I remember one of the big attractions to linux was supposed to be the ability to make use of old hardware (I have a 386 sitting around here, as well as a 486).
Unfortunately, that was never the case from what I could tell- three years ago I tried installing two different distros, and almost fell thru the hole in my ass when it said installation would require over 1gb!
If I need a bloated OS that only runs on new hardware, why bother learning a different OS? Its not like I have nothing better to do than go through an entirely new learning curve, especially since Im already at high expert level on MS's OS and products.
This isnt really a rant, but for me, I dont see a compelling reason to even try it out, much less switch over.
Very well stated. What essentially damned the Cold Fusion community, whiich people seem to be forgetting here, is the common practice of Peer Review. Cold Fusion had been weighed by the scientific community, and found wanting.
Now to say that something is there and you dont know why it works is one thing, and is even perfectly acceptable. But completely unreproducable results is another matter entirely.
I would have to say that, on the whole, the physics community is a rather open minded one (especially given that most of them have grown up watching Star Trek, dreaming of space flight and alien life forms). However, it is also one with a high degree of technical competance: they generally care more about merit than politics.
People need to face the facts: "Cold Fusion" had fourteen years to prove that something was happening, and they still havent. Personally, I think Cold Fusion is what "The Ghostbusters" used to power their proton packs.
Its called the gayDesk, and it has a similiar gay and fruity design as the iMacs. Featuring marvelous shades of translucent pastel, you cant help but feel happy and gay just working at such a desk.
Ever spent hours trying (and failing) to get a printer driver to work on Windows? Not really- only if I use a crappy USB printer.
Struggled to configure something ever-so-slightly out-of-the-ordinary? Cant says I have.
What have been your biggest annoyances when using Windows? Well, I do dislike how there is a dramatic pause when looking on the hard drive and into folders, but thats about all I can think of. Being able to go to a store any buy and run any software there is pretty neato.
Back to linux: Sure, some problems do languish unfixed for years thats what sucks- troubleshooting and bug fixing (and 'prettying up") arent as fun as adding new features like the fifteenth version of a web browser or file copier. So the non-fun stuff really never gets around to being completed (maybe paying work comes up before the end of the project...)
Yep, sure would be nice to have network cards auto-install properly...
Still, increased visibility might motivate developers to create fixes or workarounds for some of the problems,
I thought that was what 'open source' was supposed to solve...
Microsoft has used two encoding schemes, also known as hashing functions, to encrypt passwords. The first, known as LANManager or LANMan, was used by Windows 3.1, 95, 98, Me and early NT systems to secure passwords that were used to connect to early Windows networks.
OMFG, can you dig up a report based on something current? Its for the LanMan flaws that MS switched to Active Directory. Get a clue, this has been fixed for several years, and is REALLY old news.
Wow, just what the IT people need- the ignorant masses telling them what software they have to use. Lets not let the IT staff decide that, let's have the OSS wonks and manipulated politicians decide what the IT staff should be working with.
what amazes me is that AOL finally realized Nutscrape was a complete waste of money. The irony is that recently TimeWarner realized the same thing about AOL.
If ever there was proof needed of just how destructive Microsoft has been for the computer industry, it is the fact that hardly anyone in the Western Tech sector (sillicon valley) knows about TRON and what this project was supposed to achieve... and, actually, still is capable of achieving... The project is based around shared source, completely open amongst competing hardware manufacturers.
How completely evil of them. They go and make a successful desktop OS which standardizes most of the world onto the same platform, while making an American company which employs thousands, and enabled the tech boom of the late 90s to happen.
Its completely evil of them to bring computers to the masses, and tout having people be able to run the same software, document formats, etc. We should all be forced to be a linux guru if we so much as want to LOOK at a computer.
Honestly, Im less concerned about the FBI Spook eavesdropping on my conversations than I am about the Verizon guy or whoever else is out there.
Any privacy concerns of mine have very little to do with law enforcement; at least they have to go thru background and psych testing before they get their positions. Communications companies dont test their techs this well, which is somewhat scary considering how much information they get access to.
Remember that recent case where the tech for the credit reporting agencies was stealing hundreds of thousands of identities to sell to criminals? It's just another case in point. In the information age, who will guard the guards?
