No, that's illiteracy. most people with a decent typing speed don't waste brain power on l33tsp33k.
As an aside, how many people who write LOL really laugh out loud? It's spooky how many people will sit there and write lol, or rofl or lmao, and be sitting there stoically(spelling on that last word?).
the thought that l33t sp33k could become the language of the future is rather frightening, but since the masses generally decide the direction of language, we could be witnessing the next evolution of the language.
a pair of pins(possibly fine sewing needles, but the diameter of those may be too big for this application) could probably be used to discreetly touch the conductors through the wire jacket, with nothing more than a couple tiny pinholes as proof of anything, which could probably be covered up relatively easily. Doing it either at the top, where the headphone meets the wire, or at the bottom, where the holes could be covered by the plugs jacket, could make the holes nearly invisible to detection, except by a more than summary inspection(ie. something more expensive than it's worth). With a little strategically placed insulation, you could even cut it down to one hole, but it would be somewhat more visible than the two smaller ones.
This would only get you one channel of stereo, but with one more hole(and somewhat more risk), you could get fairly good quality stereo, ripe for the ripping.
What isn't up to par, featurewise? As far as I can tell, it's as far as IE, and with the addition of tabbed browsing and the composer, it's even slightly better.
You can't tell me that their is any linux distro that can match Windows ease of use.
So far, RedHat 7.3. I head back to windows to run GTA3 or Morrowind, and yearn for KDE.
If their is, why arent the masses jumping on that bandwagon???
Because Microsoft is doing their damndest to prevent just such a thing. Here's a better question. Why didn't people jump on the bandwagon with any of the other 30 Operating systems which were better than windows over the years? It's arrogant to say that it's because they were all flawed in comparison to Microsofts mighty Windows, It's ignorant to say there weren't any which were as easy to use as Windows, and hell, OS/2 Warp 3.0 was running most(if not all) windows 3.1 applications better than Windows 3.1, with better DOS compatibility than Windows has yet to achieve, and several months before Windows 95 came out, so there goes the "Application compatibility" arguement.
Or, for a real mind teaser, why did every ex-competitor of Microsofts have something to say at it's antitrust trial?
Okay, so I click on the start menu. That much is obvious, the rolling stones told me so back in '95. Now, control pane--- what? Okay, I'll open my web browser. No problem, it is actually pretty intuitive that way. Now...Wait a minute, what the hell do I choose out of these three choices if I don't want MSN? The first one is to sign up for an MSN account, which I don't want or need, the third one looks right Use my existing account. I'll just click on that and...hey! Why the hell is it dialing a long distance number? TO FIND MY MSN PHONE NUMBER?! ARGH! CANCEL! CANCEL! CANCEL! I DON'T NEED A FRIGGING MSN ACCOUNT! Okay, so it must be the second one. now. Lan or phone line. No problem there. Do I want to set up my E-Mail? Great! I was hoping I wouldn't have to head into Outlook Express to set up my E-Mail...What? Windows messaging? No, back. I don't want to set up that piece of 7 year old crap.
Yeah real easy. Just like this little fix:
Dialogbox from Windows 95: "Do you want to make a boot disk?" [Yes]/[No]
Dialogbox from Windows 98SE "Do you want to make a boot disk? Press OK for yes, or Cancel for no."[OK]/[Cancel]
How about "Hey, I dragged this program from my start menu onto the desktop, and now the program doesn't exist anymore! What's worse, I'm on an NT-based machine, so now nobody has an icon for that!"
Or maybe this?
"Hey! I just got this keen new 2Ghz Sledgehammer! I'll just plug my old hard drive in and... HEY! WHY DID I GET THIS BLUE SCREEN?! WINDOWS WON'T EVEN BOOT?!"
Or awkward groupings of control groups, such as having the colours, screensavers, and backgrounds in the same place as relatively low level hardware stuff on the display applet under control panel? That's just bad design. Asthetics should be incredibly easy to access, but hardware should be in a different place altogether, lest some poor user accidentally blow up their 5 year old VGA monitor by trying out 1600x1200x32 at 120hz.
