.. and you forget to put your foot in your mouth when you wrote this. Come on, of course Microsoft has copied Unix. How could they not!!! Do you accuse Saturn to rip off Ford because they're making cars. Ford has been there for a hundred years! You're right, Saturn are dirty bastards for trying to make a clone or a different version of car.
Linux and UNIX groupies like you give the community a bad name.
And what was wrong with trying to buy Nintedo? It's not only a question on buying to beat everyone. This is a pretty normal move in the industry. If you have some ideas, but don't have all the expertise to go forward with them, why don't you make a alliance with another company, or buy the other company and integrate it with yours, so the product will be even better?
I'd be saddened to see Oog Vorbis or MP3 becoming the standards for game music, because then the music would be less interactive. Microsoft has a nice thing with Direct Music (part of Direct Audio now I think...) where music can be programmed to swift and bend and tune to the action. It's a lot more clever then fade in/fade out and crossovers of two songs, it's much more dynamic.
I've read some interview excerp with the author about the ending, and he said that the serie ending was done this way because Gainax cut the funds for the last two episdes because of it's too many biblical ramifications and though they'd get bad press. So the show writer had to make up some ending. Later, when the fans wanted a movie, the show creator was given full control about the movie content and made the movie based on the original ending scripts.
I've seen a few anime so far in the past year (Evangelion, Lain, Noir, Keshin OAV and the 15 first episodes, Lodoss War OAV and finally, X TV), and while Evangelion has been a really interresting anime (it was the first serie I watched, and the second anime I watched, after Ghost in the Shell), as I discovered other series like Lain and X TV, I realised that it Evangelion wasn't *that* great. Sure, the episodes are nice, and the movie ending is jaw dropping, it doesn't come near X TV for character development and action. I think people mix the concept of very complex story line that is almost incomprehensible and great storytelling. Evangelion is just a really messed up story line. There is even have a FAQ for people to understand the movie ending. Too much is going on, and not enough time to explain everything. X TV, on the other end, presents it's characters one at a time, and, even tough the ending is a bit rushed, it is simply the best anime I have ever seen, and most of my friends who've been watching and reading anime/manga for a while agree with me. And people I know who weren't interrested in anime before got hooked by X TV.
I'm not sure about that. After all, they made the standard, and I'm pretty sure that people would feel safer opening and playing with microsoft word files with microsoft word than with some third party filter for their own text editor.
I mean, some software company makes a service, and you people ty to rip it off. They have this srvice, for you, so you can play your games without hassle, but still, you try to f**k them. They don't want people to use illegal versions of their software, I think anyone normal can understand that. I'm glad that Bnetd is getting their ass sued. I don't care if they use the "evil" DMCA or anything else in the law. I don't care on what grounds they sue Bnetd. They made the software, people tried to copy it so people could play games illegaly by bypassing the password mechanisn and cd-key authentification, it's about time this blew up in the face of the Bnetd people.
Get over it.
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I dont' remember in what movie I saw that, but I though it's a neat idea : you can't time travel to the past, only in the future. So maybe that's the reason why we don't know yet if someone succeeded. Maybe the person couldn't come back to tell us. So if time travel gets invented in 2030, well, we'll know that time travel will only be possible in 2030, since the person who found how to time travel couldn't come back and tell us. But then, it's be pretty hard to prove that if works... Imagine you send someone in the future, but you he can't come back to tell you the experiment succeeded, how can you tell it even worked? (supposing we're dealing with alternate dimensions, otherwise we'd just have to wait for the guy to pop back in our time).
