first of all good luck getting this to fly internationally! you'd have to do that or else the chinese companies will have circumvention devices the next day. sure you can ban the sale of these devices but that doesn't mean people won't buy them. even at a premium. this in turn will kill any american companies who are not able to compete BY LAW. oh yeah and good luck getting viewers of shows that people can't watch AT THEIR CONVENIENCE which is what the whole point of the recording technologies is about!
if someone cracks dvd playing by creating a mod chip or a boot disk, isn't microsoft screwed? i would think that they'd be forced to pay licensing for all xboxes since they would potentially be able to play dvds.
better yet, buy a dreamcast for $50 get backup copies of any game you want, get the emulators for snes, nes, sega, and various arcade machines and never get bored. i did this last year and i never get tired of it. it kicks ass remembering all those old games again.
i'm so tired of hearing that microsoft's not bundling of java with xp is going to cause it to die. that's patently untrue! if i write a killer app in java nothing stops me from packaging the jre with it for a small cost of 10 meg. considering my java code in most cases will be less than 1 meg, the size is not much different than most apps. in fact, it's smaller than most apps! and nothing stops me from putting the damn thing on a cd and distributing it. concerns of not having java bundled are overblown bigtime!
Its survival of the fittest, we arent a team, its every man for himself.
If you want everyone to make the same wage i suggest communism.
If we give everyone knowledge fine i'm cool with that as long as we dont keep the current system with have, however if we are going to be capitalist, I'm not going to lose my job and starve so someone lesser than me can have knowledge.
this is idiotic. if this is your attitude, you're bound to be overtaken anyway. you seem to be saying that you're too lazy to LEARN MORE to stay ahead of your "competitors" and instead would rather withhold information from them. one thing you forget is that with most people, if you give them the answer instead of forcing them to learn it themselves, they come back. i have no fear of someone "lesser" taking my job because i am constantly learning more. most people don't devote the time to catch up. you seem to be one of those people.
so what? there's no debugger, no ide, where's the value? maybe for fast compilation it might be useful but without a debugger, it's useless. unless you can use the gnu debugger maybe.
Actually, you can't be tried on the same case twice in civil law
either. However, the difference between civil law and criminal law
is that in civil law, the plaintiff can be anyone, while in criminal law,
only the government can bring the case.
Isn't it a bit redundant to open a bank account just so you can use it to open a PayPal account?
his point is to avoid having a direct link to the account that matters. i do the same thing. i have a "cash" account that i funnel my paypal transactions through and then i do an intrabank transfer to my "real" account. this avoids problems with holds because basically maintain a low balance in the paypal accounts. they've been offering incentives to keep money in there but the horror stories are too much for me.
I haven't seen a registry corruption in years (not since win95, actually). And the reason for that was me mucking around in regedit before I had an idea of what I was doing. Otherwise, smooth sailing all the way. In my mind, the registry is better than a pant load of.ini files. Everything's in one place, so you know that if you need to find something, you just have to fire up regedit (and the trees are generally setup pretty logically, though you can't fault Microsoft for idiot third-party developers).
i'll give you an example. i had installed a plug and play network card that i had mistakenly thought was an ne2000 compatible on an windows 98 machine. so when i picked the driver at the plug and play prompt it told me that it couldn't find an ne2000. fine. so i open up the box and find that it's a d-link. i download the driver from another machine so i can install it on the other box. come to find out plug and play isn't detecting a nic anymore. i try installing it manually still doesn't recognize the nic. i end up going through the registry and finding that even though it told me it wasn't installing the ne2000, it reserved an irq entry for it!!! i delete and plug and play picks it up fine on reboot. now, i know to do this but what about the poor sap that picks the wrong card by mistake?? keep in mind that the adapter didn't show in network devices either so for all the user knows, the installation was cancelled because that's what windows told him. this is why the registry is such a pain in the ass! this type of thing happens consistently in win 9x.
i usually try to avoid
First of all most of the technology in Sun ONE's architecture has been available for over two years as opposed to dot.net pieces that don't even exist yet. Sun has acknowledge that they had a packaging and branding problem in not letting people know about it and how the pieces fit together. To say that it exists SOLEY to compete against dot.net is ridiculous... it's technology that EXISTS is being developed and improving.
