How do you think Microsoft got so big? People used to copy DOS and Windows, and when their companies were getting computers, guess what software their employees were familiar with, and which was thus bought?
I thought Microsoft got so big because you paid for DOS/Windows on your new PC whether it was installed or not. So if you bought your PC with no OS and then went out and bought a copy you were actually buying it twice. Or maybe I'm not remembering correctly.
What bias do you have against Christians? Why do you lump all Christians together as nutty liberal haters that love big oil?
If you learn one thing in this life, I pray that you actually learn to have an open mind, instead of just professing to have one.
May god bless you, in Jesus' name. Amen.
-Mike
Maybe you are all lumped together because of the fact that your main mission is to 'save' all of us and convert us to your perception of the ultimate 'truth'.
Well guess what, most of don't want to be 'saved' and indoctrinated as you have chosen to do. Most of us just want to live our lives as we choose and as long as we obey the laws of the land, this should be the way it is.
You can keep the blessings of your "jealous and vengeful" god to yourself. Besides who would want to spend eternity with a bunch of judgmental, hateful and controlling jerks anyway.
There are too many fanatical owners with lifetime memberships, like myself. My TiVo is hacked to hell and I love it. Even if the service got cut off I'm sure enough people would get together and create some kind of volunteer listing service. Maybe in the style of CDDB, before they sold their soul to the devil. At the very least you'd still have a network connected VCR.
It's not nice to joke about the size of someone's exchange rate. If you're not careful, some British guy will show up and starting making fun of you
British man: Haw, you bloody Yanks! Our pound is worth more than your dollar. Bah haw, bah haw.
1st American: What did that pasty face guy with bad teeth just say?
2nd American: Don't mind him. He comes from some foggy little island country that still worships royalty. Now get into the Hummer 2, we have things to buy.
When are those panels of randomly blinking lights going to make it on the market? I have been waiting some time.
A company I used to work for many years ago had a good sized VAX in the typical early 80's fishbowl/raised floor computer room. The thing had tons of cabinets and was pretty big but the only real light on the thing was the power light. One of the engineers stuck a bunch of led's on a black wooden box and set them up to blink randomly, just like in the cheesy old sci-fi films. He put it on the top of the VAX to impress customers when they got the tour.
That's because it's not I-Robot. They chose to use a script called "hardwired" instead of the script written by Harlan Ellison. The decision to name it 'I, Robot' was made by some fox execs after the fact.
The movie seems to revolve around the 3 robotic laws that Asimov came up with. So, the title seems appropiate in at least acknowledging that. The 3 laws have been used many times in non Asimov stories.
Let's test your theory... NT4 SP6: works great. Win2K SP4: works great. XP SP2: not out yet.
NT4 SP6 was shit, SP6a fixed most of the problems but SP7 is way more stable. I've never used SP4 for W2k, SP3 was just fine and stable for me. XP SP2, Microsoft themselves have said that it will break some applications.
As superstitious as this sounds I have found this to be true over the years with Microsoft. Almost without fail the even numbered SP's have broken features and the odd numbered ones fix them. I'll wait for SP3.
Besides, the combination of my Netgear firewall, McAfee Virusscan and just not opening strange attachments in my email protects me just fine.
I think what we are seeing with the MPAA/RIAA is the death throes of a dying beast. The only reason we've tolerated their control in the past was that the average person couldn't create decent movies and music. And if they did, distribution was impossible without corporate help.
But very soon technology is going to leap frog right over these dinosaurs, just as the highway system did to the railroads.
I envision 10 years from now, studios run by unknowns employing unknown actors the create movies in the same style that gollum was created in LOTR. Think about it, you could create computer 'puppets' that look and sound like Humphrey Bogart, the original cast of Star Trek or whomever. They will be acting in computer created sets. This might still be expensive now, but if current trends continue I see this being within our reach very soon. I think the studios have foreseen this and it scares the hell out of them, that is why they are being so ruthless now. But in the long run the future will sweep them away like a tidal wave and our children will read about the 'Big Studio Era' in their history books.
