He didn't say that bundling IE with windows was actually illegal. Since they're a Monopoly, it's sort of a grey area, but... whatever.
What *IS* illegal, is the fact that they threatened OEMs and forced them to NOT install Nutscrape on machines. They would have been left alone if they didn't do this kind of crap.
Anyway, I do agree with you about the integrated browser thing. It does make for a nice user interface for navigating your file system. KDE and Gnome are both doing this.
Ahhhggg, I'm sick of all this. Go Mozilla! Or Konqueror...
Akira is the only anime film I really like, only because I'm not into anime I guess. I saw Akira quite a few times when I was younger.
Anyways, is Akira available on DVD? I've been keeping an eye out for it for a while, so if anyone can tell me if it is available I'd really appreciate it.
I agree with some of what you said except one little thing really didn't sit well in my stomach.
just because we don't like the law doesn't give us license to break it
That's just plain wrong. If the people of this (or any) country don't like a law, we have an obligation to NOT comply with that law. If we just bend over and take it, we'll end up losing all our freedoms.... which is where we are headed it seems. When the law is wrong, it is our responsibility to do what we think is right.
However, I'm not entirely sure about what is right and wrong in the case of Napster etc.
I also have a voodoo card and it is a pain when it flips out. Although, after getting the latest drivers, and the latest version of Q3, it has NEVER crashed on me. I've played that game for so many hours it's ridiculous, without a crash. In windows with all the latest drivers etc is another story. Well, that's another topic, windows sucks...
Anyway, about your problem. You should have some voodoo test programs on your system, they should have been included with the glide libs you installed. Just make a shell script to run one of those, it should clear the video problems without having to reboot.
Make it something easy to type since you're probably typing blind. I called mine 3dfix. Works great when any glide/gl program crashes leaving the video unusable.
Microsoft has nothing on wine to take it to court for. The wine developers have legally reverse engineered everything they've implemented in wine, at least that's my understanding.
Of course, that doesn't mean Microsoft can't take them to court and keep them there till they run out of money... God bless America, land of unfair litigation. What a fscking joke.
I'm been running my FSB at 83 MHz, with the AGP bus runing at 1/1 for quite a while now, with a few different video cards, none of which have had any problems. Just make sure you use a card that can handle it, and it'll be fine.
I could drop the AGP bus down to 2/3, but then I lose about 1 FPS in Quake3 ; ) Can't have that.
Actually, I would love to see MS get stomped out of the OS business. Wouldn't it be great to have a world where, MacOSX, BeOS, newAMigaOS, Linux, and maybe even BSD all compete on the desktop? And NO WINDOWS! Woohoo!
It would just be great to see a bad product die. Unfortuneately, it doesn't seem to be how things usually work out.
No Northwest did not give the computers to the people who's privacy they felt they had a right to rape, they were their own personal home computers.
As far as being easier to "appropriate data on a machine that was 'given' to an employee", that depends on whether the machine is actually "given" away or not, whether or not it's still the property of the employer. If they truly give them away, they're SOL, it's just plain not their property anymore.
I don't see what you are getting at... From what I've seen VALinux IS helping to improve Linux. They're putting more money behind Slashdot, so they'll always have the money for their increasing bandwidth, better servers etc... Also, look at sourceforge, that seems like a pretty good idea to me. Hosting people's projects in a central place, so now we don't have to worry about people moving projects to different websites etc... Sure is a PITA when you search freshmeat and their links to a certain project are out of date...
Why don't we wait till they actually do something wrong before we start criticizing them for doing something wrong...
Now your twisting what I said... don't be a dickhead...
What if I had to make a few fixes to some programs at my place of work to make them y2k compliant... and let's say that someone else patents my method of fixing these programs. So now I'm in violation of their patent that was only granted because our patent system is completely ridiculous....
Well, in your own words you just said that software patents "restrict" people... Well, if it's restricting them from doing something that they really want to do then that IS harm.
In fact, the company I work for has been harmed by certain software patents.
Software patents can be extremely damaging because 17 years in the software business is an eternity... but that's another topic.
