Flourecent lighting drains the life right out of me. The building in which i work is kind of neo-modernesque, with almost no 90 degree angles and NO florecent lights, anywhere. Its an office building, but we use plain old overhead lamps hanging from the celing with soft-white lightbulbs. Its plenty dark for my tastes, but the building is laid out where the sunlight comes in, indirectly, all around to provide illumination. Then most everyone has a small indirect lamp around them, somewhere.
Its a very soothing environment in which to work. (At least, environmentally:)). Anyone else have any great ideas on how to light a workspace?
I also take ideas on how to keep people out of my cube, and to stop them from sneaking up behind me without a complex series of mirrors.
You're assuming that napsteresque trading is always a legal trade. Lets be realistic - 95% of the trading that went on in the free-range napster days was far, far from legal.
You said it yourself in your title. "Napster going legit". I quote:
legitimate adj. Being in compliance with the law; lawful: a legitimate business.
and then your statement, paraphrased:
"Napster is no longer/becoming less relevant"
indicates to me that your mindset likely also acknowledges that the majority of trading on napster is or rather was indeed, illegal.
The core of this discussion is apparently not wether or not you can share files (Obviously you can. If illegal activities werent being executed on a horrendus scale, the gov't wouldn't care.) it is wether or not you can walk into the proverbial store, grab a CD, and walk out without paying for it.
Napster is the perfect example of a situation where one can get something for free. quite often illegally, and with no accountability. Somewhat like having a descrambler on cable.
If we have indeed found a way to make napster legitimate, i'm more than willing to pay for my entertainment. the way it tends to be in a capitalist society where most forms of entertainment is considered a product.
Napster is a tool. Like any it can be used constructively or destructively. The object on which it acts is the Music industries microeconomy. Napster "Generates sales" to some extent, but many people download songs from artists they would never, ever buy albums from. Do they listen once then throw away? no.
Bands-in-a-box, which are increasingly popular nowadays, tend to operate on the principal of put one or two good singles on a CD. Throw fluff for the rest (to satiate the need to pay songwriters who are contractually obligated to produce sales of $xx.xxx in songs in exchange for pay of $xx.xxx.
Most people don't want the fluff. Most people arent willing to pay for the fluff. This pisses the recording industry off. This pisses the songwriters off (I happen to know a songwriter or two, living in nashville.) There is a bigger picture.
Microsoft still sells Windows ME. And likely will continue to sell Windows ME until XP Home edition gets a good, strong foothold. And im pretty sure MS has plans to support 98 & ME for a few more years.
I've been running windows since 1994. Before that I stayed in DOS, running Desqview. I've occasionally broken off and ran OS/2 Warp (now *THAT* was a good multitasking environment for BBSes, i'll tell ye.)
I've been beta testing the operating system since 1996. The DOS-Based OSes gave me problems. I've had NT go to no mans land once or twice. And of course the early betas of the operating systems have had their serious performance issues. HOWEVER, i resent being called a "fucking liar", and i refute.
Just because one person's experience with windows is negative, does not neccesarily mean anothers will be, also. Corallary, just because i've had a plesant experience, doesnt mean others will. But the fact remains more people tend to gripe about something they dislike rather than praise or defend something they like, unless that something happens to need the support. Like linux seems to. I've spoken with several - several - people who havent ever had a problem from Windows.
Just out of curiosity, i was wondering.. are you talking about applications crashing, or windows?
I've had Linux kernel panic on me exactly once. I've had solaris do it a couple times because of a bad bank of memory. I've had Windows 2000 professional gold or XP pro Beta 1+ die.. Never. I've had IE croak on me before. But not the OS.
Yes, i'm quite aware of the availability of all these operating systems.
However, You're taking it out of context. I'm speaking of the IBMPC, End-User Market.
Some people want performance + power at a good ratio.. Linux or Diesel.
Some people want a car that most mechanics know the best. They want it cheap, they want to get in, turn the key, put it in gear and GO, and be able to stop at any gas station and get gas [fyi, not all gas stations around here have D2].
Its not a perfect analogy, but its more perfect than what you imply.
The best, most powerful, candidate survives. If office or windows did not serve the needs of the business community - it would fail. If it suits the needs of the business community, it thrives and pushes its competitors out of the market. Have you thought, just for a microsecond, that instead of always bullying people out of business, microsoft actually makes, what the majority of corporate users consider, a superior product? Wether or not you consider it a superior product is irrelevant. The business end-user community has practically standardized. There is nothing better out there for the generic, end-user market right now.
