in windows xp when you switch users any processes that the old user was running stop until you log back in as that user. it writes out a ram dump to the hard drive and loads that back in when you switch back to that user. it is not "true" simultaneous users.
spam is not profitable. well, the act of spamming is not profitable, the only people who make a profit on spam are the people selling address lists to people who think spamming itself is profitable.
it's absolutely false that the asian pirated copies that show up in stores are out before the warez copies. they ARE the warez copies. the wares groups all frown upon pirating for monetary gain. why would they do that one minute, and then give it to the mob the next? the mob just gets someone to download the already released one, packages it, and sells it. the warez groups are niot involved with the process except that they released the source material that the piracy rings just happen to use.
he widely distributed software as part of a group called drink-or-die, otherwhise known as the "warez bearz from russia" if i remember correctly. they were one of the top groups very well known. this is not small potatoes. keep using carracho without fear dude. Being a mac user and seeing the disorganized warez scene on the mac is not representative of the pc warez scene (which really started with the C64). The PC scene is divided up into release groups, each competing against each other to get the software out to the masses first. This is not for monetary gain, but still widespread pirated software distribution just the same. some would say that if it weren't for these warez groups releasing and cracking the software the asian software piracy explosion would not have been so intense.
If this is true, why would they want to use a brand name that was almost entirely devoted to copyright violation?
There were plenty of people who didn't know they were violating copyrights and simply thought of napster was synonymous with "extremely easy to find exactly what you are looking for"
On a side note, i have recieved lots of porn spam in my day, and i have recieved some from this "Napster Porn". I didn't dare try downloading the software for fear of some automatic dialer (not to mention that the software doesn't run on macs anyway, and i don't understand russian...)
So this is nothing new. they have been using the name "Napster Porn" for over a year without actually owning the name Napster. here is a mail that showed up on the redhat mailing list in august of 2001. now either this guy that is tring to buy napster is the same guy, or he saw the russian guys and got inspired.
I don't see how this will help companies adopt os x. these companies use quark because it is what they are used to. they are just going to switch because apple bundles it with the machine?
i imagine until there is an os x version of quark, companies will simply ignore os x. and then perhaps even after it is available they will still ignore it, since alot of what the print world uses are applescripts that just won't work in os x because features are different/missing.
perhaps you need to spend less time smoking weed and more time remembering high school geography. amsterdam is not a country, but a city in the netherlands.
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isync can only sync apple's Address Book and apple's iCal application with certain mobile phones, palm devices, and other macs, not with pocketPC's or windows based pc's like the guy who posted the question is looking for. if apple is trying to plug thier product with this thing, they are doing it very badly.
ok, if i am working at a company, and some code one of my programmers wrote conflicts with something in the system, but the program can only be fixed by modifying some aspect of the OS, not the code itself, can I call the company that wrote the OS and pay them thousands of dollars to have one of thier programmers come out and either fix my (admittedly lame) programmer's code or modify theier product custom for me? If you pay microsoft enoughm they can do this, will redhat do the same? yes redhat offers support, but not that kind of support.
And my point about linux inc. was moronic! I did not agree with it, but it is a fact. those companies don't employ the programmers that wrote most of the operating system! those companies resell a freely available product and provide minimal support. they are not a fully integrated solution.
Yes if the network goes down for any signifigant amount of time, the admin and certain members of the IT staff are gonna get canned, but i was not talking about thier job security, i was talking about the guy who made final the decision to use the software. He gets canned too if it can't be repaired because the buck stops with him. If he has a bigass MS support contract to fall back on the buck stops with them, and his job is (most likely) safe.
Another example, when working at a different publishing company that made car magazines we employed an equally crappy content management system called Broadvision One2One. Out shit didn't work with thier shit. Our code was written by a bunch of amateurs that didn't know JSP very well. (the exec's don't realize that they save alot of money by paying competent programmers, but that's another rant) and it simply did not work well with te system, it was slow as shit, and we knew broadvision was slow, but not THAT slow, so we called the broadvision folks in and had 2 programmers from thier office come down for a few weeks to fix our shit. If we had been using PHP instead could we have called the PHP team down to fix our shit? I don't think so. The execs that make these decisions like to stay away from open source (free beer) software because the buck stops with them, instead of a service and support contract.
you seem to forget that businesses aren't consumers. Most places that do not adopt linux is because it is free, not because they think MS is better. people are worried about job security, and if something goes wrong with linux they only have themselves to blame. if something goes wrong with a microsoft product they have support to fall back on. they can pay hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour to get a ms employee to come out and fix thier problem. they can't do the same for a "linux employee".
