Hmm, remember back in the good old days, when it was just sega and nintendo? You had your NES, SMS, Genesis, and SNES. You wouldn't be caught dead without one of these.
Us kids would be lining up at the stores playing the latest games set up on demo. Sure, there were other systems around, TG16, Jaguar, 3D0, etc, but none of these were much of a threat.
Now , out of nowhere, comes these two giant companies, Sony, and Microsoft, both of which are slowly consuming every market out there.
Sega and Nintendo had their battles. Both lost and won a few. But here comes Sony and MS onto the battlefield that once belonged to Sega and Nintendo.
Its only natural that they become allies, for they have one common cause... "These fuckers are invading our turf! Something must be done! Something MUST be done!
What the hell is the fuss all about? I am on AOL 4.0 right now, and I sure as hell do not see a home page button. There is a menu item called Go to the web, which has always gone to aol's web site, and you still have to go through a few menus to get there.
If you want a home page, just add it to your favorite places. It takes the same ammount of clicks to open the favorite places menu as it does to "go to the web".
What the hell is the big deal here? CNET is well known in my book for poor and misleading articles. Especially when it comes to AOL.
Installing update daemons without asking you is exactly the kind of thing Microsoft does. Sheesh! OK, I'm ready to switch distributions. My only problem is I like having reasonably bleeding-edge versions of everything (other than unwanted update daemons), and I understand that's not what Debian is about.
What's all this hype about everyone wearing computers in the future? I've been wearing watches since the 80's. Digital watches don't qualify as computers? Even ones with daylight savings time?
Many do not look at it this way, but, Microsoft makes money on just about every PC that is sold in the world. Are they are gonna allow people to sell computers without an OS? haha! No way! this would kill them.
They think I'm gonna $180 for their WinME or $500-1000 for Windows2K? haha! sorry! I will continue to pirate their OS. Why should I pay them to use Windows? I am not using it for commercial purposes. How is it hurting them? I am not stealing from them.
Okay, say I never used Windows in my life. Does it affect them in any way, when I pirate their software? No. Who determines the prices on these things anyway? They are completely arbitrary. How come one OS costs $180 while another costs $80.
Okay, I'm gonna make a piece of software that says "Hello World". I will put it up on my site, and charge $400 to use it. It will even say, you must pay $400 or this is illegal to use. This fucker is stealing from me!!!
Okay, what happens when I take the image off their cd, change a couple of bytes, and zip it. Is it still theirs? no way! Its mine now!! I zipped it up, now the bits are arranged in a totally different order, just like when they compiled their software, their c code (er, then again, maybe they used vb to make windows) was compiled into executable code. I just compiled my own zip file! yay! its mine now.
Microsoft calls themselves Innovators. They keep bitching about their right to Innovate. Yea right! I challenge you to name one thing they've done that hasn't already been done before.
Blah, whatever. Feel free to flame me. I'm only human, so what if my views are a little fucked up compared to yours.
So, it's still an interesting article and I am glad they posted it, because otherwise, I wouldn't have known about it. I'm sure 95 percent of the people here would say the same.
I think the reason they used Cartridges on the N64 was because of load times. Back then, 2x cd-roms were top of the line. Just compare the load time of an N64 game and a PSX game, and you will see why they chose cartridges back then.
Blah, this isnt very hard. Anybody with little knowledge of the windows api can remove the ads. This took about 5 minutes to write, and should work on any recent version of AIM. Ok, so you'll have to run this every time you run AIM, oh well.
"In the future, any hacking, regardless of the amount of financial damage it causes, will be a felony. A vandal
is a vandal whether you are a virtual vandal putting graffiti on a web site or a real world vandal putting graffiti on a wall. Both
are illegal. And using a computer to break into a company from the comfort of your living room is just as illegal as using a
hammer to break down that company's front door. Because the Internet makes the crime easier doesn't mean that it makes it
right. These are the first hacking charges in this state; you can bet that they won't be the last."
Uh, it would seem that spray painting a wall is a lot easier than breaking into a web site.
This gives a pretty good description of the protocol AIM uses.
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If they really want to crush the competition, they should give it away. They shure can afford it. Say they give out 150 million units, and they each cost ~$100 to make, it would cost them a cool $15 Billion!
Of course, it seems like a lot of money to us, but to our friends in Redmond, I dont think it would put too much of a dent in their wallet.
"Try to imagine owning the "ultimate" home production power plant; it heats your water, generates
electricity, takes care of heating and air conditioning, etc, by utilizing the waste heat from
refrigeration and applying it to storage or hot water, while the generator is giving you all the
electricity you want.
This is all possible using the GEET Fuel Processor.
In simple definition, the GEET Fuel Processor could be called a new type of carburetor with a
miniature refinery built in. With it, there is no need for catalytic converters, smog pumps and many
other costly items on cars.
The GEET Fuel Processor is not just a fuel delivery system, it is also a pollution elimination unit!
Your mileage will be greatly increased if you are truly consuming ALL of the available energy,
from whatever fuel you may be using. "
SBC guarantees a minimum access rate of 384 Kbps, and that is what they are getting. Yes, they cap their E-mail and Newsgroup servers at 128 Kbps, but this has nothing to do with their Internet access. They have every right to cap the speeds on THEIR own servers.