UNIX: Great for servers.
MacOS: Great for graphics.
Windows: Great for end users.
Linux: Adequate for an introduction to basic UNIX concepts.
A certain cow-orker of mine at one time posed the question to me as to why Linux isnt a better choice for End User desktops. The list of reasons is large.. mostly, there is no linux standards base. Most GUI's lack intuitive behavior most of the time, more concerned on asthetics than functionality. Microsoft has invested $$ in intuitive functionality for windows. Most of the time, the windows all behave the same way, either SDI or MDI. GUIfied linux lacks stability. Prepackaged KDE crashes on me. constantly. And why do i use prepackaged, you might ask? Well, i don't believe you should have to compile every application you want for every computer. Such is the power of the Win32-PE. Compilation is, 80% of the time, a huge time sink.
The closest thing UNIX has to a stable, smooth, standard GUI is CDE - and thats not saying too terribly much. For one, the front panel is clunky and simple task switching many times isnt. My point is that Windows has all these things:
A single, Standard, intuitive GUI
Centralized Development
Big-name support.
Enterprise Functionality
In summary, Windows right now is the best choice for the generic desktop EU environment.
(Just in case your wondering, I admit MS has some pretty nasty tricks up its sleeve when it comes to business practices. But nobody ever said the world was a nice place to live).
Without dissecting your statement too much, which i can't, because i have a real job to get to, Bill Gates is no longer CEO.
Chairman and Chief Software guy, yes.
But not CEO.
What happens when Bill Gates dies? Except of course for the OSS Zealots throwing huge parties and desecrating his grave, i mean. What happens if MS continues being a "Big Bad Monster".. will you still villify Gates, and directly blame him for everything wrong with the [computer] world? He shares in the blame for many things, yes. But he is not singularly responsible for every evil thing on the planet.
Linus Torvalds is not a prophet,
Bill Gates is not satan. Thats rediculous, anyway. Everyone knows satan is Dr. Laura. =]
If cars were invented today, there would be people who would get angry that most cars will be using this "Internal Combustion" engine that uses this proprietary "Gasoline" substance.
(And before you go off saying "well, the car would explode every 3,000 miles.." to quote someone who flamed me earlier - that statement is "so 1996". I dont know what you guys have been doing, but i havent had windows (NT/2k/XP) crash on me - ever. Of course, most of my hardware, and software, is of decent quality and not made-on-east-jesus-pike, BFE.
dude, this point is so 1996.
And it's as true today as it was in 1996.
you are entitled to egregiously false opinions;-)
203 MB for a single java process. If you consider that "Small", i'd hate to run whatever it is you're running.
Too bad ur thinking is primitive!
I might have taken this personally, until I realized the phrase "ur" in what you said and deducted twenty clue points.
Java need not be used for huge, enterprise applications that aren't even designed with portability in mind. the medicine doesnt fit the problem. And every time i've seen java used to write something big, i've hardly been impressed.
open source seems to be a glorified socialist movement with many of its adherents of the spanish inquisision mindset.
I agree. Many of the people here, now (by no means all) found the bandwagon late - real late, then jumped on and tried to make it look like they've been riding all along. They'll either fall off or get thrown off quickly. I didn't attach myself to the internet until 1994, [and while i read it on occasion, i didnt create a slashdot user account till much, much later. - added for those who base someones intelligence on their UID] I stayed mainly in the (then thriving) BBS world. I passed my linux Zealot days back in 1998. I used to be all up in the "linux is tres 1337!!!@$#@" stuff. Linux is responsible for my choice of career - however, you have to always keep at least one ear open for dissenting ideas and always investigate the truth and evolution of who you actually owe for your life to this point. Once i did that, i realized that thanks to Gates, Jobs, and whoever invented the commodore computer platform, i have a nice house, nice car, nice job and happiness. Somehow i doubt all the OSS Zealots got their first computer, already installed with linux, and immediately mastered it. Also i doubt they would be so quick to thank their devils for their development into what they are today.
