If you're really that stupid, please just shoot yourself in the head. Netscape navigator worked fine in Win3.1, and Mac-OS 6 or whatever it was at that point.
In fact, Microsoft didn't bet on the internet with windows 95. It shipped with its own, at the time, proprietary network MSN, which sucked ass. In order to develop 'sites' for it you had to pay thousands to MS in order to get Microsoft 'blackbird' software to create them
Those thousands of reasons are called "lines of code". The code for Microsoft Windows will never be available - and for this reason alone, we can never do with Windows what we can do with TRON. Or Linux.
What do you mean? The sourcecode for windows CE is right here.
These Japs keep it simple, and their products are great. I still think a good WindowsXP type of OS can be built for less than 30MB - no registry, active directory, Kerberos and all that crap.
Well, I think you're an idiot. I don't even see how you can have a 'windows like' OS without having a registry, it'd be like having a Unix without and/etc directory. I also don't see why having a registry would take up that much space anyway. Not any more space then having separate.ini files like win32 or text config files like most Unix systems. (in fact, win3.1 did include a simple registry, but it wasn't used for all configin' like today).
Active directory? Well, who knows. Lots of people would need something like this as an add on anyway (but not everyone). And Kerberos? Well, most unix implementations support kerberos and SSH anyway, and that doesn't take up much space either.
So basically jobs that were in other departments and moved into homeland security are going to keep using the same software.
ooh. fascinating
You know, for all bush's talk about being anti-big government he seems almost opposite. I mean for one thing we have the largest federal deficit ever, and secondly this whole homeland security thing just about the most 'governmenty' way of securing everything? I mean, the first they did was create this massive bureaucracy, and they did it by reshuffling other smaller bureaucracy into one. So rather then spending time and effort trying to do a better job, they spend all this money and resources in merging all this crap together.
And that's on top of all the shuffling bush did to get rid of all the 'clintonistas' in government.
On the one hand, I think distributing kiddy porn does continue to harm the child after it's been produced. I mean, imagine knowing that there are freaks out there jerking off to your most horrible memory? Never knowing who those pervs are, if maybe someone walking down the street will recognize you on the street and get some 'ideas'.
some victims of child sexual abuse who grow up not 'bothered' by what happened, and joining NAMBLA or something like that. There was one dude on K5 named 'snowlion' who had this attitude, and felt that all the stuff was 'loving' and all that. Do you think it would still be morally wrong to propagate pornographic photographs of this person that had been taken when he was a kid, if he gave his consent? I mean, what if he wants people to see those pics?
Or how about Traci Lord's old shoots from before she turned 18? Would it be morally wrong to, say, distribute the penthouse where she appeared when she was only 15?
Oh well, personally I don't really care. I think it's reasonable to go after people who distribute kiddy porn for the reason outlined in the first paragraph in general.
All Freenet does is spread around the liability. If I own a copyrighted peice of information, and I find you sharing a copy of it, I have every right to ask you to stop, and take you to court if you refuse.
With Freenet, all I need to do is record the IP address of people who I got the data from. It doesn't matter if they were the ones who posted the key in the first place. If I can verify that you were serving my IP, you're liable for it.
There are a lot of idiotic programmers in the US. I've met tons of 'em. Which is why I don't have much sympathy about this outsourcing stuff. It seems like a lot of US based IT people suck ass. Why should some Indian not have a job so that some VB monkey can make $50k/year?
I'm not picking on you, guy, but a foreign worker making one-tenth the salary of an American worker is not going to be in the market for the expensive products the American companies are selling. And they can get soap and toilet paper cheaper from local companies, so we aren't talking about inexpensive products.
Since when do programmers use soap?
But seriously, if a soap company outsources it's IT, how many people is that going to affect? Definitely not the entire soap buying public.
These companies aren't outsourcing everything, just a lot of IT stuff. There are lots of people in this country who don't have IT jobs, and lots of IT people who won't lose their jobs.
Who shall be left to buy, if all jobs except for the 3 top guys are "outsourced"?
How is Wal-Mart going to outsource it's employees? What about McDonalds?
The only thing that's going to happen is that eventually pay rates in India and the US will reach parity. At that point, there will be no more reason to outsource.
And anyway, there is nothing stopping these people from selling their goods to people in India. I wonder what it is that makes people seem to think the only 'consumers' in the world live in America?
Of course, that's assuming that "globalization" doesn't keep outsourcing jobs to low-cost areas, reducing the entire planet to a giant slum.
You mean, as opposed to the current situation where the place where you live is nice, but all the rest of it is an even worse slum? There is absolutely no moral principle for which you could claim that that's a good thing. Yes, the world will all be a "slum" if you consider $9/hr for coding 'impoverished'. but on average most people will be better off then they were before.
What nonsense. If a company is only selling to its employees, it's by definition losing money. And besides those companies can sell their products in India as well. The don't lose any customers at all, it's just that the place their customers is in changes.
I don't use that much of office, just word and occasionally Excel (and I used to run autopr0n with an Access database. Hehe), but I've never once seen it crash. The fact that you need to use works to start it up probably means that some files are corrupted or something. Your machine isn't really a valid comparison. I've never once seen an office app crash since office 2k.
