He said he was a pro-programmer. I don't know about him, but as a "not-so-much-gammer" and semi skilled in the same crafts, I found beeing able to controll (manually) what state your CPU is at as a real _MUST HAVE FUNCTION_:) - as you mostly spend your time typing/reading at your notebook than cracking out high FPS values, so it's handy to switch between "powersavemode(low cpu freq)" to "preformancemode(max cpu freq)" - you save both battery power, and you don't get a hot-potato in your lap & literary a noiseless notebook (when in powersavemode):) [ sure auto-cpufreq-scaling works, but for the most progs. I run, running at a constant 500Mhz is more than sufficiant - and saves my battery life time a bit more when on the road]
Does it sound nice and dandy?... Well there's a down side to "windows users" (and I think apple/mac), as the only alternative to go is with a Linux enabled notebook (the only kernel I know of which has support for this function), and I think you have to go with an AMD athlon mobile cpu also ( I haven't even bother to look into if it works on Intel's/apple's NB cpu's - as AMD has allways been my choice for reasons like this, they come with neat features I want and don't cost me my shirt off:)), I know there are patches to the kernel for cpufreq scaling, but as I know it's auto only (exactly as it works in windows/apple osx etc) not also manually.
as, for a Notebook, I found acer's aspire series as my holly grail - all the features I mentioned, to a reasonable price (if you think ~$1000 for a NB is reasonable, I know I do ).
ps. if you need help installing a linux distro, check
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maybe someone who went to WWDC in SF got the load-down on iChat AV, and knows that it uses an allready established protocol? like RTSP, or h323, or something else?
that there is something between "the OS & the number of anti virus software availible == no. of viruses?" and
"no. of viruses * FUD (mostly started from antivirii corp's.) == MONEY?" to do with each other?
I just did a a few quick google searches to find out what the proportional realotion ship there is between the markets,
by comparing the search resulst with each other (the number of hits I got). Cleary one can't rely to much on these
numbers, but to get a picture over the proportions it's good enough, as google is one of the leading search engines
out there with it's large database and that it almost allways finds what your searching for (I say almost, as it isn't perfect!)
These are the results (in order of fewest hits):
OS X: |
search string | - Results: 7,080 | Portion of market: 0.980%
And could it be that the 69.592% of the market don't want to lose it's revenues? As some few guy/girs posted (funny comments)
here eariler, something in the lines of "why don't they virii's as the made them back-then?". Could it be that todays
lame virii's only are to spread FUD to customers, so that those not-so-skilled-in-the-arts-of-computers hurry out and
buy a copy of a antivirii software, just to be on the safe side (I have my own mother as a very good example, every time she hears
"viiirrriiii"-warnings she comes to me panicinc "is my computer safe, don't I need to upgrade my antivirri?, am I realy safe").
The fartor of the FUD can be explain something like this, "( exagerations make by antivirii/security corps. * exagerating of losses made by businesses) * ignorant reportes == real scary FUD",
the customer/end-users is surrounded by in the media (with exceptions for slashdot, ppl here are mostly geeks, and gotzkills! =))
No I haven't read the article yet, I just wanted to express how I see the whole OpenSourceness first before getting tainted.
Simply put, OpenSource doesn't say anything about that it should be 100% free (or anything like that). Simply says (according to GPL) that with your distribution (if you used any GPL work) you simply have to provide the source code also.
So, OpenSource is the act of providing the source code to your customers, free from any extra charges, so if they want to custom fit it to their needs they have the avalibility. And if they want
to distribute their "custom-fit", they have to give credits where credis are do, by providing the source (as they are/where not the actuall body/organisation/coder whom wrote the first lines
of codes of the coreponding program).
If, people are so generous, that they give you "program" for a $0 fee (for what ever reason; goodwill or what ever) and also provide you with
full source code (opensource), don't start label "opensourceness" as "free", because there are
other bodies/organisation/coders out there that charge $xxx and also provide their code (that is aswell, in my vocabularry, "OpenSourceness", thought limiting if one can't distribute onse own "custom-fit" based on the acquired code).