How about "Where is the hardware manager in NT4?"
Why isn't the directory stucture the same as it's shown in every modern aspect of windows; eg. Desktop\My Computer\C:\Windows?
Why does MS use backslashes, when every other OS I've ever used which wasn't designed by them doesn't?
Why does MS networking use the backslash, but Internet Explorer use the foreslash? These are only the obvious things. There are many other, more subtle things that we don't notice after 5 years of putting up with them.
In the context of a thread about media content, arguing about physical good is a red herring at best and a straw man at worst.
As for my statement being wrong(or were you stating that what I percieved to be your statement was wrong? if that is the case, don't bother reading the rest), I ask you to prove it, here on the biggest library of individually created pieces of art, code, music, and literature on the face of the earth, the internet.
That was a combined quote from Twelve Monkeys and Fight Club. They fit together nicely because Fight Club was referencing Twelve Monkeys.
Anyway, the quotes are more of statement on our consumer society as a whole. And I personally find them to be quite accurate. If you find them offsensive, perhaps that is because they hit a little too close to home.
I bet if you think hard for a second, you can think of some consumer good that you'd like to buy. Now ask yourself why you want it. Not just the petty reasons but the deeper reasons. The ones you push to the back of your mind and never talk about. Before you buy your next screwdriver with miniature built-in radar devices, remind yourself that the things you own end up owning you.
First, I wasn't offended, I just thought it was wrong. Important distinction.
Secondly, I already do that. To ignore the cause of your impulses is to allow them to control you. In all things, I bring such thoughts to the foreground, and in knowing what I'm thinking at all levels, I can decide whether or not it's worth it.
Cheap distinction. By this token, nobody is productive; miners don't produce anything, they merely haul it out of the ground. Architects are in the same league as engineers.
The statement I was arguing was that we're all just media consumers, and that none of us contributes.
We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore.
Go away. Perhaps YOU aren't productive, and YOU don't make things any more, perhaps you're a consumer; a junkie which craves it's next fix like a drug; but I am not, nor are the other artists, musicians, programmers and writers who happen to read slashdot.
If you want a browser without nasty bugs, try K-Meleon. I should mention that I'm only a user of their software, but it's rock solid(which is also why they take forever releasing new versions -- testing!) It's never crashed on my except when limitations of Windows ME kick in(Windows ME doesn't like 40 windows open at once, but Windows 2000 lets me open well over a hundred, and I haven't found the limit yet)
I believe their numbers are wrong. Not only do I know of several netscape users(which is actually a pretty good test -- most of the time, if I don't know someone with the software, the market share is below 5%), but according to stats reports on several sites I've visited, netscape makes up around 16% of internet users. Perhaps an optimistic number, but not considering that I know so many people who actually use netscape(or a variation, such as mozilla, or galeon, or K-Melelon), it doesn't seem like the nubers given are accurate.
Slackware?! No offense, but I'd much rather be using my Operating system than trying to haggle with it to get applications installed. If I were to choose an alternative to Wndows on a 486, it would be OS/2 Warp(after MS got kicked out of the project and all the MS code was rewritten). It would be a good OS to run on(Fast? Fast!), but I'm not sure if there would be a browser as slim as K-Meleon or Galeon for it.
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No, that's illiteracy. most people with a decent typing speed don't waste brain power on l33tsp33k.
As an aside, how many people who write LOL really laugh out loud? It's spooky how many people will sit there and write lol, or rofl or lmao, and be sitting there stoically(spelling on that last word?).
the thought that l33t sp33k could become the language of the future is rather frightening, but since the masses generally decide the direction of language, we could be witnessing the next evolution of the language.
Apparantly, they opened their specs for a while, but closed them quickly when they realized that all the clones being made sucked.
My motorola winmodem works great under linux, but has a problem with the speaker under Windows. Odd, eh?
happened two times today on a new dell laptop.
Choose your battles carefully.
We are the segment most likely to turn back the effects of the MS monopoly; our moral decisions concerning cars mean little.