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An interesting fact is that the cost of operating the entire mission is around US$ 3m a day, and that must also be considered when determining how long these wonderful bots rover through Mars unveiling its mysteries.
That is a good fact. But from my viewpoint the major cost has been the mission failures. All that money spent when a probe goes up in smoke is just completely gone with absolutely no return. It seems to me that 90% of the problem is getting the probe simply to have a successful landing. Since it is obviously so difficult and expensive, once that goal is accomplished the next priority should be robustness and longevity. Divide 3 million by the total cost of all rover failures and I think it would start to make more sense.
Every easy solution has a problem. The problem with this one is that the Mars rovers don't have any arms to rip the layers off.
[sarcasm] You're right. I guess we will have to wait until someone invents robotic arms. And anything spring loaded wouldn't work because everyone knows springs don't work on Mars. [/sarcasm]
There is nothing that can convince me that there is no way around this problem. It amazes me as much as the fact that NASA had prepared absolutely no way around losing a few tiles on the shuttle. These are major problems with simple solutions. I think we have the wrong people running our space program.
Add to that Ford taking measures to ensure that you can't remove the navigation system to replace it with another without rendering the entire vehicle useless
My GPS unit sits right on my dash or attaches to the windshield. Also, just get your Ford without the navigation option. No biggie.
this next service pack is going to seriously fuck up some software industries... a better personal firewall, a popup killer, and now antivirus, all now bundled with the OS? and free?!
Aren't these things Windows should have had in the first place? These companies were just capitalizing on things lacking in the OS. They made their money, they are free to find other niches to exploit. Isn't that what capitalism is all about?
It's been the oposite for me. I'm just turning 39 and I've loved video games since my Dad's friend showed us his amazing pong set back in the 70's. What I find myself losing interest in is passive entertainment such as TV and movies. I just get too bored just sitting there and not being involved. Unless it's an exceptional story or is actually teaching me something(which is almost never).
Besides I don't think playing video games is wasting your time. You are using your mind in new and creative ways, that can't be a complete waste. There are people that go to extremes and neglect other important parts of their life, but that goes with anything. I know people who have done that with cars, work, food, drugs, etc. As long as you keep a balance in your life it should be a positive thing.
It always amazes me how a discussion of evolution inevitably degrades into a discussion of god and the creation of life.
Remember Darwin's book was titled 'Origin of Species' not 'Origin of Life'. We know from the fossil and geological record that things used to be much simpler on Earth and over a LOT(more than 5000 years) of time slowly developed more and more complexity. This goes for everything, not just life. These things we do know and can have scientific certainty about.
Is this all a random process or the result of a higher intelligence? I like to believe the latter but that's not something that can be proved or disproved. For know we should stick with what we know and stop trying to convince each other that our beliefs are the correct ones. It sure would stop a lot of wars.
I know, this is flaimbait, but I thought it was relevant to the general conversation for you liberal, anti-war zealots out there who actually believe the theory of evolution.
I have only one word for people who refuse to accept evolution.
Any woman that ends up with me knows right from the start not to expect diamonds or gold from me. I have no problem buying jewlery, but I buy from independant artisans. Not only does it support the little guy but to me it means lot more to give a unique, one of a kind gift as opposed to some generic diamond/gold piece that you can buy in any mall in the country.
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- marry an american woman
- take the US citizenship
- never go back to France
(or same thing with a Canadian if you like snow).
I thought that on Slashdot all lists like this are supposed to end with the work 'profit'.
Ahhh Rexx... OS/2...
OS/2 is the future I say. Look at how much better it runs then Windows 3.1....
*snaps out of reverie, back into Microsoft dominated 2004*
Doh!
How do you think Microsoft got so big? People used to copy DOS and Windows, and when their companies were getting computers, guess what software their employees were familiar with, and which was thus bought?
