I remember a TV advert when I was little where McGruff the crime dog taught kids the dangers of talking to strangers. Having your computer talk to Microsoft is like having your kids talk to John Wayne Gacy in full clown attire. You don't see the harm until it is too late.
Last time I checked, Microsoft Live: OneCare was called Microsoft AntiSpyware Removal. From this story, it appears that OneChair--er OneCare still lets in more spyware than it keeps out.
OneCare is like the United States Marine Corps. Eventually, the 82d Airboune Division of the United States Army (Norton Antivirus) is called in to fix the mess the Marines made.
"Clearly not serious?!" Again, I buy an MP3 player to play music. I buy a PSP to play video games. I buy a telephone to place and recieve phone calls. I buy a computer to write programs, to comunicate with other programmers, and to post my opinions to stories on Slashdot. I do NOT buy these devices to watch VIDEOS or TELEVISION CLIPS!
That is what TELEVISION is for! I don't care if it is not cool! And I defintely don't care if it is not trendy. Trendy and cool do not replace utility. Trendy and cool do not pay the bills. Convergence has its limits!
What did I say about adding video playing features to devices that are not meant to play video. I've stated quite clearly, they become televisions. Technology is about more that a 3 inch TV in your pocket, in fact technology SHOULDN'T be about 3 inch TVs that fit into your pocket. Television is the opiate of the masses where as technology is the anphetamine of the masses. The iPod is NOT COOL by any standards of technology except for the fact that it uses a NAND gate flash memory storage system. However, there is a flaw with storing to a flash memory and that is compacity. After a certain point, flash memory become faulty and you have to go back to using a Hard Disk storage system due to file corruption.
I believe that this list is BIAS. This list is not rated on raiting but by who gave PCWorld the most money. Since I, Bushido Hacks, is a broke college student here is a top 10 list.
1. YouTube.com - Who the hell put in in 9th place? 2. Google Earth - Google Maps: good. Google Earth: f***ing awesome! 3. eBay - Great spot to browse for technology products. Though the virtual mall is great, it is a good idea to browse the real mall to compare prices and features first. 4. Sony Viao Notebooks smaller than 12 inches - Any notebook with a screen larger than 15 inches is NOT a notebook. It is a freaking TV. Computers are suppost to be small as well as fast. 5. Any MP3 player not by Apple or Dell - As much as technological convergence is a convience, I prefere to buy things for what they were used for. An MP3 player is for playing MUSIC, not videos, not "podcasts", not these overated technology that turns everything into TV or as I call it "The Virus". Televison is stupid! 6. Texas Instruments graphing calculators with the USB port - FINALLY, TI gets with the program. 7. Sony PSP - Who cares what the critics say! This would be the greatest gaming platform since the Sega Game Gear if only Sony didn't keep trying to kill itself like a 15 year-old emo kid. Why does Sony keep trying to kill itself? By the time the PS3 gets here, Nintendo and XBox will be on to the next thing. Why does Sony keep procrastinating? The people who create the Sony products want what they are making as badly as their consumers, but their Marketing (marketing, the sworn enemy of any computer sciencist!) keeps pushing it back saying things like "people are going to hack into it" or "DRM". These Japanese guys need to grow a little backbone and stop letting these salarymen with hidden agendas kill their company. 8. Yahoo! Answers - I must get up to 20 answers sometimes with the questions I ask. Some times I ask questions to test peoples knowledge or to express their opinions about things. 9. Holograms - yet another suppressed technology. You know what would be a great application for these things: automobile decals. You've seen these cars with the hydrolics at car shows with teh airbrush. Why not airbrush a hologram onto a car. One of those 3D projected holograms with a half-naked valkyre warrior woman with a battle axe or sword riding horse with wings that breaths fire! Something worthy of Heavy Metal magazine and Popular Science!
10. The new Slashdot layout - Do I really need to explain why?
The Ministry of Unknown Science laughs at the Union of Concerned Scientists. TMOUS has already solved the problems with NASA by doing what most other corporations and government agencies do these days: They Hire Mexicans!
There are alot of people who need to be tossed out for being total duchebags. Jack Thompson, Hillary Clinton, Lynn Cheney, Tipper Gore, Rick Santorum, Bill Lieberman...
Yahoo! still can't seem to get with the program of that of Google Video or YouTube.