I still don't buy nikes though.
I'm waiting for the hammer. Why get something a little faster now, when I can get something revolutionary in a few months?
a pair of pins(possibly fine sewing needles, but the diameter of those may be too big for this application) could probably be used to discreetly touch the conductors through the wire jacket, with nothing more than a couple tiny pinholes as proof of anything, which could probably be covered up relatively easily. Doing it either at the top, where the headphone meets the wire, or at the bottom, where the holes could be covered by the plugs jacket, could make the holes nearly invisible to detection, except by a more than summary inspection(ie. something more expensive than it's worth). With a little strategically placed insulation, you could even cut it down to one hole, but it would be somewhat more visible than the two smaller ones.
This would only get you one channel of stereo, but with one more hole(and somewhat more risk), you could get fairly good quality stereo, ripe for the ripping.
still pretty harsh -- did you consider that infastructure could be in place for an "internet" long before a single node is operational?
True, 127.0.0.1 only proves that half your IP stack is functioning, but it was still overly harsh.
such harsh words for a simple diagnostic...
What do you think about cable testers?
Preaching to the choir. You clicked on the wrong comment.
I think his claim that PCMark 2002 is an old program with no optimizations for intel or AMD throws it into doubt even more.
use the quickloader. IE has it's stuff loaded already, why not level the playing field?
What isn't up to par, featurewise? As far as I can tell, it's as far as IE, and with the addition of tabbed browsing and the composer, it's even slightly better.
When will AMD realize that people don't care how *fast* their PC is, but that it has a life affirming, penis enlarging number attached to it!
How does this sound; the AMD 10 GHZ noipcon. Sure, it has the IPC of an 8088, but 10 GHZ -- lets see Intel beat *that*!
Dude.
Lay off the crack.
Or the weed.
Or whatever you've been smoking before you wrote that brilliant piece of pseudophilosiphy.
You can't tell me that their is any linux distro that can match Windows ease of use.
So far, RedHat 7.3. I head back to windows to run GTA3 or Morrowind, and yearn for KDE.
If their is, why arent the masses jumping on that bandwagon???
Because Microsoft is doing their damndest to prevent just such a thing. Here's a better question. Why didn't people jump on the bandwagon with any of the other 30 Operating systems which were better than windows over the years? It's arrogant to say that it's because they were all flawed in comparison to Microsofts mighty Windows, It's ignorant to say there weren't any which were as easy to use as Windows, and hell, OS/2 Warp 3.0 was running most(if not all) windows 3.1 applications better than Windows 3.1, with better DOS compatibility than Windows has yet to achieve, and several months before Windows 95 came out, so there goes the "Application compatibility" arguement.
Or, for a real mind teaser, why did every ex-competitor of Microsofts have something to say at it's antitrust trial?
I want to set up my internet.
Okay, so I click on the start menu. That much is obvious, the rolling stones told me so back in '95. Now, control pane--- what? Okay, I'll open my web browser. No problem, it is actually pretty intuitive that way. Now...Wait a minute, what the hell do I choose out of these three choices if I don't want MSN? The first one is to sign up for an MSN account, which I don't want or need, the third one looks right Use my existing account. I'll just click on that and...hey! Why the hell is it dialing a long distance number? TO FIND MY MSN PHONE NUMBER?! ARGH! CANCEL! CANCEL! CANCEL! I DON'T NEED A FRIGGING MSN ACCOUNT! Okay, so it must be the second one. now. Lan or phone line. No problem there. Do I want to set up my E-Mail? Great! I was hoping I wouldn't have to head into Outlook Express to set up my E-Mail...What? Windows messaging? No, back. I don't want to set up that piece of 7 year old crap.
Yeah real easy. Just like this little fix:
Dialogbox from Windows 95:
"Do you want to make a boot disk?" [Yes]/[No]
Dialogbox from Windows 98SE
"Do you want to make a boot disk? Press OK for yes, or Cancel for no."[OK]/[Cancel]
How about "Hey, I dragged this program from my start menu onto the desktop, and now the program doesn't exist anymore! What's worse, I'm on an NT-based machine, so now nobody has an icon for that!"
