Now now you should know its impossible for the RIAA to be wrong.
Its not crappy music, its wonderful music produced by highly talented artists and its evil how people steal it isntead of paying $30 (local currency Australian dollars) for a "regular" cd ie: non hyper-discount/direct from wholesaler/cut price bonanza/etc cds
This is damn good news. Finaly some accountability. I belive its the fact you can sell idiots anything combined with the fact that (lets face it, as a collective group of consumers) the majority of people (espcialy those in the USA it seems ) are very stupid. Its a problem. but at least this is progress.
Oh your not alone, but ive been spreading the word damn it!
I can say that the roll up to the Launch of vista will probably help me convince more than a dozen people i know to actualy MAKE THE EFFORT to switch to Linux. Its evil i know but its fun to get out the FUD Gun and load a few reams of Microsoft information in, then fire shots at content XP users, suddenly scaring the crap out of them and then happily telling them of the alternatives they have.
Im learning more than ever and even though i may actualy USE vista myself... ( if it turns out theres a lovely little "STFU I know what im doing, Kill the DRM and protect me from myself BS" button or checkbox mabey. ) ill be making the switch on my secondary machine gauranteed (at least at the time it should be secondary). But i know exactly how hard/easy it can be to convince people they should think. All it takes is very loud up close use of the good old FUD gun. "How are you gonna feel when Vista makes your Movies look like shit cause you didnt fork out more cash for a complete set of fully authorised encrypted multimedia compliant devices that double the cost of your box." *pause before giving them a proper although mildly FUDed information*
So how long till i can actualy make a living from being damn good with computers without yet having some kind of formal scrap of paper that proves ive worked my end off on something mabey remotely relevant to the area ill be working, in for 4 years. So sick of this qualifications crap. Since when does it do anything but annoy those with Real skill. ? you "just get" the stuff your good at. all these tests and assignments forcing you to get inside the box and think in there for a while then go back to normal and grumble bout your marks... pfff so fed up with it all. When they reach the level where the competent users are self evident and able to utilise that fact profitably then itll be good.
whatever that Linux Distro that ran linux a background thingie on windows was, and using some registry hacks to open a fullscreen Cygwin X session to access it via the local loopback. Windows box, Running almost totaly as a linux one!
or you could check out the slow (tar drips slower god damn it) progress from the GeNToo (specific capitalisation implied there) team trying to get YAGPTAK (Yet Another Gentoo Port To Another Kernel) working... but personaly i wish them, the Portaris, and the Gentoo BSD teams a hell of a lot of luck Since truly thats what i want. I want choise of Kernel, then choise of userland. I want to emerge OO.org for windows on my windows box, I want to emerge for my FreeBSD box those rare few apps that arent in the ports tree (this would also help ports too id say, mmm and the Circle would be complete, Ports Begets Portage, then portage becomes one with ports )
i think im rambling now!
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Im always finding these things out later on.
WHAT THE HELL ARE THE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
My main machine, (call me a geek i dont care) is located right at the end of my bed, I literaly use it lying down or crosslegged on my bed. Now the average Keyboard and mouse (plus a solid surface for the mouse* take up the end of the bed and ive even switched to a mushy as hell media keyboard, purely so i can make use of a more "useable" (for my situation) keyboard, the media keys speed up my work, they mean i can deal with a program without changing focus with alt tab or mooving my whole arm (as you do when your lying down) to get to the mouse. So ive noticed whenever i wander over one of these reffernces to the windows Keyboard shortcuts... i almost always happily smack my fingers down on the keyboard and try em out and sit there with a little smile. Wow. One less thing i need the mouse for.
Id like to damn well find a COMPLETE set of the blasted things for XP, without having to dig or trawl. ANyone know it/got a link/have one?
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Speaking of sucky OO.org interfaces. Am i the only one that thinks the way it handles PowerPoint presentations in the default on Linux, Blindinly backwards. werid little tabs and no ability to "scroll" through the presentation with something as simple as a mouse wheel...???