I thought Microsoft got so big because you paid for DOS/Windows on your new PC whether it was installed or not. So if you bought your PC with no OS and then went out and bought a copy you were actually buying it twice. Or maybe I'm not remembering correctly.
The cheetahs are hard up, but I always say, cheetahs never prosper...
What bias do you have against Christians? Why do you lump all Christians together as nutty liberal haters that love big oil?
If you learn one thing in this life, I pray that you actually learn to have an open mind, instead of just professing to have one.
May god bless you, in Jesus' name. Amen.
-Mike
Maybe you are all lumped together because of the fact that your main mission is to 'save' all of us and convert us to your perception of the ultimate 'truth'.
Well guess what, most of don't want to be 'saved' and indoctrinated as you have chosen to do. Most of us just want to live our lives as we choose and as long as we obey the laws of the land, this should be the way it is.
You can keep the blessings of your "jealous and vengeful" god to yourself. Besides who would want to spend eternity with a bunch of judgmental, hateful and controlling jerks anyway.
There are too many fanatical owners with lifetime memberships, like myself. My TiVo is hacked to hell and I love it. Even if the service got cut off I'm sure enough people would get together and create some kind of volunteer listing service. Maybe in the style of CDDB, before they sold their soul to the devil. At the very least you'd still have a network connected VCR.
It's not nice to joke about the size of someone's exchange rate. If you're not careful, some British guy will show up and starting making fun of you
British man: Haw, you bloody Yanks! Our pound is worth more than your dollar. Bah haw, bah haw.
1st American: What did that pasty face guy with bad teeth just say?
2nd American: Don't mind him. He comes from some foggy little island country that still worships royalty. Now get into the Hummer 2, we have things to buy.
When are those panels of randomly blinking lights going to make it on the market? I have been waiting some time.
A company I used to work for many years ago had a good sized VAX in the typical early 80's fishbowl/raised floor computer room. The thing had tons of cabinets and was pretty big but the only real light on the thing was the power light. One of the engineers stuck a bunch of led's on a black wooden box and set them up to blink randomly, just like in the cheesy old sci-fi films. He put it on the top of the VAX to impress customers when they got the tour.
Hopefully the graphics of the governor's daughters will be much better. For some reason they just didn't look all that pretty on my C64.
That's because it's not I-Robot. They chose to use a script called "hardwired" instead of the script written by Harlan Ellison. The decision to name it 'I, Robot' was made by some fox execs after the fact.
The movie seems to revolve around the 3 robotic laws that Asimov came up with. So, the title seems appropiate in at least acknowledging that. The 3 laws have been used many times in non Asimov stories.
So yeah, if I was living in medeival times, I'd want to be a blacksmith. Or maybe a carpenter.
How about an alchemist? They seem more hacker like to me.
Let's test your theory... NT4 SP6: works great. Win2K SP4: works great. XP SP2: not out yet.
NT4 SP6 was shit, SP6a fixed most of the problems but SP7 is way more stable. I've never used SP4 for W2k, SP3 was just fine and stable for me. XP SP2, Microsoft themselves have said that it will break some applications.
As superstitious as this sounds I have found this to be true over the years with Microsoft. Almost without fail the even numbered SP's have broken features and the odd numbered ones fix them. I'll wait for SP3.
Besides, the combination of my Netgear firewall, McAfee Virusscan and just not opening strange attachments in my email protects me just fine.
I think what we are seeing with the MPAA/RIAA is the death throes of a dying beast. The only reason we've tolerated their control in the past was that the average person couldn't create decent movies and music. And if they did, distribution was impossible without corporate help.
But very soon technology is going to leap frog right over these dinosaurs, just as the highway system did to the railroads.
I envision 10 years from now, studios run by unknowns employing unknown actors the create movies in the same style that gollum was created in LOTR. Think about it, you could create computer 'puppets' that look and sound like Humphrey Bogart, the original cast of Star Trek or whomever. They will be acting in computer created sets. This might still be expensive now, but if current trends continue I see this being within our reach very soon. I think the studios have foreseen this and it scares the hell out of them, that is why they are being so ruthless now. But in the long run the future will sweep them away like a tidal wave and our children will read about the 'Big Studio Era' in their history books.
