"With all the security and virus reports we get everyday, customers have started to associate malicious code as features."
"Several customers have expressed concern at how long virus take to run, and hackers are complaining about their code exploiting buffer overflows and other security related issues in software development as taking to long to execute and exploit at run time."
"We thought long and hard, how we could optimize efficiency and innovation by innovating ourselves and responding to wishes of our customers."
"Welcome, here is Microsoft Clustering. Never before have your buffer exploits and viruses execute at such speeds."
"We've had excellent feedback from hackers, virus writers et al." -- 'This is great, prime example of Microosoft innovation. Now, my virus runs so fast, the moment you hit the damage is already done! Thanks Microsoft!'
Microsoft reports that they are pleased with the customer feedback, Bill Gates is reported to give a thumbs up and replied with 'Don't mention it'.
1. Start regedit. (If you are unfamiliar with regedit, please refer to this FAQ) 2. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\S ervic es\i8042prt\Parameters 3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnCtrlScroll
I have an idea!
3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnRMouseClick
That should make the end users run for the hills. Geeks would never know!
Noone reads the EULA. Apparently, noone takes it seriously. We develop a story like this, and all of a sudden millions of people start reading EULAs in hopes of something in return. This practice is now a game and now that millions are participating we'll find that arguments against the EULA will become frivolous. After a while, reading the EULA will be 'DUH!'.
Could this be precedent, to force Microsoft to open up.doc,.wmv and other formats and protocols which implicate communications from one computer to another?
If we were to have told Columbus, 'I can see events on the other side of the world through my peace of hollowed glass.' we might have been burned at the stake, or blown off quite similarly as we blow off efforts of paranormal studies. Scientifically, hundreds of years later, we have the television set.
People who look down on psuedoscience are those that think Man understands everything there is to understand. The fact is, there is a great deal of concepts left untouch, and information undiscovered. One day, we might very well realize that there are people that have on occassion witnessed premonition and other paranormal feats. But, we'll have an explanation for it, or enough information to deem it factual and plausible. The sad thing is, something doesn't come to be only when a human has discovered it, so stop looking down on what you are quick to label as psuedoscience. There are universities that have paranormal psychology departments, their track record might vary as to whether their are of value, but I argue that they wouldn't exist in acadamia if there wasn't SOMETHING convincing that there is a undiscovered frontier of the human mind.
Besides, 90% of the world is religious in some form or fashion. Even Darwin broke down on his death bed in hopes that there is a paranormal realm. Is it very comforting to you, to know that when you die, it's simply lights out?
However, if Linux were to be the dominant marker, MS would end up firing its dev force, which would mean 50,000 developers flooding the market. This would effect you. If you think otherwise, then you're stupid.
Noone would be stupid for thinking it wouldn't affect them.
The oppression and brutality of Microsoft has given resistance an near religious tone. While, I would be much happy to prove it, and I'm sad that you might not believe it, but I'm telling you to believe me when I say that if Microsoft offered me a million a year to simply announce I work for them, I would still turn them down and choose to flip burgers at McDonalds and write free software. Extrapolate this to owning a business, and you can bet your sweet ass I would never hire an ex-Microsoft employee. If you think Steve Jobs in 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' was harsh on the ex-IBM employee... I would have to spend some time in jail for physical assault and pony up money for the medical bills.
It's not that I can not compliment Microsoft. I can do well with arguing and acknowleding many things from Microsoft. Infact, I do so to keep myself from blind zealotry. But, the facts are fact and their ignoble deeds far exceed all that could be accredited to them in good faith. In short, don't take it personal... it's war.
Is it bad, that Open Office.org is available for Windows? Such a suite opens a customers eyes to the obvious benefits of free software, and impresses them where otherwise they wouldn't believe someone would do that much work would be done for free.
If you ask any Windows user why they don't run MacOS X, Linux or any other operating system, you'll get a reply that, at it's core, is an issue of incompatibility. "Linux doesn't have the games I play", "Linux doesn't have this program or that", "Apple is going out of business.". We might also get an occasional, "Linux is too hard", but what about MacOS X? Linux being hard is only an excuse, to avoid being proven that their application or an equivalent does run on Linux. Afterall, being difficult to use never stopped Microsoft from being successful, or maintaining their position in the market.