Businesses buy software because it looks good on paper. When I worked at Larry Flynt Publications, we ran everything on Vingette StoryServer. They paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for that shitty ass software not because they thought it was good, but because it looked great on paper, and at the time vingette stock was through the roof. Some IT guy is going to mention linux to one of the execs and he is gonna say "so, how is Linux Inc.'s stock doing?" and when he finds out there is no official "Linux Inc." and that the developers are (for the most part) working for free for no particular company he is going to see that he doesn't have a safety net, and it doesn't look good on paper. Businesses want to deal with other big businesses, not hackers.
Linux is making inroads into these companies too, but lots of these companies that are using linux now are using along side windows.
Again I can't speak for all companies out there, there are plenty of companies using linux, and think the philosophy behind it is a good idea, but i can see it from thier perspective too.
As for the usability comment you made, excluding OS X here is my response: HA! I won't get into the common resolution-changing, copy/paste bullshit (oops, i just did)
IBM lost thier edge because thier BIOS was reverse engineered and clone manufacturers sold thier clone machines at a signifigant discount compared to IBM.
Microsoft will probably not meet the same fate because they have the DMCA behind them to protect their "IP" from being reverse engineered. Sure, you were around and IBM was in charge, but it's a differend world now tih different rules. The only thing that is going to take microsoft down is itself, not some company from texas that wants to make cheap computers.
There are many AC posts that are insightful, informative, etc., but never get modded up, so some of us like to read at 0. But due to your mod system, we have to wade disgusting offensive vile low-life and racist slime such as the above post.
Why can't you change your system to autodetect certain offensive terms such as the vile epithet used above and automod the post to a new level of -10:subhuman slime (or minus infinity, for that matter). This should only take about 10 minutes of coding and would make Slashdot a more fit place for us human beings. Shit belongs in the sewers, not co-mingled with the thoughts of human beings.
someone may say the word nigger in a non.offensive context just as I have here. Yes it was vile and low life scum, however those words when used in other contexts such as "can you believe he just called me a nigger??" or "in the 1800's blacks were known only as niggers" would also be blocked, and then ideas ans speech is no longer free and slashdot usually strives to be an uncensored venue.
free doesn't hurt, but it's the place that i work at that paid for the machine and the software so what do i care about the price? and who said anything about php/mysql? are those the only languages out there?
tomcat and mod_perl suck for windows, and the tools on linux aren't up to my standards (i guess i offended a linux user by saying that i didn't prefer it over closed software)
and i never said i needed photoshop to administer apache. i said it's nice to have all the tools on the same machine so i can work on a site on the bus or on the train or in a cofee shop, or in bed, with the tools that i am used to, and not have to modify anything. and besides, an ibook costs $1100, not $3000. and i get marked troll:rolleyes:
For all the people that say "why on a mac" here is the explanation. there is one of these for every platform. there is a "set up apache as your own developmnent server" howto for every platform, and up until now my question was why not mac? they are capable of running apache, so why not show the interested people how to do it?
Most of the effects of LSD would be hard to simulate (as with schizophrenia) because most of it is not "voices you hear" or "things you see" but bodily sensations and drastic changes in the thinking process, which are impossible to simulate.
sure you could simulate the "trails effect" you see when taking lsd, and maybe some of the patterns you see when you close your eyes, and the "swirling paint" effect that you see on textured walls, but people that take LSD don't see massive hallucinations. they don't see things that aren't there, they see things that are there differently.
The best description of an lsd visual would be from "fear and loathing in las vegas" the film based on the hunter thompson book, in a scene where the 2 guys had just taken... something, i think it was acid... as they are walking into the casino bar the pattern from the carpet was creeping up the furnature. right after that it lost it's believability (for me anyway) with the giant lizards, cuz i've never seen that kinda shit.
but at least for me the reason for taking as much lsd as i did in the past was not to "see cool hallucinations", but to think about things in a different way, see things from a different perspective, and it's this aspect (the dominant one) that would be impossible to simulate.
on a side note, i did lsd hundreds of times when i was younger, and now i have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder after a seriously bad trip. it's been 3 years since that trip and i get panic attacks and shit all the time. never did before that trip. so while i recommend using LSD, i don't recommend overusing it, and if it just doesn't feel right one night to drop acid, don't. drink a coffee instead of spending the whole night thinking your brain is about to explode. (there was no physical problem with my brain, it was just the thought process that lasd changed to make me feel like my brain was expanding beyond my skull)
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in windows xp when you switch users any processes that the old user was running stop until you log back in as that user. it writes out a ram dump to the hard drive and loads that back in when you switch back to that user. it is not "true" simultaneous users.
spam is not profitable. well, the act of spamming is not profitable, the only people who make a profit on spam are the people selling address lists to people who think spamming itself is profitable.
