I agree. Perhaps they could sell their computers on ebay and then use the money to fill in malaria infested swamps... malaria (which is curable) is still one the leading killers in the third world (besides humans, of course).
I am talking about the way information technology -- everyone using e-mail, Wi-Fi and Google -- will make it much easier for small groups to rally like-minded people, crystallize diffuse hatreds and mobilize lethal force.
Isn't it strange that he doesn't mention the merits of like-minded people finally being able to rally each-other without government intervention and the diffusion caused by the electoral process? Isn't it strange that only "evil-doers" will use this technology for evil-doing, that there are no individuals with independent minds who will use this technology to voice their dissent?
Why is this post marked as Insightful? There's no reason why people should feel that the work they do ought to be done for free. To be honest, if I coded MySQL, I would want a return on all the blood and sweat, especially once the monied companies that can afford it start using it for free. It's not like IBM couldn't afford a license for MySQL... Why is the GPL God? I like GPL software, but I don't think there is anything wrong with me using my brain to build something from scratch and then expecting others who want it to pay me for it. That is what separates men from monkies, you Troll.
exactly what is the point of saying things like that? Don't you have anything better to do? And why hasn't this guy been "trolled" yet? are the moderators out there?
While reading transmet I kept getting this sinking feeling that all of the more out-there happenings and inventions of its futuristic world were really just refelctions (sometimes to more extreme level) of modern life. As I go about my existence since I've read the story and incredibly f'd up things happen around me, I find myself sometimes thinking that the "future" seeming world of transmet isn't the future at all, it's just the way life is among human beings.
Why did you set transmet in the future, and is a direct reflection/expose on modern life?
Does anyone else get the feeling that wesley snipes is going to appear any second with large swords??
Too bad they don't have a quicktime version up (Im a Mac user), but then again the Mac version of media player seems to work better for me than the windows one did.
You know (shaking the finger of logic and wisdom), if they (MS) sold such a product for the GNU environment for a couple hundred bucks...I would buy it. And I know a few other developers who would to. Providing, of course, it didn't totally suck!
I don't know how well cable (comcast) is going to develop - for two months they failed to show up to even install the line - so I went with Verizon DSL and the service has been fast enough for my tastes (used to a university ethernet!)...anyway I just finished doing some private home wireless networking jobs for small business people buying dsl for their homes and wiring all their XP machines together. I get the feeling the at very least DSL (cheaper and NOT the cable company) is about to score BIG with the cheap wireless products you can pick up anywhere nowadays.
when the worst killing disease in the world is malaria, which is curable, and we only need to pay people to carry dirt to the swamp to kill the mosquitos, why would we pay for internet access in the third world? why do we organize dumb things like this? does laos need internet, or medecines? some heavy machinery would be more useful to them than slashdot.
DUMB.
WOW d00Z!!! and i wuz just about to leave wurk and go höm3!!!!!
An unrelated thought:
- homies (the plastic ones) - 25 cents
- friends you paid for - $300 a semester (dumbass)
- the lifelong loneliness - priceless
I thought the article didn't really stack the deck at all, in fact, it was very favorable to windows - it actually legitamized it (you motherless whore). when a security flaw is discovered in linux, a community of people work together to release a patch while a company that issues a distro/release works on their own patches. MS sits on known security issues for years without addressing them, doing damage to their customers and user base. Linux users don't pretend that their is no problem running X servers (or ttdbserver.rpc for you solaris people, holla *^_^*), they come up with solutions. MS has finally gotten around to releasing patches as they come out - but what about inherent flaws in the OS that are unpatchable - like the Windows Messaging system?
There is nothing wrong with this review or anything intrinsically wrong with reviews in general! and you don't need to know his 5Kyllz lev3l either (alhtough i get this sense that he is strangely powerful, like Goku, maybe a 5 thousand !!!!). You have to make up your own mind, oh god, no! this is what we do when we think before making a decision. HOWEVER, a REVIEW is GREAT because it lets us know whether something interests us or not. We don't call them DECISIONS-MADE-WHILE-YOU-WAIT for a reason. Of course you have to check it out yourself, thumb thru it, maybe even buy it and read it before you really know its super-fantastic.
Maybe you should work for redhat and get them back on track. you do so much complaining, so where is this superior solution of yours??? you want the world to start using linux??? get up on the ball and write your own gui for linux that does better than what's out now.
"What really bothers me is that RedHat will get credit for bringing Linux to the masses while in reality they have done everything to delay mass adoption"
what really bothers me is the way this post is so poorly written! first your no big fan of their interface - okay thank you for the dumb disclaimer captain obvious, and second, what is your evidence for your trail of RedHat? What have they done to delay mass adoption? don't you think that maybe GETTING MORE PEOPLE TO BUY LINUX IS THEIR BUSINESS MODEL??? HELO????
"No sparrow falls, or even thinks about fallin, without him [bill gates] knowing about it."
Um, how's this sparrow: windows XP sucks ASS on pentium III at 500mhz compared to MAC OSX on a G3 ? fucking hello?
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I agree. Perhaps they could sell their computers on ebay and then use the money to fill in malaria infested swamps... malaria (which is curable) is still one the leading killers in the third world (besides humans, of course).
If God = (void *) (void *), would Satan be a buffer overflow?
