Well, all these old bible texts are all well and good...but when will they put up texts from the infamous "Z Library"? (all the uncensored, unedited books of scripture, and all the black magic stuff.)
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Wanted to get this here before the moderators there take it off the site.
#14 By Obsidious (2 Posts) at 9/25/2002 5:34:22 PM
I think the comparisons Ballmer tries to distinguish are rather funny, because in the grand scheme of things, the "Microsoft Community" tend to be nothing more than blindfolded, castrated lemmings marching off a cliff.
Before you flame, let me give you an example. Bug patches.
When a bug in a Microsoft product is revealled, users are at the mercy of said bug until a patch is released. Which often takes weeks, or even months after the fact. It seems that Microsoft spends more time and money on PR spin and attacks against bug whistle blowers than it does on fixing the bugs and getting it over with. What is that saying? When you don't have the law, you persecute the prosecutor?
We can't count on an MCSE(What you might consider the REAL Microsoft community) to help, since their training is about as broad as playing Solitaire and rebooting when they run into a problem. These people are trained monkeys with toilet paper diplomas.
Enter the open source community. Although there are quite a few loons in the bunch who give most of them a bad name (RMS, ERS, Alan Cox, I'm looking at you guys), the community gets right to the point when it comes to serious bugs and getting fixes out promptly. I can often find patches days, or even hours after an alert has been issued. There's no PR flack or media ass kissing to make up for developer laziness. A patch is made, and life moves on. But that's not where "the community" part really shines. No, the community has a strong sense of self because THEY maintain these programs themselves. They are often developers and artists throwing their lot in to make the software better. Mozilla, for instance, is not the product of a multinational corporation. It is the product of the developers, who are also the users. In the end, the users have total control of their software and what goes into it.
And that's why the community is strong. They have something invested in the software because it's a part of them. It's not something they bought off the shelf.
This is something Ballmer and crew will never achieve. As far as Microsoft is concerned, it's about master and slave. And that's the way it will always be for them.
The rest of the people on that page make me wish their was a moderation system on their site.
How many people buy cd's rip them, then sell them?
Um...The entire nation of China. Alot of the almost-but-not-quite-professional copies you get at a flea market are from China. (Granted, the one flimsy table with a small stack of -- very obvious cd-r's with very obvious inkjet-printer copied cover art -- bootlegs, those are local american bootleggers)
You never really hear about this senario.
Maybe the RIAA knows they can't "sue" the entire Republic of China, but they can nail the little american with his homemades.
Or horror of all horrors the american who only makes copies for his own use.
but is there a case for simply postponing upgrades just long enough to make a significant dent in the sales figures?
And then the industry will bitch: "This slump in sales is obviously the work of 'pirates'!"
Then MS will have to form the WIAA (Windows Industries of America) and the WIAA will have to buy some laws to bust all these 'pirates' who are causing the slump in their sales figures.
What military applications exist for this new lullaby technology? Can we scan the enemy's brainwaves and put him to sleep?
Why stop at giving "audio knock out drops"? Why not create music that kills?
As Kate Bush once glibly sang
"They told us all they wanted/
Was a sound that could kill someone/
from a distance/ So we go ahead/
and the meters are over in the red/
It's a mistake in the making"
I'm picturing a special bodysuit covered with electrodes, especially over the scalp and at the all the major muscle groups. The person could improvise their own music in real time. The melody would be based on the brainwaves and the "percussion" would be based on the signals from the muscles.
You want "electric body music"? I'll give you "electric body music"!
(Lord Custos breaks into a Dance Dance Revolution-crazed frenzy as music automagically emenates from his 'soundskin')
Yeeeeaahhhhh, Boyyeeees....
I'll be the first to admit that I stopped buying CD's because I download all my music from the internet.
And I'll be the first to admit that initially INCREASED my cd-buying after I got into fire-sharing. But I have since stopped buying (even used CDs) in protest. And I suspect I'm not the only one who increased in delight and then stopped in disgust.
Isn't the active lifespan of unchanged information on magnetic media 5 years? Then it slowly suffers bit-rot until eventually even forensic tools can't recover the data? I recently found some old floppies from the 80s, but the data on them was garbled...and the drive had trouble reading them. (I think they were only 750kb floppies.)