I'm not saying open office sucks, and I'll probably use it sometime if I can't get my hands on a pirated copy of office, but office dosn't really suck as bad as you make it out too.
Well, first of all I think it's rather ridiculous to think people would switch applications (Quark to Scribus) rather then using 'emulated' OS9 code on OSX.
Besides, that's not the point anyway. The point is that once people start using Scribus, they can switch between MacOS, Linux, and Windows, rather then simply MacOS and Windows. Linux becomes a viable option.
/wonders if the 64 people below my threshold all made the same joke...?
Apparently not. I guess someone's pulled some kind of distributed crap-flooding. Interesting, although I don't really think posting a bunch score-0 posts really counts as 'pwn'ing slashdot...
Ah yes, TV sucked, so kids ran amok trying to entertain themselves. Cola was flavored with cane sugar produced by neer slave labor, now its full of corn sugar that doesn't taste so good an is as addictive, if not more, than heroin.
Soda tastes worse so it's more addictive? Whatever. Btw, the reason people use corn syrup now isn't for health reasons, but because of stupid protectionist sugar tariffs.
I think everyone here can agree that the entire club would be open source coders today, although it's not clear if they would embrace the BSD or GPL license. It may not even be stretching things to say that groups who wrote and distributed DeCSS are working through the same themes as the Mad Scientist Club, albeit on a global scale.
This may shock you, but there are smart people out there who are not OSS coders! In fact, there are smart people out there who are not even coders at all! That's right, intelligent people out there working on Airplanes, automobiles, and doing all sorts of other types of engineering. Rumor has it that there may even be smart people in business or the arts. (keep that quiet though). There are also smart people involved in proprietary software if you can believe that!
I do have it on good authority, however, that not one single intelligent person works for the government.
Hrm, we have a couple of SGIs at work, and I was actually kind of surprised at how slow and crapy they were. The "Multigen Creator" software they come with for 3-d rendering absolutely sucks and it's ridiculously slow when you have more then 20 polygons on the screen too. This is on an 02.
Using 3ds Max on a k6 with a decent 3d card seems like it would be faster...
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If you're really that stupid, please just shoot yourself in the head. Netscape navigator worked fine in Win3.1, and Mac-OS 6 or whatever it was at that point.
In fact, Microsoft didn't bet on the internet with windows 95. It shipped with its own, at the time, proprietary network MSN, which sucked ass. In order to develop 'sites' for it you had to pay thousands to MS in order to get Microsoft 'blackbird' software to create them
Those thousands of reasons are called "lines of code". The code for Microsoft Windows will never be available - and for this reason alone, we can never do with Windows what we can do with TRON. Or Linux.
What do you mean? The sourcecode for windows CE is right here.
These Japs keep it simple, and their products are great. I still think a good WindowsXP type of OS can be built for less than 30MB - no registry, active directory, Kerberos and all that crap.
/etc directory. I also don't see why having a registry would take up that much space anyway. Not any more space then having separate .ini files like win32 or text config files like most Unix systems. (in fact, win3.1 did include a simple registry, but it wasn't used for all configin' like today).
Well, I think you're an idiot. I don't even see how you can have a 'windows like' OS without having a registry, it'd be like having a Unix without and
Active directory? Well, who knows. Lots of people would need something like this as an add on anyway (but not everyone). And Kerberos? Well, most unix implementations support kerberos and SSH anyway, and that doesn't take up much space either.
So basically jobs that were in other departments and moved into homeland security are going to keep using the same software.
ooh. fascinating
You know, for all bush's talk about being anti-big government he seems almost opposite. I mean for one thing we have the largest federal deficit ever, and secondly this whole homeland security thing just about the most 'governmenty' way of securing everything? I mean, the first they did was create this massive bureaucracy, and they did it by reshuffling other smaller bureaucracy into one. So rather then spending time and effort trying to do a better job, they spend all this money and resources in merging all this crap together.
And that's on top of all the shuffling bush did to get rid of all the 'clintonistas' in government.
On the one hand, I think distributing kiddy porn does continue to harm the child after it's been produced. I mean, imagine knowing that there are freaks out there jerking off to your most horrible memory? Never knowing who those pervs are, if maybe someone walking down the street will recognize you on the street and get some 'ideas'.
some victims of child sexual abuse who grow up not 'bothered' by what happened, and joining NAMBLA or something like that. There was one dude on K5 named 'snowlion' who had this attitude, and felt that all the stuff was 'loving' and all that. Do you think it would still be morally wrong to propagate pornographic photographs of this person that had been taken when he was a kid, if he gave his consent? I mean, what if he wants people to see those pics?
Or how about Traci Lord's old shoots from before she turned 18? Would it be morally wrong to, say, distribute the penthouse where she appeared when she was only 15?
Oh well, personally I don't really care. I think it's reasonable to go after people who distribute kiddy porn for the reason outlined in the first paragraph in general.
All Freenet does is spread around the liability. If I own a copyrighted peice of information, and I find you sharing a copy of it, I have every right to ask you to stop, and take you to court if you refuse.