Lets say I had a dialup 28.8 Kbps connection and decided to run an FTP server. Someone using SBC's dsl access would try to download from me, and only get about 2.5 KBps.
According to these customers, it would be SBC's own fault. What the hell is this world coming to? Just another example of why newbies should not be allowed on the Internet.
If you read the release notes it says that M17 is the last of the major feature work and that from this point on they are going to focus on performance and stability. So maybe in the end, Mozilla won't be as bloated as everyone is expecting. Only time will tell.
If you want a good, standards compliant browser, give Opera a try. It's the closest I know of, and its not bloated either, less than 2 megs I think. The only thing I dont like about it is it doesn't render some pages correctly, mostly due to web developers deviating from standards. sorry about that previous post not being formatted right, I had it split into several paragraphs but I guess I needed to select HTML formatted. hmm. my mistake.
Sure, IE probably complies with most standards now, but Netscape does a pretty good job too for the most part. The thing that pisses me off about IE is that MS has added way too many non-standard features (vbscript, for example) to help make it easier for newbies to make pretty web pages. What is the result of this? People use the IE extensions and anybody not using IE won't be able to see the web page. I know, netscape has used it's own proprietary tags in the past, but not to the extent of Internet Explorer. I've been to a few web sites that just come up as a blank page in Netscape or any other browser, and only work with IE. Now I'm not taking sides here. Netscape is not much better. It crashes way too much for one thing. Probably because of all the standards it's trying to comply to, and many sites using very complex code. As far as Mozilla is concerned. It is bloatware just like IE and Netscape 4.x. It uses it's own user interface library as opposed to the ones that come with MS Windows and X. (buttons, scrollbars, etc.) So therefore all this must be loaded into memory. Bottom line is, if I ever make a web site, I'm sticking to plain old HTML. The only other thing I would even consider using would be CSS, so I could make global changes just by changing one file. but thats about it.
If you have a Zoom modem. they have a few flash upgrades on their site. I upgraded mine a few weeks ago so I could get the call waiting features.. It's pretty cool, the speaker on the modem makes an audible alert whenever you have a call, and you can choose to take the call or not. Of course, this will drop your connection.
This is because vmware modifies your init scripts and slackware's init scripts are different than most distributions. personally I think they are easier to follow. Anyways, if you look at the forums at slackware.com there are many posts related to getting vmware to work. I'm not sure exactly how but it's pretty easy. You just need to make a few extra directories in your/etc.
check out this page, http://marcus.mangakai.org/dc/ip0000.bin.html it describes some detail on the booting process of the Dreamcast. There is a file called IP0000.BIN on every DC disk. Normally, for the DC to consider a disk bootable, this needs to be in the first 16 sectors of the disk, as well as in the high density area of the disk. Well the folks at datel have figured a way around this. You can download the image from http://jove.prohosting.com/~sonikku/Dc-cdx.rar
It burns best with a program called CloneCD , since there is a special file in the rar archive describing how to burn the image, sorta like a cue sheet file in CDRWIN.
I'm guessing what they did was just added another session, and somehow fooled the DC into thinking it was a valid GD-ROM. just a guess.
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Us kids would be lining up at the stores playing the latest games set up on demo. Sure, there were other systems around, TG16, Jaguar, 3D0, etc, but none of these were much of a threat.
Now , out of nowhere, comes these two giant companies, Sony, and Microsoft, both of which are slowly consuming every market out there.
Sega and Nintendo had their battles. Both lost and won a few. But here comes Sony and MS onto the battlefield that once belonged to Sega and Nintendo.
Its only natural that they become allies, for they have one common cause... "These fuckers are invading our turf! Something must be done! Something MUST be done!
If you want a home page, just add it to your favorite places. It takes the same ammount of clicks to open the favorite places menu as it does to "go to the web".
What the hell is the big deal here? CNET is well known in my book for poor and misleading articles. Especially when it comes to AOL.
The "homepage" in my browser is blank.
Is this what you mean ? http://kiwin.hypermart.net/carpool.jpg
couldn't agree more!
Recommendations, anyone?
Slackware, dude! Slack is life!
one word my friend. Slackware
What's all this hype about everyone wearing computers in the future? I've been wearing watches since the 80's. Digital watches don't qualify as computers? Even ones with daylight savings time?
They think I'm gonna $180 for their WinME or $500-1000 for Windows2K? haha! sorry! I will continue to pirate their OS. Why should I pay them to use Windows? I am not using it for commercial purposes. How is it hurting them? I am not stealing from them.
Okay, say I never used Windows in my life. Does it affect them in any way, when I pirate their software? No. Who determines the prices on these things anyway? They are completely arbitrary. How come one OS costs $180 while another costs $80.
Okay, I'm gonna make a piece of software that says "Hello World". I will put it up on my site, and charge $400 to use it. It will even say, you must pay $400 or this is illegal to use. This fucker is stealing from me!!!