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650 MB on a new Zipdisk, 650 MB on audio CD. Perfect size to sneakernet a bootleg
Coincidence...or Conspiracy.
Just wait for Hillary Rosen to notice this an try to prevent Iomega from selling them.
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And MaximumPC is generally a good read, except for their main article which is usually good for wiping my... Yes, up until recently, MaximumPC had been an exceptional magazine; It was very informative, witty (in the style of the late, lamented PC Accelerator) and most of all: brutally honest. Then a year ago, the layout of the magazine changed, the writing became much less bold. And to top it off, the very next month they ran their first review of WinXP. It was a weasely article full of apologies and backpedalling...and they gave WinXP a perfect 10. A prefect 10 from the 'old' MaxPC was so rare that it was like seeing the Virgin Mary or the Holy Grail. It only happened under very, very special circumstances. Ever since then, MaxPC has been handing out 9s, 10s and "Kick Ass Awards" like a hare krishna hands out flowers. Also, I find it odd that one of their sister magazines MaximumLinux vanished around the same time. I already sent my poison pen to MaxPC letter about this...have you?
Now MS tries to address subjects YOU WANT THEM TO ADDRESS, and the linux community is in an uproar. You miss the point entirely. We are asserting that their solution is more of a problem than the original problem. It intrudes where it is not wanted in rather Orwellian fashion and it doesn't even solve the problem!
Three side points: One) Lets see how easy it is for some bored kid to figure out how to get his trojans "legitimately 'signed' " by Microsoft and thus render them "immune" to Palladium blacklisting. and Two) How long before scumware writers figure out the same "exploit" and get their spyware "signed" and immune to the blacklist. and Three) How long before all legitimately legitimate software (even Win32) ends up unrunnable (because some smartass alters the Palladium blacklist) and leaves only trojans and spyware are the only things that DO run under Palladium. Granted this is far-fetched and a bit paranoid, but that doesn't make a world that comes even a fraction of the way to this level of absurdity any less scary.
Did you read the articles at all? It is plainly said that Palladium will not eliminate application layer virii. That means Joe Sixpack *will* be getting more Outlook & Word virii. What he won't be able to do is to watch unlicensed content. It is plain that this has nothing to do with Joe Sixpack's security but only with content protection Hollywood and total control by Microsoft. And giving Hillary Rosen the power to DELETE your mp3 collection at a distance and at a whim. I bet when Gates suggested this scheme to her, Rosen creamed in her undies.
The truth is, the 20 year olds of today should not be listening to Ziggy Stardust. Its as relevant to them as Fats Waller was to listeners of the Velvet Underground in the 1960's. Every kind of music is relevant to SOMEONE.
This generation is pathetic and lost. They are without a distinct identity... Eeernt! Wrong. They don't NEED a steenking "distinct indentity." The modern kids have a broad spectrum of different modes for expressing and portraying themselves. This need you have for them all to display a "distinct identity" smacks of megalomania and an inabilty to adapt to reality. ...the the garbage that is made by them (Linkin Park for example) is base beyond measure. And let me guess, the stuff you grew up on (the Monkees, the Banana Splits and the Fantastiks) are sooooo much better. No. You, sir, are behaving like a troll, and a whiny one at that. Time to shut off the "AOL Machine" and go take yer Metamucil, you joyless crank.
Okay...this might be a tiny bit off-topic. Referring only to actual version numbering: Why use Version.MajorRev.MinorRev.Build (beta,pre- etc.) when it would be slightly more useful to go Version.MajorRev.MinorRev.Date? Or for a bunch of revisions in one day: Version.MajorRev.MinorRev.Date.Time Wouldn't this not only keep the versions straight but give over developers an idea of how old the code is?
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Well, all these old bible texts are all well and good...but when will they put up texts from the infamous "Z Library"? (all the uncensored, unedited books of scripture, and all the black magic stuff.)
they'll have to write a functioning program thats only 1 byte long.
snif snif snif...is that Vapourware? Funny, MS stuff usually smells like something different.