195 pounds right for your height? how tall are you, 7 feet?
just curious, not being mean or anything.
yeah because they were too busy gambling over street fighter 2. just you wait, those days are headed for a comeback my friend.
it's absolutely false that the asian pirated copies that show up in stores are out before the warez copies. they ARE the warez copies. the wares groups all frown upon pirating for monetary gain. why would they do that one minute, and then give it to the mob the next? the mob just gets someone to download the already released one, packages it, and sells it. the warez groups are niot involved with the process except that they released the source material that the piracy rings just happen to use.
but you have just fell into the trap of slashdot spin... how is that different?
I'm not joking. maybe the guy recognizes it as theft instead of sharing. you can't tell him what to believe just because you believe something.
he widely distributed software as part of a group called drink-or-die, otherwhise known as the "warez bearz from russia" if i remember correctly. they were one of the top groups very well known. this is not small potatoes. keep using carracho without fear dude. Being a mac user and seeing the disorganized warez scene on the mac is not representative of the pc warez scene (which really started with the C64). The PC scene is divided up into release groups, each competing against each other to get the software out to the masses first. This is not for monetary gain, but still widespread pirated software distribution just the same. some would say that if it weren't for these warez groups releasing and cracking the software the asian software piracy explosion would not have been so intense.
actually they used freedos, not a linux variant
If this is true, why would they want to use a brand name that was almost entirely devoted to copyright violation?
There were plenty of people who didn't know they were violating copyrights and simply thought of napster was synonymous with "extremely easy to find exactly what you are looking for"
On a side note, i have recieved lots of porn spam in my day, and i have recieved some from this "Napster Porn". I didn't dare try downloading the software for fear of some automatic dialer (not to mention that the software doesn't run on macs anyway, and i don't understand russian...)
So this is nothing new. they have been using the name "Napster Porn" for over a year without actually owning the name Napster. here is a mail that showed up on the redhat mailing list in august of 2001. now either this guy that is tring to buy napster is the same guy, or he saw the russian guys and got inspired.
I don't see how this will help companies adopt os x. these companies use quark because it is what they are used to. they are just going to switch because apple bundles it with the machine? i imagine until there is an os x version of quark, companies will simply ignore os x. and then perhaps even after it is available they will still ignore it, since alot of what the print world uses are applescripts that just won't work in os x because features are different/missing.
quark xpress is available for both windows and mac.
i think they are "speed holes" actually. fucking 20 seconds......
i have never seen any japanese people using them, i have only seen anime fans using them because they somewhat resemble anime faces.
the guy never "took credit" for the smilie. he just posted it to usenet and said "use this"
perhaps you need to spend less time smoking weed and more time remembering high school geography. amsterdam is not a country, but a city in the netherlands.
you just used it
isync can only sync apple's Address Book and apple's iCal application with certain mobile phones, palm devices, and other macs, not with pocketPC's or windows based pc's like the guy who posted the question is looking for. if apple is trying to plug thier product with this thing, they are doing it very badly.
ok, if i am working at a company, and some code one of my programmers wrote conflicts with something in the system, but the program can only be fixed by modifying some aspect of the OS, not the code itself, can I call the company that wrote the OS and pay them thousands of dollars to have one of thier programmers come out and either fix my (admittedly lame) programmer's code or modify theier product custom for me? If you pay microsoft enoughm they can do this, will redhat do the same? yes redhat offers support, but not that kind of support.
And my point about linux inc. was moronic! I did not agree with it, but it is a fact. those companies don't employ the programmers that wrote most of the operating system! those companies resell a freely available product and provide minimal support. they are not a fully integrated solution.
Yes if the network goes down for any signifigant amount of time, the admin and certain members of the IT staff are gonna get canned, but i was not talking about thier job security, i was talking about the guy who made final the decision to use the software. He gets canned too if it can't be repaired because the buck stops with him. If he has a bigass MS support contract to fall back on the buck stops with them, and his job is (most likely) safe.
Another example, when working at a different publishing company that made car magazines we employed an equally crappy content management system called Broadvision One2One. Out shit didn't work with thier shit. Our code was written by a bunch of amateurs that didn't know JSP very well. (the exec's don't realize that they save alot of money by paying competent programmers, but that's another rant) and it simply did not work well with te system, it was slow as shit, and we knew broadvision was slow, but not THAT slow, so we called the broadvision folks in and had 2 programmers from thier office come down for a few weeks to fix our shit. If we had been using PHP instead could we have called the PHP team down to fix our shit? I don't think so. The execs that make these decisions like to stay away from open source (free beer) software because the buck stops with them, instead of a service and support contract.
you seem to forget that businesses aren't consumers. Most places that do not adopt linux is because it is free, not because they think MS is better. people are worried about job security, and if something goes wrong with linux they only have themselves to blame. if something goes wrong with a microsoft product they have support to fall back on. they can pay hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour to get a ms employee to come out and fix thier problem. they can't do the same for a "linux employee".