Re:I'm sadly disapointed this year.
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naaah, I don't know exactly what QT MPEG-4 codec your speaking of, because I've been able to watch every.mov files there is out there. The only thing my mplayer complie (two days ago) didn't support was the RTSPotocol. And a quick recomplie with
the !Live.com lib should make it work, though I haven't hade a feed to test it with yet(thought of doing it with the
jobs keynote).
for some reason some.mov files have multiple tracks, like some of the animatrix, and you have to specify video-id and audio-id as mplayer don't yet support multitrack'd.mov
I'm sadly disapointed this year.
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What ever happened to their live webcast feed? since 1745 (live in sweden, thats GMT+1) I've hit their website for an update to get the url for the feed, but sadly none is available this year:(
I've even gone to the trouble of booting up a windows pc (cause I'm a linux-boy), incase my mplayer with the !Live.com library won't work, so I have a backup, to catch his keynote Live.
So to say the least, I'm sadly disapointed on them this year. Though not in the case if something extra unordinary tradically happened, in that case I would be forgiving, but just in such a case:P
Eveyone knows what an hassle it is/was to do some (user) developing for the PCI bus. Memberships cost like $3000/year, buying hardcopy of the specs is like $500 -> $1500 a pice (depending on exactly what you want to buy).
Fees like this put an quite hard stop for end-users to acctually develope his/her own haxxor-card (doing something kweel and fun) purely out of love for the sheer joy of building stuff (the same joy linux programmers enjoy).
You proabably think an open hardware standard is out of reach, but look back, and you'll proabably remenence that people said the same thing out open software and open standards.
maybe $ms-gorillaz invaded/cracked their servers and uploaded it. Xor payed them (the greedy-capitalist of THG) to put it there them selfs (if you look, at THG now, and a few years back, one can conclude that greedy-capitalist have increased in THG over the time).
Switching, may be hard, but it can pay off! or not
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I switched, from running $ms's OS (used it for about ~10 years; sure I tried linux/bsd/other during that time, but I kept running $ms OS...). Until one day I got so fustraded of
the restrictiveness/"things like this" in $ms software, that I backed up my privates files, reformated my HDD, and booted it with a pair of netinstall disks of Debian (of them all I tested during the years, I found it suiting my needs best, specially with KDE3.* coming out and all, *nix for the desktop got on equal-footing with any other established OS out there with this release).
Sure I ended up with a linux box, but that was just my chooice mostly because I'm a studend (don't got tons of bill's to spend on things like apple does... so cost is something I have to think about). So now you're asking yourself, did I loose any features by going with a free OpenSource over Proprietary? I have to say a firm "no". Going either one, I have to say you will always have the same features, though features sometimes don't operate in the same manor (I mean that sometimes you have to type different commandos, press different things, etc etc, I can't see things like this beeing the same cross-platform in every OS out there; but what really counts is that in the end they accomplish the same thing). Often, by going with a different OS you'll either spend more money or save some, rarelly will both cost equally the same (and yes, I saved and save many bill's with the chooice I made).
There's one thing I have to make sure people understand, is that OpenSource don't equall "free", or that it allways is free and will be, or that you can't make money by beeing a OpenSource'r, or by going OpenSource. All OpenSource truelly means is that for the price you pay for the OS (or software) you buy is that in that price the source code is also included; you get it free of charge so that if you want to improve your OS (or software) you can do so. Sure there is a licence you have to follow if you want to redistribute the code, but so is is with any other form (may it be propietary or opensource), just read the licence and stick to it. Back to the "prize"-thing, I didn't pay anything for the OS, but since when is that if someone gives away an OS (opensource or not) for free, that every other (opensource or proprietary) there is also "for free"? I think that if you think abouit it you'll somewhat agree with me that it's a case-by-case thing.
So, if you want to make money by useing something that is OpenSource, and the licence it came with don't go hand-in-hand with what you want, then you can allways write a letter/email to the creator and ask for a custom licence, and so can you with everything out there. Basically if you tend to offer some monetary compensation, I think most software can be licenced with a custom licence for you. Just because OpenSoure'rs don't allwys advertise this, don't mean you can't pop the question, and make an offer.
