No. You are only implying that we must use dogmas and be blind, because you can't think otherwise. You are also reflecting you own cerebral dissociation of inner and outer reality on us, so you can prevent yourself from getting insane.
Religion, I'm sorry to break this for you, is a psychological disease. It is a mild form of schizophrenia. That is, when you stop looking the outside reality, and instead use a twisted inner model that is twisted just that way that you can explain things, that your brain could not handle otherwise. And it can happen for large groups of people too. Eg whole nations.
Usually it starts with not finding a sense in life, or not understanding why something bad or weird happens. Your brain protects itself from failing. But then, when you notice things that contradict your inner model, you just re-fit it on the fly, by using even crazier excuses. You could for example say, that your mother, the best and most nice person on earth, died because there must be something she did wrong. Or that "god" wanted this and that.
It goes from bad to worse, when someone comes, to profit from your disease. The word "believe" says it: Do stop thinking and start blindly believing. Only that now you blindly believe in what that profitor tells you.
It hurts you. It hurts those around you. And it would be much better, if you could actually cope with reality.
But sometimes, this is impossible. And this is why people with a bad education (especially in science), or those in a poor country, are the most religious ones.
(Now if you want to put your tinfoil on, I could ask you, if it isn't a strange coincidence, that most Americans seem to have a notoriously bad education, and that the economy is going down right now. -- A plot of the churches? -- Maybe rather a movie plot?:D)
Well. They all live in America. The fact that the USA took that term, and -- expecting that they are the only ones on the continent -- made it their own, does not change that.
Oh well... Wee all live an Americaaa... Americaaa, Americaaa...:P
... or just as wrong as killing animals, to be specific.
If no humans existed, the fungus would have killed the frogs, making place for other and new species. That is one way of natural selection. Why do we have animal protection programs in the first place? Because we meddled with nature, and have to fix it. Not because animals are dying.
This is a typical case of forgetting the original intent and blindly following the rules. Even if they are completely contradicting that intent.
What do you think comes out, when a decent programmer programs on a harder system? Worse code, or course.
A good programmer can write good in a bad environment. But he can write even better programs in a good environment. And a not-so-good programmer writes not-so-good programs in a bad environment. But ok/good programs in a good environment.
Making a programming environment worse makes the programs worse. Common sense.
If they wanted good games, they should have made a certification program. One that only allows games to run, that came trough the quality check. I think Nintendo did that once. But I don't know if they are still doing it for professional games, in the world of Wii minigames.
Well, in Germany, for private persons, as far an I know, this is the law... Apart from paying for empty media like cd-rs and hds, and other stuff. So we should pay multiple times. But they of course still think they can sue us....Well... nobody pays the PC tax anyway. If the government guy comes to your door, you simply tell him you have no PC, and then to go fuck off before you beat him up. But usually, if opening the door naked does not drive them away quickly, letting him come in, closing the door, and then slowly starting to jack off, does it for sure. ^^
(The more they sue, the quicker they are gone. Essentially, ZDnet tells them how to live longer... against their will... Well, I say: In this case, let them have their will.:D)
I prefer it to only cover the government, all banks, the disease industry, all churches, the oil industry, the media reproduction industry, and all churches and banks (bomb them twice, just to be sure). Did I forget anything? Yes. I said *only*;)
Oh, and use the rest of the bombing power to do that for the whole world instead of just the USA. After all, we are not discriminating any country. We hate all those bomb targets is all countries equally.;)
Project MAYHEM
P.S.: Please ignore all mails from a project GAY-HAM. They are a cheap knock-off, except if you like big man-orgies (a la South Park) instead of big fight clubs.
Yeah. Like not driving a car because you could crash, instead of learning how to drive.
Your body has a immune system. That system can be trained. Kissing and sex are the best training. Now tell me you do not like that idea...;)
But on a more serious note: The body is a machine, made for complex thinking and long running/hunting. But it need a very specific set of resources and be kept from rusting in, to do its work. You know. Not much short carboydrates and saturated fats. But non-denaturalized proteins, long carbohydrates, non-saturated fats, a correct mix of vital substances (not limited to vitamins, minerals and micronutrients!), enough water. And movement. The human body in one of the most enduring long-time runners on earth.
