Thanks for finally laying that out for us. I kinda wish you'd said so right up front, though. It would have saved a lot of people a lot of time. We all could have just flagged you as an idiot and a thief and called it a day.... Hmm. Five rapid "overrated" moderations on five successive comments. How very interesting. How very interesting indeed.
Looking at your comment history, it seems to be more of the same crap as above. Gee, golly, I can't imagine anyone wanting to modbomb you for such smarmy jackassery!!
where is sane thinking actually prevailing in this country?
I think you already know the answer. Zero Tolerance Policy is a euphemism for Zero Intelligence Policy. Having something written in stone and automatically defaulting to it anytime the policy is "bent" absolves the enforcer from both having to think and consider the situation, and having any accountability for the resulting punishment. "My hands are tied, it's a ZTP."
Bottom line: These people are trying to deal with 3000 individuals with one set of rules and punishments, they can't or won't be bothered to apply any interpretive justice.
(Now replace "School Administration" with "Department of Justice" and consider the direction we seem to be going...)
Never uderestimate the power of laziness.
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That is DROP DEAD hilarious. But you forgot the follow-up where, three months later, he asks the kid's replacement to draw something, but is unhappy with those results as well...
SJ: "This is utter crap. Where did you go to design school, some inner-city pre-school? Make it look more like a lizard..."
I invested several years of my career developing software for those machines, only to be told, in the end, "We recommend you buy a MacIntosh." Screw you, Jobs, and the horse you rode in on.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the famed "Elder Apple Curmudgeon." Although he is 50 years old, he is bent on sharing his displeasures with the IT industry in a webforum whose average age is 19.
Hey buddy, here's a reality check. I invested a lot of time on (in order:) AppleSoft BASIC, Macintosh System 6, MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11, Mac OS 8, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP on machines from the Apple IIe, Mac SE, Mac LC, ZeOs 386, Mac Quadra 840av, and a dozen or so generic PCs. I have learned to build PCs starting at Pentiums on Baby AT motherboard, through Slot 1 Pentium 2s, Slot A Athlons, and so many sockets in ATX its' not even funny. And I'm NOT EVEN 30 YET!
It's what is now known as technological progression. If you'd like to race your 1926 Ford Model A against my 2000 Ford Focus, I'm game.
If you read the comments pertaining to settlement of legal fees, it refers to Rule 54d of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
I honestly can't get a rational redux from the actual law code (IANAL, so lawyers please weigh in), but it seems pretty straightforward that since Infinium Labs has admitted that they have no cause to bring action, in effect winning a summary judgement for [H]ardOCP, they COULD be liable for Kyle's legal costs, which he lists as 200,000 dollars.
As someone who has followed this for almost 18 months (the original article was 9/2003), I am loving the prospect of Tim Roberts et al. having to cough up Kyle's costs!
At $500, though, I would pick one up along with a $50 keyboard/monitor switch...
Honest question:
I own a KVM with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports.
Is there a currently-available product that will functionally allow my PS/2 keyboard and mouse to work for the theoretical headless iMac's USB ports for input? I know there are USB to PS/2 converters; what I want to know is if anyone is activlely using a USB Mac on a PS/2-connecter KVM.
Ain't that the truth. I run into these people all day. Still tell me "AMD is not stable at all. When I had an AMD 5x86 133, it used to crash all the time. It is worth it for me to pay $250 more for my processors because AMD sucks so bad. You'll regret it when your AMD crashes on you!"
Right. I've been building Athlon XP systems for three years now... for myself, wife, friends, parents... and have never had stability issues except in the case of failed DIMMs.
Just because Toyota cars may have sucked in the 70s is no reason to prance around like a nancy boy today telling everyone how Toyotas suck.:)
No, they did not win. Napster ran out of money to fight, sold out to Bertlesmann, and there was no point in pursuing the case any further.... You make it sound like Napster actually went to court and was found guilty by a judge and a jury -- when in fact, they never got to the trial stage at all.
Hey buddy, have you been paying attention the last couple of years? Both of these paragraphs are blatantly wrong.
The music companies won a legal injunction against Napster... if they were unable to block songs per the judges order, they had to go offline. Which they did, and while trying to come up with a copyright-friendly format, Bertlesmann made a (very generous, IMO) bid on their business to try to cash in.
The Napster board rejected the bid, the company filed for bankrupcy and was liquidated.
But yes, there was a court case (no jury) where a judge decided AGAINST Napster. And no, they did NOT sell out to Bertlesmann.
