My question is why Microsoft wants everyone on version 6 so bad, I am still using 4.7 (when not on trillian) and it does everything that I need. Why the big push to get everyone on 6? Is there some great new feature that is going to give us everything we were missing on the internet? I wonder what else this software is "giving" us besides the ability to change the background of the messanger???
just some food for thought
"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"
"I blame Slashdot - they are marketing for the Linux kernel!"
"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Microsoft."
"They're coming to surrender or be burned in their computerr rooms."
"No I am not scared, and neither should you be!"
"Be assured. Passport is safe, protected"
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!"
"We are not afraid of the hackers. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid" (dramatic pause) "and they are condemned."
"The hackers, they always depend on a method what I call... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies."
"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have
started to commit suicide under the walls of Hotmail. We will encourage them to commit suicide more quickly."
"I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place."
"The authority of the Microsoft... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those Linux Distrobutions because they are booby traps," he said, adding that Hackers were "immoral mercenaries" and "criminals" for such behavior.
"I am not talking about the American people and the British people," he said. "I am talking about Hackers.... They have started throwing those emails, but they are not emails, they are booby traps to kill the children."
"We have them surrounded in their computer rooms"
"Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka is all about lies! All he tells is lies, lies and more lies!"
"I have detailed information about the situation...which completely proves that what they allege are illusions . . . They lie every day."
"Lying is forbidden in Microsoft. Microsoft lawyers will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as they are men of great honor and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts."
"Now even the Hacker command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."
Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Microsoft Information Minister
"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"
"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"
"I blame File-sharing networks - they are marketing for the Pirates!"
"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of RIAA."
"They're coming to surrender or be burned in their hondas."
"No I am not scared, and neither should you be!"
"Be assured. Intellectual Property is safe, protected"
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!"
"We are not afraid of the Pirates. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid" (dramatic pause) "and they are condemned."
"The Pirates, they always depend on a method what I call... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies."
"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."
"I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place."
"We have destroyed 2 web servers, ftp sites, 2 College students and their families - We have driven them back."
"The authority of the RIAA... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps," he said, adding that the Pirates were "immoral mercenaries" and "IP criminals" for such behavior.
"I am not talking about the American people and the British people," he said. "I am talking about those Pirates.... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children."
"We have them surrounded in their dormrooms"
"Slashdot is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!"
"I have detailed information about the situation...which completely proves that what they allege are illusions . . . They lie every day."
"Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Hillary Rosen will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as she is a woman of great honor and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts."
"Now even the Pirate command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."
"All their bass are belong to us!"
Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf RIAA Information Minister Iraq
Why do I have the feeling that very soon MS will pull their patents for the high-level shaders (aquired from SGI) from OpenGL forcing OpenGLs shaders back into the dark ages. Well, get out your vendor specific shader white papers out.. your gonna need 'em.
The turn based limitation could be solved by advancing the time only as your character moved/took action through the dungeon with "idle time" animations to fill in the "time gap". Nethack will be really cool when there is an OpenGL frontend. It will then have it all.
This is once again M$ using is dominance in the warketplace to kill competition through deceptive means. It is really sad that people will defend this large conglomerate corporation when they keep showing time and time again that all they really care about is the bottom line.. money..
THe Microsoft corporation doesn't care who they put out of work in the process or what sort of innovation and creativity that they stifle(sp?). They dont love you or your dog, don't care about your "web experience" they just want your money.
Granted they are a for profit corporation and that mean they need to make money.. But look at the cost of their means.. innovation, jobs, consumer choice, there is quite a bit more (not enough coffee to list them).
Hopefully M$ will one day change their tactics and begin to embrace the new technologies that other people create instead of holding them under the waves untill they drown in a sea of Microsoft Brand Technology(tm).
Here's my thought on the MSN site. If MSN was a real website they would try to get as many people there (and returning) as they possibly could, this would give them value with advertisers
and MSN would continue to make money as an advertising/news service site. THis doesn't seem to be the case. This tactic shows that MSN is nothing more than a web tool that is being used to make people get off of competing web
browsers/Operating Systems.. You know why they are not doing this with Netscape/Mozilla.. they already got in trouble with the DOJ regarding NS and they wouldn't push that envolope again.. but opera, what can opera do without revinue.. (get the slashdot community on their cause!)
What can slashdot do you might ask?? think of it this way. With enough butterflys, you can make a hurricane.
