He worries about kernel recompiles for new hardware. Yet Windows more often than not still wants a reboot for a driver install... and if he gets new hardware that often, won't he have some screamer than can build a new kernel in a few minutes?
He says X is big, bloated, and unstable. Yet X is nothing of the sort. It might have been bloated for computers designed in the mid 80's... but computers have grown alot since then. And X crashes very very rarely. An app has to misbehave gruesomely, for this to happen. What he really means, is that he has no clue about the distinction between X and his beloved KDE. And not to be too nasty to KDE, it's not the leanest code out there. Try windowmaker, the damn thing hangs X every once in awhile (read 4 times in 9 months) but I ssh back in, kill X and restart. Still more graceful than when a Windows GUI dies.
He even claims to be worried about DRM. Strangely, he gets over this really quick... to the point that he installs XP instead of a somewhat friendlier win2k. He's playing right into Micro$oft's hands... I'll laugh when he bitches about palladium 3 years from now.
But the most damning of all, he complains about problem's linux has with hardware and software compatibility, never realizing that he is as much to blame as anyone. Sure 3D is faster, nvidia and ati are beholden to M$. They will be, until the average moron quits giving that power to M$. Which is another way of saying "never".
Some people are gluttons for punishment. Just make sure you don't get cracked by standing too close when they beg for the whip.
A *free* service? Sounds pretty restrictive to me. Hell, even if you mean free as in $$$, then why are they pulling this shit? It's not like business is being stolen from them.
So, shut up fucktard. Or at least login, so everyone knows how cretinish you are.
You are obviously not a business school graduate. No one calls them customers anymore, they're "suckers". And if they use an alternaative browser, chances are they're not nearly as retarded as your average "sucker". If they aren't idiotic, how do you expect to sell your crap to them? You can't force them to buy... unless you're a telecom or something I suppose. But if you can slam them, why bother building a website?
For the clueless, yes I'm being sarcastic. I'm for the total abolishment of advertising...
Don't they realize that as soon as the Micro$oft/AOL/Yahoo merger goes through, that they'll all standardize on a product that will work for everyone except linux/bsd geeks? Shouldn't be long either, not more than a few years... after all, Bush has to finance the 2004 campaign somehow...
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Um, are you being sarcastic, or did you just misunderstand my position/predictions?
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First: If you've been kidnapped and locked in some basement in chains for the past 6 weeks, ignore my ranting and please accept my apologies. If not, read on...
AMD and Intel have both signed on to palladium. It is a done deal. The motherboard makers have no choice, they will be starved of the latest fastest CPUs, if they refuse to cooperate. Possibly even starved of the older slower CPUs... AMD and Intel will simply refuse to manufacture them (there is precedence, AMD clobbered the 486's that embedded systems engineers liked so much). The chipset manufacturers will either clone the DRM features, or be left out.
There is no escaping this. Laugh all you like, point at Circuit City's DivX if it makes you feel better. I could explain that too, if you cared to know. And when the marketing weight of 1 billion cluelesss idiots buying the computer the Dell dude tells them to crushes you, I'll be laughing at you. Admittedly, only a split second before I'm squished like a bug. *shrug* OS choices? What choice? Linux kicks ass, no argument here. But it simply won't run. "Yet more proof linux is insecure, it won't run with palladium!". We're all sooooo fucked. Does anyone have some lube? This is going to be a big one, and I'm afraid my virgin ass just won't be able to take the punishment...
Conclusion: You are simply a flaming retard, incapable of seeing the nearly immediate, and agonizingly obvious. You're standing there, admonishing us all not to panic, even though those that choose to look can see the 500 ft tall tidal wave getting ready to crash. If ever there was a time for panic, it's now.
Um, he sounds like a coder. If he were to get any cert, wouldn't it be MCSD? Or are you MCSE weenies that clueless, that you would foist MCSE on everyone?
Yeh. And how exactly does a planet not so different from earth in density and size, manage to retain an atmosphere that dense? How many thousands of years would it take, before solar winds swept much of it away?
Besides, thick cloud layers tend to reflect away incoming energy, creating a natural balance to a greenhouse effect. At the rate it's going, you would expect the dumb thing to regulate itself back to something a bit more normal in a matter of a few millenia, wouldn't you?
Besides, just how efficient is venus's atmosphere at absorbing and trapping heat? It's not what you would call an ideal mixture for such a purpose, is it? (Note: I'm a high school flunky, so this is more of a guess than some expert knowledge).
I'm starting to disagree on the Venus bullshit. Greenhouse effects simply can't raise temperatures that high, not even with the most extreme conditions.
Did you know that Venus is actually hotter on the dark side, even though that can't possibly be if it is a greenhouse effect?
Or that it actually sustaining a net energy loss? That's right, it's bleeding off more heat than it is taking in from our friend, the sun. Explain that.
Or the fact that its atmosphere is revolving around the planet many times faster than the planet itself is doing.
Injection molding is more than just the heat, it's the pressure too. Otherwise the polymer molecules don't line up, and you get weak plastics, especially at bends and corners.