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Thinking that when you go in the past, you could change something and come back, with maybe everyone affected, while it seems a normal idea, isn't a reasonnable idea I think. After all, you, the time traveller, are not the center of the universe. Nobody is. It's not because you do time travel that suddenly every person's life on earth just freeezes and waits for your return. And if you changed something in the past, it wouldn't make sense either I think that everyone in the future just change without even realizing it. It's not the best proof that you can't alter future (maybe it's not even a proof, I fact, I wouldn't bet my live on it, but it satisfies me so I guess I'm hapy about it), but to me, this idea can mean only two things : either you can't time travel, or if you do, you'd leave this current dimension (time) and enter a new one. The place you left will only be missing you. It's not as if you'll change your old present's past, but some alternate reality past you're going to change.
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You guys must have really nothing to do on April fool's day if the only thing you have to do is come to slashdot and bitch and moan about the April Fool's joke CmdrTaco is running. If you don't like them, stop coming to Slashdot today. Come back tomorrow. Nobody will miss you I'm sure. As for the moderators who spend times modding down pro-april-foolscomments and modding up anti-april-fools commentes, get a f**king life. I unchecked the "Willing to Moderate" because moderators like you rated waste mod points on stupid posts and keep modding up crap. What's the point of modding up somthing to +5 insightfull if some other idiot mods up a fart joke +5 funny?
I went to see Blade 2 this weekend with 3 friends. I never saw the first one, but I thought, hey, this is a dumb action flick, I should be able to get the idea of their vampire mythology pretty quick. I was right.
This movie is so undenialibly bad I don't know where to start. The fight scenes are probably one of the most ricidulous I have ever seen in a action movie, except for the Jackie Chan one's, but thuse are made to be funny. It uses repetedly stupid wrestling move that are just plain dumb to see ***** SPOILER, well, not much of one ***** like the time at the end of the movie when Blade is on it's back, and the bad guy, instead of going up to him and beat the shit out of him, crawls up the wall and just leaps from the top and lands with this elbow on Blade's chest, like The Rock would do from the third cable in a wrestling ring. Puuuuuuuuhhhlease! Stupid moves like this happen all the time in this movie. Also, the vampires are so dumb. One of the first scene where we are introduced to the vampire who'll recruit Blade, they have these kind of power armor or something that protects them from UV lights. Later on, they go for a special mission in the sewer in day light, and these f***king morrons don't even bring they UV suits!! (light kinda gets in small doses in the sewer. Plus they have some sort of UV bomb, so the suit would come handy) Come on!!! I guess they didn't have so the writers could add a little more action. Bad bad bad bad bad!!! It's pretty much like the use of sun screen to protect a vampires from the sun in the first movie. So why didn't they at least apply some when they went in the sewer. ******* SPOILER FINISHED ******* This movie has no head and no tail. It's totally a disgrace to vampire movies, and a disgrace to action movies. It's just dumb, and not entertaining dumb, no sir. Just plain Dumb.
The blurb about WaitForSingleObject has been a little unclear I admit. Here's what I meant : what I intended to put emphasis on was the WaitForMULTIPLEObject, which ISN'T part of the pthread standard. This solves some nasty deadlocks problem as I stated earlier. I was sure not going to give a thourough analysis of both APIs, and this is the first example that poped in my mind, since this is probably the first thing you notice when you start toying around with pthread and "WinThreads". The synchronization possibilities are much wider with Windows than with Unix. But what you said is true, what you can do in Unix, you can generally do it in Windows, and vice-versa.
There are so many post I'd like to respond to that instead I'll post my replys in this one big message. First of all, to the moderator who moderated to 0 the comment about NT meaning "New Technology", go read a little and you'll find out that it's true. Second of all, Microsoft didn't rip off Unix. No sir they didn't. They just applied concepts that everyone has been incorporating for years in their OSes. It's like saying that the Saturn cars are ripping the 1900's Fords because Ford has been here for almost a century (I think, maybe it's some other company). Third, if you've programmed a lot in Windows, you'll notice that the API is very different then it's Unix conterpart, and by that I don,t mean only different names for same methods. Ever noticed that everything in Windows is centralized around handles, objects and the WaitForSingleObject/WaitForMultipleObject that are used everywhere in the OS to wait for something to complete/release/signal/join? That's pretty elegant, and it enables a user to lock a lot of different resources (mutexes, event, thread, semaphores, sockets) all in once, helping to avoid some pretty nasty deadlocks sometimes. Unix and Linux doesn't have these. Go through the API, you'll say that it's very rich and not that much borrowed from Unix. There are a lot of other Microsoft myths out there, and I guess that's because a lot of people just think they know stuff because they know how to recompile their kernel, when in fact they know "shit" about OS infrastructure and concepts.