Be proud of your incredibly impressive machine called your body. It kicks your computer's ass! And it is completely open-source, hackable like nothing else, and with tons of raw power. Should be the dream of every geek/tweaker/hacker, shouldn't it?
Your challenge: Hack the most complex machine ever made, to outperform everything on earth. Sounds like fun!
Are you sure about calc.exe? You know that you can not simply delete it, because of the file protection?
But you can uninstall it from the installed components dialog. I even did it on my custom DVD, so when I install it, I already have Calc98 installed and calc.eve removed. But hell, nowadays I don't got to windows for anything other than playing games anyway. And Calc98 not even comes close to "Qalculate!" anyway. Best non-mathematical-suite calculator ever!
WHO THE FUCK cares about YOUR view of how to think of it. Oh, you just followed group-think? Well, after imposing your views on others, this is the second point where you are imitating fascism in a highly perfected way.
So with having mentioned the Nazis, I close this thread down.;)
And why am I the only one, who stands by his opinion, by not posting anonymously? Maybe I am the only one who is not ashamed of his views, because he knows he is right...
And, I actually did what GGP suggests. So what? It was fuckinâ(TM) hot to me. Iâ(TM)m still more of a straight guy than you probably will ever be.;)
I think that trading one monopoly (MS) for another (Linux) is not a good thing, even if I like Linux.
I think, that by definition, Linux can not become a monopoly. There will always be multiple kernels/forks/patchsets, user spaces, desktop environments, office suites, and so on. You can always fragment as much as you want. I'd even take BSD and MacOS X into that group.
I think under GNU/Linux, a monopoly emerges, when there is something so good, that everybody uses it. In that case a monopoly is good. If this would make attack on those systems more easy, it would not become a monopoly in the first place.
And that's where Windows had the problem. It was not dominant because it was the best choice.
Ok, to clarify it a bit: I meant the language and the basic system API. Things like file access and so on.
You still are out much better, because if you would write in C/C++ you throw away the cross-compatibility from the beginning. You even have to compile for every shit chip out there.
Itâ(TM)s like saying that because your car can never be perfectly safe, you want no safety at all. (Where "safety" is the analogy for "compatibility".)
But the uncool ones did. IE4 was reasonably stable, while NS4 wasn't. And as I remember, the "cool" things back then included such gems as a host of flies following the mouse cursor; I could live without them.
Must have been your failure. NN4 was never unstable on my systems. And I used it up to 16 hours a day. And the cool things were what we would today call AJAX and interactive web applications. I even made a little game of breakout, with <layer>s as bricks.
Didn't matter. NS4 would keep on crashing constantly, especially if you tried to use more than one browser window, while IE4 could run for hours. There was no contest.
Iâ(TM)m sorry if you really experienced that, but I have a completely different experience. As I said, it was completely stable, and I can not remember a single problem with it. Maybe you tried to use such a huge number of browser windows, that your *system* got into trouble. (RAM problems)
Besides, JavaScript is unnecessary for almost all Web sites; in fact I nowadays use NoScript to keep most of them from running it. That typically makes browsing a far more pleasant activity, since I'm spared the "cool" things various "Web developers" have cooked up.
Sorry, but weâ(TM)re talking about web *applications*. HTML is fucking stupid, because you re-transmit the whole user interface and layout every time you do something. Itâ(TM)s like the old joke "You have moved the mouse. Please restart the system." And on the server side, exactly this happens on every browser request.
The point of client-side scripting, is to have one single page, running an application, with one connection to the server, transmitting only the changed data.
If you are no developer, I understand that you might not have know that, but a sane developer canâ(TM)t stand so much overhead as to write the UI in HTML only.