Since they don't come with rackmout attachments, I'll have to make my own, I suppose. 2 directivo's, 2 dishpvr's, a standalone tivo or two for C band and basic cable. If only general instruments would release a digital cable box tivo, I'd be set.
Except if you want to do anything interesting on that server. Hosting is only cheap if it's a cookie cutter website with the lamest cgi around. Want to do weird things with BIND? Do you need to recompile a kernel to accomplish what you want?
Too bad.
We're paying for a service that can already do what we want, and as long as it isn't illegal or damaging their ability to provide the service, what's the big deal?
That's because the DOJ refuses to prosecute FTL Inc. for unfair competition of a monopoly corporation. Once we have some market competition, the price of round trip interstellar tickets should drop dramatically.
Haha. Not a month ago, I was modded flamebait and troll for suggesting that Micro$oft(and other tech companies) were only against DRM until they could discover a way to profit from it. A little quicker than I thought, but hey. I did say it would take 6 months, not 2 years.
I hope you guys are keeping score, each time you call me an idiot and clueless, it comes back to bite you in the ass.
And for those that don't live in the US, do you really think it matters? They aren't going to bother with the expense of making non-DRM hardware for countries without such laws. You're as screwed as we are.
You did read where he said that some didn't use more than than their bandwidth allocation anyway, right?
And if they own their own cable modems...
Besides which, if they really were stealing service, I *am* against that. Arrest and prosecute them. This seems like a ploy to confiscate their hardware without a trial.
Actually, I think he may have said they only used slightly more than their allocation. Which means in a trial, they only have to prove that the extra was on a local segment, and not to some peering trunk, and they're home free. Or maybe they can show instances where they used far less than their fair share, and it balances out.
They could have canceled service, and would have been within their rights. Siccing law enforcement on the uncappers was uncalled for.
Amiga computers are used by Elvis on his island in the south pacific, and when the time is right he will return to challenge Bill McEwen to a duel to the death, quashing this AmigaOne nonsense.
Amiga 5000 with 64bit PCI and dual video slots! Quad G5's. And software that detects usage by SG, and self-destructs!
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Sankus should have raped someone, or robbed them at gunpoint. He'd be out in half the time.
He worries about kernel recompiles for new hardware. Yet Windows more often than not still wants a reboot for a driver install... and if he gets new hardware that often, won't he have some screamer than can build a new kernel in a few minutes?
He says X is big, bloated, and unstable. Yet X is nothing of the sort. It might have been bloated for computers designed in the mid 80's... but computers have grown alot since then. And X crashes very very rarely. An app has to misbehave gruesomely, for this to happen. What he really means, is that he has no clue about the distinction between X and his beloved KDE. And not to be too nasty to KDE, it's not the leanest code out there. Try windowmaker, the damn thing hangs X every once in awhile (read 4 times in 9 months) but I ssh back in, kill X and restart. Still more graceful than when a Windows GUI dies.
He even claims to be worried about DRM. Strangely, he gets over this really quick... to the point that he installs XP instead of a somewhat friendlier win2k. He's playing right into Micro$oft's hands... I'll laugh when he bitches about palladium 3 years from now.
But the most damning of all, he complains about problem's linux has with hardware and software compatibility, never realizing that he is as much to blame as anyone. Sure 3D is faster, nvidia and ati are beholden to M$. They will be, until the average moron quits giving that power to M$. Which is another way of saying "never".
Some people are gluttons for punishment. Just make sure you don't get cracked by standing too close when they beg for the whip.
A *free* service? Sounds pretty restrictive to me. Hell, even if you mean free as in $$$, then why are they pulling this shit? It's not like business is being stolen from them.
So, shut up fucktard. Or at least login, so everyone knows how cretinish you are.
You are obviously not a business school graduate. No one calls them customers anymore, they're "suckers". And if they use an alternaative browser, chances are they're not nearly as retarded as your average "sucker". If they aren't idiotic, how do you expect to sell your crap to them? You can't force them to buy... unless you're a telecom or something I suppose. But if you can slam them, why bother building a website?
For the clueless, yes I'm being sarcastic. I'm for the total abolishment of advertising...
Don't they realize that as soon as the Micro$oft/AOL/Yahoo merger goes through, that they'll all standardize on a product that will work for everyone except linux/bsd geeks? Shouldn't be long either, not more than a few years... after all, Bush has to finance the 2004 campaign somehow...
Um, are you being sarcastic, or did you just misunderstand my position/predictions?
First: If you've been kidnapped and locked in some basement in chains for the past 6 weeks, ignore my ranting and please accept my apologies. If not, read on...
AMD and Intel have both signed on to palladium. It is a done deal. The motherboard makers have no choice, they will be starved of the latest fastest CPUs, if they refuse to cooperate. Possibly even starved of the older slower CPUs... AMD and Intel will simply refuse to manufacture them (there is precedence, AMD clobbered the 486's that embedded systems engineers liked so much). The chipset manufacturers will either clone the DRM features, or be left out.
