I actually went to college with the guy. He was a nerd's nerd, very skilled: intelligent, creative, bizarre. Also, top notch at self-promotion. His rise to internet notoriety was inevitable.
Hey Kibo, if you're reading this, remember that first Sun lab in the JEC?
They have chosen to use Microsoft products. They know other operating systems exist but they have not chosen them.
Care to back that up? In every store you go into (big or little), at all the big name OEM web sites, the only thing you see is Windows. All the software a consumer is likely to want to buy on store shelves is made for Windows. Hardly an environment conducive to making a "choice". The only possible exception would be the Mac, and then it's a case of choosing a PC (which equals Windows in most people's minds) vs. a Mac.
How'd you like a world where all cars, Ford, Chevy, Honday, etc., used the same engine supplied by a single company? You could have the mechanic down the street swap a Linux engine in, but it uses its own special, hard to find gas. Some choice there! (And to continue the goofy analogy, the engine company would force companies to include a car stereo from their fledgling car stereo division to "improve the out-of-the-box driving experience"....)
Unlike other well known monopolies (your local telco, cableco, utility), Microsoft is not a monopoly by government charter, but by consumer charter.
Whether it's a government chartered monopoly or not, the end result is much the same.
In case you forgot, or weren't born yet, IBM hed much more of a monopoly than MS ever will. You just never hear about it these days because computing was not in the spotlight of the general public back then. The market righted itself in the past, and it will this time too.
Wasn't IBM under the antitrust gun themselves for many years? Kind of disingenuous to say "the market righted itself" when the government played a large part in fixing that problem.
No, not really. When the shit starts to hit the fan the Geneva convention hits this shitter. Look at Vietnam - were mass killing civilians and soliders, bombing mud huts, and shooting anything that moved because it was a tense situation and we were unable to cope with it nationally. War really doesnt have any rules.
So since the rules were occasionally broken, that means there are no rules? No one was ever brought up on charges or court martialed for killing civilians? Besides, the point is that even in the extreme of war there are rules (believe it or not).
Your DRAM example shows the benefits of open competition. Undercutting your competition is generally fine. If only one company produced all the memory chips in the world, though, it'd be a different story if they prevented anyone else from producing it and also bundled a hard drive from their fledgling hard drive division "free" with each RAM purchase. Or worse, if they had secret deals with OEMs which double their price for RAM if they didn't include only their hard drives.
Competition is fierce and nasty and "violent". You either win or lose, and the outcome on either end isn't always pretty. If you ever see two competitors having friendly meetings and press confereneces it is because (1) they are in fact not in actual competition, but are in fact in cahoots, or (2) they are both fucked and trying to get a bigger fish.
You either win or lose, yes, but you have to play by the rules of the game. And why the hell would competitors be having friendly meetings or press conferences?! That came out of left field. You can compete fairly without being in cahoots!
No, markets arent supposed to be "openly competitive". Competition is supposed to be nasty, and mean, and vicious, and hard, and nasty bad really hard, and on top of that, full of intimidation and skulduggery. Thats what competition means. Just like in football - it means hitting them hard, using anything you can, and clawing to the top.
(Hoping that wasn't some clever troll....) Obviously, there are rules in football. Similarly, there are rules (laws) regarding business. Why is competition supposed to be nasty, mean, etc.? Who are you to define acceptable rules of competition? Can companies hire thugs to break the knees of merchants who stock the competition's products, for example? Clearly, rules have been established that try to enforce ethics and maximize the benefit to society as a whole.
Suggesting that competition in fact isnt supposed to be nasty and full of brutes and force and corporate violence does cause a problem. An adversarial system is key to our overall economic health.
You seem to have a distorted view of competition. Hell, even in war there are rules.
I could've chosen Qwest for my DSL, but I went with Speakeasy (and Covad), which is a Linux-friendly company. Of course, in six months I'll be the goat when Covad goes belly-up, but hey....
The local internet provider is actually running an ad in the paper stating that "Qwest customers are about to be assimilated by Microsoft... join is!" Kind of funny.