There is a huge difference between real software developers, developing for the web, and "web developers". The latter kind thinks that because they know how to click trough typo3 and write a bit of HTML, CSS and PHP, they are developers. I worked in companies that were full of that kind. And they really think they are ohh so great developers. But when you ask them to make a re-usable library out of it, they complain about that being overly complicated, and copying any pasting would be easier. I bet you mean stuff that those types of "developers" created.;)
Oh yes, the Communicator package which insisted on doing everything and did nothing well. All it resulted in was bloat and more things that could go wrong.
Again, you speak in a heap of generalized statements with no supporting arguments. Iâ(TM)m starting to think that you are trolling. And again, I think the mail client was great.
Why the Hell should a web browser include a calendar?
Who talked about it being a browser? It was a communications package. And hell, why do you think there are such things as Lightning for Thunderbird, and Outlook with its calendar? It fits.
In theory, you could combine every communications software into a single generic modular system. Phone + answering machine, e-mail, websites, instant messaging, chat/irc, message boards, snail mail, tv + dvr, radio, and so on, and so on. They are only differing in small things. Some are broadcasting, some are unicasting. Some are bidirectional. Some are more direct, others store it for long reaction delays. There are many message and protocol formats. And so on. Even meetings belong into that category.
No, they won because NS4 was unusable and IE4 wasn't.
Watch how much the (non-existing) arguments behind this statement impress me... *yawn* How old are you?
And if you don't know what "fair and square" means - in this context
Interestingly, this is true for the human body too. How many people do you know, that operate their body how it was meant to be used? I bet, not a single one.
They spend huge sums on health care (usually only symptom treatment), so they can continue to ignore their wrong behavior, of eating trash and not moving. The human body is a very impressive machine, that is primarily made for complex thinking and running/hunting for long times. But it runs on a very complex set of resources. If there is an imbalance in those resources (usually too much short carbohydrates and saturated fats, not enough of the vital substances), you get into trouble.
It is pretty strange, that we, as we love to tweak complex systems, and make them run ABNORMALLY FAST*, but we ignore the most advanced machine we have access to: Ourselves. How about hacking yourself a bit? Run fastest, think hardest, and use the most cool hacks ever conceived!:D
In fact, I will start right now. Aaah... the power of self-motivation...;) ___ * If you know Powerthirst;)
I'm sorry, but did you actually use Netscape 4 and IE 4??
I did. I even programmed in them. And hell, all the cool features did not work in IE!
DHTML? JavaScript? They were in the same horrible state as they are today.
And IE did not even have a mail client, calendar, or anything else.
I used Opera in the time between Netscape 4.51 died and Mozilla/Firefox got fast enough and had enough applications to use it for more than development.
They did win for one simple reason: They gave their browser away with their os. Ror free. Knowing that Netscape needed the money. And when that did not help enough, they tried their usual mafia tactics, like offering Netscape developers money and the double salary to come over to them. Like with Borland, or Sun, or others.
They did neither win fair nor square (whatever that means), they won trough EEE. So stop talking out of your ass.
Oh, and look at mobile phones. What is the language you have to write is, if you want it to work on every phone, without learning every single OS's API? Java! (With OpenGL ES as a very nice addition.)
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No. You are only implying that we must use dogmas and be blind, because you can't think otherwise. You are also reflecting you own cerebral dissociation of inner and outer reality on us, so you can prevent yourself from getting insane.
Religion, I'm sorry to break this for you, is a psychological disease. It is a mild form of schizophrenia. That is, when you stop looking the outside reality, and instead use a twisted inner model that is twisted just that way that you can explain things, that your brain could not handle otherwise.
And it can happen for large groups of people too. Eg whole nations.
Usually it starts with not finding a sense in life, or not understanding why something bad or weird happens. Your brain protects itself from failing.
But then, when you notice things that contradict your inner model, you just re-fit it on the fly, by using even crazier excuses.
You could for example say, that your mother, the best and most nice person on earth, died because there must be something she did wrong. Or that "god" wanted this and that.
It goes from bad to worse, when someone comes, to profit from your disease. The word "believe" says it: Do stop thinking and start blindly believing. Only that now you blindly believe in what that profitor tells you.
