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Its also ironic that MILITANT ENVIRONMENTALISTS are the same people that sell cheese sandwiches at Phish concerts and protest against liberating oppressed people. (OT but relevent anyway)
No it isn't, but I'll bite anyway.
I could argue that anyone who supports the "liberation" of Iraq is a weakminded fool who believes everything and anything he is told. This liberation talk only started happening when it was obvious that the vast majority of the world(think 70% of the population of the world) was against this war. You see, unlike what some of you would like to believe, the warmongers started talking about attacking Iraq over a year ago. Back then it wasn't about weapons of mass destruction, it wasn't about liberating the Iraqi people, it wasn't about broken UN resolutions or treaties. These people just said "well, Osama might have gone to Iraq....START BOMBING!!! THEY'RE HARBOURING TERRORISTS". This arguement was so flaccid and transparant that the Canadian prime minister decided then and there that if the US went to war against Iraq, Canada would not get involved. A few months later, the US government was changing it's story with a frequency that would make a kid with ADD envious. Finally they get this semi-plausable weapons of mass destruction arguement, but they get whomped for that story too, for various reasons. So, they decide to go to war anyway, and just before they rush in... "Oh yeah. We're not invading, we're liberating. You're not against the liberation of these people, are you? That would be wrong, what are you, a communist?".
Oh yeah. That 11th hour PR victory was their plan all along, and they always wanted to liberate Iraq from the terrible, terrible dictator(erm..that the US gave weapons to. Just forget that part.). Right. I guess you believe in Santa Claus too?
If the population of the US is so gullable that they buy this liberation crap, go right ahead, but don't bitch at the rest of us who can see through the incredibly transparant veil of spin-doctoring to see the truth that this liberation crap is just a bunch of bullshit cooked up at the last second to cover their asses.
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Just what slashdot needs. A tree hugging hippy conspiracy theorist. I bet you'll tell me the hold in the ozone layer isn't shrinking next, or Global warming will kill us all.
Go back to the amazon rain forest, with the other hippies. Who live in igloos and wear parkas in 150 degree weather.:P
You misunderstand what OSS is. OSS isn't a group. It isnt' a corporation. It's not a congolomorate. It's not a religion. It's just a nearly meaningless name used to describe the type of software a person releases for free along with the source code.
You know what? Decentralization is it's strength. The sheer number of shitty programs put out by both commercial and OSS sources is staggering. Crap isn't something a development model can stop or create when the developer has his head up his ass. It's the good programs and the good developers that float to the top. And you can't ask anything of these people either. They're doing these things for their own amusement, pro bono. They don't owe any of us anything. They shouldn't gang up just because you want more quality projects either.
Man... I wish people would stop treating OSS devs like corporate drones. "can I get that winamp clone in cornflower blue?" No, you can't. Go away.
The people that you're after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals. We haul away your trash. We connect your calls. We drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us.
The question remains though -- why do we need a STANDARD game controller?
As an owner of 4 gamepads and 2 joysticks, I've never had any problems that a standardized joystick could fix. Since joystick hardware specifications are standardized throughtout the industry, and have been since people still had to poll port 0x201 to get their numbers. With USB pads, the USB HID specs seem to work just fine, and allow all my USB pads to work just fine without drivers or any software installation. My logitech wingman and my generic Radio Shack PSX pad clone both play whatever games I want them to without a hint of a problem, and frankly, the differences between the pads is one of the reasons I like using the PC as a gaming platform(ie. CHOICE and innovation). Honestly, every game worth it's salt has a controller configuration applet, so a standardized layout only serves to cut down on ergonomic innovation which characterizes the PC gamepad market.
I must admit though, that other parts of Microsofts plan appeal to me. Simplified installation and minimal hard disk installation are two traits of console-gaming which are very appealing(though the latter can be dangerous, since CDs tend to get scratched -- I generally use Daemon-tools instead of physical cds, but it looks like that'll still be safe), but I doubt I'll be buying into the new windows (since just as Windows XP before it, it is destined to add cruft to the elegant Windows 2000 design in the name of pretty pictures and stupid looking skins(IMHO)), so it doesn't matter much to me at this point.
