Is it me or are all (most of htese tings not even gatgets of any description? Hand dryer? I thought thats what we wore pants for? to wipe your hands on!) Transistor? Maybe... Computers... I guess...
but theres no gadgets here!!!
How about wearable computers with heads up display, internet connectivity and live webcam feed?
television is nothing but a waste of time, and I dont know about you but I'd say the wheel was practically the basis for civilisation! Not a freaking/gadget/!!
Do I smell media b/s in the house? Looks like another attempt by incompetent reporters to make a half decent article on something they are nott remotely familiar with. Im getting sick of this!
Netscape fellasleep at the wheel with auto-pilot on, and then they find it surprising that that crashed and burend when someone came along to make a/decent/ product, and listen to the user's needs. I know you all hate MS, but face it, IE is better than netscape navigator simply because MS coders do things byu the book, instead of inventing their own little user interface scheeme that doesnt comply with windows GUI stadards...
Netscape make me sick! they only lost it all out of sheer STUPIDITY! DOnt give me any shit about microosft taking over and crushing them....they were crushed from the start, it just took somoene to open the user's eyes and provide an alternative!
Yes I guess you have uncovered an important fact that I forgot to take account of originally... but dont worry, this is all taken care of by the Mac... its quite simple really:
If you want to use a computer without ever knowing what the hell is going on, and what the system is doing or anything else for that matter. And if all you want is pretty pictures to click on and observe the purdy colors... then get a Mac. It looks 'cool' ('cool' as in people seem to think it is, but i sure dont) on your desk and nothing says 'I'm a regular user that doesnt know jack, and I dont care...' Like a futuristic, non upgradable, lump of crap. It so futuristic, that in fact such old and ridiculous things such as "upgrades", "expansion slots", and the mother of them all, the "floppy dirve" have been discarded. Now you'll be up with the times with 2, yes thats 2 (TWO!) USB ports. Once you wait 10 months for USB products to come to the market, and then pay a 300% inflated price to get the first USB printer off the shelf, and then connect a printer and scanner to your box your updrade capabilities have been fiulled to capacity! Theres nothng more you can do! Imagine the satisfaction! Want another meg of ram? Dont like the primative video card thats soldered directly into the motherboard? Just throw your box out the window, and buy the iqMac, but make sure you meet the sstrict requirements of having an IQ of 2 or less before you can buy it. Of course you can leave that printer and scanner attached as you throw it out... they are way outdated, you want to be up with the times dont you? the iqMac will feature the latest USB 2000 technology, with the new 0 backwards-compatibility feature set. Buy an iqMac now... and then wait for USB 2000 to actually be created before you actually dream of using a scanner or printer. The iqMac is stepping into the times, and illiminating the need for a monitor, yes thats right, no need for the fuss of a monitor anymore, this is the ninties...err zeroes...
So anyways, I think I have made my point clear (that I have no respect for Macs...)
So I guess the year numbering can be left for the weenies using Macs etc. but the day I see RedHat 2000 is the day I die...
At first the original idea (2 rungs up the ladder) seemed okay. A little strange, having everything foo 2000, but okay.
When I read your response however, it became blindingly aparent that year versioning is not the way to go. Maybe for Microsoft, and their marketing campaign (and im not saying I agree with your whole anti-MS sub-conscious buy-the-latest-version scam idea) but for most products out there you cannot really standardise like that. People that use a certain range of products are familiar with the versioning employed and its significance. The user-friendliness of naming everything the same seems a little dull...Why exactly do we need to cater for all the newbies out there?
I suppose that came out wrong, its good to encurage new computer users, I like to see the whole computer explosion thing happening, it was really amasing to see how many people started using computers and the internet so suddenly. But I mean, standardising things to such a level seems kind of dumb to me. And all to make the newbies feel at home?
If you use a particular software product, chances are you are familiar with the versioning system and know the significance of version 4.13.1462 More importantly, if you are looking at foo 2000 what do you know about it? Wow, its the 2000 version, yay! What does that mean exactly? absolutly nothing! It doesnt even narrow down the release date to one year... it could well have been released in 1999, or late, in 2001 ! At least when you look at foo v13.3.1214 you have some details, you know that its been rebuilt x times since the release you are using, you know what the magnitude of the upgrade is likely to be from previous experience... with foo 2000 you know nothing, and at best, you'll know the build number... the only remains of the shattered old versioning system, which will give you little information!
Hmmm, yes, insightful. Now I refer you to the eToy scandal... now take into account Microsoft's market capital... At this rate, by the year 2010 I dont think anyone would get away with selling Windhglows boxer shorts...
Though it would be quite interesting if this wasnt in some country with such a sketchy idea of a 'law system', I'd love to see the progress and compare and contrast with the eToy thing.
No I'm sorry Mr Gates, you dont have a case. Why not? eToys did it, and were a million times bigger! Okay Mr Gates, on the day of 4th november, when you were in the fourth grade, did the other kids refuse to play with you because they though you were a geek? Listen I dont see what this ha.... Answer the quetion!!!!! Did tey, or did they not, refuse to play with you because they didnt like you? well.....yes. There we go...now i dont like you, and I dont want to play, so get out of my court room. But... No buts, do you want me to tell the big kids to get you again....er, I mean, arrest you...
