Don't forget, a level 7 PC with cheap components would probably be slower than a level 5 with quality ones. When I upgrade my video card, I didn't feal like spending more that $100 dollars. Anything on the market in that price range sucks these days, so I traked down a GeForce Ti 4200 for $76 bucks off newegg. It's at least twice as fast as anything being marketed today in that price range.
BTW, this is probably redundant by now, but didn't we already do this years ago with that 'multimedia PC' crap? That didn't exactly take off.
if you 'kill' a corporation if the people responsible still get off free? I don't see a problem here. Limited liability up until fraud is committed (and proved in court), then lay it on these bastards. If I had a 5 million dollar bonus for the cost of 5 months in a min security prison plus all or most of my ill gotten gains, do you reall thing I'd care if you 'killed' my former employeer? It's not like I'm a paragon of virtue to begin with ya know.
Not that any of this matters. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: These people are our rulers. They're never going to do anything that severly inconviences themselves. Sure, they'll through the occasional weakling to the dogs of public opinion and 'justice', but mostly they'll go untouched. Reading a little about Countess Bathory, what scares the shit out of me about the story isn't that she bruatally murdered 500+ young girls, but that noone gave a shit until she started killing nobles. Have we, as a species, really advanced to the point where we're beyond this sort of thing?
it was all just a bunch of nerds doing their thing. Then the suits smelled (smelt?) money and it went downhill from there. I mean, fuck, do you think any genuine engineering nerd would even think of patenting software? Hell no, that's just silly.
Not that we can get rid of those suits. The whole things too big now, you can't shake 'em off. They're the rulling class, and they always get their cut, of everything.
Major computer vender's will go with whoever gives them the best discouts. Intel overcharges on the retail chain, but you can bet the OEMs are doing fine. They wouldn't stick with Intel otherwise.
Besides, Intel's marketing campaign allows OEM's distinguish their product. After all, why would you want a crummy AMD when your can have Intel Inside (TM)? Intel's marketing campaign gives OEM's an excuse to jack up prices on Intel based computers. I talk to people all the time who are so proud of themselves for buying the very best computer Dell has. Even had it custom built. These kind of idiots want to spend more money. Intel provides a convient reason to do so.
It's an automatically generated takedown notice accusing the target of copyright infringment. It's brilliant really. Almost no cost, scares the shit out of most sites so they drop off the net, and there's no legal consequences with improper accusations. Immoral? Yes. Illegal? Probably not, and good luck winning in court if you do challenge.
imagine if you took every state and every federal government's it budget and dedicated it to exanding and improving a shared resource of software. Imagine how quickly the software could improve.
The only problem is our society doesn't have a way to cope with the lost jobs right now. And there will be lost jobs. After all, right now a lot of work is being unecessarilly duplicated. Of coarse this doesn't generate real wealth (software is generally a means to and end, not an end in itself), but it does shift wealth around in such a way that people work harder in general and end up generating a little more real wealth in the process.
But this is rapidly becomming a moot point. Outsourcing is sending all our programing and IT jobs away. There's no need to worry about open source putting our programmer's out of work, Microsoft has already done a very good job of that thank you very much. So why give a fuck if Microsoft goes belly up if they're doing basically nothing for America (or for whichever country you're in, presuming you're in a first world nation with Minimum Wages and labor laws). As companies abandon us, our only hope is to abandon them.
MMORPGs are boring as sin. That's because most make the basic gameplay automatic and scriptable so you can chat while you're doing it. If you're not chatting you're sitting there watching the kill foozle/mine fuzzle animation for hours on end. I'd like to see a gameplay driven MMORPG that made soloing fun for those first several hours I'm catching up with/making new friends. I guess it's just too tempting to bolt on a crappy dungeon crawler to a chat client and hire an art department to pretty it up.
A proper lock requires a great deal of effort to force open. In a public place (such as where a bike might be locked up) it's not practical for a thief to force open a difficult lock. There's a good chance someone will notice the thief by the time he's got it open. This pen thing's so easy I doubt anyone would notice. They'd just thing someone was having a little trouble with their own lock. This is going to embolden a lot of casual crooks.