Since your assertion that Tier 1 computer manufactueres don't use AMD at all is flawed(see earlier on in this thread -- it seems HP/Compaq is using AMD in some machines), your entire comments validity and accuracy falls into question. Since I don't feel like looking up financial reports for AMD right now, I'll assume you're just another half-informed doomsayer.
It seems to me that the motives for trying to get another type of shuttle up there are purely political. A single as-of-yet undeterminted defect in that paticular shuttle caused the shuttle to go down, and I have serious doubts that any of them think that a new and untested shuttle(compared to the 25 years this design has been proving reliable(because two explosions in the career of the design isn't remotely bad -- hell, nuke reactors have a worse record than that, and they're NUKE REACTORS!:P)) will make astronauts any safer. This COULD be a ploy to get more funding though. Or a ploy to make the public believe steps are being taken to ensure no more accidents.
I suppose history will be the one to decide which.
Holy crap! Well, it looks like it's back to ye olde drawing board for me. To think that only a few weeks ago my MX-460 was the tenth fastest video card on the slate...
Oh well. It runs all my 5 year old crappy abandonware like a demon, that's all I care about!:)
Microsoft has done this before. I believe it was the Windows 95 registration wizard which looks for certain files in certain locations and can tell if you have a certain program installed that way. You don't need to search the whole harddrive to check if c:\lotus\wordpro\wordpro.exe exists, likewise for other programs they're interested in.
No he couldn't. The chances of getting drivers for any given piece of hardware from windowsupdate.com are incredibly slim. Among all the PCs in my household, only my main computer even has a single component detected by windowsupdate (my nforce sound, oddly enough).
1)Relax. Grades really are as useless as you think they are.
2)Don't get into OS/2. That turns out to be a very expensive mistake.
3)Oh yeah, you know that chick? Go for it....but your technique sucks. You're a friggin' nomad. You don't have time for them to realize how much they like you. Go for the prize.
And the bonus...Remember that you are an athiest and an outsider/nomad. You don't hold the same ethics as the rest of them. Question everything. Question Everyone. Trust nobody. Believe me or not, and if they're talking to you and don't usually, they're probably trying to manipulate you. Don't be so naieve.
Clip everything from "microsoft was *one*..." on. I meant to delete that. I realize MS was at least two people from the getgo, and that not everyone considers what gates did stealing.
Oh give me a break. Microsoft ripped off it's OS and linux didn't? well, I did say... Actually, Microsoft is a lot like OSS that way...
I swear I did. I don't have to defend that point of view, because I never thought OSS was paticularly innovative. I didn't just finish saying that I was glad Linux had all this money to spend researching toys. *My* point is that MS is never first to the market, and always copy pre-established designs. Yeah, their R&D is soooo great. Look at all the innovation they've done over the years -- they've copied CPM, they've copied their entire office suite from other people who were first to market with these new toys. Windows is a copy of MAC. BASIC is a copy of public domain code. IE is a copy of Netscape and Mosaic. It's not MS concieving these cool new toys -- heck, it's not even MS putting these things on the market first. So don't applaud them for inventing anything.
As for your insinuation that IBM would never have gotten into the PC market if Microsoft hadn't lied to them and said they had an OS ready, consider this quote: "The dog wags the tail. The tail doesn't wag the dog". Microsoft was *one* person at the time. In fact, Microsoft was one person who even then wasn't a beacon of sound business ethics(see: stealing code from Xerox, using computer time at harvard innapropriately,
Never mind that Notepad is one of the most used apps in existence, let's pick on Word because it's Micro$oft!
You say that as if it's a bad thing. I'm kind of getting tired of all you killjoys out there saying we can't mock and ridicule MS. I mean, what gives? Yeah, we're mocking it just because it's MS. But it's not like it hasn't earned it over the years. Perhaps the first release of Windows 95 is but a fading memory, but it's a *funny* fading memory. Like edlin. So you know what? I'm going to continue laughing at MS jokes, and I'm going to continue cracking them. It's a hell of a lot more fun than sitting around, quietly waiting for the heat death of the universe(or atomic half-life, take your pick).