Often, I wish that OpenOffice wouldn't even try to be compatible with MS Office. I'm starting to get the reasonable replies, "Well, why should I try OpenOffice if it's compatible? I already bought MS Office or it came with my computer." We have to have some kind of strategic incompatibility. We need to be able to show a end-user, "Look, I can do this, and you can't." I'm not talking from a geek percpective either, an end-user, application level incompatibility. We need cool, useful programs that only run on free environments.
I myself was confronted with this very same problem. Just recently actually. I have been developing a general database/directory/xml program that I aim to GPL, supporting LDAP, SQL, NIS, xml, with migration functionality to and from each system... lots of stuff. I have much of it programmed in Java. Problem is, the program runs just fine on Windows. Runs slow on MacOS X, and might have problems on FreeBSD.
Just last night, I decided to abandon the Java code base, and start looking into GTK2.
It's been my experience that Java has only served as a migration tool from UNIX to Windows. If a project is being migrated to Java, it might be for the sake of having it run on a Windows environment. It's easy to port things to Java, and it's easy to program for Java rather than deal with any system specific API, such as going from Linux + GTK2 to Win32 natively.
A programming language, "write once run anywhere" is a great idea, if there is a rich diversity of environments. If the market is heavy with any single environment, a "write once run anywhere" only serves to benefit the gorilla.
I want to give people a reason to run Linux/FreeBSD or other like OSs to include MacOS X. I want to give people a reason to need to switch to Linux. As hard as this seems, Microsoft has proven it is the way to do it.
Deciders [politicians] that don't have the haziest of concepts of what software and open source is about get invited to sessions with "software-experts" on 100 percent MS payrool, taking all their crap for granted.
We always say that politicians have no idea about this or that. It might be true, for small items that don't have much turbulence. Making the affect of virtual random decisions negligable.
http://www.locl.gov/about/ "The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress."
The LOC is not a public library, and it is used everyday, thousands of requests, by members of Congress requesting information on myraid topics. They have experts in all kinds of fields hired, that know where to find such information to provide it to the Congressmen. I know it's hard to believe that members of Congress or politicians of any country actually do research, but they do and their informational resources dwarfs even Microsofts or anyone elses.
Bribery does play a role. But, the politicians know what's going on, even if you don't. Just keep getting your friends to use Linux, if enough of the public is using Linux then the politicians will more closely lean our way as Microsoft will have less and less to give them. Don't worry, Linux kicks butt, keep pushing it.
Once upon a time, a gallant InterVideo boasted a proposition to release LinDVD. LinDVD, being a port of their WinDVD software for Linux, during a time when the legalities were clouded and MPAA stomped through the land.
If there was a time, to justify a commerical DVD player for the OpenSource community, InterVideo dropped the ball years ago. Why buy PowerDVD? Some might take this and use it as an example, right or wrong, to prove a point of how inefficient, slow, backwards and ignorant todays management techniques are. I firmly believe Xine is just as good as any of the highest priced DVD players for Windows/Mac. Why isn't it? It navigates DVD menus, it plays the movies well. For such a software package, that's it everything else will just sit infront of the movie and be annoying, like some child in the back seat asking "are we there yet?" over and over again.
All the money companies spend. It's a waste, they spend billions trying to keep up with social trends, billions trying to predict market progress, all down the toilet.
China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world.
This is funny. China has a quarter of the worlds population, easy. It can be an easy scenerio for China to make the world incompatible with China. (Notice the order, gives a different feel doesn't it?)
Try it: Microsoft Windows is incompatible with this software. For example.
It was a compliment to OpenBSD. If you mess with it, you'll probably break it. Hence, some crack pot trying to branch his own BSD release should name it 'BrokenBSD'.
It has deterent value. It says if you become good at writing viruses you will get nailed. Maybe MS does not care about the young kid messing around who does not damage anything. Microsoft is showing good restraint.
"...you will get nailed."? "will"? I think not. You *might* get nailed, but you *might* get nailed regardless of reward. Virus writers were being "nailed" long before Microsoft attempted to test how infected decent people were with capitalism.
I myself, don't care how much money Microsoft throws up. It's all stolen money, attained through illegal and ammoral means. May as well take a bribe from a drug dealer, but alas, at most drug dealers would refuse to corrupt the mind of a mere child. In short, I would never rat out on a virus writer, and I don't care how much damage he has done. You run with your sword out in front of you, you deserve to trip and be impaled.
Virus writers need to work independantly, forfeit bragging for prolonged success. If I could bring myself to write Win32 code, I'd write a virus myself and make it as anonymous as I could and never even hint I was the coder.