I dont know why I'm laughing so hard when the jokes on me... but anyways, disregarding that little slip up, everything else I said about stability is true! I havent forgotten what a blue screen looks like (I still run 95 from time to time...)
You can laugh at me, but...err, I dunno... Laugh all you want:)
well maybe thye didnt configure the other boxes properly and whatnot, and maybe microosft's solution is not the best (no dooubt you all think so, to prove it, this will be down to -1 in minutes!) but one thing I have to say is that Microsoft certainly seems to be getting its act together quite well lately!
I have to say that Windows 2000 is an absolutely magnificent improvement on previous operating systems. I've been running it for months, ever since the first relatively stable releases, and I still havent seen the blue screen of death! (Well once, but that was cause I was messing with my hardware and my RAM was screwy...) Its much more stable, I'm getting uptimes ive never dreamed before! I just ended an uptime of more than a month! and I dont even try to run my system nonstop (so all you Linux buffs up for 318 days can shut it!)
In any case its an improvement on Win98... the defult background color is a welcome change... (oh and they even changed the tint of blue background used on the BSoD, it too looks better now)
But one definite loss...one definite indelible black mark on microosft's good name... I was much dissapointed to find that Windows 2000 Advanced Server does not ship with that silly pinball game... (no wait, I probably havent seen it around since I specifically didnt install the games... Im starting to miss solitare to tell you the truth:)
But dont flame too hard, because I do run Linux, and I do think its a much more hardcore OS when you get to now it. In fact the only reason I dont use it fulltime is becuase I cant be bothered to switch, and my current linux box (an IBM compatible DX/50) isn't really a supreme specimen to learn on. But I promise you, that as soon as I get that new 1 gigahertz box I've always wanted, I'll retite this one to an exclusive Linux box, and then I'll really be able to use Linux!!
(Apparently linux doesnt like the PS/2 architecture... or old ATAPI SCSI CD-Roms for that matter... took 24 solid hours of moving hardware around from different computers to finally get redhat installed... and even now it refuses to do some reasonable things! Im putting it all down to the oldness of the computer its on [rather than my lack of competence] -- that sig on the bottom is not a joke, after repeated attempts I couldnt get it to know my network card, so I eventually gave up...)
This year, towards the beginning of December I ordered (well, not I, but my old man...anyways...) we ordered some Sony equipment. The basic idea was a respectable, expandable, entertainment system for the lounge.
After much research into products we decided with an all sony system. After giving up on getting a special card with which to order the products and benefit an extended warranty, when it became apparent that even just the card would not be on the horizon before the new year (let alone the products ordered with the card...)
So, after ditching that idea we went back to basics, and noticed a nice cheap price for the goods on Sony's online retailer AV-Store. the goods were ordered towards the beginning of December, and we were assured they would be here in good time for christmas.
After repeated delays and more reassurance they would be here in time for christmas, we are still lacking some serious electronics.
We ordered an MD deck, Fully featured amp, and of course, a DVD/CD deck.
The DVD deck arrived in time, and after the delivery guy had me stunned for half an hour when I read the invoice which congratulated me on my purchase and gave instructions for assembling my new indoor dog kennel... He came back and promptly gave me the correct package. On the invoice was a note listing the other two things we ordered with "to follow" written next to them.
So here we are, and still amp and MD-less. The DVD works great, it was amasing that even a CD playing through the old crappy amp and old crappy speakers sounded so much better when played from the DVD/CD deck! I couldnt believe it! But then again, I guess thats what you payed the wad of cash for isnt it?
An short email note was sent to notify us that the amplifier had not been shipped to the UK supplier in time, and so pre-Christmas delivery would not be possible, and it would be here sometime in January. But no word on the MD as of yet!
As for the speakers, they were purchased from a local dealer (they werent Sony). After calling once, and confirming everything, we went to pick them up. There they were, sitting by the counter, ready for the taking! After waititng around a while and listening to the guys talk amongst themselves to find out who put the speakers there, we were pleasantly notified that they had just been sold to some guy in "a big package deal" and we'd have to wait for others to be ordered. Some time later we finally went and picked the newly arrived ones out of the back of the store... this time we didnt let them get to the counted to be flogged off in a package deal...
So right now music is being played through the old Hi-Fi... The DVD is feeding through the Aux-in and playing through the killer B&W speakers.
I cant wait for the rest of the kit to get here so we can get some real quality sound happening instead of this inept setup held together by chewing gum. (The quality of the old Hi-Fi is such that the speaker connections were through some miniature spring terminals, which we nearly snapped in trying to connect the ultra fat 18 strand silver coated speaker cable. Right now the whole thing is literally held together mostly by gravity)
So thats my Christmas dissapointment rant. I really am dissapointed at this! Perhaps they sould adopt a similar policy to the pizza companies... if your stuff isnt delivered in 30 days you get it FREE!!!
There was one good thing that came out of all this though... I guess its only a semi-good thing... but they did manage to hack the DVD to work in all the zones ebfore sending it. Seems we were one of the lucky ones, because they said only a small amount could be done, and the only alternative was to wait, or have them send it and then later pick it up again to put in the chip.
I still cant work out what the deal with this chip is though. It seems to undermine the whole security thing! I can watch DVDs from anywhere, and even the copy protection is disabled, so I can make perfect digital copies, or record onto videotape, and its all legal and approved by Sony!
Of course, in my previous post I so foolishly forgot to address the one real important question:
Is this device Y2K ready?