Scientology webmasters are just plain dumd. There IS a meta tag that they can add to their web page to prevent google or any other search robot to add them to their database (I don't remember the tag, but I've read about it a few days ago on the google website). Instead of whinning and bitching, why don't they just put thoses meta tags on their web page and leave the world in peace. These guys are starting to really irritate me with their abuse of every law to protect their religion.
In fact, you're right. Intel showed no advantage using Rambus at first, but when the clockrates went higher and needed more bandwidth, then Intel showed why it had chosen Rambus as the leading memory technology to be paired with the P4. Right now, pairing P4 with DDR is like pairing an AthlonXP with cheap PC133 modules : it's just plain dump. You won't get the amazing performance your processor can offer. Stick to DDR for AMD since there is no Rambus support planned (I think), and Rambus for P4. They might cost a hell lot more, but if you have the money to buy a decent system with a P4, then chances are you will probably be able to afford the increased price of the memory. Never forget that the memory is the easiest way to make your computer faster. You almost never have enough RAM.
I'd never buy a P4 system without Rambus, but then, I'd never buy a P4 either because it cost just too much.
He been such a *whore* because he had the guts to admit that he was wrong about Rambus in the first place. He's not kissing their butt, he's just recognizing the facts : DDR just isn't good enough for Pentium 4. At these high clock rates, only Rambus delivers enough bandwidth to make the P4 happy. And saying that Tom is accepting money is just ridiculous : he's probably the best hardwre journalist on the Net, and has no need to accept bribes from companies.
I don't know where you picked that all up. I understand your parrallel about anchovies, but I think you're exagerating about the file formats and API. I never said a word about it. I think you're into the wrong impression that I'm a Linux addict and a Microsoft hater. I never said a thing about opening APIs and file formats. I don't even think that's a solution for the Microsoft monopoly.
You guys are blinded by your hate towards Microsoft. Don't you realise that if Microsoft is forbidden to integrate IE to Windows, than KDE should then a serious hit too since "Konqueror" is pretty much the IE for KDE. Second, you can't stop Microsoft from shipping IE with Windows, otherwise, you wouldn't have the right to ship "Mozilla" or "Konqueror" or "Nescape 4.7" with Linux either.
The only thing you can do is force them to include links to websites of Mozilla, Netscape, Opera on the desktop of redirect them to a webpage on their first IE launch. And I have no problem with the fact that Microsoft integrates the browser with the OS because I can't count the times where I dragged and dropped files from my HD to an FTP sites and vice-versa. The advantages are so big. Besides, that's not even integration, but only inter-process communication. So the only thing that really shows that IE is integrated into windows is that when IE crashes, Explorer tends to crash too, even tough under WinXP you'll not always loose your taskbar and systray when IE crashes.
Then this means that you can't throw away a photograph or negative. Come on, negative and digital photos are both easy to get rid off. In one case you push delete, in the other case you put it in the garbage. And come on, a CD contains SOOOOOOOOOOO much data, why not just put all the pictures on a CD, or even better, a DVD-RAM! There's nothing more space efficient than DVD's I think for archiving.
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Isn't quantum cryptography secure because Eve cannot evesdrops on the message without altering the it?
.. and you forget to put your foot in your mouth when you wrote this. Come on, of course Microsoft has copied Unix. How could they not!!! Do you accuse Saturn to rip off Ford because they're making cars. Ford has been there for a hundred years! You're right, Saturn are dirty bastards for trying to make a clone or a different version of car.
