...The big thing is going to be Longhorn--that's why it's taking so long. WinFS, Avalon, whole new interface called Aero Glass, an entire.NET-based OS that replaces Win32, and so on...
I hear it's going ot come bundled with Duke Nukem Forever too.
He may be a bit of a prick in a lot of Linux users' eyes, but he's got a set of brass ones and doesn't tend to back down from a fight. He's also a hell of a marketer. He's been pushing Lindows/Linspire, since its inception, as a commercial desktop distro. Other than Mandrake and SuSE, we haven't seen another "Desktop Distro" yet that isn't fairly fringe (ala Xandros and Lycoris), much less one that's been pushed to Major OEMs. Dell "tried" with Redhat not too long ago, but their effert was flaccid at best. You may not agree with or like Robertson, but he's taking Linux on a path it may need to go down.
^@%$#%^@##@%$^%@#$ Tom Petty
How dare he make an album like Wildflowers, that can make you zone out and get lost for an hour. I just got done with a zone session that ended up with a cigarette burning through the left CTRL key on my nifty Keytronic LT Wireless Keyboard, the keyboard I've been faithfully typing away at for almost 5 years now.
:-( :-( :-( That keyboard, along with my trusty Logitech Cordless Mouseman, has been the direct interface between myself and the virtual world for some time now. The freedom was incredible. I could ease into my La-Z-Boy recliner, kick back, and surf for hours and hours and hours....[droooooooooool]
Tom Petty, along with other artists like King Crimson and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, have been responsible for many hours of zoned out internet surfing to some of my favorite sites. You've been there - putting on some tunes, firing up your browser, zoning out and surfing away...
Two minutes later, an hour has passed, the album has ended, and you've been around the world and back and hopefully learned something new.
That's just how I started off the other night. I popped Tom Petty's Wildflowers cd into the drive, cranked up the volume, and fired up the browser. I was immediately sucked in by the sweetacoutic guitar sounds of the title track. Click... Click... Click... You Don't Know How It Feels comes up, I hear the sentimental lyrics, and I drift back to my younger days... Click... Click... Click... Another 30 seconds rolls by and half the album's over... Cabin Down Below just nails me with the big fat Telecasters running through tube amps turned up to 11 sound... Click... Click... Click... I finally make it to Wake Up Time... "Time to open your eyes... And rise and shine..." and...
What about the 37 channels of M*A*S*H and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman reruns, and almost dozens of channels using decades old programs (gameshow, nickelodeon, and cartoon networks come to mind immediately)... What would we do today if there weren't channels showing the Space Ghost epsiodes that we wouldn't watch when we were 7 years old?!? My god man... think of the children!!!!11!oneone
I thought you could only be punished for crimes you have been charged for and found guilty of having commit. Not for crimes you may have done or are likely to do.
Wow. You probably believe the "record will be expunged" thing for minors too eh? Perhaps once upon a time in America; but that time is, unfortunately, long, long gone.
While Microsoft doesn't consistently put out the best products they're capable of, I don't think anyone would stoop so low as to say they put out the WORST product out in the market.
However... it would seem that their marketing department seems to have the last say in what's included and when things are done, not the developers. It's almost as if they walk in to the development labs and say "wrap it up, we ship tommorrow" whether something's complete or not. Mod this as flaimbait all you want, but I don't know how else to explain their "security record", surely no competent developer would put out such shoddy workmanship on their own. Longhorn seems to be going against this well-established Microsoft policy, but the proof will be in the pudding, as they say.
Advertising for a four hour erection... Absolutely! Three hours of men beating each other to a bloody pulp over a ball... You Betcha! Flash a little boobie... WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!11!!oneone
It'll also just about kill any tourist industry/commerce for Baltimore. I know I, for one, will not visit there - specifically because of this. I have no intention of supporting a municipality that condones this, and you can bet I'm not alone. Who really wants to hear "Look Daddy! That camera keeps following us!" from their kids as they walk down the street?
The main problem with all of this is "where do you draw the line between spyware, adware, and software?"
Simple. I can manually install and uninstall software - no hiding behind cryptic EULAs or piggy-backed with another app. When I'm not telling windows update to run, it's not running, same for redhat update network. That's not the case with spyware.
If Claria wants to claim to have a "valid business model", they can put out an app that I can download and install on my own if I want to. Until that time, they can go fuck themselves.
Wasnt it Yahoo that changed the "subscription" settings on all their current (at the time) email users to have them "opted-in" to all their spam partners not too long ago? Fool me once...
