Washington, DC: Talk with Al Gore, inventor of the Internet.
Be careful. Many people think that Gore invented the Internet, and this is simply wrong. He actually invented the electron, the Internet is just based on that tecnology
Minneapolis, MN: Speak with Gov. Jesse Ventura, wrestler-turned-idiot-politician about Minnesota's new edukation initiative - "Just Say No To Wires".
...Which raises the question - is going wrestler-to-politician a step-up or step-down?
Redmond, WA: Interview with Bill Gates on the benefits of using ActiveSex, a new protocol designed to limit sexual desires online.
The technology is rather simple- it is based on the amounts of javascript and java applets on most porn pages. By not supporting javascript of java applets correctly, the web browser automatically crashes when going to web pages of dubious persuit. This gives a strong desire to avoid those pages via psycological conditioning (a la A Clockwork Orange) The Internet Explorer browser did this for years, before they realized that they could market this technology.
Austin, TX: We'll be going door to door, and toe to toe with Dell Corporation on integrating Vchip technology into the next generation of computers.
Since all computers require Windows 98, why get Dell involved at all? Just use ActiveSex technology.
Silicon Valley, CA: An exclusive interview with Steve Jobs - we'll ask him about the iSex, a new product he plans on marketing to make online sex easier than ever.
true- they are slightly better than they were before, when to 'start' and internal project using the JVM you had to pay all the licensing fees, up front. When deciding if you even can use java, it is annoying to have to pay a couple thousand(tens of thousands?) before you can even see how good the source code is..
There are plenty of people I have met who (_GaSP_) thought Calvin and Hobbes SUCKED. I personally forgot just how much I miss that damn strip deep down in my soul until Wednesday,when I went to www.calvinandhobbes.com
So, if you don't get it, don't feel bad.. but understand there are a lot of people who are completely dying here (I _loved_ the SGI abacus, and Mel Gibson running around as the Road Warrior)
*grin* Nah, people who say that they aren't sexy get an immediate '-2' rating and lose all karma
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"The percentage of noticable gay/lesbian/bisexual people communicating on the net more than what I experience in normal day-to-day existance outside of cyberspace" is the only thing I know for sure.. I have been tracked down by a lot of guys on the net, have met a lot of bisexual girls (not many lesbians though - maybe they are just outside my sphere of chattingness?)
Probably they are online for the same reason geeks are - trying to find a new means of communication, trying to find a place to fit in. Maybe (and this probably scares people) there aren't more alternative sexualities on the net - they are just a lot more open about their sexuality.
I remember missing "Gay Pride" day and going to work the next day, and there were people there completely in shock, like "I never knew, I never even suspected, that THAT many of my customers were gay.."
*grin* I used to be horribly homophobic four years ago, but I've met enough really cool people to bash that to oblivion. Everyone is different, and perhaps the best thing anyone can try to do is learn to accept, and learn it isn't odd for someone to be different than you in some way.
Unless they do the biting-heads-off-chickens thing;-)
That is one of the most overly biased and least fact-founded conclusions I have ever heard. You can get work done in DOS 3.3. Mac has a good artistic tools focus, rather groovy, but sometimes you just gotta see that your personal universe isn't quite as evryone else's:)
Yes! I can't wait to get Tech-Talkin Babes figurines.. gotta be worth money someday (nobody will ever believe that they even exist, so they will always be worth milllions)
Personally I would look for someone with interests besides what I have, I'm not diversified enough already, it would be nice to have some way to get away.
Well since I can't get a copy of OS/2, any clues how we can learn PM?:) If you have a website or something where I can go to get the gist of PM and its features, that would be awesome. I have heard a lot of good things about it for a very long time, but the closest I have ever been to an OS/2 machine was talking to the desk clerk at the airport (and she wouldn't let me touch it!;-))
"We do not mislead anybody, moderates it. When you have a baby, you do not ask the doctor to give the baby your own Appendix. Windows 98, it is similar, the Appendix of each computer."
WinG came out because the large game developer industry would not write for windows, it was too dirt slow to run any sort of game (even 2d-in-a-small-window parralax scrollers were impossible). That was a lot more innovative than DirectX (although it really was only invented to promote windows sales as far as I could ever tell)
DirectX was started because of Apple's Quicktime APIs. Things like QuickdrawGX, QuickDraw3d, etc. were gaining the attention of developers, so Microsoft saw this as a threat and decided to include their own APIs. Notice I did not say 'develop' - they developed DirectDraw and DirectSound i believe, but Direct3D was bought completely from another company.
