You know, if the DOJ won't protect consumer rights, I think we should do it ourselves. Allege Microsoft has illegally expanded it's monopoly into new fields, restricted access to competitors, and detrimentally abused the market as a whole with buggy and insecure software. I think a class action suit would do well.
I've been looking on Google for about ten minutes for information about NFS I could understand and, just sort of a broad overview of it. Always something germane and informative on Slashdot;).
I can't stand anime, but I'll still watch. I've watched a lot of it. The more I see, the more I watch. Why? To find out what the obssession is. If anime wasn't the cult phenomena that it was, I probably wouldn't care, but as it is, I'm always searching for a reason.
Still, I don't often find more than what I expect. Women are still treated like crap in them. They play either the hypo-slut, or a super demure handmaiden, or just a whacked out cartoon version of Lucy. The men, well, you usually can't tell they're men by appearance. The artwork is shoddy and derivitive. It reminds me of an article on The Onion "UN to drop vowels on Bosnia." Perhaps we should have a "UN to drop noses on Japan."
Wal-Mart may be the number one company in the country, but they're also probably the most hated and despised company in the country as well. Take a look on the net, you'll find any number of sites devoted against them (cutely named things like "Us against the Wal").
Just about everytime a Wal-Mart goes up, they railroad anyone who opposes them. I live in what once was a 100 year flood plain in Southern Louisiana. Thanks to development like Wal-Mart, it's now a three year flood plain. We've proven any number of times that development like this is horrendous for the environment, hell the local Corps of Engineers here FLAT out lied just to get the development.
Microsoft at least doesn't treat their own employees like crap, Wal-Mart does. Wal-Mart has one of the highest turn over rates in the country. Microsoft just abuses it's competitors. Wal-Mart has used predatory pricing to for out much more business than Microsoft has. Now, I'm not a Windows hugger by any means, but they aren't half the demon that Wal-Mart is.
Wal-Mart is like a nuclear power plant. Sure it's all well and good that they exist. But people just don't want it in their neighborhood. And when it comes to their neigborhood, they can't do anything to stop it.
Meanwhile, for all of it's marketing glory, my PS2 sits neglected and unwanted. And don't tell me about FFXXIV or the latest and greatest interactive movie. Few things make me vomit more, like Microsoft, Dubya, Abercrombie-Bitch, or James Cameron.
I should probably sell my underperforming PS2 for another console, and hope for something half as good as the Dreamcast. But it doesn't seem likely. That Sega went multiplatform is the only savior of console games.
I don't know, anyone notice that last year the PS2 launched without much competition (the only being just about from Dreamcast). Anyone notice this year that X-box is being launched three days before another state of another brand spanking new console. And there's Gameboy Advances, and PS2s still fresh on the shelves? Anyone notice that last year the economy was in markedly improved state? Anyone notice that last year we weren't fighting a war?
Whatever, what happens happens. But I wouldn't say just because one system has a good or bad start is any indication of what it's progress will be, or even how good the system will be. Hell, I've had the PS2 since January and the system still sucks! Only console games I play are for Dreamcast. And I'm seriously considering selling my PS2 for a Gamecube (Pikmin and Sega games, sweeeet) or X-box.
Maybe I should start one of my own survival camps like this. Call it 'Magical Dangerland'. Take a group of hapless Americans to Tehran and put them in Mickey Mouse costumes and tell them this will teach them how to survive in 'Magical Dangerland'.
I've only been using OSX for about a month now (got my first mac then). And I love it. It's a recent Quicksilver model, so honestly, I don't know what people are talking about when they say it's slow, but I guess it probably is on less recent hardware. What I really would like it more customization for the GUI, there's really very little you can do to change the appearance. They have two sets of button colors, and you can change the magnification and size of the dock, as well as the size of icons. Gee, that's fantastic, but that's it! Also coming from X and Windows, it's hell of hard to keep track of applications (maybe just because I'm switching from a taskbar to a taskbar clone- dock). But I seem to get flustered when I have too many applications open. I really wish they'd incorporate multiple virtual desktops like in X.
As far as features and stuff, well honestly I haven't noticed any lack of them. The OS is the pinnacle of compatibility and versatility. I can open MacOS9 in classic mode to run Microsoft Office (ya ya, Microsoft sucks, but if you haven't tried their version of Office on a Mac shut up), Internet Explorer under OSX along with whatever else I need, and I with the click of a button I'm transported to a Gnome desktop running my *nix X programs (the ones I don't need to run from a terminal). Oh yeah, and it's got a terminal. Using Fink it's a snap to install Unix software (granted not all the ports I want, but more are coming). It's funny the way it works, Microsoft products are actually much better on Macs. Or of course I could just log out of Aqua all together and run pure Darwin alone, or with X.
I was going to install NetBSD or Linux on the computer, but now I don't think I'll need to.