IBM's marketing is the suck. At least their consumer devision's is. Always has been too. I'd guess IBM doesn't really want to bother with the consumer devision (it don't pay too well), but damned if they're gonna leave money on the table.
Also, I seem to remember some backstabbing on Microsoft's part, but I don't remember the details. I think it involved snatching all the good parts of OS/2 and dropping them in NT, then abandoning OS/2. That said, why anyone would run NT 3/4 if OS/2 was an option is beyond me.
if you sys restore to or from SP2. All new files get left there, and Windows still manages to load them. Sys restore's a great way to fix minor problem with Windows files (used it today to get MP3 playback working in WMP again). Don't rely on it for complex stuff. And do not use it if you've got Norton utilities installed. I haven't confirmed this, but I've heard rumors that Norton's speed disk and possibly antivirus corrupt restore points subtely so you can run the restore, but it blows up bad. I'v had many a restore point blow up with only Norton to blame...
So _always_ uninstall SP2 before reverting to a pre-SP2 environment (that includes your friend and mine, the repair install). Trust me, you'll be glad you did. And for God's sake clean your spyware off first. You're doing a major change to the networking system. That's not gonna go over well with Kazaa and friends.
No, the most valuable resorces are oil and metal. And there's going to be a really nasty war once China and India start to really industrialize.
The only thing unlimited is your capacity for missing my point. It doesn't matter how much the economy grows. It can grow as big as you want it. There will always be some rich fuck to take it all. It's not about money, it's about power. The power to make people do what you want. The power to have a God Damned ice castle built in your desert while your people are starving (no joke, I think it's that fucker over in Swaziland that wants it. The last absoulte monarch or some such crap). Go read 1984. Read it again if you already have, because you missed the point. No matter how much you give, no matter how much you make, the amazing capacity of human greed will cause one bastard to rise to the occasion and seize it all.
The solution isn't to hold out for some nebulous, "things will be better" crap. The solution is right now to control society for everyone's benefit. We need to recognize and curtail this basic feature of human society that creates very rich and very poor. Well, I'm a pessimist, so I don't think that will happen. Lucky for me I'm such a loser I'll probably never have kids because fuck, is the future going to suck. Oh well, the survirors of the afformentioned war will probably do OK, just like we did:D.
take a look around your home. Count the number of things that weren't made with near slave labor in sweat shop conditions. Your high standard of living is a direct result of oppression. Just because you're not doing the oppression yourself doesn't mean you're obsolved from guilt. Furthermore, given the oportunity to become really, really wealth, would you? If the answer is no (and you're not just answering no to make a point) then congradulations, you're one of those rare individuals who isn't a total bastard. If the answer is yes, well, just don't spend too much time thinking about where all that wealth is comming from. It's not a happy thought.
Oh, and as for simmering in your own muck, you won't. You're upper middle class, and Globalism shields you from the muck. Isn't that nice?
And someone else's children are going to be able to eat.
If you're in a position where there is any doubt your children will be eating, you shouldn't have them. Period. This should be forced for the good of society. Your rights end when they interfere with mine, and the effect unwanted and uneeded children have on society certainly interferes with my rights to live well.
In the long run these inequalities won't be evened out, because there's always some jerk who wants to profit from thost inequalities. As things even out, along come some greedy bastard who wants to be rich, and they only way he can do it is by making people poor. That's the definition of 'rich'. You have far more than anyone else, so they have far less.
Globalism is not a short term sacrifice for long term gains, it's the begining of a really nasty self perpetuating system of keeping the poor poor and the rich rich. Before globalism we had unions, and ugly battles over them. Now business just threaten to leave if workers get uppity. No riots, so protests, just a lot of broke, starving people nobody cares about.
No, it's almost all first party, because it all goes through linus at one point. The exceptions are stuff like the Nvidia drivers which the kernel maintainers have no control over.
