Which wouldn't be an entirely bad thing, except that the fuckwits have substantial influence over the patent laws of other countries.
I couldn't really give two shits whether the USA cuts its own balls off by making it impossible to innovate without treading on idiotic patents, but it does piss me off that the USA's stupidity is allowed to influence the rest of the civilized world.
Ah. The old "it hurts when I have sex so everyone must hurt when they have sex" problem of the naïve user.
I'm sure you're a sweet kid and all but the truth is simple: the reason it hurts is that Microsoft is fucking you in your ear. It's not an OS, it's an abomination.
I expect my Mac to run flawlessly. Always. And in the past year that I've left MS, I gotta admit: It Just Works. I have *never* had a system crash. The *only* reboots are those requested by software update. There are *no* virus worries. I can open and close the laptop at will. Things plug in and simply go.
Anyway, that's my two cents. I gotta say do what you will, but insist on a condom. You don't want to end up with hearing aids.
That's basically what got my goat in the end: knowing that the OS I was using was a piece of insecure crap that was buggy as hell and yet I was basically forced to use because everyone else was using it. And knowing that this would just keep on continuing because Microsoft is basically too damn lazy and too damn incompetent to just Make It Work. And that I'd have to keep shelling out and shelling out for upgrades and anti-virus crap and downtime losses and on and endlessly on.
It isn't difficult to feel considerable antipathy toward Microsoft when one becomes aware what's going on.
Maybe they're going to make all the apps consistent regardless of use?
God, I hope so. I *hate* the inconsistencies.
Or maybe they're going to introduce even more categories to use when designing the UI for your app so that you Windows themers can't copy the OS X theme?
Vista is going all Aqua, so it makes perfect sense to upgrade OSX to a new look. Vista has many features first implemented in OS X; the new Leopard release of OS X will have a ton of stuff Vista lacks. The Aqua UI is the "old" look for the "old" OS; thus the need for a "new" UI for the new OS, once again leaving Microsoft playing catch-up.
And using corn oil instead of crude doesn't actually solve the problem of CO2 emissions. The problem being that we had all this carbon nicely sequestered underground instead of polluting our atmosphere. In essence we're taking the hot, muggy, lizard-friendly atmosphere of prehistoric earth back out of storage. Not exactly a wise move, that.
Corn oil would be zero-sum (the plants fix carbon into their biomass, removing it from our atmosphere; burning the oil releases CO2 back into the atmosphere) except for one inconvenient fact: corn production is a big consumer of crude oil in the form of chemical fertilizers, machinery operations, and post-harvest processing plants.
Burning corn oil is equivalent to burning crude. Moreso, in fact, because converting crude into corn is less efficient than converting it directly to fuel and putting it in one's tank.
French fry oils are not going to save us. Not in the least.
There is more than one photograph. The vans are filming as they drive. They have better than stereo vision: they can multiple photographs covering dozens of meters of parallax change. We've recently seen two technologies on Slashdot that deal with creating 3D environs from single and multiple photographs, including a kickass system from Microsoft that is almost magic.
MS will have no problem using these films for the automated creation of a dead-accurate simulation of the real world.
It'll then come down to a war between Google UI and Yahoo UI. The latter will probably end up with extensions to take advantage of integration with Windows UI/Windows OS and/or use proprietary data standards. The former will unleash its dark fiber network in some way that makes its UI also essential for a highest-quality online experience.
Heh. The next software war is going to be in virtual reality on highspeed data networks. Snow Crash, here we come!
It should be very easy to convert the photographs to 3D. It is then easy to identify edges and shapes, vectorise the important things (houses), place models for unimportant things (trees, telephone poles), eliminate temporaneous things (people, cars), and create a Second Life that perfectly imitates Real Life's environs.
Perhaps this was a warning to Putin, not the West. A signal that a powerful mafia group is making a power play, and that he better not stand in the way?
circa the 200MHz era. Except for gaming, these CPUs were quite fast enough for word processing, accounting, internet access, email, etceteras.
Faster CPUs have given us more glitz. I'm not convinced they've given us more functionality: Word 2007 doesn't do a whole helluva lot more than Word 6, MSIE 7 doesn't do a whole lot more than MSIE 3, not in terms of true-blue functionality.
So I can easily imagine most businesses are in no rush to upgrade their machines en masse. Why should they? They're just gonna end up spending thousands of dollars in new hardware, software, re-training for the new software, and endless technical support as the bugs are ironed out of the new network and installations.
Vista is rightfully regarded by most businesses as an obvious case of a high-risk foot-meets-bullet fuckup just waiting to pounce on the dummy who decides to champion the idea of upgrading.
It sounds very much like just taking a connecting flight through the US could allow you to end up in custody, declared as an illegal combatant, and locked away.
Not only does it sound like that, it is like that. There was, f'rinstance, the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, who was pulled while transferring planes and sent off to be tortured in Syria.