How about because my 1 page resume ends up as an 80k file? The text in the file is a measly 2k, but the file, which uses only one font throughout, is 80k. Crappy file generation means that these sizes only grow larger.
Just look at Microsofts HTML when you save a word document in HTML to see how bad their file generation is. It generally runs around 50k for a file that would take 15k if you used mozilla composer(I actually found that out the hard way when I was working moving some old word-created HTML documents to HTML using mozilla -- the mozilla created code was usually 1/5th the size. There's no denying that Microsofts file formats could use some trimming down, or even a redesign to allow for backwards and forewards compatibility(not that hard if you design the file formats with some forethought).
It all adds up, and eventually, things become freakishly large. If you're running Windows XP or Windows 2k, look in your fonts directory. You have a 50MB file with a single font in there! These same fonts were mere kilobytes only a few years ago, but here they are, 50MBs. Can we trim it down now?
Also, optimization is next to godliness. Users will take note of a snappy interface, and will often remain loyal to a product which runs fast and does what they want over a product which runs dog slow.
OSS is really incredible when you think about it. It's a worldwide volunteer effort which has accomplished so much it's just amazing. Even if you have qualms about the Linux OS, it's very hard to imagine that every part of the platform was created for the good of the people.
On the other hand, that's why I don't consider linux to be competition for Windows in the purest sense -- to say Linux is competition for Windows is like saying an orphanage is competiton for a daycare center, or a soup kitchen for the homeless competition for a supermarket. The thought that MS used that at their trial leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Seen a windows service pack lately? If not, I'll tell you they're around 150MBs about now. At least SP3 for Win2k is. The last kernel update I downloaded for linux was about 30MBs. I didn't need to compile anything, either.
BTW, your comment shows you might not know as much about microsoft as you think. For the greater part of their history, they've done nothing but re-implemented ideas already done by others. From the Windows interface/OS, to the DOS OS, to MSN IM, to the X-BOX, to Windows Media, to Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, and powerpoint, Microsoft has consistently been significatly late to the market, usually with lower quality products than the competition. Only after being able to stay in those markets with products which lose money for a huge amount of time are they able to overtake the competition in that arena, and usually even that only happens because the competition has been severely weakened by Microsofts anti-competitive practices.
Actually, Microsoft is a lot like OSS that way. That explains why the virtually indestructable worldwide volunteer movement(I know, it's a dirty word, volunteer, how dare those commies spend time doing something they enjoy without asking for compensation!!) is making MS sweat so much -- it can do all the things MS has done itself to gouge their product into a market and kill competition, but on a whole new level.
I am still waiting on a series called 'Borg' where they are the main focus.
Naw, what we need is a show called "borg wars", where humanity is trying to defeat the invincible borg -- not the crappy hugs and kisses "well if you take them out of the collective they're really nice chaps" borgs who can be taken out with a judo chop or a light breeze, I'm talking about the borg as they originally were -- invincible, immortal, unwaveringly alien, ultimately cold and calculating(instead of the way they are portrayed as predictable animals later on) and really f*cking scary. Actually, forget about the borg altogether and just make a series like that from scratch. It would be f*cking cool. Especially if there were lots of explosions and hot chicks who aren't really wearing enough clothing. And beer. That would be the best series ever. Especially if they actually had main characters die for no reason sometimes and they didn't make every death into a heroic sacrifice for mankind./me wanders off, muttering about that kickass sounding show!
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Its also ironic that MILITANT ENVIRONMENTALISTS are the same people that sell cheese sandwiches at Phish concerts and protest against liberating oppressed people. (OT but relevent anyway)
No it isn't, but I'll bite anyway.