I don't know why some of you are saying it's more usable than nutscrape 4.7... maybe on a fast box it is. BUT, on my PII 233, with 96 megs ram, running RH 6.1, it is WAY slower than nutscrape 4.7. Not only that, but a large number of pages still are not rendered quite right. Scrolling is very choppy, this text box I'm typing in is extremely chopppy...
If this thing requires a PII450 to run properly, that's just not good enough. This thing should be able to run on a low end pentium or a 486, IE4 and nutscrape 4.x both do.
Sorry to sound like such a party pooper, but this thing just seems like it's still got a long, long way to go.
I sure hope I'm wrong though, I'd really really like to be using a fast, stable browser in Linux...
And we, as consumers, and as people who may be hurt by just such a patent, have the right, and the duty to say, "To hell with Amazon.com, I'm not shopping there anymore! Those damn bastards!!!" Which is what I did, and lots of other people will hopefully do. If we continue to do this when companies are awarded and enforce these ridiculous patents, it will no longer be in the shareholders interests for big companies like Amazon.com to go after these ridiculous patents because it will hurt them more then help...
I see your point, however I don't think it makes much difference. If someone develops a program with the intent to cause damage, they should be held responsible... but who's to say what their intentions were?
Saying that because a system is broken makes it ok to wreak havok on it with viruses and such, is the same as saying that since the lock on my door is broken it's ok to walk in and steel from my home...
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He didn't say that bundling IE with windows was actually illegal. Since they're a Monopoly, it's sort of a grey area, but... whatever.
What *IS* illegal, is the fact that they threatened OEMs and forced them to NOT install Nutscrape on machines. They would have been left alone if they didn't do this kind of crap.
Anyway, I do agree with you about the integrated browser thing. It does make for a nice user interface for navigating your file system. KDE and Gnome are both doing this.
Ahhhggg, I'm sick of all this. Go Mozilla! Or Konqueror...
Akira rocks!
Akira is the only anime film I really like, only because I'm not into anime I guess. I saw Akira quite a few times when I was younger.
Anyways, is Akira available on DVD? I've been keeping an eye out for it for a while, so if anyone can tell me if it is available I'd really appreciate it.
I agree with some of what you said except one little thing really didn't sit well in my stomach.
just because we don't like the law doesn't give us license to break it
That's just plain wrong. If the people of this (or any) country don't like a law, we have an obligation to NOT comply with that law. If we just bend over and take it, we'll end up losing all our freedoms.... which is where we are headed it seems. When the law is wrong, it is our responsibility to do what we think is right.
However, I'm not entirely sure about what is right and wrong in the case of Napster etc.
I've had that problem before with lots of lag. It does the same thing in windows.
I haven't played Q3 online for a while...
Good luck.
I also have a voodoo card and it is a pain when it flips out. Although, after getting the latest drivers, and the latest version of Q3, it has NEVER crashed on me. I've played that game for so many hours it's ridiculous, without a crash. In windows with all the latest drivers etc is another story. Well, that's another topic, windows sucks...
Anyway, about your problem. You should have some voodoo test programs on your system, they should have been included with the glide libs you installed. Just make a shell script to run one of those, it should clear the video problems without having to reboot.
Make it something easy to type since you're probably typing blind. I called mine 3dfix. Works great when any glide/gl program crashes leaving the video unusable.
test.
I have a Celery 400 OCed to 500, Voodoo3 2000 AGP.
I get 1 fps higher in linux than I do in windows. Running at normal settings, at 640x480, I get 62 fps in win98, and 63 fps in linux.
I just got a 10% discount right now ordering that book!
Microsoft has nothing on wine to take it to court for. The wine developers have legally reverse engineered everything they've implemented in wine, at least that's my understanding.
Of course, that doesn't mean Microsoft can't take them to court and keep them there till they run out of money... God bless America, land of unfair litigation. What a fscking joke.
I'm been running my FSB at 83 MHz, with the AGP bus runing at 1/1 for quite a while now, with a few different video cards, none of which have had any problems. Just make sure you use a card that can handle it, and it'll be fine.
I could drop the AGP bus down to 2/3, but then I lose about 1 FPS in Quake3 ; ) Can't have that.
Ummm...???
