I know I'm excited about X86-64! About as excited as a snail on salt day. Instead of designing a superior architecture, let's just tack some more shit on to a 30 year old processor design. WHOOPEE!
My main problem with U8 was that until they released the 'Jumping Patch' I would always die trying to jump from one fucking thing to the next. It was TORTURE to try to actually DO anything in that game.
To me, the end of Origin was Ultima 9. The game was released in a non-running state, and after some halfhearted patching, was playable but not even close to finished. When the word from above was that there would be no more patches, I knew that Origin was dead. It may have taken a few years for the corpse to stop twitching, but now we can dig a grave, pitch a few fistfuls of dirt on top of Lord British, and put Sosaria to rest.
Ultima 7 & SI are still two of the greatest and most fun games ever invented in my book, though. Too bad U8 was downhill and U9 wasn't even done. I hope Mr. Garriot can afford to keep his house with the secret room and the 5000 watt stereo - it would be a shame for him to have to get creative and make a good game again.
I agree. In fact, I don't know anybody who can use or comprehend a command line who didn't teach themselves. My lesson, from a good buddy a long time ago was "It's like DOS, but not retarded. Remember, ls is like dir, cd works the same way, less reads files, and programs are in/bin and/usr/bin. Type whatis * in either of those directories to get a synopsis. Use man on the program to find out how to use it. HAVE FUN!"
Sure! Say you want to know about partitions! Just say
apropos partition
and you get a list of relevant man pages. In this case, you get two items...
fdisk(8) - DOS partition maintenance program pdisk(8) - Apple partition table editor
Then you just type
man fdisk
and read away! This works surprisingly well, although I find OS X's whatis command to be broken, including a lot of shit that really shouldn't be there.
Did anyone EVER subscribe to Computer Shopper? There are very few magazines that have an ad / article ratio as high as Cosmo, but Computer Shopper is right up there.
Nikon and Sony are NOT doing as well as Canon at all. The key here is Canon's lead in the market. Nikon is shitting their pants over the ID Mk. II, because their product they just came out with was to compete with the 1D.
Canon started owning Nikon in the 1980's with the redesigned lens mount, where lenses could have appropriate motors, rather than one single Philips head screwdriver motor. When Image Stabilization came around, Nikon users left for Canon in droves (and still are, considering Nikon lacks their 'VR' technology on the big glass). Also, their DSLRs don't really compete with Canon, in the noise or resolution departments.
The 14n and SLR/n both blow goats when compared even to the Digital Rebel. Color fringing, moire patterns, random red / green noise up the gump, and body reliability problems plagued the 14n and look to do the same with the SLR/n.
Actually, Honeywell invented and patented CMOS technology. Canon currently has the world's largest CMOS foundry. Kodak's CMOS are low-MP devices for use in craptronics like camera phones.
This is not the issue. If Amtrak or Greyhound decided to take the draconian measures that the airlines have, it's their decision. You always have the right to travel by other means. You could drive to Canada and fly out of there if you wished. You could take a month off work and cycle to where you want to go.
These are companies, operating a business, which you are choosing to patronize. If you have your own airplane, you don't need to do anything but get in and go, just like in your own car. You have NO RIGHT to fly on an airplane in this country - it's a privilege afforded to those with the money to pay for the ticket and the time and patience to deal with the retardation that is commercial airline travel.
You have no RIGHT to drive, either - it's a privilege afforded to you when you pass your driving test.
Some people have confused their rights (provided for in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights) and privileges afforded to them by federal, state, and local governments and comapanies and other individuals.
So, one can't conduct non-infringing P2P research nowadays? I'm sure some folks DID download the source, but MS is talking a big leap here to assume that anyone who even searched for the source is guilty of downloading it.
How else do you expect modern commercial software to install its payload of spyware, adware, and malware, let alone fuck up the registry, without admin access?
You're assuming that everything is equal. As Gates would say "That's simply not true!" Linux is engineered in a completely different way than Windows. If it were true that the only thing keeping virus writers away from a target is lack of numbers, why do we see a dozen or more exploits for MS IIS for every one Apache exploit? Surely, Apache runs more web sites than IIS - we should be seeing many more worms etc. targeting Apache.
You have discovered a red herring, and I hope you don't try to take your flawed chain of reasoning to the bank. It's worthless.
It's easy to figure out why IBM is playing nice now - their scary Big Brother persona was costing them marketshare, but more importantly, MINDSHARE. Playing nice costs them little, but earns them much.
Don't bitch. Apple has given back to the open source community and has been doing it for years! GCC, FreeBSD, MkLinux, dozens of unix utilities, Zeroconf implementations that WORK, and this isn't even close to an exhaustive list.
Apple has been working with the open source community for a LONG long time, and hasn't ever flaunted it like Microsoft. Besides, the Konqueror team wouldn't make their work GPL if they didn't want to share!
That's kind of the POINT of open source. SHARING! Apple helped the KDE team as well.
Actually, carjackers are usually too cracked out to care what they steal. I don't know how many episodes of Cops I saw with five or six gangbangers piled into a Geo Prizm.
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Read the article. His penis was red, developed sores that produced prodigious amounts of pus, and then scabbed over.
HE GOT THE CLAP!
Holy CRAP you're elite! I can't figure out how to compile code with Photoshop. TEACH ME!
I know I'm excited about X86-64! About as excited as a snail on salt day. Instead of designing a superior architecture, let's just tack some more shit on to a 30 year old processor design. WHOOPEE!
My main problem with U8 was that until they released the 'Jumping Patch' I would always die trying to jump from one fucking thing to the next. It was TORTURE to try to actually DO anything in that game.