Maybe they got hired by Apple. Heh, really I don't know. But after OSX, you'd think people with some BSD experience would be more marketable, even if the economy is taking a downturn.
Anyway, as a FreeBSD 4.4, I see this as a good move. If I feel like upgrading my OS every two months, I'd be using Linux right? Nice that they're going to be porting FreeBSD to PowerPPC as well, since I just bought a Quicksilver, and would rather go with the BSD I know than with NetBSD (or just Darwin for that matter).
Ever think of making an X alternative? I love using *nix, but X has a lot of drawbacks. It's unresponsive and slow compared to Windows, MacOS, and BeOS. I hate having a different hotkeys for different apps (c'mon damnit, someone standardize how to copy and paste!).
So couldn't you just make a different windowing server for *nix and let the *nix do most of the hardware work? I mean MacOSX is just a FreeBSD kernel with a nifty GUI on top to replace X.
I guess what I really want is a MacOSX ripoff for Intel machines. It may seem improbable, but ten years ago it probably seemed improbable that a ripoff of *nix would become the most popular *nix type OS.
Who cared? Besides companies like Amiga and Apple, and they just looked like consumer toys to a big iron company like IBM. The PC was built for spreadsheets. Wasn't anything particularly romantic about computers back then like there is today. IBM just open sourced stuff probably because they didn't see much benefit in not doing it. I mean, this is the same company where the infamous quote "I see a market for maybe 5 computers worldwide" came out of.
Still, they've done a lot for open source. So who cares what their motives are and how slow they came to it, the fact that they're spending big money is what's important.
About six weeks ago I wanted to get into this whole Linux revolution. So I downloaded just about every major distro (got about 7 I think). Mixed success. Some crashed during the install. Some didn't recognize my SCSI card, and I didn't know what to do. Some didn't recognize my vid card. Some didn't recognize my USB mouse. The one that I did get installed and get X up was Redhat, and it's support for my vid card was abysmal and had all sorts of horrid side effects.
Just when I'm down and out and nearly giving up with *nix, I find FreeBSD. I install it in half the time on my old computer that the other Linux distros took. I was running Lynx and felt like a ninja soon after. Within a day I got X running. Then I went to a bookstore to pick up a book. There's a whole shelf for Linux books. And one lonely FreeBSD book. A day later I've recompiled my kernel as well. The book is a bit too advanced for my tastes, so I should probably pick up this book and maybe a 'Basic *nix Primer' or something. But for me FreeBSD has been infinitely more valuable as a learning tool than Linux was. But really, that's just my experience. No doubt I'm in the minority, and people with more typical hardware will do better with Linux.
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You know, if the DOJ won't protect consumer rights, I think we should do it ourselves. Allege Microsoft has illegally expanded it's monopoly into new fields, restricted access to competitors, and detrimentally abused the market as a whole with buggy and insecure software. I think a class action suit would do well.
I've been looking on Google for about ten minutes for information about NFS I could understand and, just sort of a broad overview of it. Always something germane and informative on Slashdot ;).
I can't stand anime, but I'll still watch. I've watched a lot of it. The more I see, the more I watch. Why? To find out what the obssession is. If anime wasn't the cult phenomena that it was, I probably wouldn't care, but as it is, I'm always searching for a reason.
Still, I don't often find more than what I expect. Women are still treated like crap in them. They play either the hypo-slut, or a super demure handmaiden, or just a whacked out cartoon version of Lucy. The men, well, you usually can't tell they're men by appearance. The artwork is shoddy and derivitive. It reminds me of an article on The Onion "UN to drop vowels on Bosnia." Perhaps we should have a "UN to drop noses on Japan."
But still, I watch.
That's one cool site, thanks for introducing it to everyone. Hey, I'll give you a couple sites which are really cool too.
Yahoo.com. It's a really cool search engine. And www.theonion.com, a really funny site that probably nobody on Slashdot has ever heard of.
Anyone else got some new fresh sites?
Wal-Mart may be the number one company in the country, but they're also probably the most hated and despised company in the country as well. Take a look on the net, you'll find any number of sites devoted against them (cutely named things like "Us against the Wal").
Just about everytime a Wal-Mart goes up, they railroad anyone who opposes them. I live in what once was a 100 year flood plain in Southern Louisiana. Thanks to development like Wal-Mart, it's now a three year flood plain. We've proven any number of times that development like this is horrendous for the environment, hell the local Corps of Engineers here FLAT out lied just to get the development.
Microsoft at least doesn't treat their own employees like crap, Wal-Mart does. Wal-Mart has one of the highest turn over rates in the country. Microsoft just abuses it's competitors. Wal-Mart has used predatory pricing to for out much more business than Microsoft has. Now, I'm not a Windows hugger by any means, but they aren't half the demon that Wal-Mart is.
Wal-Mart is like a nuclear power plant. Sure it's all well and good that they exist. But people just don't want it in their neighborhood. And when it comes to their neigborhood, they can't do anything to stop it.