It hurts you. It hurts those around you. And it would be much better, if you could actually cope with reality.
But sometimes, this is impossible. And this is why people with a bad education (especially in science), or those in a poor country, are the most religious ones.
(Now if you want to put your tinfoil on, I could ask you, if it isn't a strange coincidence, that most Americans seem to have a notoriously bad education, and that the economy is going down right now. -- A plot of the churches? -- Maybe rather a movie plot? :D)
"A" does not imply singularity. It can mean that they believe in at least one of many.
Hmm... You mean there is a better version of me out there? I must have invented a time machine, and flown it back to this time.
How nice of me!
I should ask for the blueprints. And do some dirty things that you can only do to yourself. ^^
Well. They all live in America. The fact that the USA took that term, and -- expecting that they are the only ones on the continent -- made it their own, does not change that.
Oh well... Wee all live an Americaaa... Americaaa, Americaaa... :P
Statistically, this is a correct assumption for most of the time. ;) :)
Then come the Japanese and the Germans I think...
I only do it, to prevent conversations like this:
Thaikonnu. Shohei javasa koooi shetegeh wasabi san!
Sense makin. Ur doin it rong. Repeet plzkthx?
NAIN! VERBOTEN!
On Vista7!
And because the CPU likely does not support x86, it will be in a virtualization container.
The display will be a slide projector combined with a film printer. With double-scan technology. (Two display refreshes per rendered frame.)
... or just as wrong as killing animals, to be specific.
If no humans existed, the fungus would have killed the frogs, making place for other and new species. That is one way of natural selection.
Why do we have animal protection programs in the first place? Because we meddled with nature, and have to fix it.
Not because animals are dying.
This is a typical case of forgetting the original intent and blindly following the rules. Even if they are completely contradicting that intent.
I smell a new volume unit: The gym bag.
So how many gym bags fit in a olympic-sized swimming pool?
And how many of those fit in a SydHarb (Sydney Harbour)?
Who updates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_strange_units_of_measurement ?
The hogshead is missing too.
What do you think comes out, when a decent programmer programs on a harder system?
Worse code, or course.
A good programmer can write good in a bad environment. But he can write even better programs in a good environment.
And a not-so-good programmer writes not-so-good programs in a bad environment. But ok/good programs in a good environment.
Making a programming environment worse makes the programs worse. Common sense.
If they wanted good games, they should have made a certification program. One that only allows games to run, that came trough the quality check.
I think Nintendo did that once. But I don't know if they are still doing it for professional games, in the world of Wii minigames.
Well, in Germany, for private persons, as far an I know, this is the law... Apart from paying for empty media like cd-rs and hds, and other stuff. So we should pay multiple times. But they of course still think they can sue us. ...Well... nobody pays the PC tax anyway. If the government guy comes to your door, you simply tell him you have no PC, and then to go fuck off before you beat him up.
But usually, if opening the door naked does not drive them away quickly, letting him come in, closing the door, and then slowly starting to jack off, does it for sure. ^^
(The more they sue, the quicker they are gone. Essentially, ZDnet tells them how to live longer... against their will... Well, I say: In this case, let them have their will. :D)
Yeah... It should be run by the US!
Oh... wait... let's ask Gitmo...
How can such an insulting bullshit be moderated informative??
This proves a major prejudice about Americans: Most of you don't know shit about the world (outside of your borders).
But I still hope, that there are some here who will fix that. After all, I thought Slashdot users had an above average intelligence.
I prefer it to only cover the government, all banks, the disease industry, all churches, the oil industry, the media reproduction industry, and all churches and banks (bomb them twice, just to be sure). Did I forget anything? ;)
Yes. I said *only*
Oh, and use the rest of the bombing power to do that for the whole world instead of just the USA. After all, we are not discriminating any country. We hate all those bomb targets is all countries equally. ;)
Project MAYHEM
P.S.: Please ignore all mails from a project GAY-HAM. They are a cheap knock-off, except if you like big man-orgies (a la South Park) instead of big fight clubs.
