I just can't bring myself to purchase a gaming console. I may have been raised on Atari2600 but the last console I owned was the original Nintendo. If games stop comming to computers maybe its time I stopped playing games, sure would get a lot more done. I'm sure that emmulators for consoles will be available, maybe that's my next step. However I find it hard to believe that a day will come when no one writes games for computers, maybe I won't get the latest cutting edge stuff but that's fine by me.
Why won't Apple come out with a phone enabled iPod? Or why won't someone else come out with a mini belt computer (PDA) that does both. To say that the Cell Phone is the ultimate data tool seems a little short sighted. Kinda like when Printer/Scanner/Fax machines were poised to take over the paper data world. But didn't because they all sucked.
This is just another instance of "We didn't do enough before so we are compensating by going way over board now." (see Calif 3-strikes) As other posters have already pointed out Sex offenders can range from a trip to the bar with a fake ID to a full on Uncle Ernie (Tommy). This law is just asking to get thrown out so that legislatures can cry that they are trying but the bad courts keep interfering. Here's a suggestion: Why don't you try to inact good laws that make sense? Think on the matter long and hard, you just might make a lasting impact and prevent future occurances.
Ok, its all well known:/. users love open source and many of us are zealots!
That includes me too. I would rather spend 5 hours fighting to get an OSS program working that 20 min figiting with propritary software. After 5 hours fighting OSS I fell victorious, after 20 min of the other I am cursing the bastards name!
But let me rant about the Windows idiots out there in the world for they are legion! I get freaks telling me: "OSS is bad because someday programmers will have to work for free!", "OSS is bad because you can't call someone when it breaks." OK, tell your freakin mother to call M$ next time Windows craps out. What's that? Chicken?
I care because M$ refuses to support standards. They also refuse to interact with competetive products. I use Open Office, if I send a Word user a.sxw file they will just reply that they don't know what to do with it and that they can't use it. This makes people use.doc as a standard, not because it is better but because Word is restrictive. Same thing with IE, I refuse to write code that will only work for IE. I also refuse to write code that detects what browser the client has and alters code to suit. My web code is built to W3C standards, if a browser doesn't support it (IE usually won't) then it is up to the browser manufacturer to fix it (which M$ won't). I must add as a result of my stubborness I don't write much UI code, which pleases me just fine.
Window has never had Symbolic links it has had shortcuts. You cannot do much with a shortcut besides click on it and have it open in an application. Symbolic links are incredibly more useful.
First off, you are talking about a word processor. This type of application has been arround for some time and for all intensive purposes, they all do the same thing. I know many documentation experts and tech writters that have switched to Open Office, none of them have had any problems. None of them brag "This is so much better than Word!". But they all know it costs way less ($0).
I have had to call M$ tech support 4 time in my life. I always get the same answer: "That's odd, its not supposed to act that way. You can either reinstall the application or I can suggest a fix that might work. However M$ does not assume responsibility if this fix hoses everything and we do not recommend this fix for a production environment." Well, I don't need to pay for someone to tell me I am hosed. I knew that the minute I picked up the phone or I would not have reached for it. Having tech support for your DBMS, EMS, CRT whatever makes sense. You don't need it for a Word Processor, thats what your support staff is for. If they can't fix it (even if they are a bunch of 14 year old students) you are hosed!
That's why I don't read most mainstream news
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I mean really, whose left on American Idol should be something you read in TVGuide, not CNN.
Aside from a few crack pots it is well known that: Linux is more stable/reliable that Windows. That said I can trust a Linux machine with VMWare to run Windows sessions. Why in the world would I want to trust Windows to run Linux sessions? Really, if I am a disciple of Bill wouldn't it make more sense to run simple things on Cygwin or more complicate software on a stand-alone Linux box? The thought of Windows controling an array of Linux sessions is 30% scarry, 70% comical.
Nothing like profiteering on life's little miseries:
ring..
Hello 911 please this is an emergency!
Please enter your 64 digit product registration code.
Some one is in my house, please send police assistance.
You must read and acknowledge the EULA in order to use this product.
HELP!!!
you must reboot your system before these changes can take effect.
Bam Bam!
Windows has detected additional packages that must be installed, downloading.....
Gurgle
you must reboot your system before these changes can take effect.
Make sure you fraudulently embezzle millions of dollars prior to sharing that song/movie/prog, that way you can pay for court costs. Also embezzling millions doesn't carry nearly the same penalty as file sharing so the courts may over look it in an effort to get a conviction on the Big Crime!
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If I am not mistaken Carla writes the monthly Linux column in Portland, Oregon's Computer Bits mag. Its usually filled with interesting info, local user group meets and local hardware price guides. But her column is the main reason I pick it up on a regular basis. I hope the book is just like her regular material.
First time I ran into this is when I was learning TCP/IP and DNS by setting up my own small business network. I kept experimenting with DNS files and setting a very small TTL so that I could make frequent changes. Almost drove me mad when I had the correct configuration on my side but the ISP had cached the wrong one. The least they could have done was inform their Support Department that this was something people might call about, all I heard was:
"Everything is always right on our side."
