Competition and cooperation between the free OS's will lead to better free OS's. Encourage both as much as you can. Just remember that FUD spreading or any other pissing contest is not healthy competition.
Unfortunately, I've noticed that a vast majority of people interested in 'Free Software' could care less about the ethics behind it, the "healthy competition", and even in some cases, not even the truth behind it. (After all, I was informed by an idiot just a few days ago that Linux is a company also known as Red Hat, I figured I'd share that with everone.)
The trend I'm starting to notice (and it bothers me to some great degree) is that the majority of the people I see using Linux just don't like to buy software at all. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE free software, but I buy software, too.
I've seen people brag about how great Linux is for being free, all the while using a pirated copy of Windows ME.
In the end, they didn't pay for either and they're still using Windows. Am I the only person who sees the hypocracy here?
If the result of my code ending up in Windows was to make Windows faster, more stable, or safer to use in conjunction with other operating systems, I'm all for it.
AMEN!
I could care less if Microsoft's market dominance grows, shrinks, or remains the same! I just wish the troubles that most people seem to have with their OSs would get fixed. (I personally have relatively few problems, but I'm lucky, I guess).
I like BSD. I like Linux. I like them for different reasons. If I had to choose one of the two liscenses, I suppose it would depend more on what I was doing and if I care where it ended up. (It's really a moot point for me, since I don't share my source code. I'm normally ashamed of it.)
But my favorite analogy goes something like this...
If someone GIVES me something for free to do with as I please (say a wooden statue, maybe one that they carved), then I paint it and sell it, do I owe that person anything?
This won't stop people from simply dumping sound output to a file, it'll just require a little bit more work.
Failing to do it in software, nothing is stopping someone from running the SPEAKER OUT line to the AUX IN line of a 2nd computer altogether.
True, some tiny little bit of noise will be introduced, and we'll be right back to the days where sampling sounds was a fine art.
But hey, MP3 adds sound degredation anyway, and nobody seems to care about THAT!
I'm guessing if AMD actually does have any real plans to buy Transmeta, it's largest concern is Transmeta's supposed lower power consumption.
There is other technology there they would be interested in, I know... but AMD is doing pretty poorly against Intel in the mobile market, for now anyway.
Is this the sort of movie we will all be able to play the Hacker's Drinking Game with?
You know the game, you watch Hackers with a bunch of computer literate friends and when someone sees something that is complete bullshit they yell out "BULLSHIT!" Everyone else has to take a drink. Before long, everybody is too drunk to finish watching the movie.
Okay, I can understand the issue one might come up with when trying to play CD-Rs in certain DVD players... as has been stated many times already, the lasers, the dyes, the manufacturers, the fnords, etc, can all have an impact on whether or not a particular model of DVD player will use a particular type of CD-R or CD-RW... but get THIS...
My father just bought a CD-R deck that will not write to most brands of discs.
Since I have a CD-RW drive in my computer, almost every batch of discs he's bought has been given to me, as he can't use them with his writer. Sony and Memorex branded discs work fine. TDK, Maxell, and some REALLY GENERIC stuff he bought (no manufacturer's name that I can see) refuse to write or play on the thing.
It's either a crap writer, or the CD-R industry really needs to standardize, even after all these years.
Personally, I've never had anything that wouldn't read/write/rewrite on my Sony Spressa, but not everybody wants a writer for use with a computer...
I wish I remembered the brand, so I could warn everyone to stay clear... I think the name was like Harmon Kardon or Karmon Hardon or something... It's pure shit.
In no way should Sega be held responsible for any lack of future planning on the part of their 3rd Party software developers.
UNLESS the 3rd Party Game-Devs had absolutely NO way of knowing how to support the upcoming Brandband Adapter because Sega wouldn't provide the information. If THAT'S the case, then yes, it is Sega's fault.
But seeing as how Quake 3 was released before the adapater, I'm guessing most developers were well aware and just didn't care. And of course being out for the quick buck, they didn't care to support unavailable hardware, and loved the idea of selling a special version with ethernet support AFTER it's release. That's how the video game companies work these days. Bastards.
The world is headed towards true data convergence and OS agnosticism. Linux users will hate that, since thier precious little Penguin-God will no longer be such a big deal. Windows users will cope with it. Most other people won't know or care what OS their system is running off of.
What about fast fowarding to a specific part of a movie?
Nevermind the fact that DVDs take up less space on the shelf, but they almost always have more "Neat Stuff" included ("Follow the white rabbit!"), and they don't get eaten, never wear out (unless you scratch them... ugh).
I've all but thrown out anything related to a cassette of any kind in this house.
So what? I can't record? Big deal. I couldn't record on CD for the longest time either, but that didn't stop me from buying all of my new music on CD. In fact, I haven't bought a music tape in what's now getting close to 15 years.