I just bought the Archos Jukebox with the 20 GB hard drive for about $330, and it's nice. The worst thing about it is the volume control being menu driven and not a physical dial. The included headphones have a built-in volume dial, so if you use them, you're okay. Plus, the display is pretty small and the controls are a little awkward. But nothing like loading up your entire MP3 collection and taking it with you! Now I just need to figure out how to hook it up to the car stereo....
For a good comparison of large capacity players, check out this site.
I have a 1.33 GHz Tbird. The computer's set up in an upstairs room, and it gets pretty warm there in the summer. I often have problems with segmentation violations in gcc and other strange behavior when doing things like compiling a kernel. I finally thought to drop the multiplier jobbie down to 10 to turn it into a 1 GHz machine, and that seems to have fixed things, so it must have been overheating. Anyone else have these problems? I'm not much of a hardware person, so I trusted the guy I bought it from when he said the two case fans would be sufficient.... I guess next summer I should look into some additional cooling.
It would be nice if the CPU slowed down as a result of detecting overheating. It's not like I notice the difference in speed much, but I sure notice those random crashes....
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Have you read the using ext3 page?
If you think you did things okay, look at the output of the mount command; it should report the filesystem types as ext3.
I agree with the other guy, that post was dopey. Why does someone always come out with the inappropriate car analogies? Jeez, enough already.... At least we weren't treated to "I can't buy a Ford with a Honda engine".
A computer should come with a media player? Okay, for many consumers, I'll agree with that. But when did MS start making computers? They only produce the OS! Computer makers like Dell are the ones who sell the product to the consumer. They should be the ones who put together a complete hardware/software package that meets consumers needs. If Dell doesn't offer quite what you want, then you see what Gateway or CompUSA has. Maybe that means NO media player, and not paying extra for one! Ah, choice and competition....
I can't understand where this idea that MS is the sole authority on what bundled software appears on new computers came from. That makes about as much sense as Intel dictating what hard drives and video cards must be bundled with their chips. Dammit, MS, offer a basic OS and an optional "Plus" pack to consumers and OEMs and get this over with!
How about some way to mark new comments? The way Linux Today does it for articles is nice. I'll read the comments for a/. article, but it's unlikely I'll reload and read new ones because the same old ones are there cluttering things up. Using a different color in the header than grey for new ones would be a good way to do it.
I started using Opera a couple days ago, too. Unfortunately, it also tends to crash pretty regularly. Its speed makes up for it, at least until mozilla gets a little more cleaned up from recent major changes.
I have a TNT, and I'm not using nvidia's drivers, so I know it's not the same situation. I seem to recall having to do something like that awhile back, but I wasn't sure if it was on my solaris or linux machine. Oh well, sorry it didn't work.
Why doesn't wine do it justice? I got the latest version of wine working last weekend (recent versions had caused problems with fonts for me), and Starcraft worked like a charm! This was on a K6-3/450, though, so maybe that helped. I think that running it in 8 bit (vs. my normal 32) makes a big difference. I start a second X server up on:1 just for that purpose. I should point out that I have had it freeze up on me after playing for an hour or two before, but last night I got through a whole game that lasted about three hours.
You raise a good point. I admit that I haven't seen the originals in years. (I did catch a few minutes of Star Wars on TV the other day.) I was just a tiny tot when the originals came out, so they were better for me at the time, and there's probably some sentimentality at work. This may not be the answer you were expecting, but I thought the original three were over-rated, too. They aren't exactly thought-provoking science fiction. But there's no question in my mind that the new one is worse in terms of story and characters than the originals.
I would have enjoyed the frickin movie more if it wasn't hyped to death, it hadn't taken years to create, and had such big shoes to fill! It was an utter disappointment, with about the only saving grace being some interesting special effects. You'd think with all the time and money spent on the movie, a good science fiction story would come out.... Ah well, that wasn't the goal, apparently.
I noticed that new ones have moved the legs to the back, too. Fortunately, I found a cheapo ergo keyboard with three legs in the front. Feels good, and I managed to save a bundle. I don't remember the maker, but I think I picked it up in Office Max....
