Huh. used to do it all the time. But I grew up shooting doves with a shotgun and going to metal concerts. The weird thing? I can still hear, no noticeable loss. Gods, I loved my M-14. I've got a Remington 700 now, but the M-14 was truly the king of weapons; it's no wonder that Navy SeaBees refused to trade their M14's and M113's in for M-16's & Humvees.
I don't think thats fair; take a look at the man's bio on wikipedia, he was at one time a valuable member of the human race, and flew 51 combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 during WWII. It wasn't until he got into politics that he turned evil, and after all, didn't we forgive Darth Vader at the end?
He will be missed... better the enemy you know, than the unknown that will rise to take his place. I think that's about all my Karma will allow me to say.
Are you serious? who backs up their cd's? All of the people who have them? everybody, pretty much, has a mp3 player. my teenaged kids mp3 players have music from my LP collection, my casette collection, the family CD collection, quite a few of the family DVD collection, live recordings, etc. I also don't let the kids touch the originals of ANYTHING. it all gets backed up to CD or DVD, and they can tear that up.
You know, I can think of 1 or 2 people who did not have a degree and still made some minor contribution to science.
One could almost begin to think that scientific advances have more to do with individual intelligence than institutional training.
Or that being a good musician has more to do with having talent than getting a degree in music.
Almost. I'm sure Billy Gates would argue the point; after all he dropped out of college after 1 year, and look what a loser he is. Or Don Murray. or Nathan Stubblefield (who did die in a shack).
The Hypothetical coding group that I may or may not be involved with that allegedly reverse engineers applications and games to run on Win2k (usually it's just a installer level check, no biggy) thinks that this is likely not as big a deal as it is made out to be. Allegedly.
....And the 4 other customers in the store have a right, and duty, to pull out their legal & licensed 10mm & 44's and simultaneously dispense evolutionary law.
Yeah, that is sort of similar to my situation. I have code on my system that I think could be classified as trade secret sort of stuff, plus lots of private data such as genealogy info (birthdays, the dirty laundry on some relatives, etc), my tax data, the tax data for the people I assist with their taxes, copyrighted works of art, and code for a patent pending network security process that I just want to keep buried. I also have work records for consulting jobs with banks & a couple of government groups. I'm not letting ANYONE have access to my drive, I don't care who they are. If the (maf)IIA managed to get their hands on it, I would be doing my damndest to get them & whoever they conned into helping them thrown under a Federal Lockup.
I won't say anything about your WinXP comments, there is a lot of emotion on both camps in the WinXP sucks/rocks camp, and my point of view is primarily from a corporate/government support point of view.
But you have to realize that you are the only person in the universe to not hate, loath & despise WinME, right?
I don't think Vista is less stable than win95. I think Vista is probably considerably more stable than Win95.
However, I don't think Vista is anywhere near as well regarded when it comes to usability as Win95.
I was trying to do the list with an even emphasis on Usability and stability; Win95, especially OSR2, was great, but it still had a lot of issues with 32-bit software, and is just really a pain when it comes down to modern gaming. You can run a Office as new as OfficeXP on it, but you are going to get BSoD's, and hung process errors, no way around it. Win98 had a lot of the same problems, but Win98SE is still damn functional; USB support out of the box, Great DOS support, good 32-bit coverage, and pretty much anything will run on it. I still use it as a dual-boot on just about every system I have. NT... well, my first cert was nt 3.51, my MCSE was originally for NT 4. for a workstation, on known hardware, I think NT 4 workstation is just about ideal; small footprint, stable, powerful. But it is prone to driver issues, and the threading could cause a lot of BSoD situations. having to re-install the service packs every time you made a minor change was annoying, also. I've just recently started not hating XP pro; I was lumping it in with XP home, and XP home is just so flipping useless as to rival WinME, in my experience; The problem wasn't just that it was a buggy, bloated shell on top of Win2k, and of course the phone-home and DRM, but the applications that came with it; Every single thing that shipped with XP home as a value added feature was worthless in comparison to the open source / freeware applications available. So you have people thinking that their WinXP home with windows firewall, phoning home like a good little spy to microsoft, was their operating system and acting in their best interest, looking out for them. Win2k didn't have any crap like that, so you were forced to download something, and maybe even learn a little bit about how to protect yourself. Tiny Personal Firewall versus Windows Firewall is no contest. Ok, rambling now.
