Why not have the brain of a human bouncing around in a sheep? We already have plenty of candidates where the brain of a sheep is bouncing around in a human.
I got really annoyed with Stargate and channel 7 - it was on again, off again, changed times, off for a few weeks while some crap was on.
Eariler in the year they started running the X-files from EP1 which was kind of fun to see from the start and then after about 6-7 weeks it dissapears with no explanation.
Same thing happended with Dark Angel - you could never be sure if it was going to be on and at aht time.
While I'm ranting, what is with the program times now? TV guides say program X starts at Y - but what they don't tell you is it really Y +/- 20 minutes. Man that's annoying - especially if you are taping.
The only thing that runs near to US release are things like CSI Crack Whore Unit or whatever re-incarnation of the same crap is on now.
More interesting is what happens in a few years when you dust off the HL2 box to play it again and find that the activation system is no longer online. What then?
Politicians don't give two shits anymore. They read very little that it put in front of them and just vote whatever way they are told (if they even bother to vote at all).
It is often left to the "left wing loonies" to delve into the murky depths to find the truth and unfortunately the main stream media always paints them as liberal pot smoking hippies so the majority of the public wont listen to their views.
They are not always right, but we need a balance of the extreme left and the extreme right to find the right middle ground. More and more it seems the extreme right scare tactics are winning sway and no one seems to care anymore. Everyone just happily signs their rights away and doesn't think once about what they are doing.
As an addition to this, I just read that the IOC is now having a go at George Fuck Off And Die You Stupid Hick Bush for mentioning the Olympics illegally in a campaign advertisement.
I really used to believe in free market enterprise and commercialisation but I'm rapidly starting to see merit in the views of the radical left.
More and more what were once simple and oft loved things are being eroded by the single minded drive to make a buck as fast as possible. I cite for example the recent merger between Sony and BMG - the result of which I will bet that popular, but lower revenue generating acts will be kicked out in favour of the Shannon Nolls (Australian Idol) and other pieces of crap with no merit whatsoever. The same thing is slowly happening to the movie industry and has already happended to television. Why make a quality drama for X Million an episode when you can get the same audience with a piece og reality xrap for a tenth as much plus you don't need all those annoying actors!
I used to love the Olympics, but now it is just a stinking sludge pool of corporate sponsership, advertising, greed and drugs. I feel sorry for those athletes who still think it is about the sport.
A lot of people are whinging they have no choice, and if they us the AIM/MSN etc. clients they, they must watch the adds blah blah blah.
My question to them is, why should they give you a free service simply because you want one - I'm really getting tired of seeing this constant gimme gimme argument by Internet users who simply don't want to pay for anything? It costs money to host and support these things and add revenue is one of the ways they do it.
As much as I like freedom of choice of client and I can understand why they would be pissed and muight they sokmething like this.
Personally, if I found no one was receiving my revenue generating adds I'd tell the lot of them to fuck off and shut the thing down. It is a business after all and not a social charity.
I'm a Windows dood at times, but I can't see this working.
The only way it might work is if the nodes are not traditional Windows installs, but rather are the core kernel and support only - ie: they have no GUI or any of the fluff and just enough to get on with doing what they have the do. The management or user land machines (or whatever the correct term is in HPC land) of course would have some GUI components.
Mind you, I've wished to see a stripped down version of Windows without the GUI (or being able to start the GUI as an option ala STARTX) for ages. Maybe this is the beginning...
Good luck is all I can say. They ahve a lot of work to do if it is ever to be credible.
Yeah but it gets more interesting than that.
2 x A4 = A3 sure, but
2 x A3 = A2 and
2 x A2 = A1 and
2 x A1 = A0 and
And 2 x A5 = A4 and I'm sure there is an A6 in there some where as well.
All nice and logical.
Reduce the threat of war - you mean ensure no ever challenges the US economically. Anyway, when was the last time this sort of stuff was used for purely "defensive purposes" anyway. By my last count it's all been required due to a growing unilateral offensive footing based on increasingly tenuous reasoning.
The sad part is there is always some argument (with little or no evidence) the unwashed masses buy into that disguises the real objectives.
"peace-types"? Yeah, who'd ever want that - it's bad for business.
I'm not trying to get into the "who's fault is it" argument, but largely I find it's the bean counters and medling middle management that often get int the way.
I do a lot of MS stuff, but I'm also a professional and know how to do it properly, and use the appropriate technologies whether it be Windows, Linux, BSD, Cisco, Checkpoint (or whatever you prefer) and most often a mixture of it all.