Because, like most other things on the planet (and off?), different folks like different stuff. While _you_ might just love Gnome 2.6, _I_ might prefer KDE, and Dave across the street mowing his lawn might prefer Xfce or Fluxbox. That's what's nice about this Linux thing most folks around here start using it for in the first place - you have a choice.
Perhaps we _should_ use the term virii for these do-nothing, 'i just wrote it cause I'm l33t' brainless viruses that have been popping up all over the place - the multitude of click 'n send email crap that are Outlook's forte. When actual, destructive programs come about, called them viruses. These weenie, all they basically do is self-replicate, things can be called virii to serve as a distiction between a trye virus and a wannabe virus.
Or does that pic somehow resemble a baby carriage just a bit? All that's missing is the handle on the back and a pacifier. Oooo....The Toyota Pacifier (TM)
In "Men in Black," Tommy Lee Jones' character holds up a new intergalactic music disc the size of a postage stamp that will eventually replace CDs.
"Guess I'll have to buy the 'White Album' again," he says with a sigh. source
The tinfoil side of me thinks that perhaps the **AA's been trying to condition people to this for quite some time. The non-tinfoil side thinks the tinfoil side's nutz.
>Personally, I'd like to see at least one fast, tight file browser that mindlessly clones Windows Explorer.
ahem XFE (formerly X Win Commander) is small, light, and fast. It's fairly no-frills, but then again, you also aren't forced to install cd-burning software to use it.
who caught the irony of all the "...said in a telephone interview" parts of this? They're investigating a communication medium, yet can't even be bothered to use that medium to interview people related to it? wtg NYT!
So file a bug report/mailing-list post/suggestion/whatever. This is a friggen BETA for pete's sake. It's going to change, probably redically, before its final release. Whining on slashdot is unlikely to get you anywhere - mention it to the developers.
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...The big thing is going to be Longhorn--that's why it's taking so long. WinFS, Avalon, whole new interface called Aero Glass, an entire .NET-based OS that replaces Win32, and so on...
I hear it's going ot come bundled with Duke Nukem Forever too.
He may be a bit of a prick in a lot of Linux users' eyes, but he's got a set of brass ones and doesn't tend to back down from a fight. He's also a hell of a marketer. He's been pushing Lindows/Linspire, since its inception, as a commercial desktop distro. Other than Mandrake and SuSE, we haven't seen another "Desktop Distro" yet that isn't fairly fringe (ala Xandros and Lycoris), much less one that's been pushed to Major OEMs. Dell "tried" with Redhat not too long ago, but their effert was flaccid at best.
You may not agree with or like Robertson, but he's taking Linux on a path it may need to go down.
I there a mod for +5 pwn3d?
^@%$#%^@##@%$^%@#$ Tom Petty
How dare he make an album like Wildflowers, that can make you zone out and get lost for an hour. I just got done with a zone session that ended up with a cigarette burning through the left CTRL key on my nifty Keytronic LT Wireless Keyboard, the keyboard I've been faithfully typing away at for almost 5 years now.
That keyboard, along with my trusty Logitech Cordless Mouseman, has been the direct interface between myself and the virtual world for some time now. The freedom was incredible. I could ease into my La-Z-Boy recliner, kick back, and surf for hours and hours and hours....[droooooooooool]
Tom Petty, along with other artists like King Crimson and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, have been responsible for many hours of zoned out internet surfing to some of my favorite sites. You've been there - putting on some tunes, firing up your browser, zoning out and surfing away...
Two minutes later, an hour has passed, the album has ended, and you've been around the world and back and hopefully learned something new.
That's just how I started off the other night. I popped Tom Petty's Wildflowers cd into the drive, cranked up the volume, and fired up the browser. I was immediately sucked in by the sweet acoutic guitar sounds of the title track. Click... Click... Click... You Don't Know How It Feels comes up, I hear the sentimental lyrics, and I drift back to my younger days... Click... Click... Click... Another 30 seconds rolls by and half the album's over... Cabin Down Below just nails me with the big fat Telecasters running through tube amps turned up to 11 sound... Click... Click... Click... I finally make it to Wake Up Time ... "Time to open your eyes... And rise and shine..." and...
I'm accosted by the stench of burning pl
What about the 37 channels of M*A*S*H and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman reruns, and almost dozens of channels using decades old programs (gameshow, nickelodeon, and cartoon networks come to mind immediately)...
What would we do today if there weren't channels showing the Space Ghost epsiodes that we wouldn't watch when we were 7 years old?!?
My god man... think of the children!!!!11!oneone
I thought you could only be punished for crimes you have been charged for and found guilty of having commit. Not for crimes you may have done or are likely to do.