Yahoo! is still using old-and-busted technology that is only avaiable for one operating system. GV and YT use Flash as the medium of choice. It can be accessable on Macintosh, Unix, and Linux operating systems. Windows Video may be avaiable, but the codecs are separate, and a real hassle to install if you have Unix or Linux.
Yahoo! fails to deliver video as it does with LaunchCast to the growing number of people who are no longer using any of Microsoft's Windows products including Internet Explorer, Windows Media, and Microsoft Antivirus (which lets in more spyware than it keeps out).
Bottom line, I'll use something else before I use this cookie cutter mainstream stuff. Give me the many alternatives instead.
On one hand, you have computer virus, online identy thieves, even people who stealmoney online and think that they can get away with it.
On the other hand, 99% of 99% of the time it is down right FUD.
Alternatively, the FUD is the Cyberterrorism. Isn't that what terrorism is all about? Playing on the Fears, Uncertanty, and Doubts of others? "The boogy-man will eat you some day."
The truth is the Boogy-man is right here.
The perception that the boogy-man could be a computer geek with a vendetta, an Arabian man with a video camera, an Iranian man with a degree in chemistry, or an American who has a private adgenda all depends on who is giving us that message.
The message is no longer the truth, it seems, since the truth is constantly altered and edited to suit the interest of a few media conglomorates, corporations, and miserly zealots.
The boogy man is not Cyberterrorism, Bioterrorism, or even FUD.
The real terrorists are the FUD-packers who deliver the yellow journalism and lie to the terrorists and to the public.
The true devils are the ones whispering in your ear.
In yet another attempt to take over something they know little or nothing about and fail miserably at it, The Borg now want to take over the worlds largest garage sale.
As a client of Ebay, I REFUSE to have my personal information in the hands of a company whose antivirus program lets in more viruses, worms, spyware, and solicitors, than it keeps out.
In fact, both Ebay dropped using Microsoft Passport (now Windows Live ID) a long time ago.
The only thing on Ebay that is not for sale is Ebay.
Avast! If slashdotters recall in the last year that the BSA (which usually couldn't find a pirate if he had an eyepatch, a wooden leg, a hook, and a parrot that spouted off the names of all the bootlegged commerical software that was stollen), hit paydirt when they found out that employees of Geek Squad (those posers at Best Buy) were the ones stealing commerical computer software, video games, DVDs, and Music CDs.
If anything the BSA has found a reasonable purpose instead of playing the part of the Microsoft Police.
Not that there is anything wrong with the PSP, aside from the lack of videogames. I mean, if Nintendo can port some of their old NES and SNES games to the Gameboy Advanced, why not do the same with the PSP? I mean, atleast have a Final Fantasy snuck in.
The other flaw that the PSP has is a lack of internal memory. When you watch Magical Trevor 2 in Flash format on Newgrounds on the PSP browser (pending you've upgraded to PSP v2.70 with Flash 6) the music cuts out then the animation. It appears someone in Japan does not like Magical Trevor.
Everyone Loves Magical Trevor cause the things that he does are ever so clever!
Drug trafficers sometimes pack coffee with their contraban to throw off the dogs at the airport. If that is the case, put a small bag of Millstone in your computer satchel.
I spend about 4 hours yesterday wrting this disclaimer for my website, because there are a**holes out there who think they own The Internet and think they can tell people what they can or can not do based on the content posted on The Internet.
Part of it is a disclaimer, the other part is a reminder to those businessmen that they only got involved with the Internet when they found out how much money could be made from it.
Imagine all the science that man could benefit from but does not make a profit.
As much as I have lost trust with the Wall Street Jounal --once a influential business newsletter now a shallow piece of yellow jounalism in my opinion-- SGID's reorganization could effect OpenGL's future. Sillicon Graphics, OpenGL's main contributor, could put the open API on the selling block. Hopefullly this won't happen. SGI is a good company. It just needs to clean itself up.
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I remember a TV advert when I was little where McGruff the crime dog taught kids the dangers of talking to strangers. Having your computer talk to Microsoft is like having your kids talk to John Wayne Gacy in full clown attire. You don't see the harm until it is too late.
Last time I checked, Microsoft Live: OneCare was called Microsoft AntiSpyware Removal. From this story, it appears that OneChair--er OneCare still lets in more spyware than it keeps out.
OneCare is like the United States Marine Corps. Eventually, the 82d Airboune Division of the United States Army (Norton Antivirus) is called in to fix the mess the Marines made.