Wait, just as I wrote this I noticed that they indeed have done all the required testing for Y2K compliance of all their products.
BUT...The warrantly clearly states that: "This warranty is void if: .... c) if the device is subject to abuse, neglect, lighting strike, electrical fault, improper packaging, or accident;"
I guess I'll now have an excuse to buy that APC I've always wanted! When lightning strikes I'll be the one laughing... I wont have killed my $500 investment! (Though I could have lost allot more if I was actually using the device when the lightining hit:)
Hahaha, those computer generated images of peple having intercourse with their computers is pretty amusing!
Maybe we should raise some issues withe the company. Personally I would have thought the devices would be more convenient in their portable state, though this may compromise leverage.
Also, what about gay/lesbian models?
AI to control things and give a more random aspect?
What about if you cannot afford a connection to the internet, or dont have a partner? Can you elect to go it alone and leave things up to the software AI, or maybe control it with your keyboard?
How about support for an orgy? Follow the online tutorial to configure the software exactly the way you want it...what goes in whos mouth... the professional version even has support for one-to-many relationships! One mouth/orifice serves two or more... or vica versa!
The possibilities are endless! But somehow, I think for 599 + shipping and handling ill fall back on my right hand, as I have so many times before:)
PS: wow, that certainly is a prety amusing site. The things people will register domains for these days! But I suppose the domain creates the whole reality thing... it is all a spoof isnt it?... well?? They cant be serious about this can they?
if youre so hip, happening, and social, what the hell are you doing on here to be reading our posts?
and moreso, the fact that you have the opportunity and time to take away from [beign with your family | singing | looking at the lights on your christmas tree ] only makes you as 'bad' as us!
Anything else??
And besides, not all of us celebrate the birth of some bullshit myth of some guy who made the world. You expect me to believe that the world was just created? And that its all overlooked by some superior figure that was born 2000 years ago? Pull the other one matey, the only superrior fogure in this equation is extraterrestrial beings... I will be much more ready to accept that we live in an experimental sandbox universe created by aliens simply for the purpose of amusement. At least that has some substantuality...or at least more than worshipping some book that rekons the universe just appeared as if by magic!
Christ...only now do I relise that by launching into this debate/rant on why religion sux ass, I have only succeeded in bringing myself down to your level of posting offtopic crap to waste moderators points in being moderated down to -2....
so is this what script kiddies do for amusement these days? Ohh, i can't comprehend the ideas portrayed in these intelectual articles, why dont I just be a cock and try and obstruct the data like a good little rebel script kiddie! yay!
Where's the box for which of the computers in my room I'd like to preserve?
What about if I could only take one Linux distribution on CD, what would it be?
What color lava lamp would you take?
I find their questions rather shallow and meaningless...so they fit in perfectly with the overall MTV 'image'...
Lets face it...what are the REAL important things? It really gets you thinking...there are much more important things than computers and Linux distributions...
for example, the little things we take for granted... ever tried using a computer without a desk? What about rolling you mouse on the sandy desert ground? -- Everyone needs a mousepad!
hey, this doesnt really surprise me. I mean you cant really blame them. it is a rather amusing thing to pick on (like all Microsoft things:) but considering the amount of stuff in the Knowledge Base its really surprising they only included this now...
though I think the amount of users trying to kill Linux and install windows will be quite low... I thought people were killing windows and installing linux??
who knows, in 10 years the DOJ might be suing for illegally shipping Linux with all new computers... and Microsoft activists will be standing on street corners handing out WIndows 2010 CDs out of shopping carts.
Of course. getting back to reality, in 10 years microosft will have taken over the world and mentioning 'Linux' will be piunishable by death... hahaha and my Microosft shares will make me a nice clean profit... ehehehhehehhehe
hey, this doesnt really surprise me. I mean you cant really blame them. it is a rather amusing thing to pick on (like all Microsoft things:) but considering the amount of stuff in the Knowledge Base its really surprising they only included this now...
though I think the amount of users trying to kill Linux and install windows will be quite low... I thought people were killing windows and installing linux??
who knows, in 10 years the DOJ might be suing for illegally shipping Linux with all new computers... and Microsoft activists will be standing on street corners handing out WIndows 2010 CDs out of shopping carts.
Of course. getting back to reality, in 10 years microosft will have taken over the world and mentioning 'Linux' will be piunishable by death... hahaha and my Microosft shares will make me a nice clean profit... ehehehhehehhehe
I don't see anybody getting upset because they can't use the username mike@aol.com. They apply creativity and imagination to come up with something original.
Err, yeah, but that someone is slightly inconvenienced, but they didnt spend weeks on writing up plans for deploying a billion dollar business around that address!!
ANd also they didnt pay a wad of cash to secure it!!!
...why am I replying to articles so old they are about to be archived, and noone wiull ever read my comment?????
exactly, how the fuck can they be so arrogant? you pay them money for a service, they provide the service, thats the deal isnt it? So what the hell is their problem? hey cant get away from this on a fucking legal technicality, it pisses me off to see shit like this happen! I cant believe they cant do anything about this! Maybe the guy doesnt deserve to have the domin back but thats beyond the point! The real thing here is that these pricvks can get of scott free, and the guy loses his wad of cash, and loses the domain, and nothing can be done/1 What is this wold coming to... I might set up instant-teleportation.com, and brain-surgery.com and then just include a little smallprint saying im not liable for anything, they pay me a wad of cash and I do nothing... of course to the legally untrained eye it seems like Im offering to teleport people and to perofrm breain surgery, but as far as the legel saide goes I dont do jack shit... and theres nothing they can do about that...
