even if he is an AAPL shareholder or whatever, it is a a pleasant change to read an anti-MS article that is;
a) Well written, punctuation & all
b) Focussed, on something!.
remember the OSX vs Ubuntu vs XP thing from a few days ago? this kind of article is diametrically opposite that one (in terms of readability) on the piss pot that is tour wonderful internet.
I agree with that, but I wasnt ahead of my time yet still loved it?!... I've always wondered what would have happened if it was re-release say 5 years later... after word of it had got around a bit...
im not sure id like to see a sequel, obviously in principle id love to see more of the Tron world... but id worry about it destroying the charm of the original.
""The Master Control Program has chosen you to serve your system on the Game Grid. Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training, which will result in your eventual elimination.""
hey! but thats what i tell all my new sysadmins!?!
i just tried that spangly website here at work, silly rabbit i am.... using Windows XP & IE (normally use opera, but hey its a MS website right?), all patched up to the hilt etc
.... it crashed my pc,totally froze, even got the pc-speaker buzzing when i moved the mouse.. the one that seems to go up in pitch as you move the mouse faster.. not had that in a while
"We don't want customers to be forced into buying something that isn't going to meet all their needs" - Barry Goffe
so WHY WHY WHY release 6 versions of it, if you release 1 version that "does it all there" is 0% risk of someone buying something that doesnt meet their needs (im allowing for an operating system to "meet peoples needs" just now k?(im also allowing that the author of TFA isnt a completely cynical bastard))
with this scheme there is a 100% certainty that someone, somewhere will be forced into buying something that doesnt "meet their needs" on the basis of the difference in cost between different versions alone.
no MS office, really?... well who in the hell cares? afterall we already have OOo etc.
If MS Office did get a linux release, where would that leave the development of OOo etc?
Accept the 80/20 rule (80% of users only use 20% of functionality), and the difference's between them are neglibile, while encouring people to use linux (sometimes without a LART too), it is a very rare occasion when an average home user can not sit down and user OOo with no problem.
Personally, they can keep it, and as long as they do im happy to see more F/OSS alternative's in development
No. WE DID define it, we didnt "get" to, we just did. It was beneficial, efficient and sensible for people of other time zones to be based around it, afterall time is purely human law and has now center in the real world.
Can anyone point to a part of the internet, an absolutely critical part that is 100% designed, owned and made by the american goverment? is it TCP/IP? or the fibre? or cable? or is 'the internet' really services and applications like apache and bind?. Personally, I view 'the internet' as its content, if the US resigns from the UN, and the UN/EU make its own network, will the US use its content?
The internet has out-grown America, entirely. It needs to be placed in the domian of where it is being used, if not then hey, everything can be replaced. This is part of how things evolve. I would say at this point pass this 100% completely unbeneficial psuedo "ownership" on, or the technology (protocols, hardware and applications) will stagnate until it is superceeded by a root shift in technology elsewhere, then in another 15 years we will hear china, or brussels or wherever saying they own 'it'.
firstly, an apology: sorry! (in a bad mood, windows just died)
"my gmail crashes all the time." - does really gmail crash? or is it IE?
"I've forwarded from my work accounts to other webmails to test" are they forwarded (as in it your work address is not a mailbox)? or it it a rule in you're email client?
"secondly, google does not run an OS." - yet, whats to say they wont package up a linux distro with free support but ads in a ticker bar or something?
"I have three properly patched MSFT XP Pro boxes that NEVER crash." Are they switched on?
Really, i maintain a lot of XP pro boxes, all properly patched, and they crash, frequently! sometimes something inane like a mediaplayer can freeze the whole system! sheesh, no ctrl-alt-backspace to save the day either
"thirdly, most people really do care about privacy. It's why blinds, curtains, and firewalls are good businesses to be in."
Privacey, Protection from Perverts & Security are three different but slightly overlapping areas, i dont care if people know my browser history, my ip etc, because its really not to hard to keep an entire PC (or at least user) free of personally identifiable information
i use Quanta striaght through. My hat really has to go off to the development team, im yet to find a situation where its best to use a wysiwyg thingy, most of the time its what you dont see that really worries me...
last time i used dreamweaver i spent more time arguing with the interface than actually being productive, similar to my brief experience with windows xp and its associated programs...
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Flameware commence :
lol, 167 within 5 miles of covent garden (london) ... who would have thought it would be more than NY eh?
even if he is an AAPL shareholder or whatever, it is a a pleasant change to read an anti-MS article that is ;
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a) Well written, punctuation & all
b) Focussed, on something!.
remember the OSX vs Ubuntu vs XP thing from a few days ago? this kind of article is diametrically opposite that one (in terms of readability) on the piss pot that is tour wonderful internet.
true, they are also supporting logically disgusting signing up practices :
"Currently Joga.com is invite only. Please leave us your name and email and we will send you a Joga invite shortly."
wait a minute?!
any avid Fedora fans be warned, in a few hours there might be a story saying it was all a mis-understanding, induced by fermenting slurm or something
looks like the db freaked out and fell over .. gotta love the message :
:" comment bait stories can this site take in one day?
