is wrong. People will abuse them. This should not be allowed in any country. I don't care what the arguments are, people will use patents on lifeforms and such for evil purposes..
That was the first graphics type game I had. I spent many hours listening to that SSDD drive grinding away from screen to screen on my 25" TV set.. I had to upgrade to 16k to use the Disk Drive interface.. Wow, 16k ram!
Yeah, I had fun with it.
Then I got an IBM and had lots and lots of fun play Zork I and THHGTTG in pure text mode on a green mono screen. I'll always have fond memories of those days. Now I play Quake III Arena on my Linux box w/ Gf4 Ti4200 and it whips ass. OMG it's awesome. My son tells me that it blows away anything he's ever seen and he has a PS2.
Not to mention Unreal Tournement 2003 is also extremely cool too... I can't believe how much things have changed since my old 4k COCO...
No, it's more like How dare a company be a MONOPOLY!
M$ is a monoploy. You know it is. If you say they aren't then you are either in denial or just ignorant.
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"I mean, I find all the "My Photos", "My Videos", etc stuff obnoxious"
Yes, it should all be lumped in with "My Diapers" and "My Bottle" and "My Lollipop"
All the faceles little people icons look like Weebles. My little girl had these little toys when she was 4 years old called "Weebles" and they looked exactly like the Windows "people" icons..
It all looks too childish.. But then again, they do have to cater to the masses....
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Um, have you tried KDE 3.1?? I think it pretty much fits the ticket for eye candy and usability.
On a modern machine, say 2ghz or better it preforms quite well. Everyone I've shown it to likes the "look and feel" of it.
Windows ex-pat's seem to adjust quickly to it too..
>So why don't you stop advising them to get Linux if it's resulting in so many problems for them ? You're hardly helping them if you give them systems that will not do what they want them to
It's NOT causing problems for them, they just don't understand.
"rebooting every 5 seconds, freaking out about emailed viruses, BSODs, warez, etc.."
>Please ! That's utter crap and you know it. Back to the old myths. The 'proper' MS OSes don't need rebooting all the time, they don't BSOD all the time. In fact, they do this rarely.
Excuse me but windows is a BSOD-arama.. And you have to reboot every single time you make any changes at all to the system. Install a new package? Reboot. Change any system settings, reboot. You know it's fact. So does everyone else.
With all the publicity about worms and viruses in the media, if your contacts are so stupid as to open attachments they deserve what they get.
You go to an office enviroment, a business, and you'll find that the VAST MAJORITY of the people there are STUPID and have no business using computers. However, they have to for their job. You define the rules and they break the rules. People "play" on their computers rather than WORK with them as they are supposed to.
Email, chat, IRC, IM, pr0n, warez, P2P, MP3z. You show me an office enviroment where that does NOT go on. Show me..
>And what on Earth has warez got to do with MS ?????? Everything. Warez is a M$ ONLY thing. People do it because M$ software is for $ale. There is no warez in Linux land. Not that I have ever seen.. And when your office workers download warez they break the law, they put your business at great risk, they usually get a virus in the process and they waste your time and resources..
"It's about freedom to choose."
Exactly, and that's why most people use Windows.
Uh, no. People use Windows because they don't know any better. That and FUD. They are brainwashed and unaware.
Like it or not, they know that it's the standard and that whatever they want to do, they can do it with minimal fuss using an app from their local PC World. They could move to Linux for little or no $$$ but it would be worth it.
You call constant problems, never ending virus and hack attacks minimal fuss???
Here's the deal. I switch my friends from M$ to Linux because I am tired of them having problems and having to constantly support them. Once switched I don't hear back from them anymore other than an occasional "How do I do this" rather than "this damn thing bla bla bla"
I TRY to switch my customers to Linux but they are too afraid of uncertainy. They stick with M$ and they keep paying me money to fix their stupid problems. M$ makes me money. Linux does not. I make NO MONEY when I switch people. It causes me to LOSE a source of income..
They are selling hardware that removes the freedom of choice from people.
Yes, today there is hardware that is NOT "win" hardware, but next year? With the Palladium / TCPA behemoth looming on the horizon, the Fritz chip, DRM, etc, the day will soon be here where you will be mandated by LAW to use government approved hardware and government approved software and a government approved OS..
Is that what you *really* want???
Bill says, "remember, this is homeland security week and the HS czar says that 2+2=5"
HEY! I still have an under dash 8 track player in my car! (75 model) I remember when they were hot items, my dad bought one and installed it in our station wagon so he could listen to Johnny Cash and Al Hirt.
At home it was nice because they would play continuos loop and were a little more durable than vinyl. And in your car you could listen to your favorite music rather than the crap on the radio..
When I was a teen the cassette came out and I HAD to have one. Now I am back to 8 track... ( I don't use it, it's just there for looks though it does function..)