Oh well, maybe one day Microsoft will realise that they don't need to kill competition, and they can make ALOT more money in the long run by fostering the market, instead of destroying it.
A couple of years ago I came across a book at a pharmacy that I was contracting for. Brain Longevity has alot of interesting facts and studies about memory and the brain in general. One of the studies that was done to prove that memory was cellular was. A group of earth worms were put in a special tray and a light would be shone on the worms and they would simultainiously recieve an electrical shock causing the worms to curl up. After a few runs of this test the worm were then ground up and fed to other worms (pretty gross eh??) now when the new worms were put in a tray and the light would shine on them (no shock this time) the worms would curl up and react just like the set of worms that would recieve the electric shock. Thus proving (in earth worms anyways) that memory is cellular. Another good quote from the book referencing the fact that we barely understood the brain of an insect. at this time if we were to know everything about our brain we would be too dumb to understand it
(well, it went something like that).
Now back to the topic.. My earliest memory was from 3 years old when my uncle tried to ride his motorcycle up a set of wooden steps that went up to our front porch and colapsed the old stairs. I remember being scared that it happend which sort of leads me to why I think I remember it.
Yeah SDL is one of the best API's around. It has everything you need to make cross platform OpenGL. Input, window management, music, multi-threading, 2D & 3D capabilities.. It has it all:)
There are some books about SDL, but the really good stuff can be found in the online documentation off of the web site. SDL also has really good community support. I have had nothing but good experiences with SDL and I would recommend it to everyone.
Hillary Rodam: Thank you, thank you, I really appricate all of the hard work that I put in to do this and I would like to thank all of my financial backers for making this possible...
Dennis Rodman: (Hey, I can see down her shirt from up here) psst.. you know what this ceremony is for right??
Hillary Rodam: Uhh, Yeah... This is my supreme ruler award ceremony
Dennis Rodman: (oh boy she's loaded) UH YEAH, supreme ruler lets go back to my dressing room and I will give you the real award.. this is part on stage is just for all of the people watching on TV.
Hillary Rodam: oooh, you got any vodka there
Dennis Rodman: Uhh, yeah whatever you want baby... I got it all, here let me show you...
Fade out with audience applause and standing ovation.
I'll stick with your analogy...
Now if Ford originally signed a contract with Honda to include the Bolt pattern for their catalytic converters and then did a breach of contract by adding a propietary Ford Brand bolt which would make the Honda CC leak exhaust and noise, would it be bad for the govenment to step in and force Ford to use the original Honda Catylitic converter bolt patten that 1) gave consumers more choice on Catalytic converters (because of no proprietary bolts) and 2) prevented air and noise polution? (your analogy, my point)
Looks like the.NET developers are in full force today;)... I am in full support of this decision to force microsoft to have to include the latest version of java on their OS. This is really a step in the right direction towards undoing the damage that Micro$oft's previous actions have caused. This also helps all consumers in the future by giving us a choice in what platform we want to run our apps on, the average consumer will not go out and install the latest version of Java. If M$ can bundle the latest.NET that is technically far superior to the M$ Java VM from windows 95, of course people are going to say that Java sucks because the average person will not understand that they are using a 8 year old version of Java... a poorly implemented version at that. If M$ was allowed their way they would be destroying the customer choice through their OS monopoly. This decision ensures that there is future compitition in the web development market. good job to Judge Motz for helping to keep the free market free.
I can't beleve that I am replying to a troll...
You really think that the Million's of dollars that the MPAA is spending on prosecuting people in other countries isn't inflating the cost of DVD's faster then the "losses" from DVD pirating?
This isn't even a DVD pirating ring of criminal masterminds... THis is a smart kid that was proving to himself that such a thing could be done. He wasn't profiting from the MPAA's IP, I bet he didn't even own a DVD burner.