Software doesn't DO anything. It tells a machine to do something.
That's an expression of ideas, to a machine. If I had a machine that responded to voice commands, that would be no different.
Actually, I would love to see MS get stomped out of the OS business. Wouldn't it be great to have a world where, MacOSX, BeOS, newAMigaOS, Linux, and maybe even BSD all compete on the desktop? And NO WINDOWS! Woohoo!
It would just be great to see a bad product die. Unfortuneately, it doesn't seem to be how things usually work out.
No Northwest did not give the computers to the people who's privacy they felt they had a right to rape, they were their own personal home computers.
As far as being easier to "appropriate data on a machine that was 'given' to an employee", that depends on whether the machine is actually "given" away or not, whether or not it's still the property of the employer. If they truly give them away, they're SOL, it's just plain not their property anymore.
I don't see what you are getting at... From what I've seen VALinux IS helping to improve Linux. They're putting more money behind Slashdot, so they'll always have the money for their increasing bandwidth, better servers etc... Also, look at sourceforge, that seems like a pretty good idea to me. Hosting people's projects in a central place, so now we don't have to worry about people moving projects to different websites etc... Sure is a PITA when you search freshmeat and their links to a certain project are out of date...
Why don't we wait till they actually do something wrong before we start criticizing them for doing something wrong...
Now your twisting what I said... don't be a dickhead...
What if I had to make a few fixes to some programs at my place of work to make them y2k compliant... and let's say that someone else patents my method of fixing these programs. So now I'm in violation of their patent that was only granted because our patent system is completely ridiculous....
Well, in your own words you just said that software patents "restrict" people... Well, if it's restricting them from doing something that they really want to do then that IS harm.
In fact, the company I work for has been harmed by certain software patents.
Software patents can be extremely damaging because 17 years in the software business is an eternity... but that's another topic.
Good for economy != the right thing
If our economy depended on forcing people of different ethnic origins into doing labor would that be right?
I don't know why some of you are saying it's more usable than nutscrape 4.7... maybe on a fast box it is. BUT, on my PII 233, with 96 megs ram, running RH 6.1, it is WAY slower than nutscrape 4.7. Not only that, but a large number of pages still are not rendered quite right. Scrolling is very choppy, this text box I'm typing in is extremely chopppy...
If this thing requires a PII450 to run properly, that's just not good enough. This thing should be able to run on a low end pentium or a 486, IE4 and nutscrape 4.x both do.
Sorry to sound like such a party pooper, but this thing just seems like it's still got a long, long way to go.
I sure hope I'm wrong though, I'd really really like to be using a fast, stable browser in Linux...
That probably wasn't really for Dummies...
Oh yes it was. I'm a big dummy, and I basically understood all that.
A big thanks for posting that BTW. You deserve some serious karma points, unlike all the retards (including myself) posting replies to this story.
And maybe that's good, because then we can get back to being people for a change. :P
Thank you. All this geek nonsense is making me sick.
What the hell does this guy smoke? Everything he writes is funny as hell! I know everything he posts is usually offtopic, but damn it's funny!
Sorry, I just keep seeing his posts and I had to comment....
Well, after seeing TPM Card thought he sucked too... So don't expect him to perform in Ender's Game the same as he did in TPM, he will be much better.
And he better be, or this movie will be doomed, and that would be very sad...
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ads2.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad2.doubleclick.net
Works wonders... Blocks that bastard companies ads but leaves me with ads that have a right to be there.. ; )
And we, as consumers, and as people who may be hurt by just such a patent, have the right, and the duty to say, "To hell with Amazon.com, I'm not shopping there anymore! Those damn bastards!!!" Which is what I did, and lots of other people will hopefully do. If we continue to do this when companies are awarded and enforce these ridiculous patents, it will no longer be in the shareholders interests for big companies like Amazon.com to go after these ridiculous patents because it will hurt them more then help...
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I see your point, however I don't think it makes much difference. If someone develops a program with the intent to cause damage, they should be held responsible... but who's to say what their intentions were?
Saying that because a system is broken makes it ok to wreak havok on it with viruses and such, is the same as saying that since the lock on my door is broken it's ok to walk in and steel from my home...