As Days pased, I leared all similarites and new functions my new OS had, as weeks pased I meet some setbacks (mostly because my unfamiliraty with the way you operated the OS,
have to say, that everyone OS has it's own way to it and that it can take a little while to learn how to fully opperate it. What I found out is that no OS is better or wores then the other when it come to features. It all depended
on mostly two things, a) "YOU", the human factor, the more your "into it" the easier things tend to get. b) and the big _one_, "Openness", is a key factor of the OS, and only you
can be the judge of than (basically don't care what everyone says, though listen, do your thing and try things out, and at the end make up your own mind). I don't know if openness can be a negative, I find it a positive; and a positive thing I encountered in my chooice is that the creators, behind the softwares/OS I came to run, were extremely open with what was happening with their code, they didn't try to cover things open, you could subscribe to
their mailinglists (dev or announcement lists, xor both) and keep up-to-date with what is r
risked, paid - Can It be that I choose different words, as try to explain the same thing?
I mean "paid" as in he paid the prize for speaking out with
his most common asset, lost life-time/freedom during his
imprisoment.
I read thur a bunch of comments and you freak'n start to scare me:P
Earth isn't flat, devided into nice pices of pussle bits, gigged together, Galileo paid with his life/freedom just for saying it's true shape, round! It's more than round, it's occupied by a bunch of scary people fighting over "pices" of it; claiming it's their, it's more holy then the next pice, better, prettier more beautifull, and the list goes on.
Conquering each other, by taking turns at whos at the "helm", maybe doing so in an endless loop (who knows? what the future has in store, but looking behind sure looks like an endless loop).
I have to say it sometimes freak'n scares me that I was even born on such a planet.
I know, I know, running away won't make things different, bearing your head into the ground won't make things any brighter.
So my first goal is (a three-faced coin):
a] step outside this "loop"
b] try not to enter in it again.
c] What's yours?
Perhas your wondering how a coin can have three faces; that is your mind to ponder on and mine to keep it's business out of.
but if end-users got a better computer education, I think most of the problems would be fixed.
I find it quite funny that "a ground course in computer"-courses we have (here in sweden) only educate people in how to use word/excel/powerpoint/etc... nothing _fundamental_ about how to opporate a computer. It`s like learning how to use the cigaret lighter in your car, and declareing yourself as someone who can drive a car. And now you want a quick fix for your incompentance in driving "the car".
... that these highpower lasers only output that much energy under a fraction of a second (somewhere down around micro/pico seconds), no more. Because there isn't a powersource on earth that can power it for even a tenth of a second!
my only question (which they haven't answered) is if there will be a linux compatible version (and not just for the server, I want to play it on my debian box aswell...)
And as a side note, *just wonderig* why don't game companies work together and code a OS simply for their games to run at full speed. So folks like $me who don't have
to spend aditionall money buying Windows. Yess, I'd rather boot into "GameOS" than an illegal copy of windows, plus look a the plus side if they code it well, we could get rid of having $windows freezing/hanging the game, more resources to the game it self... etc etc
This might sound like a console, I can agree to a degree, but how many console out there (as in present time) could you update it's hardware? xor install your favorit OS on it? without requiring a degree in science and soldering skillz? *hmm* - anyway, a console is simply a computer runing software. Back in the old days consoles ran faster more exotic hardware then the "personal computer" did, and I understood why they where around. Nowadays it's the other way around, I can build a faster "personal computer", and the xbox proves my point, it allready runs on "Personal Computer" hardware (which $ms don't want you to fiddle with)
- Mac is a PC, "Personal Computer" get that into your head.
dynamicUI - "I'm freaking tired of all this 'what/this is the best' blahablhahey conversation/articles/statements/research/... and let freak'n ME(YES,!ME!ME!ME, yapp ME the freak'n stupid morone-user) put "put the stuff on the screen" were freak'n I like it. Give me the power to fiddle every aspect of the UI, fundle every pixel of my freak'n screen how-I-want-it". GIVE me that power!"