To develop that choice, even impartially (Linux is beginning to compete in server environments, but not at all yet on desktops), it took tens of thousands of developers, circling the globe, working for FREE. Probably a thousand people have worked on the linux kernel alone (probably three thousand have been subscribed to its mailing list). They have been working on the thing for EIGHT YEARS now, for no money, so that they themselves can have a choice. I fully support the freedom to innovate. The thing is Microsoft has it, nobody is taking away their freedom to innovate. But the rest of the industry does NOT have that freedom, when it comes to Microsoft.
Lets see, bought dos, stole windows, bundled the two because other companies were producing better clones of DOS than the real version, stole stacker technology (then I believe actually cloned it with a different algorithm after losing the lawsuit), licensed the defragger and scan disk utilities included today (the windows 98 one is totally intel's doing).
I believe they bought the original moused wheel, and the split keyboard design, or I might count that. But no, I find nothing on this system that is innovative, except perhaps OLE (it is horribly miswritten and broken, but it was new when it came out). COM and DCOM, however, are borrowed from DCE.
It could also be shown that whenever they came out with truely _good_ products, it was to combat something that was already released by a competitor. Direct* was to fight off Apple's Quicktime APIs. Internet Explorer got a couple of hundred engineers on the project because of Netscape. Active* was a repackaging of existing technology to compete against OpenDoc and Java I believe.
No, the only thing I can think of that might be innovative that they developed in-house is Bob. That might have been done by someoen else first, but whoever that is sure isn't claiming it;-)
I think we should REQUIRE them to innovate, for once. They should lose the freedom to buy and steal existing technology, and have to invent their own for once in their corporate existance.
Dolphin is hype, not buzz. Nintendo has a very annoying habit of having information leak out whenever a competitor announces a product that could compete (for instance, rumors of the next gen gameboy being integrated into a cell phone)
Why not just ask why there is more software released for Windows if Microsoft does not limit creativity and freedom? I don't see how these things have any relavence.
Err, they don't? Microsoft does not limit my creativity or freedom in any ways, unlike the GPL. Indeed, because of patent issues and intellectual property associated with the innovations I may have, being able to keep my source (or even just part of my source, I have released open source windows code) secure is the only thing that gets it released to a consumer market.
no, he is arguing that the license stiffles innovation, and argued for one counterexample. (and now I will be marked flamebait, just like every single post he has made has been..)
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Maybe she just thinks she looks better in a red hat? :)
Be careful. Many people think that Gore invented the Internet, and this is simply wrong. He actually invented the electron, the Internet is just based on that tecnology
...Which raises the question - is going wrestler-to-politician a step-up or step-down?
The technology is rather simple- it is based on the amounts of javascript and java applets on most porn pages. By not supporting javascript of java applets correctly, the web browser automatically crashes when going to web pages of dubious persuit. This gives a strong desire to avoid those pages via psycological conditioning (a la A Clockwork Orange)
The Internet Explorer browser did this for years, before they realized that they could market this technology.
Since all computers require Windows 98, why get Dell involved at all? Just use ActiveSex technology.
Hmmm.. "She comes in colors, everywhere..."
true- they are slightly better than they were before, when to 'start' and internal project using the JVM you had to pay all the licensing fees, up front. When deciding if you even can use java, it is annoying to have to pay a couple thousand(tens of thousands?) before you can even see how good the source code is..
geek guy to _untaken_ geek girl ratio, and yes, i'm sure there have been many slashdotters who have researched it ;-)
arrrgghh, it won't .. let.. me.. cut.. and.. paste...!
There are plenty of people I have met who (_GaSP_) thought Calvin and Hobbes SUCKED. I personally forgot just how much I miss that damn strip deep down in my soul until Wednesday ,when I went to www.calvinandhobbes.com
So, if you don't get it, don't feel bad.. but understand there are a lot of people who are completely dying here (I _loved_ the SGI abacus, and Mel Gibson running around as the Road Warrior)
*grin* Nah, people who say that they aren't sexy get an immediate '-2' rating and lose all karma
(hides)
"The percentage of noticable gay/lesbian/bisexual people communicating on the net more than what I experience in normal day-to-day existance outside of cyberspace" is the only thing I know for sure.. I have been tracked down by a lot of guys on the net, have met a lot of bisexual girls (not many lesbians though - maybe they are just outside my sphere of chattingness?)
;-)
Probably they are online for the same reason geeks are - trying to find a new means of communication, trying to find a place to fit in. Maybe (and this probably scares people) there aren't more alternative sexualities on the net - they are just a lot more open about their sexuality.