In addition, i think you may have added two zeros too many to your prediction. Open Source will likely exist until it no longer needs to. However, the open source MOVEMENT will lose steam as the '92 - '98 microgeneration move forward into their professional lives and realize linux isnt all there is to life. The mid-90's had a unique cyberculture in which new ideas flourished. the explosion is now normalizing. One surmises that it will be much the same with the mentalities of the future. all things have birth, childhood, adolecense, maturity and death and the mentalities that go along with them. of course, theres always going to be those with arrested development. As the number of zealots lessens, the number of adherents. With less adherents, less zealots, and that cycle, also, normalizes.
I wasn't looking, per say.. Normally you dont have to look for something that sticks out like an unexpected redirect to goatsyouknowwhere
Slashdot stories are becoming more of the same. The range of topics seem to usually be under one of the following headings -
"Linux zealot gets arrested"
"Linux hater gets his due"
"Capitalism BAD - Napster.. GOOOOOOOOOOD!"
"John Katz's Overanalytical movie review corner"
"All OS's but Linux Suck"
"Linus Torivalds drinks a beer/takes a piss/gets some"
"[insert microsoft product] Beta Software has bugs"
"The price of tea in china, and what it has to do with the columbine incident"
"Stealing Music & Movies - Why we should be allowed to do it" or, rather "Capitalism - We just don't get it".
In addition, It seems that the moderation system here seems to work like so:
Pro linux/oss post, >4K = +5
Same, >2K = +3
Any post over 5K that uses big words = +5, insightful
Any post that has a writer who is articulate, however makes no sense - +4
any anti-linux post: -1
One more thing:
"Linux kicks ass!" +5, Insightful
"Windows is actually a decent operating system, with strengths and weaknesses all is own" -1, {Flamebait, Troll, Redudant}
Today a local, self-branded "Geek News site" proved itself to be nothing but a hybrid anarchist/communist site with the opinion that no geek, no matter how bad the crime, should be punished.
This conclusion was drawn after numerous articles in favor of, even in some cases actively encouraging, breaking the law because it is "unfair", instead of putting their full force behind due process, and attempting to get the law changed.
One slashdot user, using the free-for-all "Anonymous Coward", which was chosen due to possible retaliation from the slashdot hivemind, was quoted as follows: "Imagine if every user of slashdot who used napster to, erm, "borrow music" were to write, call, fax, or e-mail their congressman and write a good, concise, to the point memo about why they should be allowed to download music without paying for it.. *GASP!* they might have to THINK!"
Rob Malda of Slashdot could not be reached for comment. However, -1 of 0, Primary adjunct of Unimatrix 1337 was quick to mod this article down to (-$bignumber, Anti-Slashdot)
(Its only flamebait if you steal, Its only trolling if you arent thinking.)
Of course there is. However, I can't imagine one oracle-to-web session manager of ANYTHING written in C taking up 203 MB of RAM. Thats one session manager! ONE!
This isnt to say there isnt bad code in other languages. Its also not to say that there isnt good code in Java. Its just examples of tightly written code in java, in my experience, isn't easy to come by.
Agreed.. Why do people expend the time and energy to write these kinds of things? IBM's port of linux to a wristwatch pretty much demonstrated linux could go anywhere.
There are plenty of useful apps that can be written. I cant think of a good reason for linux on the PS/2. and talking about MAIM - why not re-code it for the PS/2 and distribute the damned thing? After the initial lawsuits are passed, and the PS/2 disk drive comes out, you might make all of $2 per disk.:)
And for my next trick, i shall port linux to my brain. (hmm.. that WOULD be useful.)
I guess, perhaps, its the same reason people climb mountains..
Slashdot Mirror
Dump Jon Katz?
I find the poll results.. interesting. And the singular comment.
this was posted in '98, about a month after Katz got here. Staying neutral, i ask - Does anyone think its time to revisit this article?
Flourecent lighting drains the life right out of me. The building in which i work is kind of neo-modernesque, with almost no 90 degree angles and NO florecent lights, anywhere. Its an office building, but we use plain old overhead lamps hanging from the celing with soft-white lightbulbs. Its plenty dark for my tastes, but the building is laid out where the sunlight comes in, indirectly, all around to provide illumination. Then most everyone has a small indirect lamp around them, somewhere.
:)). Anyone else have any great ideas on how to light a workspace?
Its a very soothing environment in which to work. (At least, environmentally
I also take ideas on how to keep people out of my cube, and to stop them from sneaking up behind me without a complex series of mirrors.
Amen, sir/ma'am.
/. gets plenty slow after that :(
However, you can block most of those types of stories from the user prefs page, if you choose.