I dont know, somehow all that doesnt sound at all reasonable... isnt there some MINIMAL requirements for running a business? In school I learnt money was exchanged for goods and services...but maybe that has changed...
Hang on a second... whats with all this complicated stuff? Whats wrong with just splitting your server drive into a number of appropriately sized chunks and then burning away? If you have some mega files then you might want to cut them up, but I dont see much problem with the general idea.
Just fashion yourself a nice script that starts from a given directory and then adds files in logical order until it hits 650MB, then feeds the batch to the burner and continues. If you wanted to be flashy you could also have a min. size parameter. Tell it nothing less than 640MB and then it can split the last file if its too big. Just cut and store it in some temp space, then add the second half to the list for the next CD, delete it when youre done...maybe even include a reconstruction script... and wham! Bob's your uncle, instant backups.
If this is for backup purposes it doesn't really matter anyways, I mean if your server dies you'll be more than happy to play with a couple of files to reconstruct them manually, and do other stuff! Youll just be glad you have a backup, so I guess it doesn't really have to be all that streamelined. (Then again, if you have 100gigs to backup it might be worth your time to put in the effort for a script to reconstruct them when the need arises...)
I'm sure the solution cannot be that simple -- either you are looking for something more advanced, or, whats more likely is that I've totally missed the point, and will get a few friendly flames in the time that it takes for this message to get moderated down to -4.
yes yes YES! Finally!! Someone that has a brain! These points are exactly the things I have been going on about sonce forever!
Netscape are really happy when they find a happy new feature to put into their piece of shit, but the fact is that they cannot make a product that simply acts normal, as the user would expect any normal windows program to act. No they have to do things their way and make everything totally the opposite from established standards. Or occasionally just totally random!
And this also applies to the 'non-UI' things, such as the HTML and Java parsing. I never really used Netscape so when I found out that Netscape wasnt rendering my site correctly all I could do was put up a neat little note on the front page telling Netscape weenies to get a real browser because I dont have the time for working out what the hell its problem is! I've heard that stylesheets arent loaded properly...so what can I say, if netscape cant even do that right theres no telling what happens with Java!
The other major thing is that they have a bloody bloated piece of total SHIT! Do you really need to have all that shit in there? Its like they think bigger is better or something! I'm not too cetrain but last time I looked there was no option for a 'lite' version or anything. Its becoming equivelant to the emacs of the browser world! The fact is people prefer to mix and match specialised programs for their needs, rather than use one big pile of shit with the various capability incorporated just for the sake of saying 'we have this feature'!
Because I use Windows at work. And am not allowed to change some settings.
what the hell are you on about??? Thats a bit irrelevant...
it would dovetail so nicely with all the other Windows stuff he was foisting on us.
You are an employee, not a manager or company owner. You get paid to do what thy want you to do. If they make descisions you dont agree with then so be it!
hard pressed to find software for my aging 'puter on the Windows side
Install linux, I run Redhat Linux on a dx50, it runs okay.
I could "just upgrade" again. But a new OS would mean more memory, a new mobo and chip, and new video card.
Upgrading is a thing we all have to do, I dont see what t has to do with microosft! If you want the newest dazzling features then do it, if you dont then dont upgrade, dont change anything! Keep it the way it is and dont complain!
clueless jerks who just assume that everyone has the very latest incarnation of Windows, and are downright hostile to other operating systems,
There are alot of jerks on the internet, you cant go blaming everything you dont like on Microsoft you know.
Hopefully, a world where there are a lot of employment opportunites that aren't tied to Windows.
is that your way to point out he bright side of making all the MS employees unemployed? I dont know how many there are, but I can tell you they have offices in every major capitol of the world...
Hopefully, they ability to surf the web using the platform of my choice and not encountering a web that is accessible only to Microsoft's browser.
Yeha good one! If the 'web' is only accessible by IE then the guy who coded the particular site is a dumbass - is that microsoft's fault? Any major site will be compatible with any browser you choose to use!
Hopefully, the opportunity to start a company and develop software that might compete against Microsoft, with a lowered risk of being arbitrarily crushed.
Crushed? By the time you get good enough for them to want you, you'll already have 'succeeded'...and besides, I dont nkow what you mean by crushed, but ig you mean 'buy out' - wake up, thats what business is all about! They have the money, theyll use it as they like! If you become a rival to ms and they try to buy you out, be a hero and dont take it, and I dont see what more they cn do! By the time they offer you a $5e6 for your brilliant company it will be your own fault that you caved!
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Is it me or are all (most of htese tings not even gatgets of any description? Hand dryer? I thought thats what we wore pants for? to wipe your hands on!) Transistor? Maybe... Computers... I guess...
/gadget/!!
but theres no gadgets here!!!
How about wearable computers with heads up display, internet connectivity and live webcam feed?
television is nothing but a waste of time, and I dont know about you but I'd say the wheel was practically the basis for civilisation! Not a freaking
Do I smell media b/s in the house? Looks like another attempt by incompetent reporters to make a half decent article on something they are nott remotely familiar with. Im getting sick of this!
sounds like a replay of the netscape thing.