I'm surprised that all foreign travellers are not making a helluvan effort to avoid touching-down in the USA.
I'm curious as to how MS can actually profit by this translation. Sales of Mapuzugun-language software seem unlikely to be such that they'll recoup their investment.
So, Microsoft figures it's going to win by pissing off the geeks? *That* ought to be an amusing debacle.
The public follows the geeks: it's part of the trickle-down effect. When the geeks decide they've put up with enough bullshit and that it's time to move to a real OS, Microsoft is going to go bye-bye.
And frankly, I could not care less. Fuck Microsoft: it's been incompetent and lazy and evil for about ten years longer than it should have.
In a couple of weeks, on TUE November 7, 2006, you can go to the polls to fire your Representative in the House [congress.org].
You may want to use absentee voting; it leaves a paper trail.
At the very least, you want to be involved in making sure the vote is fair, which may include insisting on evidence and proof, which in turn may require riots.
...I spotted a bit of thinking the other day re: treating web page design as typographic design. Most of the web is text, ergo it should be designed to maximally benefit its use, ie. ability to communicate quickly and accurately to the user. Something typography has been fine-tuning for the past several hundred years.
The crafty buggers, they're betting against their own stock (puts? calls? shorting? something like that!) and manipulating the company into outright collapse! First they've made a bajillion bucks on the stock going up, now they'll make another bajillion as the stock drops!
All the more, then. From the wikipedia link: "Popular SysV derivatives include Dell SVR4 and Bull SVR4....Sun Microsystems' Solaris Operating System and SCO UnixWare, both based on System V Release 4."
Those sound like the kind of names I expect to hear Oracle wishing to have associated with their name. Well, perhaps not the SCO name...
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...as much as we love linux, I suppose they have no obligation to make it work for something that is that small minority among desktop users.
Honestly, that's a strawman argument. It doesn't matter to anyone at all whether linux is supported.
What we want supported are OPEN BLOODY STANDARDS. In today's day and age it is inutterably stupid to lock oneself to a particular platform.
The viability of providing future access to information depends upon the use of open standards.
Apple + Google's dark fiber net + Bittorrent = killer entertainment app.
Did you get the US Army advertisement when you clicked for videos?
What a nice touch of Christmas there. "Son, you've changed." Well, yah, having one's left leg blown off by an IED can do that to a person.
Which wouldn't be an entirely bad thing, except that the fuckwits have substantial influence over the patent laws of other countries.
I couldn't really give two shits whether the USA cuts its own balls off by making it impossible to innovate without treading on idiotic patents, but it does piss me off that the USA's stupidity is allowed to influence the rest of the civilized world.
FOAD, US Patent Office.
Ah. The old "it hurts when I have sex so everyone must hurt when they have sex" problem of the naïve user.
I'm sure you're a sweet kid and all but the truth is simple: the reason it hurts is that Microsoft is fucking you in your ear. It's not an OS, it's an abomination.
I expect my Mac to run flawlessly. Always. And in the past year that I've left MS, I gotta admit: It Just Works. I have *never* had a system crash. The *only* reboots are those requested by software update. There are *no* virus worries. I can open and close the laptop at will. Things plug in and simply go.
Anyway, that's my two cents. I gotta say do what you will, but insist on a condom. You don't want to end up with hearing aids.
That's basically what got my goat in the end: knowing that the OS I was using was a piece of insecure crap that was buggy as hell and yet I was basically forced to use because everyone else was using it. And knowing that this would just keep on continuing because Microsoft is basically too damn lazy and too damn incompetent to just Make It Work. And that I'd have to keep shelling out and shelling out for upgrades and anti-virus crap and downtime losses and on and endlessly on.
It isn't difficult to feel considerable antipathy toward Microsoft when one becomes aware what's going on.
Maybe they're going to make all the apps consistent regardless of use?
God, I hope so. I *hate* the inconsistencies.
Or maybe they're going to introduce even more categories to use when designing the UI for your app so that you Windows themers can't copy the OS X theme?
Vista is going all Aqua, so it makes perfect sense to upgrade OSX to a new look. Vista has many features first implemented in OS X; the new Leopard release of OS X will have a ton of stuff Vista lacks. The Aqua UI is the "old" look for the "old" OS; thus the need for a "new" UI for the new OS, once again leaving Microsoft playing catch-up.
Poor ol' Microsoft. Years late, as always.
Y'all know if you get two friends to quit V, and they get two friends to quit V, and so on and so on... well, the problem won't be a problem for long.
And using corn oil instead of crude doesn't actually solve the problem of CO2 emissions. The problem being that we had all this carbon nicely sequestered underground instead of polluting our atmosphere. In essence we're taking the hot, muggy, lizard-friendly atmosphere of prehistoric earth back out of storage. Not exactly a wise move, that.