I could argue that anyone who supports the "liberation" of Iraq is a weakminded fool who believes everything and anything he is told. This liberation talk only started happening when it was obvious that the vast majority of the world(think 70% of the population of the world) was against this war. You see, unlike what some of you would like to believe, the warmongers started talking about attacking Iraq over a year ago. Back then it wasn't about weapons of mass destruction, it wasn't about liberating the Iraqi people, it wasn't about broken UN resolutions or treaties. These people just said "well, Osama might have gone to Iraq....START BOMBING!!! THEY'RE HARBOURING TERRORISTS". This arguement was so flaccid and transparant that the Canadian prime minister decided then and there that if the US went to war against Iraq, Canada would not get involved. A few months later, the US government was changing it's story with a frequency that would make a kid with ADD envious. Finally they get this semi-plausable weapons of mass destruction arguement, but they get whomped for that story too, for various reasons. So, they decide to go to war anyway, and just before they rush in... "Oh yeah. We're not invading, we're liberating. You're not against the liberation of these people, are you? That would be wrong, what are you, a communist?".
Oh yeah. That 11th hour PR victory was their plan all along, and they always wanted to liberate Iraq from the terrible, terrible dictator(erm..that the US gave weapons to. Just forget that part.). Right. I guess you believe in Santa Claus too?
If the population of the US is so gullable that they buy this liberation crap, go right ahead, but don't bitch at the rest of us who can see through the incredibly transparant veil of spin-doctoring to see the truth that this liberation crap is just a bunch of bullshit cooked up at the last second to cover their asses.
Just what slashdot needs. A tree hugging hippy conspiracy theorist. I bet you'll tell me the hold in the ozone layer isn't shrinking next, or Global warming will kill us all.
:P
Go back to the amazon rain forest, with the other hippies. Who live in igloos and wear parkas in 150 degree weather.
(intelligence during the Viet Nam war.... ok.....)
Nope, Counter-intelligence. His job was to stick crayons up his nose.
Overheard in meeting: "I wonder if these boobs realize that we're downsizing the entire company after we own the copyrights?" ;p
There's another phrase for when a company pirates it's own software.
It's called "legitimate and legal use".
oops.
You misunderstand what OSS is. OSS isn't a group. It isnt' a corporation. It's not a congolomorate. It's not a religion. It's just a nearly meaningless name used to describe the type of software a person releases for free along with the source code.
You know what? Decentralization is it's strength. The sheer number of shitty programs put out by both commercial and OSS sources is staggering. Crap isn't something a development model can stop or create when the developer has his head up his ass. It's the good programs and the good developers that float to the top. And you can't ask anything of these people either. They're doing these things for their own amusement, pro bono. They don't owe any of us anything. They shouldn't gang up just because you want more quality projects either.
Man... I wish people would stop treating OSS devs like corporate drones. "can I get that winamp clone in cornflower blue?" No, you can't. Go away.
The people that you're after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals. We haul away your trash. We connect your calls. We drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us.
:P)
(sorry, it just fits, in my psychotic mind.
The question remains though -- why do we need a STANDARD game controller?
As an owner of 4 gamepads and 2 joysticks, I've never had any problems that a standardized joystick could fix. Since joystick hardware specifications are standardized throughtout the industry, and have been since people still had to poll port 0x201 to get their numbers. With USB pads, the USB HID specs seem to work just fine, and allow all my USB pads to work just fine without drivers or any software installation. My logitech wingman and my generic Radio Shack PSX pad clone both play whatever games I want them to without a hint of a problem, and frankly, the differences between the pads is one of the reasons I like using the PC as a gaming platform(ie. CHOICE and innovation). Honestly, every game worth it's salt has a controller configuration applet, so a standardized layout only serves to cut down on ergonomic innovation which characterizes the PC gamepad market.
I must admit though, that other parts of Microsofts plan appeal to me. Simplified installation and minimal hard disk installation are two traits of console-gaming which are very appealing(though the latter can be dangerous, since CDs tend to get scratched -- I generally use Daemon-tools instead of physical cds, but it looks like that'll still be safe), but I doubt I'll be buying into the new windows (since just as Windows XP before it, it is destined to add cruft to the elegant Windows 2000 design in the name of pretty pictures and stupid looking skins(IMHO)), so it doesn't matter much to me at this point.