"An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists."
someone is going to have a lot of email.
in other news, how many "IANAL but
all together now : "doh!"
oh wait, wrong series...
ones that have just got a qualification... at least for a couple of months ;)
yay, going out in london now, BYE.
I agree with that, but I wasnt ahead of my time yet still loved it?! ... I've always wondered what would have happened if it was re-release say 5 years later ... after word of it had got around a bit ...
... but id worry about it destroying the charm of the original.
im not sure id like to see a sequel, obviously in principle id love to see more of the Tron world
erm ... skip to page 8 then, he is in there ...
feel the need to shower now.
""The Master Control Program has chosen you to serve your system on the Game Grid. Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training, which will result in your eventual elimination.""
hey! but thats what i tell all my new sysadmins!?!
the box office flop is all the proof that I need that people really are idiots, I mean, did they even see the lightcycles?!
ptsch.
quick check on google yields a scary amount alternatives to that line ... one that jumped out
"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day... Teach a man to fish and he'll bore you for a lifetime"
more funny to me due to personal experience maybe,
oh and : Gates your Wrong!! (see i am still ontopic)
ive always prefered
... mostly your fault that mate, cheers.
give a man a match, his hand will be warm for 0.37 second. Set a man on fire he will be warm for the rest of his life.
back on topic "adding that the big costs come from network connectivity, applications and support."
they would be picked off one by one en route by randomised "my keyboards not working" attacks.
bah!, i want my 25mb hdd from my Amiga 500+ back, at least i undestood the TLA's with that...
;)
could be, after all it had been switched on all day with ~10 docs in word open & and Access ;)
... not very impressed ..
just tried again, didnt crash, was just heinously slow
i just tried that spangly website here at work, silly rabbit i am.... using Windows XP & IE (normally use opera, but hey its a MS website right?), all patched up to the hilt etc
.... it crashed my pc,totally froze, even got the pc-speaker buzzing when i moved the mouse .. the one that seems to go up in pitch as you move the mouse faster.. not had that in a while
Thankyou MS.
sorry if this has been said but :
so WHY WHY WHY release 6 versions of it, if you release 1 version that "does it all there" is 0% risk of someone buying something that doesnt meet their needs (im allowing for an operating system to "meet peoples needs" just now k?(im also allowing that the author of TFA isnt a completely cynical bastard))
with this scheme there is a 100% certainty that someone, somewhere will be forced into buying something that doesnt "meet their needs" on the basis of the difference in cost between different versions alone.
complete non-sequitur there ol' boy!and, can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these things? oh wait....
no MS office, really?... well who in the hell cares? afterall we already have OOo etc.
If MS Office did get a linux release, where would that leave the development of OOo etc?
Accept the 80/20 rule (80% of users only use 20% of functionality), and the difference's between them are neglibile, while encouring people to use linux (sometimes without a LART too), it is a very rare occasion when an average home user can not sit down and user OOo with no problem.
Personally, they can keep it, and as long as they do im happy to see more F/OSS alternative's in development
No. WE DID define it, we didnt "get" to, we just did. It was beneficial, efficient and sensible for people of other time zones to be based around it, afterall time is purely human law and has now center in the real world.
Can anyone point to a part of the internet, an absolutely critical part that is 100% designed, owned and made by the american goverment? is it TCP/IP? or the fibre? or cable? or is 'the internet' really services and applications like apache and bind?. Personally, I view 'the internet' as its content, if the US resigns from the UN, and the UN/EU make its own network, will the US use its content?
The internet has out-grown America, entirely. It needs to be placed in the domian of where it is being used, if not then hey, everything can be replaced. This is part of how things evolve. I would say at this point pass this 100% completely unbeneficial psuedo "ownership" on, or the technology (protocols, hardware and applications) will stagnate until it is superceeded by a root shift in technology elsewhere, then in another 15 years we will hear china, or brussels or wherever saying they own 'it'.
btw, anyone notice UTC?
firstly, an apology: sorry! (in a bad mood, windows just died) "my gmail crashes all the time." - does really gmail crash? or is it IE? "I've forwarded from my work accounts to other webmails to test" are they forwarded (as in it your work address is not a mailbox)? or it it a rule in you're email client? "secondly, google does not run an OS." - yet, whats to say they wont package up a linux distro with free support but ads in a ticker bar or something? "I have three properly patched MSFT XP Pro boxes that NEVER crash." Are they switched on? Really, i maintain a lot of XP pro boxes, all properly patched, and they crash, frequently! sometimes something inane like a mediaplayer can freeze the whole system! sheesh, no ctrl-alt-backspace to save the day either "thirdly, most people really do care about privacy. It's why blinds, curtains, and firewalls are good businesses to be in." Privacey, Protection from Perverts & Security are three different but slightly overlapping areas, i dont care if people know my browser history, my ip etc, because its really not to hard to keep an entire PC (or at least user) free of personally identifiable information
shoot them all, i hate managers
i use Quanta striaght through. My hat really has to go off to the development team, im yet to find a situation where its best to use a wysiwyg thingy, most of the time its what you dont see that really worries me...
last time i used dreamweaver i spent more time arguing with the interface than actually being productive, similar to my brief experience with windows xp and its associated programs...