Being that no M$ products are really ready for production on launch date, isn't this really just admitting the reality that Service Packs are what make software stable not QA?
That policy they are talking about is cooperation with law enforcement in their investigations. It says they may have to pass your info to sys admins when compling with law enforcement investigations. It does not say they will offer up, out of the blue, your personal information to a 3rd party because that 3rd party is interested in it.
Until congress passes a law allowing corporations to form private armies and investigative enforcers we are still safe, on paper at least.
I just gave in and applied SP2 last week. No real reason, just gave in to The Fear. Well my machine went from crashing once a week to crashing 4 times a day. Most of the time it would die seconds after a boot till it 'warmed up' then it would work fine till I tried to shut it down, at which point it would lock up. Last night I gave up and removed the patch. Happy to say my crash rate is back to the M$ acceptable norm.
There is a way M$ can fall flat on its face all by itself. I imagine some day we won't be using the current IAwhatever based systems. M$ is the only software corp of its size that is utterly devoted to platform dependence. All it would take is a new architecture to come along that everyone says: "This is way better/cheaper than a pc". I am sure it is not trivial to port all gazillion lines of spaghetti code to a new platform and not skip a beat, let alone guarantee interoperability. On the other hand, every other major software vendor has already had to port code to something at one time or another. Still not trivial but at least they have experience doing it, and maybe even the forsight to plan it from the start. I'm sure when M$ writes something new they aren't saying: "But if we write it this way it won't be portable!"
Not only that but I do believe that M$ market dominance overseas is slipping. It may not happen over night but their dramatic rise to the top is over, now its just wait and see how long they can last. Doesn't mean they will be reduced to ashes but someday they will be just another largish software vendor.
Please lets get this straight - there is nothing immoral about reverse engineering, particularly in the interests of interoperability as seems to be the case here.
I hope not.. Or we wouldn't have any frigging drivers!
Bill says: 'Take the personal out of computing, and most companies would grind to a halt.'
I think that is because Windows is a GUI, Windows development consists of writting GUIs and applications that try to 'click the right button' suck. So you see automation to the point of not needing button clickers is a doomed failure... As long as you are using M$ products that is.
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I just can't bring myself to purchase a gaming console. I may have been raised on Atari2600 but the last console I owned was the original Nintendo. If games stop comming to computers maybe its time I stopped playing games, sure would get a lot more done. I'm sure that emmulators for consoles will be available, maybe that's my next step. However I find it hard to believe that a day will come when no one writes games for computers, maybe I won't get the latest cutting edge stuff but that's fine by me.
Why won't Apple come out with a phone enabled iPod? Or why won't someone else come out with a mini belt computer (PDA) that does both. To say that the Cell Phone is the ultimate data tool seems a little short sighted. Kinda like when Printer/Scanner/Fax machines were poised to take over the paper data world. But didn't because they all sucked.
How about first making computers that don't crash?
This is just another instance of "We didn't do enough before so we are compensating by going way over board now." (see Calif 3-strikes) As other posters have already pointed out Sex offenders can range from a trip to the bar with a fake ID to a full on Uncle Ernie (Tommy). This law is just asking to get thrown out so that legislatures can cry that they are trying but the bad courts keep interfering. Here's a suggestion: Why don't you try to inact good laws that make sense? Think on the matter long and hard, you just might make a lasting impact and prevent future occurances.
NO MORE STUPID LEADERS!!!
Touche!
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Ok, its all well known: /. users love open source and many of us are zealots!
That includes me too. I would rather spend 5 hours fighting to get an OSS program working that 20 min figiting with propritary software. After 5 hours fighting OSS I fell victorious, after 20 min of the other I am cursing the bastards name!
But let me rant about the Windows idiots out there in the world for they are legion! I get freaks telling me: "OSS is bad because someday programmers will have to work for free!", "OSS is bad because you can't call someone when it breaks." OK, tell your freakin mother to call M$ next time Windows craps out. What's that? Chicken?
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I care because M$ refuses to support standards. They also refuse to interact with competetive products. I use Open Office, if I send a Word user a .sxw file they will just reply that they don't know what to do with it and that they can't use it. This makes people use .doc as a standard, not because it is better but because Word is restrictive. Same thing with IE, I refuse to write code that will only work for IE. I also refuse to write code that detects what browser the client has and alters code to suit. My web code is built to W3C standards, if a browser doesn't support it (IE usually won't) then it is up to the browser manufacturer to fix it (which M$ won't). I must add as a result of my stubborness I don't write much UI code, which pleases me just fine.
Just look at the contents of a shortcut and you will see what I mean. Then imagine what happens when an program tries to process that file.
Window has never had Symbolic links it has had shortcuts. You cannot do much with a shortcut besides click on it and have it open in an application. Symbolic links are incredibly more useful.
the ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously.
