how much bug fixing is the question? MacOS 8.whatever still blows (we are still waiting for the savior of the earth "X") I am not comparing OS's here. Everyone has their faults, but to go so far as to say "more bugfixing"... that is bullshit. They are shoving that shit out the door just as fast as MS shoved 2.0->NT->95+ out...
I setup an "Xmas Shopping List" (or whatever they call them) on Amazon last year. My mother ordered what I wanted and they said that they were shipping it (3 weeks before Xmas). Dec 23rd she gets an email saying that they didn't ship one of the items b/c it was out of stock (3 weeks).
Then they start tracking you and telling you tough shit...
Then they start overcharging you and then send you an email later telling you that you will be refunded.
My question is: how long before they go under for being fucking stupid? If I went to a bookstore and they fucked me over like Amazon.com has been the past year I would move elsewhere. They feel that they are the next Mickeysoft b/c they are the WalMart of the Internet... They can do whatever they feel like and not have any consequences.. A few/.'ers refusing to use their service isn't going to hold them back any... I think that serious legal action should be taking against these fools to stop what they are doing. This is is some serious crap. My last order (Friday DVD) will be my last for sure...
he is at $500,200. 2.6 million visitors per week I am sure gives good ad revenue, but is it really worth 1/2+ million? Who knows, the person who may purchase it will eventually get sued for copyright infrigement or some such shit.
the other odd thing is the (0) after the bidders login. With something worth so much money I would be rather hesitant to sell to anyone w/o previous buying on EBay (and I worry about a $5.25 SCSI cable + $3.00 S&H that someone ripped me off on)...
I am scared of heights. The State of Liberty was tall enough for me to get dizzy. I don't have any idea what would happen if I had to travel miles into space...
I claimed this from the beginning, yet somehow I got moderated as "troll" or the like. This shit seemed entirely too good to be true, but what do I know? Apparently how to lose karma...
oh bullshit. they are not a scapegoat, they are the fucking problem. they are not doing normal business practices, and they are using money, fame, and power of their legal team to bend the rules just like everyone else does. fuck them and their bullshit man. if everyone else needs to play fair, so do they. I don't give a flying rats ass if they made an OS that runs on every god damn device on the planet... they need to do it like everyone else does, not unfairly. CHEATERS NEVER WIN. Especially dorky little fucks like Billy boy.
this is a sickening trend though... everyone is suing everyone. WAAAAAH, if I don't get my way, I am going to sue you (I am not talking about anti-microsoft suits, I am talking about DeCSS(omfg, is it against the law to even say it now?), Napster, etc) People need to stop being babies and get over it.
they may support tons of video/sound/etc hardware, but to not have 3Com networking cards natively supported, what do they plan to accomplish? I have at least 10 3Com network cards (in addition to Western Digital and DLINK, etc).
I give great props for the opening of the OS to the public for free, and I see great things in the future for QNX, but just as Linux was lacking greatly in the driver dept, QNX is lightyears behind:(
the only thing that I would like to see better coverage of is local sports news. That was the only reason I ever watched local news anyway. The main headlines are on the newspaper's website (for free, not.50 or whatever it is now) but local sports still don't pop up too much attention on the web. Now that I am in college, great coverage of the campus sports is available online (including splits, bios, etc). Great wealth of information at any time. And we used to think that turning the dial would be instant information...
we are afterall talking about a company that up until 1996 (I believe, this is going on horrible memory) still advertised the 80286 Tandy's as a POWERFUL desktop machine;)
sorry, but it is now MINE. I can do w/it what I please. That is the purpose of paying for it. You are buying rights to do w/it as you like. I am not selling it off for a profit, therefore, there is nothing wrong with it. This has nothing to do w/BIG Business, I could give a fuck, I already gave them my money...
I use multi-head in X 4.0 w/two different video cards. The distance between the monitors is negligible and actually you kinda get so used to having both that when one is gone you get a tear in your eye:~(.
I played a Ferarri racing game at Cosi in Columbus, OH and it had three monitors... I really didn't see any problems w/the three monitors (and the space between them) soon you ignore it and it seems like one field, but maybe it has to do w/my use of multihead.
ahh the resurgance of mainframes:) Soon we will all have air conditioned rooms w/special fire extingusihers so we can run 41k copies of Linux on our refridgerator:)
yeah, I don't care that they do it (in Q1) I can *normally* kill them. Unless they have a 30 ping:) I was just saying taht the only way to get it out of your system is to do it.
when you use any sort of game cheat for so long it just isn't even fun to play anymore. You have such an unfair advantage that if you actually are enjoying it, you really need to take a look at yourself and consider getting professional help. Computer games that are played online are NOT real. You are NOT cool when you win. I think that gamers that cheat to win sucked at everything they did (inside or outside of the Internet) and they feel this need to fix that (something like the fathers that scream at the kids to kick ass in some such sport or get all fired up on bad calls because they are living their non-existant sports career out in their kids).
Anyway, like I said, after a while it just isn't fun anymore. Until someone starts cheating a lot they will always have this desire to do it (to see what it was like). It is nothing special. Get over it:)
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how much bug fixing is the question? MacOS 8.whatever still blows (we are still waiting for the savior of the earth "X") I am not comparing OS's here. Everyone has their faults, but to go so far as to say "more bugfixing"... that is bullshit. They are shoving that shit out the door just as fast as MS shoved 2.0->NT->95+ out...
- Bill
I setup an "Xmas Shopping List" (or whatever they call them) on Amazon last year. My mother ordered what I wanted and they said that they were shipping it (3 weeks before Xmas). Dec 23rd she gets an email saying that they didn't ship one of the items b/c it was out of stock (3 weeks).