The thing I often find is when you spec out a design, a schedule and a budget to do it right some bean counter always complains that its too long and costs too much even though you carefully analyse the customers requirements and budget and stay within those constraints.
More often than not you will lose the bid or walk away from it and they will get Joe's Computer shop down the road to do it.
So in short, they get what they pay for and reap their just rewards and unfortunately we all pay for it.
Face it - computers are fast becoming commodities. I don't think it is unreasonable to expect a computer to be as easy to use as a toaster or Microwave. Yes, us geeks will whine about it but why should mum and dad give a toss about where some dumb configuration file is or what some arcane command line parameters are. They just want to write an e-mail, a spreadsheet or visit a few websites...
Why is it that the companies selling these products are even allowed to continue to operate anyway?
Most of them seem to be pharmaceutical suppliers and are based in the US. Further they often sell what are classed as Schedule 4 drugs in Australia (must be sold by a licensed pharmacist by doctor prescription only). Does not the US FDA have similoar powers to shut these operators down?
If we could stop the shady operators from selling this stuff (and I can't see how they operate legally) there would be no spam.
How do you do ramdisk in W2K/XP (I'm too lazy to Google it)?
Also, I'm fairly sure IE does the temp download thing just like Netscape (download a large file and look at the filename as it "copies" it to your nominated location).
I think we'll see DukeNuke Forever before Doom3:)
We'll probaly have to wait for the next "killer app" (god I hate that phrase) before it becomes mainstream for desktop users.
I can't see a need for it on the desktop just yet. Big database clusters on the other hand...
Not defending Microsoft, but isn't it about time that they should be able to think this way?
I mean, for most users a computer is so fucking close to being a toaster why shouldn't it behave like one? It's about time we had REAL computing appliances for the masses and put an end to a lot of this crap. There are very few users who need real computers. Most people surf the web, write a few letters and send some e-mail and that's all the machine need do. it should be as easy to do as punching a few buttons on the Microwave.
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This stuff is starting to get ridiculous. It's a book FFS, not an issue of national security!
Why not have the brain of a human bouncing around in a sheep? We already have plenty of candidates where the brain of a sheep is bouncing around in a human.
I got really annoyed with Stargate and channel 7 - it was on again, off again, changed times, off for a few weeks while some crap was on. Eariler in the year they started running the X-files from EP1 which was kind of fun to see from the start and then after about 6-7 weeks it dissapears with no explanation. Same thing happended with Dark Angel - you could never be sure if it was going to be on and at aht time. While I'm ranting, what is with the program times now? TV guides say program X starts at Y - but what they don't tell you is it really Y +/- 20 minutes. Man that's annoying - especially if you are taping. The only thing that runs near to US release are things like CSI Crack Whore Unit or whatever re-incarnation of the same crap is on now.
More interesting is what happens in a few years when you dust off the HL2 box to play it again and find that the activation system is no longer online. What then?
Politicians don't give two shits anymore. They read very little that it put in front of them and just vote whatever way they are told (if they even bother to vote at all). It is often left to the "left wing loonies" to delve into the murky depths to find the truth and unfortunately the main stream media always paints them as liberal pot smoking hippies so the majority of the public wont listen to their views. They are not always right, but we need a balance of the extreme left and the extreme right to find the right middle ground. More and more it seems the extreme right scare tactics are winning sway and no one seems to care anymore. Everyone just happily signs their rights away and doesn't think once about what they are doing.
Aren't we supposed to be welcoming our new insect overlords and something about toiling in underground sugar caves?
As an addition to this, I just read that the IOC is now having a go at George Fuck Off And Die You Stupid Hick Bush for mentioning the Olympics illegally in a campaign advertisement.
I really used to believe in free market enterprise and commercialisation but I'm rapidly starting to see merit in the views of the radical left. More and more what were once simple and oft loved things are being eroded by the single minded drive to make a buck as fast as possible. I cite for example the recent merger between Sony and BMG - the result of which I will bet that popular, but lower revenue generating acts will be kicked out in favour of the Shannon Nolls (Australian Idol) and other pieces of crap with no merit whatsoever. The same thing is slowly happening to the movie industry and has already happended to television. Why make a quality drama for X Million an episode when you can get the same audience with a piece og reality xrap for a tenth as much plus you don't need all those annoying actors! I used to love the Olympics, but now it is just a stinking sludge pool of corporate sponsership, advertising, greed and drugs. I feel sorry for those athletes who still think it is about the sport.
Sometimes I wonder if it isn't time to tell the US millitary and government to go fuck itself. Welcome to the new empire.