That is a darn good idea. Even better, they could release Win2k New Era, with the 64-bit patch that they developed but never released so as to push people into XP. I would pay for it. I would pay premium for it; I've got a High-dollar HP laptop I got last year I would have gladly paid out a extra $150-$200 for Win2k 64-bit instead of XP.
Do NOT tell me that you are implying that Win98 is anything like WinME. When it comes to usability/ stability in major versions of windows, it goes something like this: Win2k (any version) Win2k3 WinXP Pro (only recently was I convinced to not lump XP Pro in with home) WinNT 4 Win98SE WinXP Home WinNT 3.51 Win98 Win95 Vista Win3.x WinME Win2.x I never tried Windows 1.0
Oblivion is very, very, very pretty. and not a bad game. However, I just can't bring myself to play it. Morrowind has only slightly less pretty graphics, and is probably the best thing Bethesda ever did; Oblivion isn't nearly as playable, the AI & NPC interaction routines are amazingly, easily noticeably, worse. I just can't figure out WHY.... I mean, they had it. they knew how to do it right. Why didn't they? My son plays the copy I bought. I figure after he's bored with it I'll turn him on to Morrowind.
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Nope, don't think you have it there. I used to be a HP-UX admin, before turning to the darkside and becoming a MCSE. Throw in some heavy OS/2 usage. I'm pretty darn familiar with both. The average Linux user at this point has already gotten VMware running on their system, so has windows as a application on demand, for use in gaming. Openoffice is as easy to use as MSOffice, which covers most corporate computer use. Thats because the average Linux user is almost certainly more computer literate and smarter in general; It is sort of like saying the average college student is smarter and better able to deal with a college level class than the average human.
Now to a person who didn't automatically go to linux, or "The Average Computer User", they might be able to run a Knoppix distro without problems, but they aren't going to be able to configure their network if it didn't autoconfig, figure out how to make their hard drives writeable, or even DREAM about running GTA4 in a WINE or VMware shell; it just isn't going to happen, because they don't want to spend the time to learn how to do it; it isn't worth it to them. So, they are going to stay windows users. When they can't run a new game or application because Microsoft has coded in some bullshit check in the installer that refuses to install on anything but the latest Vista Ultimate Integrated Spyware and Malware edition, they will just do without, or buy a new computer that comes with it installed. In other words, they are just screwed. No help for it.
I'm sticking with Win2k until they make it illegal to run it, or until I can't run my hardware with it; I can feel the end coming, as some of the graphics apps I work with are coming out with 64-bit versions, and MS killed their 64-bit Win2k patch that they developed to boost XP-64 sales; when the majority of the stuff I use has a stable 64-bit edition, I'll be forced to go to XP Pro 64. But I won't run Vista. period. I have confidence by the time a piece of hardware comes out that Win2k / XP-64 won't run on, and is required to run an application I use properly, either there will be a working Linux version, Or I'll be dead. I MIGHT even consider getting a Mac... .
Only slightly more extreme than my point of view. When I want mind blowing special effects and realism.... I read a book. My brain did a MUCH better job on LotR 30 years ago than anything more recent.
For that idiot box stuff I have a good quality 52" phillips standard definition TV; the vast majority of content that is being transmitted would not look any better on a $7000 set, and it's perfect for DVD's.
For the stuff that might, conceivably look better in HD, I have my laptop from hell, a HP DV8230US with a 17" widescreen.
Odd point of view from a guy who dabbles with special effects, isn't it?
Really? the discounts used to start at 1/4 lb , or 4 oz in the old St. Louis area markets. Not MUCH of a discount, granted. You had to hit the 1 lb / 16 oz mark for that. Never heard of a 9 bar; a older friend of mine used to talk about "lids" without thinking it was funny. um. this is all hypothetical. or parody. or something like that.
To probably 99%+/- of U.S. Citizens, if they have any idea of how big a meter is, they think "about a yard", so "about 300 feet" is a pretty darn good answer. I'm a Traveller gearhead, so I learned metrics at an early age. If not for the game, I would only know: about how much 2 liters is. 100 KPH is not very fast. a ounce is 28.3 grams (something we ALL learned in the 70's) There are around 35 ounces in a kilogram (something some of us learned in the 70's)...and thats about it.