But will it still keep my beer cold and my porksteaks frozen? That is the importance.
Aside from that you make a valid point.
The programming of any retail robot in a nutshell:
10 find couch
20 get stuck under it
30 if free==true then goto 10
run
"Clearly not serious?!" Again, I buy an MP3 player to play music. I buy a PSP to play video games. I buy a telephone to place and recieve phone calls. I buy a computer to write programs, to comunicate with other programmers, and to post my opinions to stories on Slashdot. I do NOT buy these devices to watch VIDEOS or TELEVISION CLIPS!
That is what TELEVISION is for! I don't care if it is not cool! And I defintely don't care if it is not trendy. Trendy and cool do not replace utility. Trendy and cool do not pay the bills. Convergence has its limits!
What did I say about adding video playing features to devices that are not meant to play video. I've stated quite clearly, they become televisions. Technology is about more that a 3 inch TV in your pocket, in fact technology SHOULDN'T be about 3 inch TVs that fit into your pocket. Television is the opiate of the masses where as technology is the anphetamine of the masses.
The iPod is NOT COOL by any standards of technology except for the fact that it uses a NAND gate flash memory storage system. However, there is a flaw with storing to a flash memory and that is compacity. After a certain point, flash memory become faulty and you have to go back to using a Hard Disk storage system due to file corruption.
I believe that this list is BIAS. This list is not rated on raiting but by who gave PCWorld the most money. Since I, Bushido Hacks, is a broke college student here is a top 10 list.
1. YouTube.com - Who the hell put in in 9th place?
2. Google Earth - Google Maps: good. Google Earth: f***ing awesome!
3. eBay - Great spot to browse for technology products. Though the virtual mall is great, it is a good idea to browse the real mall to compare prices and features first.
4. Sony Viao Notebooks smaller than 12 inches - Any notebook with a screen larger than 15 inches is NOT a notebook. It is a freaking TV. Computers are suppost to be small as well as fast.
5. Any MP3 player not by Apple or Dell - As much as technological convergence is a convience, I prefere to buy things for what they were used for. An MP3 player is for playing MUSIC, not videos, not "podcasts", not these overated technology that turns everything into TV or as I call it "The Virus". Televison is stupid!
6. Texas Instruments graphing calculators with the USB port - FINALLY, TI gets with the program.
7. Sony PSP - Who cares what the critics say! This would be the greatest gaming platform since the Sega Game Gear if only Sony didn't keep trying to kill itself like a 15 year-old emo kid. Why does Sony keep trying to kill itself? By the time the PS3 gets here, Nintendo and XBox will be on to the next thing. Why does Sony keep procrastinating? The people who create the Sony products want what they are making as badly as their consumers, but their Marketing (marketing, the sworn enemy of any computer sciencist!) keeps pushing it back saying things like "people are going to hack into it" or "DRM". These Japanese guys need to grow a little backbone and stop letting these salarymen with hidden agendas kill their company.
8. Yahoo! Answers - I must get up to 20 answers sometimes with the questions I ask. Some times I ask questions to test peoples knowledge or to express their opinions about things.
9. Holograms - yet another suppressed technology. You know what would be a great application for these things: automobile decals. You've seen these cars with the hydrolics at car shows with teh airbrush. Why not airbrush a hologram onto a car. One of those 3D projected holograms with a half-naked valkyre warrior woman with a battle axe or sword riding horse with wings that breaths fire! Something worthy of Heavy Metal magazine and Popular Science! 10. The new Slashdot layout - Do I really need to explain why?
The Ministry of Unknown Science laughs at the Union of Concerned Scientists. TMOUS has already solved the problems with NASA by doing what most other corporations and government agencies do these days: They Hire Mexicans!
That's right, amigos! Be all you can be! Be a Mexinaut!
There are alot of people who need to be tossed out for being total duchebags. Jack Thompson, Hillary Clinton, Lynn Cheney, Tipper Gore, Rick Santorum, Bill Lieberman...
Yahoo! still can't seem to get with the program of that of Google Video or YouTube.
Yahoo! is still using old-and-busted technology that is only avaiable for one operating system. GV and YT use Flash as the medium of choice. It can be accessable on Macintosh, Unix, and Linux operating systems. Windows Video may be avaiable, but the codecs are separate, and a real hassle to install if you have Unix or Linux.
Yahoo! fails to deliver video as it does with LaunchCast to the growing number of people who are no longer using any of Microsoft's Windows products including Internet Explorer, Windows Media, and Microsoft Antivirus (which lets in more spyware than it keeps out).