Yeah. Like not driving a car because you could crash, instead of learning how to drive.
Your body has a immune system. That system can be trained. Kissing and sex are the best training. Now tell me you do not like that idea... ;)
But on a more serious note: The body is a machine, made for complex thinking and long running/hunting. But it need a very specific set of resources and be kept from rusting in, to do its work.
You know. Not much short carboydrates and saturated fats. But non-denaturalized proteins, long carbohydrates, non-saturated fats, a correct mix of vital substances (not limited to vitamins, minerals and micronutrients!), enough water.
And movement. The human body in one of the most enduring long-time runners on earth.
Be proud of your incredibly impressive machine called your body. It kicks your computer's ass! And it is completely open-source, hackable like nothing else, and with tons of raw power.
Should be the dream of every geek/tweaker/hacker, shouldn't it?
Your challenge: Hack the most complex machine ever made, to outperform everything on earth.
Sounds like fun!
Are you sure about calc.exe? You know that you can not simply delete it, because of the file protection?
But you can uninstall it from the installed components dialog. I even did it on my custom DVD, so when I install it, I already have Calc98 installed and calc.eve removed.
But hell, nowadays I don't got to windows for anything other than playing games anyway. And Calc98 not even comes close to "Qalculate!" anyway. Best non-mathematical-suite calculator ever!
Iâ(TM)d mod YOU an insensitive clod!
WHO THE FUCK cares about YOUR view of how to think of it.
Oh, you just followed group-think?
Well, after imposing your views on others, this is the second point where you are imitating fascism in a highly perfected way.
So with having mentioned the Nazis, I close this thread down. ;)
And why am I the only one, who stands by his opinion, by not posting anonymously?
Maybe I am the only one who is not ashamed of his views, because he knows he is right...
And, I actually did what GGP suggests. So what? It was fuckinâ(TM) hot to me. Iâ(TM)m still more of a straight guy than you probably will ever be. ;)
I think that trading one monopoly (MS) for another (Linux) is not a good thing, even if I like Linux.
I think, that by definition, Linux can not become a monopoly. There will always be multiple kernels/forks/patchsets, user spaces, desktop environments, office suites, and so on. You can always fragment as much as you want. I'd even take BSD and MacOS X into that group.
I think under GNU/Linux, a monopoly emerges, when there is something so good, that everybody uses it. In that case a monopoly is good.
If this would make attack on those systems more easy, it would not become a monopoly in the first place.
And that's where Windows had the problem. It was not dominant because it was the best choice.
Ok, to clarify it a bit: I meant the language and the basic system API. Things like file access and so on.
You still are out much better, because if you would write in C/C++ you throw away the cross-compatibility from the beginning.
You even have to compile for every shit chip out there.
Itâ(TM)s like saying that because your car can never be perfectly safe, you want no safety at all. (Where "safety" is the analogy for "compatibility".)
But the uncool ones did. IE4 was reasonably stable, while NS4 wasn't. And as I remember, the "cool" things back then included such gems as a host of flies following the mouse cursor; I could live without them.
Must have been your failure. NN4 was never unstable on my systems. And I used it up to 16 hours a day.
And the cool things were what we would today call AJAX and interactive web applications. I even made a little game of breakout, with <layer>s as bricks.
Didn't matter. NS4 would keep on crashing constantly, especially if you tried to use more than one browser window, while IE4 could run for hours. There was no contest.
Iâ(TM)m sorry if you really experienced that, but I have a completely different experience.
As I said, it was completely stable, and I can not remember a single problem with it.
Maybe you tried to use such a huge number of browser windows, that your *system* got into trouble. (RAM problems)
Besides, JavaScript is unnecessary for almost all Web sites; in fact I nowadays use NoScript to keep most of them from running it. That typically makes browsing a far more pleasant activity, since I'm spared the "cool" things various "Web developers" have cooked up.
Sorry, but weâ(TM)re talking about web *applications*. HTML is fucking stupid, because you re-transmit the whole user interface and layout every time you do something. Itâ(TM)s like the old joke "You have moved the mouse. Please restart the system." And on the server side, exactly this happens on every browser request.