Sorry if I'm a bit harsh, but I'm just absolutely tiered of this whole "what/this is the best" topic. There just isn't a thing, because we (individuals, THE USER's!) are all diffrent from each other. We all have are own on take on what we like and dislike about everything in this world. But that doesn't make we can't live under the same sky on this planet, just let us do what we do how we seem fit like to do it and leave us alone.
Einstein said it: It's relative!
That is my take on the whole thing.
SIG: 90% chance moderators will fail to understand me and mod me "flaimbait", 5% chance that they may get my drift, and 5% chance surtain they'll absolutely fail to see it!
it does all that checking "to see if the hardware is OK/allright/nothing is damaged". This is especially good to do when it comes to the memory, cause you don't want to use the bad-sectors of the memory when you are in your OS do yoU?
I've done it too with my keyboard, and at the same time I've gone over from qwerty to svorak (swedish dvorak), and I love it.
Sure, "outsiders" who would want to borrow/fiddle with my system they don't like it, and swear and curse. But on the positive side it kind of makes the system a little more secure from unwanted fiddlers:)
One can mount any NFTS partition (read only) and do all the copying you want to any other media/computer you want, it comes with all the tools you'll every need.
but this way you don't have to buy $ms (or don't have to worry you busted another law for ilegally pirating that w2k cd of the internet).
It's been done, here in sweden...
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It's been done, here in sweden... came out a few years ago. We call it the "CashCard" *gofigure*
Recently (a few months? ago) there was a made a study/report on the television on how well it got accepted by the people. From what they said it look quite dark for the "CashCard", because not
many would/wanted to use it (even thouh, in the last year[s] banks have started to put these "cashcard" function on to their creditcards).
Personally I have never use it because I see it to unsafe (compared to my CreditCard). As it says "if you loose it someone else may use it" right of, no having to crack anything to get access to your money on the card. Let's compare this to my CC. If i loose it, someone has
1] to crack my 4 digit pincode - now I see this as an advantage I want on my side, because I have some time (even plenty of it) to call a number and have my CC cancelled - Bottom line I have a safty line.
2] Has to show up an ID to make a purchase in a store - now even if someone uses my CC before I made my cancillation call I have proof it was'nt me - so after a few paperworks I'll recive back my money.
3] If someone somehow gets hold on my CC (or mere number) and orders online with my CC number, all I have to do is prove it's been stolen/wasn't me and a few papersworks lator I recive back my money... (I can see how this is the darkside of CC - but bare in mind there are mesures to take, where there are none with "CashCard")
Now due to #3 and maybe #2 - some people are even scared of using thier CC as a means of paying (now how do you think these people feel about an even more unsafe method? hmm?) and only use it to take out money from the ATM's.
But there is an untouched saftey mesure I have'nt brought up that CC has over "CashCard".
It is two-split, one beeing "Credit" and the other "bankaccount[s]". Were I'm trying to go is don't use a CC with "Credit" doing regular-day-to-day purchases (have one, just use it _when_neccesary_), and don't have more money in the bankaccount it is tied to then nessecary (thats why I love my bank - All I have to do is logon and transfer funds from my other bankaccount to the one I have my CC tied to - If I _really_ have to buy something _expensise_)
Sum it up; I see my CC more or less a bulletproof method over "CashCard", because:
1] Easy access - to my funds, purchases, logs etc etc + other stuff... (all it being avalibe thru internet access..:)
2] In controll - Have a few means of saftey lines (heavy weight on Security here)
So I've gone over from a wallet with paper money to a few Cards (one being my CC) because of these reasons; and now banks want me to go back to the same insecure way that papper money was, why?
for lame masterl, simply do:
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What's up with MM/DD/YY-dating?
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Not to flaimbait.... but what's up with MM/DD/YY-dating?