Soon to be the WGF and its crippled 1.4 OpenGL implementation through Aeroglass.
DirectX api... You make me laugh.
OpenGL all the way. Stop fighting it!
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Arent they doing this with vista... thought this was how they were making their 7 versions of Vista easy for them.
There are wonderful steps forward in vista... Unfortunatly they hoped on the DRM bus and it droped them off 10 blocks back from the corner of XP Ave and 2k Street. Then they caught the Anticompeditive train 5 miles sideways and now their in Software New Jersy. Hope they get Mugged Bad!
Let's get a grip, folks. Even if you think our government sucks, would ANY of you prefer any of the alternatives currently on offer (I'll dispense with the customary "don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out" phraseology)?
I dont even live in the US, Personaly, Id like to see those Sweedish UberGeeks get the Root control! ive never realy seen ANY problems of international size screwups from Sweeden.
HA time to stop opening the mouth before the foot enters.
Check the total Investment in the Internet GLOBALY by the US goverment and then compare with the investment by other COMPANIES... not even countries... Just Commercial companies. The Goverments contribution is now and for a LONG time has been, barely a fraction of the total invested in the net. The companies own it. Not the USA. Get the facts.
Oh and dont play the "But their US companies!" card... You know its stupid, if you dont... well then... guess that makes you [ fill in your own blank here ]
My net connection is rediculously overpriced and pathetic compared to the offerings available from other companies but i dont pay the bill so im stuck with it. While were here. How the hell do you manage to THINK that the US "funded and created" the millions of miles of telecomunications infastructure across the globe thats used by other countries that the Internet now uses... logicaly the Internet could be said to be Using OTHER countries telcom hardware.
Its just another example of "world revolves around washington" political and social copernicanism.
i think they need something like the system in place with naming Organic Carbon chemistry.
you got your Methan, then your Ethane, your heptane and octane, then you can specify the bonding sites, so 2,7 Octene with 2 fancy bonds. or somthing wonderfuly elaborate, 2,4,6 tri methyl 5 cloro 7,8 di boro 9 decane
which would mean squat to a fair few, but to those that understand, completely describes the entire molecule and its bonding,
planet, star, moon, all relative terms based on long held cultural stigma and beliefs. So bring on the damn systematic naming!
prefferably avoiding any references to M class planets!
I can imagine people wont like calling the earth a: Ferrus, Volcanic, Ecliptical (Orbits close to the ecliptic), Surface Aqueated, Body of mass (mass of the earth to 2 significant figures, [ to lazy to look up right now] ), Orbiting (reference to or simply repetition of, whatever the definition given to the Sun would be)
yeah its long winded, but when you damn well want a total soloution, it helps. Just look at chemistry!
Does that mean that the rest of the world gets to claim compensation for the Lost time, the spam, the mass fraud, and all of the other things the internet has brought with it.
You cant claim compensation without accepting responsibility and im damn hell sure that the US is NOT going to claim responsibility for the entire internet... It would be a nightmare, I can see the Lawsuits rolling in, and the money slowly rolling out and all the while the lawyers gettting richer.
For starters Yes the "internet" began as a DARPA funded research project into maintaining their systems past a MAD scenario through the interconection and distribution of its vital functions and remote duplication of essential ones. But so bloddy what? the moment that _International_ Companies started being the ones building the internet, id say the US relinqushed control at that point.
essentialy all this is about is Politics.
Power is the key, those with power wish to hold it or increase it, and those without it seek it or the diminishing of the power of others over themselves. The internet has a HUGE power now, and the US dont want to let go. Understandably so. But unfortunatly the rest of the planet doesnt agree thats in the best intrests of the Human Race. It may be in the best interests of the United States of America, but the UN happens to Exist purely to provide INTERNATIONAL PEACEFUL COOPERATION. the internet has been and will continue to be something that ALL countries and people should and do share, peacefuly. The UN is very good at Peacfuly doing things. It may not always work ( ie UN Peacekeeping ) but most of the time, if it doesnt involve guns it works well ( international postal and telecommunications standardisations and interoperability)
If you trace back the histories, youll find a handful of "vilespawn" that follow the calamities, each time moving on as if launched forward by the catalysmic explosion of the last nightmare they caused.