On Star Wars, I have to disagree. The trench run is pure genius, especially the falcon showing up in the end of it; I don't think that particular scene could have been done better. The Movie has many moments of pure coolness here and there, that would have worked just as well if it was a WWII based movie.
Firefly could not have been done at any earlier time as a series, the special effects cost would have been to high. As it is essentialy a group of Confederate officers trying to survive reconstruction, it was good that Whedon had the option of putting it into a SF setting.
That was pretty disjointed. Hopefully the meaning comes across.
weeellll...
I saw Starwars in a theatre in Bakerfield, CA when it first came out. I saw it 6 times on opening weekend. Whenever anyone says "Star Wars", it takes me a minute to realize that they aren't talking about Episode IV.
So to me, Star Wars is Episode IV, and blows the airlocks off of Serenity without even trying. However, if you consider "Star Wars" as everything put on film as being Star Wars "canon", and Serenity also including Firefly as "Canon", then serenity/firefly wins.
And there is the ONE arguement against the continued use of Win2k that is valid. When Microsoft decided not to release the 64-bit patch for win2k except on very high end database servers, they did the one thing that would actually hurt the OS, and push people into the Evil which is XP.
As VMware has a 64-bit version, it would make sense that it would run better in a 64-bit enabled OS. I, and others, can write patches to get rid of the name checking artificial limitations, like with Age of Empires 3, but I'm just not up to writing a 64-bit patch.
If there are any MicroSofties out there with a soul, PLEASE release the 64-bit patch for win2k? just sneak it into your lunchbox one day.
Can't test win2k; it was/is The Ultimate Operating System, and would put all others to shame.
now that I'm done with the win2k fanboy comment...
It would be near impossible to do this test right; no one in their right minds would suspect WinXP firewall of actually working, the first thing I do for people who i'm helping out is to kill it and (if they are not computer brain dead) install Tiny Personal Firewall, or (if they just can't figure out that whole "copy, paste" concept) Zonealarm.
So unless you specify the test only applies to systems that are coming out of a shipping box from the manufacturer at a house, it's invalid. and if THAT is the case, Linux shouldn't even be considered.
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Tacitus? that punk? I tell you, nothing and no one good EVER came out of Gallia Narbonensis.
Huh. used to do it all the time. But I grew up shooting doves with a shotgun and going to metal concerts.
The weird thing? I can still hear, no noticeable loss.
Gods, I loved my M-14. I've got a Remington 700 now, but the M-14 was truly the king of weapons; it's no wonder that Navy SeaBees refused to trade their M14's and M113's in for M-16's & Humvees.
I don't think thats fair; take a look at the man's bio on wikipedia, he was at one time a valuable member of the human race, and flew 51 combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 during WWII.
It wasn't until he got into politics that he turned evil, and after all, didn't we forgive Darth Vader at the end?
He will be missed... better the enemy you know, than the unknown that will rise to take his place.
I think that's about all my Karma will allow me to say.
Are you serious? who backs up their cd's?
All of the people who have them? everybody, pretty much, has a mp3 player. my teenaged kids mp3 players have music from my LP collection, my casette collection, the family CD collection, quite a few of the family DVD collection, live recordings, etc.
I also don't let the kids touch the originals of ANYTHING. it all gets backed up to CD or DVD, and they can tear that up.
You know, I can think of 1 or 2 people who did not have a degree and still made some minor contribution to science. One could almost begin to think that scientific advances have more to do with individual intelligence than institutional training. Or that being a good musician has more to do with having talent than getting a degree in music. Almost. I'm sure Billy Gates would argue the point; after all he dropped out of college after 1 year, and look what a loser he is. Or Don Murray. or Nathan Stubblefield (who did die in a shack).
The Hypothetical coding group that I may or may not be involved with that allegedly reverse engineers applications and games to run on Win2k (usually it's just a installer level check, no biggy) thinks that this is likely not as big a deal as it is made out to be. Allegedly.
....And the 4 other customers in the store have a right, and duty, to pull out their legal & licensed 10mm & 44's and simultaneously dispense evolutionary law.
Yeah, that is sort of similar to my situation.
I have code on my system that I think could be classified as trade secret sort of stuff, plus lots of private data such as genealogy info (birthdays, the dirty laundry on some relatives, etc), my tax data, the tax data for the people I assist with their taxes, copyrighted works of art, and code for a patent pending network security process that I just want to keep buried.
I also have work records for consulting jobs with banks & a couple of government groups.