Wanted to get this here before the moderators there take it off the site.
#14 By Obsidious (2 Posts) at 9/25/2002 5:34:22 PM I think the comparisons Ballmer tries to distinguish are rather funny, because in the grand scheme of things, the "Microsoft Community" tend to be nothing more than blindfolded, castrated lemmings marching off a cliff.
The rest of the people on that page make me wish their was a moderation system on their site.Before you flame, let me give you an example. Bug patches.
When a bug in a Microsoft product is revealled, users are at the mercy of said bug until a patch is released. Which often takes weeks, or even months after the fact. It seems that Microsoft spends more time and money on PR spin and attacks against bug whistle blowers than it does on fixing the bugs and getting it over with. What is that saying? When you don't have the law, you persecute the prosecutor? We can't count on an MCSE(What you might consider the REAL Microsoft community) to help, since their training is about as broad as playing Solitaire and rebooting when they run into a problem. These people are trained monkeys with toilet paper diplomas.
Enter the open source community. Although there are quite a few loons in the bunch who give most of them a bad name (RMS, ERS, Alan Cox, I'm looking at you guys), the community gets right to the point when it comes to serious bugs and getting fixes out promptly. I can often find patches days, or even hours after an alert has been issued. There's no PR flack or media ass kissing to make up for developer laziness. A patch is made, and life moves on. But that's not where "the community" part really shines. No, the community has a strong sense of self because THEY maintain these programs themselves. They are often developers and artists throwing their lot in to make the software better. Mozilla, for instance, is not the product of a multinational corporation. It is the product of the developers, who are also the users. In the end, the users have total control of their software and what goes into it.
And that's why the community is strong. They have something invested in the software because it's a part of them. It's not something they bought off the shelf.
This is something Ballmer and crew will never achieve. As far as Microsoft is concerned, it's about master and slave. And that's the way it will always be for them.
How many people buy cd's rip them, then sell them? Um...The entire nation of China. Alot of the almost-but-not-quite-professional copies you get at a flea market are from China. (Granted, the one flimsy table with a small stack of -- very obvious cd-r's with very obvious inkjet-printer copied cover art -- bootlegs, those are local american bootleggers) You never really hear about this senario. Maybe the RIAA knows they can't "sue" the entire Republic of China, but they can nail the little american with his homemades. Or horror of all horrors the american who only makes copies for his own use.
but is there a case for simply postponing upgrades just long enough to make a significant dent in the sales figures? And then the industry will bitch: "This slump in sales is obviously the work of 'pirates'!" Then MS will have to form the WIAA (Windows Industries of America) and the WIAA will have to buy some laws to bust all these 'pirates' who are causing the slump in their sales figures.
What military applications exist for this new lullaby technology? Can we scan the enemy's brainwaves and put him to sleep? / / / /
Why stop at giving "audio knock out drops"? Why not create music that kills?
As Kate Bush once glibly sang
"They told us all they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone
from a distance/ So we go ahead
and the meters are over in the red
It's a mistake in the making"
I'm picturing a special bodysuit covered with electrodes, especially over the scalp and at the all the major muscle groups. The person could improvise their own music in real time. The melody would be based on the brainwaves and the "percussion" would be based on the signals from the muscles. You want "electric body music"? I'll give you "electric body music"! (Lord Custos breaks into a Dance Dance Revolution-crazed frenzy as music automagically emenates from his 'soundskin') Yeeeeaahhhhh, Boyyeeees....
I'll be the first to admit that I stopped buying CD's because I download all my music from the internet. And I'll be the first to admit that initially INCREASED my cd-buying after I got into fire-sharing. But I have since stopped buying (even used CDs) in protest. And I suspect I'm not the only one who increased in delight and then stopped in disgust.
In other words, AD&D 3e is more "GURPS-like..."
SJGames "GURPS" is Linux, TSRs "Marvel Superheroes (Classic)" was Mac OS7 and Mayfairs "DC Legends" was Amiga.
Hey, um...does anyboyd know how much AC and Magic Resistance of a Gazebo? Or what its Thac0 is?
