Yeah, so God did these amazing miraculous things thousands of years ago, then conveniently stopped. Where are the burning bushes today? Where are the cities being smote? Where are the heretics being turned into pillars of salt? Where are the booming voices of God from the heavens?
Oh yeah, and don't forget... the Universe was created a few thousand years ago, too. Uh huh... RIGHT.
Fucking idiot.
as a disaster that Bill's billions couldn't dig MS out of. The man is richer than God. He could probably just write a cheque to the United States government and buy Manhattan.
As soon as I read the bit about this particle "not playing by the rules", I immediately sensed that this article would get picked up by Christian fundamentalists, and used to say, basically, "See? The scientists can't keep their story straight, so science is a false God, blah blah blah"... Watch them go wild when they get their hands on this story. Le sigh.
As a reminder: YES, SCIENCE IS IN THE BUSINESS OF CONTRADICTING ITSELF. That's how you learn. Scientists don't claim to have The Answer, as religionists do. Scientists are on a quest for truth, using solely that which we have actually observed (as compared to that which was written in a large book thousands of years ago) as their guide. Science does sometimes do back-flips, totally reversing its opinion on things. That's just how it goes.
No offense, but you obviously don't know a hill of beans about what the article is about. It is about "lossy" compression, like MP3 compression for audio, or JPEG compression for images, or MPEG compression for video. Lossy compressed 3D images would look worse-- not better-- than uncompressed 3D images.
Wrong. Widespread use of graphics on the Internet didn't really take off until JPEG and GIF compression became common. The Web-- which is only one part of the Internet, and not a synonym for it-- had GIF and JPEG from day one.
The Windows API lost? Is that why Windows is still "dominating" (read: monopolizing) the desktop computer world, and a huge percentage of the server world? I hate Windows, but this guy is a lunatic if he thinks the Windows API "lost" anything. Bill Gates probably laughs his billion-dollar tuckus off when he hears idiotic Pollyanna optimism like this. NEWS FLASH: The Win32 monopoly is stronger than ever. Linux is still a niche-market thing (outside the server and embedded worlds), end-users won't touch it, fear it, and probably hate it. Dumbass.
Microsoft's legal basis to complain would be, basically, that they are Microsoft. Hardly any well-heeled (read: well-bribed) politician in the world could argue with that "logic".
You fucking retard. The '486 wasn't about "Logo and BASIC". The '486 was about Doom. Duke Nukem 3D. Even Quake. The '486 was about C, Slackware Linux 3.0, Windows '95, Windows NT 4.0, Red Hat 4.2. The '486 wasn't this ancient monstrosity you seem to remember it as. It was a fairly modern machine which could run fairly modern software. To this day you can run the latest Debian, Slackware or Gentoo on it (not to mention NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc. etc. etc.). Stop encouraging the "newer is always better" / "anything older than 2 years old was worthless toy hardware" sheeple.
...loaded with photos of money from Dr. Mbabwe Uluwa, son of the recently deposed dictator John Uluwa of Nigeria.......... money which can be yours if you assist us in moving the funds out of the Federal Bank of Nigeria (Lagos). Please respond to my email address 419scammer85732@anymail.co.nz....
We're all just human. 50 years ago, they predicted that we'd be zipping around in flying cars-- and no one at all predicted the huge impact of the Internet. We don't know if self-replicating nanobots will ever enter the market. For that matter, we don't know if the grey goo scenario is possible or not. When they first tested the atom bomb, there were those who feared that the blast would ignite the atmosphere itself-- and until we tried it, we couldn't be sure if it would or not. Today's particle accelerators are creating heretofore-unknown forms of matter, and for all we know, they could create a new sort of matter that would destroy the world. We're just people-- we aren't gods. How can we say "This will happen" or "this won't happen"? All we can say is "We don't think this will happen"-- but that is no guarantee.
Windows is not Microsoft's premier software "offering". Saying it's an "offering" implies that it is offered, as opposed to mandated. As it presently stands, Microsoft's near-100% monopoly in so many areas (desktop OS, word processor, spreadsheet, "one-stop shop" for small business software...) effectively mandates that everyone-- even people who hate Microsoft for their immoral and illegal business practices (myself included)-- be familiar with Microsoft's "offerings", and that means that we are forced to either buy them (bad) or pirate them (almost as bad).
Also, the story asks something that doesn't make much sense. It asks, "Might recent events sway your decision to keep Microsoft's premier software offering off of your computer?" But the thing it links to is a story that is NEGATIVE for Microsoft. Hence, it would only make sense to say "Might recent events sway your decision to keep [Windows] ON your computer?" (Why on earth would a NEGATIVE story about Windows sway people to switch TO Windows!?)
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The plural of "Iraqi" is "Iraqis", not "Iraqi's". Fucking moron.
Yeah, so God did these amazing miraculous things thousands of years ago, then conveniently stopped. Where are the burning bushes today? Where are the cities being smote? Where are the heretics being turned into pillars of salt? Where are the booming voices of God from the heavens? Oh yeah, and don't forget... the Universe was created a few thousand years ago, too. Uh huh... RIGHT. Fucking idiot.
as a disaster that Bill's billions couldn't dig MS out of. The man is richer than God. He could probably just write a cheque to the United States government and buy Manhattan.