It is the high cost entertainment and IP laywers spending endless hours figuring out who they can sue to keep their job and Porche that are driving the (already over-inflated) cost of DVDs up. Not a 16 year old kid who can reverse engineer a weak encryption scheme.
this makes sence, with the release of Asheron's Call 2 and Project Entropa falling in the same quarter (just in time for christmas no doubt) Micro$oft may be using its leverage in the OS market to (once again) benifit it's software market through anti-trusted(?) means. Look at it like this: If M$ can delay the release of Project Entropa a month then they have reached their goal of the Christmas profits. A BSA audit can shut a company down for months if the company is found to be "out of compliance" while the lawyers on both sides reach a settlement. During this time guess who's game is released just in time for christmas and guess who gets released in the "weak" first quarter... Yeah, Micro$oft would never use their dominance in the OS market to destroy competition in the software market. They definitely learned their lesson in US court. No sir, they are clean as a wistle now.... Yeah Right! As long as it isn't US companies that they are pushing out of the software market the US courts wont even consider it as illeagal monopoly pushin'
yeah if you consider "shooting the breeze" something like:
"hey i need a favor" and "hey you got $500"... sheeze that is about all the conversation I got from those calls at 3 in the morning;)
If you look at the non-upgrade route (and assuming that you have all of the proper licenses to begin with) yes, your exchange upgrade is $111 less. BUT for a non-upgrade take a look the costs involved, there is the issue of your W2K server License $1,199. The cost of Exchange $699 and Exchange CALs(10 @ $67) $670 (according to M$ you must buy ALL CALs with the basic Exchange 2000) add those and you are over $2500 for a new set-up. Twice the cost of SUSE + Openexchange.
Hi, My name is Harib Zabar Mitchell III sr. and I am a board member of the Erudin Senate for Platinum Pieces moderation committee. We need your help getting 4.5 Million PP (yes that is 4,500,000 PP!) out of royal tax holding accounts. We are exclusively asking for your help because we need an outside investor to pay the levys and taxes involved with releasing our 4.5M PP. We will refund your money plus a 100% interest. Now note that there may be mulitple normal taxes and leveys that may arise during the course of this transaction...
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My question is why Microsoft wants everyone on version 6 so bad, I am still using 4.7 (when not on trillian) and it does everything that I need. Why the big push to get everyone on 6? Is there some great new feature that is going to give us everything we were missing on the internet? I wonder what else this software is "giving" us besides the ability to change the background of the messanger??? just some food for thought
I think the service pack for NT4 is called Linux ;)
"There are no hacker infidels in Hotmail. Never!"
... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies."
... They have started throwing those emails, but they are not emails, they are booby traps to kill the children."
"My feelings - as usual - we will kill them all"
"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"
"I blame Slashdot - they are marketing for the Linux kernel!"
"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Microsoft."
"They're coming to surrender or be burned in their computerr rooms."
"No I am not scared, and neither should you be!"
"Be assured. Passport is safe, protected"
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!"
"We are not afraid of the hackers. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid" (dramatic pause) "and they are condemned."
"The hackers, they always depend on a method what I call
"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Hotmail. We will encourage them to commit suicide more quickly."
"I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place."
"The authority of the Microsoft... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those Linux Distrobutions because they are booby traps," he said, adding that Hackers were "immoral mercenaries" and "criminals" for such behavior.
"I am not talking about the American people and the British people," he said. "I am talking about Hackers.
"We have them surrounded in their computer rooms"
"Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka is all about lies! All he tells is lies, lies and more lies!"
"I have detailed information about the situation...which completely proves that what they allege are illusions . . . They lie every day."
"Lying is forbidden in Microsoft. Microsoft lawyers will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as they are men of great honor and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts."
"Now even the Hacker command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."
Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Microsoft Information Minister
"There are no Pirate infidels in Baghdad. Never!"
... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies."
... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps," he said, adding that the Pirates were "immoral mercenaries" and "IP criminals" for such behavior.
... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children."
"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"
"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"
"I blame File-sharing networks - they are marketing for the Pirates!"
"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of RIAA."
"They're coming to surrender or be burned in their hondas."
"No I am not scared, and neither should you be!"
"Be assured. Intellectual Property is safe, protected"
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!"
"We are not afraid of the Pirates. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid" (dramatic pause) "and they are condemned."
"The Pirates, they always depend on a method what I call
"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have
started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We
will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."
"I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place."
"We have destroyed 2 web servers, ftp sites, 2 College students and their families - We have driven them back."
"The authority of the RIAA
"I am not talking about the American people and the British people," he said. "I am talking about those Pirates.
"We have them surrounded in their dormrooms"
"Slashdot is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!"
"I have detailed information about the situation...which completely proves that what they allege are illusions . . . They lie every day."
"Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Hillary Rosen will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as she is a woman of great honor and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts."
