Am I the only one who when they first read the headline thought: "What the heck? You mean there is a real scientific reason that people choose Mozilla over IE aside from the no brainer ones? Such as freedom of choice, security, popup blockage, and giving MS the finger over port 80 instead of 79." No really, I thought there might be some sort of previously unknown sociological or psychological thing concerning large lizards whose RGB color is a multiple of 42 (read: color=#840000) or the concept of geckos running everything behind the scenes (read: mice).
No really, thats actually what went through my mind.
The current system (RIAA, MPAA, ect...) is corrupt, bloated, and no longer needed. It must be torn down and rebuilt. A little revolution, now and then, is a healthy thing.
You should run an AMD processor with an AMD chipset mobo. My 1.4ghz T-bird paired with an AMD 761 chipset mobo (Asus A7M266) has NEVER crashed once in the year that I've had it. A very stable machine, and I abuse it too. FYI, its on almost all the time.
Ok, I have a modern system. (1.4ghz Tbird, 512 DDR ram, DVD drive, ASUS A7M266 mobo, ect...) It boots just fine from any bootable CD (win2k, winxp, Linux, ect...). But here's the catch. It's only two hard drives are a pluged into a Promise Fastrack TX2 PCI RAID controler (for RAID level 0). Without drivers for this card it is totally impossible to install any OS on my system. And I have yet to see any version of Windows or any Linux distro that supports this card out of the box. The card came with drivers, on 3.5 floppy disks. In order to install windows 2000 or XP these disks must be inserted at the start of the instilation process otherwise windows setup will not find the hard drives. Linux is the same way. So there you have it. A modern system that requires a floppy drive to install the operating system.
We do not guarantee that any source code or executable code available from the mozilla.org domain is Year 2000 compliant.
Is this some sort of joke?? I thought we got over that whole thing 2 years ago.
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Traffic Shaping on DSL?
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Give Cable Nut a try. It lets you play with all that stuff and well, a butload more stuff having to do with how the TCP/IP stack behaves. It's for windows only but it maybe just what this guy needs. Although its not true traffic shaping it might help solve the problem.
It really wouldn't be all that hard for MS to force everyone to upgrade. Look at how they "encourage" buisnesses to upgrade. Or take a look at the EULA's for Windows Media Player 7.1 and Windows XP. MS reserves the right to remotely add, remove, or modify software on your machine without your consent. All they have to do is make a "security patch" and stick it on windowsupdate or just have XP's automatic updater software install it without telling you. And 'POOF!' you are now the proud owner of a Palladium enabled computer.
Naa, I think he's getting back at him by putting a direct non-obfucated mailto: link to his email on the front page of one of the nets most heavly visited sites. Can we say revenge of the spam bots? I think we can.
Thats just because he didn't know that you were doing those things. Its easy to see when MS does stuff like that but it's rather hard to tell if other corps are doing it. But thanks for the info. You have reinforced my resolve to only use cash for everything.
I suppose I should explain my postion more throughly. When I say "yes" I say it because I think that the entire artical is nothing but a big smelly pile of FUD, nothing more. The chances that they are right are so small that I don't think its worth considering. I'm not about to change my ways because someone else thinks I need to. I'll do it when I think such a course of action is mandated. And this mandates nothing IMHO.
"As I see fit" is whatever I personally think is a responsible course of action. Dumping chemical waste out in the open is obviously not responsible. Such waste should be properly disposed of and converted into fertilizer, which can then go on my lawn.
I don't think a single person could possbily do irrepable damage to the enviroment on the scale we are discussing here. I'm actually just risking my individual piece of this world (which will become my children's piece if I have any) not yours. If you don't want to risk your part then don't, that's your choice. But I will do with my part as I see fit.
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Windows 2000 SP3 includes the .NET run time. You cannot install SP3 without getting .NET. I duno about Windows XP though.
I suppose they won't have pictures posted on their web site now will they?
Impresive ... most impressive....
...break the object up into smaller pieces; chances are some of these pieces would still strike Earth...
Then just nuke the resulting pieces until there are no more bits big enough to hurt. Its not like we don't have several thousand of the darn things.