With Freenet, all I need to do is record the IP address of people who I got the data from. It doesn't matter if they were the ones who posted the key in the first place. If I can verify that you were serving my IP, you're liable for it.
There are a lot of idiotic programmers in the US. I've met tons of 'em. Which is why I don't have much sympathy about this outsourcing stuff. It seems like a lot of US based IT people suck ass. Why should some Indian not have a job so that some VB monkey can make $50k/year?
I'm not picking on you, guy, but a foreign worker making one-tenth the salary of an American worker is not going to be in the market for the expensive products the American companies are selling. And they can get soap and toilet paper cheaper from local companies, so we aren't talking about inexpensive products.
Since when do programmers use soap?
But seriously, if a soap company outsources it's IT, how many people is that going to affect? Definitely not the entire soap buying public.
These companies aren't outsourcing everything, just a lot of IT stuff. There are lots of people in this country who don't have IT jobs, and lots of IT people who won't lose their jobs.
Who shall be left to buy, if all jobs except for the 3 top guys are "outsourced"?
How is Wal-Mart going to outsource it's employees? What about McDonalds?
The only thing that's going to happen is that eventually pay rates in India and the US will reach parity. At that point, there will be no more reason to outsource.
And anyway, there is nothing stopping these people from selling their goods to people in India. I wonder what it is that makes people seem to think the only 'consumers' in the world live in America?
Of course, that's assuming that "globalization" doesn't keep outsourcing jobs to low-cost areas, reducing the entire planet to a giant slum.
You mean, as opposed to the current situation where the place where you live is nice, but all the rest of it is an even worse slum? There is absolutely no moral principle for which you could claim that that's a good thing. Yes, the world will all be a "slum" if you consider $9/hr for coding 'impoverished'. but on average most people will be better off then they were before.
What nonsense. If a company is only selling to its employees, it's by definition losing money. And besides those companies can sell their products in India as well. The don't lose any customers at all, it's just that the place their customers is in changes.
I don't use that much of office, just word and occasionally Excel (and I used to run autopr0n with an Access database. Hehe), but I've never once seen it crash. The fact that you need to use works to start it up probably means that some files are corrupted or something. Your machine isn't really a valid comparison. I've never once seen an office app crash since office 2k.
I'm not saying open office sucks, and I'll probably use it sometime if I can't get my hands on a pirated copy of office, but office dosn't really suck as bad as you make it out too.
Well, first of all I think it's rather ridiculous to think people would switch applications (Quark to Scribus) rather then using 'emulated' OS9 code on OSX.
Besides, that's not the point anyway. The point is that once people start using Scribus, they can switch between MacOS, Linux, and Windows, rather then simply MacOS and Windows. Linux becomes a viable option.
Did you even bother to click the link? IBM did sell PCs with 8086 chips in their PS/2 line. I'm sure clonemakers did too.
Not that they'res anything wrong with that, of course.
/wonders if the 64 people below my threshold all made the same joke...?
Apparently not. I guess someone's pulled some kind of distributed crap-flooding. Interesting, although I don't really think posting a bunch score-0 posts really counts as 'pwn'ing slashdot...
What about Junis? Didn't he download it for his C64?
/wonders if the 64 people below my threshold all made the same joke...?
Is it just me or is reading a two-column, page-by-page layout PDF on the web a huge pain in the ass? Why did they chose this formatting? Ugh.
I'd much rather just read this article again... mmm...
Hrm, I guess it was an octane, not an O2.
Ah yes, TV sucked, so kids ran amok trying to entertain themselves. Cola was flavored with cane sugar produced by neer slave labor, now its full of corn sugar that doesn't taste so good an is as addictive, if not more, than heroin.
Soda tastes worse so it's more addictive? Whatever. Btw, the reason people use corn syrup now isn't for health reasons, but because of stupid protectionist sugar tariffs.
I think everyone here can agree that the entire club would be open source coders today, although it's not clear if they would embrace the BSD or GPL license. It may not even be stretching things to say that groups who wrote and distributed DeCSS are working through the same themes as the Mad Scientist Club, albeit on a global scale.
This may shock you, but there are smart people out there who are not OSS coders! In fact, there are smart people out there who are not even coders at all! That's right, intelligent people out there working on Airplanes, automobiles, and doing all sorts of other types of engineering. Rumor has it that there may even be smart people in business or the arts. (keep that quiet though). There are also smart people involved in proprietary software if you can believe that!
I do have it on good authority, however, that not one single intelligent person works for the government.
Um, I'm pretty sure that he meant they would exist, because the PCs most definetly did use an 8086 chip.
Hrm, we have a couple of SGIs at work, and I was actually kind of surprised at how slow and crapy they were. The "Multigen Creator" software they come with for 3-d rendering absolutely sucks and it's ridiculously slow when you have more then 20 polygons on the screen too. This is on an 02.
Using 3ds Max on a k6 with a decent 3d card seems like it would be faster...
Wired the magazine and wired the website are totaly seperate companies. The website is owned by Lycos, and the magazine by Conde Nast.