You mean they discovered symbolic links, or figured out how to make copies?
First off, you are talking about a word processor. This type of application has been arround for some time and for all intensive purposes, they all do the same thing. I know many documentation experts and tech writters that have switched to Open Office, none of them have had any problems. None of them brag "This is so much better than Word!". But they all know it costs way less ($0).
I have had to call M$ tech support 4 time in my life. I always get the same answer: "That's odd, its not supposed to act that way. You can either reinstall the application or I can suggest a fix that might work. However M$ does not assume responsibility if this fix hoses everything and we do not recommend this fix for a production environment." Well, I don't need to pay for someone to tell me I am hosed. I knew that the minute I picked up the phone or I would not have reached for it. Having tech support for your DBMS, EMS, CRT whatever makes sense. You don't need it for a Word Processor, thats what your support staff is for. If they can't fix it (even if they are a bunch of 14 year old students) you are hosed!
I mean really, whose left on American Idol should be something you read in TVGuide, not CNN.
Aside from a few crack pots it is well known that: Linux is more stable/reliable that Windows. That said I can trust a Linux machine with VMWare to run Windows sessions. Why in the world would I want to trust Windows to run Linux sessions? Really, if I am a disciple of Bill wouldn't it make more sense to run simple things on Cygwin or more complicate software on a stand-alone Linux box? The thought of Windows controling an array of Linux sessions is 30% scarry, 70% comical.
Nothing like profiteering on life's little miseries:
ring..
Hello 911 please this is an emergency!
Please enter your 64 digit product registration code.
Some one is in my house, please send police assistance.
You must read and acknowledge the EULA in order to use this product.
HELP!!!
you must reboot your system before these changes can take effect.
Bam Bam!
Windows has detected additional packages that must be installed, downloading.....
Gurgle
you must reboot your system before these changes can take effect.
Make sure you fraudulently embezzle millions of dollars prior to sharing that song/movie/prog, that way you can pay for court costs. Also embezzling millions doesn't carry nearly the same penalty as file sharing so the courts may over look it in an effort to get a conviction on the Big Crime!
If I am not mistaken Carla writes the monthly Linux column in Portland, Oregon's Computer Bits mag. Its usually filled with interesting info, local user group meets and local hardware price guides. But her column is the main reason I pick it up on a regular basis. I hope the book is just like her regular material.
First time I ran into this is when I was learning TCP/IP and DNS by setting up my own small business network. I kept experimenting with DNS files and setting a very small TTL so that I could make frequent changes. Almost drove me mad when I had the correct configuration on my side but the ISP had cached the wrong one. The least they could have done was inform their Support Department that this was something people might call about, all I heard was: "Everything is always right on our side."
Being that no M$ products are really ready for production on launch date, isn't this really just admitting the reality that Service Packs are what make software stable not QA?
That policy they are talking about is cooperation with law enforcement in their investigations. It says they may have to pass your info to sys admins when compling with law enforcement investigations. It does not say they will offer up, out of the blue, your personal information to a 3rd party because that 3rd party is interested in it.
Until congress passes a law allowing corporations to form private armies and investigative enforcers we are still safe, on paper at least.
I just gave in and applied SP2 last week. No real reason, just gave in to The Fear. Well my machine went from crashing once a week to crashing 4 times a day. Most of the time it would die seconds after a boot till it 'warmed up' then it would work fine till I tried to shut it down, at which point it would lock up. Last night I gave up and removed the patch. Happy to say my crash rate is back to the M$ acceptable norm.
There is a way M$ can fall flat on its face all by itself. I imagine some day we won't be using the current IAwhatever based systems. M$ is the only software corp of its size that is utterly devoted to platform dependence. All it would take is a new architecture to come along that everyone says: "This is way better/cheaper than a pc". I am sure it is not trivial to port all gazillion lines of spaghetti code to a new platform and not skip a beat, let alone guarantee interoperability. On the other hand, every other major software vendor has already had to port code to something at one time or another. Still not trivial but at least they have experience doing it, and maybe even the forsight to plan it from the start. I'm sure when M$ writes something new they aren't saying: "But if we write it this way it won't be portable!"
Not only that but I do believe that M$ market dominance overseas is slipping. It may not happen over night but their dramatic rise to the top is over, now its just wait and see how long they can last. Doesn't mean they will be reduced to ashes but someday they will be just another largish software vendor.
Please lets get this straight - there is nothing immoral about reverse engineering, particularly in the interests of interoperability as seems to be the case here.
I hope not.. Or we wouldn't have any frigging drivers!
I think Berkley wrote some software once that a few people used...
If you are confused by this post increase the sensitivity of your sarcasm detector.
Bill says: 'Take the personal out of computing, and most companies would grind to a halt.'
I think that is because Windows is a GUI, Windows development consists of writting GUIs and applications that try to 'click the right button' suck. So you see automation to the point of not needing button clickers is a doomed failure... As long as you are using M$ products that is.