I really don't get it why americans [and everyone else] insist on using that dating-format. YY/MM/DD-date formating make a lot more sense. Expecially when it comes to sorting. Every yy/mm/dd "record" will came after one another in chronological order; while in mm/dd/yy sorting you are going to mix two seperate years [or how many years your sorting] with one another by first month, then date, then year......talk about undermining the whole concept of "sorting".
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may I add one little comment.
:) - as you mostly spend your time typing/reading at your notebook than cracking out high FPS values, so it's handy to switch between "powersavemode(low cpu freq)" to "preformancemode(max cpu freq)" - you save both battery power, and you don't get a hot-potato in your lap & literary a noiseless notebook (when in powersavemode) :) [ sure auto-cpufreq-scaling works, but for the most progs. I run, running at a constant 500Mhz is more than sufficiant - and saves my battery life time a bit more when on the road]
:)), I know there are patches to the kernel for cpufreq scaling, but as I know it's auto only (exactly as it works in windows/apple osx etc) not also manually .
He said he was a pro-programmer. I don't know about him, but as a "not-so-much-gammer" and semi skilled in the same crafts, I found beeing able to controll (manually) what state your CPU is at as a real _MUST HAVE FUNCTION_
Does it sound nice and dandy?... Well there's a down side to "windows users" (and I think apple/mac), as the only alternative to go is with a Linux enabled notebook (the only kernel I know of which has support for this function), and I think you have to go with an AMD athlon mobile cpu also ( I haven't even bother to look into if it works on Intel's/apple's NB cpu's - as AMD has allways been my choice for reasons like this, they come with neat features I want and don't cost me my shirt off
as, for a Notebook, I found acer's aspire series as my holly grail - all the features I mentioned, to a reasonable price (if you think ~$1000 for a NB is reasonable, I know I do ).
ps. if you need help installing a linux distro, check this site
maybe something that will work with apples iChat AV?
"no. of viruses * FUD (mostly started from antivirii corp's.) == MONEY?" to do with each other?
I just did a a few quick google searches to find out what the proportional realotion ship there is between the markets, by comparing the search resulst with each other (the number of hits I got). Cleary one can't rely to much on these numbers, but to get a picture over the proportions it's good enough, as google is one of the leading search engines out there with it's large database and that it almost allways finds what your searching for (I say almost, as it isn't perfect!)
These are the results (in order of fewest hits):
- OS X: |
search string | - Results: 7,080 | Portion of market: 0.980%
- Unix: |
search string | - Results: 42,000 | Portion of market: 5.811%
- Linux: |
search string | - Results: 85,100 | Portion of market: 11.774%
- MAC: |
search string | - Results: 85,600 | Portion of market: 11.843%
- Windows: |
search string | - Results: 503,000 | Portion of market: 69.592%
(here's a link to a nicer postscript file, with a pie-chart and fancy colors)And could it be that the 69.592% of the market don't want to lose it's revenues? As some few guy/girs posted (funny comments) here eariler, something in the lines of "why don't they virii's as the made them back-then?". Could it be that todays lame virii's only are to spread FUD to customers, so that those not-so-skilled-in-the-arts-of-computers hurry out and buy a copy of a antivirii software, just to be on the safe side (I have my own mother as a very good example, every time she hears "viiirrriiii"-warnings she comes to me panicinc "is my computer safe, don't I need to upgrade my antivirri?, am I realy safe").
The fartor of the FUD can be explain something like this, "( exagerations make by antivirii/security corps. * exagerating of losses made by businesses) * ignorant reportes == real scary FUD", the customer/end-users is surrounded by in the media (with exceptions for slashdot, ppl here are mostly geeks, and gotzkills! =))
No I haven't read the article yet, I just wanted to express how I see the whole OpenSourceness first before getting tainted.
Simply put, OpenSource doesn't say anything about that it should be 100% free (or anything like that). Simply says (according to GPL) that with your distribution (if you used any GPL work) you simply have to provide the source code also.
So, OpenSource is the act of providing the source code to your customers, free from any extra charges, so if they want to custom fit it to their needs they have the avalibility. And if they want to distribute their "custom-fit", they have to give credits where credis are do, by providing the source (as they are/where not the actuall body/organisation/coder whom wrote the first lines of codes of the coreponding program).