Or maybe this?
"Hey! I just got this keen new 2Ghz Sledgehammer! I'll just plug my old hard drive in and... HEY! WHY DID I GET THIS BLUE SCREEN?! WINDOWS WON'T EVEN BOOT?!"
Or awkward groupings of control groups, such as having the colours, screensavers, and backgrounds in the same place as relatively low level hardware stuff on the display applet under control panel? That's just bad design. Asthetics should be incredibly easy to access, but hardware should be in a different place altogether, lest some poor user accidentally blow up their 5 year old VGA monitor by trying out 1600x1200x32 at 120hz.
How about "Where is the hardware manager in NT4?"
Why isn't the directory stucture the same as it's shown in every modern aspect of windows; eg. Desktop\My Computer\C:\Windows?
Why does MS use backslashes, when every other OS I've ever used which wasn't designed by them doesn't?
Why does MS networking use the backslash, but Internet Explorer use the foreslash?
These are only the obvious things. There are many other, more subtle things that we don't notice after 5 years of putting up with them.
Just thoughts...
In the context of a thread about media content, arguing about physical good is a red herring at best and a straw man at worst.
As for my statement being wrong(or were you stating that what I percieved to be your statement was wrong? if that is the case, don't bother reading the rest), I ask you to prove it, here on the biggest library of individually created pieces of art, code, music, and literature on the face of the earth, the internet.
That was a combined quote from Twelve Monkeys and Fight Club. They fit together nicely because Fight Club was referencing Twelve Monkeys.
Anyway, the quotes are more of statement on our consumer society as a whole. And I personally find them to be quite accurate. If you find them offsensive, perhaps that is because they hit a little too close to home.
I bet if you think hard for a second, you can think of some consumer good that you'd like to buy. Now ask yourself why you want it. Not just the petty reasons but the deeper reasons. The ones you push to the back of your mind and never talk about. Before you buy your next screwdriver with miniature built-in radar devices, remind yourself that the things you own end up owning you.
First, I wasn't offended, I just thought it was wrong. Important distinction.
Secondly, I already do that. To ignore the cause of your impulses is to allow them to control you. In all things, I bring such thoughts to the foreground, and in knowing what I'm thinking at all levels, I can decide whether or not it's worth it.
I liked fight club, but I only watched it once. Give me a break for not having the perfect memory I never claimed to have...
Cheap distinction. By this token, nobody is productive; miners don't produce anything, they merely haul it out of the ground. Architects are in the same league as engineers.
The statement I was arguing was that we're all just media consumers, and that none of us contributes.
We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore.
Go away. Perhaps YOU aren't productive, and YOU don't make things any more, perhaps you're a consumer; a junkie which craves it's next fix like a drug; but I am not, nor are the other artists, musicians, programmers and writers who happen to read slashdot.
If you want a browser without nasty bugs, try K-Meleon. I should mention that I'm only a user of their software, but it's rock solid(which is also why they take forever releasing new versions -- testing!)
It's never crashed on my except when limitations of Windows ME kick in(Windows ME doesn't like 40 windows open at once, but Windows 2000 lets me open well over a hundred, and I haven't found the limit yet)
K-Meleon
I believe their numbers are wrong. Not only do I know of several netscape users(which is actually a pretty good test -- most of the time, if I don't know someone with the software, the market share is below 5%), but according to stats reports on several sites I've visited, netscape makes up around 16% of internet users. Perhaps an optimistic number, but not considering that I know so many people who actually use netscape(or a variation, such as mozilla, or galeon, or K-Melelon), it doesn't seem like the nubers given are accurate.
Slackware?! No offense, but I'd much rather be using my Operating system than trying to haggle with it to get applications installed. If I were to choose an alternative to Wndows on a 486, it would be OS/2 Warp(after MS got kicked out of the project and all the MS code was rewritten). It would be a good OS to run on(Fast? Fast!), but I'm not sure if there would be a browser as slim as K-Meleon or Galeon for it.