The structure hasn't changed though. Do a bit of digging and you'll find the common man has never had any real power except right after WWII (and only then because there was a shortage of workers thanks to your friend and mine, the Machinegun). _All_ complex societies throughout history have been centered around satisifying the wants of a lucky few. Ours still is, it's just that technology and Globalism has expanded the number of Lucky ones, and the losses of WWII allowed the unlucky ones to make out OK for a while.
Trouble is, just about every single poor and middle class bastard wants to join the oppressors. And every time you add an oppressor, you've got to add some oppressed. This is just the way human economy works. As soon as the masses make some gains, along will come someone to take them away so he can join the ranks of the wealthy and powerful. There is a way to stop this: forced birth control. Either that or War, famine and disease will work just as well. So long as there are too few people to effectively oppress. Capitalism needs lots of cannon fodder.
Oh, and give me Socialism over capitalism any day. Adam Smith envisioned a world of small time shop keepers and factory owners with a stake in thier communities because they lived there. Globalism breaks all that. What's been keeping your job from going overseas is isolationism broght on by the Cold War. Now that that's over capitalism's busted. Capital will flow where ever labor's cheapest, and that flow will keep standards of living down. You're not gonna feel this too bad, but you're children will. Their lives are gonna suck.
and see how stable it is. Much as I hate Microsoft (and I do), Windows XP is a stable operating system when it's running good quality, name brand software/hardware. At least the desktop is, no comment on server stuff. Where you run into problems is all the crappy 3rd party drivers and add ins that run in the background and make tons of changes to they system. If you start adding that stuff to Linux you'll have the same problems. On the other hand, Linux's openness makes adding this crap harder, and often unecessary...
People are constantly telling him what they think is wrong. That's why we get Greedo shooting first. That's why the Ewok song gets cut (yes, I liked the Ewok song. It's a God damn childrens' movie people). Watch the commentary on Ep2. People bitched left and right about Yoda kicking ass. Did it rock? Yes, I think that it did. Lucas sucks most when he listens to his critics.
This isn't to say Lucas is some genious who ought to be left along to create. For God's sake, somebody should have pointed out that if Ep 1 was going to be a childrens' movie, Ep 2 damn well better be. And how the hell did Natile Portman get hired? Anyway, both movies seem to me more like a bunch of cool ideas with a script hung on them than the other way around. But I think the worst stuff (mitochondrians and virgin births) where crappy reponses to critics.
As for Jar-Jar, I think he was something the Special Effects guys really wanted to do. A completely CG character who was also totally believable. It's really quite a feat, it's just a pity the accomplishment is overshadowed by how god damned annoying he his. Like I said, lots of cool ideas, no solid foundation to hang 'em on.
at least practically. Our current economic system is brilliant. You've got a small middle class, a huge poor class, and a sliver of Kings. The system encourages the poor to waste their energy becoming middle class and the middle class to waste their energy on not becoming poor. Meanwhile the rich are laughing all the way to the bank. You don't need to look far to see the evidence. People are too busy living their lives to care about patents and copyrights. You don't spend 50+ hours a week getting by and then the rest of your time mailing letters off to your congressman. You spend that time relaxing, or with your kids, or your hobbies. The key is to always hold out the promise that things will be better, if only you'll just work a little harder....
he always intended to do the prequals. Well, that's not quite true. The original script was too long, so he skipped to the middle. It's not surprising to seem him go back and finish making the rest of the script. Moreover, it's got nothing to do with art. I really think Lucas just wants to make the movies. This is actually a problem. I think he entered into the project without a clear picture of what he wanted to do; and instead just has a bunch of cool ideas that have been floating around in his head for years. It doesn't help that he's listening to his critics lately. The result is the mess that is Eps I & II. Oh well, at least Clone Wars TV rocked.
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Don't forget, a level 7 PC with cheap components would probably be slower than a level 5 with quality ones. When I upgrade my video card, I didn't feal like spending more that $100 dollars. Anything on the market in that price range sucks these days, so I traked down a GeForce Ti 4200 for $76 bucks off newegg. It's at least twice as fast as anything being marketed today in that price range.