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Ah, all the familiar names and whatnots brought a tear to my eye and a blip of bile to my esophagus.
I actually went to college with the guy. He was a nerd's nerd, very skilled: intelligent, creative, bizarre. Also, top notch at self-promotion. His rise to internet notoriety was inevitable.
Hey Kibo, if you're reading this, remember that first Sun lab in the JEC?
Care to back that up? In every store you go into (big or little), at all the big name OEM web sites, the only thing you see is Windows. All the software a consumer is likely to want to buy on store shelves is made for Windows. Hardly an environment conducive to making a "choice". The only possible exception would be the Mac, and then it's a case of choosing a PC (which equals Windows in most people's minds) vs. a Mac.
How'd you like a world where all cars, Ford, Chevy, Honday, etc., used the same engine supplied by a single company? You could have the mechanic down the street swap a Linux engine in, but it uses its own special, hard to find gas. Some choice there! (And to continue the goofy analogy, the engine company would force companies to include a car stereo from their fledgling car stereo division to "improve the out-of-the-box driving experience"....)
Unlike other well known monopolies (your local telco, cableco, utility), Microsoft is not a monopoly by government charter, but by consumer charter.Whether it's a government chartered monopoly or not, the end result is much the same.
It's nice out, maybe you should go outside for awhile.
MSActiveWipe? I'm no big fan of MS, but I might try that....
Wasn't IBM under the antitrust gun themselves for many years? Kind of disingenuous to say "the market righted itself" when the government played a large part in fixing that problem.
So since the rules were occasionally broken, that means there are no rules? No one was ever brought up on charges or court martialed for killing civilians? Besides, the point is that even in the extreme of war there are rules (believe it or not).
Your DRAM example shows the benefits of open competition. Undercutting your competition is generally fine. If only one company produced all the memory chips in the world, though, it'd be a different story if they prevented anyone else from producing it and also bundled a hard drive from their fledgling hard drive division "free" with each RAM purchase. Or worse, if they had secret deals with OEMs which double their price for RAM if they didn't include only their hard drives.
Competition is fierce and nasty and "violent". You either win or lose, and the outcome on either end isn't always pretty. If you ever see two competitors having friendly meetings and press confereneces it is because (1) they are in fact not in actual competition, but are in fact in cahoots, or (2) they are both fucked and trying to get a bigger fish.You either win or lose, yes, but you have to play by the rules of the game. And why the hell would competitors be having friendly meetings or press conferences?! That came out of left field. You can compete fairly without being in cahoots!
(Hoping that wasn't some clever troll....) Obviously, there are rules in football. Similarly, there are rules (laws) regarding business. Why is competition supposed to be nasty, mean, etc.? Who are you to define acceptable rules of competition? Can companies hire thugs to break the knees of merchants who stock the competition's products, for example? Clearly, rules have been established that try to enforce ethics and maximize the benefit to society as a whole.
Suggesting that competition in fact isnt supposed to be nasty and full of brutes and force and corporate violence does cause a problem. An adversarial system is key to our overall economic health.You seem to have a distorted view of competition. Hell, even in war there are rules.
I could've chosen Qwest for my DSL, but I went with Speakeasy (and Covad), which is a Linux-friendly company. Of course, in six months I'll be the goat when Covad goes belly-up, but hey....
The local internet provider is actually running an ad in the paper stating that "Qwest customers are about to be assimilated by Microsoft... join is!" Kind of funny.
I just bought the Archos Jukebox with the 20 GB hard drive for about $330, and it's nice. The worst thing about it is the volume control being menu driven and not a physical dial. The included headphones have a built-in volume dial, so if you use them, you're okay. Plus, the display is pretty small and the controls are a little awkward. But nothing like loading up your entire MP3 collection and taking it with you! Now I just need to figure out how to hook it up to the car stereo....
For a good comparison of large capacity players, check out this site.