It's not me that does this, I just have to deal with it. People are always going off and doing that and then they call me to make it work.
They get all mad when I tell them how much trouble it will be to make it work and then they say "screw it, just put me back on Windows then"
They just can not understand why it won't work. You try to explain it but it's beyond them to comprehend.
All they know is that, "it works with Windows. If it won't work with Linux then Linux sucks."
So, they end up back to being enslaved by M$. I get tired of people bitching and complaining about viruses and hackers and crashing so I convert them to Linux. End of complaints. They are then free to *USE* their computers, they aren't subservient to them and they aren't constantly at war with them, rebooting every 5 seconds, freaking out about emailed viruses, BSODs, warez, etc..
I saw an article that hackers were using people's M$ machines as way stations for passing porno and other illegal things around. Uh, no thanks, we'll have none of that. Not to mention, I don't want to hear my dad complaining that hackers got his CC number from his PC..
Some of us want the freedom to CHOOSE. The Supreme Court has already ruled that M$ is a *MONOPOLY*...
You really should care about such things. It's about freedom to choose. "Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows." M$ removes your freedoms....
Very cool. I like this. I'm afraid to ask how much though ??? It's got to be up there $$$ 300+ or more.... I didn't notice a price, that's usually a bad sign when they don't list the price.
Been there, done that. This is really nothing new by any means. The way things are nowdays I wouldn't want to be seen walking around toting something that looks like what they built.
Is that the hardware folks will continue designing, building and selling hardware that is optimized for M$ based systems. We refuseniks (aka Linux Zealots) that choose to opt out of "The Church of Bill Gate$ worship" get to enjoy the displeasures of trying to make this M$ branded hardward work on *our* b0xen...
Ah, the joys of Winmodems and other such goodies. Like video cards, I had loads of fun with a Nvidia card a few months ago, alas, now Nvidia has made the driver easier to install.
I installed a Winmodem on a Linux box for my dad. That was interesting at best.
You folks want M$, fine. But there needs to be a law that forbids the design of hardware that prevents you from using alternative OS's. The hardware should be generic so it will work with any OS.. This whole Longhorn / Palladium thing stinks. It's not about tust or security, it's about M$ and the governent controlling *YOU*....
"Isn't scanning a computer for illegal files exactly like going to somebody's house and looking through the windows? Or opening their front door and looking but not touching?"
No, actually it's more like your neighbor is missing his wallet. He decides that *YOU* probably have it in your house so while you are not looking, he breaks into your house and digs through your drawers, cabinets, closets, under your couch cushions, in your fridge, etc. He even opens your desk drawers and reads through your personal papers, diaries and mail, all because he *THINKS* you stole his wallet..
If I caught someone digging around in my *house* like that they would get shot. It's illegal for people to do that (B&E your home) no matter what they *think* you may or may have not done.
The law requires the accuser to seek legal relief, they must contact the police, file a complaint, convince a judge to issue a search warrant and the warrant may only cover the item(s) in question. In other words they can not search in your desk drawers for stolen car tires or under your bed for a stolen volkswagen.
Your computer is a private place, or at least it SHOULD BE. If someone breaks into your computer then they have broken into your private property. No different than breaking into your home.
If you are afraid of RIAA police breaking into your PC then you should implement some security, just as you would put locks on your door and big dogs with big teeth inside your house, secure your computers..
"But two other programs freeze the user's system or delete music files determined to be illegal"
I'd like to see them try this against *MY* Linux box, or for that matter, against *ANY* Linux box. Not to mention to penetrate my Smoothwall 2.0.... So sorry, but they are just too stupid to accomplish this..
M$ boxen, oh yeah, I can see it. But not here. Ain't gonna happen...
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OK, now this is getting interesting. 60gig.
;-)
Today: Now, if I wait just a wee little longer for the price to come down......
Later: Yes, I'll take one of those new 4tb Zen's for $99.95 please...
And by the time I really do get one they will be obsolete and dirt cheap on ebay...
Ah the joys of playing the waiting game!
These are the guys that were trying to develop some anti-gravity devices. I also recall hearing that they had some small scale prototypes working.
I also heard that they had something to do with Ross Perot at one time and that all of the top dogs are Illuminati..
Spooks, oh yeah. And there's more than meets the eye..
is wrong.
People will abuse them. This should not be allowed in any country. I don't care what the arguments are, people will use patents on lifeforms and such for evil purposes..
That they are using pirated copies of M$ XP that they bought in bulk from China for .99 cents a CD????
Or maybe they downloaded it with Kazaa!!
LOL!!!
I could care less what else is there.
The mp3 police pic is funny though..