If, people are so generous, that they give you "program" for a $0 fee (for what ever reason; goodwill or what ever) and also provide you with full source code (opensource), don't start label "opensourceness" as "free", because there are other bodies/organisation/coders out there that charge $xxx and also provide their code (that is aswell, in my vocabularry, "OpenSourceness", thought limiting if one can't distribute onse own "custom-fit" based on the acquired code).
if you have trouble playing
and look for what tracks there are. and then:
for some reason some
What ever happened to their live webcast feed? since 1745 (live in sweden, thats GMT+1) I've hit their website for an update to get the url for the feed, but sadly none is available this year :(
:P
I've even gone to the trouble of booting up a windows pc (cause I'm a linux-boy), incase my mplayer with the !Live.com library won't work, so I have a backup, to catch his keynote Live.
So to say the least, I'm sadly disapointed on them this year. Though not in the case if something extra unordinary tradically happened, in that case I would be forgiving, but just in such a case
Eveyone knows what an hassle it is/was to do some (user) developing for the PCI bus. Memberships cost like $3000/year, buying hardcopy of the specs is like $500 -> $1500 a pice (depending on exactly what you want to buy).
Fees like this put an quite hard stop for end-users to acctually develope his/her own haxxor-card (doing something kweel and fun) purely out of love for the sheer joy of building stuff (the same joy linux programmers enjoy).
You proabably think an open hardware standard is out of reach, but look back, and you'll proabably remenence that people said the same thing out open software and open standards.
I found that a tad amusing.
maybe $ms-gorillaz invaded/cracked their servers and uploaded it. Xor payed them (the greedy-capitalist of THG) to put it there them selfs (if you look, at THG now, and a few years back, one can conclude that greedy-capitalist have increased in THG over the time).
I switched, from running $ms's OS (used it for about ~10 years; sure I tried linux/bsd/other during that time, but I kept running $ms OS...). Until one day I got so fustraded of the restrictiveness/"things like this" in $ms software, that I backed up my privates files, reformated my HDD, and booted it with a pair of netinstall disks of Debian (of them all I tested during the years, I found it suiting my needs best, specially with KDE3.* coming out and all, *nix for the desktop got on equal-footing with any other established OS out there with this release).
Sure I ended up with a linux box, but that was just my chooice mostly because I'm a studend (don't got tons of bill's to spend on things like apple does... so cost is something I have to think about). So now you're asking yourself, did I loose any features by going with a free OpenSource over Proprietary? I have to say a firm "no". Going either one, I have to say you will always have the same features, though features sometimes don't operate in the same manor (I mean that sometimes you have to type different commandos, press different things, etc etc, I can't see things like this beeing the same cross-platform in every OS out there; but what really counts is that in the end they accomplish the same thing). Often, by going with a different OS you'll either spend more money or save some, rarelly will both cost equally the same (and yes, I saved and save many bill's with the chooice I made).
There's one thing I have to make sure people understand, is that OpenSource don't equall "free", or that it allways is free and will be, or that you can't make money by beeing a OpenSource'r, or by going OpenSource. All OpenSource truelly means is that for the price you pay for the OS (or software) you buy is that in that price the source code is also included; you get it free of charge so that if you want to improve your OS (or software) you can do so. Sure there is a licence you have to follow if you want to redistribute the code, but so is is with any other form (may it be propietary or opensource), just read the licence and stick to it. Back to the "prize"-thing, I didn't pay anything for the OS, but since when is that if someone gives away an OS (opensource or not) for free, that every other (opensource or proprietary) there is also "for free"? I think that if you think abouit it you'll somewhat agree with me that it's a case-by-case thing.
So, if you want to make money by useing something that is OpenSource, and the licence it came with don't go hand-in-hand with what you want, then you can allways write a letter/email to the creator and ask for a custom licence, and so can you with everything out there. Basically if you tend to offer some monetary compensation, I think most software can be licenced with a custom licence for you. Just because OpenSoure'rs don't allwys advertise this, don't mean you can't pop the question, and make an offer.