Thompson, who has sued game makers and studied their possible role in shootings around the country, said he was struck by how the three Oaklyn suspects also had been armed with swords.
He said a sword was "not a typical of weapon of choice in a carjacking" but is a feature of the game Grand Theft Auto Vice City, which includes carjacking.
Has this jackass even USED the sword in Vice City? Its one of the worst weapons in the game! I mean ya, if you *happen* to do a lateral swing, and the person *happens* to be standing right in front of you, you can get a decapitation, but usually you have to hit someone 2-3 times to kill them.
A muchbetter choice is the chainsaw. With it, you get instant kills, and you can even mow down an entire group of people.
I work with the government as a consultant, and I continue to be amazed at the waste and stupid use of money involved in government projects. What seems to be the rule, rather than the exception, is poorly skilled people pitching initiatives they have absolutely no skills to impliment, and they dont even put in the work to design it well.
There is one database used for payroll on which millions (if not tens of millions) were spent, and the end result is a system nobody is completely sure of, and which requires all the deparments involved to completely change all their procedures. And its even less flexible and problematic than what it is replacing. AND this is a custom application!
Until government starts paying tech people what they are worth in the private sector, you will always have poorly skilled bullshitters pedalling their wares to the public sector, who is suffering from the illusion that throwing money at a problem will make it go away.
Quite the opposite. Apple has ALWAYS been hostile to third parties, especially when they get into an area where Apple wants all the money, or where they do something far better than Apple.
They squashed that company that made Apple Clones (I cant even remember their name anymore), they squashed tons of companies which were selling Apple hardware (gotta make those Apple stores profitable, after all), and notice that hardly anybody makes third-party Apple hardware anymore, unless they have some kind of special arrangement with Apple (Im thinking kickbacks).
In closing, IMO the real obstacle to Apple being successful is, was, and always will be Apple.
Maybe, just like you guys criticize Microsoft for, the Third-Party software company doesnt feel like competing with a component provided inside the OS. Especially given the fact that Apple is only a niche market anyway, and their products have been just as good (if not better) on the PC for a long time.
But continue to put blinders on when talking about your double-standard regarding Apple's long and proud history of hostility to non-Apple products and services.
As usual, when a company finally drops support for Apple, you have only Apple to blame...
Fortunately the world does not use your myopic view to define itself. Likewise, I would never say somebody wasnt interested in technology because they didnt give a damn about a browser.
As I said, its a browser. I use it to pull up web pages. If it does that, and doesnt crash every fifteen minutes (wiping out all the other things I looked up as well), than I am happy.
If being a geek means trying to fix things I rely on when they arent broken, than count me out.
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I remember one of the big attractions to linux was supposed to be the ability to make use of old hardware (I have a 386 sitting around here, as well as a 486). Unfortunately, that was never the case from what I could tell- three years ago I tried installing two different distros, and almost fell thru the hole in my ass when it said installation would require over 1gb! If I need a bloated OS that only runs on new hardware, why bother learning a different OS? Its not like I have nothing better to do than go through an entirely new learning curve, especially since Im already at high expert level on MS's OS and products. This isnt really a rant, but for me, I dont see a compelling reason to even try it out, much less switch over.
Im not going until they start teaching classes on Cold Fusion.
Very well stated. What essentially damned the Cold Fusion community, whiich people seem to be forgetting here, is the common practice of Peer Review. Cold Fusion had been weighed by the scientific community, and found wanting.
Now to say that something is there and you dont know why it works is one thing, and is even perfectly acceptable. But completely unreproducable results is another matter entirely.
I would have to say that, on the whole, the physics community is a rather open minded one (especially given that most of them have grown up watching Star Trek, dreaming of space flight and alien life forms). However, it is also one with a high degree of technical competance: they generally care more about merit than politics.
People need to face the facts: "Cold Fusion" had fourteen years to prove that something was happening, and they still havent. Personally, I think Cold Fusion is what "The Ghostbusters" used to power their proton packs.
Its called the gayDesk, and it has a similiar gay and fruity design as the iMacs. Featuring marvelous shades of translucent pastel, you cant help but feel happy and gay just working at such a desk.
Struggled to configure something ever-so-slightly out-of-the-ordinary? Cant says I have.