*Scratches head* So was that a troll, or were just just blowing smoke out your Serial Port?:D
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It's a very well-reasoned and thought-provoking question, I believe.
There are not a lot of people who would think to ask such things point-blank to a "celebrity." But the truth is, he is just a man. At 61 years old, he's probably learned more than a few things.
If he can impart some of that knowledge on us, everyone is the better.
Certainly the people who are distributing and "sharing" this/these files are partly to blame for the illegal distribution.
What I find funny is the huge chunk of P2P users who either share everything out of ignorance, or don't realize that everything in their download directory is still shared out after they complete download. These people are just clueless sheep. I make sure my shared folders are locked down-- you won't find any DVD rips, Cams, or MP3 shared out from me.
My question is, do we have any weigh-in on TV show swapping yet? I record some shows with my TV card, and download many that I have missed, for instance, Smallville. Is it considered copyright infringement to trade TV episodes of shows you like? I know at least one exec came out and called it THEFT if you cut out commercials... but what is the word on the street?
Basically, the thing has gone on forever, and will likely go on forever, thanks to beaurocracy. Blaming it on the programmers/cablers is probably little more than spin at best, or pre-election blame shifting by local "oh-fish-shulls" at worst.
The Big Dig is apparently a huge fiscal landmine that some people claim will never reap the rewards of the optimists who keep greenlighting the moneystream.
(On the other hand, I live far away, and am only going on a few websites' worth of info. So that's only one point of view.:)
Give me an stick over and slush box any day....except the day that you're sitting in traffic, pumping your left leg up and down on the clutch wildly, throwing your right arm into spamic fits as you try to navigate stop and go traffic.
Then multiply by 5 times a week. 50 weeks a year.
I drive a slushbox for commute, stick for performance. So you're half right.:)
one thing that really started to kill 3dfx was the fact until Voodoo5, 3dfx acceleration required you buy a separate board in addition to the main graphics card
What facts are YOU working with, guy?
The Banshee and VooDoo3 lines were ALL cards with 2d/3d chipset combos. Only the first two VooDoo iterations were separate passthrough boards.
It's all in the article. And GeForce / GeForce 2 were both benchmark-smoked by the VooDoo5 cards, but the prices were too high and the products were introduced too late... if at all, as was the case with the V5-6000.
I would love it if these wire services would assign beats to reporters by taking into consideration what subjects they actually understand. They should also be fluent in the language in which they are writing, and display some comprehension of the words they're using.
They're not nearly as talented as Hollywood gives them credit for. The Lois Lane (nose for a story, get it at any cost) archetype in TV and movies doesn't exist anymore, thanks to institutionalized journalism coursework and mandatory "crap jobs" (internships, etc.) turning off prospective students who might have enough intellect and integrity to be the next Walter Cronkite. They're more likely to go into something less sleazy, like political science or law.:P
I've seen this phenomenon from two angles: as a quoted source for a story in the New York Times (of all places!), where I was quoted selectively and out of context, to ensure that the "spin" of the article was supported by my comments. My friend had warned me, "Here is an opportunity for you to be completely and totally misquoted." I thought he was joking.
The other side is my brother, who got a journalism degree last year. He spent 6 months in a crap internship (this is Ann Arbor, Michigan), and when they could no longer keep him around (bad economy, they tell him), he has resorted to being a shift manager at a supermarket. One of the problems is that he doesn't have any skills in ass-kissing, apparently.
Even "legends" like Donaldson and Jennings seem to be more like "antiques" who spent enough time standing with a microphone reading notecards in front of various places of interest around the world, they've earned the right to sit behind a desk and read a teleprompter, trying none-too-hard to hide their political spin when they make snide guffaws at things they disagree with.
Even Reuters and AP releases, which rarely bear the names of the contributing journalists, seem to be including snide commentary and spin now, based on the bias of the author. At the very least it's become more and more sensationalist, more "tabloid-esque."
The only section of newspaper I can actually stand to read anymore is the editorial stuff. At least the columnists are telling you up front that they are only giving you an "opinion." Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to listen to National Public Radio, since the local (Ohio) reporters are finally done whining about yesterday's execution of a guy who raped a murdered a little girl. Aside from the occasional intellectual elitist liberal spin from a small contingent of their regulars, NPR usually does a pretty good job at factual reporting and well-informed opinion pieces.
"Hi... I was wondering if I could buy a Q, L, and C key from you... my parrot ate those keys off the keyboard."