/.'ers refusing to use their service isn't going to hold them back any... I think that serious legal action should be taking against these fools to stop what they are doing. This is is some serious crap. My last order (Friday DVD) will be my last for sure...
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Then they start tracking you and telling you tough shit...
Then they start overcharging you and then send you an email later telling you that you will be refunded.
My question is: how long before they go under for being fucking stupid? If I went to a bookstore and they fucked me over like Amazon.com has been the past year I would move elsewhere. They feel that they are the next Mickeysoft b/c they are the WalMart of the Internet... They can do whatever they feel like and not have any consequences.. A few
Just my worthless
- Bill
come on, the ice skaters are in the WINTER Olympics ;-)
- Bill
he is at $500,200. 2.6 million visitors per week I am sure gives good ad revenue, but is it really worth 1/2+ million? Who knows, the person who may purchase it will eventually get sued for copyright infrigement or some such shit.
the other odd thing is the (0) after the bidders login. With something worth so much money I would be rather hesitant to sell to anyone w/o previous buying on EBay (and I worry about a $5.25 SCSI cable + $3.00 S&H that someone ripped me off on)...
- Bill
GAIM homepage
GAIM source tarball
All other types (RPM, DEB, etc)
- Bill
really? that is just another reason that the Windows platform is so safe ;)
I am scared of heights. The State of Liberty was tall enough for me to get dizzy. I don't have any idea what would happen if I had to travel miles into space...
I claimed this from the beginning, yet somehow I got moderated as "troll" or the like. This shit seemed entirely too good to be true, but what do I know? Apparently how to lose karma...
- Bill
oh bullshit. they are not a scapegoat, they are the fucking problem. they are not doing normal business practices, and they are using money, fame, and power of their legal team to bend the rules just like everyone else does. fuck them and their bullshit man. if everyone else needs to play fair, so do they. I don't give a flying rats ass if they made an OS that runs on every god damn device on the planet... they need to do it like everyone else does, not unfairly. CHEATERS NEVER WIN. Especially dorky little fucks like Billy boy.
this is a sickening trend though... everyone is suing everyone. WAAAAAH, if I don't get my way, I am going to sue you (I am not talking about anti-microsoft suits, I am talking about DeCSS(omfg, is it against the law to even say it now?), Napster, etc) People need to stop being babies and get over it.
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well then. in order for them to even start this out, they need to have at least a somewhat accurate hardware compatibility list.
they may support tons of video/sound/etc hardware, but to not have 3Com networking cards natively supported, what do they plan to accomplish? I have at least 10 3Com network cards (in addition to Western Digital and DLINK, etc).
:(
I give great props for the opening of the OS to the public for free, and I see great things in the future for QNX, but just as Linux was lacking greatly in the driver dept, QNX is lightyears behind
we should call it the G00F bug ;-)
the only thing that I would like to see better coverage of is local sports news. That was the only reason I ever watched local news anyway. The main headlines are on the newspaper's website (for free, not .50 or whatever it is now) but local sports still don't pop up too much attention on the web. Now that I am in college, great coverage of the campus sports is available online (including splits, bios, etc). Great wealth of information at any time. And we used to think that turning the dial would be instant information...
we are afterall talking about a company that up until 1996 (I believe, this is going on horrible memory) still advertised the 80286 Tandy's as a POWERFUL desktop machine ;)
sorry, but it is now MINE. I can do w/it what I please. That is the purpose of paying for it. You are buying rights to do w/it as you like. I am not selling it off for a profit, therefore, there is nothing wrong with it. This has nothing to do w/BIG Business, I could give a fuck, I already gave them my money...
I will still never understand how you can make copies for your own personal use (mp3) and give them away for free and still get sued for it..
1.21 jigawatts... 1.21 JIGAWATTS...
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"it may be available in any corner drugstore in 1985, but here in 1955 it is a little hard to come by..."
looks like any crazed scientist or other weirdo can now
beta version, no wonder they don't have those damn annoying ads flashing in the top of the box. My vote is for gAIM.
are they really able to do that? Can't the websites claim some sorta thing like reports do when they can hide their sources?
I use multi-head in X 4.0 w/two different video cards. The distance between the monitors is negligible and actually you kinda get so used to having both that when one is gone you get a tear in your eye :~(.
I played a Ferarri racing game at Cosi in Columbus, OH and it had three monitors... I really didn't see any problems w/the three monitors (and the space between them) soon you ignore it and it seems like one field, but maybe it has to do w/my use of multihead.
who are the worst authors on the Internet? ;-)
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ahh the resurgance of mainframes :) Soon we will all have air conditioned rooms w/special fire extingusihers so we can run 41k copies of Linux on our refridgerator :)
yeah, I don't care that they do it (in Q1) I can *normally* kill them. Unless they have a 30 ping :) I was just saying taht the only way to get it out of your system is to do it.
when you use any sort of game cheat for so long it just isn't even fun to play anymore. You have such an unfair advantage that if you actually are enjoying it, you really need to take a look at yourself and consider getting professional help. Computer games that are played online are NOT real. You are NOT cool when you win. I think that gamers that cheat to win sucked at everything they did (inside or outside of the Internet) and they feel this need to fix that (something like the fathers that scream at the kids to kick ass in some such sport or get all fired up on bad calls because they are living their non-existant sports career out in their kids).
:)
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Anyway, like I said, after a while it just isn't fun anymore. Until someone starts cheating a lot they will always have this desire to do it (to see what it was like). It is nothing special. Get over it
Just my worthless
jinkies!