What have been your biggest annoyances when using Windows? Well, I do dislike how there is a dramatic pause when looking on the hard drive and into folders, but thats about all I can think of. Being able to go to a store any buy and run any software there is pretty neato.
Back to linux: Sure, some problems do languish unfixed for years thats what sucks- troubleshooting and bug fixing (and 'prettying up") arent as fun as adding new features like the fifteenth version of a web browser or file copier. So the non-fun stuff really never gets around to being completed (maybe paying work comes up before the end of the project...)
Yep, sure would be nice to have network cards auto-install properly...
Still, increased visibility might motivate developers to create fixes or workarounds for some of the problems,
I thought that was what 'open source' was supposed to solve...
OMFG, can you dig up a report based on something current? Its for the LanMan flaws that MS switched to Active Directory. Get a clue, this has been fixed for several years, and is REALLY old news.
Wow, just what the IT people need- the ignorant masses telling them what software they have to use. Lets not let the IT staff decide that, let's have the OSS wonks and manipulated politicians decide what the IT staff should be working with.
"dey 5uX0r as bizn3ss", "Linux r00lz j00", and "M$ Wind0z3 iz l4m3" seem to be the primary "points" people make here.
I heard Microsoft is holding their own competing hike in the Himalayas. They are also going to charge for the beer.
Talk about the pot and the kettle!
How completely evil of them. They go and make a successful desktop OS which standardizes most of the world onto the same platform, while making an American company which employs thousands, and enabled the tech boom of the late 90s to happen.
Its completely evil of them to bring computers to the masses, and tout having people be able to run the same software, document formats, etc. We should all be forced to be a linux guru if we so much as want to LOOK at a computer.
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wow, thats really clever. did it take you and your whole newsgroup to think up that one?
Juvenal: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Its too bad we cant work on a way to get ethical behavior put into people.
Any privacy concerns of mine have very little to do with law enforcement; at least they have to go thru background and psych testing before they get their positions. Communications companies dont test their techs this well, which is somewhat scary considering how much information they get access to.
Remember that recent case where the tech for the credit reporting agencies was stealing hundreds of thousands of identities to sell to criminals? It's just another case in point. In the information age, who will guard the guards?
He said a sword was "not a typical of weapon of choice in a carjacking" but is a feature of the game Grand Theft Auto Vice City, which includes carjacking.
Has this jackass even USED the sword in Vice City? Its one of the worst weapons in the game! I mean ya, if you *happen* to do a lateral swing, and the person *happens* to be standing right in front of you, you can get a decapitation, but usually you have to hit someone 2-3 times to kill them.
A muchbetter choice is the chainsaw. With it, you get instant kills, and you can even mow down an entire group of people.
There is one database used for payroll on which millions (if not tens of millions) were spent, and the end result is a system nobody is completely sure of, and which requires all the deparments involved to completely change all their procedures. And its even less flexible and problematic than what it is replacing. AND this is a custom application!
Until government starts paying tech people what they are worth in the private sector, you will always have poorly skilled bullshitters pedalling their wares to the public sector, who is suffering from the illusion that throwing money at a problem will make it go away.
They squashed that company that made Apple Clones (I cant even remember their name anymore), they squashed tons of companies which were selling Apple hardware (gotta make those Apple stores profitable, after all), and notice that hardly anybody makes third-party Apple hardware anymore, unless they have some kind of special arrangement with Apple (Im thinking kickbacks).
In closing, IMO the real obstacle to Apple being successful is, was, and always will be Apple.
But continue to put blinders on when talking about your double-standard regarding Apple's long and proud history of hostility to non-Apple products and services.
As usual, when a company finally drops support for Apple, you have only Apple to blame...
New company, coming soon to a www.fuckedcompany.com page near you.
I put all my kiddie porn and recipies on my Apple; does this mean I have to move them again?
As I said, its a browser. I use it to pull up web pages. If it does that, and doesnt crash every fifteen minutes (wiping out all the other things I looked up as well), than I am happy.
If being a geek means trying to fix things I rely on when they arent broken, than count me out.
or 3. I dont care.
Its just a web browser. Get over yourself. There is SO much more to do than worry about what browser you are using.
I suggest a picture of Linus Torvald's penis, and a guy with it in his mouth. On the guy's shirt is a Linux penguin, and a slashdot logo.