The point of client-side scripting, is to have one single page, running an application, with one connection to the server, transmitting only the changed data.
If you are no developer, I understand that you might not have know that, but a sane developer canâ(TM)t stand so much overhead as to write the UI in HTML only.
There is a huge difference between real software developers, developing for the web, and "web developers". The latter kind thinks that because they know how to click trough typo3 and write a bit of HTML, CSS and PHP, they are developers. I worked in companies that were full of that kind. And they really think they are ohh so great developers. But when you ask them to make a re-usable library out of it, they complain about that being overly complicated, and copying any pasting would be easier. ;)
I bet you mean stuff that those types of "developers" created.
Oh yes, the Communicator package which insisted on doing everything and did nothing well. All it resulted in was bloat and more things that could go wrong.
Again, you speak in a heap of generalized statements with no supporting arguments. Iâ(TM)m starting to think that you are trolling.
And again, I think the mail client was great.
Why the Hell should a web browser include a calendar?
Who talked about it being a browser? It was a communications package. And hell, why do you think there are such things as Lightning for Thunderbird, and Outlook with its calendar? It fits.
In theory, you could combine every communications software into a single generic modular system.
Phone + answering machine, e-mail, websites, instant messaging, chat/irc, message boards, snail mail, tv + dvr, radio, and so on, and so on.
They are only differing in small things. Some are broadcasting, some are unicasting. Some are bidirectional. Some are more direct, others store it for long reaction delays. There are many message and protocol formats. And so on. Even meetings belong into that category.
No, they won because NS4 was unusable and IE4 wasn't.
Watch how much the (non-existing) arguments behind this statement impress me... *yawn*
How old are you?
And if you don't know what "fair and square" means - in this context
I kn
True. Very true.
Interestingly, this is true for the human body too.
How many people do you know, that operate their body how it was meant to be used?
I bet, not a single one.
They spend huge sums on health care (usually only symptom treatment), so they can continue to ignore their wrong behavior, of eating trash and not moving.
The human body is a very impressive machine, that is primarily made for complex thinking and running/hunting for long times. But it runs on a very complex set of resources.
If there is an imbalance in those resources (usually too much short carbohydrates and saturated fats, not enough of the vital substances), you get into trouble.
It is pretty strange, that we, as we love to tweak complex systems, and make them run ABNORMALLY FAST*, but we ignore the most advanced machine we have access to: Ourselves. :D
How about hacking yourself a bit? Run fastest, think hardest, and use the most cool hacks ever conceived!
In fact, I will start right now. Aaah... the power of self-motivation... ;) ;)
___
* If you know Powerthirst
Nooo... Itsa mee... MAARIOOO!!
I'm sorry, but did you actually use Netscape 4 and IE 4??
I did. I even programmed in them. And hell, all the cool features did not work in IE!
DHTML? JavaScript? They were in the same horrible state as they are today.
And IE did not even have a mail client, calendar, or anything else.
I used Opera in the time between Netscape 4.51 died and Mozilla/Firefox got fast enough and had enough applications to use it for more than development.
They did win for one simple reason: They gave their browser away with their os. Ror free. Knowing that Netscape needed the money. And when that did not help enough, they tried their usual mafia tactics, like offering Netscape developers money and the double salary to come over to them. Like with Borland, or Sun, or others.
They did neither win fair nor square (whatever that means), they won trough EEE. So stop talking out of your ass.
There was stupidity in their behavior!
You imply that adding features would be the only thing you could do in this situation. Need a coffee for some creativity? ;)
What is the point of winning a browser war, if not to use the power that you got? For money of course.
Now as a homework, think up 10 methods to earn money from having a browser monopoly.
Then check, which of those Microsoft used.
I can't think of one. Man, they could have made tons of money from it, if they would have played it right.
Oh, and look at mobile phones. What is the language you have to write is, if you want it to work on every phone, without learning every single OS's API?
Java! (With OpenGL ES as a very nice addition.)