go back to dialup" is NOT the answer.
We must be vigilant that the regular actions of the vast majority don't become the de facto standard and remove the abilities and freedoms we've come to know as the internet.
I think that should be:
from the Department of Redundancy Department.
Software is never the bottleneck... run software on a system that does double the instructions per second and it will run twice as fast....(I often think this is how Microsoft develops products: "in a couple years, all this bloat won't matter because processors will be so fast and hard drives will be so big") your bottleneck is in how fast you can get data to the processor. It may be your network speed, your system bus speed, hard drive speed, memory speed, graphics card speed.....
Good Lord! If they do that I'll have to browse at -1 to read anything at all!