As Days pased, I leared all similarites and new functions my new OS had, as weeks pased I meet some setbacks (mostly because my unfamiliraty with the way you operated the OS, have to say, that everyone OS has it's own way to it and that it can take a little while to learn how to fully opperate it. What I found out is that no OS is better or wores then the other when it come to features. It all depended on mostly two things, a) "YOU", the human factor, the more your "into it" the easier things tend to get. b) and the big _one_, "Openness", is a key factor of the OS, and only you can be the judge of than (basically don't care what everyone says, though listen, do your thing and try things out, and at the end make up your own mind). I don't know if openness can be a negative, I find it a positive; and a positive thing I encountered in my chooice is that the creators, behind the softwares/OS I came to run, were extremely open with what was happening with their code, they didn't try to cover things open, you could subscribe to their mailinglists (dev or announcement lists, xor both) and keep up-to-date with what is r
risked, paid - Can It be that I choose different words, as try to explain the same thing?
I mean "paid" as in he paid the prize for speaking out with his most common asset, lost life-time/freedom during his imprisoment.
I read thur a bunch of comments and you freak'n start to scare me
Earth isn't flat, devided into nice pices of pussle bits, gigged together, Galileo paid with his life/freedom just for saying it's true shape, round! It's more than round, it's occupied by a bunch of scary people fighting over "pices" of it; claiming it's their, it's more holy then the next pice, better, prettier more beautifull, and the list goes on.
Conquering each other, by taking turns at whos at the "helm", maybe doing so in an endless loop (who knows? what the future has in store, but looking behind sure looks like an endless loop).
I have to say it sometimes freak'n scares me that I was even born on such a planet.
I know, I know, running away won't make things different, bearing your head into the ground won't make things any brighter.
So my first goal is (a three-faced coin):
Perhas your wondering how a coin can have three faces; that is your mind to ponder on and mine to keep it's business out of.
but if end-users got a better computer education, I think most of the problems would be fixed.
I find it quite funny that "a ground course in computer"-courses we have (here in sweden) only educate people in how to use word/excel/powerpoint/etc... nothing _fundamental_ about how to opporate a computer. It`s like learning how to use the cigaret lighter in your car, and declareing yourself as someone who can drive a car. And now you want a quick fix for your incompentance in driving "the car".
... that these highpower lasers only output that much energy under a fraction of a second (somewhere down around micro/pico seconds), no more. Because there isn't a powersource on earth that can power it for even a tenth of a second!
for those who didn't know:
"HERF stands for High Energy Radio Frequency. A HERF gun is used to disrupt digital equipment such as computers by blasting them with HERF emissions."
And as a side note, *just wonderig* why don't game companies work together and code a OS simply for their games to run at full speed. So folks like $me who don't have to spend aditionall money buying Windows. Yess, I'd rather boot into "GameOS" than an illegal copy of windows, plus look a the plus side if they code it well, we could get rid of having $windows freezing/hanging the game, more resources to the game it self... etc etc
This might sound like a console, I can agree to a degree, but how many console out there (as in present time) could you update it's hardware? xor install your favorit OS on it? without requiring a degree in science and soldering skillz? *hmm* - anyway, a console is simply a computer runing software. Back in the old days consoles ran faster more exotic hardware then the "personal computer" did, and I understood why they where around. Nowadays it's the other way around, I can build a faster "personal computer", and the xbox proves my point, it allready runs on "Personal Computer" hardware (which $ms don't want you to fiddle with)
- Mac is a PC, "Personal Computer" get that into your head.
and here is the tomshardware review http://www4.tomshardware.com/howto/20030224/index. html
dynamicUI as in:
dynamicUI - "I'm freaking tired of all this 'what/this is the best' blahablhahey conversation/articles/statements/research/... and let freak'n ME(YES,!ME!ME!ME, yapp ME the freak'n stupid morone-user) put "put the stuff on the screen" were freak'n I like it. Give me the power to fiddle every aspect of the UI, fundle every pixel of my freak'n screen how-I-want-it". GIVE me that power!"