Okay, what happens when I take the image off their cd, change a couple of bytes, and zip it. Is it still theirs? no way! Its mine now!! I zipped it up, now the bits are arranged in a totally different order, just like when they compiled their software, their c code (er, then again, maybe they used vb to make windows) was compiled into executable code. I just compiled my own zip file! yay! its mine now.
Microsoft calls themselves Innovators. They keep bitching about their right to Innovate. Yea right! I challenge you to name one thing they've done that hasn't already been done before.
Blah, whatever. Feel free to flame me. I'm only human, so what if my views are a little fucked up compared to yours.
So, it's still an interesting article and I am glad they posted it, because otherwise, I wouldn't have known about it. I'm sure 95 percent of the people here would say the same.
I think the reason they used Cartridges on the N64 was because of load times. Back then, 2x cd-roms were top of the line. Just compare the load time of an N64 game and a PSX game, and you will see why they chose cartridges back then.
I have about 8 screen names on aim myself.
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int main(){
Actually, it took longer to format the damn html than to write this. What the hell did slashdot do to the <pre> tag? err.
This gives a pretty good description of the protocol AIM uses.
Of course, it seems like a lot of money to us, but to our friends in Redmond, I dont think it would put too much of a dent in their wallet.
from their site:
"Try to imagine owning the "ultimate" home production power plant; it heats your water, generates electricity, takes care of heating and air conditioning, etc, by utilizing the waste heat from refrigeration and applying it to storage or hot water, while the generator is giving you all the electricity you want.
This is all possible using the GEET Fuel Processor.
In simple definition, the GEET Fuel Processor could be called a new type of carburetor with a miniature refinery built in. With it, there is no need for catalytic converters, smog pumps and many other costly items on cars.
The GEET Fuel Processor is not just a fuel delivery system, it is also a pollution elimination unit! Your mileage will be greatly increased if you are truly consuming ALL of the available energy, from whatever fuel you may be using. "
Lets say I had a dialup 28.8 Kbps connection and decided to run an FTP server. Someone using SBC's dsl access would try to download from me, and only get about 2.5 KBps.
According to these customers, it would be SBC's own fault. What the hell is this world coming to? Just another example of why newbies should not be allowed on the Internet.
fvwm is all the desktop environment I need.
If you read the release notes it says that M17 is the last of the major feature work and that from this point on they are going to focus on performance and stability. So maybe in the end, Mozilla won't be as bloated as everyone is expecting. Only time will tell.
If you want a good, standards compliant browser, give Opera a try. It's the closest I know of, and its not bloated either, less than 2 megs I think. The only thing I dont like about it is it doesn't render some pages correctly, mostly due to web developers deviating from standards. sorry about that previous post not being formatted right, I had it split into several paragraphs but I guess I needed to select HTML formatted. hmm. my mistake.
Sure, IE probably complies with most standards now, but Netscape does a pretty good job too for the most part. The thing that pisses me off about IE is that MS has added way too many non-standard features (vbscript, for example) to help make it easier for newbies to make pretty web pages. What is the result of this? People use the IE extensions and anybody not using IE won't be able to see the web page. I know, netscape has used it's own proprietary tags in the past, but not to the extent of Internet Explorer. I've been to a few web sites that just come up as a blank page in Netscape or any other browser, and only work with IE. Now I'm not taking sides here. Netscape is not much better. It crashes way too much for one thing. Probably because of all the standards it's trying to comply to, and many sites using very complex code. As far as Mozilla is concerned. It is bloatware just like IE and Netscape 4.x. It uses it's own user interface library as opposed to the ones that come with MS Windows and X. (buttons, scrollbars, etc.) So therefore all this must be loaded into memory. Bottom line is, if I ever make a web site, I'm sticking to plain old HTML. The only other thing I would even consider using would be CSS, so I could make global changes just by changing one file. but thats about it.
If you have a Zoom modem. they have a few flash upgrades on their site. I upgraded mine a few weeks ago so I could get the call waiting features.. It's pretty cool, the speaker on the modem makes an audible alert whenever you have a call, and you can choose to take the call or not. Of course, this will drop your connection.
Zoom isn't a generic brand. They have been around since 1977 and make the best damn modems in the world. imho
This is because vmware modifies your init scripts and slackware's init scripts are different than most distributions. personally I think they are easier to follow. Anyways, if you look at the forums at slackware.com there are many posts related to getting vmware to work. I'm not sure exactly how but it's pretty easy. You just need to make a few extra directories in your /etc.
check out this page, http://marcus.mangakai.org/dc/ip0000.bin.html it describes some detail on the booting process of the Dreamcast. There is a file called IP0000.BIN on every DC disk. Normally, for the DC to consider a disk bootable, this needs to be in the first 16 sectors of the disk, as well as in the high density area of the disk. Well the folks at datel have figured a way around this. You can download the image from http://jove.prohosting.com/~sonikku/Dc-cdx.rar
It burns best with a program called CloneCD , since there is a special file in the rar archive describing how to burn the image, sorta like a cue sheet file in CDRWIN.
I'm guessing what they did was just added another session, and somehow fooled the DC into thinking it was a valid GD-ROM. just a guess.