I have a 1.33 GHz Tbird. The computer's set up in an upstairs room, and it gets pretty warm there in the summer. I often have problems with segmentation violations in gcc and other strange behavior when doing things like compiling a kernel. I finally thought to drop the multiplier jobbie down to 10 to turn it into a 1 GHz machine, and that seems to have fixed things, so it must have been overheating. Anyone else have these problems? I'm not much of a hardware person, so I trusted the guy I bought it from when he said the two case fans would be sufficient.... I guess next summer I should look into some additional cooling.
It would be nice if the CPU slowed down as a result of detecting overheating. It's not like I notice the difference in speed much, but I sure notice those random crashes....
Have you read the using ext3 page? If you think you did things okay, look at the output of the mount command; it should report the filesystem types as ext3.
I agree with the other guy, that post was dopey. Why does someone always come out with the inappropriate car analogies? Jeez, enough already.... At least we weren't treated to "I can't buy a Ford with a Honda engine".
A computer should come with a media player? Okay, for many consumers, I'll agree with that. But when did MS start making computers? They only produce the OS! Computer makers like Dell are the ones who sell the product to the consumer. They should be the ones who put together a complete hardware/software package that meets consumers needs. If Dell doesn't offer quite what you want, then you see what Gateway or CompUSA has. Maybe that means NO media player, and not paying extra for one! Ah, choice and competition....
I can't understand where this idea that MS is the sole authority on what bundled software appears on new computers came from. That makes about as much sense as Intel dictating what hard drives and video cards must be bundled with their chips. Dammit, MS, offer a basic OS and an optional "Plus" pack to consumers and OEMs and get this over with!
How about some way to mark new comments? The way Linux Today does it for articles is nice. I'll read the comments for a /. article, but it's unlikely I'll reload and read new ones because the same old ones are there cluttering things up. Using a different color in the header than grey for new ones would be a good way to do it.
I started using Opera a couple days ago, too. Unfortunately, it also tends to crash pretty regularly. Its speed makes up for it, at least until mozilla gets a little more cleaned up from recent major changes.
I have a TNT, and I'm not using nvidia's drivers, so I know it's not the same situation. I seem to recall having to do something like that awhile back, but I wasn't sure if it was on my solaris or linux machine. Oh well, sorry it didn't work.
"xset dpms force off" works fine for me. Does "xset +dpms" first help, by any chance?
Shouldn't that be "forever hold his piece" in this case?
I rarely laugh out loud at posts, but this one got me. Probably because it included the word "toilet".
Why doesn't wine do it justice? I got the latest version of wine working last weekend (recent versions had caused problems with fonts for me), and Starcraft worked like a charm! This was on a K6-3/450, though, so maybe that helped. I think that running it in 8 bit (vs. my normal 32) makes a big difference. I start a second X server up on :1 just for that purpose. I should point out that I have had it freeze up on me after playing for an hour or two before, but last night I got through a whole game that lasted about three hours.
I grew up on Mad in the '70s, and Don Martin had some of the best material. It was odd and often hilarious.
You raise a good point. I admit that I haven't seen the originals in years. (I did catch a few minutes of Star Wars on TV the other day.) I was just a tiny tot when the originals came out, so they were better for me at the time, and there's probably some sentimentality at work. This may not be the answer you were expecting, but I thought the original three were over-rated, too. They aren't exactly thought-provoking science fiction. But there's no question in my mind that the new one is worse in terms of story and characters than the originals.
I would have enjoyed the frickin movie more if it wasn't hyped to death, it hadn't taken years to create, and had such big shoes to fill! It was an utter disappointment, with about the only saving grace being some interesting special effects. You'd think with all the time and money spent on the movie, a good science fiction story would come out.... Ah well, that wasn't the goal, apparently.
IMHO, there are lots of other much better movies that are higher on my DVD to-buy list.
I noticed that new ones have moved the legs to the back, too. Fortunately, I found a cheapo ergo keyboard with three legs in the front. Feels good, and I managed to save a bundle. I don't remember the maker, but I think I picked it up in Office Max....