Sorry if I'm a bit harsh, but I'm just absolutely tiered of this whole "what/this is the best" topic. There just isn't a thing, because we (individuals, THE USER's!) are all diffrent from each other. We all have are own on take on what we like and dislike about everything in this world. But that doesn't make we can't live under the same sky on this planet, just let us do what we do how we seem fit like to do it and leave us alone.
Einstein said it: It's relative!
That is my take on the whole thing.
SIG: 90% chance moderators will fail to understand me and mod me "flaimbait", 5% chance that they may get my drift, and 5% chance surtain they'll absolutely fail to see it!
Advanced Input Output System?
it does all that checking "to see if the hardware is OK/allright/nothing is damaged". This is especially good to do when it comes to the memory, cause you don't want to use the bad-sectors of the memory when you are in your OS do yoU?
I've done it too with my keyboard, and at the same time I've gone over from qwerty to svorak (swedish dvorak), and I love it.
:)
Sure, "outsiders" who would want to borrow/fiddle with my system they don't like it, and swear and curse. But on the positive side it kind of makes the system a little more secure from unwanted fiddlers
One can mount any NFTS partition (read only) and do all the copying you want to any other media/computer you want,
it comes with all the tools you'll every need.
but this way you don't have to buy $ms (or don't have to worry you busted another law for ilegally pirating that w2k cd of the internet).
Recently (a few months? ago) there was a made a study/report on the television on how well it got accepted by the people. From what they said it look quite dark for the "CashCard", because not many would/wanted to use it (even thouh, in the last year[s] banks have started to put these "cashcard" function on to their creditcards).
Personally I have never use it because I see it to unsafe (compared to my CreditCard). As it says "if you loose it someone else may use it" right of, no having to crack anything to get access to your money on the card. Let's compare this to my CC. If i loose it, someone has
- 1] to crack my 4 digit pincode - now I see this as an advantage I want on my side, because I have some time (even plenty of it) to call a number and have my CC cancelled - Bottom line I have a safty line.
Now due to #3 and maybe #2 - some people are even scared of using thier CC as a means of paying (now how do you think these people feel about an even more unsafe method? hmm?) and only use it to take out money from the ATM's.2] Has to show up an ID to make a purchase in a store - now even if someone uses my CC before I made my cancillation call I have proof it was'nt me - so after a few paperworks I'll recive back my money.
3] If someone somehow gets hold on my CC (or mere number) and orders online with my CC number, all I have to do is prove it's been stolen/wasn't me and a few papersworks lator I recive back my money... (I can see how this is the darkside of CC - but bare in mind there are mesures to take, where there are none with "CashCard")
But there is an untouched saftey mesure I have'nt brought up that CC has over "CashCard". It is two-split, one beeing "Credit" and the other "bankaccount[s]". Were I'm trying to go is don't use a CC with "Credit" doing regular-day-to-day purchases (have one, just use it _when_neccesary_), and don't have more money in the bankaccount it is tied to then nessecary (thats why I love my bank - All I have to do is logon and transfer funds from my other bankaccount to the one I have my CC tied to - If I _really_ have to buy something _expensise_)
Sum it up; I see my CC more or less a bulletproof method over "CashCard", because:
- 1] Easy access - to my funds, purchases, logs etc etc + other stuff... (all it being avalibe thru internet access..:)
So I've gone over from a wallet with paper money to a few Cards (one being my CC) because of these reasons; and now banks want me to go back to the same insecure way that papper money was, why?2] In controll - Have a few means of saftey lines (heavy weight on Security here)
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Not to flaimbait.... but what's up with MM/DD/YY-dating?
I really don't get it why americans [and everyone else] insist on using that dating-format. YY/MM/DD-date formating make a lot more sense. Expecially when it comes to sorting. Every yy/mm/dd "record" will came after one another in chronological order; while in mm/dd/yy sorting you are going to mix two seperate years [or how many years your sorting] with one another by first month, then date, then year......talk about undermining the whole concept of "sorting".