Linux and UNIX groupies like you give the community a bad name.
And what was wrong with trying to buy Nintedo? It's not only a question on buying to beat everyone. This is a pretty normal move in the industry. If you have some ideas, but don't have all the expertise to go forward with them, why don't you make a alliance with another company, or buy the other company and integrate it with yours, so the product will be even better?
I'd be saddened to see Oog Vorbis or MP3 becoming the standards for game music, because then the music would be less interactive. Microsoft has a nice thing with Direct Music (part of Direct Audio now I think...) where music can be programmed to swift and bend and tune to the action. It's a lot more clever then fade in/fade out and crossovers of two songs, it's much more dynamic.
I've read some interview excerp with the author about the ending, and he said that the serie ending was done this way because Gainax cut the funds for the last two episdes because of it's too many biblical ramifications and though they'd get bad press. So the show writer had to make up some ending. Later, when the fans wanted a movie, the show creator was given full control about the movie content and made the movie based on the original ending scripts.
I've seen a few anime so far in the past year (Evangelion, Lain, Noir, Keshin OAV and the 15 first episodes, Lodoss War OAV and finally, X TV), and while Evangelion has been a really interresting anime (it was the first serie I watched, and the second anime I watched, after Ghost in the Shell), as I discovered other series like Lain and X TV, I realised that it Evangelion wasn't *that* great. Sure, the episodes are nice, and the movie ending is jaw dropping, it doesn't come near X TV for character development and action. I think people mix the concept of very complex story line that is almost incomprehensible and great storytelling. Evangelion is just a really messed up story line. There is even have a FAQ for people to understand the movie ending. Too much is going on, and not enough time to explain everything. X TV, on the other end, presents it's characters one at a time, and, even tough the ending is a bit rushed, it is simply the best anime I have ever seen, and most of my friends who've been watching and reading anime/manga for a while agree with me. And people I know who weren't interrested in anime before got hooked by X TV.
I bet you we're real bored at work again to reply to this also. So am I right now :-)))
I'm not sure about that. After all, they made the standard, and I'm pretty sure that people would feel safer opening and playing with microsoft word files with microsoft word than with some third party filter for their own text editor.
How about, I'm not english, so I might suck sometime at grammer? :-)
No offense taken, anyway, thanks for the tip.
Yeah, this story is the same as on MSNBC, except for the layout is less good.
I mean, some software company makes a service, and you people ty to rip it off. They have this srvice, for you, so you can play your games without hassle, but still, you try to f**k them. They don't want people to use illegal versions of their software, I think anyone normal can understand that. I'm glad that Bnetd is getting their ass sued. I don't care if they use the "evil" DMCA or anything else in the law. I don't care on what grounds they sue Bnetd. They made the software, people tried to copy it so people could play games illegaly by bypassing the password mechanisn and cd-key authentification, it's about time this blew up in the face of the Bnetd people.
Get over it.
I dont' remember in what movie I saw that, but I though it's a neat idea : you can't time travel to the past, only in the future. So maybe that's the reason why we don't know yet if someone succeeded. Maybe the person couldn't come back to tell us. So if time travel gets invented in 2030, well, we'll know that time travel will only be possible in 2030, since the person who found how to time travel couldn't come back and tell us. But then, it's be pretty hard to prove that if works... Imagine you send someone in the future, but you he can't come back to tell you the experiment succeeded, how can you tell it even worked? (supposing we're dealing with alternate dimensions, otherwise we'd just have to wait for the guy to pop back in our time).