/decent/ product, and listen to the user's needs. I know you all hate MS, but face it, IE is better than netscape navigator simply because MS coders do things byu the book, instead of inventing their own little user interface scheeme that doesnt comply with windows GUI stadards...
Netscape fellasleep at the wheel with auto-pilot on, and then they find it surprising that that crashed and burend when someone came along to make a
Netscape make me sick! they only lost it all out of sheer STUPIDITY! DOnt give me any shit about microosft taking over and crushing them....they were crushed from the start, it just took somoene to open the user's eyes and provide an alternative!
Now Real seems to be doing something similar...
Yes I guess you have uncovered an important fact that I forgot to take account of originally... but dont worry, this is all taken care of by the Mac... its quite simple really:
If you want to use a computer without ever knowing what the hell is going on, and what the system is doing or anything else for that matter. And if all you want is pretty pictures to click on and observe the purdy colors... then get a Mac. It looks 'cool' ('cool' as in people seem to think it is, but i sure dont) on your desk and nothing says 'I'm a regular user that doesnt know jack, and I dont care...' Like a futuristic, non upgradable, lump of crap. It so futuristic, that in fact such old and ridiculous things such as "upgrades", "expansion slots", and the mother of them all, the "floppy dirve" have been discarded. Now you'll be up with the times with 2, yes thats 2 (TWO!) USB ports. Once you wait 10 months for USB products to come to the market, and then pay a 300% inflated price to get the first USB printer off the shelf, and then connect a printer and scanner to your box your updrade capabilities have been fiulled to capacity! Theres nothng more you can do! Imagine the satisfaction! Want another meg of ram? Dont like the primative video card thats soldered directly into the motherboard? Just throw your box out the window, and buy the iqMac, but make sure you meet the sstrict requirements of having an IQ of 2 or less before you can buy it. Of course you can leave that printer and scanner attached as you throw it out... they are way outdated, you want to be up with the times dont you? the iqMac will feature the latest USB 2000 technology, with the new 0 backwards-compatibility feature set. Buy an iqMac now... and then wait for USB 2000 to actually be created before you actually dream of using a scanner or printer. The iqMac is stepping into the times, and illiminating the need for a monitor, yes thats right, no need for the fuss of a monitor anymore, this is the ninties...err zeroes...
So anyways, I think I have made my point clear (that I have no respect for Macs...)
So I guess the year numbering can be left for the weenies using Macs etc. but the day I see RedHat 2000 is the day I die...
At first the original idea (2 rungs up the ladder) seemed okay. A little strange, having everything foo 2000, but okay.
When I read your response however, it became blindingly aparent that year versioning is not the way to go. Maybe for Microsoft, and their marketing campaign (and im not saying I agree with your whole anti-MS sub-conscious buy-the-latest-version scam idea) but for most products out there you cannot really standardise like that. People that use a certain range of products are familiar with the versioning employed and its significance. The user-friendliness of naming everything the same seems a little dull...Why exactly do we need to cater for all the newbies out there?
I suppose that came out wrong, its good to encurage new computer users, I like to see the whole computer explosion thing happening, it was really amasing to see how many people started using computers and the internet so suddenly. But I mean, standardising things to such a level seems kind of dumb to me. And all to make the newbies feel at home?
If you use a particular software product, chances are you are familiar with the versioning system and know the significance of version 4.13.1462 More importantly, if you are looking at foo 2000 what do you know about it? Wow, its the 2000 version, yay! What does that mean exactly? absolutly nothing! It doesnt even narrow down the release date to one year... it could well have been released in 1999, or late, in 2001 ! At least when you look at foo v13.3.1214 you have some details, you know that its been rebuilt x times since the release you are using, you know what the magnitude of the upgrade is likely to be from previous experience... with foo 2000 you know nothing, and at best, you'll know the build number... the only remains of the shattered old versioning system, which will give you little information!
Cartman, what the *hell* are you talking about?
Okay, now. I thought *I* was a sadcase for spending the new year at home, but aparently some are more experienced in this feild...
Hmmm, yes, insightful. Now I refer you to the eToy scandal... now take into account Microsoft's market capital... At this rate, by the year 2010 I dont think anyone would get away with selling Windhglows boxer shorts...
Though it would be quite interesting if this wasnt in some country with such a sketchy idea of a 'law system', I'd love to see the progress and compare and contrast with the eToy thing.
No I'm sorry Mr Gates, you dont have a case.
Why not? eToys did it, and were a million times bigger!
Okay Mr Gates, on the day of 4th november, when you were in the fourth grade, did the other kids refuse to play with you because they though you were a geek?
Listen I dont see what this ha....
Answer the quetion!!!!! Did tey, or did they not, refuse to play with you because they didnt like you?
well.....yes.
There we go...now i dont like you, and I dont want to play, so get out of my court room.
But...
No buts, do you want me to tell the big kids to get you again....er, I mean, arrest you...
hahhaha, well at least I /try/ to make a constructive argument :))
ROFLOL...hehheheheh
:)
I dont know why I'm laughing so hard when the jokes on me... but anyways, disregarding that little slip up, everything else I said about stability is true! I havent forgotten what a blue screen looks like (I still run 95 from time to time...)
You can laugh at me, but...err, I dunno... Laugh all you want
well, what can I say?