That was the first graphics type game I had. I spent many hours listening to that SSDD drive grinding away from screen to screen on my 25" TV set.. I had to upgrade to 16k to use the Disk Drive interface.. Wow, 16k ram!
Yeah, I had fun with it.
Then I got an IBM and had lots and lots of fun play Zork I and THHGTTG in pure text mode on a green mono screen. I'll always have fond memories of those days. Now I play Quake III Arena on my Linux box w/ Gf4 Ti4200 and it whips ass. OMG it's awesome. My son tells me that it blows away anything he's ever seen and he has a PS2.
Not to mention Unreal Tournement 2003 is also extremely cool too... I can't believe how much things have changed since my old 4k COCO...
Ouch!
Too pricey for me to add to my toy box.
How dare a company make money!
No, it's more like How dare a company be a MONOPOLY!
M$ is a monoploy. You know it is. If you say they aren't then you are either in denial or just ignorant.
"I mean, I find all the "My Photos", "My Videos", etc stuff obnoxious"
Yes, it should all be lumped in with "My Diapers" and "My Bottle" and "My Lollipop"
All the faceles little people icons look like Weebles. My little girl had these little toys when she was 4 years old called "Weebles" and they looked exactly like the Windows "people" icons..
It all looks too childish.. But then again, they do have to cater to the masses....
Um, have you tried KDE 3.1??
I think it pretty much fits the ticket for eye candy and usability.
On a modern machine, say 2ghz or better it preforms quite well. Everyone I've shown it to likes the "look and feel" of it.
Windows ex-pat's seem to adjust quickly to it too..
>So why don't you stop advising them to get Linux if it's resulting in so many problems for them ? You're hardly helping them if you give them systems that will not do what they want them to
It's NOT causing problems for them, they just don't understand.
"rebooting every 5 seconds, freaking out about emailed viruses, BSODs, warez, etc.."
>Please ! That's utter crap and you know it. Back to the old myths. The 'proper' MS OSes don't need rebooting all the time, they don't BSOD all the time. In fact, they do this rarely.
Excuse me but windows is a BSOD-arama..
And you have to reboot every single time you make any changes at all to the system. Install a new package? Reboot. Change any system settings, reboot. You know it's fact. So does everyone else.
With all the publicity about worms and viruses in the media, if your contacts are so stupid as to open attachments they deserve what they get.
You go to an office enviroment, a business, and you'll find that the VAST MAJORITY of the people there are STUPID and have no business using computers. However, they have to for their job.
You define the rules and they break the rules.
People "play" on their computers rather than WORK with them as they are supposed to.
Email, chat, IRC, IM, pr0n, warez, P2P, MP3z.
You show me an office enviroment where that does NOT go on. Show me..
>And what on Earth has warez got to do with MS ??????
Everything. Warez is a M$ ONLY thing. People do it because M$ software is for $ale.
There is no warez in Linux land. Not that I have ever seen.. And when your office workers download warez they break the law, they put your business at great risk, they usually get a virus in the process and they waste your time and resources..
"It's about freedom to choose."
Exactly, and that's why most people use Windows.
Uh, no. People use Windows because they don't know any better. That and FUD. They are brainwashed and unaware.
Like it or not, they know that it's the standard and that whatever they want to do, they can do it with minimal fuss using an app from their local PC World. They could move to Linux for little or no $$$ but it would be worth it.
You call constant problems, never ending virus and hack attacks minimal fuss???
Here's the deal. I switch my friends from M$ to Linux because I am tired of them having problems and having to constantly support them. Once switched I don't hear back from them anymore other than an occasional "How do I do this" rather than "this damn thing bla bla bla"
I TRY to switch my customers to Linux but they are too afraid of uncertainy. They stick with M$ and they keep paying me money to fix their stupid problems. M$ makes me money. Linux does not.
I make NO MONEY when I switch people. It causes me to LOSE a source of income..
I should be waving the flag for M$....
They are selling hardware that removes the freedom of choice from people.
Yes, today there is hardware that is NOT "win" hardware, but next year? With the Palladium / TCPA behemoth looming on the horizon, the Fritz chip, DRM, etc, the day will soon be here where you will be mandated by LAW to use government approved hardware and government approved software and a government approved OS..
Is that what you *really* want???
Bill says, "remember, this is homeland security week and the HS czar says that 2+2=5"
HEY! I still have an under dash 8 track player in my car! (75 model)
I remember when they were hot items, my dad bought one and installed it in our station wagon so he could listen to Johnny Cash and Al Hirt.
At home it was nice because they would play continuos loop and were a little more durable than vinyl. And in your car you could listen to your favorite music rather than the crap on the radio..
When I was a teen the cassette came out and I HAD to have one. Now I am back to 8 track...
( I don't use it, it's just there for looks though it does function..)
Buwhahahahahhhahahahah!!!!!!!