Thinking that when you go in the past, you could change something and come back, with maybe everyone affected, while it seems a normal idea, isn't a reasonnable idea I think. After all, you, the time traveller, are not the center of the universe. Nobody is. It's not because you do time travel that suddenly every person's life on earth just freeezes and waits for your return. And if you changed something in the past, it wouldn't make sense either I think that everyone in the future just change without even realizing it. It's not the best proof that you can't alter future (maybe it's not even a proof, I fact, I wouldn't bet my live on it, but it satisfies me so I guess I'm hapy about it), but to me, this idea can mean only two things : either you can't time travel, or if you do, you'd leave this current dimension (time) and enter a new one. The place you left will only be missing you. It's not as if you'll change your old present's past, but some alternate reality past you're going to change.
You guys must have really nothing to do on April fool's day if the only thing you have to do is come to slashdot and bitch and moan about the April Fool's joke CmdrTaco is running. If you don't like them, stop coming to Slashdot today. Come back tomorrow. Nobody will miss you I'm sure. As for the moderators who spend times modding down pro-april-foolscomments and modding up anti-april-fools commentes, get a f**king life. I unchecked the "Willing to Moderate" because moderators like you rated waste mod points on stupid posts and keep modding up crap. What's the point of modding up somthing to +5 insightfull if some other idiot mods up a fart joke +5 funny?
I went to see Blade 2 this weekend with 3 friends. I never saw the first one, but I thought, hey, this is a dumb action flick, I should be able to get the idea of their vampire mythology pretty quick. I was right.
This movie is so undenialibly bad I don't know where to start. The fight scenes are probably one of the most ricidulous I have ever seen in a action movie, except for the Jackie Chan one's, but thuse are made to be funny. It uses repetedly stupid wrestling move that are just plain dumb to see ***** SPOILER, well, not much of one ***** like the time at the end of the movie when Blade is on it's back, and the bad guy, instead of going up to him and beat the shit out of him, crawls up the wall and just leaps from the top and lands with this elbow on Blade's chest, like The Rock would do from the third cable in a wrestling ring. Puuuuuuuuhhhlease! Stupid moves like this happen all the time in this movie. Also, the vampires are so dumb. One of the first scene where we are introduced to the vampire who'll recruit Blade, they have these kind of power armor or something that protects them from UV lights. Later on, they go for a special mission in the sewer in day light, and these f***king morrons don't even bring they UV suits!! (light kinda gets in small doses in the sewer. Plus they have some sort of UV bomb, so the suit would come handy) Come on!!! I guess they didn't have so the writers could add a little more action. Bad bad bad bad bad!!! It's pretty much like the use of sun screen to protect a vampires from the sun in the first movie. So why didn't they at least apply some when they went in the sewer. ******* SPOILER FINISHED *******
This movie has no head and no tail.
It's totally a disgrace to vampire movies, and a disgrace to action movies. It's just dumb, and not entertaining dumb, no sir. Just plain Dumb.
The blurb about WaitForSingleObject has been a little unclear I admit. Here's what I meant : what I intended to put emphasis on was the WaitForMULTIPLEObject, which ISN'T part of the pthread standard. This solves some nasty deadlocks problem as I stated earlier.
I was sure not going to give a thourough analysis of both APIs, and this is the first example that poped in my mind, since this is probably the first thing you notice when you start toying around with pthread and "WinThreads". The synchronization possibilities are much wider with Windows than with Unix.
But what you said is true, what you can do in Unix, you can generally do it in Windows, and vice-versa.
There are so many post I'd like to respond to that instead I'll post my replys in this one big message.
First of all, to the moderator who moderated to 0 the comment about NT meaning "New Technology", go read a little and you'll find out that it's true.
Second of all, Microsoft didn't rip off Unix. No sir they didn't. They just applied concepts that everyone has been incorporating for years in their OSes. It's like saying that the Saturn cars are ripping the 1900's Fords because Ford has been here for almost a century (I think, maybe it's some other company).