:)
Lets drink to yet another microsoft victory!!!
hahaha...
well maybe thye didnt configure the other boxes properly and whatnot, and maybe microosft's solution is not the best (no dooubt you all think so, to prove it, this will be down to -1 in minutes!) but one thing I have to say is that Microsoft certainly seems to be getting its act together quite well lately!
I have to say that Windows 2000 is an absolutely magnificent improvement on previous operating systems. I've been running it for months, ever since the first relatively stable releases, and I still havent seen the blue screen of death! (Well once, but that was cause I was messing with my hardware and my RAM was screwy...) Its much more stable, I'm getting uptimes ive never dreamed before! I just ended an uptime of more than a month! and I dont even try to run my system nonstop (so all you Linux buffs up for 318 days can shut it!)
In any case its an improvement on Win98... the defult background color is a welcome change... (oh and they even changed the tint of blue background used on the BSoD, it too looks better now)
But one definite loss...one definite indelible black mark on microosft's good name... I was much dissapointed to find that Windows 2000 Advanced Server does not ship with that silly pinball game... (no wait, I probably havent seen it around since I specifically didnt install the games... Im starting to miss solitare to tell you the truth
But dont flame too hard, because I do run Linux, and I do think its a much more hardcore OS when you get to now it. In fact the only reason I dont use it fulltime is becuase I cant be bothered to switch, and my current linux box (an IBM compatible DX/50) isn't really a supreme specimen to learn on. But I promise you, that as soon as I get that new 1 gigahertz box I've always wanted, I'll retite this one to an exclusive Linux box, and then I'll really be able to use Linux!!
(Apparently linux doesnt like the PS/2 architecture... or old ATAPI SCSI CD-Roms for that matter... took 24 solid hours of moving hardware around from different computers to finally get redhat installed... and even now it refuses to do some reasonable things! Im putting it all down to the oldness of the computer its on [rather than my lack of competence] -- that sig on the bottom is not a joke, after repeated attempts I couldnt get it to know my network card, so I eventually gave up...)
This year, towards the beginning of December I ordered (well, not I, but my old man...anyways...) we ordered some Sony equipment. The basic idea was a respectable, expandable, entertainment system for the lounge.
After much research into products we decided with an all sony system. After giving up on getting a special card with which to order the products and benefit an extended warranty, when it became apparent that even just the card would not be on the horizon before the new year (let alone the products ordered with the card...)
So, after ditching that idea we went back to basics, and noticed a nice cheap price for the goods on Sony's online retailer AV-Store. the goods were ordered towards the beginning of December, and we were assured they would be here in good time for christmas.
After repeated delays and more reassurance they would be here in time for christmas, we are still lacking some serious electronics.
We ordered an MD deck, Fully featured amp, and of course, a DVD/CD deck.
The DVD deck arrived in time, and after the delivery guy had me stunned for half an hour when I read the invoice which congratulated me on my purchase and gave instructions for assembling my new indoor dog kennel... He came back and promptly gave me the correct package. On the invoice was a note listing the other two things we ordered with "to follow" written next to them.
So here we are, and still amp and MD-less. The DVD works great, it was amasing that even a CD playing through the old crappy amp and old crappy speakers sounded so much better when played from the DVD/CD deck! I couldnt believe it! But then again, I guess thats what you payed the wad of cash for isnt it?
An short email note was sent to notify us that the amplifier had not been shipped to the UK supplier in time, and so pre-Christmas delivery would not be possible, and it would be here sometime in January. But no word on the MD as of yet!
As for the speakers, they were purchased from a local dealer (they werent Sony). After calling once, and confirming everything, we went to pick them up. There they were, sitting by the counter, ready for the taking! After waititng around a while and listening to the guys talk amongst themselves to find out who put the speakers there, we were pleasantly notified that they had just been sold to some guy in "a big package deal" and we'd have to wait for others to be ordered. Some time later we finally went and picked the newly arrived ones out of the back of the store... this time we didnt let them get to the counted to be flogged off in a package deal...
So right now music is being played through the old Hi-Fi... The DVD is feeding through the Aux-in and playing through the killer B&W speakers.
I cant wait for the rest of the kit to get here so we can get some real quality sound happening instead of this inept setup held together by chewing gum. (The quality of the old Hi-Fi is such that the speaker connections were through some miniature spring terminals, which we nearly snapped in trying to connect the ultra fat 18 strand silver coated speaker cable. Right now the whole thing is literally held together mostly by gravity)
So thats my Christmas dissapointment rant. I really am dissapointed at this! Perhaps they sould adopt a similar policy to the pizza companies... if your stuff isnt delivered in 30 days you get it FREE!!!
There was one good thing that came out of all this though... I guess its only a semi-good thing... but they did manage to hack the DVD to work in all the zones ebfore sending it. Seems we were one of the lucky ones, because they said only a small amount could be done, and the only alternative was to wait, or have them send it and then later pick it up again to put in the chip.
I still cant work out what the deal with this chip is though. It seems to undermine the whole security thing! I can watch DVDs from anywhere, and even the copy protection is disabled, so I can make perfect digital copies, or record onto videotape, and its all legal and approved by Sony!
Go figure!!
Of course, in my previous post I so foolishly forgot to address the one real important question:
:)
Is this device Y2K ready?
Wait, just as I wrote this I noticed that they indeed have done all the required testing for Y2K compliance of all their products.