Best thing I've seen yet. This will be my new descriptor when I discuss M$ with other folks.
Thanks, you made my day!!
It's not me that does this, I just have to deal with it.
People are always going off and doing that and then they call me to make it work.
They get all mad when I tell them how much trouble it will be to make it work and then they say "screw it, just put me back on Windows then"
They just can not understand why it won't work. You try to explain it but it's beyond them to comprehend.
All they know is that,
"it works with Windows. If it won't work with Linux then Linux sucks."
So, they end up back to being enslaved by M$.
I get tired of people bitching and complaining about viruses and hackers and crashing so I convert them to Linux. End of complaints. They are then free to *USE* their computers, they aren't subservient to them and they aren't constantly at war with them, rebooting every 5 seconds, freaking out about emailed viruses, BSODs, warez, etc..
I saw an article that hackers were using people's M$ machines as way stations for passing porno and other illegal things around. Uh, no thanks, we'll have none of that. Not to mention, I don't want to hear my dad complaining that hackers got his CC number from his PC..
Some of us want the freedom to CHOOSE.
The Supreme Court has already ruled that M$ is a *MONOPOLY*...
You really should care about such things. It's about freedom to choose.
"Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows."
M$ removes your freedoms....
Very cool. I like this.
I'm afraid to ask how much though ???
It's got to be up there $$$ 300+ or more....
I didn't notice a price, that's usually a bad sign when they don't list the price.
Been there, done that. This is really nothing new by any means.
The way things are nowdays I wouldn't want to be seen walking around toting something that looks like what they built.
Liable to get you hauled in for a chat...
Is that the hardware folks will continue designing, building and selling hardware that is optimized for M$ based systems. We refuseniks (aka Linux Zealots) that choose to opt out of "The Church of Bill Gate$ worship" get to enjoy the displeasures of trying to make this M$ branded hardward work on *our* b0xen...
Ah, the joys of Winmodems and other such goodies. Like video cards, I had loads of fun with a Nvidia card a few months ago, alas, now Nvidia has made the driver easier to install.
I installed a Winmodem on a Linux box for my dad. That was interesting at best.
You folks want M$, fine. But there needs to be a law that forbids the design of hardware that prevents you from using alternative OS's.
The hardware should be generic so it will work with any OS.. This whole Longhorn / Palladium thing stinks. It's not about tust or security, it's about M$ and the governent controlling *YOU*....
*knock knock*
Who's there?
MP3 Police! Open up!
"Isn't scanning a computer for illegal files exactly like going to somebody's house and looking through the windows? Or opening their front door and looking but not touching?"
No, actually it's more like your neighbor is missing his wallet. He decides that *YOU* probably have it in your house so while you are not looking, he breaks into your house and digs through your drawers, cabinets, closets, under your couch cushions, in your fridge, etc. He even opens your desk drawers and reads through your personal papers, diaries and mail, all because he *THINKS* you stole his wallet..
If I caught someone digging around in my *house* like that they would get shot. It's illegal for people to do that (B&E your home) no matter what they *think* you may or may have not done.
The law requires the accuser to seek legal relief, they must contact the police, file a complaint, convince a judge to issue a search warrant and the warrant may only cover the item(s) in question. In other words they can not search in your desk drawers for stolen car tires or under your bed for a stolen volkswagen.
Your computer is a private place, or at least it SHOULD BE. If someone breaks into your computer then they have broken into your private property. No different than breaking into your home.
If you are afraid of RIAA police breaking into your PC then you should implement some security, just as you would put locks on your door and big dogs with big teeth inside your house, secure your computers..
"But two other programs freeze the user's system or delete music files determined to be illegal"
I'd like to see them try this against *MY* Linux box, or for that matter, against *ANY* Linux box. Not to mention to penetrate my Smoothwall 2.0....
So sorry, but they are just too stupid to accomplish this..
M$ boxen, oh yeah, I can see it. But not here. Ain't gonna happen...
So sorry, try again you friggen IDIOTS...
M$ deserves to be DDos'ed. Just like Saddam deserved what he got and just like what SCO is getting right now.
As it stands now, I'm downloading my evaluation copy of SCO Linux right now.
Oh darn! It got lost right at the very end of the darn download! I guess I'll have to start that download all over again!
darn it!!
Oh how sweet it is!!
Ok, so they are loaded down to 90%...
How about let's see that raised to 110% ???
And let it not stop until they relent.
This is not about defending IBM but about defending the FREE WORLD..
The DDOS'ers are freedom fighters..
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war !!!
The war against the Palestinians won't stop until the Jews exterminate the Palestinians.
What they are doing to the Palestinians makes what the Nazis did to them look like a Sunday picnic.
He's in New Zeland.
He won't get shut down, they'll get invaded...