Third, if you've programmed a lot in Windows, you'll notice that the API is very different then it's Unix conterpart, and by that I don,t mean only different names for same methods. Ever noticed that everything in Windows is centralized around handles, objects and the WaitForSingleObject/WaitForMultipleObject that are used everywhere in the OS to wait for something to complete/release/signal/join? That's pretty elegant, and it enables a user to lock a lot of different resources (mutexes, event, thread, semaphores, sockets) all in once, helping to avoid some pretty nasty deadlocks sometimes. Unix and Linux doesn't have these. Go through the API, you'll say that it's very rich and not that much borrowed from Unix.
There are a lot of other Microsoft myths out there, and I guess that's because a lot of people just think they know stuff because they know how to recompile their kernel, when in fact they know "shit" about OS infrastructure and concepts.
Scientology webmasters are just plain dumd. There IS a meta tag that they can add to their web page to prevent google or any other search robot to add them to their database (I don't remember the tag, but I've read about it a few days ago on the google website). Instead of whinning and bitching, why don't they just put thoses meta tags on their web page and leave the world in peace. These guys are starting to really irritate me with their abuse of every law to protect their religion.
In fact, you're right. Intel showed no advantage using Rambus at first, but when the clockrates went higher and needed more bandwidth, then Intel showed why it had chosen Rambus as the leading memory technology to be paired with the P4. Right now, pairing P4 with DDR is like pairing an AthlonXP with cheap PC133 modules : it's just plain dump. You won't get the amazing performance your processor can offer. Stick to DDR for AMD since there is no Rambus support planned (I think), and Rambus for P4. They might cost a hell lot more, but if you have the money to buy a decent system with a P4, then chances are you will probably be able to afford the increased price of the memory. Never forget that the memory is the easiest way to make your computer faster. You almost never have enough RAM.
I'd never buy a P4 system without Rambus, but then, I'd never buy a P4 either because it cost just too much.
He been such a *whore* because he had the guts to admit that he was wrong about Rambus in the first place. He's not kissing their butt, he's just recognizing the facts : DDR just isn't good enough for Pentium 4. At these high clock rates, only Rambus delivers enough bandwidth to make the P4 happy.
And saying that Tom is accepting money is just ridiculous : he's probably the best hardwre journalist on the Net, and has no need to accept bribes from companies.
"It's time to get the garage cleaned out."
Funny, I would've seen it more like getting the garbage out after 20 years.
They closed. Move on people!!!
I don't know where you picked that all up. I understand your parrallel about anchovies, but I think you're exagerating about the file formats and API. I never said a word about it. I think you're into the wrong impression that I'm a Linux addict and a Microsoft hater. I never said a thing about opening APIs and file formats. I don't even think that's a solution for the Microsoft monopoly.
You guys are blinded by your hate towards Microsoft. Don't you realise that if Microsoft is forbidden to integrate IE to Windows, than KDE should then a serious hit too since "Konqueror" is pretty much the IE for KDE. Second, you can't stop Microsoft from shipping IE with Windows, otherwise, you wouldn't have the right to ship "Mozilla" or "Konqueror" or "Nescape 4.7" with Linux either.
The only thing you can do is force them to include links to websites of Mozilla, Netscape, Opera on the desktop of redirect them to a webpage on their first IE launch. And I have no problem with the fact that Microsoft integrates the browser with the OS because I can't count the times where I dragged and dropped files from my HD to an FTP sites and vice-versa. The advantages are so big. Besides, that's not even integration, but only inter-process communication. So the only thing that really shows that IE is integrated into windows is that when IE crashes, Explorer tends to crash too, even tough under WinXP you'll not always loose your taskbar and systray when IE crashes.
I can't belived some idiot moderator took time to moderate this comment down. Why waste moderation points on an useless comment?
Then this means that you can't throw away a photograph or negative. Come on, negative and digital photos are both easy to get rid off. In one case you push delete, in the other case you put it in the garbage. And come on, a CD contains SOOOOOOOOOOO much data, why not just put all the pictures on a CD, or even better, a DVD-RAM! There's nothing more space efficient than DVD's I think for archiving.