A virus is free speech, it's errata in a way correcting the lies Microsoft has told. It's payback for all the developers put out on the street becuase their company was overthrown, illegally by Microsoft. It's a libertarian concept, a patriotic concept, a revolutionary concept. If you are annoyed at viruses, then you have a choice to move to a more competitive platform.
"Utilize the sheer computing power of your video card!"
New market blitz, hmmmm.
SETI ports their code, and within five days their average completed work units increase 1000 fold. 13 hours later, they have evidence of intelligent life at 30000 locations within one degree.
Microsoft gets the hint, and comes out with a brilliant plan to utilize GPUs to speed up their OS and add bells and whistles to their UI.
And, once again, Apple and Quartz Extreme is ignored.
Oh you can fork OpenBSD to your likeness, the only restriction is that you can't call your fork 'OpenBSD'... name it burnsBSD or whatever and you should be fine;-)
In most cases, the fork should be named "BrokenBSD" by default.
I've looked high and low for computers, available to John Doe-home-consumer, that had Linux preinstalled. Oh, they exist, there are places where you can buy laptops with Linux preinstalled. But, look at them, either they are from companies that refuse to sell home systems with Linux preinstalled like IBM or Dell, or they are a generic non-branded factory laptop sold by seemingly an upstart.
The later is no biggy, truthfully we have to start from some where, and frankly many of the IBM/Dell lines are rebranded components. No secret, ever take apart your cheapo radio (Emerson) to find the speakers are Pioneer and the electronics by JVC?
In any case, the available solutions are rather pathetic. For example, I have been unable to find a laptop that boasts a 1600x1200 LCD, preinstalled with Linux. Unless we happen upon a Dell from a service that will sell you a refurb, but that's totally different; at some point, Microsoft still made a dollar on that machine. So, some of the readers don't value the LCD resolution as much as I do, but other components are pretty sore as well. Compare hardware specs to a new Dell/Apple to one of those generic no-brands. Pretty pathetic, and the cost of pre-installed Linux laptops are extrodinary; even when the laptop is a re-sold item.
VALinux, IBM both have tried to sell laptops to the consumer market with Linux preinstalled. Or, atleast I thought IBM offered the T22 with Linux, I'm not 100% sure. The T22 wasn't all that great a machine to me, now and then. As for VALinux, they sold a laptop, that was several hundreds of dollars more expensive than a comparable one with hundreds of dollars in pre-installed software, Microsoft software.
So, now, we have the Walmart line of desktops with Linux pre-installed. I wouldn't buy one. My god, the hardware is a joke. For some reason, it seems, companies think that just becuase the OS is free that those who use Linux opt for the cheapest quality and lowest line of hardware. No! I don't want a Celeron, or Centrino(whatever) CPU. I want the same hardware, middle line on up, that is found in the rest of the market, only with Linux preinstalled and the price reflecting it.
I can only assume, Microsoft is behind it making it more expensive to avoid giving them money than to just pay up. Which, I think should be illegal but apparently it's not.
Honestly I don't how the US educational system is but blaming it for moving jobs oversees is ridiculous. Are they saying the Indian(which i can speak for) educational system is better? India has a poor educational system. And they are finding fault with US education system?
Yes, the American public education system is very poor. And the real reason why is too taboo to discuss and you'll find very few people that will mention it.
The real reason American education is poor is becuase of racial issues in America. But, not in the direction the media tends to put it. Here's what happens, and I've seen this happen at the schools I attended as a child:
My high-school was 96% white/hispanic/asian. We had classes such as "General Math A", "General Math B" then "General Math". We also had upper level courses like "Advanced Mathematics", all three levels of Calculus, and a few trigonometry based courses. The "General Math A" was more discribed in the books with the word "Remedial", but the students had a more accurate word "Retard" to make "Retard Math"; which is was 'Retard Math'.
We also had Advanced Placement classes, and Calculus was not an "AP" class at the time in my high-school. While the Calculus class was not overflowing, neither was ANY of the "remedial" classes, the mean lay around Algebra II and Trignomonetry classes; for math. For other subjects, there were more AP science students than any other derivative class; AP Chemistry was completely full while basic Chemistry classes were sprinkeled with students; admittedly, the only difference between AP Chem and regular Chem was that in AP in our school you had to do a science fair project, but this small difference was huge socially when you said what Chem class you were in.