As soon as I read the bit about this particle "not playing by the rules", I immediately sensed that this article would get picked up by Christian fundamentalists, and used to say, basically, "See? The scientists can't keep their story straight, so science is a false God, blah blah blah"... Watch them go wild when they get their hands on this story. Le sigh.
As a reminder: YES, SCIENCE IS IN THE BUSINESS OF CONTRADICTING ITSELF. That's how you learn. Scientists don't claim to have The Answer, as religionists do. Scientists are on a quest for truth, using solely that which we have actually observed (as compared to that which was written in a large book thousands of years ago) as their guide. Science does sometimes do back-flips, totally reversing its opinion on things. That's just how it goes.
Other operating systems can't run the anti-copying software. It's a Windows-only thing.
No, smart-ass, that doesn't mean that if a million idiots on the Internet say "to" when they mean "too", that they are correct.
The word is "steal", you moron.
Elusive. The word is elusive.
No. I'm getting really bloody sick of the incredible lack of English knowledge exhibited by 'Netizens.
o/~ Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM! o/~
o/~ Ohhh, a worrrm, oh noooo it's a worrrrrm o/~
It's spelled "balloons", not "ballons".
No offense, but you obviously don't know a hill of beans about what the article is about. It is about "lossy" compression, like MP3 compression for audio, or JPEG compression for images, or MPEG compression for video. Lossy compressed 3D images would look worse-- not better-- than uncompressed 3D images.
Wrong. Widespread use of graphics on the Internet didn't really take off until JPEG and GIF compression became common. The Web-- which is only one part of the Internet, and not a synonym for it-- had GIF and JPEG from day one.
The Windows API lost? Is that why Windows is still "dominating" (read: monopolizing) the desktop computer world, and a huge percentage of the server world? I hate Windows, but this guy is a lunatic if he thinks the Windows API "lost" anything. Bill Gates probably laughs his billion-dollar tuckus off when he hears idiotic Pollyanna optimism like this. NEWS FLASH: The Win32 monopoly is stronger than ever. Linux is still a niche-market thing (outside the server and embedded worlds), end-users won't touch it, fear it, and probably hate it. Dumbass.
Linux 2.6.6 now boasts mouse support, and the next version of FreeBSD will support multitasking. ;)
The plural of "American" is "Americans". It isn't "American's". Fucking retard...
Useless piece of shit. XFree86, despite its shittalicious new license, compiles just fine "out of the box" (on Debian 3.0 for x86)
Microsoft's legal basis to complain would be, basically, that they are Microsoft. Hardly any well-heeled (read: well-bribed) politician in the world could argue with that "logic".
You fucking retard. The '486 wasn't about "Logo and BASIC". The '486 was about Doom. Duke Nukem 3D. Even Quake. The '486 was about C, Slackware Linux 3.0, Windows '95, Windows NT 4.0, Red Hat 4.2. The '486 wasn't this ancient monstrosity you seem to remember it as. It was a fairly modern machine which could run fairly modern software. To this day you can run the latest Debian, Slackware or Gentoo on it (not to mention NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc. etc. etc.). Stop encouraging the "newer is always better" / "anything older than 2 years old was worthless toy hardware" sheeple.
...before the Nastygram(TM) from MS's lawyer corps arrives?
...loaded with photos of money from Dr. Mbabwe Uluwa, son of the recently deposed dictator John Uluwa of Nigeria.......... money which can be yours if you assist us in moving the funds out of the Federal Bank of Nigeria (Lagos). Please respond to my email address 419scammer85732@anymail.co.nz....
You could mount them in removable hard drive slides...
Will Intel actively support Linux on these chips? Or will the specs be "secret" and left to DMCA-baiting reverse engineering?
We're all just human. 50 years ago, they predicted that we'd be zipping around in flying cars-- and no one at all predicted the huge impact of the Internet. We don't know if self-replicating nanobots will ever enter the market. For that matter, we don't know if the grey goo scenario is possible or not. When they first tested the atom bomb, there were those who feared that the blast would ignite the atmosphere itself-- and until we tried it, we couldn't be sure if it would or not. Today's particle accelerators are creating heretofore-unknown forms of matter, and for all we know, they could create a new sort of matter that would destroy the world. We're just people-- we aren't gods. How can we say "This will happen" or "this won't happen"? All we can say is "We don't think this will happen"-- but that is no guarantee.
Windows is not Microsoft's premier software "offering". Saying it's an "offering" implies that it is offered, as opposed to mandated. As it presently stands, Microsoft's near-100% monopoly in so many areas (desktop OS, word processor, spreadsheet, "one-stop shop" for small business software...) effectively mandates that everyone-- even people who hate Microsoft for their immoral and illegal business practices (myself included)-- be familiar with Microsoft's "offerings", and that means that we are forced to either buy them (bad) or pirate them (almost as bad).
Also, the story asks something that doesn't make much sense. It asks, "Might recent events sway your decision to keep Microsoft's premier software offering off of your computer?" But the thing it links to is a story that is NEGATIVE for Microsoft. Hence, it would only make sense to say "Might recent events sway your decision to keep [Windows] ON your computer?" (Why on earth would a NEGATIVE story about Windows sway people to switch TO Windows!?)