Bottom line, I'll use something else before I use this cookie cutter mainstream stuff. Give me the many alternatives instead.
On one hand, you have computer virus, online identy thieves, even people who stealmoney online and think that they can get away with it.
On the other hand, 99% of 99% of the time it is down right FUD.
Alternatively, the FUD is the Cyberterrorism. Isn't that what terrorism is all about? Playing on the Fears, Uncertanty, and Doubts of others? "The boogy-man will eat you some day."
The truth is the Boogy-man is right here.
The perception that the boogy-man could be a computer geek with a vendetta, an Arabian man with a video camera, an Iranian man with a degree in chemistry, or an American who has a private adgenda all depends on who is giving us that message.
The message is no longer the truth, it seems, since the truth is constantly altered and edited to suit the interest of a few media conglomorates, corporations, and miserly zealots.
The boogy man is not Cyberterrorism, Bioterrorism, or even FUD.
The real terrorists are the FUD-packers who deliver the yellow journalism and lie to the terrorists and to the public.
The true devils are the ones whispering in your ear.
In yet another attempt to take over something they know little or nothing about and fail miserably at it, The Borg now want to take over the worlds largest garage sale.
As a client of Ebay, I REFUSE to have my personal information in the hands of a company whose antivirus program lets in more viruses, worms, spyware, and solicitors, than it keeps out.
In fact, both Ebay dropped using Microsoft Passport (now Windows Live ID) a long time ago.
The only thing on Ebay that is not for sale is Ebay.
ARRR! Bald men tell no tales!
Make him walk the plank for giving the black spot to TechTV!
Avast! If slashdotters recall in the last year that the BSA (which usually couldn't find a pirate if he had an eyepatch, a wooden leg, a hook, and a parrot that spouted off the names of all the bootlegged commerical software that was stollen), hit paydirt when they found out that employees of Geek Squad (those posers at Best Buy) were the ones stealing commerical computer software, video games, DVDs, and Music CDs.
If anything the BSA has found a reasonable purpose instead of playing the part of the Microsoft Police.
NSFW ending http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/201095 created by Gerkinman
Separated at birth? http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/pics/ma rio_-_ron_jeremy.jpg
Redudency: It works for Mario and Ron, why can't it work for me?
Not that there is anything wrong with the PSP, aside from the lack of videogames. I mean, if Nintendo can port some of their old NES and SNES games to the Gameboy Advanced, why not do the same with the PSP? I mean, atleast have a Final Fantasy snuck in.
The other flaw that the PSP has is a lack of internal memory. When you watch Magical Trevor 2 in Flash format on Newgrounds on the PSP browser (pending you've upgraded to PSP v2.70 with Flash 6) the music cuts out then the animation. It appears someone in Japan does not like Magical Trevor.
Everyone Loves Magical Trevor cause the things that he does are ever so clever!
St. Louis County Police Department - KAA519 - 155.1300MHz Be kind and try not to slashdot this guy's website too badly. http://myweb.accessus.net/~090/scan/stlfreq.html
I wish I had posted this eariler. However, because you guys are cowards, I get your modpoints! LOL!
I believe that it is a false asumption to say that the speed of light can move backwards.
Optics (light science) can prove that using a mirror through reflection.
So if SGI is doomed, are they going to have a fire sale and give away a few things?
Drug trafficers sometimes pack coffee with their contraban to throw off the dogs at the airport. If that is the case, put a small bag of Millstone in your computer satchel.
I personally think they should have called it the Nintendo Ding-a-ling at this point.
Chuck Berry would make a fortune from the commericals, since he already wrote a song about it.
I spend about 4 hours yesterday wrting this disclaimer for my website, because there are a**holes out there who think they own The Internet and think they can tell people what they can or can not do based on the content posted on The Internet.
Part of it is a disclaimer, the other part is a reminder to those businessmen that they only got involved with the Internet when they found out how much money could be made from it.
Imagine all the science that man could benefit from but does not make a profit.
As much as I have lost trust with the Wall Street Jounal --once a influential business newsletter now a shallow piece of yellow jounalism in my opinion-- SGID's reorganization could effect OpenGL's future. Sillicon Graphics, OpenGL's main contributor, could put the open API on the selling block. Hopefullly this won't happen. SGI is a good company. It just needs to clean itself up.