However,
I'll pay for napster.
If napster is reasonably priced, reliable, and has a relatively complete selection of music...
I will pay for napster.
I believe in paying people for their work. I believe in people paying me for my work. hence the concept "Capitalism", broken down into bite sizes.
You're assuming that napsteresque trading is always a legal trade. Lets be realistic - 95% of the trading that went on in the free-range napster days was far, far from legal.
:P
You said it yourself in your title. "Napster going legit". I quote:
legitimate adj. Being in compliance with the law; lawful: a legitimate business.
and then your statement, paraphrased:
"Napster is no longer/becoming less relevant"
indicates to me that your mindset likely also acknowledges that the majority of trading on napster is or rather was indeed, illegal.
The core of this discussion is apparently not wether or not you can share files (Obviously you can. If illegal activities werent being executed on a horrendus scale, the gov't wouldn't care.) it is wether or not you can walk into the proverbial store, grab a CD, and walk out without paying for it.
Napster is the perfect example of a situation where one can get something for free. quite often illegally, and with no accountability. Somewhat like having a descrambler on cable.
If we have indeed found a way to make napster legitimate, i'm more than willing to pay for my entertainment. the way it tends to be in a capitalist society where most forms of entertainment is considered a product.
Napster is a tool. Like any it can be used constructively or destructively. The object on which it acts is the Music industries microeconomy. Napster "Generates sales" to some extent, but many people download songs from artists they would never, ever buy albums from. Do they listen once then throw away? no.
Bands-in-a-box, which are increasingly popular nowadays, tend to operate on the principal of put one or two good singles on a CD. Throw fluff for the rest (to satiate the need to pay songwriters who are contractually obligated to produce sales of $xx.xxx in songs in exchange for pay of $xx.xxx.
Most people don't want the fluff. Most people arent willing to pay for the fluff. This pisses the recording industry off. This pisses the songwriters off (I happen to know a songwriter or two, living in nashville.) There is a bigger picture.
LLAP
Microsoft still sells Windows ME. And likely will continue to sell Windows ME until XP Home edition gets a good, strong foothold. And im pretty sure MS has plans to support 98 & ME for a few more years.
Oh, and yes, i've seen many NT servers crash under heavy load too. I was speaking of 2k/XP Pro stuff never having given up the ghost on me.
NT Server mainly. To quote scotty.. "The more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the pipes."
I've been running windows since 1994. Before that I stayed in DOS, running Desqview. I've occasionally broken off and ran OS/2 Warp (now *THAT* was a good multitasking environment for BBSes, i'll tell ye.)
I've been beta testing the operating system since 1996. The DOS-Based OSes gave me problems. I've had NT go to no mans land once or twice. And of course the early betas of the operating systems have had their serious performance issues. HOWEVER, i resent being called a "fucking liar", and i refute.
Just because one person's experience with windows is negative, does not neccesarily mean anothers will be, also. Corallary, just because i've had a plesant experience, doesnt mean others will. But the fact remains more people tend to gripe about something they dislike rather than praise or defend something they like, unless that something happens to need the support. Like linux seems to. I've spoken with several - several - people who havent ever had a problem from Windows.
Just out of curiosity, i was wondering.. are you talking about applications crashing, or windows?
I've had Linux kernel panic on me exactly once. I've had solaris do it a couple times because of a bad bank of memory. I've had Windows 2000 professional gold or XP pro Beta 1+ die.. Never. I've had IE croak on me before. But not the OS.
Super Premium Gasoline would be Windows NT-based OSes.
Linux is a different monster.
Yes, i'm quite aware of the availability of all these operating systems.
However, You're taking it out of context. I'm speaking of the IBMPC, End-User Market.
Some people want performance + power at a good ratio.. Linux or Diesel.
Some people want a car that most mechanics know the best. They want it cheap, they want to get in, turn the key, put it in gear and GO, and be able to stop at any gas station and get gas [fyi, not all gas stations around here have D2].
Its not a perfect analogy, but its more perfect than what you imply.
The best, most powerful, candidate survives. If office or windows did not serve the needs of the business community - it would fail. If it suits the needs of the business community, it thrives and pushes its competitors out of the market. Have you thought, just for a microsecond, that instead of always bullying people out of business, microsoft actually makes, what the majority of corporate users consider, a superior product? Wether or not you consider it a superior product is irrelevant. The business end-user community has practically standardized. There is nothing better out there for the generic, end-user market right now.