I'm not letting ANYONE have access to my drive, I don't care who they are. If the (maf)IIA managed to get their hands on it, I would be doing my damndest to get them & whoever they conned into helping them thrown under a Federal Lockup.
I won't say anything about your WinXP comments, there is a lot of emotion on both camps in the WinXP sucks/rocks camp, and my point of view is primarily from a corporate/government support point of view.
But you have to realize that you are the only person in the universe to not hate, loath & despise WinME, right?
I don't think Vista is less stable than win95. I think Vista is probably considerably more stable than Win95. However, I don't think Vista is anywhere near as well regarded when it comes to usability as Win95.
I was trying to do the list with an even emphasis on Usability and stability; Win95, especially OSR2, was great, but it still had a lot of issues with 32-bit software, and is just really a pain when it comes down to modern gaming. You can run a Office as new as OfficeXP on it, but you are going to get BSoD's, and hung process errors, no way around it.
Win98 had a lot of the same problems, but Win98SE is still damn functional; USB support out of the box, Great DOS support, good 32-bit coverage, and pretty much anything will run on it. I still use it as a dual-boot on just about every system I have.
NT... well, my first cert was nt 3.51, my MCSE was originally for NT 4. for a workstation, on known hardware, I think NT 4 workstation is just about ideal; small footprint, stable, powerful. But it is prone to driver issues, and the threading could cause a lot of BSoD situations. having to re-install the service packs every time you made a minor change was annoying, also.
I've just recently started not hating XP pro; I was lumping it in with XP home, and XP home is just so flipping useless as to rival WinME, in my experience; The problem wasn't just that it was a buggy, bloated shell on top of Win2k, and of course the phone-home and DRM, but the applications that came with it; Every single thing that shipped with XP home as a value added feature was worthless in comparison to the open source / freeware applications available.
So you have people thinking that their WinXP home with windows firewall, phoning home like a good little spy to microsoft, was their operating system and acting in their best interest, looking out for them. Win2k didn't have any crap like that, so you were forced to download something, and maybe even learn a little bit about how to protect yourself. Tiny Personal Firewall versus Windows Firewall is no contest.
Ok, rambling now.
That is a darn good idea.
Even better, they could release Win2k New Era, with the 64-bit patch that they developed but never released so as to push people into XP.
I would pay for it. I would pay premium for it; I've got a High-dollar HP laptop I got last year I would have gladly paid out a extra $150-$200 for Win2k 64-bit instead of XP.
Do NOT tell me that you are implying that Win98 is anything like WinME.
When it comes to usability/ stability in major versions of windows, it goes something like this:
Win2k (any version)
Win2k3
WinXP Pro (only recently was I convinced to not lump XP Pro in with home)
WinNT 4
Win98SE
WinXP Home
WinNT 3.51
Win98
Win95
Vista
Win3.x
WinME
Win2.x
I never tried Windows 1.0
Oblivion is very, very, very pretty. and not a bad game.
However, I just can't bring myself to play it. Morrowind has only slightly less pretty graphics, and is probably the best thing Bethesda ever did; Oblivion isn't nearly as playable, the AI & NPC interaction routines are amazingly, easily noticeably, worse. I just can't figure out WHY.... I mean, they had it. they knew how to do it right. Why didn't they?
My son plays the copy I bought. I figure after he's bored with it I'll turn him on to Morrowind.
Nope, don't think you have it there.
I used to be a HP-UX admin, before turning to the darkside and becoming a MCSE. Throw in some heavy OS/2 usage. I'm pretty darn familiar with both.
The average Linux user at this point has already gotten VMware running on their system, so has windows as a application on demand, for use in gaming.
Openoffice is as easy to use as MSOffice, which covers most corporate computer use. Thats because the average Linux user is almost certainly more computer literate and smarter in general; It is sort of like saying the average college student is smarter and better able to deal with a college level class than the average human.
Now to a person who didn't automatically go to linux, or "The Average Computer User", they might be able to run a Knoppix distro without problems, but they aren't going to be able to configure their network if it didn't autoconfig, figure out how to make their hard drives writeable, or even DREAM about running GTA4 in a WINE or VMware shell; it just isn't going to happen, because they don't want to spend the time to learn how to do it; it isn't worth it to them.