The second fatal assumption is believing that Sun actually cares about Java being run on desktop PCs. Sun in more concerned about future devices such as cell phones, media, storage, entertainment systems, etc.. If microsoft focuses its efforts on the desktop, all the better for them. Sun has a better shot with consumer goods manufacturers because they don't want microsoft eating into their businesses although the competition is more intense... as it should be. Cringley does alot better when he talks about things he knows about.
what i usually do is i build the code myself in a directory under/usr/local say and then have symbolic links to the binaries in the "standard" directory. this makes the filesystem more managable but also makes everything accessible to the path, which would be a pain in the ass to update everytime... not to mention very long. isn't that what symbolic links were basically meant for???
i don't know how many peanut fans are out there but i'm into it bigtime. before my linux of choice was suse but i had let that copy get stale and downloading the latest is a pain because they don't organize their site like the cd. what i liked about suse is that the installation was straight-forward and it didn't install alot of garbage like redhat.
with peanut it's just format ext2 partition and untar. like ready-made linux. i love that. also, it's very complete in the sense that its a sensible base install without having to jump through hoops. if you want a quick easy in and out linux, peanut is the way to go. stampede claimed to be that way when i first tried it but it was way too buggy at the time. i don't know if they've improved. i'm sure they have.
Sooo, you just decided to pop onto this thread and state a comment about a product you didn't like, but didn't take the time to look at even it's most basic features? Well by gosh, on behalf of everyone reading this thread I would like to say thank you for your insightful, and interesting bit of literary magic you have graced us all with.
well, mr. dickhead, one of the reasons i stuck with enlightenment is that it caught my attention right away! this speaks for the quality of enlightenment and kde's lack of immediate appeal. how this is a troll is beyond me. sorry for being able to think for myself!
personally, i prefer the sparseness of enlightenment. i tried kde for a while and i found it somewhat impressive but i like enlightenment sooooo much better. does kde have multiple desktop or virtual desktop support. i didn't try it that long.
I'm having this problem with my site. They don't want to go Linux, because they can't blame someone if there is a problem since it isn't a commercial application.
nowadays when i hear this, i put my balls on the line and say "blame me!" i've had to do this with not only linux but other non-microsoft products such as delphi, activeperl, and c++ builder. sometimes it takes weeks or months of no progress and you reminding them that things could be better before you get the go ahead.
i've also gotten in the habit of running 'rogue' linux boxes whereever i go. i typically get a laptop and a desktop. so i turn the laptop into a linux box since the desktops are under more rigid corporate controls. i run samba on my laptop so it looks like a windows box without rousing much suspicion.
i really don't know where i'm going with this but this is generally the way it has to be done when management doesn't approve.
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This is a joke right?
why not just promote pirating the shit out of their software?
What'd you call me?
first of all good luck getting this to fly internationally! you'd have to do that or else the chinese companies will have circumvention devices the next day. sure you can ban the sale of these devices but that doesn't mean people won't buy them. even at a premium. this in turn will kill any american companies who are not able to compete BY LAW. oh yeah and good luck getting viewers of shows that people can't watch AT THEIR CONVENIENCE which is what the whole point of the recording technologies is about!
that batman can kick superman's ass anyday. don't believe me? check out the original 'dark knight' series by frank miller.
well since microsoft doesn't pay a dividend, i seriously doubt that any pain is reduced for shareholders.
if someone cracks dvd playing by creating a mod chip or a boot disk, isn't microsoft screwed? i would think that they'd be forced to pay licensing for all xboxes since they would potentially be able to play dvds.
i suppose he hasn't heard of a vcr which has the same exact technology. or cable tv for that matter.
better yet, buy a dreamcast for $50 get backup copies of any game you want, get the emulators for snes, nes, sega, and various arcade machines and never get bored. i did this last year and i never get tired of it. it kicks ass remembering all those old games again.