BUT...The warrantly clearly states that:
"This warranty is void if:
....
c) if the device is subject to abuse, neglect, lighting strike, electrical fault, improper packaging, or accident;"
I guess I'll now have an excuse to buy that APC I've always wanted! When lightning strikes I'll be the one laughing... I wont have killed my $500 investment! (Though I could have lost allot more if I was actually using the device when the lightining hit
Hahaha, those computer generated images of peple having intercourse with their computers is pretty amusing!
:)
... well?? They cant be serious about this can they?
Maybe we should raise some issues withe the company. Personally I would have thought the devices would be more convenient in their portable state, though this may compromise leverage.
Also, what about gay/lesbian models?
AI to control things and give a more random aspect?
What about if you cannot afford a connection to the internet, or dont have a partner? Can you elect to go it alone and leave things up to the software AI, or maybe control it with your keyboard?
How about support for an orgy? Follow the online tutorial to configure the software exactly the way you want it...what goes in whos mouth... the professional version even has support for one-to-many relationships! One mouth/orifice serves two or more... or vica versa!
The possibilities are endless! But somehow, I think for 599 + shipping and handling ill fall back on my right hand, as I have so many times before
PS: wow, that certainly is a prety amusing site. The things people will register domains for these days! But I suppose the domain creates the whole reality thing... it is all a spoof isnt it?
lol
So hold on a sec here buddy..
if youre so hip, happening, and social, what the hell are you doing on here to be reading our posts?
and moreso, the fact that you have the opportunity and time to take away from [beign with your family | singing | looking at the lights on your christmas tree ] only makes you as 'bad' as us!
Anything else??
And besides, not all of us celebrate the birth of some bullshit myth of some guy who made the world. You expect me to believe that the world was just created? And that its all overlooked by some superior figure that was born 2000 years ago? Pull the other one matey, the only superrior fogure in this equation is extraterrestrial beings... I will be much more ready to accept that we live in an experimental sandbox universe created by aliens simply for the purpose of amusement. At least that has some substantuality...or at least more than worshipping some book that rekons the universe just appeared as if by magic!
Christ...only now do I relise that by launching into this debate/rant on why religion sux ass, I have only succeeded in bringing myself down to your level of posting offtopic crap to waste moderators points in being moderated down to -2....
christ...
but it wasnt even the first post you loser!
haha
so is this what script kiddies do for amusement these days?
Ohh, i can't comprehend the ideas portrayed in these intelectual articles, why dont I just be a cock and try and obstruct the data like a good little rebel script kiddie! yay!
you make me sick...
What a shit survey!
Where's the box for which of the computers in my room I'd like to preserve?
What about if I could only take one Linux distribution on CD, what would it be?
What color lava lamp would you take?
I find their questions rather shallow and meaningless...so they fit in perfectly with the overall MTV 'image'...
Lets face it...what are the REAL important things? It really gets you thinking...there are much more important things than computers and Linux distributions...
for example, the little things we take for granted... ever tried using a computer without a desk? What about rolling you mouse on the sandy desert ground? -- Everyone needs a mousepad!
hey, this doesnt really surprise me. I mean you cant really blame them. it is a rather amusing thing to pick on (like all Microsoft things :) but considering the amount of stuff in the Knowledge Base its really surprising they only included this now...
:))
though I think the amount of users trying to kill Linux and install windows will be quite low... I thought people were killing windows and installing linux??
who knows, in 10 years the DOJ might be suing for illegally shipping Linux with all new computers... and Microsoft activists will be standing on street corners handing out WIndows 2010 CDs out of shopping carts.
Of course. getting back to reality, in 10 years microosft will have taken over the world and mentioning 'Linux' will be piunishable by death... hahaha and my Microosft shares will make me a nice clean profit... ehehehhehehhehe
No flames please
hey, this doesnt really surprise me. I mean you cant really blame them. it is a rather amusing thing to pick on (like all Microsoft things :) but considering the amount of stuff in the Knowledge Base its really surprising they only included this now...
:))
though I think the amount of users trying to kill Linux and install windows will be quite low... I thought people were killing windows and installing linux??
who knows, in 10 years the DOJ might be suing for illegally shipping Linux with all new computers... and Microsoft activists will be standing on street corners handing out WIndows 2010 CDs out of shopping carts.
Of course. getting back to reality, in 10 years microosft will have taken over the world and mentioning 'Linux' will be piunishable by death... hahaha and my Microosft shares will make me a nice clean profit... ehehehhehehhehe
No flames please
I don't see anybody getting upset because they can't use the username mike@aol.com. They apply creativity and imagination to come up with something original.
Err, yeah, but that someone is slightly inconvenienced, but they didnt spend weeks on writing up plans for deploying a billion dollar business around that address!!
ANd also they didnt pay a wad of cash to secure it!!!
...why am I replying to articles so old they are about to be archived, and noone wiull ever read my comment?????
exactly, how the fuck can they be so arrogant?
you pay them money for a service, they provide the service, thats the deal isnt it? So what the hell is their problem? hey cant get away from this on a fucking legal technicality, it pisses me off to see shit like this happen! I cant believe they cant do anything about this! Maybe the guy doesnt deserve to have the domin back but thats beyond the point! The real thing here is that these pricvks can get of scott free, and the guy loses his wad of cash, and loses the domain, and nothing can be done/1 What is this wold coming to... I might set up instant-teleportation.com, and brain-surgery.com and then just include a little smallprint saying im not liable for anything, they pay me a wad of cash and I do nothing... of course to the legally untrained eye it seems like Im offering to teleport people and to perofrm breain surgery, but as far as the legel saide goes I dont do jack shit... and theres nothing they can do about that...