So, they are going to stay windows users. When they can't run a new game or application because Microsoft has coded in some bullshit check in the installer that refuses to install on anything but the latest Vista Ultimate Integrated Spyware and Malware edition, they will just do without, or buy a new computer that comes with it installed. In other words, they are just screwed. No help for it.
I'm sticking with Win2k until they make it illegal to run it, or until I can't run my hardware with it; I can feel the end coming, as some of the graphics apps I work with are coming out with 64-bit versions, and MS killed their 64-bit Win2k patch that they developed to boost XP-64 sales; when the majority of the stuff I use has a stable 64-bit edition, I'll be forced to go to XP Pro 64.
But I won't run Vista. period. I have confidence by the time a piece of hardware comes out that Win2k / XP-64 won't run on, and is required to run an application I use properly, either there will be a working Linux version, Or I'll be dead. I MIGHT even consider getting a Mac... .
Need a "+1 poster really groks it" mod.
Only slightly more extreme than my point of view.
When I want mind blowing special effects and realism.... I read a book. My brain did a MUCH better job on LotR 30 years ago than anything more recent.
For that idiot box stuff I have a good quality 52" phillips standard definition TV; the vast majority of content that is being transmitted would not look any better on a $7000 set, and it's perfect for DVD's.
For the stuff that might, conceivably look better in HD, I have my laptop from hell, a HP DV8230US with a 17" widescreen.
Odd point of view from a guy who dabbles with special effects, isn't it?
Really? the discounts used to start at 1/4 lb , or 4 oz in the old St. Louis area markets. Not MUCH of a discount, granted. You had to hit the 1 lb / 16 oz mark for that.
Never heard of a 9 bar; a older friend of mine used to talk about "lids" without thinking it was funny.
um. this is all hypothetical. or parody. or something like that.
To probably 99%+/- of U.S. Citizens, if they have any idea of how big a meter is, they think "about a yard", so "about 300 feet" is a pretty darn good answer. ...and thats about it.
I'm a Traveller gearhead, so I learned metrics at an early age. If not for the game, I would only know:
about how much 2 liters is.
100 KPH is not very fast.
a ounce is 28.3 grams (something we ALL learned in the 70's)
There are around 35 ounces in a kilogram (something some of us learned in the 70's)
On Star Wars, I have to disagree. The trench run is pure genius, especially the falcon showing up in the end of it; I don't think that particular scene could have been done better. The Movie has many moments of pure coolness here and there, that would have worked just as well if it was a WWII based movie. Firefly could not have been done at any earlier time as a series, the special effects cost would have been to high. As it is essentialy a group of Confederate officers trying to survive reconstruction, it was good that Whedon had the option of putting it into a SF setting. That was pretty disjointed. Hopefully the meaning comes across.
weeellll... I saw Starwars in a theatre in Bakerfield, CA when it first came out. I saw it 6 times on opening weekend. Whenever anyone says "Star Wars", it takes me a minute to realize that they aren't talking about Episode IV. So to me, Star Wars is Episode IV, and blows the airlocks off of Serenity without even trying. However, if you consider "Star Wars" as everything put on film as being Star Wars "canon", and Serenity also including Firefly as "Canon", then serenity/firefly wins.
Kirk ALWAYS shot first; there are some things that can't be altered, the fabric of space-time does not allow it.
And there is the ONE arguement against the continued use of Win2k that is valid. When Microsoft decided not to release the 64-bit patch for win2k except on very high end database servers, they did the one thing that would actually hurt the OS, and push people into the Evil which is XP.
As VMware has a 64-bit version, it would make sense that it would run better in a 64-bit enabled OS. I, and others, can write patches to get rid of the name checking artificial limitations, like with Age of Empires 3, but I'm just not up to writing a 64-bit patch.
If there are any MicroSofties out there with a soul, PLEASE release the 64-bit patch for win2k? just sneak it into your lunchbox one day.
Can't test win2k; it was/is The Ultimate Operating System, and would put all others to shame. now that I'm done with the win2k fanboy comment... It would be near impossible to do this test right; no one in their right minds would suspect WinXP firewall of actually working, the first thing I do for people who i'm helping out is to kill it and (if they are not computer brain dead) install Tiny Personal Firewall, or (if they just can't figure out that whole "copy, paste" concept) Zonealarm. So unless you specify the test only applies to systems that are coming out of a shipping box from the manufacturer at a house, it's invalid. and if THAT is the case, Linux shouldn't even be considered.