Then, one day, the state decided that our school wasn't, let's say, politically correct. That's when things changed. Um.... the "inner-city" kids showed up, coming out of the wood work.
All of a sudden, we had to launch new classes such as "Retard English", "Apple Science"; Apple science being so fundamental, as to predict what's going to happen when the Apple falls from the tree.
The new "crew" didn't like this at all. Through politics, and hollering racism, our school had to rename all the classes. We nolonger had General Math A and B, it was ALL General Math. Oh, and then they complained about the 'General', *sigh*. Then it simply became "Mathematics". Do you see the trend?
Our school, before the infection, only required that you pass General Math to attain a HS Diploma. Required Algebra I, if you planned to go on to college. However, regardless of any particular student deciding to go to college, the vast majority graduated with atleast Algebra II. The school was working on improving the standards, requiring Algebra I to graduate period.
But, requiring Algebra I to attain a diploma was found to be racist. So, the school was not able to up graduation requirements out of political reasons.
To make things worse, since the lower-level classes were all of a sudden flooded (and many of the newcomers complained they were too difficult, and thus "racists"), we had to either drop upper level courses in order to provide teachers for all the students at the far end of the spectrum. So we lost some of the more advanced classes.
Since, we never had many students to begin with in those lower level classes, the illusion of racism was further "justified" becuase almost every student in the Retard courses was one of the newcomers. So, the school started slicing and dicing the classes, upping a margin well past the C average saying that if you fell within that margin you had to repeat a few levels lower. Degraded students into those lower classes much like how many good students in America sometimes get transferred to lesser able schools just to fill a racial quota. The parents of the original students were pissed at this new scheme and threatened to sue the Board of Education. This scheme did not
It always astounds me, to see people attempt to justify misfortune or undesirable circumstances. As if any ability to understand the disagreeable situation will result to it resolving your way.
At home, watching TV, a commercial interrupts my program. As many people do, I often decide that I don't want to be bothered by such a pathetic thing and I flip the channel. If that company wants to get it's message to me, they better bust through my door, destroy my remote control and pin me to ground facing the TV and insist my life depended on my viewing and accepting the advertisement.
When a small crowd forms outside a politicians office, or a CEOs office, well, he can't flip the channel but he can close his blinds. The problem here comes from Americans actually believing these people gives a rats ass what the public thinks. No, they don't, if noone voted a President, Senator, Congressman, Sheriff would still be put in their respective positions.
Words, nomatter how truthful they are, are nothing more than subtle sound waves traveling through the air. But the decibels released from a hammer smashing ontop of a solid oak wood desk, now that's a little difficult to ignore. If a politician, as so many often do, flutters their blinds, tie your message to a rock; you can figure out what to do next.
Bottom line, if your beliefs aren't so strong that you are compelled to physically protect them, then anything to the contrary is not really a problem.
Here's the real kicker:
When I view history, I am disgusted. The conditions everyday citizens of France endured just before the French Revolution, the horrid degrading circumstances the Germans endured just before Hitler came to power. How can people let so much go by before standing up for themselves? It's almost enough, to say those everday people deserved nothing more than to starve to death, even requesting it by nature of tolerance.
In America, where the media has pounded pacificism into the minds of it's citizens, the tyrannical corporations and puppet so-called-democratic governments of this world is going to rape and pillage us all. And it's sickening to foresee how much farther they are likely able to go.
Real is nobody. I don't know ANYONE that has half a clue about computers that is even ambililent about Real. They all dislike (up through hate) Real. Real doesn't have a large customer base. Real doesn't have lots of users who like them. Real doesn't have a good reputation.
I don't think this is true. I also think that Real should be cut some slack. Let's see for a moment, currently on my Linux box, I have QuickTime, Windows Media Player and RealPlayer. Of those three, only one is native, RealPlayer.
I like Real for their generous gift. I also like Apple for their support, don't get me wrong. This battle is sorta like two respectful companies going at each other.
But, when you say noone likes Real, well, maybe I don't "like" them, but I'm certainly grateful for being the first of the three to even consider my platform.
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To hell with the PBX. How much for the CAR?
www.systemrecycler.com/rolm/stored/imag0199.jpg
"With all the security and virus reports we get everyday, customers have started to associate malicious code as features."
"Several customers have expressed concern at how long virus take to run, and hackers are complaining about their code exploiting buffer overflows and other security related issues in software development as taking to long to execute and exploit at run time."
"We thought long and hard, how we could optimize efficiency and innovation by innovating ourselves and responding to wishes of our customers."