There is one of thse on the board of HP, she was flung there by Compaq as it disintegrated and merged with HP, and before that she began at a company called Digital Equipment Corporation, and was one of the architects of its demise, capitulating themselves at Compaq's feet when DEC needed strong managment, throwing away a company in exchange for personal profit and sustained success.
I loath these vilespawn, i loath them with a passion, they creep their way into everything, turning proud monuments to success into crumbling distasters, slowly, little by little their work unfolds, each descision made slowly eroding the foundation.
R.I.P. DEC, May AMD keep your blinkenlights Forever Burning.
And may the vilespawn one day be discovered and rooted out as part of good buissness for the sake of true progress.
That and that the AMD64s many many ass kicking improvements owe more than a passing glance to the Alpha, with a significant number of engineers fleeing DEC/Compaq/HP to avoid being layed off, or sold to intel for Itanic, moving to AMD, along with AMD licencing a number of KEY technologies off DEC/Compaq such as the Onboard Memory Controler bus technologies (why the AMD mobos have no southbridge) and the high performance scalability that your seeing in those 4-8 way Opteron Mobos cropping up (though i hasten to say that i dont think this was directly licenced, more, developed using the Licenced tech that came with the Southbridgeless designs and other ALpha based stuff by those DEC/Compaq engineers that moved to AMD)
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you can prove absolute negatives in situations such as mathematics and chemistry and fairly often physics too :P
That atom is NOT chlorine
That variable in the given soloution is NOT equal to 3
dont forget the all important alternative implementations of the basics
kB = 1000
KB = 1024
Nope it sure cant.
But it can flee the country and leave them in the dark ages if the dont get over themselves.
Now now you should know its impossible for the RIAA to be wrong.
Its not crappy music, its wonderful music produced by highly talented artists and its evil how people steal it isntead of paying $30 (local currency Australian dollars) for a "regular" cd ie: non hyper-discount/direct from wholesaler/cut price bonanza/etc cds
This is damn good news. Finaly some accountability. I belive its the fact you can sell idiots anything combined with the fact that (lets face it, as a collective group of consumers) the majority of people (espcialy those in the USA it seems ) are very stupid. Its a problem. but at least this is progress.
Yay Accountability!
Oh your not alone, but ive been spreading the word damn it!
I can say that the roll up to the Launch of vista will probably help me convince more than a dozen people i know to actualy MAKE THE EFFORT to switch to Linux. Its evil i know but its fun to get out the FUD Gun and load a few reams of Microsoft information in, then fire shots at content XP users, suddenly scaring the crap out of them and then happily telling them of the alternatives they have.
Im learning more than ever and even though i may actualy USE vista myself... ( if it turns out theres a lovely little "STFU I know what im doing, Kill the DRM and protect me from myself BS" button or checkbox mabey. ) ill be making the switch on my secondary machine gauranteed (at least at the time it should be secondary). But i know exactly how hard/easy it can be to convince people they should think. All it takes is very loud up close use of the good old FUD gun. "How are you gonna feel when Vista makes your Movies look like shit cause you didnt fork out more cash for a complete set of fully authorised encrypted multimedia compliant devices that double the cost of your box." *pause before giving them a proper although mildly FUDed information*
what i like is the fact that VMS rates so highly!
GO OpenVMS!!!!
haha and people call FreeBSD dead... if BSD's dead then VMS is the Undead Imortal Zombie King.