BTW, this is probably redundant by now, but didn't we already do this years ago with that 'multimedia PC' crap? That didn't exactly take off.
if you 'kill' a corporation if the people responsible still get off free? I don't see a problem here. Limited liability up until fraud is committed (and proved in court), then lay it on these bastards. If I had a 5 million dollar bonus for the cost of 5 months in a min security prison plus all or most of my ill gotten gains, do you reall thing I'd care if you 'killed' my former employeer? It's not like I'm a paragon of virtue to begin with ya know.
Not that any of this matters. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: These people are our rulers. They're never going to do anything that severly inconviences themselves. Sure, they'll through the occasional weakling to the dogs of public opinion and 'justice', but mostly they'll go untouched. Reading a little about Countess Bathory, what scares the shit out of me about the story isn't that she bruatally murdered 500+ young girls, but that noone gave a shit until she started killing nobles. Have we, as a species, really advanced to the point where we're beyond this sort of thing?
it was all just a bunch of nerds doing their thing. Then the suits smelled (smelt?) money and it went downhill from there. I mean, fuck, do you think any genuine engineering nerd would even think of patenting software? Hell no, that's just silly.
Not that we can get rid of those suits. The whole things too big now, you can't shake 'em off. They're the rulling class, and they always get their cut, of everything.
Major computer vender's will go with whoever gives them the best discouts. Intel overcharges on the retail chain, but you can bet the OEMs are doing fine. They wouldn't stick with Intel otherwise.
Besides, Intel's marketing campaign allows OEM's distinguish their product. After all, why would you want a crummy AMD when your can have Intel Inside (TM)? Intel's marketing campaign gives OEM's an excuse to jack up prices on Intel based computers. I talk to people all the time who are so proud of themselves for buying the very best computer Dell has. Even had it custom built. These kind of idiots want to spend more money. Intel provides a convient reason to do so.
It's an automatically generated takedown notice accusing the target of copyright infringment. It's brilliant really. Almost no cost, scares the shit out of most sites so they drop off the net, and there's no legal consequences with improper accusations. Immoral? Yes. Illegal? Probably not, and good luck winning in court if you do challenge.
imagine if you took every state and every federal government's it budget and dedicated it to exanding and improving a shared resource of software. Imagine how quickly the software could improve.
The only problem is our society doesn't have a way to cope with the lost jobs right now. And there will be lost jobs. After all, right now a lot of work is being unecessarilly duplicated. Of coarse this doesn't generate real wealth (software is generally a means to and end, not an end in itself), but it does shift wealth around in such a way that people work harder in general and end up generating a little more real wealth in the process.
But this is rapidly becomming a moot point. Outsourcing is sending all our programing and IT jobs away. There's no need to worry about open source putting our programmer's out of work, Microsoft has already done a very good job of that thank you very much. So why give a fuck if Microsoft goes belly up if they're doing basically nothing for America (or for whichever country you're in, presuming you're in a first world nation with Minimum Wages and labor laws). As companies abandon us, our only hope is to abandon them.
Selling virtual junk online. It doesn't pay well, but it's probably at least as good as a fast food joint's wages.
MMORPGs are boring as sin. That's because most make the basic gameplay automatic and scriptable so you can chat while you're doing it. If you're not chatting you're sitting there watching the kill foozle/mine fuzzle animation for hours on end. I'd like to see a gameplay driven MMORPG that made soloing fun for those first several hours I'm catching up with/making new friends. I guess it's just too tempting to bolt on a crappy dungeon crawler to a chat client and hire an art department to pretty it up.
A proper lock requires a great deal of effort to force open. In a public place (such as where a bike might be locked up) it's not practical for a thief to force open a difficult lock. There's a good chance someone will notice the thief by the time he's got it open. This pen thing's so easy I doubt anyone would notice. They'd just thing someone was having a little trouble with their own lock. This is going to embolden a lot of casual crooks.