We'll just have to see how this pans out.
Since your assertion that Tier 1 computer manufactueres don't use AMD at all is flawed(see earlier on in this thread -- it seems HP/Compaq is using AMD in some machines), your entire comments validity and accuracy falls into question. Since I don't feel like looking up financial reports for AMD right now, I'll assume you're just another half-informed doomsayer.
but it wasn't funny...
It seems to me that the motives for trying to get another type of shuttle up there are purely political. A single as-of-yet undeterminted defect in that paticular shuttle caused the shuttle to go down, and I have serious doubts that any of them think that a new and untested shuttle(compared to the 25 years this design has been proving reliable(because two explosions in the career of the design isn't remotely bad -- hell, nuke reactors have a worse record than that, and they're NUKE REACTORS! :P)) will make astronauts any safer. This COULD be a ploy to get more funding though. Or a ploy to make the public believe steps are being taken to ensure no more accidents.
I suppose history will be the one to decide which.
Increased system requirements in 6 months?
Holy crap! Well, it looks like it's back to ye olde drawing board for me. To think that only a few weeks ago my MX-460 was the tenth fastest video card on the slate...
:)
Oh well. It runs all my 5 year old crappy abandonware like a demon, that's all I care about!
Microsoft has done this before. I believe it was the Windows 95 registration wizard which looks for certain files in certain locations and can tell if you have a certain program installed that way. You don't need to search the whole harddrive to check if c:\lotus\wordpro\wordpro.exe exists, likewise for other programs they're interested in.
No he couldn't. The chances of getting drivers for any given piece of hardware from windowsupdate.com are incredibly slim. Among all the PCs in my household, only my main computer even has a single component detected by windowsupdate (my nforce sound, oddly enough).
Three things which would change my life:
...but your technique sucks. You're a friggin' nomad. You don't have time for them to realize how much they like you. Go for the prize.
1)Relax. Grades really are as useless as you think they are.
2)Don't get into OS/2. That turns out to be a very expensive mistake.
3)Oh yeah, you know that chick? Go for it.
And the bonus...Remember that you are an athiest and an outsider/nomad. You don't hold the same ethics as the rest of them. Question everything. Question Everyone. Trust nobody. Believe me or not, and if they're talking to you and don't usually, they're probably trying to manipulate you. Don't be so naieve.
There. Happy?
Clip everything from "microsoft was *one*..." on. I meant to delete that. I realize MS was at least two people from the getgo, and that not everyone considers what gates did stealing.
Oh give me a break. Microsoft ripped off it's OS and linux didn't?
well, I did say...
Actually, Microsoft is a lot like OSS that way...
I swear I did. I don't have to defend that point of view, because I never thought OSS was paticularly innovative. I didn't just finish saying that I was glad Linux had all this money to spend researching toys. *My* point is that MS is never first to the market, and always copy pre-established designs. Yeah, their R&D is soooo great. Look at all the innovation they've done over the years -- they've copied CPM, they've copied their entire office suite from other people who were first to market with these new toys. Windows is a copy of MAC. BASIC is a copy of public domain code. IE is a copy of Netscape and Mosaic. It's not MS concieving these cool new toys -- heck, it's not even MS putting these things on the market first. So don't applaud them for inventing anything.
As for your insinuation that IBM would never have gotten into the PC market if Microsoft hadn't lied to them and said they had an OS ready, consider this quote: "The dog wags the tail. The tail doesn't wag the dog". Microsoft was *one* person at the time. In fact, Microsoft was one person who even then wasn't a beacon of sound business ethics(see: stealing code from Xerox, using computer time at harvard innapropriately,
who cares how cheap memory is if you can't boot up, make a change, and have the change take effect any faster than on the 8088 of yore?
Never mind that Notepad is one of the most used apps in existence, let's pick on Word because it's Micro$oft!