Just because they made VHS digital doesn't mean I'm willing to dive right back into all of it's flaws.
It's still digital. A 'weak' 0 is still a 0, and a 'weak' 1 is still a 1. But a blanked out area will probably cause pops-n-gaps... and let's not even talk about how screwed up it'll get if the tape gets eaten by the read heads.
What I think is crap is picking someone for a job based on their skin color, which is exactly what Affirmative Action does. And don't give me this "leveling out the races" crap. It doesn't work, and it just ends up bloating the work force to get the proper number of qualified manpower, because sometimes you have to hire incompetent people just to meet quota...
But maybe your right, maybe I am racist.
> And one does not have to be white to be racist.
Agreed. And that's why I found it to be the funny bit.
Realistically, I guess one could say I might be racist, but I don't discriminate. I generally hate most humans equally, and I hand pick the exceptions.
I don't suppose they ever stopped to think maybe it wasn't because they were black, but rather because they were incompetent?
I have a slight problem with "Affirmative Action" because I've seen totally incompetent people hired simply because the "Quota" for Non-White employees wasn't met at a company.
Does this make me racist? Maybe. Funny bit though... I'm not white.
There's seismological activity everywhere. It's just very seldom so much that anybody would notice. Remember, earth's crust is ever-shifting. Slow though it may be. But the further apart two bodies of land are, the more noticable these changes are likely to be.
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Competition and cooperation between the free OS's will lead to better free OS's. Encourage both as much as you can. Just remember that FUD spreading or any other pissing contest is not healthy competition.
Unfortunately, I've noticed that a vast majority of people interested in 'Free Software' could care less about the ethics behind it, the "healthy competition", and even in some cases, not even the truth behind it. (After all, I was informed by an idiot just a few days ago that Linux is a company also known as Red Hat, I figured I'd share that with everone.)
The trend I'm starting to notice (and it bothers me to some great degree) is that the majority of the people I see using Linux just don't like to buy software at all. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE free software, but I buy software, too.
I've seen people brag about how great Linux is for being free, all the while using a pirated copy of Windows ME.
In the end, they didn't pay for either and they're still using Windows. Am I the only person who sees the hypocracy here?
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
On the daemon front, I've seen books available by mail, none in the bookstores.
My copy of FreeBSD came with a copy of The Complete FreeBSD.
Sometimes it pays to spend a little money.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
If the result of my code ending up in Windows was to make Windows faster, more stable, or safer to use in conjunction with other operating systems, I'm all for it.
AMEN!
I could care less if Microsoft's market dominance grows, shrinks, or remains the same! I just wish the troubles that most people seem to have with their OSs would get fixed. (I personally have relatively few problems, but I'm lucky, I guess).
I like BSD. I like Linux. I like them for different reasons. If I had to choose one of the two liscenses, I suppose it would depend more on what I was doing and if I care where it ended up. (It's really a moot point for me, since I don't share my source code. I'm normally ashamed of it.)
But my favorite analogy goes something like this...
If someone GIVES me something for free to do with as I please (say a wooden statue, maybe one that they carved), then I paint it and sell it, do I owe that person anything?
There is no right answer.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
This won't stop people from simply dumping sound output to a file, it'll just require a little bit more work.
Failing to do it in software, nothing is stopping someone from running the SPEAKER OUT line to the AUX IN line of a 2nd computer altogether.
True, some tiny little bit of noise will be introduced, and we'll be right back to the days where sampling sounds was a fine art.
But hey, MP3 adds sound degredation anyway, and nobody seems to care about THAT!
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
I'm guessing if AMD actually does have any real plans to buy Transmeta, it's largest concern is Transmeta's supposed lower power consumption.
There is other technology there they would be interested in, I know... but AMD is doing pretty poorly against Intel in the mobile market, for now anyway.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Wireless Network!?!? WIRELESS NETWORK!?
There aren't that many spare PHONE NUMBERS!
Some areas of the US are constantly having to redo their area codes just to keep up.
Even if this thing were real, it would have to be for outgoing calls only... as it could almost certainly not have a phone number it's self.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Distributed Stupidity?
Ignorant Redundance?
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Is this the sort of movie we will all be able to play the Hacker's Drinking Game with?
You know the game, you watch Hackers with a bunch of computer literate friends and when someone sees something that is complete bullshit they yell out "BULLSHIT!" Everyone else has to take a drink. Before long, everybody is too drunk to finish watching the movie.
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Okay, I can understand the issue one might come up with when trying to play CD-Rs in certain DVD players... as has been stated many times already, the lasers, the dyes, the manufacturers, the fnords, etc, can all have an impact on whether or not a particular model of DVD player will use a particular type of CD-R or CD-RW... but get THIS...