Wow. You probably believe the "record will be expunged" thing for minors too eh? Perhaps once upon a time in America; but that time is, unfortunately, long, long gone.
While Microsoft doesn't consistently put out the best products they're capable of, I don't think anyone would stoop so low as to say they put out the WORST product out in the market.
However... it would seem that their marketing department seems to have the last say in what's included and when things are done, not the developers. It's almost as if they walk in to the development labs and say "wrap it up, we ship tommorrow" whether something's complete or not.
Mod this as flaimbait all you want, but I don't know how else to explain their "security record", surely no competent developer would put out such shoddy workmanship on their own. Longhorn seems to be going against this well-established Microsoft policy, but the proof will be in the pudding, as they say.
Ahh yes, the old "parenting" cop out...
Advertising for a four hour erection... Absolutely!
Three hours of men beating each other to a bloody pulp over a ball... You Betcha!
Flash a little boobie... WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!11!!oneone
[yawn]
'Cause trusting the manufacturer to make their product secure has shown to be such a good solution in the past.
Yep, those manufacturers have been on the ball haven't they?
The cameras may increase crime.
It'll also just about kill any tourist industry/commerce for Baltimore. I know I, for one, will not visit there - specifically because of this. I have no intention of supporting a municipality that condones this, and you can bet I'm not alone.
Who really wants to hear "Look Daddy! That camera keeps following us!" from their kids as they walk down the street?
Tinfoil hat size: 6 7/8
For some reason US corporations take it for granted that all countries/entities everywhere exist merely to pander to their interests.
Perhaps that's because the US government seems to exist these days merely to pander to their interests.
Perhaps they have the same marketing department as Belkin?
The main problem with all of this is "where do you draw the line between spyware, adware, and software?"
Simple. I can manually install and uninstall software - no hiding behind cryptic EULAs or piggy-backed with another app. When I'm not telling windows update to run, it's not running, same for redhat update network. That's not the case with spyware.
If Claria wants to claim to have a "valid business model", they can put out an app that I can download and install on my own if I want to. Until that time, they can go fuck themselves.
Wasnt it Yahoo that changed the "subscription" settings on all their current (at the time) email users to have them "opted-in" to all their spam partners not too long ago?
Fool me once...
Because, like most other things on the planet (and off?), different folks like different stuff. While _you_ might just love Gnome 2.6, _I_ might prefer KDE, and Dave across the street mowing his lawn might prefer Xfce or Fluxbox.
That's what's nice about this Linux thing most folks around here start using it for in the first place - you have a choice.
Perhaps we _should_ use the term virii for these do-nothing, 'i just wrote it cause I'm l33t' brainless viruses that have been popping up all over the place - the multitude of click 'n send email crap that are Outlook's forte.
When actual, destructive programs come about, called them viruses. These weenie, all they basically do is self-replicate, things can be called virii to serve as a distiction between a trye virus and a wannabe virus.
Or does that pic somehow resemble a baby carriage just a bit?
All that's missing is the handle on the back and a pacifier.
Oooo....The Toyota Pacifier (TM)
...and I trade services. He does adjustments for me, and when that's done, I make sure his machines are patched and up to date.
You'd figure with IBM's resources, their lawyers would have been on something like this within a month - not over a year.
So...
you're buying an Emachine...and you're buying it from Best Buy?!?!
It must be true.
Slashdot is no longer just for nerds
In "Men in Black," Tommy Lee Jones' character holds up a new intergalactic music disc the size of a postage stamp that will eventually replace CDs.
"Guess I'll have to buy the 'White Album' again," he says with a sigh.
source
The tinfoil side of me thinks that perhaps the **AA's been trying to condition people to this for quite some time. The non-tinfoil side thinks the tinfoil side's nutz.
>Personally, I'd like to see at least one fast, tight file browser that mindlessly clones Windows Explorer.
ahem
XFE (formerly X Win Commander) is small, light, and fast. It's fairly no-frills, but then again, you also aren't forced to install cd-burning software to use it.
I'm no physicist, so I have no idea what the implications of this are. The article and PDF gave no indication either. Anyone care to share?
who caught the irony of all the "...said in a telephone interview" parts of this?
They're investigating a communication medium, yet can't even be bothered to use that medium to interview people related to it?
wtg NYT!
So file a bug report/mailing-list post/suggestion/whatever. This is a friggen BETA for pete's sake. It's going to change, probably redically, before its final release.
Whining on slashdot is unlikely to get you anywhere - mention it to the developers.