So how long till i can actualy make a living from being damn good with computers without yet having some kind of formal scrap of paper that proves ive worked my end off on something mabey remotely relevant to the area ill be working, in for 4 years. So sick of this qualifications crap. Since when does it do anything but annoy those with Real skill. ? you "just get" the stuff your good at. all these tests and assignments forcing you to get inside the box and think in there for a while then go back to normal and grumble bout your marks... pfff so fed up with it all. When they reach the level where the competent users are self evident and able to utilise that fact profitably then itll be good.
well it could be done
whatever that Linux Distro that ran linux a background thingie on windows was, and using some registry hacks to open a fullscreen Cygwin X session to access it via the local loopback. Windows box, Running almost totaly as a linux one!
or you could check out the slow (tar drips slower god damn it) progress from the GeNToo (specific capitalisation implied there) team trying to get YAGPTAK (Yet Another Gentoo Port To Another Kernel) working... but personaly i wish them, the Portaris, and the Gentoo BSD teams a hell of a lot of luck Since truly thats what i want. I want choise of Kernel, then choise of userland. I want to emerge OO.org for windows on my windows box, I want to emerge for my FreeBSD box those rare few apps that arent in the ports tree (this would also help ports too id say, mmm and the Circle would be complete, Ports Begets Portage, then portage becomes one with ports )
i think im rambling now!
Im always finding these things out later on.
WHAT THE HELL ARE THE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
My main machine, (call me a geek i dont care) is located right at the end of my bed, I literaly use it lying down or crosslegged on my bed. Now the average Keyboard and mouse (plus a solid surface for the mouse* take up the end of the bed and ive even switched to a mushy as hell media keyboard, purely so i can make use of a more "useable" (for my situation) keyboard, the media keys speed up my work, they mean i can deal with a program without changing focus with alt tab or mooving my whole arm (as you do when your lying down) to get to the mouse. So ive noticed whenever i wander over one of these reffernces to the windows Keyboard shortcuts... i almost always happily smack my fingers down on the keyboard and try em out and sit there with a little smile. Wow. One less thing i need the mouse for.
Id like to damn well find a COMPLETE set of the blasted things for XP, without having to dig or trawl. ANyone know it/got a link/have one?
Speaking of sucky OO.org interfaces. Am i the only one that thinks the way it handles PowerPoint presentations in the default on Linux, Blindinly backwards. werid little tabs and no ability to "scroll" through the presentation with something as simple as a mouse wheel...???
Distros nope... Drivers Id say theres a fair few around that arnt coming as convenient LKMs
Im rather happy with my ACPM S3 Suspend on my "desktop"... so whats this crud bout hybernation not being on desktops huh?
Soon to be the WGF and its crippled 1.4 OpenGL implementation through Aeroglass.
DirectX api... You make me laugh.
OpenGL all the way. Stop fighting it!
Arent they doing this with vista... thought this was how they were making their 7 versions of Vista easy for them.
There are wonderful steps forward in vista... Unfortunatly they hoped on the DRM bus and it droped them off 10 blocks back from the corner of XP Ave and 2k Street. Then they caught the Anticompeditive train 5 miles sideways and now their in Software New Jersy. Hope they get Mugged Bad!
better logic, Why dont we kick you out of the 9 tenths we built up in extentions around your house.
.au is the australian Country code and .jp is the Japanese one. Neither of these are European.
*patches up the facts with some good old Duct Tape*
I dont even live in the US, Personaly, Id like to see those Sweedish UberGeeks get the Root control! ive never realy seen ANY problems of international size screwups from Sweeden.
HA time to stop opening the mouth before the foot enters.
... not even countries... Just Commercial companies. The Goverments contribution is now and for a LONG time has been, barely a fraction of the total invested in the net. The companies own it. Not the USA. Get the facts.
Check the total Investment in the Internet GLOBALY by the US goverment and then compare with the investment by other COMPANIES
Oh and dont play the "But their US companies!" card... You know its stupid, if you dont... well then... guess that makes you [ fill in your own blank here ]
My net connection is rediculously overpriced and pathetic compared to the offerings available from other companies but i dont pay the bill so im stuck with it. While were here. How the hell do you manage to THINK that the US "funded and created" the millions of miles of telecomunications infastructure across the globe thats used by other countries that the Internet now uses... logicaly the Internet could be said to be Using OTHER countries telcom hardware.