UNIX: Great for servers.
MacOS: Great for graphics.
Windows: Great for end users.
Linux: Adequate for an introduction to basic UNIX concepts.
A certain cow-orker of mine at one time posed the question to me as to why Linux isnt a better choice for End User desktops. The list of reasons is large.. mostly, there is no linux standards base. Most GUI's lack intuitive behavior most of the time, more concerned on asthetics than functionality. Microsoft has invested $$ in intuitive functionality for windows. Most of the time, the windows all behave the same way, either SDI or MDI. GUIfied linux lacks stability. Prepackaged KDE crashes on me. constantly. And why do i use prepackaged, you might ask? Well, i don't believe you should have to compile every application you want for every computer. Such is the power of the Win32-PE. Compilation is, 80% of the time, a huge time sink.
The closest thing UNIX has to a stable, smooth, standard GUI is CDE - and thats not saying too terribly much. For one, the front panel is clunky and simple task switching many times isnt. My point is that Windows has all these things:
A single, Standard, intuitive GUI
Centralized Development
Big-name support.
Enterprise Functionality
In summary, Windows right now is the best choice for the generic desktop EU environment.
(Just in case your wondering, I admit MS has some pretty nasty tricks up its sleeve when it comes to business practices. But nobody ever said the world was a nice place to live).
Flame on!
Engine:Fuel::Computer:OS
Engine:Gasoline::IBMPC:Windows
Engine:Diesel::IBMPC:Linux
He has to be different. :)
/. had a spell checker, too? :)
Just correcting myself.
Am i the only one who wishes
Without dissecting your statement too much, which i can't, because i have a real job to get to, Bill Gates is no longer CEO.
Chairman and Chief Software guy, yes.
But not CEO.
What happens when Bill Gates dies? Except of course for the OSS Zealots throwing huge parties and desecrating his grave, i mean. What happens if MS continues being a "Big Bad Monster".. will you still villify Gates, and directly blame him for everything wrong with the [computer] world? He shares in the blame for many things, yes. But he is not singularly responsible for every evil thing on the planet.
Linus Torvalds is not a prophet,
Bill Gates is not satan. Thats rediculous, anyway. Everyone knows satan is Dr. Laura. =]
If cars were invented today, there would be people who would get angry that most cars will be using this "Internal Combustion" engine that uses this proprietary "Gasoline" substance.
(And before you go off saying "well, the car would explode every 3,000 miles.." to quote someone who flamed me earlier - that statement is "so 1996". I dont know what you guys have been doing, but i havent had windows (NT/2k/XP) crash on me - ever. Of course, most of my hardware, and software, is of decent quality and not made-on-east-jesus-pike, BFE.
dude, this point is so 1996.
;-)
And it's as true today as it was in 1996.
you are entitled to egregiously false opinions
203 MB for a single java process. If you consider that "Small", i'd hate to run whatever it is you're running.
Too bad ur thinking is primitive!
I might have taken this personally, until I realized the phrase "ur" in what you said and deducted twenty clue points.
Java need not be used for huge, enterprise applications that aren't even designed with portability in mind. the medicine doesnt fit the problem. And every time i've seen java used to write something big, i've hardly been impressed.
1) Fact: Systems have a limited amount of RAM. In this system, its 4GB.
2) Observance: Things tend to go faster if they are written in an optimizing fashon.
3) Corollary: Smaller resident RAM sizes == Faster/More processes in same space. Not neccesarily true in all cases, but in this one, we'll assume.
4) Opinion: Java is sloppy. Java is big.
5) Java is interpreted. Interpreted software typically runs slower than compiled software.
open source seems to be a glorified socialist movement with many of its adherents of the spanish inquisision mindset.
I agree. Many of the people here, now (by no means all) found the bandwagon late - real late, then jumped on and tried to make it look like they've been riding all along. They'll either fall off or get thrown off quickly. I didn't attach myself to the internet until 1994, [and while i read it on occasion, i didnt create a slashdot user account till much, much later. - added for those who base someones intelligence on their UID] I stayed mainly in the (then thriving) BBS world. I passed my linux Zealot days back in 1998. I used to be all up in the "linux is tres 1337!!!@$#@" stuff. Linux is responsible for my choice of career - however, you have to always keep at least one ear open for dissenting ideas and always investigate the truth and evolution of who you actually owe for your life to this point. Once i did that, i realized that thanks to Gates, Jobs, and whoever invented the commodore computer platform, i have a nice house, nice car, nice job and happiness. Somehow i doubt all the OSS Zealots got their first computer, already installed with linux, and immediately mastered it. Also i doubt they would be so quick to thank their devils for their development into what they are today.