Isn't it strange that he doesn't mention the merits of like-minded people finally being able to rally each-other without government intervention and the diffusion caused by the electoral process? Isn't it strange that only "evil-doers" will use this technology for evil-doing, that there are no individuals with independent minds who will use this technology to voice their dissent?
Why is this post marked as Insightful? There's no reason why people should feel that the work they do ought to be done for free. To be honest, if I coded MySQL, I would want a return on all the blood and sweat, especially once the monied companies that can afford it start using it for free. It's not like IBM couldn't afford a license for MySQL... Why is the GPL God? I like GPL software, but I don't think there is anything wrong with me using my brain to build something from scratch and then expecting others who want it to pay me for it. That is what separates men from monkies, you Troll.
Frank
exactly what is the point of saying things like that? Don't you have anything better to do? And why hasn't this guy been "trolled" yet? are the moderators out there?
While reading transmet I kept getting this sinking feeling that all of the more out-there happenings and inventions of its futuristic world were really just refelctions (sometimes to more extreme level) of modern life. As I go about my existence since I've read the story and incredibly f'd up things happen around me, I find myself sometimes thinking that the "future" seeming world of transmet isn't the future at all, it's just the way life is among human beings.
Why did you set transmet in the future, and is a direct reflection/expose on modern life?
Does anyone else get the feeling that wesley snipes is going to appear any second with large swords??
Too bad they don't have a quicktime version up (Im a Mac user), but then again the Mac version of media player seems to work better for me than the windows one did.
F
that is...i meant the NEAT article by Old Ike, but somehow my post ended up over here...
Holy crap, if this isn't flame bait, I don't know what is!!!
It's too true. Beer IS the best compiler out there. This will never change.
You know (shaking the finger of logic and wisdom), if they (MS) sold such a product for the GNU environment for a couple hundred bucks...I would buy it. And I know a few other developers who would to. Providing, of course, it didn't totally suck!
I went to one of the guns n roses concerts - there won't be anything to record but screaming hooligans (fans?) throwing beer and hating axl!
~frank
I want to know. Can the robot bring me a beer or what?
Without telling us what state or even country your company services...is it a rural area, dense population...what language is spoken?
I ask because maybe it is due to the economics of the local area...
I don't know how well cable (comcast) is going to develop - for two months they failed to show up to even install the line - so I went with Verizon DSL and the service has been fast enough for my tastes (used to a university ethernet!)...anyway I just finished doing some private home wireless networking jobs for small business people buying dsl for their homes and wiring all their XP machines together. I get the feeling the at very least DSL (cheaper and NOT the cable company) is about to score BIG with the cheap wireless products you can pick up anywhere nowadays.
~frank
when the worst killing disease in the world is malaria, which is curable, and we only need to pay people to carry dirt to the swamp to kill the mosquitos, why would we pay for internet access in the third world? why do we organize dumb things like this? does laos need internet, or medecines? some heavy machinery would be more useful to them than slashdot. DUMB.
WOW d00Z!!! and i wuz just about to leave wurk and go höm3!!!!! An unrelated thought: - homies (the plastic ones) - 25 cents - friends you paid for - $300 a semester (dumbass) - the lifelong loneliness - priceless
I thought the article didn't really stack the deck at all, in fact, it was very favorable to windows - it actually legitamized it (you motherless whore). when a security flaw is discovered in linux, a community of people work together to release a patch while a company that issues a distro/release works on their own patches. MS sits on known security issues for years without addressing them, doing damage to their customers and user base. Linux users don't pretend that their is no problem running X servers (or ttdbserver.rpc for you solaris people, holla *^_^*), they come up with solutions. MS has finally gotten around to releasing patches as they come out - but what about inherent flaws in the OS that are unpatchable - like the Windows Messaging system?
No, Windows STILL sucks.
-Frank
There is nothing wrong with this review or anything intrinsically wrong with reviews in general! and you don't need to know his 5Kyllz lev3l either (alhtough i get this sense that he is strangely powerful, like Goku, maybe a 5 thousand !!!!). You have to make up your own mind, oh god, no! this is what we do when we think before making a decision. HOWEVER, a REVIEW is GREAT because it lets us know whether something interests us or not. We don't call them DECISIONS-MADE-WHILE-YOU-WAIT for a reason. Of course you have to check it out yourself, thumb thru it, maybe even buy it and read it before you really know its super-fantastic.
gripe about something important. like socks.
Maybe you should work for redhat and get them back on track. you do so much complaining, so where is this superior solution of yours??? you want the world to start using linux??? get up on the ball and write your own gui for linux that does better than what's out now.
"What really bothers me is that RedHat will get credit for bringing Linux to the masses while in reality they have done everything to delay mass adoption"
what really bothers me is the way this post is so poorly written! first your no big fan of their interface - okay thank you for the dumb disclaimer captain obvious, and second, what is your evidence for your trail of RedHat? What have they done to delay mass adoption? don't you think that maybe GETTING MORE PEOPLE TO BUY LINUX IS THEIR BUSINESS MODEL??? HELO????
"No sparrow falls, or even thinks about fallin, without him [bill gates] knowing about it." Um, how's this sparrow: windows XP sucks ASS on pentium III at 500mhz compared to MAC OSX on a G3 ? fucking hello?