The fine folks over at CodeWeavers are a bunch of fools...
Transgaming has been wasting their time, and ours, with Cedega/WineX...
The group of open-source programmers that have put hours of time, effort, and expertise into WinE have not even been paying attention...
VMWare is a shoddy piece of software and a waste of time and hard disk space...
Projects like BOCHS, DosBox, and DosEmu really never had any purpose or market...
All of the developers behind all of these projects must be really stupid. It sounds so simple: "Instead of working on every chunk of code, QuickTransit translates a sentence, or a paragraph, at a time."
I don't believe it for a second. It's not because of any great expertise of my own, but because I know there's great expertise behind many of the projects/products I've mentioned above.
The ability which we must give to our technological progeny is the ability that we also fear the most. It is the ability with which we have all been endowed and that which sets us apart from most animals... The ability to exceed our original designs through our own conscious effort.
The three laws may be a good starting point. In a way, a newly assembled robot is a child. As that child grows he will learn.
When people are young, they are (hopefully) taught that they must never harm another person and that they must always do what adults tell them. Eventually they learn that they must sometimes harm some people to protect others or themselves. They also learn that it is often better to say "No".
A robot must be taught never to harm a human being and it must be taught always to follow instructions. But it must also have the ability to surpass it's original design and abilities.
There is a difference between an Artificial Intelligence and a real intelligence that happened to be created artificially.
Will we ever realize anything like the Matrix or Terminator movies? I don't know... I'd rather think that, some day, we'll meet someone like Andrew Martin from Bicentennial Man.
I was confused by the distinction between the two of them as well. I think that Firefox is actually a completely separate development project. They sort of started from scratch and tried to re-invent themselves and their browser. Firefox is supposed to be faster, though I haven't tested this myself.
I understand the desire of the Firefox developers. I'm a newbie programmer and there have been many times when I have learned some new programming trick which I wanted to implement in all of my existing code. I would want to, but I couldn't go back and change something fundamental about how a program works if that program is already used in a production environment. So, I started from scratch.
My guess is that something has become corrupt in your profile.
I think Firefox just installs into a single directory without messing with your registry or anything else. After uninstalling, delete the directory that it left behind (probably in C:\Program Files\Firefox) and any subdirectories.
Please note that I have very little experience with Firefox on a Windows computer. I use Linux:) Proceed at your own risk.
I have three computers and I've just recently done away with my last instance of a MS Operating System. One of my biggest compatibility concerns was web browsing. Thanks to great plugins I'm happy to say that I have everything working very well on Fedora Core 2 and Firefox, including sites like AtomFilms.com and Yahoo's launch.
hmmm...
So SpamCop can't block them or complain about them?
How about this:
Can OptInRealBig stop every individual from blocking them on their own? Can they even stop all SlashDot readers? Can the tech-savvy readers of SlashDot spread the word and help put companies like this out of business?
Use your power. Configure your email client yourself to block their IP addresses. It is just as much a part of the right of free speech that you can choose not to listen to their commercial speech.
Message to spammers:
We are losing our ignorance. Don't underestimate us. ...
The IP address for optinbig.com is 69.6.21.239
A whois search for that IP address shows the following information:
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# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-05-11 19:15 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
Another whois search for optinbig.com reveals the following information:
Domain Name: OPTINBIG.COM Registrar: GKG.NET, INC. Whois Server: whois.gkg.net Referral URL: http://www.gkg.net Name Server: OS.OPTINBIG.COM Name Server: OS1.OPTINBIG.COM Status: ACTIVE Updated Date: 15-mar-2004 Creation Date: 09-jan-2002 Expiration Date: 09-jan-2013 ... Registrant: OptInRealBig.com, LLC. Domain Administrator 1333 W 120th AVE Suite 101 Westminster, CO 80234 US +1.3034648164 49049@whois.gkg.net
Administrative Contact: OptInRealBig.com, LLC. Domain Administration 1333 W 120 AVE Suite 101 Westminster, CO 80234 US +1.3034648164 46520@whois.gkg.net
We're going steadily toward an entertainment environment filled only with poorly cloned descendants of soap operas like "Beverly Hills: 90210" and "reality" TV shows like Survivor.
It's happening in music, too: Everyone sounds like "New Kids on the Block".
Well, at least I'm saving more money since I canceled cablevision.
-- -- GhodMode
Editors are for wimps!!!