This one is probably more common, or at least more eceonomically acceptable, in the days of $8 keyboards. My parrot's FAVORITE thing to do when I am in front of my PC is crawl off my shoulder and rip off the plastic bits I a busily clicking on. She will climb back up with a little plastic cube in her mouth and proceed to grind on it for minutes at a time. I don't care since I go through a keyboard every six months or so anyway.
Her favorite is the keypad's ENTER key.:)
Now on my $169 Apple Extended keyboard back in 1994, that would simply not fly (no pun intended). Six years of hard life, and someone else still has it in service... those were great keyboards.
Just out of curiosity, what is the scientific criterion for a moon?
The "trojan asteroid" described in the previous story is only 3 miles wide and take 770 years to orbit the earth. That is not what elementary schoolteachers say is a moon, a la Jupiter's many moons... giants like Europa and IO.
I also heard a while back that Charon might not be a real moon either, because of size or rotation or something? Huh?
I'm not versed in astronomy enough to know, so does anyone have an answer for laypeople, so I can talk with people at work about this?:)
You're probably right. I only speak from helping 2 friends upgrade their Macs to Jaguar and reading arstechnica, not from doing it myself. I gave up my last Mac (after owning 6) when I realized I needed to spend a couple grand every 3 years for another non-upgradable-processor machine.
Sorry, I did not mean to be wrong. You have corrected me. You can go to sleep happy now. I am humbled. I won't post in Apple threads anymore, since I can't keep up with the Mac bigots.
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Thanks for finally laying that out for us. I kinda wish you'd said so right up front, though. It would have saved a lot of people a lot of time. We all could have just flagged you as an idiot and a thief and called it a day....
Hmm. Five rapid "overrated" moderations on five successive comments. How very interesting. How very interesting indeed.
Looking at your comment history, it seems to be more of the same crap as above. Gee, golly, I can't imagine anyone wanting to modbomb you for such smarmy jackassery!!
where is sane thinking actually prevailing in this country?
I think you already know the answer. Zero Tolerance Policy is a euphemism for Zero Intelligence Policy. Having something written in stone and automatically defaulting to it anytime the policy is "bent" absolves the enforcer from both having to think and consider the situation, and having any accountability for the resulting punishment. "My hands are tied, it's a ZTP."
Bottom line: These people are trying to deal with 3000 individuals with one set of rules and punishments, they can't or won't be bothered to apply any interpretive justice.
(Now replace "School Administration" with "Department of Justice" and consider the direction we seem to be going...)
Never uderestimate the power of laziness.
That is DROP DEAD hilarious. But you forgot the follow-up where, three months later, he asks the kid's replacement to draw something, but is unhappy with those results as well...
SJ: "This is utter crap. Where did you go to design school, some inner-city pre-school? Make it look more like a lizard..."
I invested several years of my career developing software for those machines, only to be told, in the end, "We recommend you buy a MacIntosh." Screw you, Jobs, and the horse you rode in on.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the famed "Elder Apple Curmudgeon." Although he is 50 years old, he is bent on sharing his displeasures with the IT industry in a webforum whose average age is 19.
Hey buddy, here's a reality check. I invested a lot of time on (in order:) AppleSoft BASIC, Macintosh System 6, MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11, Mac OS 8, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP on machines from the Apple IIe, Mac SE, Mac LC, ZeOs 386, Mac Quadra 840av, and a dozen or so generic PCs. I have learned to build PCs starting at Pentiums on Baby AT motherboard, through Slot 1 Pentium 2s, Slot A Athlons, and so many sockets in ATX its' not even funny. And I'm NOT EVEN 30 YET!
It's what is now known as technological progression. If you'd like to race your 1926 Ford Model A against my 2000 Ford Focus, I'm game.
Get over it.
If you read the comments pertaining to settlement of legal fees, it refers to Rule 54d of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
I honestly can't get a rational redux from the actual law code (IANAL, so lawyers please weigh in), but it seems pretty straightforward that since Infinium Labs has admitted that they have no cause to bring action, in effect winning a summary judgement for [H]ardOCP, they COULD be liable for Kyle's legal costs, which he lists as 200,000 dollars.
As someone who has followed this for almost 18 months (the original article was 9/2003), I am loving the prospect of Tim Roberts et al. having to cough up Kyle's costs!
Please do, but only if it is good.
:)
(I was going for humor.
That's not what your mother told me last night, Trebek!