Isn't the active lifespan of unchanged information on magnetic media 5 years? Then it slowly suffers bit-rot until eventually even forensic tools can't recover the data?
I recently found some old floppies from the 80s, but the data on them was garbled...and the drive had trouble reading them. (I think they were only 750kb floppies.)
650 MB on a new Zipdisk, 650 MB on audio CD. Perfect size to sneakernet a bootleg
Coincidence...or Conspiracy.
Just wait for Hillary Rosen to notice this an try to prevent Iomega from selling them.
And MaximumPC is generally a good read, except for their main article which is usually good for wiping my...
Yes, up until recently, MaximumPC had been an exceptional magazine; It was very informative, witty (in the style of the late, lamented PC Accelerator ) and most of all: brutally honest.
Then a year ago, the layout of the magazine changed, the writing became much less bold. And to top it off, the very next month they ran their first review of WinXP. It was a weasely article full of apologies and backpedalling...and they gave WinXP a perfect 10.
A prefect 10 from the 'old' MaxPC was so rare that it was like seeing the Virgin Mary or the Holy Grail. It only happened under very, very special circumstances. Ever since then, MaxPC has been handing out 9s, 10s and "Kick Ass Awards" like a hare krishna hands out flowers.
Also, I find it odd that one of their sister magazines MaximumLinux vanished around the same time.
I already sent my poison pen to MaxPC letter about this...have you?
You're welcome.
Now MS tries to address subjects YOU WANT THEM TO ADDRESS, and the linux community is in an uproar.
You miss the point entirely. We are asserting that their solution is more of a problem than the original problem. It intrudes where it is not wanted in rather Orwellian fashion and it doesn't even solve the problem!
Three side points:
One) Lets see how easy it is for some bored kid to figure out how to get his trojans "legitimately 'signed' " by Microsoft and thus render them "immune" to Palladium blacklisting. and
Two) How long before scumware writers figure out the same "exploit" and get their spyware "signed" and immune to the blacklist. and
Three) How long before all legitimately legitimate software (even Win32) ends up unrunnable (because some smartass alters the Palladium blacklist) and leaves only trojans and spyware are the only things that DO run under Palladium.
Granted this is far-fetched and a bit paranoid, but that doesn't make a world that comes even a fraction of the way to this level of absurdity any less scary.
Did you read the articles at all? It is plainly said that Palladium will not eliminate application layer virii. That means Joe Sixpack *will* be getting more Outlook & Word virii. What he won't be able to do is to watch unlicensed content. It is plain that this has nothing to do with Joe Sixpack's security but only with content protection Hollywood and total control by Microsoft.
And giving Hillary Rosen the power to DELETE your mp3 collection at a distance and at a whim. I bet when Gates suggested this scheme to her, Rosen creamed in her undies.
"Siddown, Francis."
And ferchrissakes take...your...meds and stop pestering the other patients!
Wow, maaaaaan....you are reeaaallly Hostile. Why don't take a toke off of what I'm enjoying right now and chillllll out....
Why? What has he ever done to you? Whose James Macarthy anyways?
Why? What has he ever done to you?
Every kind of music is relevant to SOMEONE.
This generation is pathetic and lost. They are without a distinct identity...
...the the garbage that is made by them (Linkin Park for example) is base beyond measure.
Eeernt! Wrong. They don't NEED a steenking "distinct indentity." The modern kids have a broad spectrum of different modes for expressing and portraying themselves.
This need you have for them all to display a "distinct identity" smacks of megalomania and an inabilty to adapt to reality.
And let me guess, the stuff you grew up on (the Monkees, the Banana Splits and the Fantastiks) are sooooo much better.
No. You, sir, are behaving like a troll, and a whiny one at that. Time to shut off the "AOL Machine" and go take yer Metamucil, you joyless crank.
Okay...this might be a tiny bit off-topic.
Referring only to actual version numbering:
Why use Version.MajorRev.MinorRev.Build (beta,pre- etc.) when it would be slightly more useful to go Version.MajorRev.MinorRev.Date?
Or for a bunch of revisions in one day:
Version.MajorRev.MinorRev.Date.Time
Wouldn't this not only keep the versions straight but give over developers an idea of how old the code is?