I don't think we'll have too much trouble with the Roomba taking over the world. If we do, we can just 1) wait 90 minutes for their batteries to die or 2) trap them in an infrared invisible wall jail.:)
...is like making a deal with the Borg. They will take advantage of you until you are no longer needed. Then you're screwed. The Bill Gates Borg picture started out as a joke but seems to be more and more fitting each day.
Reminds me of that Voyager episode called "Scorpion" where the crew tried to make a deal with the Borg. Of course the Borg tried to screw them over in the end. The only good thing about it is it brought us Seven of Nine.:)
I disagree. I think the most important thing is stability and features. I would rather use a product that is more difficult to set up and perhaps out of my "comfort zone" if it just works better. Squid and Linux iptables firewalling is far superior to Microsoft ISA. Sendmail is a more robust SMTP front end and is often used to "protect" Exchange servers. FreeSwan is very flexible and powerful VPN software.
I do think that you should use the best tool for the job.
Yeah, I have tried FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I have heard that they are superior in some ways, and I have no reason to doubt that, but it was just too unfamiliar. I need to devote more time so that I can be as fluent in BSD as I am in Linux. But that time isn't free, and so far Linux has far exceeded my expectations and needs.
If down the road I run into a limitation in Linux, I will definitely devote some more time to learning *BSD. It boils down to necessity.
As a network admin we deploy Linux servers (Debian, thank-you-very-much) because they simply kick ass. Sendmail, Squid, Apache, FreeSwan, iptables, etc., all blow away similar products put out by Microsoft.
I wish more IT people would seriously consider Linux at least for server duties.
I'm sure all they did was dub over the spoken word "Lybians". Reminds me of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The TV edits are so lame. Like when Bill & Ted hug and say "Fag", the TV edit says something stoopid like "Fool!"
I completely agree that there should be a way to back up games. But who honestly buys mod chips just so they can make backups and *not* to play a ripped off game? I would be surprised if it were 10%, but we will never know the real stats.
I am responsible for us losing our freedoms? *I* buy games and music, I don't steal them. It's because of people that *steal* this stuff that our freedoms are reduced. Because of the huge amount of music that is stolen, future formats will not allow digital output (for one example).
What I want to know is if people who use God instead of G*d get a cease-and-desist or burn-in-hell letter from the Holy Lawyer. And is Holy Lawyer an oxymoron?
I guess my point (if it wasn't apparent) is that sequels can be better than the original, even though the original doesn't seem that it can be topped.
Of course history shows that usually does not happen, but we can be hopeful.:)
You will find that most people agree the second LoTR was better than the first. And the first was outstanding.
IMDB agrees. Currently LoTR 2 is rated at 9.2, the highest ever on IMDB. Next time the update their top 250 list it should be at the top. (The one currently listed at #1 only has a 9.0 rating.)
I think the whole "region" thing is bogus. But they've been doing it with consoles ever since Nintendo 8-bit, I think. Back then it was more of a hardware thing... Japanese carts wouldn't fit in the USA NES unless you had an adapter.
"Region" encoding for DVD movies is also a joke.
Agreed. Making backups would be really nice. It would probably be legal if there weren't those relatively few people that would completely abuse it.
Now because of the out of control copying of music, future formats are going to be really limited. For example, DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD formats do not output digitally. You can only get analog sound out of them. No longer will you be able to create perfect copies for your own use.
be honest here. The primary use of a mod chip is to play copied games. It's not to install Linux on your console. Don't be a cheap ass... buy the games that are worth buying.
Sorry, that's not true. I own the 8MB cache IDE WD drive. Fast 10k or 15k SCSI drives still blow it away. IDE simply cannot touch the access times on new SCSI drives.
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I don't think we'll have too much trouble with the Roomba taking over the world. If we do, we can just 1) wait 90 minutes for their batteries to die or 2) trap them in an infrared invisible wall jail. :)
The robot doesn't know what to make of the animal? Or the animal doesn't know what to make of the robot?
...is like making a deal with the Borg. They will take advantage of you until you are no longer needed. Then you're screwed. The Bill Gates Borg picture started out as a joke but seems to be more and more fitting each day.
:)
Reminds me of that Voyager episode called "Scorpion" where the crew tried to make a deal with the Borg. Of course the Borg tried to screw them over in the end. The only good thing about it is it brought us Seven of Nine.
Hah, very clever. :) Believe it or not, you won't get an argument out of me. I think Windows XP is the most useful desktop operating system.
Correct. In the Borg collective there is no need for "big brother" technologies.
I disagree. I think the most important thing is stability and features. I would rather use a product that is more difficult to set up and perhaps out of my "comfort zone" if it just works better. Squid and Linux iptables firewalling is far superior to Microsoft ISA. Sendmail is a more robust SMTP front end and is often used to "protect" Exchange servers. FreeSwan is very flexible and powerful VPN software.
I do think that you should use the best tool for the job.
Yeah, I have tried FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I have heard that they are superior in some ways, and I have no reason to doubt that, but it was just too unfamiliar. I need to devote more time so that I can be as fluent in BSD as I am in Linux. But that time isn't free, and so far Linux has far exceeded my expectations and needs. If down the road I run into a limitation in Linux, I will definitely devote some more time to learning *BSD. It boils down to necessity.
As a network admin we deploy Linux servers (Debian, thank-you-very-much) because they simply kick ass. Sendmail, Squid, Apache, FreeSwan, iptables, etc., all blow away similar products put out by Microsoft. I wish more IT people would seriously consider Linux at least for server duties.
I'm sure all they did was dub over the spoken word "Lybians". Reminds me of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The TV edits are so lame. Like when Bill & Ted hug and say "Fag", the TV edit says something stoopid like "Fool!"
I completely agree that there should be a way to back up games. But who honestly buys mod chips just so they can make backups and *not* to play a ripped off game? I would be surprised if it were 10%, but we will never know the real stats.
I am responsible for us losing our freedoms? *I* buy games and music, I don't steal them. It's because of people that *steal* this stuff that our freedoms are reduced. Because of the huge amount of music that is stolen, future formats will not allow digital output (for one example).
What I want to know is if people who use God instead of G*d get a cease-and-desist or burn-in-hell letter from the Holy Lawyer. And is Holy Lawyer an oxymoron?
I guess my point (if it wasn't apparent) is that sequels can be better than the original, even though the original doesn't seem that it can be topped. Of course history shows that usually does not happen, but we can be hopeful. :)
You will find that most people agree the second LoTR was better than the first. And the first was outstanding. IMDB agrees. Currently LoTR 2 is rated at 9.2, the highest ever on IMDB. Next time the update their top 250 list it should be at the top. (The one currently listed at #1 only has a 9.0 rating.)
I think the whole "region" thing is bogus. But they've been doing it with consoles ever since Nintendo 8-bit, I think. Back then it was more of a hardware thing... Japanese carts wouldn't fit in the USA NES unless you had an adapter. "Region" encoding for DVD movies is also a joke.
Agreed. Making backups would be really nice. It would probably be legal if there weren't those relatively few people that would completely abuse it. Now because of the out of control copying of music, future formats are going to be really limited. For example, DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD formats do not output digitally. You can only get analog sound out of them. No longer will you be able to create perfect copies for your own use.
be honest here. The primary use of a mod chip is to play copied games. It's not to install Linux on your console. Don't be a cheap ass... buy the games that are worth buying.
Sorry, that's not true. I own the 8MB cache IDE WD drive. Fast 10k or 15k SCSI drives still blow it away. IDE simply cannot touch the access times on new SCSI drives.