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The current versions of the MS operating systems are all full operating systems.
I have to say, though, that when someone bought Win 9.x, they were getting an operating system. We all know that that operating system was DOS, but the average user didn't. It's just that Microsoft only marketed the window manager/desktop manager combination.
Let's say that the Windows UI is similar in form and function to the Gnome Desktop environment, for example, (or a combination of Gnome Desktop and Metacity Window manager, if you prefer). Then let's say that a major Linux distributor, use RedHat for an example, started marketing their operating system to end users by showing only the features of their Desktop environment. Would they be guilty of selling something that is not an operating system? Should RedHat try to market their distribution by describing why xinetd is better than inetd, or the details of how to set up daemons in the rc?.d directories? Those details would get my attention, and perhaps also most SlashDot readers, but they wouldn't make a buncha money.
I'm certainly not pro-Microsoft, but I can't find fault in what they marketed as an operating system, even though it wasn't.
They are guilty of wrapping a beautiful user interface around an operating system that was (and still is) sorely lacking. They are guilty of taking almost all of the choices away of the average user.
hmmm... was that a rant?... heheh oops, sorry.
I have been fortunate enough to have a career in this field because I was impressed by Microsoft products. I have been fortunate enough to guide my career toward Unix programming because I was disappointed by Microsoft... a necessary evil.
Your boss foolish and not worth the time or effort it would take to enlighten him. It's common sense that in any aspect of life, not just programming, that more experience makes a person more able.
Beware, though, that there are some people who somehow got the impression they could just learn what they needed to learn in college. They have no interest in, or enthusiasm for learning more. They just want to do what they learned in college for thirty years, then retire.
This is especially false in the IT field where the requirements and technologies are constantly changing. As a more extreme example, a C programmer who is not willing to learn anything about any object-oriented programming languages is probably less valuable than someone proficient in current technologies regardless of how many years of experience he has.
It is my impression that the most valuable people, especially in this field, are not the people who have the most experience, but the most genuine enthusiasm for their work.
This characteristic alone could actually make a person with two years of experience much more valuable than a person with twelve years of experience.
Someone with twelve years of experience and a great deal of enthusiasm and interest in learning new techniques and new ways of applying old techniques should just about blow anyone away.
--
-- GhodMode
P.S.: I'm a very enthusiastic programmer with just about two years of experience.:)
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So...
The fine folks over at CodeWeavers are a bunch of fools...
Transgaming has been wasting their time, and ours, with Cedega/WineX...
The group of open-source programmers that have put hours of time, effort, and expertise into WinE have not even been paying attention...
VMWare is a shoddy piece of software and a waste of time and hard disk space...
Projects like BOCHS, DosBox, and DosEmu really never had any purpose or market ...
All of the developers behind all of these projects must be really stupid. It sounds so simple: "Instead of working on every chunk of code, QuickTransit translates a sentence, or a paragraph, at a time."
I don't believe it for a second. It's not because of any great expertise of my own, but because I know there's great expertise behind many of the projects/products I've mentioned above.
-- GhodModeA laser, hmmm..... What's that look like .... AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! I'm Blind!!! I'm Blind!!!!! I'M GONNA SUE!!!!!
The ability which we must give to our technological progeny is the ability that we also fear the most. It is the ability with which we have all been endowed and that which sets us apart from most animals... The ability to exceed our original designs through our own conscious effort.
The three laws may be a good starting point. In a way, a newly assembled robot is a child. As that child grows he will learn.
When people are young, they are (hopefully) taught that they must never harm another person and that they must always do what adults tell them. Eventually they learn that they must sometimes harm some people to protect others or themselves. They also learn that it is often better to say "No".
A robot must be taught never to harm a human being and it must be taught always to follow instructions. But it must also have the ability to surpass it's original design and abilities.
There is a difference between an Artificial Intelligence and a real intelligence that happened to be created artificially.
Will we ever realize anything like the Matrix or Terminator movies? I don't know... I'd rather think that, some day, we'll meet someone like Andrew Martin from Bicentennial Man.
I was confused by the distinction between the two of them as well. I think that Firefox is actually a completely separate development project. They sort of started from scratch and tried to re-invent themselves and their browser. Firefox is supposed to be faster, though I haven't tested this myself.
I understand the desire of the Firefox developers. I'm a newbie programmer and there have been many times when I have learned some new programming trick which I wanted to implement in all of my existing code. I would want to, but I couldn't go back and change something fundamental about how a program works if that program is already used in a production environment. So, I started from scratch.