To me, the end of Origin was Ultima 9. The game was released in a non-running state, and after some halfhearted patching, was playable but not even close to finished. When the word from above was that there would be no more patches, I knew that Origin was dead. It may have taken a few years for the corpse to stop twitching, but now we can dig a grave, pitch a few fistfuls of dirt on top of Lord British, and put Sosaria to rest.
Ultima 7 & SI are still two of the greatest and most fun games ever invented in my book, though. Too bad U8 was downhill and U9 wasn't even done. I hope Mr. Garriot can afford to keep his house with the secret room and the 5000 watt stereo - it would be a shame for him to have to get creative and make a good game again.
I agree. In fact, I don't know anybody who can use or comprehend a command line who didn't teach themselves. My lesson, from a good buddy a long time ago was "It's like DOS, but not retarded. Remember, ls is like dir, cd works the same way, less reads files, and programs are in /bin and /usr/bin. Type whatis * in either of those directories to get a synopsis. Use man on the program to find out how to use it. HAVE FUN!"
And I have had fun.
And why one would run csh or any of its goatlike children is beyond my ability to comprehend.
I find this comment to be hilarious. Amiga fans, wake up and smell the FUTURE! It farted when it passed you by a decade ago.
And, if you can't read, type, or use a mouse how do you use a computer?
That's like saying 'Sure, driving is great. But only if you have a car.'
Sure! Say you want to know about partitions! Just say
apropos partition
and you get a list of relevant man pages. In this case, you get two items...
fdisk(8) - DOS partition maintenance program
pdisk(8) - Apple partition table editor
Then you just type
man fdisk
and read away! This works surprisingly well, although I find OS X's whatis command to be broken, including a lot of shit that really shouldn't be there.
I'm not naive. You're naive if you think I gave Bin Laden any ideas, troll.
I used Computer Shopper, but I never bought it. We have libraries for a reason.
I could never find an actual article in that mag. Just ads.
Wohoo! I could link to a page featuring a Canon CMOS DSLR, but that proves nothing.
You are on crack.
Did anyone EVER subscribe to Computer Shopper? There are very few magazines that have an ad / article ratio as high as Cosmo, but Computer Shopper is right up there.
Nikon and Sony are NOT doing as well as Canon at all. The key here is Canon's lead in the market. Nikon is shitting their pants over the ID Mk. II, because their product they just came out with was to compete with the 1D.
Canon started owning Nikon in the 1980's with the redesigned lens mount, where lenses could have appropriate motors, rather than one single Philips head screwdriver motor. When Image Stabilization came around, Nikon users left for Canon in droves (and still are, considering Nikon lacks their 'VR' technology on the big glass). Also, their DSLRs don't really compete with Canon, in the noise or resolution departments.
How's THAT for Canon Rah-Rahing?
The 14n and SLR/n both blow goats when compared even to the Digital Rebel. Color fringing, moire patterns, random red / green noise up the gump, and body reliability problems plagued the 14n and look to do the same with the SLR/n.
Actually, Honeywell invented and patented CMOS technology. Canon currently has the world's largest CMOS foundry. Kodak's CMOS are low-MP devices for use in craptronics like camera phones.
This is not the issue. If Amtrak or Greyhound decided to take the draconian measures that the airlines have, it's their decision. You always have the right to travel by other means. You could drive to Canada and fly out of there if you wished. You could take a month off work and cycle to where you want to go.
These are companies, operating a business, which you are choosing to patronize. If you have your own airplane, you don't need to do anything but get in and go, just like in your own car. You have NO RIGHT to fly on an airplane in this country - it's a privilege afforded to those with the money to pay for the ticket and the time and patience to deal with the retardation that is commercial airline travel.
You have no RIGHT to drive, either - it's a privilege afforded to you when you pass your driving test.
Some people have confused their rights (provided for in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights) and privileges afforded to them by federal, state, and local governments and comapanies and other individuals.
So, one can't conduct non-infringing P2P research nowadays? I'm sure some folks DID download the source, but MS is talking a big leap here to assume that anyone who even searched for the source is guilty of downloading it.
What a bunch of peckers.
How else do you expect modern commercial software to install its payload of spyware, adware, and malware, let alone fuck up the registry, without admin access?
If you actually read the Windows EULA, you'd see that Windows is not to be used in critical systems the failure of which could result in loss of life.
I'd say that the moron who deployed such systems (YOU!) is more responsible here than Windows itself.
You're assuming that everything is equal. As Gates would say "That's simply not true!" Linux is engineered in a completely different way than Windows. If it were true that the only thing keeping virus writers away from a target is lack of numbers, why do we see a dozen or more exploits for MS IIS for every one Apache exploit? Surely, Apache runs more web sites than IIS - we should be seeing many more worms etc. targeting Apache.
You have discovered a red herring, and I hope you don't try to take your flawed chain of reasoning to the bank. It's worthless.
It's easy to figure out why IBM is playing nice now - their scary Big Brother persona was costing them marketshare, but more importantly, MINDSHARE. Playing nice costs them little, but earns them much.
Don't bitch. Apple has given back to the open source community and has been doing it for years! GCC, FreeBSD, MkLinux, dozens of unix utilities, Zeroconf implementations that WORK, and this isn't even close to an exhaustive list.
Apple has been working with the open source community for a LONG long time, and hasn't ever flaunted it like Microsoft. Besides, the Konqueror team wouldn't make their work GPL if they didn't want to share!
That's kind of the POINT of open source. SHARING! Apple helped the KDE team as well.
Actually, carjackers are usually too cracked out to care what they steal. I don't know how many episodes of Cops I saw with five or six gangbangers piled into a Geo Prizm.