The next slide simply showed a class of 4-to-5 year olds sitting on the floor of a classroom learning how to use some new Macs,
With all due respect, you are not teaching four year olds how to make a Pivot Table in Excel and paste it into Lotus Notes.
Thanks for trying though...
At $500, though, I would pick one up along with a $50 keyboard/monitor switch...
:)
Honest question:
I own a KVM with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports.
Is there a currently-available product that will functionally allow my PS/2 keyboard and mouse to work for the theoretical headless iMac's USB ports for input? I know there are USB to PS/2 converters; what I want to know is if anyone is activlely using a USB Mac on a PS/2-connecter KVM.
Thanks in advance.
Ain't that the truth. I run into these people all day. Still tell me "AMD is not stable at all. When I had an AMD 5x86 133, it used to crash all the time. It is worth it for me to pay $250 more for my processors because AMD sucks so bad. You'll regret it when your AMD crashes on you!"
:)
Right. I've been building Athlon XP systems for three years now... for myself, wife, friends, parents... and have never had stability issues except in the case of failed DIMMs.
Just because Toyota cars may have sucked in the 70s is no reason to prance around like a nancy boy today telling everyone how Toyotas suck.
I understand that it's a great idea corrupted by misguided people.
:)
Wow, great insight... and you've also just stumbled onto a very accurate description of The Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court of the USA.
Not trolling. Honest. Only half trying to be humorous, however. It's my birthday, please don't mod me down.
No, they did not win. Napster ran out of money to fight, sold out to Bertlesmann, and there was no point in pursuing the case any further. ... You make it sound like Napster actually went to court and was found guilty by a judge and a jury -- when in fact, they never got to the trial stage at all.
:D
Hey buddy, have you been paying attention the last couple of years? Both of these paragraphs are blatantly wrong.
The music companies won a legal injunction against Napster... if they were unable to block songs per the judges order, they had to go offline. Which they did, and while trying to come up with a copyright-friendly format, Bertlesmann made a (very generous, IMO) bid on their business to try to cash in.
The Napster board rejected the bid, the company filed for bankrupcy and was liquidated.
But yes, there was a court case (no jury) where a judge decided AGAINST Napster. And no, they did NOT sell out to Bertlesmann.
*Scratches head* So was that a troll, or were just just blowing smoke out your Serial Port?
It's a very well-reasoned and thought-provoking question, I believe.
There are not a lot of people who would think to ask such things point-blank to a "celebrity." But the truth is, he is just a man. At 61 years old, he's probably learned more than a few things.
If he can impart some of that knowledge on us, everyone is the better.
Certainly the people who are distributing and "sharing" this/these files are partly to blame for the illegal distribution.
What I find funny is the huge chunk of P2P users who either share everything out of ignorance, or don't realize that everything in their download directory is still shared out after they complete download. These people are just clueless sheep. I make sure my shared folders are locked down-- you won't find any DVD rips, Cams, or MP3 shared out from me.
My question is, do we have any weigh-in on TV show swapping yet? I record some shows with my TV card, and download many that I have missed, for instance, Smallville. Is it considered copyright infringement to trade TV episodes of shows you like? I know at least one exec came out and called it THEFT if you cut out commercials... but what is the word on the street?
Now they've given Ashcroft an idea to both monitor possible terrorists AND increase revenue for the US govertment...
:)
Record all of their conversations in voicemails, then charge them for the priviledge. Go Patriot Act!
I got arrested recently for posession...
They can bust you for demonic possession now?? Holy cow!
Oh wait-- you meant possession of illegal goods. Well, that's what you get for carrying around MP3s in public anymore...
I read about the Big Dig last year, thanks to someone's Slashdot .sig.
:)
Read more about it here.
Basically, the thing has gone on forever, and will likely go on forever, thanks to beaurocracy. Blaming it on the programmers/cablers is probably little more than spin at best, or pre-election blame shifting by local "oh-fish-shulls" at worst.
The Big Dig is apparently a huge fiscal landmine that some people claim will never reap the rewards of the optimists who keep greenlighting the moneystream.
(On the other hand, I live far away, and am only going on a few websites' worth of info. So that's only one point of view.
Give me an stick over and slush box any day. ...except the day that you're sitting in traffic, pumping your left leg up and down on the clutch wildly, throwing your right arm into spamic fits as you try to navigate stop and go traffic.
:)
Then multiply by 5 times a week. 50 weeks a year.
I drive a slushbox for commute, stick for performance. So you're half right.
one thing that really started to kill 3dfx was the fact until Voodoo5, 3dfx acceleration required you buy a separate board in addition to the main graphics card
What facts are YOU working with, guy?