"Now even the Pirate command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."
"All their bass are belong to us!"
Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf
RIAA Information Minister Iraq
"There will be a day of reckoning for Red Hat and SuSE when this is done."
I think I know where the the Iraqi Information Minister is now working.
"The days of cramming bulky 2.5" disks into mp3 players may finally be over."
yeah if the RIAA gets their way this will be is the understatement of the year.
Why do I have the feeling that very soon MS will pull their patents for the high-level shaders (aquired from SGI) from OpenGL forcing OpenGLs shaders back into the dark ages.
Well, get out your vendor specific shader white papers out.. your gonna need 'em.
The turn based limitation could be solved by advancing the time only as your character moved/took action through the dungeon with "idle time" animations to fill in the "time gap". Nethack will be really cool when there is an OpenGL frontend. It will then have it all.
This is once again M$ using is dominance in the warketplace to kill competition through deceptive means. It is really sad that people will defend this large conglomerate corporation when they keep showing time and time again that all they really care about is the bottom line.. money..
THe Microsoft corporation doesn't care who they put out of work in the process or what sort of innovation and creativity that they stifle(sp?). They dont love you or your dog, don't care about your "web experience" they just want your money.
Granted they are a for profit corporation and that mean they need to make money.. But look at the cost of their means.. innovation, jobs, consumer choice, there is quite a bit more (not enough coffee to list them).
Hopefully M$ will one day change their tactics and begin to embrace the new technologies that other people create instead of holding them under the waves untill they drown in a sea of Microsoft Brand Technology(tm).
Here's my thought on the MSN site. If MSN was a real website they would try to get as many people there (and returning) as they possibly could, this would give them value with advertisers and MSN would continue to make money as an advertising/news service site. THis doesn't seem to be the case. This tactic shows that MSN is nothing more than a web tool that is being used to make people get off of competing web
browsers/Operating Systems.. You know why they are not doing this with Netscape/Mozilla.. they already got in trouble with the DOJ regarding NS and they wouldn't push that envolope again.. but opera, what can opera do without revinue.. (get the slashdot community on their cause!)
What can slashdot do you might ask?? think of it this way. With enough butterflys, you can make a hurricane.
Oh well, maybe one day Microsoft will realise that they don't need to kill competition, and they can make ALOT more money in the long run by fostering the market, instead of destroying it.
just some thoughts....
A couple of years ago I came across a book at a pharmacy that I was contracting for. Brain Longevity has alot of interesting facts and studies about memory and the brain in general. One of the studies that was done to prove that memory was cellular was. A group of earth worms were put in a special tray and a light would be shone on the worms and they would simultainiously recieve an electrical shock causing the worms to curl up. After a few runs of this test the worm were then ground up and fed to other worms (pretty gross eh??) now when the new worms were put in a tray and the light would shine on them (no shock this time) the worms would curl up and react just like the set of worms that would recieve the electric shock. Thus proving (in earth worms anyways) that memory is cellular. Another good quote from the book referencing the fact that we barely understood the brain of an insect. at this time if we were to know everything about our brain we would be too dumb to understand it (well, it went something like that).
Now back to the topic.. My earliest memory was from 3 years old when my uncle tried to ride his motorcycle up a set of wooden steps that went up to our front porch and colapsed the old stairs. I remember being scared that it happend which sort of leads me to why I think I remember it.
Yeah SDL is one of the best API's around. It has everything you need to make cross platform OpenGL. Input, window management, music, multi-threading, 2D & 3D capabilities.. It has it all :)
There are some books about SDL, but the really good stuff can be found in the online documentation off of the web site. SDL also has really good community support. I have had nothing but good experiences with SDL and I would recommend it to everyone.
here let me fix that..
$perl -pi -e s/Rodam/Rosen/g parent.post
RIGHT! that Hillary Rosen!!
Who else would be accepting the award then the Queen of RIAA?
LIVE FROM THE MGM GRAND BALLROOM:
Hillary Rodam: Thank you, thank you, I really appricate all of the hard work that I put in to do this and I would like to thank all of my financial backers for making this possible...
Dennis Rodman: (Hey, I can see down her shirt from up here) psst.. you know what this ceremony is for right??
Hillary Rodam: Uhh, Yeah... This is my supreme ruler award ceremony
Dennis Rodman: (oh boy she's loaded) UH YEAH, supreme ruler lets go back to my dressing room and I will give you the real award.. this is part on stage is just for all of the people watching on TV.