Personally I'll take Lexx & Farscape over it, but its not bad.
Personally, I'll take Botulism & Dysentery over Lexx.
Meanwhile, for all of it's marketing glory, my PS2 sits neglected and unwanted. And don't tell me about FFXXIV or the latest and greatest interactive movie. Few things make me vomit more, like Microsoft, Dubya, Abercrombie-Bitch, or James Cameron.
I should probably sell my underperforming PS2 for another console, and hope for something half as good as the Dreamcast. But it doesn't seem likely. That Sega went multiplatform is the only savior of console games.
I don't know, anyone notice that last year the PS2 launched without much competition (the only being just about from Dreamcast). Anyone notice this year that X-box is being launched three days before another state of another brand spanking new console. And there's Gameboy Advances, and PS2s still fresh on the shelves? Anyone notice that last year the economy was in markedly improved state? Anyone notice that last year we weren't fighting a war?
Whatever, what happens happens. But I wouldn't say just because one system has a good or bad start is any indication of what it's progress will be, or even how good the system will be. Hell, I've had the PS2 since January and the system still sucks! Only console games I play are for Dreamcast. And I'm seriously considering selling my PS2 for a Gamecube (Pikmin and Sega games, sweeeet) or X-box.
Maybe I should start one of my own survival camps like this. Call it 'Magical Dangerland'. Take a group of hapless Americans to Tehran and put them in Mickey Mouse costumes and tell them this will teach them how to survive in 'Magical Dangerland'.
"This will open a Pandora's box,"
Hello, my name is slippery slope argument, nice to meet you.
I've only been using OSX for about a month now (got my first mac then). And I love it. It's a recent Quicksilver model, so honestly, I don't know what people are talking about when they say it's slow, but I guess it probably is on less recent hardware. What I really would like it more customization for the GUI, there's really very little you can do to change the appearance. They have two sets of button colors, and you can change the magnification and size of the dock, as well as the size of icons. Gee, that's fantastic, but that's it! Also coming from X and Windows, it's hell of hard to keep track of applications (maybe just because I'm switching from a taskbar to a taskbar clone- dock). But I seem to get flustered when I have too many applications open. I really wish they'd incorporate multiple virtual desktops like in X.
As far as features and stuff, well honestly I haven't noticed any lack of them. The OS is the pinnacle of compatibility and versatility. I can open MacOS9 in classic mode to run Microsoft Office (ya ya, Microsoft sucks, but if you haven't tried their version of Office on a Mac shut up), Internet Explorer under OSX along with whatever else I need, and I with the click of a button I'm transported to a Gnome desktop running my *nix X programs (the ones I don't need to run from a terminal). Oh yeah, and it's got a terminal. Using Fink it's a snap to install Unix software (granted not all the ports I want, but more are coming). It's funny the way it works, Microsoft products are actually much better on Macs. Or of course I could just log out of Aqua all together and run pure Darwin alone, or with X.
I was going to install NetBSD or Linux on the computer, but now I don't think I'll need to.
On the subject of how rushing to finish a job can mess something up, in my haste I neglected to preview my shoddy HTML skills.
Anyway, as a FreeBSD 4.4, I see this as a good move. If I feel like upgrading my OS every two months, I'd be using Linux right? Nice that they're going to be porting FreeBSD to PowerPPC as well, since I just bought a Quicksilver, and would rather go with the BSD I know than with NetBSD (or just Darwin for that matter).
Ever think of making an X alternative? I love using *nix, but X has a lot of drawbacks. It's unresponsive and slow compared to Windows, MacOS, and BeOS. I hate having a different hotkeys for different apps (c'mon damnit, someone standardize how to copy and paste!).
So couldn't you just make a different windowing server for *nix and let the *nix do most of the hardware work? I mean MacOSX is just a FreeBSD kernel with a nifty GUI on top to replace X.
I guess what I really want is a MacOSX ripoff for Intel machines. It may seem improbable, but ten years ago it probably seemed improbable that a ripoff of *nix would become the most popular *nix type OS.
Still, they've done a lot for open source. So who cares what their motives are and how slow they came to it, the fact that they're spending big money is what's important.
Just when I'm down and out and nearly giving up with *nix, I find FreeBSD. I install it in half the time on my old computer that the other Linux distros took. I was running Lynx and felt like a ninja soon after. Within a day I got X running. Then I went to a bookstore to pick up a book. There's a whole shelf for Linux books. And one lonely FreeBSD book. A day later I've recompiled my kernel as well. The book is a bit too advanced for my tastes, so I should probably pick up this book and maybe a 'Basic *nix Primer' or something. But for me FreeBSD has been infinitely more valuable as a learning tool than Linux was. But really, that's just my experience. No doubt I'm in the minority, and people with more typical hardware will do better with Linux.