My father just bought a CD-R deck that will not write to most brands of discs.
Since I have a CD-RW drive in my computer, almost every batch of discs he's bought has been given to me, as he can't use them with his writer. Sony and Memorex branded discs work fine. TDK, Maxell, and some REALLY GENERIC stuff he bought (no manufacturer's name that I can see) refuse to write or play on the thing.
It's either a crap writer, or the CD-R industry really needs to standardize, even after all these years.
Personally, I've never had anything that wouldn't read/write/rewrite on my Sony Spressa, but not everybody wants a writer for use with a computer...
I wish I remembered the brand, so I could warn everyone to stay clear... I think the name was like Harmon Kardon or Karmon Hardon or something... It's pure shit.
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I've been taking advantage of it for the last 30 minutes!
WAY TO GO SLASHDOT! WOOHOO!
*snicker*
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"OH NO, COMPETITORS! Let's Slashdot them!"
And somewhere out there, a web-server bursts into flames as the hits come pouring in.
Half-Empty is soooooo freakin' slow!
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"...and that's what Sega has done."
In no way should Sega be held responsible for any lack of future planning on the part of their 3rd Party software developers.
UNLESS the 3rd Party Game-Devs had absolutely NO way of knowing how to support the upcoming Brandband Adapter because Sega wouldn't provide the information. If THAT'S the case, then yes, it is Sega's fault.
But seeing as how Quake 3 was released before the adapater, I'm guessing most developers were well aware and just didn't care. And of course being out for the quick buck, they didn't care to support unavailable hardware, and loved the idea of selling a special version with ethernet support AFTER it's release. That's how the video game companies work these days. Bastards.
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Well...
It's something to look forward to anyway...
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My Cisco 804 does pretty good about figuring out which system to forward UDP packets to, but only in some applications.
Quake III and Diablo II both work really well.
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And a sound theory, most likely.
The world is headed towards true data convergence and OS agnosticism. Linux users will hate that, since thier precious little Penguin-God will no longer be such a big deal. Windows users will cope with it. Most other people won't know or care what OS their system is running off of.
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So buy a tape rewinder.
What about fast fowarding to a specific part of a movie?
Nevermind the fact that DVDs take up less space on the shelf, but they almost always have more "Neat Stuff" included ("Follow the white rabbit!"), and they don't get eaten, never wear out (unless you scratch them... ugh).
I've all but thrown out anything related to a cassette of any kind in this house.
So what? I can't record? Big deal. I couldn't record on CD for the longest time either, but that didn't stop me from buying all of my new music on CD. In fact, I haven't bought a music tape in what's now getting close to 15 years.
Just because they made VHS digital doesn't mean I'm willing to dive right back into all of it's flaws.
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That doesn't matter too much...
It's still digital. A 'weak' 0 is still a 0, and a 'weak' 1 is still a 1. But a blanked out area will probably cause pops-n-gaps... and let's not even talk about how screwed up it'll get if the tape gets eaten by the read heads.
VHS is obsolete. They need to get over it.
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...I'm going to replace my DVDs with something that I have to rewind...!?
No thanks!
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Another Visitor! Stay A while... STAY FOREVER!
And of course...
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!
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> What is it with Red Hat (l)users anyway?
Don't you know?
Installing Linux turned them into a 1337 455 h4x0r d00d.
*sigh*
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> Yes, it does.
Why? Because I think Affirmative Action is crap?
What I think is crap is picking someone for a job based on their skin color, which is exactly what Affirmative Action does. And don't give me this "leveling out the races" crap. It doesn't work, and it just ends up bloating the work force to get the proper number of qualified manpower, because sometimes you have to hire incompetent people just to meet quota...
But maybe your right, maybe I am racist.
> And one does not have to be white to be racist.
Agreed. And that's why I found it to be the funny bit.
Realistically, I guess one could say I might be racist, but I don't discriminate. I generally hate most humans equally, and I hand pick the exceptions.
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Maybe they were discriminated against?
I don't suppose they ever stopped to think maybe it wasn't because they were black, but rather because they were incompetent?
I have a slight problem with "Affirmative Action" because I've seen totally incompetent people hired simply because the "Quota" for Non-White employees wasn't met at a company.
Does this make me racist? Maybe. Funny bit though... I'm not white.
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We know the actual creators aren't Microsoft.
It's been standing for 3 days and that kind of uptime doesn't come out of anything from Microsoft.
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How touching.
You are so very right.
Screw a Siberian/Alsakan rail...
...let's build a bridge to the moon.
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There's seismological activity everywhere. It's just very seldom so much that anybody would notice. Remember, earth's crust is ever-shifting. Slow though it may be. But the further apart two bodies of land are, the more noticable these changes are likely to be.
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