Hillary Rodam: oooh, you got any vodka there
Dennis Rodman: Uhh, yeah whatever you want baby... I got it all, here let me show you...
Fade out with audience applause and standing ovation.
I'll stick with your analogy... Now if Ford originally signed a contract with Honda to include the Bolt pattern for their catalytic converters and then did a breach of contract by adding a propietary Ford Brand bolt which would make the Honda CC leak exhaust and noise, would it be bad for the govenment to step in and force Ford to use the original Honda Catylitic converter bolt patten that 1) gave consumers more choice on Catalytic converters (because of no proprietary bolts) and 2) prevented air and noise polution? (your analogy, my point)
Looks like the .NET developers are in full force today ;)... I am in full support of this decision to force microsoft to have to include the latest version of java on their OS. This is really a step in the right direction towards undoing the damage that Micro$oft's previous actions have caused. This also helps all consumers in the future by giving us a choice in what platform we want to run our apps on, the average consumer will not go out and install the latest version of Java. If M$ can bundle the latest .NET that is technically far superior to the M$ Java VM from windows 95, of course people are going to say that Java sucks because the average person will not understand that they are using a 8 year old version of Java... a poorly implemented version at that. If M$ was allowed their way they would be destroying the customer choice through their OS monopoly. This decision ensures that there is future compitition in the web development market. good job to Judge Motz for helping to keep the free market free.
Yes, that is true yet not my point. The point is that this kid wasn't pirating (arr, pirates).
I can't beleve that I am replying to a troll... You really think that the Million's of dollars that the MPAA is spending on prosecuting people in other countries isn't inflating the cost of DVD's faster then the "losses" from DVD pirating? This isn't even a DVD pirating ring of criminal masterminds... THis is a smart kid that was proving to himself that such a thing could be done. He wasn't profiting from the MPAA's IP, I bet he didn't even own a DVD burner. It is the high cost entertainment and IP laywers spending endless hours figuring out who they can sue to keep their job and Porche that are driving the (already over-inflated) cost of DVDs up. Not a 16 year old kid who can reverse engineer a weak encryption scheme.
this makes sence, with the release of Asheron's Call 2 and Project Entropa falling in the same quarter (just in time for christmas no doubt) Micro$oft may be using its leverage in the OS market to (once again) benifit it's software market through anti-trusted(?) means. Look at it like this: If M$ can delay the release of Project Entropa a month then they have reached their goal of the Christmas profits. A BSA audit can shut a company down for months if the company is found to be "out of compliance" while the lawyers on both sides reach a settlement. During this time guess who's game is released just in time for christmas and guess who gets released in the "weak" first quarter... Yeah, Micro$oft would never use their dominance in the OS market to destroy competition in the software market. They definitely learned their lesson in US court. No sir, they are clean as a wistle now.... Yeah Right! As long as it isn't US companies that they are pushing out of the software market the US courts wont even consider it as illeagal monopoly pushin'
yeah if you consider "shooting the breeze" something like: "hey i need a favor" and "hey you got $500"... sheeze that is about all the conversation I got from those calls at 3 in the morning ;)
If you look at the non-upgrade route (and assuming that you have all of the proper licenses to begin with) yes, your exchange upgrade is $111 less. BUT for a non-upgrade take a look the costs involved, there is the issue of your W2K server License $1,199. The cost of Exchange $699 and Exchange CALs(10 @ $67) $670 (according to M$ you must buy ALL CALs with the basic Exchange 2000) add those and you are over $2500 for a new set-up. Twice the cost of SUSE + Openexchange.
It is the Reggae stations that have circles of course (or is that how you sit with your friends when you listen to it) ;)
But luckily they have ted turner, now those people can finally enjoy full-color real life too!
Oh no, someone is gonna try this at a party.
Hi, My name is Harib Zabar Mitchell III sr. and I am a board member of the Erudin Senate for Platinum Pieces moderation committee. We need your help getting 4.5 Million PP (yes that is 4,500,000 PP!) out of royal tax holding accounts. We are exclusively asking for your help because we need an outside investor to pay the levys and taxes involved with releasing our 4.5M PP. We will refund your money plus a 100% interest. Now note that there may be mulitple normal taxes and leveys that may arise during the course of this transaction...