Corn oil would be zero-sum (the plants fix carbon into their biomass, removing it from our atmosphere; burning the oil releases CO2 back into the atmosphere) except for one inconvenient fact: corn production is a big consumer of crude oil in the form of chemical fertilizers, machinery operations, and post-harvest processing plants.
Burning corn oil is equivalent to burning crude. Moreso, in fact, because converting crude into corn is less efficient than converting it directly to fuel and putting it in one's tank.
French fry oils are not going to save us. Not in the least.
Don't fuck with us, because we'll fuck with you.
It's disappointing how far things have gone off-track.
There is more than one photograph. The vans are filming as they drive. They have better than stereo vision: they can multiple photographs covering dozens of meters of parallax change. We've recently seen two technologies on Slashdot that deal with creating 3D environs from single and multiple photographs, including a kickass system from Microsoft that is almost magic.
MS will have no problem using these films for the automated creation of a dead-accurate simulation of the real world.
It'll then come down to a war between Google UI and Yahoo UI. The latter will probably end up with extensions to take advantage of integration with Windows UI/Windows OS and/or use proprietary data standards. The former will unleash its dark fiber network in some way that makes its UI also essential for a highest-quality online experience.
Heh. The next software war is going to be in virtual reality on highspeed data networks. Snow Crash, here we come!
It should be very easy to convert the photographs to 3D. It is then easy to identify edges and shapes, vectorise the important things (houses), place models for unimportant things (trees, telephone poles), eliminate temporaneous things (people, cars), and create a Second Life that perfectly imitates Real Life's environs.
What a horrible thought.
Perhaps this was a warning to Putin, not the West. A signal that a powerful mafia group is making a power play, and that he better not stand in the way?
circa the 200MHz era. Except for gaming, these CPUs were quite fast enough for word processing, accounting, internet access, email, etceteras.
Faster CPUs have given us more glitz. I'm not convinced they've given us more functionality: Word 2007 doesn't do a whole helluva lot more than Word 6, MSIE 7 doesn't do a whole lot more than MSIE 3, not in terms of true-blue functionality.
So I can easily imagine most businesses are in no rush to upgrade their machines en masse. Why should they? They're just gonna end up spending thousands of dollars in new hardware, software, re-training for the new software, and endless technical support as the bugs are ironed out of the new network and installations.
Vista is rightfully regarded by most businesses as an obvious case of a high-risk foot-meets-bullet fuckup just waiting to pounce on the dummy who decides to champion the idea of upgrading.
It sounds very much like just taking a connecting flight through the US could allow you to end up in custody, declared as an illegal combatant, and locked away.
Not only does it sound like that, it is like that. There was, f'rinstance, the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, who was pulled while transferring planes and sent off to be tortured in Syria.
I'm surprised that all foreign travellers are not making a helluvan effort to avoid touching-down in the USA.
Aha. Now it all makes sense. Thx for the civil and intelligent reply.
I'm curious as to how MS can actually profit by this translation. Sales of Mapuzugun-language software seem unlikely to be such that they'll recoup their investment.
So, Microsoft figures it's going to win by pissing off the geeks? *That* ought to be an amusing debacle.
The public follows the geeks: it's part of the trickle-down effect. When the geeks decide they've put up with enough bullshit and that it's time to move to a real OS, Microsoft is going to go bye-bye.
And frankly, I could not care less. Fuck Microsoft: it's been incompetent and lazy and evil for about ten years longer than it should have.
Microsoft has jumped the shark.
If you're dumb enough to not say anything over 3, they'll give you a new key.
Sounds about right.
In a couple of weeks, on TUE November 7, 2006, you can go to the polls to fire your Representative in the House [congress.org].
You may want to use absentee voting; it leaves a paper trail.
At the very least, you want to be involved in making sure the vote is fair, which may include insisting on evidence and proof, which in turn may require riots.
...I spotted a bit of thinking the other day re: treating web page design as typographic design. Most of the web is text, ergo it should be designed to maximally benefit its use, ie. ability to communicate quickly and accurately to the user. Something typography has been fine-tuning for the past several hundred years.
And it made sense to me.
The crafty buggers, they're betting against their own stock (puts? calls? shorting? something like that!) and manipulating the company into outright collapse! First they've made a bajillion bucks on the stock going up, now they'll make another bajillion as the stock drops!
Ya just can't beat a billionaire.
Between ASBOs, cameras on every corner, and now this fingerprinting thing, I have to wonder:
What is it about the British public that requires they be treated as a classroom of unruly children?
All the more, then. From the wikipedia link: "Popular SysV derivatives include Dell SVR4 and Bull SVR4. ...Sun Microsystems' Solaris Operating System and SCO UnixWare, both based on System V Release 4."
Those sound like the kind of names I expect to hear Oracle wishing to have associated with their name. Well, perhaps not the SCO name...