i'm so tired of hearing that microsoft's not bundling of java with xp is going to cause it to die. that's patently untrue! if i write a killer app in java nothing stops me from packaging the jre with it for a small cost of 10 meg. considering my java code in most cases will be less than 1 meg, the size is not much different than most apps. in fact, it's smaller than most apps! and nothing stops me from putting the damn thing on a cd and distributing it. concerns of not having java bundled are overblown bigtime!
so what? there's no debugger, no ide, where's the value? maybe for fast compilation it might be useful but without a debugger, it's useless. unless you can use the gnu debugger maybe.
ever heard of o.j. simpson?
if he wants to move on to other projects, he should bring back millennium! that show was underrated!
some things are simply more breakable than others!
his point is to avoid having a direct link to the account that matters. i do the same thing. i have a "cash" account that i funnel my paypal transactions through and then i do an intrabank transfer to my "real" account. this avoids problems with holds because basically maintain a low balance in the paypal accounts. they've been offering incentives to keep money in there but the horror stories are too much for me.
i'll give you an example. i had installed a plug and play network card that i had mistakenly thought was an ne2000 compatible on an windows 98 machine. so when i picked the driver at the plug and play prompt it told me that it couldn't find an ne2000. fine. so i open up the box and find that it's a d-link. i download the driver from another machine so i can install it on the other box. come to find out plug and play isn't detecting a nic anymore. i try installing it manually still doesn't recognize the nic. i end up going through the registry and finding that even though it told me it wasn't installing the ne2000, it reserved an irq entry for it!!! i delete and plug and play picks it up fine on reboot. now, i know to do this but what about the poor sap that picks the wrong card by mistake?? keep in mind that the adapter didn't show in network devices either so for all the user knows, the installation was cancelled because that's what windows told him. this is why the registry is such a pain in the ass! this type of thing happens consistently in win 9x. i usually try to avoid
The second fatal assumption is believing that Sun actually cares about Java being run on desktop PCs. Sun in more concerned about future devices such as cell phones, media, storage, entertainment systems, etc.. If microsoft focuses its efforts on the desktop, all the better for them. Sun has a better shot with consumer goods manufacturers because they don't want microsoft eating into their businesses although the competition is more intense... as it should be. Cringley does alot better when he talks about things he knows about.
what i usually do is i build the code myself in a directory under /usr/local say and then have symbolic links to the binaries in the "standard" directory. this makes the filesystem more managable but also makes everything accessible to the path, which would be a pain in the ass to update everytime... not to mention very long. isn't that what symbolic links were basically meant for???
with peanut it's just format ext2 partition and untar. like ready-made linux. i love that. also, it's very complete in the sense that its a sensible base install without having to jump through hoops. if you want a quick easy in and out linux, peanut is the way to go. stampede claimed to be that way when i first tried it but it was way too buggy at the time. i don't know if they've improved. i'm sure they have.
well, mr. dickhead, one of the reasons i stuck with enlightenment is that it caught my attention right away! this speaks for the quality of enlightenment and kde's lack of immediate appeal. how this is a troll is beyond me. sorry for being able to think for myself!
personally, i prefer the sparseness of enlightenment. i tried kde for a while and i found it somewhat impressive but i like enlightenment sooooo much better. does kde have multiple desktop or virtual desktop support. i didn't try it that long.
nowadays when i hear this, i put my balls on the line and say "blame me!" i've had to do this with not only linux but other non-microsoft products such as delphi, activeperl, and c++ builder. sometimes it takes weeks or months of no progress and you reminding them that things could be better before you get the go ahead.
i've also gotten in the habit of running 'rogue' linux boxes whereever i go. i typically get a laptop and a desktop. so i turn the laptop into a linux box since the desktops are under more rigid corporate controls. i run samba on my laptop so it looks like a windows box without rousing much suspicion.
i really don't know where i'm going with this but this is generally the way it has to be done when management doesn't approve.