Just like the SCO case can simply be resolved by code comparison, right?
bizarro lifted?
IBM's marketing is the suck. At least their consumer devision's is. Always has been too. I'd guess IBM doesn't really want to bother with the consumer devision (it don't pay too well), but damned if they're gonna leave money on the table.
Also, I seem to remember some backstabbing on Microsoft's part, but I don't remember the details. I think it involved snatching all the good parts of OS/2 and dropping them in NT, then abandoning OS/2. That said, why anyone would run NT 3/4 if OS/2 was an option is beyond me.
if you sys restore to or from SP2. All new files get left there, and Windows still manages to load them. Sys restore's a great way to fix minor problem with Windows files (used it today to get MP3 playback working in WMP again). Don't rely on it for complex stuff. And do not use it if you've got Norton utilities installed. I haven't confirmed this, but I've heard rumors that Norton's speed disk and possibly antivirus corrupt restore points subtely so you can run the restore, but it blows up bad. I'v had many a restore point blow up with only Norton to blame...
So _always_ uninstall SP2 before reverting to a pre-SP2 environment (that includes your friend and mine, the repair install). Trust me, you'll be glad you did. And for God's sake clean your spyware off first. You're doing a major change to the networking system. That's not gonna go over well with Kazaa and friends.
Less and less spam is getting through my filters. I'm not getting the really clever messages that slip through as much.
The same way the PS/2 can do photo realistic graphics using the patented Sony Distortion Field (TM).
No, the most valuable resorces are oil and metal. And there's going to be a really nasty war once China and India start to really industrialize.
:D.
The only thing unlimited is your capacity for missing my point. It doesn't matter how much the economy grows. It can grow as big as you want it. There will always be some rich fuck to take it all. It's not about money, it's about power. The power to make people do what you want. The power to have a God Damned ice castle built in your desert while your people are starving (no joke, I think it's that fucker over in Swaziland that wants it. The last absoulte monarch or some such crap). Go read 1984. Read it again if you already have, because you missed the point. No matter how much you give, no matter how much you make, the amazing capacity of human greed will cause one bastard to rise to the occasion and seize it all.
The solution isn't to hold out for some nebulous, "things will be better" crap. The solution is right now to control society for everyone's benefit. We need to recognize and curtail this basic feature of human society that creates very rich and very poor. Well, I'm a pessimist, so I don't think that will happen. Lucky for me I'm such a loser I'll probably never have kids because fuck, is the future going to suck. Oh well, the survirors of the afformentioned war will probably do OK, just like we did
take a look around your home. Count the number of things that weren't made with near slave labor in sweat shop conditions. Your high standard of living is a direct result of oppression. Just because you're not doing the oppression yourself doesn't mean you're obsolved from guilt. Furthermore, given the oportunity to become really, really wealth, would you? If the answer is no (and you're not just answering no to make a point) then congradulations, you're one of those rare individuals who isn't a total bastard. If the answer is yes, well, just don't spend too much time thinking about where all that wealth is comming from. It's not a happy thought.
Oh, and as for simmering in your own muck, you won't. You're upper middle class, and Globalism shields you from the muck. Isn't that nice?
And someone else's children are going to be able to eat.
If you're in a position where there is any doubt your children will be eating, you shouldn't have them. Period. This should be forced for the good of society. Your rights end when they interfere with mine, and the effect unwanted and uneeded children have on society certainly interferes with my rights to live well.
In the long run these inequalities won't be evened out, because there's always some jerk who wants to profit from thost inequalities. As things even out, along come some greedy bastard who wants to be rich, and they only way he can do it is by making people poor. That's the definition of 'rich'. You have far more than anyone else, so they have far less.
Globalism is not a short term sacrifice for long term gains, it's the begining of a really nasty self perpetuating system of keeping the poor poor and the rich rich. Before globalism we had unions, and ugly battles over them. Now business just threaten to leave if workers get uppity. No riots, so protests, just a lot of broke, starving people nobody cares about.