"Welcome, here is Microsoft Clustering. Never before have your buffer exploits and viruses execute at such speeds."
"We've had excellent feedback from hackers, virus writers et al." -- 'This is great, prime example of Microosoft innovation. Now, my virus runs so fast, the moment you hit the damage is already done! Thanks Microsoft!'
Microsoft reports that they are pleased with the customer feedback, Bill Gates is reported to give a thumbs up and replied with 'Don't mention it'.
1. Start regedit. (If you are unfamiliar with regedit, please refer to this FAQ)S ervic es\i8042prt\Parameters
2. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\
3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnCtrlScroll
I have an idea!
3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnRMouseClick
That should make the end users run for the hills. Geeks would never know!
Or is it propoganda?
Noone reads the EULA. Apparently, noone takes it seriously. We develop a story like this, and all of a sudden millions of people start reading EULAs in hopes of something in return. This practice is now a game and now that millions are participating we'll find that arguments against the EULA will become frivolous. After a while, reading the EULA will be 'DUH!'.
The people in control are very smart.
Could this be precedent, to force Microsoft to open up
If we were to have told Columbus, 'I can see events on the other side of the world through my peace of hollowed glass.' we might have been burned at the stake, or blown off quite similarly as we blow off efforts of paranormal studies. Scientifically, hundreds of years later, we have the television set.
People who look down on psuedoscience are those that think Man understands everything there is to understand. The fact is, there is a great deal of concepts left untouch, and information undiscovered. One day, we might very well realize that there are people that have on occassion witnessed premonition and other paranormal feats. But, we'll have an explanation for it, or enough information to deem it factual and plausible. The sad thing is, something doesn't come to be only when a human has discovered it, so stop looking down on what you are quick to label as psuedoscience. There are universities that have paranormal psychology departments, their track record might vary as to whether their are of value, but I argue that they wouldn't exist in acadamia if there wasn't SOMETHING convincing that there is a undiscovered frontier of the human mind.
Besides, 90% of the world is religious in some form or fashion. Even Darwin broke down on his death bed in hopes that there is a paranormal realm. Is it very comforting to you, to know that when you die, it's simply lights out?
However, if Linux were to be the dominant marker, MS would end up firing its dev force, which would mean 50,000 developers flooding the market. This would effect you. If you think otherwise, then you're stupid.
Noone would be stupid for thinking it wouldn't affect them.
The oppression and brutality of Microsoft has given resistance an near religious tone. While, I would be much happy to prove it, and I'm sad that you might not believe it, but I'm telling you to believe me when I say that if Microsoft offered me a million a year to simply announce I work for them, I would still turn them down and choose to flip burgers at McDonalds and write free software. Extrapolate this to owning a business, and you can bet your sweet ass I would never hire an ex-Microsoft employee. If you think Steve Jobs in 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' was harsh on the ex-IBM employee... I would have to spend some time in jail for physical assault and pony up money for the medical bills.
It's not that I can not compliment Microsoft. I can do well with arguing and acknowleding many things from Microsoft. Infact, I do so to keep myself from blind zealotry. But, the facts are fact and their ignoble deeds far exceed all that could be accredited to them in good faith. In short, don't take it personal... it's war.
Officer, Sir! He ran that way!
Musician, Dude! The track is that way!
Fundamentally, what's the difference?
Is it bad, that Open Office.org is available for Windows? Such a suite opens a customers eyes to the obvious benefits of free software, and impresses them where otherwise they wouldn't believe someone would do that much work would be done for free.
If you ask any Windows user why they don't run MacOS X, Linux or any other operating system, you'll get a reply that, at it's core, is an issue of incompatibility. "Linux doesn't have the games I play", "Linux doesn't have this program or that", "Apple is going out of business.". We might also get an occasional, "Linux is too hard", but what about MacOS X? Linux being hard is only an excuse, to avoid being proven that their application or an equivalent does run on Linux. Afterall, being difficult to use never stopped Microsoft from being successful, or maintaining their position in the market.
Often, I wish that OpenOffice wouldn't even try to be compatible with MS Office. I'm starting to get the reasonable replies, "Well, why should I try OpenOffice if it's compatible? I already bought MS Office or it came with my computer." We have to have some kind of strategic incompatibility. We need to be able to show a end-user, "Look, I can do this, and you can't." I'm not talking from a geek percpective either, an end-user, application level incompatibility. We need cool, useful programs that only run on free environments.