You say that as if it's a bad thing. I'm kind of getting tired of all you killjoys out there saying we can't mock and ridicule MS. I mean, what gives? Yeah, we're mocking it just because it's MS. But it's not like it hasn't earned it over the years. Perhaps the first release of Windows 95 is but a fading memory, but it's a *funny* fading memory. Like edlin. So you know what? I'm going to continue laughing at MS jokes, and I'm going to continue cracking them. It's a hell of a lot more fun than sitting around, quietly waiting for the heat death of the universe(or atomic half-life, take your pick).
How about because my 1 page resume ends up as an 80k file? The text in the file is a measly 2k, but the file, which uses only one font throughout, is 80k. Crappy file generation means that these sizes only grow larger.
Just look at Microsofts HTML when you save a word document in HTML to see how bad their file generation is. It generally runs around 50k for a file that would take 15k if you used mozilla composer(I actually found that out the hard way when I was working moving some old word-created HTML documents to HTML using mozilla -- the mozilla created code was usually 1/5th the size. There's no denying that Microsofts file formats could use some trimming down, or even a redesign to allow for backwards and forewards compatibility(not that hard if you design the file formats with some forethought).
It all adds up, and eventually, things become freakishly large. If you're running Windows XP or Windows 2k, look in your fonts directory. You have a 50MB file with a single font in there! These same fonts were mere kilobytes only a few years ago, but here they are, 50MBs. Can we trim it down now?
Also, optimization is next to godliness. Users will take note of a snappy interface, and will often remain loyal to a product which runs fast and does what they want over a product which runs dog slow.
OSS is really incredible when you think about it. It's a worldwide volunteer effort which has accomplished so much it's just amazing. Even if you have qualms about the Linux OS, it's very hard to imagine that every part of the platform was created for the good of the people.
On the other hand, that's why I don't consider linux to be competition for Windows in the purest sense -- to say Linux is competition for Windows is like saying an orphanage is competiton for a daycare center, or a soup kitchen for the homeless competition for a supermarket. The thought that MS used that at their trial leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Seen a windows service pack lately? If not, I'll tell you they're around 150MBs about now. At least SP3 for Win2k is. The last kernel update I downloaded for linux was about 30MBs. I didn't need to compile anything, either.
BTW, your comment shows you might not know as much about microsoft as you think. For the greater part of their history, they've done nothing but re-implemented ideas already done by others. From the Windows interface/OS, to the DOS OS, to MSN IM, to the X-BOX, to Windows Media, to Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, and powerpoint, Microsoft has consistently been significatly late to the market, usually with lower quality products than the competition. Only after being able to stay in those markets with products which lose money for a huge amount of time are they able to overtake the competition in that arena, and usually even that only happens because the competition has been severely weakened by Microsofts anti-competitive practices.
Actually, Microsoft is a lot like OSS that way. That explains why the virtually indestructable worldwide volunteer movement(I know, it's a dirty word, volunteer, how dare those commies spend time doing something they enjoy without asking for compensation!!) is making MS sweat so much -- it can do all the things MS has done itself to gouge their product into a market and kill competition, but on a whole new level.
Hmmmmmm...
You should go on vacation or something. You are obviously too stressed out to functionin society.
I am still waiting on a series called 'Borg' where they are the main focus.
/me wanders off, muttering about that kickass sounding show!
Naw, what we need is a show called "borg wars", where humanity is trying to defeat the invincible borg -- not the crappy hugs and kisses "well if you take them out of the collective they're really nice chaps" borgs who can be taken out with a judo chop or a light breeze, I'm talking about the borg as they originally were -- invincible, immortal, unwaveringly alien, ultimately cold and calculating(instead of the way they are portrayed as predictable animals later on) and really f*cking scary. Actually, forget about the borg altogether and just make a series like that from scratch. It would be f*cking cool. Especially if there were lots of explosions and hot chicks who aren't really wearing enough clothing. And beer. That would be the best series ever. Especially if they actually had main characters die for no reason sometimes and they didn't make every death into a heroic sacrifice for mankind.