No, it's almost all first party, because it all goes through linus at one point. The exceptions are stuff like the Nvidia drivers which the kernel maintainers have no control over.
The structure hasn't changed though. Do a bit of digging and you'll find the common man has never had any real power except right after WWII (and only then because there was a shortage of workers thanks to your friend and mine, the Machinegun). _All_ complex societies throughout history have been centered around satisifying the wants of a lucky few. Ours still is, it's just that technology and Globalism has expanded the number of Lucky ones, and the losses of WWII allowed the unlucky ones to make out OK for a while.
Trouble is, just about every single poor and middle class bastard wants to join the oppressors. And every time you add an oppressor, you've got to add some oppressed. This is just the way human economy works. As soon as the masses make some gains, along will come someone to take them away so he can join the ranks of the wealthy and powerful. There is a way to stop this: forced birth control. Either that or War, famine and disease will work just as well. So long as there are too few people to effectively oppress. Capitalism needs lots of cannon fodder.
Oh, and give me Socialism over capitalism any day. Adam Smith envisioned a world of small time shop keepers and factory owners with a stake in thier communities because they lived there. Globalism breaks all that. What's been keeping your job from going overseas is isolationism broght on by the Cold War. Now that that's over capitalism's busted. Capital will flow where ever labor's cheapest, and that flow will keep standards of living down. You're not gonna feel this too bad, but you're children will. Their lives are gonna suck.
and see how stable it is. Much as I hate Microsoft (and I do), Windows XP is a stable operating system when it's running good quality, name brand software/hardware. At least the desktop is, no comment on server stuff. Where you run into problems is all the crappy 3rd party drivers and add ins that run in the background and make tons of changes to they system. If you start adding that stuff to Linux you'll have the same problems. On the other hand, Linux's openness makes adding this crap harder, and often unecessary...
People are constantly telling him what they think is wrong. That's why we get Greedo shooting first. That's why the Ewok song gets cut (yes, I liked the Ewok song. It's a God damn childrens' movie people). Watch the commentary on Ep2. People bitched left and right about Yoda kicking ass. Did it rock? Yes, I think that it did. Lucas sucks most when he listens to his critics.
This isn't to say Lucas is some genious who ought to be left along to create. For God's sake, somebody should have pointed out that if Ep 1 was going to be a childrens' movie, Ep 2 damn well better be. And how the hell did Natile Portman get hired? Anyway, both movies seem to me more like a bunch of cool ideas with a script hung on them than the other way around. But I think the worst stuff (mitochondrians and virgin births) where crappy reponses to critics.
As for Jar-Jar, I think he was something the Special Effects guys really wanted to do. A completely CG character who was also totally believable. It's really quite a feat, it's just a pity the accomplishment is overshadowed by how god damned annoying he his. Like I said, lots of cool ideas, no solid foundation to hang 'em on.
at least practically. Our current economic system is brilliant. You've got a small middle class, a huge poor class, and a sliver of Kings. The system encourages the poor to waste their energy becoming middle class and the middle class to waste their energy on not becoming poor. Meanwhile the rich are laughing all the way to the bank. You don't need to look far to see the evidence. People are too busy living their lives to care about patents and copyrights. You don't spend 50+ hours a week getting by and then the rest of your time mailing letters off to your congressman. You spend that time relaxing, or with your kids, or your hobbies. The key is to always hold out the promise that things will be better, if only you'll just work a little harder....
What it is not is Science Fiction. If you're going to be nerdy enough to draw the distinction in the first place, please draw the correct one.
he always intended to do the prequals. Well, that's not quite true. The original script was too long, so he skipped to the middle. It's not surprising to seem him go back and finish making the rest of the script. Moreover, it's got nothing to do with art. I really think Lucas just wants to make the movies. This is actually a problem. I think he entered into the project without a clear picture of what he wanted to do; and instead just has a bunch of cool ideas that have been floating around in his head for years. It doesn't help that he's listening to his critics lately. The result is the mess that is Eps I & II. Oh well, at least Clone Wars TV rocked.