I myself was confronted with this very same problem. Just recently actually. I have been developing a general database/directory/xml program that I aim to GPL, supporting LDAP, SQL, NIS, xml, with migration functionality to and from each system... lots of stuff. I have much of it programmed in Java. Problem is, the program runs just fine on Windows. Runs slow on MacOS X, and might have problems on FreeBSD.
Just last night, I decided to abandon the Java code base, and start looking into GTK2.
It's been my experience that Java has only served as a migration tool from UNIX to Windows. If a project is being migrated to Java, it might be for the sake of having it run on a Windows environment. It's easy to port things to Java, and it's easy to program for Java rather than deal with any system specific API, such as going from Linux + GTK2 to Win32 natively.
A programming language, "write once run anywhere" is a great idea, if there is a rich diversity of environments. If the market is heavy with any single environment, a "write once run anywhere" only serves to benefit the gorilla.
I want to give people a reason to run Linux/FreeBSD or other like OSs to include MacOS X. I want to give people a reason to need to switch to Linux. As hard as this seems, Microsoft has proven it is the way to do it.
Deciders [politicians] that don't have the haziest of concepts of what software and open source is about get invited to sessions with "software-experts" on 100 percent MS payrool, taking all their crap for granted.
We always say that politicians have no idea about this or that. It might be true, for small items that don't have much turbulence. Making the affect of virtual random decisions negligable.
http://www.locl.gov/about/
"The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress."
The LOC is not a public library, and it is used everyday, thousands of requests, by members of Congress requesting information on myraid topics. They have experts in all kinds of fields hired, that know where to find such information to provide it to the Congressmen. I know it's hard to believe that members of Congress or politicians of any country actually do research, but they do and their informational resources dwarfs even Microsofts or anyone elses.
Bribery does play a role. But, the politicians know what's going on, even if you don't. Just keep getting your friends to use Linux, if enough of the public is using Linux then the politicians will more closely lean our way as Microsoft will have less and less to give them. Don't worry, Linux kicks butt, keep pushing it.
I'm running to the Court House RIGHT NOW!
Changing my name to John Conner!
Once upon a time, a gallant InterVideo boasted a proposition to release LinDVD. LinDVD, being a port of their WinDVD software for Linux, during a time when the legalities were clouded and MPAA stomped through the land.
If there was a time, to justify a commerical DVD player for the OpenSource community, InterVideo dropped the ball years ago. Why buy PowerDVD? Some might take this and use it as an example, right or wrong, to prove a point of how inefficient, slow, backwards and ignorant todays management techniques are. I firmly believe Xine is just as good as any of the highest priced DVD players for Windows/Mac. Why isn't it? It navigates DVD menus, it plays the movies well. For such a software package, that's it everything else will just sit infront of the movie and be annoying, like some child in the back seat asking "are we there yet?" over and over again.
All the money companies spend. It's a waste, they spend billions trying to keep up with social trends, billions trying to predict market progress, all down the toilet.
1. Uninstall
2. Stop
3. Disable Start on Boot
There must be a fine line between a troll and a comedian.
China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world.
This is funny. China has a quarter of the worlds population, easy. It can be an easy scenerio for China to make the world incompatible with China. (Notice the order, gives a different feel doesn't it?)
Try it: Microsoft Windows is incompatible with this software. For example.
Why was my post modded to troll?
It was a compliment to OpenBSD. If you mess with
it, you'll probably break it. Hence, some crack
pot trying to branch his own BSD release should
name it 'BrokenBSD'.
It has deterent value. It says if you become good at writing viruses you will get nailed. Maybe MS does not care about the young kid messing around who does not damage anything. Microsoft is showing good restraint.
"...you will get nailed."? "will"? I think not. You *might* get nailed, but you *might* get nailed regardless of reward. Virus writers were being "nailed" long before Microsoft attempted to test how infected decent people were with capitalism.
I myself, don't care how much money Microsoft throws up. It's all stolen money, attained through illegal and ammoral means. May as well take a bribe from a drug dealer, but alas, at most drug dealers would refuse to corrupt the mind of a mere child. In short, I would never rat out on a virus writer, and I don't care how much damage he has done. You run with your sword out in front of you, you deserve to trip and be impaled.
Virus writers need to work independantly, forfeit bragging for prolonged success. If I could bring myself to write Win32 code, I'd write a virus myself and make it as anonymous as I could and never even hint I was the coder.