The Banshee and VooDoo3 lines were ALL cards with 2d/3d chipset combos. Only the first two VooDoo iterations were separate passthrough boards.
It's all in the article. And GeForce / GeForce 2 were both benchmark-smoked by the VooDoo5 cards, but the prices were too high and the products were introduced too late... if at all, as was the case with the V5-6000.
I would love it if these wire services would assign beats to reporters by taking into consideration what subjects they actually understand. They should also be fluent in the language in which they are writing, and display some comprehension of the words they're using.
:P
They're not nearly as talented as Hollywood gives them credit for. The Lois Lane (nose for a story, get it at any cost) archetype in TV and movies doesn't exist anymore, thanks to institutionalized journalism coursework and mandatory "crap jobs" (internships, etc.) turning off prospective students who might have enough intellect and integrity to be the next Walter Cronkite. They're more likely to go into something less sleazy, like political science or law.
I've seen this phenomenon from two angles: as a quoted source for a story in the New York Times (of all places!), where I was quoted selectively and out of context, to ensure that the "spin" of the article was supported by my comments. My friend had warned me, "Here is an opportunity for you to be completely and totally misquoted." I thought he was joking.
The other side is my brother, who got a journalism degree last year. He spent 6 months in a crap internship (this is Ann Arbor, Michigan), and when they could no longer keep him around (bad economy, they tell him), he has resorted to being a shift manager at a supermarket. One of the problems is that he doesn't have any skills in ass-kissing, apparently.
Even "legends" like Donaldson and Jennings seem to be more like "antiques" who spent enough time standing with a microphone reading notecards in front of various places of interest around the world, they've earned the right to sit behind a desk and read a teleprompter, trying none-too-hard to hide their political spin when they make snide guffaws at things they disagree with.
Even Reuters and AP releases, which rarely bear the names of the contributing journalists, seem to be including snide commentary and spin now, based on the bias of the author. At the very least it's become more and more sensationalist, more "tabloid-esque."
The only section of newspaper I can actually stand to read anymore is the editorial stuff. At least the columnists are telling you up front that they are only giving you an "opinion." Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to listen to National Public Radio, since the local (Ohio) reporters are finally done whining about yesterday's execution of a guy who raped a murdered a little girl. Aside from the occasional intellectual elitist liberal spin from a small contingent of their regulars, NPR usually does a pretty good job at factual reporting and well-informed opinion pieces.
"Hi... I was wondering if I could buy a Q, L, and C key from you... my parrot ate those keys off the keyboard."
:)
This one is probably more common, or at least more eceonomically acceptable, in the days of $8 keyboards. My parrot's FAVORITE thing to do when I am in front of my PC is crawl off my shoulder and rip off the plastic bits I a busily clicking on. She will climb back up with a little plastic cube in her mouth and proceed to grind on it for minutes at a time. I don't care since I go through a keyboard every six months or so anyway.
Her favorite is the keypad's ENTER key.
Now on my $169 Apple Extended keyboard back in 1994, that would simply not fly (no pun intended). Six years of hard life, and someone else still has it in service... those were great keyboards.
Here, let me bend over and show you.
Please pay attention, sir; I was talking about moons, not Uranus.
*Groan* I can't believe I just said that. Sorry. (Ducks)
Just out of curiosity, what is the scientific criterion for a moon?
:)
The "trojan asteroid" described in the previous story is only 3 miles wide and take 770 years to orbit the earth. That is not what elementary schoolteachers say is a moon, a la Jupiter's many moons... giants like Europa and IO.
I also heard a while back that Charon might not be a real moon either, because of size or rotation or something? Huh?
I'm not versed in astronomy enough to know, so does anyone have an answer for laypeople, so I can talk with people at work about this?
I AM SORRY...
I made a mistake. People corrected me (rather rudely, in fact), and I apologized.
If someone wants to mod me back down, I understand. I was trying to be helpful based on erroneous perceptions.
How do I apply a threadlock on this...
You're probably right. I only speak from helping 2 friends upgrade their Macs to Jaguar and reading arstechnica, not from doing it myself. I gave up my last Mac (after owning 6) when I realized I needed to spend a couple grand every 3 years for another non-upgradable-processor machine.
Sorry, I did not mean to be wrong. You have corrected me. You can go to sleep happy now. I am humbled. I won't post in Apple threads anymore, since I can't keep up with the Mac bigots.