A lot of people are whinging they have no choice, and if they us the AIM/MSN etc. clients they, they must watch the adds blah blah blah. My question to them is, why should they give you a free service simply because you want one - I'm really getting tired of seeing this constant gimme gimme argument by Internet users who simply don't want to pay for anything? It costs money to host and support these things and add revenue is one of the ways they do it. As much as I like freedom of choice of client and I can understand why they would be pissed and muight they sokmething like this. Personally, if I found no one was receiving my revenue generating adds I'd tell the lot of them to fuck off and shut the thing down. It is a business after all and not a social charity.
I'm a Windows dood at times, but I can't see this working. The only way it might work is if the nodes are not traditional Windows installs, but rather are the core kernel and support only - ie: they have no GUI or any of the fluff and just enough to get on with doing what they have the do. The management or user land machines (or whatever the correct term is in HPC land) of course would have some GUI components. Mind you, I've wished to see a stripped down version of Windows without the GUI (or being able to start the GUI as an option ala STARTX) for ages. Maybe this is the beginning... Good luck is all I can say. They ahve a lot of work to do if it is ever to be credible.
A friend of mine used to regularly say that only IT and the illicit drug trade call people "users".
I hate to bring it up again, but maybe it says: "all your base are be are belong to us..."
Yeah but it gets more interesting than that. 2 x A4 = A3 sure, but 2 x A3 = A2 and 2 x A2 = A1 and 2 x A1 = A0 and And 2 x A5 = A4 and I'm sure there is an A6 in there some where as well. All nice and logical.
Reduce the threat of war - you mean ensure no ever challenges the US economically. Anyway, when was the last time this sort of stuff was used for purely "defensive purposes" anyway. By my last count it's all been required due to a growing unilateral offensive footing based on increasingly tenuous reasoning. The sad part is there is always some argument (with little or no evidence) the unwashed masses buy into that disguises the real objectives. "peace-types"? Yeah, who'd ever want that - it's bad for business.
I'm not trying to get into the "who's fault is it" argument, but largely I find it's the bean counters and medling middle management that often get int the way. I do a lot of MS stuff, but I'm also a professional and know how to do it properly, and use the appropriate technologies whether it be Windows, Linux, BSD, Cisco, Checkpoint (or whatever you prefer) and most often a mixture of it all. The thing I often find is when you spec out a design, a schedule and a budget to do it right some bean counter always complains that its too long and costs too much even though you carefully analyse the customers requirements and budget and stay within those constraints. More often than not you will lose the bid or walk away from it and they will get Joe's Computer shop down the road to do it. So in short, they get what they pay for and reap their just rewards and unfortunately we all pay for it.
Face it - computers are fast becoming commodities. I don't think it is unreasonable to expect a computer to be as easy to use as a toaster or Microwave. Yes, us geeks will whine about it but why should mum and dad give a toss about where some dumb configuration file is or what some arcane command line parameters are. They just want to write an e-mail, a spreadsheet or visit a few websites...
Why is it that the companies selling these products are even allowed to continue to operate anyway? Most of them seem to be pharmaceutical suppliers and are based in the US. Further they often sell what are classed as Schedule 4 drugs in Australia (must be sold by a licensed pharmacist by doctor prescription only). Does not the US FDA have similoar powers to shut these operators down? If we could stop the shady operators from selling this stuff (and I can't see how they operate legally) there would be no spam.
How do you do ramdisk in W2K/XP (I'm too lazy to Google it)? Also, I'm fairly sure IE does the temp download thing just like Netscape (download a large file and look at the filename as it "copies" it to your nominated location). I think we'll see DukeNuke Forever before Doom3 :)
We'll probaly have to wait for the next "killer app" (god I hate that phrase) before it becomes mainstream for desktop users. I can't see a need for it on the desktop just yet. Big database clusters on the other hand...
These sort of comments should be flagged as troll and never funny.
There is no wit in any of this anymore no matter how true it is.
Would everyone please come up with some new jokes.
Not defending Microsoft, but isn't it about time that they should be able to think this way? I mean, for most users a computer is so fucking close to being a toaster why shouldn't it behave like one? It's about time we had REAL computing appliances for the masses and put an end to a lot of this crap. There are very few users who need real computers. Most people surf the web, write a few letters and send some e-mail and that's all the machine need do. it should be as easy to do as punching a few buttons on the Microwave.
Charming...
It's taken me 15 years to realise this though - mind you there are no jobs in that industry either.
Maybe I can sell myself to medical research.
So if it ran Linux and the screen saver came on (because the dopes didn't configure it right) it would ok? Hmmmmm....