Am I the only one who when they first read the headline thought: "What the heck? You mean there is a real scientific reason that people choose Mozilla over IE aside from the no brainer ones? Such as freedom of choice, security, popup blockage, and giving MS the finger over port 80 instead of 79." No really, I thought there might be some sort of previously unknown sociological or psychological thing concerning large lizards whose RGB color is a multiple of 42 (read: color=#840000) or the concept of geckos running everything behind the scenes (read: mice).
No really, thats actually what went through my mind.
The current system (RIAA, MPAA, ect...) is corrupt, bloated, and no longer needed. It must be torn down and rebuilt. A little revolution, now and then, is a healthy thing.
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You should run an AMD processor with an AMD chipset mobo. My 1.4ghz T-bird paired with an AMD 761 chipset mobo (Asus A7M266) has NEVER crashed once in the year that I've had it. A very stable machine, and I abuse it too. FYI, its on almost all the time.
Ok, I have a modern system. (1.4ghz Tbird, 512 DDR ram, DVD drive, ASUS A7M266 mobo, ect...) It boots just fine from any bootable CD (win2k, winxp, Linux, ect...). But here's the catch. It's only two hard drives are a pluged into a Promise Fastrack TX2 PCI RAID controler (for RAID level 0). Without drivers for this card it is totally impossible to install any OS on my system. And I have yet to see any version of Windows or any Linux distro that supports this card out of the box. The card came with drivers, on 3.5 floppy disks. In order to install windows 2000 or XP these disks must be inserted at the start of the instilation process otherwise windows setup will not find the hard drives. Linux is the same way. So there you have it. A modern system that requires a floppy drive to install the operating system.
One 14-oz. jar Kroger Natural Creamy peanut butter
1-3/4 cups dry milk powder
1/2 cup honey
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl. Don't use a spoon---just mush it up with your hands until it's like play dough. Roll it up into balls. Eat.
Q. When's the last time you unknowingly had sex?
A:When you bought a M$ product.
Wow I guess people really mean it when they say that MS is screwing them in the ass. Damn....
We do not guarantee that any source code or executable code available from the mozilla.org domain is Year 2000 compliant.
Is this some sort of joke?? I thought we got over that whole thing 2 years ago.
Give Cable Nut a try. It lets you play with all that stuff and well, a butload more stuff having to do with how the TCP/IP stack behaves. It's for windows only but it maybe just what this guy needs. Although its not true traffic shaping it might help solve the problem.
It really wouldn't be all that hard for MS to force everyone to upgrade. Look at how they "encourage" buisnesses to upgrade. Or take a look at the EULA's for Windows Media Player 7.1 and Windows XP. MS reserves the right to remotely add, remove, or modify software on your machine without your consent. All they have to do is make a "security patch" and stick it on windowsupdate or just have XP's automatic updater software install it without telling you. And 'POOF!' you are now the proud owner of a Palladium enabled computer.
There are many such easter eggs on ask.com, many of which are listed here.
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But seriously, damn man. Just damn.
Err wait... these things run on batteries..... DOH!!!
Ok, how about: "Cause the members couldn't agree on where to go."
No more like, "Why didn't the Beowulf cluster cross the road?"
Cause the power cables weren't long enough.
Naa, I think he's getting back at him by putting a direct non-obfucated mailto: link to his email on the front page of one of the nets most heavly visited sites. Can we say revenge of the spam bots? I think we can.
Thats just because he didn't know that you were doing those things. Its easy to see when MS does stuff like that but it's rather hard to tell if other corps are doing it. But thanks for the info. You have reinforced my resolve to only use cash for everything.
Yes yes, exactly, now if only everyone else would use this same sort of sane logic.
eh?
Renders fine in Mozilla 1.0....
I suppose I should explain my postion more throughly. When I say "yes" I say it because I think that the entire artical is nothing but a big smelly pile of FUD, nothing more. The chances that they are right are so small that I don't think its worth considering. I'm not about to change my ways because someone else thinks I need to. I'll do it when I think such a course of action is mandated. And this mandates nothing IMHO.
"As I see fit" is whatever I personally think is a responsible course of action. Dumping chemical waste out in the open is obviously not responsible. Such waste should be properly disposed of and converted into fertilizer, which can then go on my lawn.
I don't think a single person could possbily do irrepable damage to the enviroment on the scale we are discussing here. I'm actually just risking my individual piece of this world (which will become my children's piece if I have any) not yours. If you don't want to risk your part then don't, that's your choice. But I will do with my part as I see fit.
...are you willing to take that chanse?
Yes.