A virus is free speech, it's errata in a way correcting the lies Microsoft has told. It's payback for all the developers put out on the street becuase their company was overthrown, illegally by Microsoft. It's a libertarian concept, a patriotic concept, a revolutionary concept. If you are annoyed at viruses, then you have a choice to move to a more competitive platform.
"Utilize the sheer computing power of your video card!"
New market blitz, hmmmm.
SETI ports their code, and within five days their average completed work units increase 1000 fold. 13 hours later, they have evidence of intelligent life at 30000 locations within one degree.
Microsoft gets the hint, and comes out with a brilliant plan to utilize GPUs to speed up their OS and add bells and whistles to their UI.
And, once again, Apple and Quartz Extreme is ignored.
Oh you can fork OpenBSD to your likeness, the only restriction is that you can't call your fork 'OpenBSD'... name it burnsBSD or whatever and you should be fine ;-)
In most cases, the fork should be named "BrokenBSD" by default.
Let's see, super chargers are ungodly expensive....
Adding turbo or even replacing turbo, out of this world....
But! Two 300 dollar jet engines welded to the side of your Ford Escort!?!?!?!? Francine Dee! Here I come!
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I've looked high and low for computers, available to John Doe-home-consumer, that had Linux preinstalled. Oh, they exist, there are places where you can buy laptops with Linux preinstalled. But, look at them, either they are from companies that refuse to sell home systems with Linux preinstalled like IBM or Dell, or they are a generic non-branded factory laptop sold by seemingly an upstart.
The later is no biggy, truthfully we have to start from some where, and frankly many of the IBM/Dell lines are rebranded components. No secret, ever take apart your cheapo radio (Emerson) to find the speakers are Pioneer and the electronics by JVC?
In any case, the available solutions are rather pathetic. For example, I have been unable to find a laptop that boasts a 1600x1200 LCD, preinstalled with Linux. Unless we happen upon a Dell from a service that will sell you a refurb, but that's totally different; at some point, Microsoft still made a dollar on that machine. So, some of the readers don't value the LCD resolution as much as I do, but other components are pretty sore as well. Compare hardware specs to a new Dell/Apple to one of those generic no-brands. Pretty pathetic, and the cost of pre-installed Linux laptops are extrodinary; even when the laptop is a re-sold item.
VALinux, IBM both have tried to sell laptops to the consumer market with Linux preinstalled. Or, atleast I thought IBM offered the T22 with Linux, I'm not 100% sure. The T22 wasn't all that great a machine to me, now and then. As for VALinux, they sold a laptop, that was several hundreds of dollars more expensive than a comparable one with hundreds of dollars in pre-installed software, Microsoft software.
So, now, we have the Walmart line of desktops with Linux pre-installed. I wouldn't buy one. My god, the hardware is a joke. For some reason, it seems, companies think that just becuase the OS is free that those who use Linux opt for the cheapest quality and lowest line of hardware. No! I don't want a Celeron, or Centrino(whatever) CPU. I want the same hardware, middle line on up, that is found in the rest of the market, only with Linux preinstalled and the price reflecting it.
I can only assume, Microsoft is behind it making it more expensive to avoid giving them money than to just pay up. Which, I think should be illegal but apparently it's not.
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Let's see, outsourcing whitecollar professionals... banning key areas of some scientific fields such as stem cell research....
Who's left in America to be nominated for the Nobel?
Whoever might be eligible, should move to have their name placed on the endangered species list. But, this is just my observation.
Honestly I don't how the US educational system is but blaming it for moving jobs oversees is ridiculous. Are they saying the Indian(which i can speak for) educational system is better? India has a poor educational system. And they are finding fault with US education system?
Yes, the American public education system is very poor. And the real reason why is too taboo to discuss and you'll find very few people that will mention it.
The real reason American education is poor is becuase of racial issues in America. But, not in the direction the media tends to put it. Here's what happens, and I've seen this happen at the schools I attended as a child:
My high-school was 96% white/hispanic/asian. We had classes such as "General Math A", "General Math B" then "General Math". We also had upper level courses like "Advanced Mathematics", all three levels of Calculus, and a few trigonometry based courses. The "General Math A" was more discribed in the books with the word "Remedial", but the students had a more accurate word "Retard" to make "Retard Math"; which is was 'Retard Math'.