There is no escaping this. Laugh all you like, point at Circuit City's DivX if it makes you feel better. I could explain that too, if you cared to know. And when the marketing weight of 1 billion cluelesss idiots buying the computer the Dell dude tells them to crushes you, I'll be laughing at you. Admittedly, only a split second before I'm squished like a bug. *shrug* OS choices? What choice? Linux kicks ass, no argument here. But it simply won't run. "Yet more proof linux is insecure, it won't run with palladium!". We're all sooooo fucked. Does anyone have some lube? This is going to be a big one, and I'm afraid my virgin ass just won't be able to take the punishment...
Conclusion: You are simply a flaming retard, incapable of seeing the nearly immediate, and agonizingly obvious. You're standing there, admonishing us all not to panic, even though those that choose to look can see the 500 ft tall tidal wave getting ready to crash. If ever there was a time for panic, it's now.
*LOL* *Sobbing*
I'm not sure it existed a billion years ago. I'm not even sure it existed 50,000 years ago.
Um, he sounds like a coder. If he were to get any cert, wouldn't it be MCSD? Or are you MCSE weenies that clueless, that you would foist MCSE on everyone?
Duh.
Yeh. And how exactly does a planet not so different from earth in density and size, manage to retain an atmosphere that dense? How many thousands of years would it take, before solar winds swept much of it away?
Besides, thick cloud layers tend to reflect away incoming energy, creating a natural balance to a greenhouse effect. At the rate it's going, you would expect the dumb thing to regulate itself back to something a bit more normal in a matter of a few millenia, wouldn't you?
Besides, just how efficient is venus's atmosphere at absorbing and trapping heat? It's not what you would call an ideal mixture for such a purpose, is it? (Note: I'm a high school flunky, so this is more of a guess than some expert knowledge).
I'm starting to disagree on the Venus bullshit. Greenhouse effects simply can't raise temperatures that high, not even with the most extreme conditions.
Did you know that Venus is actually hotter on the dark side, even though that can't possibly be if it is a greenhouse effect?
Or that it actually sustaining a net energy loss? That's right, it's bleeding off more heat than it is taking in from our friend, the sun. Explain that.
Or the fact that its atmosphere is revolving around the planet many times faster than the planet itself is doing.
Something funky is going on.
Injection molding is more than just the heat, it's the pressure too. Otherwise the polymer molecules don't line up, and you get weak plastics, especially at bends and corners.
DRM will keep you from playing unapproved/unlicensed video no matter the format.
Sarcasm mode on.
You mean like the lawyer stomping that they gave bnetd?
Keep it up Blizzard legal dept, we love you!!!
Sarcasm mode off.
Hehe. I knew there was a reason that they didn't install a video trap when I discontinued my subscription. This was *meant* to be.
Since they don't come with rackmout attachments, I'll have to make my own, I suppose. 2 directivo's, 2 dishpvr's, a standalone tivo or two for C band and basic cable. If only general instruments would release a digital cable box tivo, I'd be set.
Just have to build my raid array a little bigger.
Except if you want to do anything interesting on that server. Hosting is only cheap if it's a cookie cutter website with the lamest cgi around. Want to do weird things with BIND? Do you need to recompile a kernel to accomplish what you want?
Too bad.
We're paying for a service that can already do what we want, and as long as it isn't illegal or damaging their ability to provide the service, what's the big deal?
That's because the DOJ refuses to prosecute FTL Inc. for unfair competition of a monopoly corporation. Once we have some market competition, the price of round trip interstellar tickets should drop dramatically.
Yeh, China will lead an effective boycott. Haha.
I couldn't live without the opening scenes, or probably even the credits. But getting rid of the commercials is a good thing.
Haha. Not a month ago, I was modded flamebait and troll for suggesting that Micro$oft(and other tech companies) were only against DRM until they could discover a way to profit from it. A little quicker than I thought, but hey. I did say it would take 6 months, not 2 years.
I hope you guys are keeping score, each time you call me an idiot and clueless, it comes back to bite you in the ass.
And for those that don't live in the US, do you really think it matters? They aren't going to bother with the expense of making non-DRM hardware for countries without such laws. You're as screwed as we are.
Uncapping isn't theft of service though.
You did read where he said that some didn't use more than than their bandwidth allocation anyway, right?
And if they own their own cable modems...
Besides which, if they really were stealing service, I *am* against that. Arrest and prosecute them. This seems like a ploy to confiscate their hardware without a trial.
Actually, I think he may have said they only used slightly more than their allocation. Which means in a trial, they only have to prove that the extra was on a local segment, and not to some peering trunk, and they're home free. Or maybe they can show instances where they used far less than their fair share, and it balances out.
They could have canceled service, and would have been within their rights. Siccing law enforcement on the uncappers was uncalled for.
Amiga computers are used by Elvis on his island in the south pacific, and when the time is right he will return to challenge Bill McEwen to a duel to the death, quashing this AmigaOne nonsense.
Amiga 5000 with 64bit PCI and dual video slots! Quad G5's. And software that detects usage by SG, and self-destructs!
Elvis is the king.
You may be morer clueful than most slashdot posters, but I still wish you were wrong.
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