Businesses buy software because it looks good on paper. When I worked at Larry Flynt Publications, we ran everything on Vingette StoryServer. They paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for that shitty ass software not because they thought it was good, but because it looked great on paper, and at the time vingette stock was through the roof. Some IT guy is going to mention linux to one of the execs and he is gonna say "so, how is Linux Inc.'s stock doing?" and when he finds out there is no official "Linux Inc." and that the developers are (for the most part) working for free for no particular company he is going to see that he doesn't have a safety net, and it doesn't look good on paper. Businesses want to deal with other big businesses, not hackers.
Linux is making inroads into these companies too, but lots of these companies that are using linux now are using along side windows.
Again I can't speak for all companies out there, there are plenty of companies using linux, and think the philosophy behind it is a good idea, but i can see it from thier perspective too.
As for the usability comment you made, excluding OS X here is my response: HA! I won't get into the common resolution-changing, copy/paste bullshit (oops, i just did)
IBM lost thier edge because thier BIOS was reverse engineered and clone manufacturers sold thier clone machines at a signifigant discount compared to IBM. Microsoft will probably not meet the same fate because they have the DMCA behind them to protect their "IP" from being reverse engineered. Sure, you were around and IBM was in charge, but it's a differend world now tih different rules. The only thing that is going to take microsoft down is itself, not some company from texas that wants to make cheap computers.
There are many AC posts that are insightful, informative, etc., but never get modded up, so some of us like to read at 0. But due to your mod system, we have to wade disgusting offensive vile low-life and racist slime such as the above post.
Why can't you change your system to autodetect certain offensive terms such as the vile epithet used above and automod the post to a new level of -10:subhuman slime (or minus infinity, for that matter). This should only take about 10 minutes of coding and would make Slashdot a more fit place for us human beings. Shit belongs in the sewers, not co-mingled with the thoughts of human beings.
someone may say the word nigger in a non.offensive context just as I have here. Yes it was vile and low life scum, however those words when used in other contexts such as "can you believe he just called me a nigger??" or "in the 1800's blacks were known only as niggers" would also be blocked, and then ideas ans speech is no longer free and slashdot usually strives to be an uncensored venue.
i think the point of the question was to see how a software opengl implementation would perform on a 64proc machine.
free doesn't hurt, but it's the place that i work at that paid for the machine and the software so what do i care about the price? and who said anything about php/mysql? are those the only languages out there? tomcat and mod_perl suck for windows, and the tools on linux aren't up to my standards (i guess i offended a linux user by saying that i didn't prefer it over closed software) and i never said i needed photoshop to administer apache. i said it's nice to have all the tools on the same machine so i can work on a site on the bus or on the train or in a cofee shop, or in bed, with the tools that i am used to, and not have to modify anything. and besides, an ibook costs $1100, not $3000. and i get marked troll :rolleyes:
For all the people that say "why on a mac" here is the explanation. there is one of these for every platform. there is a "set up apache as your own developmnent server" howto for every platform, and up until now my question was why not mac? they are capable of running apache, so why not show the interested people how to do it?
Most of the effects of LSD would be hard to simulate (as with schizophrenia) because most of it is not "voices you hear" or "things you see" but bodily sensations and drastic changes in the thinking process, which are impossible to simulate.
... something, i think it was acid... as they are walking into the casino bar the pattern from the carpet was creeping up the furnature. right after that it lost it's believability (for me anyway) with the giant lizards, cuz i've never seen that kinda shit.
sure you could simulate the "trails effect" you see when taking lsd, and maybe some of the patterns you see when you close your eyes, and the "swirling paint" effect that you see on textured walls, but people that take LSD don't see massive hallucinations. they don't see things that aren't there, they see things that are there differently.
The best description of an lsd visual would be from "fear and loathing in las vegas" the film based on the hunter thompson book, in a scene where the 2 guys had just taken
but at least for me the reason for taking as much lsd as i did in the past was not to "see cool hallucinations", but to think about things in a different way, see things from a different perspective, and it's this aspect (the dominant one) that would be impossible to simulate.
on a side note, i did lsd hundreds of times when i was younger, and now i have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder after a seriously bad trip. it's been 3 years since that trip and i get panic attacks and shit all the time. never did before that trip. so while i recommend using LSD, i don't recommend overusing it, and if it just doesn't feel right one night to drop acid, don't. drink a coffee instead of spending the whole night thinking your brain is about to explode. (there was no physical problem with my brain, it was just the thought process that lasd changed to make me feel like my brain was expanding beyond my skull)