We also had Advanced Placement classes, and Calculus was not an "AP" class at the time in my high-school. While the Calculus class was not overflowing, neither was ANY of the "remedial" classes, the mean lay around Algebra II and Trignomonetry classes; for math. For other subjects, there were more AP science students than any other derivative class; AP Chemistry was completely full while basic Chemistry classes were sprinkeled with students; admittedly, the only difference between AP Chem and regular Chem was that in AP in our school you had to do a science fair project, but this small difference was huge socially when you said what Chem class you were in.
Then, one day, the state decided that our school wasn't, let's say, politically correct. That's when things changed. Um.... the "inner-city" kids showed up, coming out of the wood work.
All of a sudden, we had to launch new classes such as "Retard English", "Apple Science"; Apple science being so fundamental, as to predict what's going to happen when the Apple falls from the tree.
The new "crew" didn't like this at all. Through politics, and hollering racism, our school had to rename all the classes. We nolonger had General Math A and B, it was ALL General Math. Oh, and then they complained about the 'General', *sigh*. Then it simply became "Mathematics". Do you see the trend?
Our school, before the infection, only required that you pass General Math to attain a HS Diploma. Required Algebra I, if you planned to go on to college. However, regardless of any particular student deciding to go to college, the vast majority graduated with atleast Algebra II. The school was working on improving the standards, requiring Algebra I to graduate period.
But, requiring Algebra I to attain a diploma was found to be racist. So, the school was not able to up graduation requirements out of political reasons.
To make things worse, since the lower-level classes were all of a sudden flooded (and many of the newcomers complained they were too difficult, and thus "racists"), we had to either drop upper level courses in order to provide teachers for all the students at the far end of the spectrum. So we lost some of the more advanced classes.
Since, we never had many students to begin with in those lower level classes, the illusion of racism was further "justified" becuase almost every student in the Retard courses was one of the newcomers. So, the school started slicing and dicing the classes, upping a margin well past the C average saying that if you fell within that margin you had to repeat a few levels lower. Degraded students into those lower classes much like how many good students in America sometimes get transferred to lesser able schools just to fill a racial quota. The parents of the original students were pissed at this new scheme and threatened to sue the Board of Education. This scheme did not
It always astounds me, to see people attempt to justify misfortune or undesirable circumstances. As if any ability to understand the disagreeable situation will result to it resolving your way.
At home, watching TV, a commercial interrupts my program. As many people do, I often decide that I don't want to be bothered by such a pathetic thing and I flip the channel. If that company wants to get it's message to me, they better bust through my door, destroy my remote control and pin me to ground facing the TV and insist my life depended on my viewing and accepting the advertisement.
When a small crowd forms outside a politicians office, or a CEOs office, well, he can't flip the channel but he can close his blinds. The problem here comes from Americans actually believing these people gives a rats ass what the public thinks. No, they don't, if noone voted a President, Senator, Congressman, Sheriff would still be put in their respective positions.
Words, nomatter how truthful they are, are nothing more than subtle sound waves traveling through the air. But the decibels released from a hammer smashing ontop of a solid oak wood desk, now that's a little difficult to ignore. If a politician, as so many often do, flutters their blinds, tie your message to a rock; you can figure out what to do next.
Bottom line, if your beliefs aren't so strong that you are compelled to physically protect them, then anything to the contrary is not really a problem.
Here's the real kicker:
When I view history, I am disgusted. The conditions everyday citizens of France endured just before the French Revolution, the horrid degrading circumstances the Germans endured just before Hitler came to power. How can people let so much go by before standing up for themselves? It's almost enough, to say those everday people deserved nothing more than to starve to death, even requesting it by nature of tolerance.
In America, where the media has pounded pacificism into the minds of it's citizens, the tyrannical corporations and puppet so-called-democratic governments of this world is going to rape and pillage us all. And it's sickening to foresee how much farther they are likely able to go.
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Real is nobody. I don't know ANYONE that has half a clue about computers that is even ambililent about Real. They all dislike (up through hate) Real. Real doesn't have a large customer base. Real doesn't have lots of users who like them. Real doesn't have a good reputation.
I don't think this is true. I also think that Real should be cut some slack. Let's see for a moment, currently on my Linux box, I have QuickTime, Windows Media Player and RealPlayer. Of those three, only one is native, RealPlayer.
I like Real for their generous gift. I also like Apple for their support, don't get me wrong. This battle is sorta like two respectful companies going at each other.
But, when you say noone likes Real, well, maybe I don't "like" them, but I'm certainly grateful for being the first of the three to even consider my platform.