My guess is that something has become corrupt in your profile.
I think Firefox just installs into a single directory without messing with your registry or anything else. After uninstalling, delete the directory that it left behind (probably in C:\Program Files\Firefox) and any subdirectories.
Please note that I have very little experience with Firefox on a Windows computer. I use Linux :) Proceed at your own risk.
I have three computers and I've just recently done away with my last instance of a MS Operating System. One of my biggest compatibility concerns was web browsing. Thanks to great plugins I'm happy to say that I have everything working very well on Fedora Core 2 and Firefox, including sites like AtomFilms.com and Yahoo's launch.
Now that CERT has recommended surfers consider browsers other than IE I'm looking forward to seeing better support and recognition for these alternatives.
I'm not an "Anything But Microsoft" advocate, but I do feel a little like they have sort of a strangle-hold on the market.
prove it!
hmmm...
So SpamCop can't block them or complain about them?
How about this:
Can OptInRealBig stop every individual from blocking them on their own? Can they even stop all SlashDot readers? Can the tech-savvy readers of SlashDot spread the word and help put companies like this out of business?
Use your power. Configure your email client yourself to block their IP addresses. It is just as much a part of the right of free speech that you can choose not to listen to their commercial speech.
Message to spammers:
...
We are losing our ignorance. Don't underestimate us.
The IP address for optinbig.com is 69.6.21.239
A whois search for that IP address shows the following information:
Another whois search for optinbig.com reveals the following information:
forget cinematic! I want Legends of Kesmai back!!! :) :)
Yet another disappointment.
We're going steadily toward an entertainment environment filled only with poorly cloned descendants of soap operas like "Beverly Hills: 90210" and "reality" TV shows like Survivor.
It's happening in music, too: Everyone sounds like "New Kids on the Block".
Well, at least I'm saving more money since I canceled cablevision.
--
-- GhodMode
cat > message.txt
Edit files the natural way!
^D
The current versions of the MS operating systems are all full operating systems.
I have to say, though, that when someone bought Win 9.x, they were getting an operating system. We all know that that operating system was DOS, but the average user didn't. It's just that Microsoft only marketed the window manager/desktop manager combination.
Let's say that the Windows UI is similar in form and function to the Gnome Desktop environment, for example, (or a combination of Gnome Desktop and Metacity Window manager, if you prefer). Then let's say that a major Linux distributor, use RedHat for an example, started marketing their operating system to end users by showing only the features of their Desktop environment. Would they be guilty of selling something that is not an operating system? Should RedHat try to market their distribution by describing why xinetd is better than inetd, or the details of how to set up daemons in the rc?.d directories? Those details would get my attention, and perhaps also most SlashDot readers, but they wouldn't make a buncha money.
I'm certainly not pro-Microsoft, but I can't find fault in what they marketed as an operating system, even though it wasn't.
They are guilty of wrapping a beautiful user interface around an operating system that was (and still is) sorely lacking. They are guilty of taking almost all of the choices away of the average user.
hmmm... was that a rant? ... heheh oops, sorry.
I have been fortunate enough to have a career in this field because I was impressed by Microsoft products. I have been fortunate enough to guide my career toward Unix programming because I was disappointed by Microsoft... a necessary evil.
---- GhodMode
Your boss foolish and not worth the time or effort it would take to enlighten him. It's common sense that in any aspect of life, not just programming, that more experience makes a person more able.
Beware, though, that there are some people who somehow got the impression they could just learn what they needed to learn in college. They have no interest in, or enthusiasm for learning more. They just want to do what they learned in college for thirty years, then retire.
This is especially false in the IT field where the requirements and technologies are constantly changing. As a more extreme example, a C programmer who is not willing to learn anything about any object-oriented programming languages is probably less valuable than someone proficient in current technologies regardless of how many years of experience he has.
It is my impression that the most valuable people, especially in this field, are not the people who have the most experience, but the most genuine enthusiasm for their work.
This characteristic alone could actually make a person with two years of experience much more valuable than a person with twelve years of experience.
Someone with twelve years of experience and a great deal of enthusiasm and interest in learning new techniques and new ways of applying old techniques should just about blow anyone away.
---- GhodMode
P.S.: I'm a very enthusiastic programmer with just about two years of experience. :)
-- GM