I remember missing "Gay Pride" day and going to work the next day, and there were people there completely in shock, like "I never knew, I never even suspected, that THAT many of my customers were gay.."
*grin* I used to be horribly homophobic four years ago, but I've met enough really cool people to bash that to oblivion. Everyone is different, and perhaps the best thing anyone can try to do is learn to accept, and learn it isn't odd for someone to be different than you in some way.
Unless they do the biting-heads-off-chickens thing
That is one of the most overly biased and least fact-founded conclusions I have ever heard. You can get work done in DOS 3.3. Mac has a good artistic tools focus, rather groovy, but sometimes you just gotta see that your personal universe isn't quite as evryone else's :)
most just enjoyed the 'Nitrozac loves you' answer :)
Yes! I can't wait to get Tech-Talkin Babes figurines.. gotta be worth money someday (nobody will ever believe that they even exist, so they will always be worth milllions)
Personally I would look for someone with interests besides what I have, I'm not diversified enough already, it would be nice to have some way to get away.
Well since I can't get a copy of OS/2, any clues how we can learn PM? :) If you have a website or something where I can go to get the gist of PM and its features, that would be awesome. I have heard a lot of good things about it for a very long time, but the closest I have ever been to an OS/2 machine was talking to the desk clerk at the airport (and she wouldn't let me touch it! ;-))
"We do not mislead anybody, moderates it. When you have a baby, you do not ask the doctor to give the baby your own Appendix. Windows 98, it is similar, the Appendix of each computer."
Dude, everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet. Microsoft invented 'Bob'.
WinG came out because the large game developer industry would not write for windows, it was too dirt slow to run any sort of game (even 2d-in-a-small-window parralax scrollers were impossible). That was a lot more innovative than DirectX (although it really was only invented to promote windows sales as far as I could ever tell)
DirectX was started because of Apple's Quicktime APIs. Things like QuickdrawGX, QuickDraw3d, etc. were gaining the attention of developers, so Microsoft saw this as a threat and decided to include their own APIs. Notice I did not say 'develop' - they developed DirectDraw and DirectSound i believe, but Direct3D was bought completely from another company.
To develop that choice, even impartially (Linux is beginning to compete in server environments, but not at all yet on desktops), it took tens of thousands of developers, circling the globe, working for FREE. Probably a thousand people have worked on the linux kernel alone (probably three thousand have been subscribed to its mailing list). They have been working on the thing for EIGHT YEARS now, for no money, so that they themselves can have a choice. I fully support the freedom to innovate. The thing is Microsoft has it, nobody is taking away their freedom to innovate. But the rest of the industry does NOT have that freedom, when it comes to Microsoft.
Lets see, bought dos, stole windows, bundled the two because other companies were producing better clones of DOS than the real version, stole stacker technology (then I believe actually cloned it with a different algorithm after losing the lawsuit), licensed the defragger and scan disk utilities included today (the windows 98 one is totally intel's doing).
;-)
I believe they bought the original moused wheel, and the split keyboard design, or I might count that. But no, I find nothing on this system that is innovative, except perhaps OLE (it is horribly miswritten and broken, but it was new when it came out). COM and DCOM, however, are borrowed from DCE.
It could also be shown that whenever they came out with truely _good_ products, it was to combat something that was already released by a competitor. Direct* was to fight off Apple's Quicktime APIs. Internet Explorer got a couple of hundred engineers on the project because of Netscape. Active* was a repackaging of existing technology to compete against OpenDoc and Java I believe.
No, the only thing I can think of that might be innovative that they developed in-house is Bob. That might have been done by someoen else first, but whoever that is sure isn't claiming it
I think we should REQUIRE them to innovate, for once. They should lose the freedom to buy and steal existing technology, and have to invent their own for once in their corporate existance.
but not proximity :)
"*breep* Error, cannot comply, please rephrase your command in the form of a question"
If the Enterprise ran Win2k, they would have to fill every wall of the ship with Ram, and the holodeck would go at quarter speed :)
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Err, they don't? Microsoft does not limit my creativity or freedom in any ways, unlike the GPL. Indeed, because of patent issues and intellectual property associated with the innovations I may have, being able to keep my source (or even just part of my source, I have released open source windows code) secure is the only thing that gets it released to a consumer market.
no, he is arguing that the license stiffles innovation, and argued for one counterexample. (and now I will be marked flamebait, just like every single post he has made has been..)