I dont know, somehow all that doesnt sound at all reasonable...
isnt there some MINIMAL requirements for running a business? In school I learnt money was exchanged for goods and services...but maybe that has changed...
bah!
Hang on a second... whats with all this complicated stuff? Whats wrong with just splitting your server drive into a number of appropriately sized chunks and then burning away? If you have some mega files then you might want to cut them up, but I dont see much problem with the general idea.
:) Dont hate me cause I'm dumb...
Just fashion yourself a nice script that starts from a given directory and then adds files in logical order until it hits 650MB, then feeds the batch to the burner and continues. If you wanted to be flashy you could also have a min. size parameter. Tell it nothing less than 640MB and then it can split the last file if its too big. Just cut and store it in some temp space, then add the second half to the list for the next CD, delete it when youre done...maybe even include a reconstruction script... and wham! Bob's your uncle, instant backups.
If this is for backup purposes it doesn't really matter anyways, I mean if your server dies you'll be more than happy to play with a couple of files to reconstruct them manually, and do other stuff! Youll just be glad you have a backup, so I guess it doesn't really have to be all that streamelined. (Then again, if you have 100gigs to backup it might be worth your time to put in the effort for a script to reconstruct them when the need arises...)
I'm sure the solution cannot be that simple -- either you are looking for something more advanced, or, whats more likely is that I've totally missed the point, and will get a few friendly flames in the time that it takes for this message to get moderated down to -4.
Have a nice day
yes yes YES!
Finally!! Someone that has a brain! These points are exactly the things I have been going on about sonce forever!
Netscape are really happy when they find a happy new feature to put into their piece of shit, but the fact is that they cannot make a product that simply acts normal, as the user would expect any normal windows program to act. No they have to do things their way and make everything totally the opposite from established standards. Or occasionally just totally random!
And this also applies to the 'non-UI' things, such as the HTML and Java parsing. I never really used Netscape so when I found out that Netscape wasnt rendering my site correctly all I could do was put up a neat little note on the front page telling Netscape weenies to get a real browser because I dont have the time for working out what the hell its problem is! I've heard that stylesheets arent loaded properly...so what can I say, if netscape cant even do that right theres no telling what happens with Java!
The other major thing is that they have a bloody bloated piece of total SHIT! Do you really need to have all that shit in there? Its like they think bigger is better or something! I'm not too cetrain but last time I looked there was no option for a 'lite' version or anything. Its becoming equivelant to the emacs of the browser world! The fact is people prefer to mix and match specialised programs for their needs, rather than use one big pile of shit with the various capability incorporated just for the sake of saying 'we have this feature'!
If Microsoft is so focused on their customers, why won't they let me uninstall Internet Explorer from Windows 98?
/mnt/windows" has been the best method for me.
It is an intergrated part of the system. You dont have to use it! Install Netscape and never see IE again!
And if you reinstall Win98, IE comes back
why dont you just ignore it and use the browser if your choice! Noones stopping you!
So far, "rm -rf
go for it! noones forcing you to run windows either!
Because I use Windows at work. And am not allowed to change some settings.
what the hell are you on about??? Thats a bit irrelevant...
it would dovetail so nicely with all the other Windows stuff he was foisting on us.
You are an employee, not a manager or company owner. You get paid to do what thy want you to do. If they make descisions you dont agree with then so be it!
hard pressed to find software for my aging 'puter on the Windows side
Install linux, I run Redhat Linux on a dx50, it runs okay.
I could "just upgrade" again. But a new OS would mean more memory, a new mobo and chip, and new video card.
Upgrading is a thing we all have to do, I dont see what t has to do with microosft! If you want the newest dazzling features then do it, if you dont then dont upgrade, dont change anything! Keep it the way it is and dont complain!
clueless jerks who just assume that everyone has the very latest incarnation of Windows, and are downright hostile to other operating systems,
There are alot of jerks on the internet, you cant go blaming everything you dont like on Microsoft you know.
Hopefully, a world where there are a lot of employment opportunites that aren't tied to Windows.
is that your way to point out he bright side of making all the MS employees unemployed? I dont know how many there are, but I can tell you they have offices in every major capitol of the world...
Hopefully, they ability to surf the web using the platform of my choice and not encountering a web that is accessible only to Microsoft's browser.
Yeha good one! If the 'web' is only accessible by IE then the guy who coded the particular site is a dumbass - is that microsoft's fault? Any major site will be compatible with any browser you choose to use!
Hopefully, the opportunity to start a company and develop software that might compete against Microsoft, with a lowered risk of being arbitrarily crushed.
Crushed? By the time you get good enough for them to want you, you'll already have 'succeeded'...and besides, I dont nkow what you mean by crushed, but ig you mean 'buy out' - wake up, thats what business is all about! They have the money, theyll use it as they like! If you become a rival to ms and they try to buy you out, be a hero and dont take it, and I dont see what more they cn do! By the time they offer you a $5e6 for your brilliant company it will be your own fault that you caved!