Its just another example of "world revolves around washington" political and social copernicanism.
Do you realy trust the US Goverment? They sure as hell dont trust you!
Bravo!
i think they need something like the system in place with naming Organic Carbon chemistry.
you got your Methan, then your Ethane, your heptane and octane, then you can specify the bonding sites, so 2,7 Octene with 2 fancy bonds. or somthing wonderfuly elaborate, 2,4,6 tri methyl 5 cloro 7,8 di boro 9 decane
which would mean squat to a fair few, but to those that understand, completely describes the entire molecule and its bonding,
planet, star, moon, all relative terms based on long held cultural stigma and beliefs. So bring on the damn systematic naming!
prefferably avoiding any references to M class planets!
I can imagine people wont like calling the earth a: Ferrus, Volcanic, Ecliptical (Orbits close to the ecliptic), Surface Aqueated, Body of mass (mass of the earth to 2 significant figures, [ to lazy to look up right now] ), Orbiting (reference to or simply repetition of, whatever the definition given to the Sun would be)
yeah its long winded, but when you damn well want a total soloution, it helps. Just look at chemistry!
Compensate???
Does that mean that the rest of the world gets to claim compensation for the Lost time, the spam, the mass fraud, and all of the other things the internet has brought with it.
You cant claim compensation without accepting responsibility and im damn hell sure that the US is NOT going to claim responsibility for the entire internet... It would be a nightmare, I can see the Lawsuits rolling in, and the money slowly rolling out and all the while the lawyers gettting richer.
For starters Yes the "internet" began as a DARPA funded research project into maintaining their systems past a MAD scenario through the interconection and distribution of its vital functions and remote duplication of essential ones. But so bloddy what? the moment that _International_ Companies started being the ones building the internet, id say the US relinqushed control at that point.
essentialy all this is about is Politics.
Power is the key, those with power wish to hold it or increase it, and those without it seek it or the diminishing of the power of others over themselves. The internet has a HUGE power now, and the US dont want to let go. Understandably so. But unfortunatly the rest of the planet doesnt agree thats in the best intrests of the Human Race. It may be in the best interests of the United States of America, but the UN happens to Exist purely to provide INTERNATIONAL PEACEFUL COOPERATION. the internet has been and will continue to be something that ALL countries and people should and do share, peacefuly. The UN is very good at Peacfuly doing things. It may not always work ( ie UN Peacekeeping ) but most of the time, if it doesnt involve guns it works well ( international postal and telecommunications standardisations and interoperability)
If you trace back the histories, youll find a handful of "vilespawn" that follow the calamities, each time moving on as if launched forward by the catalysmic explosion of the last nightmare they caused.
There is one of thse on the board of HP, she was flung there by Compaq as it disintegrated and merged with HP, and before that she began at a company called Digital Equipment Corporation, and was one of the architects of its demise, capitulating themselves at Compaq's feet when DEC needed strong managment, throwing away a company in exchange for personal profit and sustained success.
I loath these vilespawn, i loath them with a passion, they creep their way into everything, turning proud monuments to success into crumbling distasters, slowly, little by little their work unfolds, each descision made slowly eroding the foundation.
R.I.P. DEC, May AMD keep your blinkenlights Forever Burning.
And may the vilespawn one day be discovered and rooted out as part of good buissness for the sake of true progress.
That and that the AMD64s many many ass kicking improvements owe more than a passing glance to the Alpha, with a significant number of engineers fleeing DEC/Compaq/HP to avoid being layed off, or sold to intel for Itanic, moving to AMD, along with AMD licencing a number of KEY technologies off DEC/Compaq such as the Onboard Memory Controler bus technologies (why the AMD mobos have no southbridge) and the high performance scalability that your seeing in those 4-8 way Opteron Mobos cropping up (though i hasten to say that i dont think this was directly licenced, more, developed using the Licenced tech that came with the Southbridgeless designs and other ALpha based stuff by those DEC/Compaq engineers that moved to AMD)