An interesting fact is that the cost of operating the entire mission is around US$ 3m a day, and that must also be considered when determining how long these wonderful bots rover through Mars unveiling its mysteries.
That is a good fact. But from my viewpoint the major cost has been the mission failures. All that money spent when a probe goes up in smoke is just completely gone with absolutely no return. It seems to me that 90% of the problem is getting the probe simply to have a successful landing. Since it is obviously so difficult and expensive, once that goal is accomplished the next priority should be robustness and longevity. Divide 3 million by the total cost of all rover failures and I think it would start to make more sense.
Every easy solution has a problem. The problem with this one is that the Mars rovers don't have any arms to rip the layers off.
[sarcasm]
You're right. I guess we will have to wait until someone invents robotic arms. And anything spring loaded wouldn't work because everyone knows springs don't work on Mars.
[/sarcasm]
There is nothing that can convince me that there is no way around this problem. It amazes me as much as the fact that NASA had prepared absolutely no way around losing a few tiles on the shuttle. These are major problems with simple solutions.
I think we have the wrong people running our space program.
The items up for sale include lots of those dumb Herman Miller Aeron chairs that were so popular
My butt thanks me everyday for having one.
who really downloads anything other than the evaluation copy and puts up with the little message that pops up whenWinzip starts up...
Hell with that, just use one of the dozens of keymakers... oops did I say that out loud?
Add to that Ford taking measures to ensure that you can't remove the navigation system to replace it with another without rendering the entire vehicle useless
My GPS unit sits right on my dash or attaches to the windshield. Also, just get your Ford without the navigation option. No biggie.
this next service pack is going to seriously fuck up some software industries... a better personal firewall, a popup killer, and now antivirus, all now bundled with the OS? and free?!
Aren't these things Windows should have had in the first place? These companies were just capitalizing on things lacking in the OS. They made their money, they are free to find other niches to exploit. Isn't that what capitalism is all about?
Didn't we already cancel the Comanches a long time ago? Oh, you mean the helicopter.
It's been the oposite for me. I'm just turning 39 and I've loved video games since my Dad's friend showed us his amazing pong set back in the 70's. What I find myself losing interest in is passive entertainment such as TV and movies. I just get too bored just sitting there and not being involved. Unless it's an exceptional story or is actually teaching me something(which is almost never).
Besides I don't think playing video games is wasting your time. You are using your mind in new and creative ways, that can't be a complete waste. There are people that go to extremes and neglect other important parts of their life, but that goes with anything. I know people who have done that with cars, work, food, drugs, etc. As long as you keep a balance in your life it should be a positive thing.
It always amazes me how a discussion of evolution inevitably degrades into a discussion of god and the creation of life.
Remember Darwin's book was titled 'Origin of Species' not 'Origin of Life'. We know from the fossil and geological record that things used to be much simpler on Earth and over a LOT(more than 5000 years) of time slowly developed more and more complexity. This goes for everything, not just life. These things we do know and can have scientific certainty about.
Is this all a random process or the result of a higher intelligence? I like to believe the latter but that's not something that can be proved or disproved. For know we should stick with what we know and stop trying to convince each other that our beliefs are the correct ones. It sure would stop a lot of wars.
I know, this is flaimbait, but I thought it was relevant to the general conversation for you liberal, anti-war zealots out there who actually believe the theory of evolution.
I have only one word for people who refuse to accept evolution.
Dinosaur.
Thank you. Good night.
Any woman that ends up with me knows right from the start not to expect diamonds or gold from me. I have no problem buying jewlery, but I buy from independant artisans. Not only does it support the little guy but to me it means lot more to give a unique, one of a kind gift as opposed to some generic diamond/gold piece that you can buy in any mall in the country.