In addition, i think you may have added two zeros too many to your prediction. Open Source will likely exist until it no longer needs to. However, the open source MOVEMENT will lose steam as the '92 - '98 microgeneration move forward into their professional lives and realize linux isnt all there is to life. The mid-90's had a unique cyberculture in which new ideas flourished. the explosion is now normalizing. One surmises that it will be much the same with the mentalities of the future. all things have birth, childhood, adolecense, maturity and death and the mentalities that go along with them. of course, theres always going to be those with arrested development. As the number of zealots lessens, the number of adherents. With less adherents, less zealots, and that cycle, also, normalizes.
I wasn't looking, per say.. Normally you dont have to look for something that sticks out like an unexpected redirect to goatsyouknowwhere
Slashdot stories are becoming more of the same. The range of topics seem to usually be under one of the following headings -
"Linux zealot gets arrested"
"Linux hater gets his due"
"Capitalism BAD - Napster.. GOOOOOOOOOOD!"
"John Katz's Overanalytical movie review corner"
"All OS's but Linux Suck"
"Linus Torivalds drinks a beer/takes a piss/gets some"
"[insert microsoft product] Beta Software has bugs"
"The price of tea in china, and what it has to do with the columbine incident"
"Stealing Music & Movies - Why we should be allowed to do it" or, rather "Capitalism - We just don't get it".
In addition, It seems that the moderation system here seems to work like so:
Pro linux/oss post, >4K = +5
Same, >2K = +3
Any post over 5K that uses big words = +5, insightful
Any post that has a writer who is articulate, however makes no sense - +4
any anti-linux post: -1
One more thing:
"Linux kicks ass!" +5, Insightful
"Windows is actually a decent operating system, with strengths and weaknesses all is own" -1, {Flamebait, Troll, Redudant}
Today a local, self-branded "Geek News site" proved itself to be nothing but a hybrid anarchist/communist site with the opinion that no geek, no matter how bad the crime, should be punished.
This conclusion was drawn after numerous articles in favor of, even in some cases actively encouraging, breaking the law because it is "unfair", instead of putting their full force behind due process, and attempting to get the law changed.
One slashdot user, using the free-for-all "Anonymous Coward", which was chosen due to possible retaliation from the slashdot hivemind, was quoted as follows: "Imagine if every user of slashdot who used napster to, erm, "borrow music" were to write, call, fax, or e-mail their congressman and write a good, concise, to the point memo about why they should be allowed to download music without paying for it.. *GASP!* they might have to THINK!"
Rob Malda of Slashdot could not be reached for comment. However, -1 of 0, Primary adjunct of Unimatrix 1337 was quick to mod this article down to (-$bignumber, Anti-Slashdot)
(Its only flamebait if you steal, Its only trolling if you arent thinking.)
Of course there is. However, I can't imagine one oracle-to-web session manager of ANYTHING written in C taking up 203 MB of RAM. Thats one session manager! ONE!
This isnt to say there isnt bad code in other languages. Its also not to say that there isnt good code in Java. Its just examples of tightly written code in java, in my experience, isn't easy to come by.
Wouldn't said cooler lower the ambient temp inside the case?
Never used one.. but having no moving parts seems to be a big boon to keeping things silent.
:)
Of course, there has to be some cons to this, or else everyone would have one. Someone edumacate me?
Agreed.. Why do people expend the time and energy to write these kinds of things? IBM's port of linux to a wristwatch pretty much demonstrated linux could go anywhere.
:)
There are plenty of useful apps that can be written. I cant think of a good reason for linux on the PS/2. and talking about MAIM - why not re-code it for the PS/2 and distribute the damned thing? After the initial lawsuits are passed, and the PS/2 disk drive comes out, you might make all of $2 per disk.
And for my next trick, i shall port linux to my brain. (hmm.. that WOULD be useful.)
I guess, perhaps, its the same reason people climb mountains..
Yeah.. flat earth, curved universe... Pseudoscience.
:)
Wait.. you mean you don't believe the world is flat? Moron! It says so in the bible!
:)